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Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.
— Snoop Dogg
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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.
— Sayings
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
— Joseph McCarthy
Everybody want to change the world, but nobody whats to change the toilet paper roll.
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I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
— Clara Barton
There was a knock on our dressing-room door.
Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
— Keith Richards
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.
— Lemmy Kilmister
Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic.
Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.
— Julius Nyerere
Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
— Fats Domino
When I bought the Rolls Royce they thought it was leased, then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace.
— Meek Mill
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
— Augustus
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
— David Carson
Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
— Axl Rose
I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.
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We run after values that, at death, become zero.
At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer
— Varg Vikernes
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.
— Erwin Rommel
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.
— Jimmy Buffett
I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby
— Drake
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.
— Andy Biersack
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
— Chuck Berry
Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock 'n roll.
— Ariana Grande
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
— Thelonious Monk
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
— Warren Buffett
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;
Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
— Jim Carrey
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
— Eric Clapton
Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.
— LeCrae
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
— James Hetfield
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
— John Muir
Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.
— Mod Sun
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?
— Josemaria Escriva
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.
(Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)
— Henry Royce
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Q: Find grammar for given language I want to practice finding grammars for given languages. Unfortunately after solving some easy examples I found out that I completely don't know how to approach these more ambitious. For example when the task is to find grammar for $\left\{ a^i b^{i+2j}c^j: i,j\ge 0 \right\}$ it is very simple and after one minute I have a solution: $$S\rightarrow XY \\ X\rightarrow aXb \ | \ \varepsilon \\ Y\rightarrow bbYc \ | \ \varepsilon$$
However it has been 5 hours since I tried these examples:
a) $\left\{ a^{n^2} : n\ge 1 \right\}$
b) $\left\{ a^{2^n} : n\ge 1 \right\}$
c) $\left\{ a^n b^n c^n : n\ge 1 \right\}$
d) $\left\{ x\in \left\{ a,b,c \right\}^* : count_a(x) = count_b(x) = count_c(x) \right\}$
where $\left\{ a,b,c \right\}^*$ denotes set of all words consisting of letters $a,b,c$, and $count_a(x)$ is the number of occurrences $a$ in word $x$.
And I still can't manage to find grammars for above sets. Can anyone help?

A: None of the four are context free, no wonder you didn't get grammars for them. By Parikh's theorem, for (a) and (b) the length of the strings must be a semilinear set, that is, representable by a finite number of expressions of the form $\alpha k + \beta$, and that is impossible as the distance from $n^2$ to $(n + 1)^2$, and from $2^n$ to $2^{n + 1}$, grows without limit.
For (c), by the pumping lemma for context free languages, assume for the sake of contradiction that the language is context free, and let $p$ be the constant of the lemma. Then $s = a^p b^p c^p$ is longer than $p$, so it can be written $s = u v x y z$ with $v$, $y$ not both empty such that $u v^k x y^k z$ is part of the language for all $k \ge 0$. But by repeating $v$ and $y$ at most two of $a$, $b$, $c$ can grow while maintaining the general form of $a$s followed by $b$s and then $c$s, and the equality isn't maintained.
For (d), the context free languages are closed with respect to intersection with regular languages (see here). But the intersection of this language with $a^* b^* c^*$ is precisely the non-context free language of (c), so it can't be context free.

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What do most people have laying around the house that would be a candidate for a piano stand?
Should I just use a table? Sure, you could use a coffee table. Most coffee tables are very low though. Not many are long enough to support the full length of a digital piano though. Depending on your actual coffee table, it could not be very sturdy. If it has glass on the center, your table may not even be completely level. This could put excess pressure on the glass–a disaster waiting to happen.
How about a regular desk? Desks are usually extremely high to put a piano on it. You may be able to get away with putting very thin keyboards on a desk to practice at home. It will take up a ton of space, and you will need to clear off your desk every time you use it. Digital pianos will dominate the entire desk, almost requiring the entire surface. You may as well dedicate something that works as a better piano stand!
If you have textbooks or heavy phone books laying around, they are an option. All those books you couldn't sell back in college are sitting around collecting dust, so why not try to find a use for them, right? They may weigh a ton, but they are definitely not sturdy! Get into some emotional lines of music, get carried away, and your books could tumble or your piano could very well slide off and crash. What a waste! Bad idea unless all you have is a piano and books in your studio apartment scrounging coins for your next ramen meal.
Unused chars is another option. This can be stable, but chairs are rarely flat all the way across. Heavy pianos can have unnecessary pressure on the wrong points. This can cause bending or stress on the expensive piano of yours! Also the chairs get in the way of using a pedal below since your feet are blocked off. My advice is to not have any makeshift piano stands at all!


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The 1990–91 BCAFL was the sixth full season of the British Collegiate American Football League, organised by the British Students American Football Association.

Changes from last season
Division Changes
The four Conferences was merged into two (Northern & Southern)

Team Changes
Aston University joined the Southern Conference, as the Rhinos
University of Cambridge joined the Southern Conference, as the Pythons
University of Leeds joined the Northern Conference, as the Celtics
Newcastle Scholars changed their name to Newcastle Mariners
Sheffield Pirates changed their name to Sheffield Zulus
This increased the number of teams in BCAFL to 19.

Regular season

Northern Conference

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Playoffs

Note – the table does not indicate who played home or away in each fixture.

