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The Eagles trailed 2-0 at halftime before Caroline Louw scored a pair of second-half goals to pull Beaufort even. The Landsharks outscored the Eagles 4-3 in penalties to earn the win.
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Q: Gmail-like labelling system I am looking into a number of ways to implement a labelling system similar to the one in Gmail. Basically I have a Resource at the lowest level and I would like to provide a number of organisational groupings for that resource in the form of labels. If anyone has implemented something like that I would like to hear your views. My idea is to have within the Resource instance a List<Label>. I need to have an efficient mechanism in order to do very fast searches based on the labels or based on the resources.
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A: Nope, I wouldn't do that. I'd think about maintaining two dictionaries, Label -> HashSet<Resource> and Resource -> HashSet<Label>. This will give you fast lookup in both directions. Obviously you should encapsulate this.
Also, whatever you do, you shouldn't embed it in your Resource. It's a resource, and it's maintaining its labels? No. Single responsibility and all that.

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The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) is the largest corporate charter school chain in the U. S, with 141 schools and 50,000 students in 20 states. KIPP was launched in 1994 by David Levin and Michael Feinberg, two former Ivy-Leaguers and Teach for America (TFA) corps members assigned to teach in Houston, where the first KIPP school was created. Since 2000 when KIPP students performed a skit at the Republican National Convention, KIPP has become the poster school model for "no excuses" education, and today it receives hundreds of millions in donations from corporations, corporate foundations, and venture philanthro-capitalists.
KIPP spends a great deal of money promoting its brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled by poverty and the lack of hope. KIPP and its billionaire supporters contend that we cannot wait for an end to poverty to properly educate the children of the poor. No one I know would disagree with this premise, but everyone I know disagrees with KIPP's conception of what "properly educate" means.
Apparently, KIPP sees no irony in requiring the poorest urban children who have received the least in life to earn everything at KIPP, from paychecks for good behavior and working hard, to the KIPP shirt, and, at some KIPPs, even the desks that children must earn their right to sit in for 8 to 10 hours a day.
You may ask yourself what your reaction would be if your fifth-grader came home every day for the first four days of school to tell you that she sat on the floor without a desk.
Or if you don't have children, what do you think Michelle Obama would say her children came home telling her that they were not good enough to have a desk, or they had not proven that they could follow directions well enough, or sit quietly long enough, or walk a line straight enough, or track the teacher intently enough, or raise their hands quickly enough, or wait long enough to go to the bathroom, or that they had not worked hard enough?
Do you think Michelle Obama would encourage her husband, the President of the United States, to have his education people pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the support of this kind of school?
One of the KIPP teachers I interviewed for my forthcoming book on KIPP teaching had told me about students losing their desks as a form of punishment. He said that most of the one hour session devoted on late Friday afternoons for "team and family time" would "dissolve into the students sitting on the floor and writing lines, a hundred times, I will not disrespect our time with team and family, because maybe they didn't transition in a straight enough line to team and family. Maybe they were talking too much."
Another teacher told me about how desks were taken away at her KIPP school as a form of punishment for small or large offenses: "So at any given time you could go into a classroom and see from one to ten kids sitting in the back room or the whole class on the floor."
Humiliating and awful and borderline abusive, indeed.
TEACHER: One thing I did want to tell you was, we started school the middle of July. And they did something totally illegal. And I knew then that I didn't want to work there anymore. For the fifth graders coming into the school for the first time, they sat a hundred fifth graders on the floor of one class in rows for a week, a hundred fifth graders in one classroom for a week until they could follow directions. And at that point, I said, why am I here? . . . .
INTERVIEWER: Let's get back to the fifth graders sitting on the floor. [Crosstalk]. This was during the, what is sometimes referred to as the KIPP-notizing that happens during the first summer for fifth graders?
TEACHER: They would sit there and do homework on the floor. They would fill in forms and pass them. And they had to all do it correctly, otherwise, they'd do it again and again and again. And so what we would do, by Thursday, all the teachers would vote in site, should we let them go into desks? In front of them, we had to vote. You know? And I voted yes, put them in desks. You know? It's like treating like animals. They weren't animals. They were children. And so by Friday, I think they figured, well, a week is long enough. You know? And so we all voted, yeah, let them go in the desks. And that's how they decided to go in the desks.
INTERVIEWER: I'm sure you wouldn't. I've heard of children sitting on the floor, but I haven't heard of a hundred in a single [crosstalk] room.
TEACHER: It was a hundred. It was all the fifth graders in a classroom, yeah.
TEACHER: Five. I think five teachers were there. And the principal would walk in every once and awhile.
INTERVIEWER: OK. So let me ask you this question. If I had been with you, either on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, what would I have seen happening during one of those days?
TEACHER: With me or with students or teachers?
INTERVIEWER: Well, if I had been in the classroom on one of those days, what would I have seen happening?
TEACHER: At first the kids, well, they have to do the flag salute of course. And then they have to take attendance. And the only time they stood up was during the flag salute and going out for recess, which they did go out for recess. Kids were trying to follow directions. I don't think the directions were given for a fifth grader to quite understand, even though one teacher was really, really good. I don't know. By Friday, they were frustrated. The kids were frustrated. You know? And maybe they were making them worried about being a part of the school that they wouldn't pass, because we had a lot of kids who hadn't passed in the public school so they went to KIPP. And so maybe they were worrying them to make sure that they would follow directions. And so they were worried. I think the kids were worried.
INTERVIEWER: They were worried that they weren't going to get in or that they were going to have to stay there?
