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Debate Areas
Pandemic, Boomers and Christianity
By Joshpantera,
March 31, 2020 in The Lion's Den
Joshpantera 2,976
Joshpantera
General Moderator
Location:US of A
Interests:A plethora...
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :I don't believe in god(s)
Christians, it has occur'd to me that if things don't turn around it's possible that a lot of Boomer's and previous generations will die from coronavirus. How many is anyone's guess at this point. But take a look at the links below of statistics concerning the boomer and earlier generations and theism, and christianity in particular:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/generational-cohort/baby-boomer/
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/generational-cohort/
It's possible that something like a global pandemic could make a near clean sweep of christianity in the US and abroad by taking out the remaining generations that still favor christianity. But you probably not only know that, but expect it. Don't you? In terms of christianity being wiped down to a small minority as the end draws near. For you folks this looks like prophecy being fulfilled.
But that's been the case for every plague or pandemic so far. It's always biblical, it's always the end drawing near. Except it never is, regardless of what people think or how they try and interpret it.
It could spell the 'end times' of a dominant or majority christianity in the US and elsewhere, I'll hand you that. By happenstance, of course. But at the same time it may not even go that far. We could get this thing stopped sooner than expected and reverse the trends. I just find it interesting how christians try to rush to impose fixed interpretations on happenstance events. Always failing, but always trying again and again as the opportunity arises. And blind to every previous failure as they do it over and over again.
Opinions?
webmdave 0
webmdave
Location:Western Reserve, USA
Interests:Classical and Modern Stoic Philosophy
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :Independent Skeptic - no gods
I lean toward knowledge as the most likely effective cure for religious belief.
Covid-19 equals Boomer Remover? Worst case senarios project US deaths to as many as 200,000 to 2.2 million people. Since the US population is over 327 million with Boomers numbering roughly 72 million, and since Covid-19 indiscriminately kills all ages (though more from the old and sick sector), I don't see much change in the mix of US society once this pandemic passes.
However, this is just my opinion and it is open to changing with the aquistion of more data.
LogicalFallacy 3,987
LogicalFallacy
Location:New Zealand
Interests:Fishing, camping, gardening, politics, social dynamics, science, philosophy, astronomy. A special interest in mythology and ancient history (Both ancient humans and ancient earth)
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :A transcendent, immaterial, invisible Pink Unicorn
Agreed with Dave. The kill rate is far to low to have any impact other than making said boomer cohort more fervent and possibly more preaching the end times stuff.
Also it seems in bad times people turn more religious, not less, so it's likely to have an enhancement effect for religion, rather than a "clean sweep"
TheRedneckProfessor 6,457
TheRedneckProfessor
Universal Moderator
Location:Out There Where the Foxes Fuck
Interests:Biotechnology, Immunology, Genetics, History, Atheism, Anything Southern.
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :No
It might have an impact along the lines of, "I prayed for grandpa; but he died anyway. Fuck faith." But as an agent of mass Boomercide? Nah.
midniterider 4,941
midniterider
Location:Omnipresent
Interests:Chaos Magick, Meditation, Lucid Dreaming. I try not to take my philosophy of life too seriously.
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :None at the moment.
Boomer Remover and Boomercide. This thread is worth it just for the terminology.
Edgarcito 32
Edgarcito
Strong Minded
Authentic Christian Believer
Well, Mom watches Fox News a good bit. Mom believes Fox News is gospel. The Bible does say keep your eyes open. If there is the Bible God, it might be prudent to keep your eyes open as directed.
Yes. Keep your eyes open. Just keep your hands away from them.
Especially while walking. Walking down the street with eyes closed is a bad idea.
2 minutes ago, LogicalFallacy said:
I'd rather use the sidewalk. /s
10 minutes ago, LogicalFallacy said:
Y'all walk on the wrong side of the street over there, don't you?
2 hours ago, TheRedneckProfessor said:
Actually we can walk on either side, and won't get arrested for Jay walking. (I understand in America Jay walking is a crime or something like that?
We drive on the left like all smart nations and we measure in metric not imperial.
If it's so great there, what are you doing here?
9 hours ago, Edgarcito said:
This is just a hypothetical.
What's your take here, End? Does it look like revelation being fulfilled in your opinion?
16 hours ago, webmdave said:
Agreed on knowledge as the most likely effective cure. The rest is just a hypothetical about possible curve balls like this running wild. Things could change very fast. Much faster than anything expected given an odd set of circumstances. I guess that possibility just became more real and up front in my mind recently due to this pandemic.
16 hours ago, LogicalFallacy said:
They arrested a mega church preacher the other day in the Tampa area. He was telling people things like no one who attends services will get the virus. The Sheriff came down hard on it. I'd say that the religious people do seem more religious right now due to the pandemic. But of course these churches are mostly made up of older folks who are inclined to grasp towards religion during hard times. With a con man at the helm trying to exploit the situation for monetary gain.
older 1,929
Interests:Logic, reason, common sense.
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :Nope
1 hour ago, Joshpantera said:
With a con man at the helm trying to exploit the situation for monetary gain.
This sentence makes me wonder how many "Christians" will "forget" to donate. Perhaps those pastors who won't stop the services are worried about cash flow.
DestinyTurtle 421
DestinyTurtle
Interests:Science, Art, and the various manifestations of honest creativity in general...
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :I am not attached to that word.
23 hours ago, Joshpantera said:
I just find it interesting how christians try to rush to impose fixed interpretations on happenstance events. Always failing, but always trying again and again as the opportunity arises. And blind to every previous failure as they do it over and over again.
I think in a crisis many people, as a coping mechanism, cling to false explanations and narratives just for the false gratification of feeling like you "know" something and therefore have some kind of a "handle" on the situation. It's really tempting for many people to even believe in a cruel god and a horrifying apocalypse if it helps them feel like they "know" what's going on. I think it's a petty and desperate place to derive a sense of security from, honestly.
People really have a hard time just coping with the fact that we don't know what's going to happen. Honestly? Given recent events it makes sense it's a struggle.
1 hour ago, older said:
This is a mega church situation, and it looks like the pastor is cash motivated. The Sheriff had two religious leaders back his move on arresting the con man. They quoted verses and spoke of why they oppose "testing" jesus at a time like this, basically.
35 minutes ago, DestinyTurtle said:
You hit the nail on the head. That's what it was like being raised in an end times denomination like SDAism. I have memories of being 3 or 4 years old looking up at posters with depictions of the various beasts of revelation. Everyone convinced that going into the 80's the end was right in front of us. Any time the pope spoke, or we had a new president someone had some crack pot theory that it had something to do with the 2nd coming.
But you're right. They were leaning on a sense of security from thinking that they "know" what's going on. Very keen insight.
And then as children, we found security in thinking that the elders knew what was going on. We depended on them having it correct. But that's where they lost me, when I began to identify just how incorrect they all were about so many different things. My parents along with everyone else. That was the big change. I could see how petty and desperate it was.
Endgarcito, sorry.
Don't let me spoil any beliefs you may have about revelation being true. Proceed if you will.
alreadyGone 139
Interests:learning, health, life, building, making
Still have any Gods? If so, who or what? :my dog is full of stars
In early March as the pandemic was just becoming known, I spoke for a few minutes with a woman about the situation.
Her response, offered immediately with not a moment for thought was "well, it's in the Bible!". As if that's all we needed to know about a deadly epidemic that was even then killing people all over the globe.
I keep seeing various youtube shmucks putting out videos about how this is all in revelation and these are the end times. Yeah, I'm sure John the Revelator was looking through a mystical fog, or crystal ball at BLM protesters in the streets wearing corona masks and drafting out line after line of Revelation.
The idiocy of some of these christians is mind boggling at times. Now that I'm so far removed from it in my own mind. But not physically removed from it. I have to hear this sort of shit all the time from christians around me. They won't believe that it isn't the end coming to fruition. Until time rolls on and nothing happens, again. No lesson will be learned. And they will keep looking forward trying to pin the tail on the end of time just around the next corner again, and again, and again.......
And it will always be revelation fulfilled, even though every previous time the same claim was made, it wasn't revelation after all......
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Enabling social identity interaction: Bulgarian migrant entrepreneurs building embeddedness to a transnational network
Stoyan Stoyanov
Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship
Bulgarian migrant entrepreneurs (MEs) approaching diaspora networks (i.e. ethnic spaces in host countries) provides a unique context for exploring the processes by which peripheral actors achieve embeddedness. The study considers how in-group social norms and expectations influence out-group candidates' network standing. The integration of the social identity perspective with embeddedness research allows identifying the sequence of intergroup actions and the circulation of identity signals between groups. Traditionally, the social identity perspective focuses on the act of constructing identity through positively stereotyping in-groups and negatively stereotyping out-groups. Nevertheless, an empirical study of 12 cases of Bulgarian MEs indicates that the circulation of identity signals that facilitate inter-group comparison can result in complementarity and brokerage. The study suggests the existence of a novel strategy (i.e., social circulation), to add to already known social identity strategies (i.e. social mobility, social creativity and social change). Contrary to previous ones, the new construct does not occur at the expense of either in-groups' or out-groups' identity. Thus, it adopts an integrative logic, currently missing from the social identity perspective.
British Journal of Management
embeddedness
social circulation
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To Catch A Cheat is coming!
Lots of news to report. I do keep things more up to date on my facebook page and Dana will be uploading lots of new reviews which are, thankfully, very good indeed.
Talk about another bad day. Lindy Kellerman is back and this time her wedding plans are on hold thanks to a dead body in her synagogue. Who would whack a harmless caretaker and why? More bad news. The killer has to be someone Lindy knows. The Sunday school teacher? The synagogue president? The rabbi? Detective Fraser MacKinnon warns Lindy to let him solve the crime but with a killer in the neighborhood and Lindy at the epicenter of the local gossip mill, she's determined to find out whodunit before the killer strikes again. Murder, romance, mayhem and humor run riot in To Catch A Cheat.
Second, Hanky Panky is now on sale at Amazon. The earliest reviews confirm my own opinion, the funniest Liberty Heights book yet.
I'm getting a lot of feedback on the cover of Animal Crackers and it's all great—people seem to love the fun tone of it and so do I. As soon as I get the okay from the publishers, I will post an excerpt for you to enjoy. We're finishing up the second Liberty Heights book, The Life of the Party and the third one, Hanky-Panky, should be out late this year. I hope to get another one done because I just love Liberty Heights! So do my editors which is always good to hear. So what's Animal Crackers about anyway?
Karma is working overtime. First, Manhattan workaholic Hayley Weaver is fired, then she's kicked out of her apartment. Hayley needs a job, and fast. Any job. House-sitting a movie star's home sounds like the answer to her prayers. Too bad nobody told Hayley the house has more critters than the Beverly Hillbillies and even worse, the house is in New Jersey-the one place Hayley swore never to set foot in again. Then there's local veterinarian Jake Marx who's desperate to meet a woman he hasn't known since kindergarten. With Jake on Hayley's speed dial to corral all the animals, it's a cinch he's going to try to corral Hayley too even if everyone in Liberty Heights thinks Hayley is an exotic dancer who should teach their pole dancing class in the fire station.
Animal Crackers and Liberty Heights where anything and everything can happen.


