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Carlton in Cleveland is a village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, and on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. It is situated approximately  south of Middlesbrough. The village is commonly known as Carlton, and is the only village in the civil parish of Carlton.

The population of the parish at the 2011 Census was recorded at 399 and was estimated at 300 in 2013.

Carlton in Cleveland has a school, Carlton and Faceby Primary School, and a public house, the Blackwell Ox, but no longer has a post office or shop. Carlton Outdoor Education Centre within the village provides activities for children. Successful National Hunt jockey Brian Hughes lives in the village

History
Carlton was first mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086.  By the 14th century it had become known as Karleton in Clyveland (Carlton in Cleveland), to distinguish the place from other places named Carlton.  "Cleveland" refers to the historic region of Cleveland.  The village did not form part of the county of Cleveland during its brief existence from 1974 to 1996.

In the Middle Ages it appears that Carlton was a chapelry in the parish of Rudby, but by 1611 Carlton had its own church, and was considered a separate parish.  The present church, dedicated to St Botolph, was completed in 1897.  It was designed by Temple Moore, and is a Grade II listed building.

The Cleveland Hills which lie to the south of the village are known colloquially as 'Carlton Banks'. They were the site of Alum extraction and a small works. During the 1950s the abandoned workings became a small but popular Motorcycling Scramble track. Adjacent to it is the renowned 'Lord Stones Country Park'.

On 10 August 2003, a thunderstorm dropped  of rain on the village in less than 13 minutes. The recording is held by the Met Office to be the most accurate rainfall measurement in the British Isles. The accuracy is maintained because the Meteorological Office have a monitoring station in the village.

Notable people
Barry Dodd, entrepreneur and Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, lived at Busby Hall briefly in 2018

References

External links

Villages in North Yorkshire
Hambleton District

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Years ago when I began my writing career, I never guessed that one day my series romances would see the light of day again.
In those days series romances were guaranteed at most 4-6 weeks at bookstores before covers were stripped and content discarded. Reissues were rare and highly prized. Yes, the sales were excellent for that one month that the book was on shelves, but by then those of us who were frequently published were hard at work on the next book which also, would come and go quickly.
Fast forward to today and the digital revolution. My publisher, like many, has chosen to give back the publication rights on many of the books they've published in the past. Part of the reason was contractual language, and I'm sure part of it was the ovewhelming task of putting millions (?) of ebooks online. While they've kept the rights to some of my favorites, they've also given me rights to others. They are now mine to publish as ebooks or even in print.
Okay but is it easy?
My colleagues and I often discuss how best to deal with our backlist novels. Some of them were written at such a different time that putting them online, just as they are, seems unwise. In addition to important considerations like technology changes (no cell phones, no computers, at best a pager or two), our thinking has changed as a society on many issues. Sexual harassment comes to mind immediately, doesn't it? How many older romances were peopled by alpha males who refused to take "no" for an answer? Yes, by novel's end women almost always got what they most wanted, but women were less forthright, more apt to depend on the man for help, and often shy and virginal.
When I began to consider which of my novels to put online, I'll confess I really didn't think hard enough about what I might find. I believed my women were strong and independent, and most of all smart. I assumed I might have to change some background details. In Once More With Feeling, one of two single title romances for Avon, I realized that many of the stores in New York where my major character shopped no longer existed. In The Unmasking, Katrina had not yet changed both the New Orleans's landscape and culture. I adjusted by pointing out the time period in a reader letter.
This month I've been working on another oldie, Lady of the Night. Lady was my first book for Silhouette Intimate Moments. At that time the now-defunct line required larger-than-life novels with something "extra" to set them apart. In this case the "extra" was suspense. I had great fondness for this story, for the New Orleans setting, for the underpinnings of the plot, the conflict between characters, the amnesia. (Yes, it's an amnesia story because, despite everything editors will tell you, readers and authors love them.) I wanted to resurrect it.
I didn't know what I was in for.
Hire an editor. I discovered immediately that Lady of the Night was filled with problems. After one read-through I knew I didn't have time to fix all the issues by myself. So even though the novel had been edited by both a line editor and copy editor when it was originally published, I asked Marsha Zinberg, an editor I knew and trusted, to do the first pass on changes for me. This was exactly the right thing to do. While my heroine had every reason to be terrified, I apparently wasn't sure my readers understood that. In addition to many other suggestions, Marsha removed at least fifty versions of "terrified" from the book and gave my heroine the spine I always knew she had. The real Maggie began to emerge.
Remove adjectives and adverbs. I wrote this novel when prose was often flowery and yes, deep purple. On my first read-through I winced more than I'd like to admit. Removing "winceable" descriptions was easy. Both Marsha and I struck out most of them right at the start. This cleaner manuscript with a stronger heroine suddenly began to feel like a book I wanted to read.
You can't change everything. One of the reasons I wanted Marsha to be another eye for me was to solicit her opinion about several parts of the novel. For instance several times I used the point of view of the book's "villain." Today I wouldn't, but Marsha pointed out that doing it my original way worked just fine for this story. Trying to change that one small thing would demand an entire rewrite. Good news.
Sometimes you have to accept the differences between now and then. While today I never use more than one point of view in a scene, when Lady of the Night was written, authors often "head-hopped." In a romance novel the relationship is key, and writers believed (and some still do) that being in both the point of view of the hero and the heroine in the same scene gives readers new and delicious insights. Changing this would also have meant an entire rewrite. And once again, Marsha convinced me it worked just fine the way I originally wrote it.
Lady of the Night is now ready for a new cover and a relaunch. I'm delighted with it. I feel that between us, Marsha and I gave new life to a good story that again, I can be proud of. I plan to release it simultaneously with its sequel, Bayou Midnight, sometime in 2018. Meantime, again with Marsha's help, I'm off to see how many changes Bayou Midnight will need to bring it up to my new standards.
I'll be sure to let you know the release dates, and once the new covers are designed, I'll do a "cover reveal" just for you.
Interesting! I can't wait to read them!
So interesting to read from your point of view of writing and re-writing. Thanks for sharing some of the details of your process.