TEACHER: They were worried that they couldn't ever follow directions. It was a mind game. I've seen this. It's terrible what they did. It was [Crosstalk] what they did.
TEACHER: They did what they could. And even by Friday, they weren't all following directions, but they said, go sit in a chair. We'll give you desks.
INTERVIEWER: OK. So they were just on the floor for four hours. So when the children got their desks, were they sent into different classrooms so that they could [crosstalk]?
TEACHER: They were a lot happier, because they had their own place to put their backpack. They had their own places to put books. They had their own place to put stuff. You know? They had their own space. And they needed that. They needed their own space. They needed to feel comfortable being an individual, not just being a classmate.
The question here that must be asked is what will it take to get the attention of those charged with the safety and welfare of children in order to bring an end to these horrors. This is not the first time such educational atrocities at KIPP have been documented. The most prominently-ignored series of incidents occurred in 2009 in Fresno (go here and read posts from the bottom up).
How long will we turn our backs on this kind of abuse? How long will we allow and support and celebrate this form of behavioral sterilization for poor children while ignoring and finding excuses for doing nothing about poverty? Will it take Amnesty International to intervene in these human rights abuses at America's apartheid corporate schools for the poor?
1) belief in two (2) tracks of schools-- one for "our kind of kids" and one for "those 'other' types, wink wink"
2) willingness to never walk in the door of an actual real school serving all kids, like Grady or Norcorss or Clarke Central . . .
Thank you for this piece, Jim. The KIPP stories just get worse and worse.
Just when I thought that KIPP had plumbed the deepest depths of white supremacism, they prove me wrong and worm ever deeper.
I don't normally post anonymous comments, but your rant is so compelling that I could not resist. I think the key phrase in your comments comes from identifying KIPP's purpose, which is to "weed out who is capable." As one of the obvious "capables," it would be normal for you to focus on that part of the equation. On the other side of the weeding are those who are self labeled as failures, which is a result of the "no excuses" thought disorder that children are taught to absorbed by the corporate school model, along with their earned failure they are taught to stoically accept (failure comes to 40 to 60% of KIPPsters between fifth and eighth grade).
I see, too, that you have absorbed some of the common verbal courtesies used at KIPP schools. But if I had endured what you have as a result of learning to embrace your oppressor, I would probably be more angry, still.
I have been a KIPP teacher for going on a decade. I have worked at two different KIPP schools. This is not how we do things at my school, OR at any KIPP schools I am familiar with - and I have visited more than 15 KIPP schools across the country, over the years. This article is a misrepresentation of the KIPP team and family. At my school, and at every school we visit, we love our kids and work every day to do our very best for them. We engage their families in the educational process. We believe in helping them learn to be hard-working students AND good people, and we strive to model that for our students every day. When something isn't working well in our efforts to help our kids reach their goals, we reflect on it honestly, and we change. To use the word "atrocities" and "horrors" to describe the entire team and family that is KIPP is an atrocity in itself. I strongly urge the author to visit more schools, talk to more teachers - particularly the ones who have stuck around for a while - and to talk to our students and their parents. My guess is that your sample size was too small to get an accurate representation of KIPP. And this article makes me sad, because it undermines what my colleagues and our kids and their families do every day.
As a KIPP teacher for "going on a decade," you are, indeed, one of the rarest of educators. Since one of my research participants described KIPP as "grad school for TFA gluttons for punishment," I don't know whether to congratulate you or to say how sorry I am.
Obviously, you're not familiar with all the KIPP schools. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution documented the "floor treatment" in 2011 (link here: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/kipp-schools-get-tough-rules-lessons-get-results/nQKYw/), but the former teacher that I interviewed is the first to document this treatment of 100 fifth-graders crammed into a single classroom for a week as they earned with their total compliance what every middle-class child receives on the first day for being a valued member of the human family.
I used the word atrocity and horror to describe the floor treatment that was shared with me. I do not use it to broad brush every KIPP teacher – some of the teachers I have interviewed are no doubt fine teachers, and they speak of others they met at KIPP who were dedicated professionals, despite the total compliance segregated corporate model they work in every day.
So far I have interviewed all of the 20 former KIPP teachers who volunteered to participate in this study. There are many commonalities among these former teachers with regards to their experiences at K IPP. That is what I plan to present for the public to judge.
I think that it is worth remembering that when Rep. Leo Ryan went to Guiana to respond to complaints about Jonestown, everything on the surface looked fine. When Jay Mathews visited dozens of K IPP schools, everything, according to him, looked fine. It was only after Rep. Leo Ryan was handed notes by few desperate family members that he began to question what he was seeing. Of course we know what happened to Leo Ryan.
Francie, we shared a classroom for a year, and you are one of my favorite colleagues ever. You are so dedicated and you do see the best in everything. At the same time, in my year at our school, I saw what I would call atrocious and developmentally inappropriate treatment of students. One particular occasion sticks out. Our Dean was yelling at a student who was standing in the center of a group of his peers in the cafeteria. He was being ridiculed for the way he was wearing his pants. I think his pants were sagging. The student was sobbing and whimpering while the Dean verbally abused him in front of his classmates. It was horrifying. Then there were the students who NEVER made their paycheck. Probably 5- 10 boys, right? The after-school detentions every day until 6pm in lieu of playing organized sports after-school, the silent lunches every day away from peers, how was that developmentally appropriate? It wasn't an intervention, it was a system of control that, and I honestly believe this, robbed many kids of a year of their childhood. I would never send my own child to a KIPP school, would you?