Marcel Koller, Austria – Koller played his entire career for Swiss club Grasshoppers where he won the Swiss title seven times as a player. The figurehead of Austria's resurrection was greeted with skepticism due to his Swiss nationality. After World Cup 2014, Koller actually rejected an offer to manage his native Switzerland instead choosing to sign a contract extension with Austria. In doing so he has dragged Austria to an all-time high in the FIFA rankings. Strangely, after securing qualification for Euro 2016 he turned up at the following press conference munching on a baguette wearing a beret (pictured above). Errr, I don't get it either.
Bernd Storck, Hungary – With his experience coaching in Germany, Greece and Kazakhstan, Storck was tasked in 2013 to implement and evolve an existing strategy to improve the standards of Hungarian football. Storck co-wrote the strategy document entitled 'The Decade of Revival' with the target of qualifying for the 2020 European Championships. As part of the changes, Hungary copied academy models from France and England, but Storck hopes to emulate a German model with high-quality coaching available through regional football centers. He is a visionary in the mould of the great Hungarians from the 1930s when 'The Danubian School of Football' inspired the nation to produce some of the greats of the pre-and-post war game – like 1954 World Cup finalists Ferenc Puskas and the original 'false-nine' Nándor Hidegkuti. We at The Panenka are desperate to see how this pans out.
Lagerback (left) and Hallgrimsson (right).
Lars Lagerbäck and Heimir Hallgrímsson, Iceland – We are not exactly sure when co-managers became a thing again but in a boardroom at the Icelandic Football Association it must have seemed like a good at the time, it hasn't let them down yet so hats off to them. The relationship sees Largerback wear the trousers while Hallgrimmsson is very much a supporting actor in this Oscar nominated underdog tale. Lagerbeck, formerly an international coach with Sweden and Nigeria, has already announced he will be leaving his post after the Euros.
Fernando Santos, Portugal – Despite being banned from the touchline for eight competitive matches for a verbally abusive outburst while in the Greece dug out during the 2014 World Cup last-16 knockout matchup against Costa Rica, Santos was appointed the Portugal boss in September 2014. Santos did mange to keep his temper when he witnessed his side lose 2-0 to Cape Verde at home in a charity match.