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All Blacks set to return to Chicago
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CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 01: The All Blacks perform the haka before the International Test Match between the United States of America and the New Zealand All Blacks at Soldier Field on November 1, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
The All Blacks are returning to Chicago. The world champions will play Ireland at the same Soldier Field stadium where they beat the USA Eagles in 2014.
The test on November 5 was confirmed today by New Zealand Rugby, as part of a double header that will see the Maori All Blacks face USA a day earlier at Chicago's Toyota Park.
The double-header reflects New Zealand Rugby's desire to continue to help the game grow in the US. Despite the fact the Eagles were hammered by the All Blacks in 2014, the test generated huge interest within the US rugby community and heightened the profile of a sport which is among the fastest growing in North America.
Read more at NZHerald.co.nz

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Palacio de Revillagigedo är ett monument i Spanien.   Det ligger i provinsen Province of Asturias och regionen Asturien, i den norra delen av landet,  km norr om huvudstaden Madrid. Palacio de Revillagigedo ligger  meter över havet.

Terrängen runt Palacio de Revillagigedo är varierad. Havet är nära Palacio de Revillagigedo norrut. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km söder om Palacio de Revillagigedo. Runt Palacio de Revillagigedo är det tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Gijón,  km söder om Palacio de Revillagigedo. Omgivningarna runt Palacio de Revillagigedo är en mosaik av jordbruksmark och naturlig växtlighet.

Klimatet i området är tempererat. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är april, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är augusti, med  mm nederbörd.

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It's the first real episode of the year, so we thought we'd try out a few little structural changes. Basically all the co-hosts (everyone but Matteo) will have their own recurring feature now, just like Rob's always had back in't'day. Let us know what you think, and if there's any tweaks or other new things you'd like to hear from us.
As always, Rob kicks us off with a Back in't'day. This week it takes us way back to 2003, when Jackal Pup was still considered a good creature in Extended.
After that we introduce Matt's new feature The Light Stuff (other working titles included Matt's Debate…), where he brings a meaty topic to debate each week. To start things off he spoke about when the Guillaumes spoiled the New Phyrexia godbook, and the repurcussions it had across the pro community.
Neil's feature is still in the works, so in the meantime he decided to bid a final goodbye to his old feature, the Rigtionary, with his 5 favourite 'lost words'.