This sounds like an active lesson in realizing that gains, must be earned. In the business world, nothing is given - unless you know someone, or get lucky. Luck is not something that people can depend on. Especially not minority students, from low income families.
To make it in the world, and make it a better place, the nice people have to be not just smart, but strong as well. They need to be diligent, and honest. If you are in a hard world, you need to be honest with how you interact with it and know the game.
"Earning" a desk, while sitting on the floor, prepares you to face bureaucracy, while still being able to work. The lesson learned, is being able to work through discomfort. Succeeding even when unpleasant. Survival is not optional, it's mandatory.
First you must realize that the 5th grade is not business but an educational experience. As such, it should be treated with the care, compassion, concern, and capable guidance that middle class children routinely may expect. Your clear suggestion is that poor children require a different kind of treatment to become diligent and honest, as opposed, I suppose you mean, to being lazy and dishonest.
Most of us would view honest, integrity, empathy, and good citizenship as character goals worth explicitly teaching, but not KIPP. You must ask them why.
I suggest to you that packing 100 children into a classroom to sit on the floor for four days until they earn what middle-class children have on day one, without question, represents child-abuse that is reserved for the less fortunate. Learning persistence and working through discomfort or valuable traits, no doubt. Such virtues, however, have always been learned in school with less torturous techniques used to establish total compliance.
Is this a blog or a piece of journalism? I'd be interested to see your reporting on the KIPP schools you've actually visited (if this is journalism). If it's just a blog, well, I'm less interested in uninformed opinions.
The interview data is from a verbatim transcript of an in-depth interview with a former KIPP teacher. As such, it represents a piece of data that, together with others, holds the stories of former Kipp teachers. My prefatory remarks are my own for this blog, which I started in 2005 as a response to the kinds of corporate schooling that KIPP embraces.
Some of what you will read in the book, should you decide to buy it, you may doubt as well. Some of what goes on in these total compliance schools many people will find hard to believe at first, without understanding the broader context of where KIPP came from.
There are many kinds of sampling other than random. My sampling for this project has been purposive, and the purpose has been and is to represent the stories of former KIPP teachers, some of whom find their experiences painful to recall and difficult to forget. So far I have interviewed all former Kipp teachers who have responded to my public request to record their stories.
The plural of anecdote is not data. I'm sure you could find 20 people to say negative things about just about anything in this world. Have any of the teachers you interviewed said good things about KIPP and will they be included in your book? Can you publish a link to your "public request"?
I don't expect everyone to acknowledge twenty in-depth interviews to constitute real research, and obviously you are one of those, Mr. or Ms. Anonymous. If you want to comment further, include your name. You will find one of my public requests at the end of this post: http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/09/a-former-kipp-teacher-shares-her-story.html. Hope you enjoy this "anecdote" from a former KIPP teacher as well.
Jim, Thank you so much for interviewing former KIPP teachers and writing a book about the abhorrent treatment of children at "no-excuses" charters. How these military style boot camps, with drill sergeant teachers, have become not only acceptable but the model for educating children of color in this country is just beyond my comprehension. Hopefully, when more people become aware of these practices, they will come to an end, as with the schools for Native American children in earlier times. Keep up this very important work!
What do the public schools in the districts you've interviewed KIPP teachers from look like? I transferred to work at a KIPP school after spending three years in a district that treated students like numbers - my principal would literally refer to students as "3s" and "4s," denoting their achievement on the previous year's state test. In my first year as a special education teacher, I was given a classroom of 27 students with special needs, with one half-time para professional for four hours. Students were pushed through the system so that we didn't have to "deal with them" for an extra year if we were to hold them back. And of course, I could write pages upon pages about how teachers were treated... but that's a separate blog post.
At KIPP, my principal knew every one of our 100 new 5th grader's name at the end of their third day of summer school. They were given desks and chairs and food every day of summer school. Students at my school earn their KIPP polo shirt, meaning they start in a white polo that they bring from home and are given a KIPP polo when they have demonstrated perfect homework and appropriate behavior. They walk in quiet lines in the hallway - because our school is one giant hall and sound echoes easily. Students read their books in line if they have to wait for a class. They are given opportunities to debate, present, perform, and participate in sports at my school. My school sounds nothing like the school you mention. It saddens me that you choose to paint a picture of all KIPP schools as this way.
We have come a long way when we can brag about feeding children and giving them desks to sit in. Or we have gone a long way back, I should say.
I do not know about the public schools where these former KIPP teachers worked, since that was not the focus of this study. But I do fear that one of those former KIPP teachers was right--we are becoming a KIPP nation, in that the total compliance, apartheid model of bare-knuckled pedagogy is now emulated far beyond these 150 chain gang boutiques known as KIPP.
The other scary part of this phenomenon is that many of those teachers that remain in KIPP have become inoculated from self-critique, so that everything they do at the behest of the all-knowing school leader becomes imbued with spiritual significance.
I am convinced that all of the former KIPP teachers I interviewed are good people, and they were good people when they were at KIPP. That being said, many of these folks have come to view their actions through a more realistic lens since leaving KIPP, so much so that they can now acknowledge that failing to achieve the impossible may be forgiven, notwithstanding the claims of the corporate chiefs at KIPP, Inc.
When I worked at KIPP our Reading teacher told the students if they were 1s, 2s, 3s or 4s, based on their predicted performance on NYC standardized tests. At my KIPP school, "reading instruction" meant timed reading passages for the months of February and March. It appears you and I had different experiences inside KIPP.