References

External links
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Descriptive Video Service
It has been suggested that this article be merged into Audio description. (Discuss) Proposed since July 2018.
The Descriptive Video Service (DVS) is a major United States producer of video description, which makes visual media, such as television programs, feature films and home videos, more accessible to people who are blind or otherwise visually impaired. DVS often is used to describe the product itself.
2 Technique
3 FCC involvement
4 Regular U.S. series with DVS available
In 1985, PBS member television station WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, began investigating uses for the new technology of stereophonic television broadcasting, particularly multichannel television sound (MTS), which allowed for a third audio channel, called the Secondary Audio Program (SAP). With a history of developing closed captioning of programs for hearing-impaired viewers, WGBH considered the viability of using the new audio channel for narrated descriptions of key visual elements, much like those being done for live theatre in Washington, D.C., by Margaret Pfanstiehl, who had been experimenting with television description as part of her Washington Ear radio reading service.
After reviewing and conducting various studies, which found that blind and visually impaired people were consuming more television than ever but finding the activity problematic (often relying on sighted family and friends to describe for them), WGBH consulted more closely with Pfanstiehl and her husband, Cody, and then conducted its first tests of DVS in Boston in 1986. These tests (broadcasting to local groups of people of various ages and visual impairments) and further study were successful enough to merit a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to complete plans to establish the DVS organization permanently in 1988. After national testing, more feedback, more development of description technique, and additional grants, DVS became a regular feature of selected PBS programming in 1990.[1] Later, DVS became an available feature in some films and home videos, including DVDs.
Technique[edit]
DVS describers watch a program and write a script describing visual elements which are important in understanding what is occurring at the time and the plot as a whole. For example, in the opening credit sequence of the children's series Arthur on PBS, the description has been performed as follows:
"Arthur is an 8-year-old aardvark. He wears round glasses with thick frames over his big eyes. He has two round ears on top of his oval-shaped head. He wears red sneakers and blue jeans, with a yellow sweater over a white shirt."[2]
The length of descriptions and their placement by a producer into the program are largely dictated by what can fit in natural pauses in dialogue (other producers of description may have other priorities, such as synchronization with the timing of a described element's appearance, which differ from DVS's priority for detail).[3] Once recorded, placed and mixed with a copy of the original soundtrack, the DVS track is then "laid back" to the master tape on a separate audio track (for broadcast on the SAP) or to its own DVS master (for home video). For feature films, the descriptions are not mixed with the soundtrack, but kept separate as part of a DTS soundtrack.[4]
FCC involvement[edit]
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started establishing various requirements for broadcasters in larger markets to improve their accessibility to audiences with hearing and vision impairments[5], DVS branched out to non-PBS programming, and soon description could be heard on the SAP for shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Simpsons. However, a federal court ruled in 2002 that the Federal Communications Commission had exceeded its jurisdiction by requiring broadcasters in the top 25 markets to carry video description.
Since that time, the amount of new DVS television programming in the United States declined, as did access to information regarding upcoming described programming, while broadcasters like ABC and Fox instead decided to devote their SAP channels to Spanish language dubbing tracks of their shows rather than DVS due to the technical limitations of the analog NTSC standard. Description by DVS and other producers was still available in a limited form on television (the greatest percentage of DVS programming is still on PBS).[6] WGBH's Media Access Group continues supporting description of feature films (known as DVS Theatrical)[7] and DVS home videos/DVDs are available from WGBH as well as other vendors and libraries.[8] Commercial caption providers the National Captioning Institute and CaptionMax have also begun to describe programs. Benefit Media, Inc., a subsidiary of DuArt Film and Video in New York City provides DVS services to USA Network. For the 2016 Summer Olympics, NBC is providing description of events during the network's primetime block.[9]
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 reinstates the FCC's involvement in providing rules for video description. Under the rules, affiliates in the top 25 markets and the top five-rated cable networks will have to provide at least 50 hours of video described programming per quarter; the rules took effect on July 1, 2012.[10] However, this provision currently does not apply to syndicated programming; notably, many programs which have audio description in their network runs, such as those produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television, remove the DVS track for syndication, substituting in the Spanish dubbing track on SAP to reach more viewers, though as many stations affiliated with "netlets" like The CW and MyNetworkTV are not under the video description provision, do not have SAP channels and thus, neither an audio description or Spanish dub track can be heard. In some markets where SAP is activated on affiliate stations though, The CW does provide a Spanish SAP dub for Jane the Virgin and audio description is available and passed through for their Saturday morning One Magnificent Morning E/I block, which is done for all of the blocks produced for the major broadcast networks by Litton Entertainment. In 2019, the first primetime series with DVS for the network, In the Dark (which has a blind protagonist), was launched. MyNetworkTV has no provisions for audio description or language dub tracks.
Online streaming services such as Hulu and the services of television networks themselves such as CBS All Access have yet to carry descriptive video service audio in most cases as they instead are currently focused on adding closed captioning to their libraries (the network app for ABC began to carry existing audio described shows in the fall of 2017). Netflix committed in April 2015 to begin audio description of their original series, starting with Daredevil (which features a blind protagonist with other heightened senses) and the remainder of their original programming in the next few months, making their goal in that timeframe, along with providing the DVS tracks of existing series in their library; however some platforms (mainly older versions for devices that are now unsupported) do not provide the alternate audio.[11]
ABC, along with sister network Disney Channel has since added audio description to some of their programming (with a commensurate decline in Spanish-dubbed programming, though the ATSC standard allows more audio channels), but does not contract any of their shows to be described by the Media Access Group, instead going with commercial providers CaptionMax and Audio Eyes, though some special programming such as Toy Story of Terror! and Toy Story That Time Forgot is described by the Media Access Group under existing contracts with Walt Disney Pictures. NBC and their associated cable networks, along with outside productions by Universal Television such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Mindy Project, solely use CaptionMax for description services; Netflix also utilizes CaptionMax for their original series, while going per studio for acquired programming. Most scripted programming on Fox, except for the shows of Gordon Ramsay (Hell's Kitchen, Hotel Hell and Kitchen Nightmares) is described by the Media Access Group; Ramsay's programs are contracted by his producing studio to have audio description done by Scottish-born voiceover artist Mhairi Morrison with Descriptive Video Works. Unique to most described shows, Fox's Empire uses actress Adrienne Barbeau for their description. CBS's described shows all use the Media Access Group.
Some shows have lost their DVS during their original network runs due to outside factors or complications. For instance, American Dad! had a two-season interregnum in part of season 12 and all of season 13 without any DVS service during its move from Fox to TBS in late 2014, before it returned in November 2016 for its fourteenth season. The Mindy Project lost DVS at the start of their fourth season upon the move to Hulu, which does not yet provide DVS service. Cartoon Network and their time-share partner Adult Swim began to pass-through DVS for their syndicated content in the last quarter of 2018.
Regular U.S. series with DVS available[edit]
ABC:[10][12][13]
Beyond the Tank
Card Sharks (2019 primetime revival)
Litton's Weekend Adventure (all six programs)
Press Your Luck (2019 primetime revival)
Adult Swim:
American Dad (reruns)
Bob's Burgers (reruns)
Family Guy (reruns)
CBS:[10][12][14]
CBS Dream Team (all six programs)
The CW:[12]
One Magnificent Morning (all six programs)
Disney Channel:[10][12][15]
Airs described programming on a specific schedule
Fox:[10][12][16]
Coupled
Home Free
Hotel Hell
The X-Files (seasons 10 & 11)
History:[12][17]
American Restoration
Billion Dollar Wreck
Iron & Fire
NBC:[10][12][18]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (all seasons on Fox and NBC)
The More You Know (all six programs; Saturday morning; DVS also carried during Sunday Cozi TV re-air in some markets)
Will & Grace (revival series, season 9-)
Netflix:
Netflix maintains a list of programming and films available with audio description tracks (or view here)
Nickelodeon:[10][12][19]
PBS:[12]
America's Heartland
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps
Creative Living with Sheryl Borden
Globe Trekker
Maya & Miguel
Roadtrip Nation
Secrets of the Dead
Simply Ming
Super Why!
Syfy:[12]
Some movies
TBS:[10][12][20]
2 Broke Girls (reruns)
The Big Bang Theory (reruns)
TNT:[10][12][21]
Castle (reruns)
Grimm (reruns)
Law & Order (reruns)
Turner Classic Movies:[12]
Various films, listed on WGBH's DVS page on TCM (may not be up to date)
USA Network:[10][12][22]
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (reruns)
Donny!
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (reruns)
Modern Family (reruns)
NCIS (reruns)
NCIS: Los Angeles (reruns)
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^ WGBH - Media Access Group - ABCs of DVS
^ About AudioVision
^ WGBH - Media Access Group - DVS FAQ
^ http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/guides/mag_guide_vol3.html
^ MoPix – Motion Picture Access
^ WGBH - Media Access Group - DVS Home Video
^ "Comcast and NBC to Make the 2016 Summer Olympic Games Accessible to People with Vision Loss through Live Description". American Foundation for the Blind. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
^ a b c d e f g h i j "Networks Set to Launch Video Descriptions". TVNewsCheck.com. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
^ "Netflix Begins Audio Description for Visually Impaired" (Press release). Netflix corporate blog. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
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^ "Fox Broadcasting Company Audio Description Schedule". FOX.com. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
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^ "Nickelodeon Audio Described TV Schedule". Nick.com. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ "TV Schedule". TBS.com. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
^ "TNT DVS Schedule". TNTDrama.com. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
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"ACB Statement on Video Description" American Council for the Blind Legislative Seminar 2006, February 1, 2006. Retrieved from Audio Description International on July 30, 2007.
List of PBS series with DVS, August 2007, WGBH - Media Access Group. Retrieved on July 30, 2007.
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David Brooks Is Always Wrong, Part (n)* — Numbers and Horrors Edition
Despite its many flaws,The New York Times is an indispensible institution right now, producing more and better actual journalism than any other major American media outlet. Setting aside the low-bar-snark, though, its ongoing willingness to offer David Brooks a platform is a running chancre that infects every hard-won story from the real reporters whose beat has the ill-fortune to attract BoBo's fancy that day.
That's true even when he arrives at something of a defensible argument, because to get there, he pays his way in counterfeit intellectual coin.
See, for example, today's dog's breakfast of an attempt to go all big-think-wise-man on "the biggest threat to world peace right now."
That would be his attempt to frame the situation on the ground now in Syria as an example of the great war of Sunni versus Shiite. As he works his way through to a (to me) surprisingly modest end, Brooks displays several of the tropes that make his work such an embarrassment to anyone who actually cares about either journalism or honorable argument.
Let's go to the videotape.**
First up, there's an old Brooks standby: useful innumeracy in support of a claim intended to raise stakes beyond the facts on the ground:
As the death toll in Syria rises to Rwanda-like proportions…
What's going on in Syria is awful. Horrible. Wretched. Vicious. Supply your own adjectives.
That doesn't mean it is comparable to what occurred in Rwanda. In the genocide there, between 500,000 and a million Rwandan civilians were slaughtered, accounting for up to 10% of the population as a whole. The best current estimates of the toll of the Syrian civil war place the number of dead at a still-horrific 100,000 or so — less than 0.5% of Syria's approximately 22 million inhabitants.
In raw numbers and — to focus on Brooks own term — as a proportion of the affected population, the two disasters are not equivalent.
I'm not suggesting, of course, that Syria is anything less than an utter humanitarian disaster and tragedy. But holding on to the problem of Brooks here, look at what his rhetoric is doing: calling something a genocide or its equivalent raises the moral and international-legal stakes for action by a lot. Such claims need to be earned, not (as so often with this source) simply and wrongly asserted.
Onwards. Brooks has a long-standing difficulty untangling cause and correlation, not to mention his long dance with the dread might/must fallacy:
Meanwhile, the strife appears to be spreading. Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq is spiking upward. Reports in The Times and elsewhere have said that many Iraqis fear their country is sliding back to the worst of the chaos experienced in the last decade. Even Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain and Kuwait could be infected.
Some of the difficulty here isn't simply a failure of causal argument. Brooks is perfectly capable of making sh*t up. Despite his claim that the current battles in Syria are causing violence in Iraq, Sunni-Shiite conflict is, as most of us with a functioning nervous system may recall, hardly a recent phenomenon. Consider just this cursory timeline, courtesy of the BBC:
2011 April – Army raids camp of Iranian exiles, killing 34. Government says it will shut Camp Ashraf, home to thousands of members of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran.
2011 August – Violence escalates, with more than 40 apparently co-ordinated nationwide attacks in one day.