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Claire Darling (2019)
Genre: 'a lighthearted drama with fantasy elements'
Rating: M (mature themes)
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Alice Taglioni
Based on the best-selling novel Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge
Synopsis: In Verderonne, it's the first day of summer and reclusive millionaire Claire Darling (Catherine Deneuve) wakes up hearing voices, convinced to live her last day. The action takes place over a period of just 24 hours. Claire is an old lady, and decides impulsively to clear out her beautiful house full of family heirlooms, antiques, paintings and objects d'art, laying them out on the front lawn of her mansion. Each object stirs vivid memories of her flamboyant yet tragic life. She is determined to sell everything – Tiffany lamps to the collection clock. A horde of curious passersby and opportunistic neighbours fight over the ridiculously underpriced antiques. A friend of her daughter Marie drops in and is bewildered by the impromptu garage sale. She tries to buy back things from buyers leaving. She saves one of the music boxes, leading her to remember her first time as a little girl, entering the house and being captivated by the beautiful things. She remembers the way Mrs Darling lovingly showed her her collection. She calls her childhood friend Marie to come back from Paris. Marie is obviously frustrated at seeing strangers carry off a painting of her grandmother and family furniture. The reunion between mother and daughter is frosty as they have not seen each other for 20 years. Mrs Darling still harbours a grudge about the family ring she has accused Marie of stealing and shut her out of her life. She blamed her husband for the death of their son. When Marie returns to the family home, she tries to stop the madness of the garage sale, and to work out the reason for her mother's impulsive decision.
(Note: The director filmed the movie in the estate of her own grandmother, and mother and daughter in the film are mother and daughter in real life)
* What stood out as the main points/highlights in the movie?
* What themes are explored?
* What assumptions were embedded in the story?
* What challenged you? What questions did it raise for you?
* Are there aspects of the story that resonated with your own experience or with the experience of others in a similar situation?
* Are there biblical or theological themes or characters that come to mind?
* Where is God present in the story? Where does God seem absent?
* What Christian themes speak into the context of this narrative?
What are we without our memories?
"Who we are is just a collection of stories that we tell ourselves over and over again. If that's true, we're all just the composition of our memories, pieced together in whatever ways we can make sense of. As a survivor of complex trauma, I live in a nest of painful and even confused memories, rearranging the pieces that never feel settled or composed. I live in a near-constant state of remembering, but the act of remembering is not always visual or conscious". (Sam Dylan Finch)
Memories can be anchors in our lived reality, but they are not always reliable. When an individual experiences a traumatic event, whether physical or psychological, memory can be affected. Memories can be 'mis-remembered' through grief, guilt and trauma, and may result in further trauma, or as ways to deny truth. In the movie, Claire flits in and out of memories, and all three female characters experience nonlinear moments that build into hallucinations. What is truth?
=> Discuss the dissonances and hallucinations Claire experiences with her memories and ways you may resonate with the mis-remembering of past experiences.
What are we without our most treasured possessions?
Lynda Rutledge, the writer of the book on which the film is based on said, "I'm a great collector of things; I feel uneasy in apartments that are too sparse. And I'm a big fan of garage sales and flea markets. The people selling their stuff lay themselves bare without realizing it. These objects are a window into their family history. They are shot through with experience, they have flesh and a soul".
Possessions can act as an extension of ourselves. They may remind us of our personal history, our connection to other people, and who we are or want to be. Wearing a uniform may convince us we are a different person. Keeping family photos may remind us that we are loved. A home library may reveal our appreciation for knowledge and enjoyment of reading. Acquiring and holding onto possessions can bring us comfort and emotional security. But these feelings cloud our judgement about how useful the objects are and prompt us to hang onto things we haven't used in years. (Melissa Norberg, Jessica Grisham, The Conversation, 2019)
The KonMari method of de-cluttering ('does this item bring you joy?') is a global phenomenon. What happens when possessions do bring joy even if they are unused? Do we keep 'things' or throw them out?
What is the role of 'things' when it comes to memories? Or family photos or paintings?
Will we be remembered by the 'things' we leave behind or what will be our legacy?
"They say that collecting is a way of banishing death – always pushing it away, because you can always find another piece to an endless puzzle. And this infinite edifice, through its accumulation and composition, becomes a work in itself, a knowing reflection on the incongruous world of our human fabrications. So selling these objects is an even bolder act for Claire Darling since, as she tells the priest, they helped her through the trials in her life. Accepting that all these objects she bought and cherished will outlive her and can have another life is nothing less than accepting her death". (Lynda Rutledge)
=> Discuss your own relationship to possessions, especially emotional attachment. Is 'downsizing' a challenge for you in terms of what you own, or do you welcome ways to keep things simple?
Complexity of mother/daughter relationships
"Despite what we prefer to believe, the female of our species isn't hardwired to love her offspring. The lack of maternal warmth and validation can warp a daughter's sense of self, and makes her lack confidence in or be wary of close emotional connection, and shapes her in ways that are both seen and unseen. The unloved daughter is diminished by the mother-daughter connection". (Peg Streep).
In the early 70's Nancy Friday began her research that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter, which was published as My Mother/My Self (a good read!). The research emphasised that the greatest gift a good mother can give remains unquestioning love planted deep in the first year of life, so deep and unassailable that the tiny child grown to womanhood is never held back by the fear of losing that love, no matter what her own choices in life.
=> we each carry different experiences of mothering, and women will have their own stories about their particular mother/daughter relationship. The movie may open opportunities to share some of those experiences; pastoral sensitivity will be needed for listening as well as speaking.
Resolution of conflict
When Claire ends up in hospital, Marie is at her side. Claire is finally warm to her daughter. She tells her she loves her. Marie shows her mother the ring she re-found that afternoon (that Claire had accused her of stealing and had led to estrangement for 20 years). Mrs Darling gives it to her. It is a precious family heirloom that has passed from grandmother to mother, to daughter. It seems to be the only object Claire seems to value. Marie is overcome with emotion and hugs her mother, only to be pushed away by her. The wonderful moment for Marie when a break-through seems to be reached with her mother is shattered in the next moment when rejection continues as if nothing had happened between them.
=> The ebb and flow of coldness and warmth in relationships can be complex and challenging. Sometimes the rhythm is constant, and confusing. Sometimes it may be at intervals of many years. Or sometimes the rhythm is with our hopeful hearts and aching reality. Are there ways you have encountered this and how may you have learned to come to terms with it?
© Rev Sandy Boyce 23rd May 2019,
Movie Discussion Resource.ClaireDarling.May2019
Interview with director, Julie Bertuccelli


Phillies pitcher Brett Myers delivers against the Braves. "Surprisingly, I was more focused than amped up today," Myers said. "I was trying to make pitches rather than just throw it by the guy."
This is how Brett Myers imagined it, and this is how it was happening: Two strikes on the batter, the crowd standing, shrieking, anticipating the strikeout like a lion anticipates dinner when the cage door is rattled.
This is not how Myers imagined it, but this is what was happening next: The fastball, when Edgar Renteria was surely looking off-speed, staying over the middle of the plate rather than drifting away from the batter, the swing, and then Myers' not needing to turn around to see the outcome.
The difference in baseball between what you imagine and what you get is just that narrow, the difference of one pitch that refuses to behave, one opportunity to put away a game that ends up rattling off the brick wall in straightaway center field.
"I was waiting for the boo," Myers said, but the opening-day sellout crowd liked what the starter had done too much. The crowd just sat down quietly and prepared for the rest.
"I hope they stick with us," Myers said, "because it's going to be a long year and it's not always going to be pretty. We need them to be with us through good and bad. They could make us or break us."
The Phillies took their followers through both good and bad yesterday, a couple of times. They fell behind early, rallied to take a 3-2 lead, then surrendered the game when Myers gave up the tying home run to Renteria in the eighth, and reliever Ryan Madson allowed the game-winner, also to Renteria, in the 10th inning.
It wasn't all about the pitching yesterday. The Phillies' heralded offense had its chances to break open the game, too, and came up wanting against John Smoltz and a variety of Atlanta Braves relievers. In the seventh inning, the Phils put leadoff hitters at second and third - with 2-3-4 in the batting order coming up - and couldn't get a run home. They had the winning run on second in the ninth, with Chase Utley at the plate, but didn't convert. Stuff like that.
But everything always comes back to the guy holding the ball, and, aside from the outcome, Myers had a very good start to the season. If he pitches like that all year, he'll win 20 games or come awfully close.
"I thought I made four mistakes," Myers said. "I walked Chipper [Jones] twice, made a mistake to [Brian] McCann [a two-run home run in the fourth] and the mistake to Renteria. Other than those, I felt pretty good, but I seem to dwell on the bad things, and that's what's going to make me better."
The Phillies, however, have to figure out a way to make the bullpen better. It is pointless to second-guess the decision to let Myers pitch the eighth with the one-run lead, but if the Phils had a lights-out setup guy, that's the pitcher manager Charlie Manuel would have used instead. He hasn't got one of those, so that's the way he managed.
Given the circumstance, letting Myers remain in the game is understandable. Even after 95 pitches, he's better than the alternative. That isn't the case with most of the other starters, though, and if the bullpen can't be trusted, that will become a big problem.
"Hey, it's the first game and we battled our tails off today," Myers said. "We were down, 2-0, to John Smoltz, who was filthy. We got some big hits to get us back in the game, to get me back in the game to where I could compete. We wanted to win more than anything. It just didn't happen."
You can't blame Myers. He did enough to win the game. At 26, he is the youngest opening-day starter for the Phillies since Bruce Ruffin, the pitcher who replaced Steve Carlton on the roster but nowhere else. Myers has always been able to throw, but now he's also learning to pitch a sharp game.
"Surprisingly, I was more focused than amped up today," said Myers, who has occasionally gotten too emotionally involved on the mound. "I was trying to make pitches rather than just throw it by the guy."
So the delivery to Renteria wasn't bad because it was a fastball, a try-to-hit-this pitch, but because it stayed in the fat part of the hitting zone and Renteria buried it.
"It's the big leagues. Anybody can do that," Myers said. "You make mistakes here, they come back at you."
That also applies to the front office. You make mistakes in evaluating your bullpen and those will come back at you as well.
It is the difference between what you imagine and what you get, what you hope for and what actually occurs. It is the difference between handing the ball to a fresh arm that can get you most of the way home and watching that same ball thud dully off the distant bricks.