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If i ask 100 businessmen out there what they want, each one of them will say that they need more customers to grow their business. That's the number 1 target of each business out there. But before you actively seek out new customers, here are 4 questions you need to ask yourself.
Question 1 – Am I ready to fight on price?
Question 2 – Are my current customers satisfied?
Question 3 – Have I listened to my old customers?
Question 4 – Is my business ready?
One of the most common marketing tactics for targeting new customers is to fight on the basis of price. Give better discounts, throw in 1 + 1 product sale or somehow push more customers down the user's throat. While this is definitely one of the most effective marketing tactics, you have to look at your margins to know whether you can afford it.
Giving discounts means your Bottomline is going to be affected. It is going to be affected because you just cannot slash your prices and expect the customers will come to buy. You have to create point of purchase material, you have to advertise the sale beforehand, there are 10 sundry expenses which will come prior to the sale.
And besides this, if you are planning on targeting new customers, are the customers the ones who will buy your product only when it is on discount? And do you need such customers? These are some pricing related questions you have to ask yourself before targeting new customers.
You have to ask yourself this question before you put money down the drain by advertising your business. It is useless to spend money on advertising; later finding out most of the customers did not convert because of poor word of mouth. As the popular saying goes "Bad news travels faster than wildfire". So a customer with negative experience is more likely to lose you several customers and more business.
If your customer service is not upto mark, let alone targeting new customers, you are loosing the customers you have in hand. This is for sure because every business out there has a competitor, who is surviving only because of excellent service. Hell, even when I am going on a tour, I go through my selected tour operator only, because of his excellent service and care he takes for his customers. If your current customers are not satisfied or your customer service infrastructure is not up to date, it is better to spend on customer service than acquiring new customers.
Old or new, customers are alike. They want to be happy when they leave your storefront. If you make them happy, they will stick with you. Whether your customers are happy or not, can be answered by your existing customers only.
When they walk in your store, do they feel positive? Is your website up to mark? Do they have any problems while doing business with you? Do you need to tweak the pricing or the product? Is there anything you can do with your existing product arsenal to make the existing customers buy more from you?
You need to make adjustments in your customer and business management to ensure that old customers are not lost or new customers don't lose their way when they are acquired by your company. Quite probably, before you start targeting new customers, you will find that you already have many customers you can get and retain just by doing things which your old customers recommend!! The sooner you realise this and ask questions from your existing customers, the better will be the future of your company.
Is your business ready to take on a sudden influx of customers? If you are thinking of targeting new customers, and you don't expect a huge conversion, or you are afraid what you will do if too many of them join up, then you need to look at your business readiness.
A year back, a new KFC franchise started in my locality. However, this KFC outlet always received material late from the parent company (packaged KFC food). Even when supplied, the burgers were stale and not always tasty. As a result, the franchise (which is famous world wide) flopped in my locality and McDonalds (which was always fresh) flourished. Similar complaints can be seen on forums for Subway as well as for Monginis or Ribbons or balloons.
If your business is not ready, then you need to expand with caution because uselessly targeting new customers, whom you cannot make happy, will harm your business more than doing good. The people of my locality, who got ill eating the stale fast food, never went to the same franchise again (KFC). This was a sore hit for KFC against McDonalds and it is just a small business lesson for people who plan big things.
Waiting out when your competition is already in the field is harmful, but more harmful is expanding your business when you are just not ready for it. Take your time, expand your business through catering to existing customers, give good customer service, and when you think the time is right and your business is ready, take the plunge towards targeting new customers. Till that time, just wait and improve yourself.
then it is time for you to step out there, and get as many customers as you can get and have. We wish you all the best for the same.
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By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on September 26, 2020 September 28, 2020
Ginsburg v. Goebbels and the search for New Sparta
It is impossible to write a misogynist manifesto without a minimal historiographical review, particularly relating to the Ancient world. The author of such a manifesto can count on a very favorable fact for his political project: the aesthetic interest that Sparta and its culture arouse in the general public. Through the simple fact of being a doctrinaire of the New Right, the misogynist will no doubt be familiar with a certain bowdlerized, pop-Spartan aesthetic, as codified by the blockbuster, neocon propaganda movie 300.