US pull out
2011 December – US completes troop pull-out.
Unity government faces disarray. Arrest warrant issued for vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi, a leading Sunni politician. Sunni bloc boycotts parliament and cabinet.
2012 – Bomb and gun attacks target Shia areas throughout the year, sparking fears of a new sectarian conflict. Nearly 200 people are killed in January, more than 160 in June, 113 in a single day in July, more than 70 people in August, about 62 in attacks nationwide in September, and at least 35 before and during the Shia mourning month of Muharram in November.
Nearly 200 people are killed in bombings targeting Shia Muslims in the immediate wake of the US withdrawal….
And so on. But Brooks isn't merely wrong as a matter of fact. Rather, these facts point to the deeper problem, one that has crippled his (and many others') arguments for American action in far off places. That is: the suggestion that Syrian events are driving Iraqi conflict includes a crucial unstated assumption: that Iraq's own problems, fractures, circumstances and history are irrelevant.
You get this a lot amongst grand strategy or Great Game thumb-suckers. Countries, movements, peoples, funny-looking or sounding foreigners are all objects, not agents, mere counters in the game. Except, of course, as we found out the hard way from 2003 onwards, they're not. They've got their own stories and they stick to them, by gum. Does an increase in conflict, a decrease in stability within a region matter to countries nearby? Sure. But other things matter more. Otherwise, El Paso's murder rate during the last years of last decade might look a lot more like Ciudad Juarez's than it does, if you catch my drift. (Happy to report, BTW, that the news there is getting a bit better.)
And there's more! File this next one in the "fighting the last war" category:
It is pretty clear that the recent American strategy of light-footprint withdrawal and nation-building at home has not helped matters. The United States could have left more troops in Iraq and tamped down violence there. We could have intervened in Syria back when there was still something to be done and some reasonable opposition to mold.
I'm not actually sure what the hell Brooks means in the first sentence above. We left Iraq under treaty, at the insistence of the Iraqi government. Is Brooks really saying we should have maintained a force under those circumstances? If so, he should make that clear, and then suggest some way that could be done…and then tell us how 100,000 or so (post-surge levels) US troops could actually police the kind of violence Iraq has seen in recent months and years.
Or to put it another way: this is pure REMF bullshit; thereoughtabealaw material: Brooks only gets to say we need more armed Americans in conflict zones if he's willing to embed with a tooth unit for a full year.
And as for that "nation-building at home" line — WTF? Really — what does he mean? Or rather, please, sign me up. Get us a Nancy Pelosi speakership so that we could actually pass a jobs or infrastructure bill. Then we'll talk.
And last: about that "we could have intervened in Syria back when…" Tell me, Mr. Brooks, what in detail you think we should have done. "Intervene" is such a usefully vague word.
Hell, don't. Let's read the chicken entrails you've left for us in this column. To me, the most revealing note in the whole piece is that phrase "reasonable opposition to mold."
That sense of a plastic organization ready for whatever the U.S.'s child-like hands chooses to pinch or fold recalls nothing so much as Chalabi worship, the delusion that actors in a place about which we know little are dolls for us to dress-up and move and pour pretend tea for as we choose.
Never mind that they actually are the heirs and current proprietors of their ownlong history of faction and party and ideology and interest of which Mr. Brooks (and me, to be sure) have asymptotically close to zero grasp. Does he think that American blood or just American artillery would have persuaded anyone involved not to fight their own corner? Didn't happen in Iraq, where US intervention brought out into the open long-(violently)-suppressed sectional conflict. Flash forward to the harsh tyranny of now, and still Brooks offers not one shred of evidence or argument to suggest that we had a better grasp of internal Syrian tensions this time around.
Astonishingly (to me) — and in all fairness, to be lodged on the credit side of his ledger — Brooks does land at a more or less reasonable conclusion. Echoing his colleague Nick Kristof, he endorses a strike against the Syrian government in support of what both columnists call the norm that prohibits the use of chemical weapons. (More on that later, perhaps.) But then he suggests something resembling restraint:
[There are] at least three approaches on the table. The first is containment: trying to keep each nation's civil strife contained within its own borders. The second is reconciliation: looking for diplomatic opportunities to bring the Sunni axis, led by the Saudis, toward some rapprochement with the Shiite axis, led by Iran. So far, there have been few diplomatic opportunities to do this.
Finally, there is neutrality: the nations in the Sunni axis are continually asking the United States to simply throw in with them, to use the C.I.A. and other American capacities to help the Sunnis beat back their rivals. The administration has decided that taking sides so completely is not an effective long-term option.
Brooks even concedes the crucial uncertainty:
…at this point, it's not clear whether American and other outside interference would help squash hatreds or inflame them.
Given that, he concludes:
Poison gas in Syria is horrendous, but the real inferno is regional. When you look at all the policy options for dealing with the Syria situation, they are all terrible or too late. The job now is to try to wall off the situation to prevent something just as bad but much more sprawling.
I'll take it anytime an Iraq cheerleader reins in his or her lust for another great adventure for someone else's kids. Really. So I'll pull back on my own bridle and note only that the claim that we are on the verge of a great Sunni-Shiite apocalypse is a conclusion assumed in advance.
Once again, the idea that the Syrian conflict might be, well, actually and in important ways distinctly Syrian is never actually entertained. The fact that the strife now in Egypt has nothing to do with sect-based religious rivalry and a great deal to do with very specific and long-standing fissures in Egypt's society and polity never seems to enter Brooks spotless mind. And so on.
Which is to say that a glass-half-full kind of person might say well, at least our Bobo is learning. As for me, I'm no such Pollyanna: even when Brooks, blind pigging and all that, does reach a point that isn't crazy, the way he gets there remains a problem. I guess it is the incuriousness that gets me the most. There's a lot of sunshine in his spotless mind.
And as for the Times? They've made their bargain: Brooks' celebrity is secure now; he gets clicks and he gets tons of exposure, both gold in this transitional media moment. He's a smooth — I'd say glib, but YMMV – writer, to be sure, but he's a genuinely crappy thinker. And that's not going away. Still, even if his work does or ought to bring a flush of shame to those in the building who do put their minds (and sometimes their bodies too) out into the fray is something the powers that be in Timesland seem willing to worry about another day. The tricky thing is that places are only indispensable until they're not, and it's after the rubble settles that those long-ago first cracks reveal themselves as warnings unheeded.
*Where n is an arbitrarily large number
**obligatory h/t to Warner Wolf.
Images: Clara Peeters, A Vanitas Portrait of a Lady, c. 1613-1620.
Frontspiece of the Bible Moralisee, God the Geometer, c.1250.
Margret Hofheinz-Döring, Brigitte with Doll, 1946.
Categories: Journalism and its discontents, Middle East, Military Follies, MSM nonsense, Stupidity
Tags: David Brooks
Mellowing Your Harsh (Or: The '70s Represent!)
Digging away on that start-of-term mountain, grazing through Youtube for the background vibe, and I chanced upon this:
(BTW: I particularly love it when Bonnie asks "can you play a D?" In my head, Lowell George is thinking "Can I? A D?…
"…With my toes. In a coma. Next.")
Listen to the whole session here. (I am as I post this.)
If you've a mind to comment, you might want to offer up your best selections for the music to carry us all into our night kitchens.
The FSM Moves In Mysterious Ways
Presented without (much) comment:
The latest measles outbreak is in Texas, where the virus has sickened 25 people, most of whom are members or visitors of a church led by the daughter of televangelist Kenneth Copeland.
Fifteen of the measles cases are centered around Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, whose senior pastor, Terri Pearsons, has previously been critical of measles vaccinations. [via TPM]
The church in question understands how to deal with such awkwardness:
We know the truth; we are healed according to Isaiah 53:4-5 and I Peter 2:24 and are standing against any plague that would try to attack us as a body. So agree with us that this will stop now according to Matthew 18:19.
But nonetheless hedges its bets:
Kenneth Copeland Ministries' position regarding dealing with any medical condition involving yourself or someone in your family is to first seek the wisdom of God, His Word, and appropriate medical attention from a professional that you know and trust. Apply wisdom and discernment in carrying out their recommendations for treatment. This would include: vaccinations, immunizations, surgeries, prescriptions, or any other medical procedures.
For my part, I'd skip the other stuff and head straight for one of the greatest inventions ever in the service of human well-being, the prophylactic vaccine.
I'll close here, without diving into any "it's not whether you believe in evolution, it's whether evolution believes in you" species of snark.
Image: Titian, The Sick Man, c. 151
Categories: Medicine, Religious follies, Stupidity
Tags: Darwin awards, vaccines
The Best of Times (Good Reads Redux)
Fair warning: What follows is ~3000 words on what a good time it is to find science fascinating. Avoid if you're not interested.
Given my day job teaching young writers about covering science, and given that we're a month shy of the first day of classes for our next cohort of science-writing graduate students, I've been doing an informal survey of what's out there as venues in which those folks will perform over the next few years. And, as I suggested in this post, I came away with the somewhat unexpected sense that we are living in a genuinely great age for writing and the public engagement with science.
Science writers are fond of weeping in their cups* about the dire state of the traditional science media. And they/we should. MSM science writing is often said to have peaked in the so called "golden age" of the 80s. That was when a whole new crop of science-technology-gee-whiz glossies appeared. I think I listed a fair number of the new rags last time — Time Inc.'s Discover (my first real employer), Science 8X, Penthouse publication's Omni** (founded 1978, actually) and others I'm blanking on, joining old stalwarts enjoying new interest — Scientific American, Popular Science, Science News,and others. The end of the decade saw the birth of one of my all-time favorites, the short-lived, much missed Mondo 2000, and in the early 90s, you got Wired.
The NYT's Science Times first appeared as a separate section on November 14, 1978. It still exists, and is reasonably healthy — but diminished from its heydey. Following the Grey Lady (no longer of) 43rd St., other newspapers built up their own dedicated science, technology and health desks. There were lots of jobs to be had, a seemingly endless tally of stories to be written.
Part of the reason you saw such an expansion of science journalism was that the late 70s and onwards have been simply a fabulous time to be covering the beat.
ITEM: You had the beginnings of the digital revolution ramping up into full scale insurrection over those years. I didn't grasp fully what it meant that I could haul my Kaypro C/PM driven, dual-disk drive machine down to the subway below the Time-Life Bldg., and then muscle it up to my fourth floor walk-up in Little Italy to pound away through the night — but I knew that this was a wholly different experience from the typewriter-and-carbons system I'd used just a year or two before to file from Manila and London. I got the significance a little more when I first played with the 300 baud modem I got with my TRS 100 (NEC clone, actually) notebook computer a couple of years later.*** But even if I was a little blase about this sudden appearance of computation in the nooks and crannies of my daily life, still, it was clear something big was in progress.
ITEM: Same for the molecular biology story. As of 1980, it was still a huge deal to sequence a single gene, which meant that there was a lot of what looks from here to be dicey scientific claims and dicier stories about the "gene for (x)" — where x could be alcoholism or what have you. But again, even if in those days both researchers and reporters leapt to conclusions actual biology would erode over time,**** it was clear that we were in the midst of transformative shift in the precision and levels of explanation — the understanding of causation — that biology could approach when it tackled life at the molecular level. If we've learned that all the problems that seemed just one more DNA sequence short of solution are considerably more complicated than we might wish, still it's not often you live through the kind of conceptual earthquake that occurred from the 70s to the 90s. That it now seems obviously the necessary approach is just a measure of how powerful a wave it was then.
ITEM: I could go on all day (and some might say I have). The original Keck telescope saw first light with its complete 10 meter mirror on April 14, 1992 — an event that ended Mt. Palomar's Hale telescope's 45 year run as the world's largest (high performance) optical telescope.***** In the two decades since the Keck went live — though I need to check this number — I believe more telescope observing area has been installed around the world than was used in the entire prior history of professional observing dating back to 1609.
Throw in the Hubble, the other NASA "Great Observatories" — and the record of NASA's other unmanned space-science missions — and you have a revolution in our knowledge of both the earth (remotely sensed from space) and our cosmic surroundings through incomprehensible ranges of space and time. And then there's…
…hell, you get the idea. Oh Brave New World that has such knowledge in't.
Science is still roaring along, of course, and fundamental inquiry lands in technology with astonishing, daily-life-reworking speed. I remember in 1983 taking a trip to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, where a virtuoso microscopist showed me a video image of a segment of a neuron, saying "some think that's where memory resides." This year I spent time at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Science, and talked to someone who was tracing in high resolution images of living brains thinking the development of specialized systems of thinking about other people. We live in amazing times; flat-out gorgeous, exciting times.
Only, not so much for science writers trained up as I was, in an ecosystem dominated by a robust print advertising model. The newspaper science sections are gone, mostly, hundreds of them between 2000 and now. Magazines have folded, or eroded into shadows of their former selves. There's a fragmentation of the business; there are these things that every graduate student seems to write — I think they're called blogs and….
… you know this drill too.