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Published on December 13th, 2020 | by Millennium Magazine Staff
McBride named one of national black lawyers top 40 under 40
While a student at USC Law School, Tyra McBride would recall a poem told to her by a classmate, "If a task has once begun, never leave it until it's done, be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all." The poem reflects a young Salters woman who is accomplishing her goals and ready to take on the world.
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Tyra McBride grew up in the tiny town of Salters in a single-family household. Having been raised by her loving mother Elizabeth, her household was filled with love but there were many challenges. Throughout those hardships McBride learned to be resilient and find the motivation to forge a name for herself. Her hard work has paid off as she was recently selected for inclusion in The National Black Lawyers – "Top 40 Under 40" in South Carolina.
McBride is an associate in the Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd firm's Columbia office and focuses her practice on commercial and financial services litigation. She works with companies to resolve contractual disputes and real estate litigation.
McBride's mother was an important influence during her childhood. "My mother consistently impressed upon me the value of a good education and instilled in me a strong work ethic," said the C.E. Murray graduate. "These principles were the foundation for my aspirations to pursue a legal career."
McBride's pathway was also carved through Senator Ronnie Sabb. After graduating from Francis Marion in 2011 with a Bachelor in Political Science her plan was to work in local government and get her Master's in public administration. But five months into her job search she was still unemployed. "I was told so many times that I lacked experience." she said. A conversation between an aunt and the Senator, who has a law practice in Kingstree, gave her a chance. He invited her to join the team as a runner during the summer. The experience would be an impressionable one. "That was my first taste of law," she said.
McBride was planning to apply to the University of South Carolina School of Law for her Master's in Public Administration when Sabb asked her to stay on. "That just changed everything for me," she said. She decided to get her certificate in Paralegal Studies but in the back of her mind she still wanted to pursue her Master's degree. Her only obstacle was not her job, rather it was internal. "I felt that I wasn't good enough for law school," she said. "I couldn't imagine myself sitting in a law school class." Once again, Sabb's uplifting words would move her toward her goal. "He told me, "If you have a love for the law and a hunger for more knowledge, then go to law school."
And she did, while attending law school she worked as a summer associate for Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd. After graduating she worked as a clerk for a South Carolina Supreme Court Judge. Since August, she has worked full-time with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd assisting in Commercial and Financial Services as well as Public Utilities litigation. She is excited to one day become an expert and litigate. "I am looking forward to that," she said. Her future is bright and she says it's because of Divine Intervention. "If it wasn't for God and placing Mr. Sabb in my life at the time that He did, I don't think I would be here, where I am today."
The National Black Lawyers organization is invitation-only and is limited to the top 40 attorneys under the age of 40 in each state who have demonstrated excellence in their profession. The organization was established to promote the nation's top black attorneys and is designed to enhance the professional development of its members.


Per Capita Consumption of Strawberries (National Average) is about 4.5 pounds per person per year.
SC has a population of about 4 million people multiplied times the per capita consumption national average of 4.5 pounds of strawberries per person, and the assumption is that South Carolinians consume an average of 18 million pounds of strawberries every year. That's berry much!!!
In 1998, 93.7 percent of households surveyed in the United States reported consuming fresh strawberries, up from 85.9 percent in 1982. Non-user households declined from 14.1 percent in 1982 to 6.3 percent in 1998.
The most noteworthy characteristic of the heavy strawberry consumer is the every day approach to the consumption of strawberries. "Strawberries are a fruit I could eat every day," according to 83.5 percent of heavy strawberry users versus 55.6 percent of light users; "If local strawberries were available year round, I would buy them year round," (85.5 percent compared to 57.8 percent). "I always have strawberries in the home during the season," according to 82 percent of heavy users versus 34.9 percent of light users.
Eating strawberries whole or sliced continued to grow as the most frequent way strawberries are eaten. Other popular uses include an ingredient in shortcakes and pies, or as an ice cream topping.
Households surveyed were asked to describe a person who liked strawberries and a person who did not. The answers showed a very positive personality for the strawberry lover. Twenty-eight percent of respondents said a strawberry lover is health conscious, 12 percent said they are happy, fun-loving, out-going smart, intelligent, nice, pleasant or normal. On the other hand, the respondents described a person who doesn't like strawberries as sour, unhappy, weird, strange, boring or dull.
What's the best way to store strawberries?
For strawberries to stay fresh do not wash them right away. Store them in a large container with a dry paper towel at the bottom. Separate the berries by layering them with paper towels to maximize freshness. Just before using, wash strawberries with the caps attached under a gentle spray of cool water. For best flavor, allow strawberries to reach room temperature before serving.
In a saucepan, mix equal amounts of sugar and water. Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved and mixture is clear. Cool the mixture completely. Measure one cup of stemmed and sliced strawberries into a pint sized freezer bag.
How Much Vitamin C is in Strawberries?
Eight medium-sized strawberries contain 140% of the U.S. RDA for Vitamin C. In addition, strawberries are good sources of folic acid, potassium and fiber. Studies have shown that expectant mothers should consume 400 micrograms of folic acid daily to help prevent neural tube birth defects. Potassium and fiber are fundamental parts of a healthy diet. Best of all, strawberries are also fat-free and low in calories.
Legend has it we can thank clever children for naming of the sweet red strawberry. After picking the fruit, children strung them on glass straws and sold them "by the straw." "Straw of berries" are now sold as "baskets of berries," but we think we'll still call them strawberries.
Another theory is that the name represents the spreading nature on the plant runners which are strewn, or anciently "strawed," over the ground. The English "strawberry" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "streoberie," not spelled in the modern fashion until 1538.
In provincial France, strawberries were regarded as an aphrodisiac of the highest quality. Newlyweds traditionally were served a soup of thinned sour cream, strawberries, borage (a European herb whose flavor is reminiscent of cucumber) and powdered sugar.
The second wife of Henry VIII, Queen Anne Boleyn (1507-36), had a strawberry-shaped birthmark on her neck. Unfortunately, some claimed this fact proved she was a witch.
Medieval stonemasons carved strawberry designs on altars and around the tops of pillars in churches and cathedrals, symbolizing perfection and righteousness. During the same time period, strawberries were served at important state occasions and festivals to ensure peace and prosperity.
Sacred to the both Goddess of Love and the Virgin Mary, strawberries boast a long, dramatic history. "Doubtless God could have made a better berry," wrote William Butler, "but doubtless God never did."