Sparta, the dirt-poor, traditionalist, agrarian, landlocked home of laconic warriors and dominating mothers; Athens, the rich, sophisticated, sea-trade hub were philosopher kings come from. Sparta's grip on modern culture is not new; it has elicited great passions among political theorists since Aristotle, who explicitly mentioned the power held by its women, comparing it wit its rival city. Indeed, the historic rivalry between Athens and Sparta was a favorite topic in the institutional debates of Ancient Rome, which saw itself reenacting Sparta's role against rival Carthage. Machiavelli too expressed fascination by this contrast; Voltaire, in contrast, poured all his irony into ridiculing Spartan institution; interestingly, both for being feminist and militaristic.
The German National Socialists, heirs to the related Prussian Junker meme,were not immune to the Spartan spell either. In the roles this polis reserved for its men and women, they found inspiration for a new political and educational paradigm. How would have the authors of the Communist Manifesto explained the coming to power of National Socialism in 1933? What conclusions would have they drawn if they had had at their disposal, as a doctrinal document, the speech that Joseph Goebbels gave on March 18, 1933 on the role of the German woman?
"In 1900 two million babies were born in Germany. Now the number has fallen to one million. This drastic decline is most evident in the nation's capital. (…) The government is determined to halt this decline of the family and the resulting impoverishment of our blood. There must be a fundamental change. The liberal attitude toward the family and the child is responsible for Germany's rapid decline. We today must begin worrying about an aging population. In 1900 there were seven children for each elderly person, today it is only four. If current trends continue, by 1988 the ratio will be 1:1. These statistics say it all. They are the best proof that if Germany continues along its current path, it will end in an abyss with breathtaking speed."
Goebbels visited Greece in 1936, and on that occasion stated that if he returned to Sparta, as if 2,500 years had not passed, it was because in this Greek city he could feel as comfortable as in Germany, naturally thanks to the reforms promoted by the Nazis. When evaluating the Third Reich and analyzing its totalitarian, militaristic and racist inclinations, we must remember its vocation as a renewed Sparta, particularly in regards to the role that women filled in it.
As is well known, the Spartan woman was expected by the State to generate offspring so she could provide the community with new warriors. This is exactly what the Nazi regime expected of German women. How would Goebbels find Germany in 1988, the date he explicitly mentions in his speech? Undoubtedly, his most pessimistic forecasts had been met. This is accentuated if we stretch the period to a more recent date: October 30th, 2018, the day Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her departure from power. Angela Merkel: a laid-off, childless stateswoman: the perfect embodiment of the characteristics Goebbels most despised in a German female.
From an aesthetic viewpoint, Merkel is at the antipodes of Goebbels' own wife, Magda (1901-1945), decorated as an exemplary mother of the Third Reich. Platonically in love with the Führer, in 1945 and faced with the fall of the Reich, she murdered her six children and then killed herself along her husband. As Spartan women sometimes did, Magda had more than one husband in the course of her life. In 1921 she married Günther Quandt, an industrialist twice her age. Apparently, the businessman was more concerned with his work dealings than with having kids; Magda left him and went on to marry Goebbels, only 4 years her senior and father of the six dead children. Thus, her only surviving son, Harald Quandt, was the product of her first marriage. He survived the war thanks to being old enough to become a Luftwaffe officer and fall prisoner in North Africa, a condition which kept him away from his exemplary warrior-mother. After the war, Quandt would go on to thrive in the American-supervised West Germany economic milieu, inheriting a family fortune that stands to this day.
The demographic situation of Germany is common in most all the western world. As Pax Americana advances, fertility seems to decline everywhere. Is this an exclusive phenomenon of the liberal democratic, industrialized world? Well, seeing how the ex-USSR territories are no better (and in many aspects worse), the obvious answer would be a loud no. Only developing countries, especially those of Muslim persuasion, can be expected to consistently stay above the replacement rate in the next few decades. The question, thus, still stands: what would the writers of the Communist Manifesto say about all of this? Is this the way of Progress? Both the Capitalist and the post-Communist wastelands are conspicuously infertile, and their "liberal attitude towards the family" (to use Goebbels' expression) is to blame for it, as many are already past the industrial stage.
Following the hints left by Marx and Engels' pamphlet, we know the enemies of the Capitalist-Communist revolutionaries are none other than the Reactionary and Bourgeois Socialists, of which the Nazis were only but a specific brand. Different attitudes towards womanhood seem to be one of the fault lines separating these progressives from their enemies. As Revolution is the motor of history, it is of obvious interest knowing who is who in this fight if one aims to predict the future. Thus, another question arises: who today carries the torch of the Spartan spirit, and who is siding with the Capitalist-Communist evolution?
As we have seen, Mutti Merkel's EU lacks any trace of the lacedemonian ethos. Almost no country in Europe has tried to wear the Spartan hat since the Nazi era. The European Fourth Reich is a trading juggernaut; Athenian by virtue of its NATO chains, it has lost its taste for war and tradition. Only some factions within it, like Poland and Hungary's ruling parties or Italy's Lega, pose a challenge to this situation. A challenge that, not unexpectedly, has revealed the cracks in the EU's foundations, and that might lead to its complete irrelevance in the near future.