But here's a funny thing. I do not believe there has been a better time to be a science reader. Ever.
Again, in that earlier post, I focused on a couple of fine articles turning up in one of the new venues for long-form science writing, London-based Aeon Magazine.****** Aeon is in some ways simply a digital expression of a conventional media type. It publishes essays and features, nicely illustrated with a bit of flat art, just like a magazine on dead trees. But even with that utterly familiar genre focus, there is still this crucial difference: that Aeon is an all-digital production means that it has no constraint either as to the overall length of the pieces it publishes, or to a need to cram its pieces into set frames, one page in the magazine for a short, say, and five for a full length feature. The news hole is what it wants to be for each and every article it chooses to put out into the world. This sounds like a small thing, or maybe just an obvious one — but it sets up a radically different writing framework than the one that I and my friends and colleagues encountered (and still do, sometimes) when working to the constraints of cold type. Stories get to be what they need to be, and not what the issue-budget that month dictates.
(One corollary: this puts a premium on the one true constraint in this new golden age: excellent editing. Long doesn't mean good, unless it's actually good, and the only way to be sure of that is if someone with a brain, an ear and a sharp red pencil is available to go to work on one's deathless prose.)
Merely digitizing words, thus, opens up venues and forms to writers who could never have hoped to try that sort of thing when only The New Yorker and a handful of other rags would let their chosen few rabbit on until they were done. We hear more voices, younger voices, more from across the gender line and so on, and that's a big change. Thus the importance not just of Aeon, but of Matter, Byliner (not just a science-themed site, but with a lot in that area), Nautilus, which is trying to enact a concept-album approach to popular science publication, and many more. I sent out a query to some science writing buddies to survey the venues people in the business are pitching to, and the names came pouring out: Quanta, Pacific Standard (formerly Miller McCune Magazine, and also not exlusively aimed at science), The Verge, and others that my colleagues are already writing for, despite the fact that they have yet to launch. Older venues are shifting some resources this direction too — I've written once for The New Yorker's new Elements strand, a daily feed of some commentary and some original science and technology reporting under that august brand. Old warhorses like Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, or Popular Science are putting good material out there, and so are places like the Nature New Service…and the list goes on.
The science blog world is enormously valuable as well, the more so (IMHO), as it professionalizes. There's the Scientific American blog network; National Geographic's new Phenomena salon, Wired.com's stable and many others. The New York Times may be dropping blogs — but in the science writing world, there's no shortage, and increasingly, the old signal-noise problem of that blogosphere is resolving itself through a rather traditional gate-keeping/quality control editorial approach, updated for new media.
And then there is the penetration of science into culture and vice versa as documented at strands like Io9, or parts of the ArsTechnica site, BoingBoing, and dozens more that I know exist but one one-person/one-day-per-day life doesn't permit me to read. A torrent of words, of ideas, of engagement with science, its applications in technology and the useful arts, and its intellectual penetration into the realms of story, narrative, expression, art, all the good stuff. Just digging through this first layer of links to write this essay has made me happy: so much interesting, unexpected, important stuff out there, daily, for my private, personal edification.
And wait! There's more. I and a lot of the folks I talk to about the future of science communication talk often about Atavist. The Atavist acts as both a publisher and a platform, and the secret sauce there is their system to produce multimedia reads: texts augmented by computation to permit the use of a rich range of materials, moving images, sound, interactive graphics and so on. You can turn on or off such add-ons, (and you can buy Atavist published work as plain e-books for a bit less than the fully gadgetized texts if you choose). But theirs is one of the most elegant solutions yet to the challenge and opportunity posed by what the digitization of words permits in the way of marrying text to all the rest of the ways to communicate with each other — both the ones we've had for a while and those now being created. Other publishers are working on similar stuff, "books" that are actually apps. In such work, you have something inconceivable when I started out in the business: an account of something about science that can, at the reader's command, reach through the first layer of words into (conceivably) anything that bears on the matter at hand that exists anywhere on the web.
All of which is to belabor the obvious: this is a Gutenberg moment, a handful of years — decades at most — when the range of ideas about science and its connections to human experience can reach audiences that have never had such a wealth of information and interpretation so immediately available to them. As someone for whom this stuff is the Greatest Story Ever Told — as a reader — I couldn't be happier.
But as a writer and a teacher of those who would deliver this stuff into the great, gaping maw of the web?
There are problems, no doubt. All those good staff jobs of a generation ago are gone, and there is no reason to expect them back anytime soon. Take the current run on resume-writing software in a newsroom in DC as a material reminder of that reality.*******
The reality is that science writing of the sort that I've been discussing here — longer pieces, essays, attempts to dive beneath the surface of any single paper or finding — is largely a free-lance game. Freelancing in the context of a mostly online publishing ecosystem is tricky; the dust is very far from settling in the transition from a centralized on-paper publishing model to the much more variegated evolutionary tree we're seeing now. I get emails regularly from well-intentioned people who want me or my students to write for free "for exposure," — and who are surprised when they are told that exposure don't pay the rent.
Some of the new web-publications get this and are paying rates that are at least plausible, even if they don't approach the five figure paydays one could aspire to with a major feature in a top glossy. Some places — notably Atavist, but others as well — are trying some new payment models that can reward writers very well indeed. Some are still stuck in the old couple-of-bucks-for-a-blog-post mindset, even as they seek the much more involved and deeply reported-and-thought pieces you now often see at the best blog venues. The writers I admire are making it (that's a bit of circular logic, I guess; they wouldn't be there to admire if they weren't) but there's no question that it is an uncertain, unpredictable game for newer writers trying to build a self-sustaining career.
But acknowledging that reality, this wealth of new venues implies an audience responding to these attempts to bring serious, sophisticated, complex, variegated stories of science to the public. That, to me, is the most hopeful sign for a healthy, economically viable culture of science communication. The argument made by the simple existence of a venue like Aeon or a platform like The Atavist is in direct contradiction to the daily-evident failure of those media institutions that have tried to chase a presumed ever shorter attention span and/or a hunger for one flavor or another of raw meat. CNN isn't imploding for lack of resources; it is, at least as I see it, dying of contempt for its audience. So it is with many others…and so it isn't with the best of what's happening in the science writing-and-reading world.
Here endeth the lesson.
*Fond of their cups full stop, I might add. Standard wisdom at the relevant conferences: Don't drink with the ocean folks. Hangover city.¹ Trust me on this.)
1: Actually, puke till it leaks past your eyeballs city, but never mind.
**As I was working on this post, news has come that Omni is getting a reboot. Great news. It really was a gonzo magazine, a great one when it played to the top of its game. One of its strengths — killer fiction to go along with all the rest, works by folks like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling (who'll be appearing in the reincarnation, it seems) and many others. As I say through the rest of this post, this is a fine time to be a reader of smart stuff infused with ideas, science, technological imagination and all the rest.
***That Radio Shack box was truly revolutionary — the first really functional traveling computer, one that in some ways was never really replaced. It weighed three pounds, ran on AA batteries (I repeat: it ran on double A's!) and could do just a couple of things with its 8 lines by 40 character screen. But what it could do was great: you could write, and using its on-board modem (an add on for my NEC) you could file over any phone line in the country. Netbooks and earlier versions of ultralight computers could serve the same function, but what the Trash 100 (as it was affectionately known) had going for it was (a) extreme simplicity, (b) a go-anywhere capability made possible by the use of standard batteries, and (c) after a while, a pretty reasonable price. I don't know if this is just my impression, having been in a world — journalism — that really glommed onto the little beasts, but that one bit of kit seems in retrospect to be a true cultural harbinger. YMMV.
****(not that we've altogether shed that particular error)
*****A Soviet era telescope with a mirror 6 meters in diameter went into operation in the north Caucasus mountains in 1977. In the context of the Cold War, the instrument took direct aim at the 5 meter Hale for the title of the largest optical telescope in the world. A series of issues with the mirror and the siting and design of the observatory itself significantly limited its effectiveness, and it never out-resolved the Hale. Hence, most western histories of optical astronomy ignore it, perhaps, unfairly.
******As of this writing (August 7, 2013) the top-of-the-feed post is another good one, an essay on privacy in the context of Snowden and Facebook. I take some issue with its dependence on that most studied of all human groups, 18-22 year old, at least relatively well-to-do American college students, but I found provocative the notion that while we retain a desire and/or need for privacy, the fact that, as writer Ian Leslie puts it, "we don't really believe in the internet," puts us in a position where there is a mismatch between the technology of communication and our expectations of it. There's a bit of a "get off of my lawn, kids" feel to that argument, but I don't think it's all wrong. And here I'm making my point: the piece is making me argue with it and myself, which is a marker of useful writing.
*******Not intended to be a factual statement.
Images: Juan Gris, Still Life with a Guitar, a Book, and a Newspaper, c.1919.
Galileo's sketch of the moon from Sidereus Nuncius, 1610, with a photograph of the same view.
Rembrandt van Rijn, A Scholar Seated at a Desk, 1634.
Categories: journalism, science writing
Tags: MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing, science writing
Annals of Outreach Chapter (n)
Because nothing closes a gender gap like (electronically) slapping an uppity woman:
Users have one option: Slap her for speaking.
Although several women's rights organizations have condemned the idea, an anti-Hillary super PAC has refused to remove "Slap Hillary" from their website, allowing individuals to virtually hit the former secretary of state with a click.
The Hillary Project posted the clickable graphic earlier this week in which an animated Hillary Clinton stands outside the White House, and users can click "speak" or "slap," cueing a graphic hand to whack her across the face. (via TPM)
The CBS story notes that the game has been online for a while — since 2000, apparently — but I for one am pleased that the leadership of the Republican Party now has its chance to condemn both violence against women as a broad social pathology and the profound and sexist disrespect to an individual with Hilary Clinton's distinguished record of public service.
Reince?
John?
Mitch?
With that chorus ringing in our ears, this edition of GOP outreach chronicles closes.
Image: Egon Schiele, Kneeling Female in Orange-Red Dress, 1910
Categories: bad behavior, Republican knavery
Tags: Hilary Clinton, Outreach, Republican Fail
Annals of Post-Racial America, Ch. (n)
via TPM, here's the latest from The Arizona Republic:
Obama foes at one point sang, "Bye Bye Black Sheep," a derogatory reference to the president's skin color, while protesters like Deanne Bartram raised a sign saying, "Impeach the Half-White Muslim!"
Many on both sides wore red, white and blue and carried small flags.
"It just kind of happened naturally," said Michael Pomales of how the opposing sides separated. Pomales, an 18-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident who graduated in the spring from Desert Vista High, said he decided to join the protesters side "to spread a little love" as the crowds began shouting at each other.
Pomales said his response to people yelling for Obama to go back from where he came from is simple: "He's a great man. He cares about what I care about, education, jobs. He's our president. He's an American."
Deanna Bartram, a 17-year-old University of Arizona student from Black Canyon City, lashed out at people who call her racist for not supporting Obama. She believes Obama supporters use the "race card" against her because they disagree with her political message.
"Obama is ruining American values. He is ruining the Constitution. He needs to go back to where he came from because obviously, he is a liar," she said. "I am not racist. I am part Indian. Obama's half Black, half White."
"He's 47 percent Negro," shouted Ron Enderle, a 77-year-old Chandler resident who said that he and his son served as Marines and his grandson is currently serving in the Marines.
But it's all good. John Roberts has told us we live in a post-racial America, and John Roberts is an honorable man.
Image: Anonymous painter, Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I, 1600.
Categories: bad behavior, Race
Tags: Obama Derangement Syndrome, Racism, Republican stupidity
Random Monday Thoughts, Pasta In All Its Glory Edition
With a hat tip to my science writing friend, the inimitable Steve Silberman, here's a story about a Czech citizen who has won the right to wear a colander on his head in the photo on his government ID.
The reason? He's a pastafarian, which makes the issue the Czech equivalent of a first amendment issue:*
Czech officials ruled that the nation's religious liberty laws required this result. According to a government spokesperson, Novy's request "complies with the laws of the Czech Republic where headgear for religious or medical reasons is permitted if it does not hide the face."
As a langiappe: In today's image — a pasta/founding father connection:
Got some more substantive stuff going for this space, but couldn't resist this little niblet.
What's saucing your spaghetti today?
*Full disclosure: the Think Progress piece at the link connects back to the Daily Mail, and I have presumption of distrust at anything from that particular source. But there is a category of journalistic endeavor known as the "too good to check" story — and in my view, this is one of those. You've been warned.
Image: Thomas Jefferson, Design for a maccaroni (sic) making machine, c. 1787.
Categories: random humor, Uncategorized
Tags: noodling