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Q: How do I convert json string without name with Newtonsoft? Json string
{"geonames":[{"continent":"EU","capital":"Andorra la Vella","languages":"ca","geonameId":3041565,"south":42.42849259876837,"isoAlpha3":"AND","north":42.65604389629997,"fipsCode":"AN","population":"84000","east":1.7865427778319827,"isoNumeric":"020","areaInSqKm":"468.0","countryCode":"AD","west":1.4071867141112762,"countryName":"Andorra","continentName":"Europe","currencyCode":"EUR"},{"continent":"AS","capital":"Abu Dhabi","languages":"ar-AE,fa,en,hi,ur","geonameId":290557,"south":22.633329391479492,"isoAlpha3":"ARE","north":26.08415985107422,"fipsCode":"AE","population":"4975593","east":56.38166046142578,"isoNumeric":"784","areaInSqKm":"82880.0","countryCode":"AE","west":51.58332824707031,"countryName":"United Arab Emirates","continentName":"Asia","currencyCode":"AED"},{"continent":"AS","capital":"Kabul","languages":"fa-AF,ps,uz-AF,tk","geonameId":1149361,"south":29.377472,"isoAlpha3":"AFG","north":38.483418,"fipsCode":"AF","population":"29121286","east":74.879448,"isoNumeric":"004","areaInSqKm":"647500.0","countryCode":"AF","west":60.478443,"countryName":"Afghanistan","continentName":"Asia","currencyCode":"AFN"},{"continent":"AF","capital":"Harare","languages":"en-ZW,sn,nr,nd","geonameId":878675,"south":-22.417738,"isoAlpha3":"ZWE","north":-15.608835,"fipsCode":"ZI","population":"13061000","east":33.056305,"isoNumeric":"716","areaInSqKm":"390580.0","countryCode":"ZW","west":25.237028,"countryName":"Zimbabwe","continentName":"Africa","currencyCode":"ZWL"}]}

How can I force Newtonsoft to parse the data?
Exception
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException: 'Cannot deserialize the current JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type 'App.Geonames' because the type requires a JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) to deserialize correctly.
To fix this error either change the JSON to a JSON object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) or change the deserialized type to an array or a type that implements a collection interface (e.g. ICollection, IList) like List that can be deserialized from a JSON array. JsonArrayAttribute can also be added to the type to force it to deserialize from a JSON array.
UPDATED

Solution

Controller
string GeoNamesCountry = "http://api.geonames.org/countryInfo?username=justlearntutors&type=json";

string GeoNamesCountryResult = "";
using (WebClient webclient = new WebClient())
{
    GeoNamesCountryResult = webclient.DownloadString(GeoNamesCountry);
}

GeonamesObject geonamesObject = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<GeonamesObject>(GeoNamesCountryResult);

Model
public class GeonamesObject
{
    public GeonamesCountry[] geonames { get; set; }
}

public class GeonamesCountry
{
    public string countryCode { get; set; }
    public string countryName { get; set; }
    public string isoNumeric { get; set; }
    public string isoAlpha3 { get; set; }
    public string fipsCode { get; set; }
    public string continent { get; set; }
    public string continentName { get; set; }
    public string capital { get; set; }
    public string areaInSqKm { get; set; }
    public string population { get; set; }
    public string currencyCode { get; set; }
    public string languages { get; set; }
    public int geonameId { get; set; }
    public string west { get; set; }
    public string north { get; set; }
    public string east { get; set; }
    public string south { get; set; }
    public string postalCodeFormat { get; set; }
}

A: You can use visual studio to auto-generate classes based your json string.
Copy your json string, go

Edit -> Paste Special -> Paste JSON As Classes (Note: Your Json string needs to be valid)

then it will create classes for you (note: Use JsonProperty attribute, to to serialize/desrialize the member with specified name)
public class Rootobject
{
    [JsonProperty("geonames")]
    public Geoname[] Geonames { get; set; }
}

public class Geoname
{
    [JsonProperty("continent")]
    public string Continent { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("capital")]
    public string Capital { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("languages")]
    public string Languages { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("geonameId")]
    public int GeonameId { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("south")]
    public float South { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("isoAlpha3")]
    public string IsoAlpha3 { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("north")]
    public float North { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("fipsCode")]
    public string FipsCode { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("population")]
    public string Population { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("east")]
    public float East { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("isoNumeric")]
    public string IsoNumeric { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("areaInSqKm")]
    public string AreaInSqKm { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("countryCode")]
    public string CountryCode { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("west")]
    public float West { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("countryName")]
    public string CountryName { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("continentName")]
    public string ContinentName { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("currencyCode")]
    public string CurrencyCode { get; set; }

}

then deserialize it:
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Rootobject>(json_string);

A: kindly check this things should work
GeonamesObject geonamesObject = new GeonamesObject();
geonamesObject.geonames =
 Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Geonames>>(GeoNamesCountryResult);