What about Mother Russia, then? Definitely a land power, depending on raw-material exports and with an oversized and proud military, it seems to fit the Spartan bill to some extent… except it doesn't. In spite of what PUA sex tourists want you to believe, Eastern European women are not "traditional" or "red-pilled", and divorce, abortion and female labor were a feature of Soviet life a long time before they were a thing in Europe. Despite much shirtless bear-riding and jihadist-killing, Putin is no Spartan natalist either. He has tried to solve Russia's demographic crisis through one of the most liberal immigration policies of the world, and his coziness with Germany in all important matters (like energy policy) proves this.
China is a completely different object. The trading giant par excellence, it lacks however anything calling back to Athens in its Capital-Communist personality. It is definitely not a philosophers' paradise, either. It is not Spartan, either. Decades of family planning through the infamous one-child policy stunted its demographic growth, and an aging population has led the Communist Party of China to recently reverse its anti-natalist laws. The impact of the pandemic is yet unknown, but it can be assumed that it will not lead to a rediscovery of warrior motherhood by the Middle Kingdom's managerial elite.
Finally, we have Trump's America and its current redefinition crisis. The president made sex and gender a central point in his 2016 campaign, showing off an impressive record on misogyny and generally taking the side of the pro-lifers. His isolationist tendencies are also a Spartan characteristic, as well as his fondness for verbal abuse of opponents. In 2020 the gender question has been somewhat overshadowed by racial disturbances, but even those are loaded in regards to the question of motherhood, especially when taking into account the dismal disparities in the rate of abortion when sorted by race. Ruth Baden Ginsburg's opportune death has also contributed to bring the issue back to the front; the passing away of the architect of Roe v. Wade has already provided a lot of cringe reaction videos to fuel Trumpist propaganda.
In general, it can be said that the Overton window has moved considerably to the right in the last four years. We will see what happens in November, but American Spartanists have reasons to feel confident.
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Seattle-area health startup One Item expands CDC-backed heart study
Seattle-area company One Item is working with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to support a study of a rural community in Arkansas at risk of poor heart health.
The UAMS Heart Healthy Communities initiative aims to reduce health outcome inequality in rural Arkansas through studying a target population with historically poor health outcomes. The app is used in combination with other efforts, such as linking people with social services and medical providers.
One Item's Health Science Index and Better Now apps. (One Item Image)
Founded in 2016, One Item has been working with UAMS for about two years and recently announced that the study has expanded to enroll more people, aiming for more than 200 subjects.
The startup's Health Science Index app is a cornerstone of the study, said principal investigator Irion Pursell, director of cardiovascular disease primary prevention at UAMS. The app helps participants prioritize areas for improvement in their health and lifestyle.
"Improving quality and duration of life starts with a client's willingness to include wellness-seeking behaviors in their daily routine," Pursell told GeekWire. "The app facilitates wellness by prioritizing specific areas for action and providing content on particular activities a client can include in their daily routine."
The app identifies key focus areas through a survey that asks questions about exercise, sleep, water intake, nutrition and other factors. One Item provides daily reminders about focus areas, enables connections with friends on the app, and links to educational materials. The app also scores users on their progress and provides a dashboard to help them monitor it.
The app will also be used to help identify people at risk of premature death in the study population.
The study is funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which has shown interest in potentially expanding the use of the app to other counties if the UAMS initiative shows a benefit, said Pursell.
One Item is led by CEO and co-founder Erik Knutsen, who was previously CEO of Bellevue, Wash.-based business consulting services company Design Laboratory, and is a former senior project manager at Microsoft. The company's co-founder and CTO is Brian Williams, former CEO of California Vision who is based in San Diego.
The company also offers a consumer-facing version of the app, called "Better Now" which can be used to help people identify and improve key focus areas in different facets of life, such as fitness and wellness, wellbeing and happiness, and relationships.
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Nickel(II) and lead(II) ionic imprinted 8-hydroxyquinoline polymers were synthesized by a precipitation polymerization technique and were used as selective solid phase extraction supports for the determination of nickel and lead in seawater by flow injection solid phase extraction on-line inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry. An optimum loading flow rate of 2.25 mL min−1 for 2 min and an elution flow rate of 2.25 mL min−1 for 1 min gave an enrichment factor of 15 for nickel. However, a low dynamic capacity and/or rate for adsorption and desorption was found for lead ionic imprinted polymer and a flow rate of 3.00 mL min−1 for 4-min loading and a flow rate of 2.25 mL min−1 for 1-min elution gave a enrichment factor of 5. The limit of detection was 0.33 µg L−1 for nickel and 1.88 µg L−1 for lead, with a precision (n = 11) of 8% (2.37 µg Ni L−1) for nickel and 11% (8.38 µg Pb L−1) for lead. Accuracy was also assessed by analyzing SLEW-3 (estuarine water) and TM-24 (lake water) certified reference materials, and the values determined were in good agreement with the certified concentrations.