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Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Campos
666 S.W.2d 286
14th COA – Houston
Published Opinion
Court of Appeals of Texas,
Houston (14th Dist.).
TEXAS EMPLOYERS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, Appellant,
Rodrigo CAMPOS, Appellee.
No. A14–82–896CV.
Attorneys & Firms
*287 Mike Morris, James H. Limmer, Tekell, Book & Matthews, Houston, for appellant.
James Boanerges, Houston, for appellee.
Before J. CURTISS BROWN, C.J., and DRAUGHN and ELLIS, JJ.
ELLIS, Justice.
This is a worker's compensation case. Texas Employers' Insurance Association appeals from a judgment based upon a jury verdict which awarded damages to Rodrigo Campos for total and permanent incapacity, resulting from injuries sustained by appellee during the course and scope of employment. We affirm.
We summarize the facts for clarity. At the time of his injury, Rodrigo Campos (appellee) had worked in the maintenance department of Freedman Brothers Packing Company, since arriving in this country seven years prior from Costa Rica. Campos had a second grade education, and had worked as a farm laborer in his native country. He was unable to read or speak English. Campos' regular duties at Freedman required him to clean the slaughterhouse, sacking meat scraps left on the floor, then scrubbing it down before the butchers came on the following shift.
On February 17, 1981, while he was scraping the slaughterhouse floor, Campos was involved in an altercation with his foreman, Alexis Abarca. During the course of the argument, Campos fell to the floor, and Abarca fell on top of him. The next day, *288 after experiencing chest pain, Campos was sent to a Dr. Gonzales. Approximately ten days later, he was examined by a Dr. Jocson who treated him for a back sprain in July of 1980.) Campos then returned to work. At that time, he did not mention any back pain.
Dr. Jocson testified that Mr. Campos called him during the early part of March, complaining of pain in his chest and lower back. On March 16, 1981, Dr. Jocson examined Campos and found some irritation of the nerve root in his lumbar spine. After the doctor's examination and a series of tests resulted in an abnormal finding, Dr. Jocson performed a lumbar arthritis in his back, resulting from his injury.
Campos returned to Dr. Jocson on April 27, 1982, complaining of back pain. He said he had strained his lower back the previous day while moving some paper rolls at work. Dr. Jocson diagnosed the problem as strained muscles in his lower back. Campos had another flare-up of back pain on June 3, 1982, following some strenuous activities. Dr. Jocson advised him to wear his lumbar corset at work to prevent further strain. He also reminded him to avoid bending over or stretching too much.
When Campos' supervisors discovered he was working with a corset, they refused to allow him to continue to work. They demanded he provide them with a full medical release, stating that he could work without a back brace, with no danger of injury. Dr. Jocson refused to give such a release in view of Campos' medical history. He testified that Campos would need to exercise diligent care in performing his work duties in order to avoid re-injury. Campos was still unemployed at the time of trial. The jury found Campos to be totally and permanently incapacitated since March 4, 1981. Texas Employers' Insurance Association appeals from the jury's findings and resulting judgment.
In points of error one and two, appellant claims the evidence was factually insufficient to support the jury's finding that appellee was injured in the course of his employment. We disagree.
It is well settled that in order for an employee to recover worker's compensation benefits, he must prove that he was injured in the course of his employment. A claimant must show (1) the injury occurred while claimant was engaged in the furtherance of his employer's business or affairs, and (2) the injury was of the kind or character originating in the employer's work. Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Page, 553 S.W.2d 98 (Tex.1977); TEX.REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 8309, § 1 (Vernon 1967).
In Article 8309, § 1 also provides that the statute does not include "an injury caused by an act of a third person intended to injure the employee because of reasons personal to him and not directed against him as an employee, or because of his employment." Appellant claims appellee's injury falls within this exception to the general rule.
Appellee testified that for several weeks before the altercation, he had been setting aside a plastic bag of meat scraps for one of the company's truck drivers. The day before the incident, Alexis Abarca, Campos' foreman, took the scraps away from appellee, and told him he could not give *289 them to the driver. The next day, the truck driver spoke angrily to Abarca, after which the foreman approached Campos and a fight ensued. Campos who was cleaning the slaughterhouse floor at the time, said Abarca tried to grab him by the neck. In response, Campos pulled back, and both he and Abarca fell to the ground.
Alexis Abarca testified that he decided to confront Campos after the truck driver who wanted the meat scraps became angry with Abarca. He stated that he came up to Campos, called him a liar, and made a threatening gesture with his hands in order to scare Campos. Campos grabbed Abarca, and they fell to the floor. Abarca also stated that his disagreement with Campos was strictly based on their employment relationship, and the manner in which Campos was doing his work.
Jose Luis Baldares, a witness to the incident, testified that he saw Abarca come up to Campos, jump on him, and knock him down. He stated that Abarca said nothing upon entering the room. He just yelled, and then fell on Campos.
We hold the evidence is sufficient to support the jury's finding that appellee was injured in the course of his employment. Where an employee is injured in a personal difficulty arising over the manner in which his work is being done, although the difficulty itself is not a part of the work of the employee, such injury is compensable under the act. Texas Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Cheely, 232 S.W.2d 124 (Tex.Civ.App.—Amarillo 1950, writ ref'd). We overrule points one and two.
In points three, four, and five, appellant challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury's finding that appellee's injury on February 17, 1981, was a producing cause of his total incapacity.
Dr. Miguel Jocson, an orthopedic surgeon, testified that he examined appellee on February 27, 1981. At that time, appellee complained of pain in his rib cage caused by the fight with his foreman a week before. A week or so later, appellee called Dr. Jocson, complaining of pain in his chest and lower back. When the doctor examined him on March 16, his diagnosis showed the nerve root in appellee's lower back was irritated. After further testing, Dr. Jocson admitted Campos to Tidelands General Hospital for physical therapy. After two weeks, when appellee's condition had not improved significantly, Dr. Jocson performed a lumbar laminectomy on appellee.
Dr. Jocson, basing his opinion on "reasonable medical probability," stated that given all the facts, the injury on February 17, 1981, contributed partially, if not fully, to appellee's disability. He stated that Mr. Campos may have had some natural disc deterioration due to his age, and the trauma to his back aggravated the problem, if, in fact, it did not cause the problem. Dr. Jocson said that prior to the February 17, 1981, incident, appellee had no objective medical findings of injury that disabled him. He also said appellee's post-traumatic arthritis and symptoms could reasonably be dated back primarily to February 17, 1981; and perhaps, in part, due to an accumulation of several prior minor injuries. He said he felt that appellee's permanent disability could be set at the February, 1981 injury.
Dr. Baltzar Benavides testified that he examined Mr. Campos on February 17, 1981, after the altercation, and he found appellee's injuries to be limited to his chest area. He stated that he found no evidence of any trauma to Campos' back which would have resulted in permanent disability.
It is within the exclusive province of the jury to resolve conflicts in testimony presented at trial. It is also within the province of the jury to judge the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony, and to resolve conflicts and inconsistencies in the testimony of different witnesses. *290 Jim Walter Homes, Inc. v. Castillo, 616 S.W.2d 630 (Tex.Civ.App.—Corpus Christi 1981, no writ). We believe this rule holds equally true of expert medical testimony. We hold the evidence of producing cause is both legally and factually sufficient. We overrule points three, four, and five.
In points six, seven, and eight, appellant contends there was no evidence to support the submission of a special issue on permanent incapacity, and insufficient evidence to support the jury's finding that appellee's incapacity was permanent. We disagree.
Appellant argues that appellee's "continuous work record following complete medical discharge" is overwhelming evidence of appellee's ability to obtain and retain employment. Therefore, a finding of total and permanent incapacity is against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence.
It is well settled that the fact that an injured employee resumes work and earns money after his injury does not preclude a jury finding of total and permanent disability. It is merely one fact to be considered in determining capacity to work. Coronado, 628 S.W.2d at 822.
Appellee returned to work in October of 1981, approximately seven months after he was hospitalized, and worked continuously from October 1981, until April 1982. He returned to Dr. Jocson in January and March of 1982, complaining of "acheness [sic] and stiffness" in his back. In April, appellee was treated by Jocson after he strained his lower back while moving some heavy rolls of paper. He missed four days of work at that time. He saw Dr. Jocson again on June 3, 1982, complaining of back pain. Dr. Jocson suggested that he wear his corset to prevent another restrain to his back. At all times during his treatment, Dr. Jocson recommended that he restrict his lifting "within the limits of his discomfort." Appellee requested a full medical release from Dr. Jocson in June 1982, in order to comply with his company's policy. Dr. Jocson testified that in June he signed a medical "release" for appellee, but that it was done under duress, because appellee needed such release to return to work. Freedman Packing clearly would not allow Campos to return to his job otherwise. Dr. Jocson testified, however, that appellee's back "was no longer 100 percent normal and he would need to exercise diligent care in avoiding re-injury". He also said that releasing appellee unconditionally was against his better medical judgment. Freedman Packing, in fact, would not accept the "release" presented by appellee. Appellee was unable to find other employment.
Having reviewed and considered the evidence, we conclude the trial court did not err in submitting a special issue on permanent incapacity, and the jury's finding was not against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence. We overrule points six, seven and eight.
In points nine and ten, appellant contends there is no evidence, or insufficient evidence, to support the jury's award of $7,797.40 for reasonable medical care. We disagree.
Dr. Jocson testified that, with one exception, the charges on appellee's hospital bill were (1) usual and customary charges for like or similar services in the community, and (2) the services were necessary in the treatment of appellee for the injury he sustained. See sigmoidoscopy tray which was not used in treating *291 appellee's back. This charge was deducted from the amount due. We overrule appellant's points nine and ten.
In points eleven and twelve, appellant claims the jury's answers to Special Issues Nos. 8 and 12 are against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence.
In answer to special issues, the jury found that (1) appellee's injury of July 11, 1980, had not contributed to his total incapacity, and (2) appellee's injury on April 27, 1982, had not contributed to his incapacity.
Dr. Jocson testified that appellee had no clinical signs of serious injuries that would be disabling to appellee prior to February 17, 1981. He was of the opinion that the injury on February 17, 1981, was a new injury and not an aggravation of the injury incurred in July 1980. He stated that appellee's injury on April 27, 1982, was probably a combination of an aggravation of the February 17 injury, and a new injury. He testified repeatedly, however, that appellee's disability stemmed from the February 1981 time period. We do not find that the jury's findings are so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be manifestly wrong. We overrule points eleven and twelve.
Appellee contends by cross-point that this appeal has been taken for delay, and without sufficient cause; therefore, a penalty should be assessed. 438. While we agree with appellee that appellant's points of error present few issues of merit, we cannot say that the appeal is of such little merit to warrant the imposition of a penalty. We overrule appellee's cross-point.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.