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AppliedMicro has announced a new family of 64-bit ARM chips that could disrupt the stodgy but sizeable market for components used in network routers, printers and other "embedded" equipment.
Cisco Systems, Netgear and Hewlett-Packard were among the vendors at a press conference Wednesday that said they're exploring the chips, which will be sold under the brand Helix starting in 2015.
AppliedMicro makes the X-Gene system-on-chip used in Hewlett-Packard's latest Moonshot server, which went on sale this week and became the first 64-bit ARM server to hit the market.
Helix is based on the same ARMv8 core as X-Gene, but it's offered in a variety of configurations for use in network and storage gear, as well as printers and factory robots.
Those markets have been dominated by PowerPC and MIPS designs, as well as 32-bit ARM chips from AppliedMicro and others. But PowerPC and MIPS have been in decline, and equipment makers are looking for a new platform with enough performance to see them through the next few years.
Intel has been trying to position its x86 chips for the job, and now AppliedMicro is stepping up with 64-bit ARM.
Cisco uses a mixture of MIPS, PowerPC and x86, but it would like to standardize on one architecture, said Pradeep Kathail, a chief software architect at Cisco, speaking at an AppliedMicro press event at ARM TechCon.
It likes ARM because of the wide choice of chip vendors, he said. ARM chips are designed by a U.K. company of the same name, which licenses its architecture for use by dozens of vendors.
Cisco is exploring Helix in particular because it needs a 64-bit architecture for the routers and switches at the edge of networks, which need to handle ever greater amounts of traffic, he said.
"It's the power of the ecosystem," Kathail said. "ARM has 50 licensees, and as we see that community migrate to 64 bits, the power of innovation will be exponential."
Netgear also wants to standardize on one architecture, and it will need a 64-bit design as 10-Gigabit Ethernet spreads more widely throughout its product line, said CTO Jeff Capone.
Canonical, which makes the Ubuntu OS; Wind River, which makes an embedded OS; and Konica, which makes printers, were also at the press conference to back Helix.
Applied Micro still needs to get the chips from testing into production, which isn't a trivial feat for a brand-new family of products. Its X-Gene chip took longer than AppliedMicro originally said it would to find its way into a product.
Helix is sampling now and will be in production in 2015, CEO Paramesh Gopi said Wednesday. "Our customers have tasted a bit of the Helix juice and we already have design wins," he bragged.
It will span a wide range of performance needs. One chip for routers will have four Helix cores running at 1.2Ghz and support fanless designs, AppliedMicro says. Most chips in that class today require fans for cooling, which runs up electricity costs.
A more powerful version will have eight 2.4Ghz cores for use in Layer 2 to Layer 4 switching equipment.
Chip maker Imagination Technologies acquired the MIPS architecture and has been trying to revive it, but it doesn't seem to be attracting many new adherents, said industry analyst Nathan Brookwood of Insight64.
"ARM has so much momentum that it's going to be very hard, I think, for anyone else," he said.
Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, sees it as a two-horse race between ARM and x86.
"With the new 64-bit capabilities of this ARM-based embedded CPU, Helix has an opportunity to fit into a wider range of designs that might not have considered ARM before," he wrote in a piece on Forbes.