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EFF and Scholars Tell the Texas Supreme Court: No Second Class Status for the First Amendment Online
By Andrew Crocker
Free speech is equally important whether it's shouted in a town square or posted to a personal website. The Supreme Court made that clear way back in 1997 in Reno v. ACLU, but it bears repeating as the Internet matures. Ensuring that online speech isn't relegated to second-class status when it comes to the First Amendment is at the heart of two amicus briefs just submitted on behalf of EFF and the rock star First Amendment scholars Erwin Chemerinsky and Lyrissa Lidsky in a pair of cases currently before the Texas Supreme Court.
The two cases, Burbage v. Burbage and Kinney v. Barnes, are suits for defamation. Burbage involves several statements made in person and online by the defendant Chad Burbage about his brother Kirk, accusing Kirk of committing elder abuse in the process of inheriting the family funeral home business and other property "through untoward means." At trial, a jury determined several of Chad's statements were defamatory. In Kinney, the defendant Barnes, who runs an attorney recruiting company, posted an allegedly defamatory statement on two personal websites, claiming that Kinney, an ex-employee, had tried to bribe a law firm to hire one of his candidates.
The Texas Supreme Court is considering the same issue in both cases: Once a court has found that the defendant in a defamation suit has in fact said something defamatory about the plaintiff, can it prohibit the defendant from ever saying the statement again in the future? Or, if the defamatory statement was posted on a personal blog, can the court require the defendant to take it down and keep it down forever? These are called permanent injunctions and, as we explain in our briefs, they are not allowed in defamation cases offline and so should not be allowed in those cases online. Following the Supreme Court's lead in Reno, we argue that the Texas court should not adopt an "Internet-specific" rule allowing permanent injunctions. "If anything, the particular properties of the Internet that allow for the rapid flow of information counsel against allowing permanent injunctions in defamation cases."
The Texas Supreme Court is expected to rule in Burbage and Kinney soon. A big thanks to Marc Fuller and Tom Leatherbury at Vinson & Elkins for helping with the brief and acting as local counsel.
Burbage Amicus Brief
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Q: Pi value estimation with series Here's my problem:
Compute the value of π using the following series:
((π^2)-8)/16=[sum from 1 to pos. infinity] 1/(((2n−1)^2)*((2n+1)^2))