Hot Travel Jobs conducts a yearly survey for Job-Seekers/Employees to get a perspective on their experiences in compensation as well as job experiences. This is the first year that compensation was measured.
We took salary information from currently employed and unemployed Leisure Travel Agents and Corporate Travel Managers to provide a breakdown of salary changes in the industry.
Our goal here was to show if there was a disparity, if any, between currently employed and unemployed salaries, as a way to gauge compensation rise and fall. As we can see from the data, there's a marked difference between the two groups.


The issue of fat is ongoing, with people trying to decide whether to eat a diet of low- or high-fat foods. But you shouldn't be focusing on choosing between low-fat and high-fat foods, instead you should be considering "right" fats – foods that contain healthy fats.
A new study suggests that eating healthy fats may actually extend life with fewer heart-related illnesses.
Eating too many [bad fats] instead of healthier fats accounted for roughly 4 percent of heart disease deaths — about 250,000 deaths that might be prevented with decreased [bad fat] fat intake. And, about 8 percent of heart disease deaths were estimated to be due to an excess of trans fats, the researchers said. That means decreased trans fat intake could result in about 537,000 fewer heart disease deaths.
The best fats you can choose are omega-3 fats, which are the prime structural components of brain-cell membranes and the insulation coating of the nerves throughout your nervous system. Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats also help keep your veins free of cholesterol buildup.
The richest sources of omega-3s, in the form that your body can readily use (EPA/DHA), are cold-water fish such as wild salmon and tuna. Flax, pumpkin seeds and walnuts are also excellent sources of omega-3s (ALA), but your body needs to a bit of work to convert them to usable EPA/DHA.
The healthiest fats are found in foods that swim (fish) or flow (oils). Unhealthy fats are those that just sit there, like the fat on farmed meat and poultry.
Choosing a "right" fat diet is the direction you should go. Forget about the low-fat vs. high-fat diet debate – become fat savvy for yourself and your family.