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Humanities Center Fellowships Underscore University Commitment to High-Impact Research
Tuesday, April 25, 2017, By Rob Enslin
Vivian May
Every year, the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences offers a range of highly competitive fellowships to Syracuse University faculty and graduate students.
These awards, which directly align with the University's commitment to high-impact research, encompass semester-long Faculty Fellowships and yearlong Dissertation Fellowships and Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowships.
"We are committed to supporting emerging and established scholars," says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and professor of women's and gender studies in A&S. "By bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds, we inspire a cross-disciplinary dialogue that explores the humanities in a global context, contributes to Syracuse's vibrant intellectual community, and showcases the wide relevance and scope of humanities inquiry."
The 2017 Faculty Fellows are Roger Hallas, associate professor of English, and Scott Manning Stevens, associate professor of English and director of Native American studies. The 2017 Syracuse Symposium Fellow is Joan Bryant, associate professor of African American studies.
The 2016-17 Dissertation Fellows are Amy Burnette, a Ph.D. student in English, and Jessica Pauszek, a Ph.D. student in writing studies, rhetoric and composition.
The 2016-17 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellows, supported in partnership with the Central New York Humanities Corridor and Humanities New York, are Jesse Quinn and Kishauna E. Soljour '13, Ph.D. students in geography and history, respectively, in the Maxwell School.
"This year's Fellows are impressive," May adds. "They reflect the innovation and excellence for which the University is known, and their projects highlight the humanities' vitality in both traditional and interdisciplinary contexts. Notably, their work explores histories, narratives, genres and communities that have been overlooked or underappreciated."
From left: Roger Hallas, Scott Manning Stevens and Joan Bryant
Every spring, the Humanities Center supports up to four Faculty Fellows: three from A&S (one of whose research supports the Syracuse Symposium theme) and one from Maxwell.
Roger Hallas
"A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film"
Hallas is using his Faculty Fellowship to complete a book about the relationship between photography and documentary film. While working on his previous book, "Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness and the Queer Moving Image" (Duke University Press, 2009), he noticed a growing number of photographers using photos in multimedia environments to document traumatic experiences.
"This changing ecology got me thinking about how traditional media is used in new, creative ways," says Hallas, who also coordinates the English department's film and screen studies program. "The intersection of photography and documentary film is an area of scholarship that is significant but often overlooked. I study an international range of documentary films, web documentaries and photobooks, and how audiences perceive them."
Hallas spent most of the semester ensconsed in the Carnegie Library Reading Room, writing chapters of the book. In March, he presented part of a chapter at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies in Chicago, where he spoke with editors at several presses about his next project, an edited collection on visual arts documentaries. "I conceive it as a companion piece to 'A Medium Seen Otherwise,' and already have received commitments from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributing authors," he adds.
Hallas co-directs the annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival with Tula Goenka G'86, associate professor of television, radio and film (TRF) in the Newhouse School. He is using his Faculty Fellowship in conjunction with a Howard Fellowship, awarded by the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation through Brown University.
Scott Manning Stevens
"Indian Collectibles: Encounters, Appropriations and Resistance in Native North America"
Stevens is one of the nation's foremost authorities on Native American literary and visual cultures during the 1700s and 1800s. His Faculty Fellowship project traces the colonial legacy's influence on modern Native American self-expression in literature and the visual arts.
"His work involves a series of case studies exploring cultural appropriation, as manifested in natural history museums, fine arts collections and libraries," May says. "By studying the political and aesthetic issues surrounding indigenous collectibles, Scott adds to our understanding of and appreciation for Native heritage and history."
A citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Stevens previously was director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at The Newberry Library in Chicago and an adjunct professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of multiple books, the latest of which is "Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians" (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Joan Bryant
"Kinship, Labor and the 19th-Century Worlds of Asa Valentine, FMC"
As a Syracuse Symposium Fellow, Bryant is interested in notions of "Place," the theme of this year's symposium. She is studying the journal of one Asa Valentine, a free man of color, or FMC, who lived in southwestern New Jersey. The journal documents his labor from 1845 to 1863.
"This unpublished, never-before-referenced document is a starting point for mapping the contours of black life in a place situated on the edge of the free North," says Bryant, whose research involves northern free people of color. "The idea of 'place' is not just a spot on a map; it involves conflict and encompasses kinship, memory and social status."
Bryant is the author of the forthcoming "Reluctant Race Men: Black Opposition to the Practice of Race in 19th-Century America" (Oxford University Press). She recently co-curated a Special Collections Research Center exhibition titled "Black Utopias," commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (Grove Press, 1965).
From left: Amy Burnette and Jessica Pauszek
Every year, the Humanities Center awards up to two Dissertation Fellowships to Ph.D. students in A&S. These competitive one-year awards support doctoral students completing their dissertations. Each Fellow's project must show strong evidence of humanities content and methods, as well as advance humanities scholarship.
Amy Burnette
"Praxis Memoriae: Memory as Aesthetic Technique in English Renaissance Literature, 1580-1630"
Mnemonic devices are often regarded as easily remembered words, phrases or rhymes. During the English Renaissance, they played more of an artistic role, supplying authors with a theory and practice of literary invention.
"Praxis Memoriae," or the "Practice of Memory," engaged with the humanist revival of the classical "ars memoria" (colloquially known as the "Art of Memory") more than 400 years ago. The "Art of Memory" was a host of mnemonic devices that helped readers and listeners retain information and cultivate ideas.
"My project shows how memory was used as a creative stimulus for literature," Burnette says. "I hope to reintegrate memory into the history of English Renaissance aesthetics."
Central to her research are the works of Shakespeare, poet Edmund Spenser and clergyman Thomas Adams, as well as period commonplace books with illustrations of printed media.
Proof of Burnette's scholarly mettle also abounds in the second edition of "A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), edited by her advisor, Dympna Callaghan, the William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters. Callaghan invited her to submit a chapter to the acclaimed book.
"This fellowship helps me show how memory was the source of literary meaning itself," Burnette adds.
Jessica Pauszek
"Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks and History in Working-Class Communities"
Raised in a small, blue-collar town in Western New York, Pauszek didn't know what "working class" truly meant until after she left home. "I grew up in a community of laborers, whom I saw working at print shops, ink shops, steel mills, food production plants and the coal factory," she says. "This sense of identity and work was ingrained in me."
Pauszek's background sparked an interest in "literacies of everyday life." Thus, she used her fellowship to develop a transnational print and digital archive of the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (FWWCP). From 1976 to 2007, the FWWCP was a London-based network that self-published thousands of texts about working-class life, and eventually expanded to other continents. FWWCP pieces often reflected the social and political climate of the time, casting light on issues of migration, vocational experiences, gendered identity and educational practices.
"Although these materials are housed in London's Trades Union Congress Library Collections, they also are represented in our digital archive," says Pauszek, who has been appointed assistant professor of literature and languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce. "I plan to keep working on the archive and to develop a book manuscript focusing on the literary practices of transnational working-class communities."
Winner of the Syracuse University Libraries' Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award, Pauszek recently defended her dissertation in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Doctoral Program.
Jesse Quinn and Kishauna Soljour '13
Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowships also are one-year awards, highlighting creativity and experimentation in the public sphere.
"We are committed to supporting emerging scholars. These fellowships develop skills for doing public work, engaging wider publics and strengthening the public humanities community throughout New York state," May says.
This year's Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellows will discuss their research on Friday, April 28, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Sainsbury Library (Room 304) in the Tolley Humanities Building. The event is free and open to the public.
Jesse Quinn
"Precious Earth: Stories of Mining and Political Change in the Adirondack Mountains"
Quinn spent five years producing wildlife documentaries for the National Geographic Society before coming to Syracuse. For his fellowship, he is drawing on his experience in digital mapping, qualitative research and television production to develop a digital humanities project about industrial mining and resource extraction in the Adirondacks. He currently is interviewing local citizens, environmental groups and scholars about the political impacts of these projects on the region.
"Resource extraction has been key to maintaining the region's economy and environment since the Adirondack Park's creation [in 1892]," says Quinn, referencing the region's long history of public and private collaboration in resource management. "The people in these small towns, therefore, have complicated relationships with such projects. On one hand, they provide jobs and income, but, on the other hand, they pose interesting environmental and political challenges that are part of people's everyday lives."
Quinn also is the winner of travel research awards from the American Association of Geographers and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus, enabling him to conduct related research in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. He earned a master's degree in geography and development at The University of Arizona.
Kishauna E. Soljour '13
"The Road to Independence: Somali-Bantu Refugee Immigration to Syracuse"
Like Quinn, Soljour works at the nexus of the interpretive social sciences and visual arts. Her fellowship underwrites the creation of a short film and a collection of oral histories documenting refugee experiences in Central New York.
"I use multimedia to promote social justice efforts, public policy, immigration, racial identity, gender and citizenship," says Soljour, who previously was a dual major in African American studies in A&S and TRF in Newhouse. "This fellowship supports my interest in modern African Diaspora studies in the West."
Central to Soljour's research is a local organization called Refugee and Immigrant Self- Empowerment (RISE), which grew out of the Somali Bantu Community Association founded in 2004. The City of Syracuse is home to about 10,000 resettled refugees, including the Bantu, an ethnic minority group from the southern part of Somalia, Africa.
Located in the Tolley Humanities Building, the Humanities Center cultivates diverse forms of humanities scholarship, sponsors a range of dynamic programming and partnerships, highlights the humanities as a public good and underscores the relevance of the humanities for addressing enduring questions and pressing social issues.
Rob Enslin
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This article was published on June 12, 2020
Microsoft's pause on facial recognition sales could speed up federal rules
The company follows IBM and Amazon in restricting sales to police
June 12, 2020 - 11:32 am
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Microsoft is banning police from using its facial recognition tech until federal regulation is in place, the company's President Brad Smith announced on Thursday.
"We've decided that we will not sell facial-recognition technology to police departments in the United States until we have a national law in place, grounded in human rights, that will govern this technology," Smith said during a Washington Post event.
Microsoft has been calling for federal laws on facial recognition since 2018, admitting that tech firms weren't likely to regulate themselves.
However, the company has been seeking to influence localities that have been trying to fill the gap in national laws — with mixed results.
In April, Washington state adopted sweeping new rules sponsored by a Microsoft employee. But the company has had less luck in California, which last week blocked a bill that Microsoft had backed.
[Read: Masks won't protect you from facial recognition]
Smith added that Microsoft wasn't currently selling facial recognition to any police in the US, but wouldn't say whether it was barring other government agencies, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The backlash grows
Microsoft has followed IBM and Amazon in restricting sales of facial recognition to law enforcement. IBM has stopped developing the tech entirely, while Amazon won't sell it to police for a year, also citing the need for "stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology."
The decisions follow sustained pressure from civil liberties groups and researchers such as Joy Buolamwini, Deborah Raji, and Timnit Gebru, who have highlighted the software's gender and racial biases. However, there's still a long way to go before the use of facial recognition by police is banned. The likes of Clearview AI and Palantir have shown no inclination to join the list of companies restricting sales to law enforcement, and smaller firms may try to replace the tech giants in the market.
In addition, the new restrictions on sales could encourage lawmakers to introduce federal rules more quickly — particularly now that Amazon has given them an informal deadline. But the decisions made over the last few days show that the pressure is working.
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#pragma once