• Find the smallest number of terms required to obtain an absolute value of the error on π smaller than 10e−8.
Here's my code:
x=0;
for i=1:1000

    x=x+(1/((((2*i)-1)^2)*(((2*i)+1)^2)));
    z=sqrt((x*16)+8);
    error=abs(z-pi);
    if (error < 10e-8)
        i
        break
    end
end

The answer that I get is 81 when the loop breaks, but it is not the right answer. I have been trying to figure out what is wrong with my code that it doesn't do what I need.
I've been staring at the code for quite a while and cant see where I made a mistake.

A: I found the problem. The error is supposed to be less than 10^-8 not 10e-8. Somehow the numbers got changed over when copying.


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Southern California endures new flames as PG&E prepares to restore power in the north
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Millions face power outages in California due to wildfire threat
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Q: determining leak in code - iphone I am using core data in my app, and have copied the same code generated by xcode for the fetched results controller(except that I am changing the cache name to nil). Nevertheless, the instruments tool shows a leak in my code for the fetchedResultsController, specifically for the variable aFetchedResultsController in the code below. Any idea why this is happening? Appreciate your inputs.thanks.
This is myModel class
- (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController {

    if (fetchedResultsController_ != nil) {
        return fetchedResultsController_;
    }

    /*
     Set up the fetched results controller.
     */
    // Create the fetch request for the entity.
    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    // Edit the entity name as appropriate.
    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:self.entityName inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
    [fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

    // Set the batch size to a suitable number.
    [fetchRequest setFetchBatchSize:20];

    // Edit the sort key as appropriate.
    NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:self.sortFieldName ascending:YES];
    NSMutableArray *sortDescriptors = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil];

    if(self.additionalSortField !=nil){
        NSSortDescriptor *additionalSortDescr = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:self.additionalSortField ascending:YES];
        [sortDescriptors addObject:additionalSortDescr];
        [additionalSortDescr release];
    }

    [fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors];

    if(predicate != nil)
        [fetchRequest setPredicate:predicate];

    // Edit the section name key path and cache name if appropriate.
    // nil for section name key path means "no sections".
    NSFetchedResultsController *aFetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:sectionKeyName cacheName:nil];
    aFetchedResultsController.delegate = self;
    self.fetchedResultsController = aFetchedResultsController;

    [aFetchedResultsController release];
    aFetchedResultsController = nil;
    [fetchRequest release];
    fetchRequest = nil;
    [sortDescriptor release];
    [sortDescriptors release];

    NSError *error = nil;
    if (![fetchedResultsController_ performFetch:&error]) {

        NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);

    }

    return fetchedResultsController_;
}

This is where I am calling it
NSFetchedResultsController* fetchResults = myModel.fetchedResultsController;

A: NSFetchedResultsController* fetchResults declare in .h file