I saw last night on ITWeb that Neotel has bought Transtel from Transnet for R230m. This acquisition gives Neotel a national footprint and long distance lines. I seem to recall that Transtel was one of the members of the consortium that created Neotel in the first place so this is probably a bit of housekeeping. The price really doesn't seem all that high given revenue estimates in excess of R400m per annum. This is also the second purchase of an part of Transtel as Neotel purchased the telecoms infrastructure in Transtel for around R256m last year August which gave Neotel the boost it needed to jump into the enterprise space pretty quickly.


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Q: Join Two Tables where join may not exist I'm having a couple of issues writing up a join statement for Oracle. I think I want to be using a left join but I'm not 100% sure.
Here are my two tables
**VisibilityTable**
Industry
ProductID
Visibility
etc

**ItemTable**
ProductID
Other Info
etc

Here's the issue. I have ~15 Industries. Each industry wants to be able to mark a product(~15000) as Public or Private based on their preferences. I have the query working for when you want to view a specific industry's products where it's set to public or private.
The issue I'm running into is after a product is marked public or private for one industry, it's not longer appearing for the industries it has yet to be marked for. This is my query so far:
SELECT v.*, NVL(b.VISIBILITY,'Not Marked') Visibility
FROM ItemTable v
LEFT OUTER JOIN VisibilityTable b ON b.ProductID = v.ProductID
WHERE (
(v.STATUS LIKE 'Filter' or 'Filter' LIKE 'All') AND
(v.MODEL LIKE 'Filter' or 'Filter' LIKE 'All') AND
(v.DUTY LIKE 'Filter' or 'Filter' LIKE 'All') AND
(v.CERTIFICATION LIKE 'Filter' or 'Filter' LIKE 'All')
)

This works for getting me the items that are marked as "Not Marked", "Private", "Public" but I can't get it to pull back ones that haven't been marked in the selected industry.
EDIT: Added the full where clause. This is being generated dynamically and then being passed in based on values coming from a config file.
For example, ProductID 85322 has been marked Private for Industry EPGBio but when I select Industry EPGMethane it doesn't show up as 'Not Reviewed'. It shows up as marked Private.