#include "core_data_model/i_item_role.hpp"
#include "core_qt_common/models/role_provider.hpp"
#include "core_qt_common/qt_new_handler.hpp"

#include <cassert>

#include <QHash>
#include <QPersistentModelIndex>
#include <QVariant>

class QAbstractItemModel;

namespace wgt
{
class QtFrameworkCommon;

/** Data storage for extensions.*/
class IQtModelExtensionData
{
public:
	virtual void suppressNotifications( bool enable ) = 0;

	virtual bool encodeRole(ItemRole::Id roleId, int& o_Role) const = 0;
	virtual bool decodeRole(int role, ItemRole::Id& o_RoleId) const = 0;

	virtual QVariant data(const QModelIndex& index, ItemRole::Id roleId) = 0;
	virtual bool setData(const QModelIndex& index, const QVariant& value, ItemRole::Id roleId) = 0;

	virtual void dataChanged(const QModelIndex& topLeft, const QModelIndex& bottomRight,
	                         const QVector<ItemRole::Id> roleIds) = 0;

	virtual QVariant headerData(int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, ItemRole::Id roleId) = 0;
	virtual bool setHeaderData(int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, const QVariant& value,
	                           ItemRole::Id roleId) = 0;

	virtual void headerDataChanged(Qt::Orientation orientation, int first, int last) = 0;
};

/** An extension to a model or view.
An extension provides additional functionality to a model, by adding additional roles.
Any roles defined in this extension are exposed as additional properties in QML.*/
class QtModelExtension : public QObject
{
	Q_OBJECT
	DECLARE_QT_MEMORY_HANDLER

public:
	QtModelExtension();
	virtual ~QtModelExtension();

	void setFramework(QtFrameworkCommon& frameworkCommon);

	/** Initialise the extension with initial data.
	@param extensionData_ Initial data.*/
	void setExtensionData(IQtModelExtensionData& extensionData_);

	/** Returns all roles used by the extension.
	@return A vector of role names.*/
	const std::vector<std::string>& roles() const;

	/** Get role data at an index position.
	@param index The position the data applies to.
	@param role The decoded role identifier.
	@return The role data.*/
	virtual QVariant data(const QModelIndex& index, ItemRole::Id roleId) const;

	/** Set role data at an index position.
	@param index The position the data applies to.
	@param value The role data.
	@param role The decoded role identifier.
	@return True if successful.*/
	virtual bool setData(const QModelIndex& index, const QVariant& value, ItemRole::Id roleId);

	/** Get role data for a header row or column.
	@param section The row or column number.
	@param orientation Specifies whether section refers to a row or column.
	@param role The decoded role identifier.
	@return The role data.*/
	virtual QVariant headerData(int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, ItemRole::Id roleId) const;

	/** Set role data for a header row or column.
	@param section The row or column number.
	@param orientation Specifies whether section refers to a row or column.
	@param value The role data.
	@param role The decoded role identifier.
	@return True if successful.*/
	virtual bool setHeaderData(int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, const QVariant& value, ItemRole::Id roleId);

public slots:
	virtual void onDataChanged(const QModelIndex& topLeft, const QModelIndex& bottomRight, const QVector<int>& roles)
	{
	}
	virtual void onHeaderDataChanged(Qt::Orientation orientation, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onLayoutAboutToBeChanged(const QList<QPersistentModelIndex>& parents,
	                                      QAbstractItemModel::LayoutChangeHint hint)
	{
	}
	virtual void onLayoutChanged(const QList<QPersistentModelIndex>& parents, QAbstractItemModel::LayoutChangeHint hint)
	{
	}
	virtual void onRowsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onRowsInserted(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onRowsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onRowsRemoved(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onRowsAboutToBeMoved(const QModelIndex& sourceParent, int sourceFirst, int sourceLast,
	                                  const QModelIndex& destinationParent, int destinationRow)
	{
	}
	virtual void onRowsMoved(const QModelIndex& sourceParent, int sourceFirst, int sourceLast,
	                         const QModelIndex& destinationParent, int destinationRow)
	{
	}
	virtual void onColumnsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onColumnsInserted(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onColumnsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onColumnsRemoved(const QModelIndex& parent, int first, int last)
	{
	}
	virtual void onColumnsAboutToBeMoved(const QModelIndex& sourceParent, int sourceFirst, int sourceLast,
	                                     const QModelIndex& destinationParent, int destinationColumn)
	{
	}
	virtual void onColumnsMoved(const QModelIndex& sourceParent, int sourceFirst, int sourceLast,
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Q: Construction of Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$ $d=1,2$ I need some help o understand the construction of measure induce by a function.
For $d=1$, given right-continous function $F:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow [0,1]$ that increasingly monotonic such that  $F(\infty)=1$ and $F(-\infty)=0$ we can defined a measure $\mu$ on Borel set by extend (using Caratheodory extension theorem) a function $\nu:\{(a,b]\}\rightarrow [0,1]$ defined by $\nu((a,b])=F(b)-F(a)$. For this case, I have proved that $\nu$ satisfies $\sigma$-additive properties and $\nu(\mathbb(R)<\infty$ so we can extend $\nu$ to become a unique measure $\mu$
I need help to prove for the case $d=2$. Given a continous function $F:\mathbb{R}^2 \rightarrow [0,\infty)$ that increasing ($F(a_1,b) \leq F(a_2,b)$ for $a_1\leq a_2$ and $F(a,b_1) \leq F(a,b_2)$ for $b_1\leq b_2$) and satisfy $F(b_1,b_2)-F(a_1,b_2)-F(b_1,a_2)+F(a_1,a_2)\geq 0$ for $a_1\leq b_1 $ and $a_2 \leq b_2$ and also $F(-\infty,-\infty)=0$ and $F(\infty,\infty)=1$. Could we get a unique measure $\mu$ on Borel $B(\mathbb{R}^2)$ induced by $F$ such that $\mu((x_1,y_1] \times (x_2,y_2])=F(y_1,y_2)-F(x_1,y_2)-F(y_1,x_2)-F(x_1,x_2)$. I know that we have to show that $\nu$ defined by $\nu((x_1,y_1] \times (x_2,y_2])=F(y_1,y_2)-F(x_1,y_2)-F(y_1,x_2)+F(x_1,x_2)$ must satisfies $\sigma$-additive properties and $\sigma (\mathbb{R}^2)=1$ but  I dont know the detail.
Thanks.

A: First of all I think $\nu$ is not well defined, because when $x_{1}\to y_{1}$ and $x_{2}\to y_{2}$ then $\nu<0$, maybe $\nu$ should be defined $$\nu((x_1,y_1] \times (x_2,y_2])=F(y_1,y_2)-F(x_1,y_2)-F(y_1,x_2)+F(x_1,x_2),$$ that according the hypothesis is positive,  .
Now this measure assigns to each "rectangle" the sum of the values of $F$ in the left-down and right-up corners minus the sum of the values in the left-up and right-down corners, then when you consider two rectangles $A$, $B$ having one side in common then $A\cup B$ is a rectangle and $\nu(A\cup B)=\nu(A)+\nu(B)$, maybe this can help you.


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The recent decision to transition intermediate and advanced Arabic courses to a digital classroom platform known as the Shared Languages Program (covered in-depth in this week's Review, "Arabic Courses to Be Offered Digitally") has highlighted two truths about Oberlin's current campus climate.
The first, which has been obvious for quite some time, is that the time to make difficult decisions is here. Oberlin's finances are at a point where, if action is not taken now, the institution will struggle to keep its doors open down the road.
The second is that College administrators and students are getting better at coming together and discussing in good faith what those decisions are, and how they should be addressed — although we're not quite there yet.
While the recent decisions concerning the Arabic program at Oberlin are not directly connected to the ongoing Academic and Administrative Program Review (although motivated by similar priorities), they have elicited concern and anger toward administrators.
However, that concern has translated into some tangible proposals, rather than complete rejections of any changes. Whether or not the proposals are feasible is another discussion — but an important one to have, nonetheless.
Some of the responsibility for the current dissonance regarding the future of Arabic at Oberlin lies with administrators. There has not been clear enough communication regarding the future of course offerings in introductory-level Arabic, nor about future on-campus mentoring opportunities for students enrolled in Arabic courses. Administrators have committed to providing an on-campus mentor, but what that position will actually look like is still up in the air.
The lack of communication and clarity represents a missed opportunity for the administration to rally support behind the SLP — a program with the potential to actually expand and deepen Oberlin's language curriculum, and to build stronger networks between faculty and students across the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Especially for languages like Arabic, which may have only one faculty member on any given campus, the opportunity to share approaches and feedback with colleagues is valuable.
Despite those missteps, transitioning intermediate- and upper-level Arabic course offerings to the SLP model is an overall prudent and thoughtful financial and educational decision. The position currently filled by Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Basem Al Raba'a was funded by a four-year grant designed to discern whether Oberlin students would be interested in taking Arabic courses. As it turns out, the answer was not really — at least not beyond the introductory level. Over the past eight semesters, the average enrollment in intermediate Arabic classes was just four students.
Those numbers don't support Oberlin's current model for Arabic course offerings. Further, students and professors who have previous experience with the SLP model report positive learning and teaching outcomes.
Seeking innovative solutions like the SLP in order to avoid completely eliminating course offerings represents a genuine effort by administrators to recognize that Oberlin can't be all things to all people, but that we can still leverage the technology and tools at our disposal to get as close to that ideal as possible.
It is important to note, however, that introductory-level Arabic classes have seen consistent student interest, a fact that must be taken into account when appointing the on-campus mentor. It would be a significant loss if future Oberlin students were not offered this course, making it impossible for them to advance to the courses offered through the SLP.
For all of these reasons and others, the current campus dialogue about Arabic opens a much larger conversation about how we, as a community, can effectively digest the impending AAPR recommendations and then — in collaboration — chart paths forward that achieve financial sustainability without sacrificing what makes Oberlin special. In that process, all parties need to be candid, transparent, and ready to come to the table.
The controversy over the future of Arabic at Oberlin shows that we're not perfect, but we're getting better adapting to financial strain — certainly more so than in the past. True, administrators missed an opportunity to communicate as clearly as they could have. Likewise, students have failed to fully recognize the potential of the SLP platform as an opportunity to both extend and deepen Oberlin's language offerings. They have also not fully engaged with realities about chronic underenrollment or the grant that funded Al-Raba'a's position.
Let's take this moment, before the whirlwind of AAPR has truly begun, to recognize that we've come a long way, but we still have a long road ahead of us, one filled with successes and disappointments alike. The current situation with Arabic isn't ideal, and the changes — while financially necessary — potentially challenge Oberlin's ability to offer on-campus educational experiences that reflect and celebrate the diversity of its student body.
However, the proposed adjustments come from our shared goal of financial sustainability, not a desire to eliminate a widely-supported program — and recognizing that creates a valuable opportunity to model the creative collaboration we all must engage in moving forward, with many more difficult decisions on the horizon.
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Baratunde Thurston: Unabashedly Restoring Power To The People
By 07/01/22
In 2019, writer, speaker, activist, and comedian Baratunde Rafiq Thurston delivered a TED talk that MSNBC's Brian Williams deemed "one of the greatest of all time." It has since garnered more than 5.3 million views.
In it, he discussed the "weaponization of White supremacy, the deadly consequences of policing, and the power of language to write a better narrative for us all to inhabit."
This New York Times bestselling author of How To Be Black is known for holding space for hard and complex conversations. In addition to his TED talk, he is an Emmy-nominated host who has worked with The Onion, produced for The Daily Show, and been an advisor to the Obama White House administration.
He also carries his poignant message through his podcast, How To Citizen with Baratunde—one of Apple's "favorite podcasts of 2020." At the 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, the show earned him the Social Impact Award for his discussions of themes like race, culture, and politics.
Baratunde's drive to explain where our nation is, and where we can take it, is a direct reflection of his ancestry.
His grandmother was the first Black employee at the U.S. Supreme Court building, and his mother, "the most resourceful and intelligent person" Baratunde has ever known, was a self-taught computer programmer who took over radio stations in the name of the Black Liberation struggle.
Suffice it to say, he grew up unabashedly questioning authority and forging his own path.
He went on to earn a philosophy degree from Harvard, and then co-founded the new media startup, Puck.
Without question, Baratunde has a propensity for shaping the world in which we live, and he doesn't hold back:
"I try not to pull back on things that I believe in because I worry someone might disagree with me. I launch so many opinions and thoughts into the world, and not everyone agrees with them all. I'm okay with criticism—even the criticism that I really don't think has merit—because I have launched criticism that has no merit.
"In most cases, there's some element of truth in all criticism. For example, I made a stupid joke in my newsletter about how Texas was making it harder for women to get an abortion while Mexico was making it easier. And I was like, 'Even the narcos state of Mexico has given more rights to women than the allegedly free Republic of Texas.' I was very proud of myself for making the comparison. The state [Texas] that thinks it's so much better and freer than others doesn't trust its own women to make a free choice for themselves. And Mexico, with all of its perceived 'problems,' is outdoing us in the liberty department.
"I kind of threw Mexico under the bus when I called it a 'narco' state; it wasn't kind or accurate. Somebody called me out on it, and tried to fire up a change.org petition on Twitter to make sure I can never email again. I heard the charge, and it made me think. I acknowledged what the person was saying and apologized.