A: I think that is because you are filtering out the results where they don't appear in the where clause.
When you refer to the "b" table in the where clause, you implicitly change the left outer join to an inner join.  (Unless you happen to be doing is null.)
Move the conditions into the on clause.
I think I finally understand.  You are trying to distinguish between b.Visibility being NULL and the record not existing.  For this, you need a case statement:
select v.*,
       (case when b.ProductId is null then 'Not Marked at All'
             when b.Visibility is null then 'Marked as NULL'
             else b.Visibility'
        end) as Visibility

I changed the strings that are produced to make clear what is happening.  You can make them whatever you like.  The key is using the condition on the join key to whether the record exists, and then looking at the value, to check whether or not the value exists.


Thomas Muller claims Germany are at the peak of their powers as the champions aim to defend their crown at the 2018 World Cup.
Die Mannschaft won their fourth World Cup title in Brazil four years ago when they edged out Argentina 1-0 in the final, courtesy of Mario Gotze's extra-time winner.
Joachim Low's side are amongst the favourites to triumph in Russia after cruising through the qualifiers with 10 wins from 10 in their group, having also won the Confederations Cup last year.
The Germans might not have won any of their last five friendlies since the qualifying campaign, but Muller believes they are stronger than the 2014 World Cup-winning team.
"Individually, without a doubt [we are better]," the Bayern München forward told reporters. "But football has developed considerably.
"Other countries have also come on leaps and bounds and their players have become much more technically refined.
"Comparing different generations doesn't often get you anywhere. You simply have to keep up with the development of the sport and in that sense, we're ready.
The 28-year-old went on to praise Low for the way the national team has evolved over the last eight years.
"German football has come a long way since 2010," Muller added. "Not only given the success in 2014, but in the way we play our football.
"We love to be on the ball. Not to say that I don't admire the old playing style. I personally look for the most direct way of scoring a goal.


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Q: Blocking the Application class via runBlocking kotlin I have a confusion about how Dispatchers work in Kotlin
Task
In my Application class I intend to access my database via Room, take out the user , take out his JWT accessToken and set it in another object that my retrofit Request inteceptor uses.
However I want all this code to be blocking , so that when the Application class has ran to its completion , the user has been extracted and set in the Inteceptor.
Problem
My application class runs to completion BEFORE the user has been picked from the database.
Session class is the one which accesses Room
This is how my session class looks
class Session(private val userRepository: UserRepository, private var requestHeaders: RequestHeaders) {

    var authenticationState: AuthenticationState = AuthenticationState.UNAUTHENTICATED
    var loggedUser: User? by Delegates.observable<User?>(null) { _, _, user ->
        if (user != null) {
            user.run {
                loggedRoles = roleCsv.split(",")
                loggedRoles?.run {
                    if (this[0] == "Employer") {
                        employer = toEmployer()
                    } else if (this[0] == "Employee") {
                        employee = toEmployee()
                    }
                }
                authenticationState = AuthenticationState.AUTHENTICATED
                requestHeaders.accessToken = accessToken
            }
        } else {
            loggedRoles = null
            employer = null
            employee = null
            authenticationState = AuthenticationState.UNAUTHENTICATED
            requestHeaders.accessToken = null
        }
    }
    var loggedRoles: List<String>? = null
    var employee: Employee? = null
    var employer: Employer? = null

    init {
        runBlocking(Dispatchers.IO) {
            loggedUser = userRepository.loggedInUser()
            Log.d("Session","User has been set")
        }

    }

//    var currentCity
//    var currentLanguage

}

enum class AuthenticationState {
    AUTHENTICATED,          // Initial state, the user needs to secretQuestion
    UNAUTHENTICATED,        // The user has authenticated successfully
    LOGGED_OUT,          // The user has logged out.
}

This is my Application class
class MohreApplication : Application()
{
    private val session:Session by inject()
    private val mohreDatabase:MohreDatabase by inject() // this is integral. Never remove this from here. This seeds the data on database creation
    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        startKoin {
            androidLogger()
            androidContext(this@MohreApplication)
            modules(listOf(
                platformModule,
                networkModule,
              ....
            ))
        }

        Log.d("Session","Launching application")

    }

My Koin module which creates the session
val platformModule = module {

//    single { Navigator(androidApplication()) }
    single { Session(get(),get()) }
    single { CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + Job()) }

}

In my Logcat first "Launching Application" prints out and THEN "User has been set"
Shouldn't it be reverse? . This is causing my application to launch without the Session having the user and my MainActivity complains.

A: by inject() is using kotlin lazy initialization. Only when session.loggedUser is queried will the init block be fired.
In your case, when you call session.loggedUser in the MainActivity, the init block will fire and block the calling thread.
What you can do is.
import org.koin.android.ext.android.get

class MohreApplication : Application()
{
    private lateinit var session: Session
    private lateinit var mohreDatabase: MohreDatabase // this is integral. Never remove this from here. This seeds the data on database creation
    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        startKoin {
            androidLogger()
            androidContext(this@MohreApplication)
            modules(listOf(
                platformModule,
                networkModule,
              ....
            ))
        }

        session = get()
        mohreDatabase = get()

        Log.d("Session","Launching application")

    }


PTA Comunitarios are a new response to the challenges of effective family-school-community partnerships. Schools and parent organizations need successful family engagement processes that go beyond traditional family participation. The original official PTA Comunitario is in its fourth year of operation and is growing in membership, expectations and goals set and in taking on education issues. Themes of the meetings include examining the impact of the state accountability system and high-stakes tests, analyzing the state's graduation requirements, and the re-introduction of a minimum diploma track that steers students away from college.
The new type of PTA functions in a grassroots community organization with meetings held in the native language of participants, in this case Spanish. Members are mostly poor, recent immigrants from unincorporated communities on the fringes of towns. Rotating leadership emerges from these families. Meetings are highly participatory with specific education-related training. Home visitors (promotoras) engage families and organize transportation networks to meetings and events.
Ferguson, et al., (2010); Henderson, A.T. (2011); Orr & Rogers (2011); Robledo Montecel & Goodman (2010); and Weiss, et al. (2010).
IDRA's PTA Comunitario project has now been funded with a four-year grant by the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (I3) program to further develop the process and rigorously document and evaluate the successful practice in expansion to 20 campuses in five school districts. IDRA's Family Leadership in Education Principles are distilled from four decades of experience and advocacy and have come to fruition in this project. At stake is extending and replicating an effective model of family engagement to transform schools to serve poor children well.
For the national and state level PTA membership goals, with concerns about diminishing membership, PTA Comunitario offers a process to engage families who have not received effective outreach and in fact are not very interested in the traditional parent organization.
For Title I campuses required to organize and document parent meetings and events, PTA Comunitario offers an effective outreach process that brings concrete and powerful family engagement results. Families previously disconnected and thought-to-be-unconcerned become dynamic and fruitful partners.
Families care about their children's education and are to be treated with respect, dignity and value. Deficit and family-blaming approaches aren't just disrespectful, they don't work. Families, schools and communities, when drawn together, become a strong, sustainable voice to protect the rights of all children. These families from the most underserved, least connected communities are their children's strongest advocates for an excellent and efficacious education.
Considering the policy threats to keeping schools open, educators must engage and partner with family allies who can be ferocious advocates to keep schools flourishing successfully in their barrios. The PTA Comunitario response requires new outreach that is both labor intensive and personal. As schools and organizations adapt to new patterns, the status quo becomes bold new partnerships and transformed schools. The ultimate benefits are children learning, growing and succeeding in school.
Ferguson, C., & C. Jordan, M. Baldwin. Working Systematically in Action: Engaging Family & Community (Austin, Texas: SEDL, 2010).
Henderson, A.T. Family-School-Community Partnerships 2.0: Collaborative Strategies to Advance Student Learning (Washington, D.C.: National Education Association, 2011).
Hong, S. A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Education Press., 2011).
Montemayor, A.M. "Hosting Superintendents, Quizzing Candidates and Marking Maps – A Fully Engaged PTA Comunitario," IDRA Newsletter (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, March 2012).
Orr, M., & J. Rogers (eds.). Public Engagement for Public Education: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011).
Robledo Montecel, M., & C. Goodman. Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework™ (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association, 2010).
Weiss, H.B., & H. Kreider, E. Lopez, C. Chatman-Nelson. Preparing Educators to Engage Families: Case Studies Using an Ecological Systems Framework (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2010).
Aurelio M. Montemayor, M.Ed., is a senior education associate in the IDRA Field Services. Comments and questions may be directed to him via email at feed@idra.org.