"Now, that's not to say that I won't continue to rag on Texas and their retrograde, extremist, religious-based policies about what their fellow Texans can choose for their medical and healthcare. But I will think more about how I'm saying what I need to say now."
This perspective on criticism may go hand-in-hand with Baratunde's understanding of a key concept he has come to embrace with age: that he has a very limited set of data from which to base his thoughts, perspectives, ideas, and beliefs about the world.
"Growing up where I did, I listened to local radio stations, watched local news, and read local papers," he said. "All the input entering my mind was based on a very limited scope of the total amount of data available. Whereas someone growing up in a different place with different people, feeds, and sources would receive very different input.
"So, I clearly recognize that it is entirely possible that everything I believe to be true actually isn't.
"Based on this perspective, we could be wrong about so many things. Being open to being wrong is a special power… one that I am certainly not always willing to embrace. But in the moments when I do, and I can find that gratitude, I feel good. I am open to what it might unlock for me. I wish this power for everyone, sincerely.
"We're a very diversified country. We have a lot of languages, cultures, and religions. We're trying to live together with a ton of differences, and that's hard. So having a bit of Zen in this respect can really help, in terms of the citizen work."
Part of that citizen work is helping define the future of media as "a rare leader who sits at the intersection of race, technology, and democracy and seamlessly integrates past, present, and future," as he has come to be known.
One of the ways he accomplishes that mission is by turning the word "citizen" into a verb. In How To Citizen, now in its fourth season, he reminds people that they don't just have to "scream at the news or vote for people."
Rather, he says, "The power of the people is real. My podcast is about reminding people of the different ways we can all actually leverage the power of the people. That's what democracy is supposed to be. We explore that and reiterate to listeners that there's a whole bunch of different ways we can collectively, and individually, shape our society."
Baratunde started podcasting in the early 2000s. At the time, he lived in Boston, and he hosted a low-power FM radio show on a small station called "Alten Brighton free radio." It had only a two-mile broadcast radius, which meant he couldn't even listen to his own show in his apartment. So, he started recording the episodes and converting them to MP3s that he could then post on his website.
"I was basically begging on air. I was like, 'If you can hear my voice, call me! Send me an email,'" he laughed.
What began as "a revenue-neutral creative experiment" ultimately launched his love of audio:
"I have a very real appreciation of what this medium can do. It's intimate, and it's connected. It's a method of creating your own educational experience. It's also an art."
Having fallen in love with podcasting as a listener and as a host, Baratunde knew it was the perfect medium for him to convey his message when he felt the need to restore his faith in America following the killing of George Floyd, among others, and all that came with COVID-19 in the summer of 2020.
"There was just this tightness… this hurt," he said. "It really challenged my faith in country. In short, democracy wasn't being done."
Thus, How To Citizen was born.
Seeking to create an educational experience for others, he was determined to address critical issues that no one else seemed to be taking on in the medium.
"There are a lot of technical, top-down news headlines—the ease or challenge of voting, the lack of responsiveness of elected officials to those who elected them. But other things, like wealth inequality, which is currently at Depression-era levels that are not good for the whole, weren't being addressed.
"I had also reached my threshold of being told that 'Everything is bad, and there's nothing you can do about it.' That's generally what the news tells us. 'Everything's on fire, and you're going to burn. And there are no fire departments.' There might be one fire extinguisher in a single human interest story, but that's about it. And I didn't believe that. In fact, I knew the opposite was true."
Baratunde uses How To Citizen as a vehicle for bringing issues like the aforementioned wealth inequality front and center.
"In this country, we punish the poor. We've made poverty this sort of moral failure, attributing it to not working hard enough. Then, you have to unlock these levels of living—dental, vision, primary care. It's gotten to the point where we're proud if we can go a certain amount of time without paying for insurance.
"Why do we live in a society where that's even an option? We could definitely cover everybody, but we don't. And so, we let a lot of people fall through the cracks, and then, we blame them for doing so. It's like, if you are so unfortunate in this capitalistic society as to be among the very poor, we're going to make everything harder for you. It's hard to get a job. It's hard to get a house. And then, we punish people for seeking assistance.
"So how do we break that cycle? Well, that's what we covered in the second season of How To Citizen. There are actually 12 episodes answering this question."
Baratunde is passionate about tackling such issues on his show, which is based on the following four pillars:
Show up and participate. Baratunde points to Ukraine as an extreme-yet-simple example. "There are people who are showing up and blocking Russian tanks," he said. "That's an extreme way to show up. We saw it in Tiananmen Square, too, and in the civil rights movement. Sit-ins, marches… it's about being present. It means something, when someone shows up, even if doing so won't fix the issue singlehandedly. And we can show up in multiple ways. Your presence has power."
Invest in relationships with yourself, with others, and with the world around you. "We can't do it alone," Baratunde explained. "It's about valuing interdependence and recognizing our connection with other forms of life that we're dependent on—what we eat, or those that breathe for us, in the case of trees. There's also the relationship with yourself, which we often skip in this kind of civics conversation generally about delegates and all that kind of stuff. What do we want? How do we want to live? How do we want to experience this life? How do we want to feel in this country? What are we afraid of? We really have to be in touch with ourselves. And we have to be in community with others for this to work, because we can't build a bridge by ourselves."
Understand your power. "Here," Baratunde said, "we unpack the word 'democracy.' It's Greek, essentially meaning 'people power.' If we're truly embracing that form of self-government and ability to control our destiny, we have to understand people and relationships. We have to understand power. When we say, 'They've got all the power,' do they actually? What is the power? What forms of power are we talking about? And when we become fluent in that understanding and recognize all the different ways that we can generate and use power, it makes us ALL more powerful.
"I've internalized a lot of lessons around there being people with power and people without power. The powerful people are always 'over there' somewhere. And then the rest of us are over here without power. But if we just got together and made a joint decision to commit our resources together, all of a sudden, that's power. And those resources don't have to be money. They don't have to be tanks. They can be our bodies. They can be our attention."
Value the collective valuing. "For as selfish as we are encouraged to be as individual economic units within our economic system, we benefit individually when we benefit together. So if, as one of our guests, Valerie Core, says, we can see a stranger as a part of ourselves… if we can see one another as family a little bit more instead of having the zero sum mentality (someone else winning means I have to lose) and let go of the fear that someone is trying to take something from us… we all benefit."
Baratunde and his guests have one major goal in common: improving society for the many.
His hope is that listeners will be moved to act for the greater good of us all.
"But if they were, we wouldn't have had to write them down."
On July 5, PBS is releasing his new show, America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston. In it, he travels the country to explore "How beautiful we are and can be."
A perfectly fitting description of not just the show, but the essence of Baratunde's work.
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