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Family Values In Red States Vs. Blue States Research shows that more liberal states, like Mass., tend to have the lowest divorce rates. And the highest teen birth rates tend to be in more conservative states. Naomi Cahn and June Carbone explain this apparent paradox in their book, Red Families V. Blue Families.
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Research shows that more liberal states, like Mass., tend to have the lowest divorce rates. And the highest teen birth rates tend to be in more conservative states.
Naomi Cahn and June Carbone explain this apparent paradox in their book, Red Families V. Blue Families.
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan in Washington.
Many of our assumptions about the cultural divide between red and blue states may be wrong. New research shows that more liberal states, like Massachusetts, tend to have the lowest rates of divorce and teen childbirth. In other words the most stable families, the homes with two parents to nurture their kids, are found in the liberal strongholds along the East and West Coasts.
Conversely, the higher rates of teen childbirth and divorce occur in the red states that conservatives so often celebrate as the heartland of family values.
In a new book, law profs Naomi Cahn and June Carbone argue this is not the paradox it might seem, that the answers lie in economics, politics and culture. They join us in a moment to explain.
Later in the program, the New York Times financial columnist David Leonhardt draw ominous parallels between Greece now and the United States later: debt and taxes.
But first, joining us now from the studios at George Washington University is Naomi Cahn, where she teaches law. Nice to have you with us today.
Ms. NAOMI CAHN (Law Professor, George Washington University; Co-author, "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture"): My pleasure, thank you.
CONAN: And joining us from member station WQCS in Fort Pierce, Florida, is June Carbone, law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and it's good to have you with us, as well.
Ms. JUNE CARBONE (Law Professor, University Missouri, Kansas City; Co-author, "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture"): Delighted to be here.
CONAN: And June Carbone, can you define red family values and blue family values?
Ms. CARBONE: Well, we look at it as two different systems divided first and foremost by the age of marriage. When is the right time to form a family, when you're fully adult, financially independent, emotionally stable, or do you form a family, get married, at the point where you're ready to begin sexual activity? We think it's the age of marriage that drives the difference in our two systems.
CONAN: So that if you get married younger, you're more likely to make some mistakes.
Ms. CARBONE: Definitely.
CONAN: And Naomi Cahn, this is these two theories are basically one, that families create adults, in other words that the responsibilities of family, making a living, providing for children, well, that teaches people to grow up pretty quickly, and they become good, responsible members of society and go on to have stable families, or that adults make families, in other words wait until you're an adult, and then form a family.
Ms. CAHN: That's right. You can either have a child at get married and have a child at a young age, in which case you are more likely to get divorced, or you can wait until you're older both to get married and have children, in which case you're much less likely to get divorced, and you are much more likely as well to have a higher income.
CONAN: There is also kids who get married younger because the woman is pregnant. Well, one or both of those adults are likely to get knocked out of the school system. They're likely to have to go to work.
Ms. CAHN: That's right. And in fact, teen pregnancy and teen childbirth are huge predictors of who's actually going to be dropping out of school. If you look at women who have had children while they are teens, they are much less likely to get a high school degree or even a GED than are women who don't have children while they're teens, who wait until they're older to have children.
So teen pregnancy and teen childbirth really create an incredible cost for the parents.
CONAN: And June Carbone, another side product of that, again younger children, is some of those women are going to end up raising their children by themselves, a higher proportion than perhaps in the blue states.
Ms. CARBONE: That's right. And one of the things that has happened, and you don't have the country as a whole keeping up with it, is where the jobs are. So if you go back to 1960, if a young man got a young woman pregnant, the expectation would be he could get a pretty good job. Even if he didn't finish high school, he could get a pretty good job, enough of a job to support a family. He would be in a work environment with other married men. There would be socialization into appropriate expectations for husbands.
Today, if you have the same scenario, that young man is likely not to be able to get a very satisfying job, to be in an environment with unmarried men. His wife is likely to have as good or better opportunities than he has. And if both of them have traditional expectations about gender roles, if she's working full-time because he can't support her, she's going to be pretty unhappy.
CONAN: And that's where you go into the cultural values here, that in the red states, the heartland states, if you will, the states that tout family values or celebrate family values, there are religious and traditional concerns that you say increase the likelihood of having less stable families.
Ms. CARBONE: That's right because what you've got is a system that is still placing a premium on shepherding young women, relatively early ages, into marriage rather than into cohabitation or experimentation with boyfriends.
And if you're going to get married at an age that's pretty close to the beginning of sexual activity, you're not ready for everything else. You're not ready for the children. You probably haven't completed school. If you've completed school, you haven't quite figured out what kind of career or even stable job you're going to have.
And so when the baby comes along, whether the pregnancy is before the marriage or after the marriage, you're not fully prepared with a system in place to deal with the results. You need a lot of help.
But we're a more mobile society with less job stability and fewer opportunities than my generation had.
CONAN: And Naomi Cahn, it's also where the law comes into it, different laws in different states in terms of access to birth control and indeed access to abortion.
Ms. CAHN: Different states do have different laws that do have some connection to the different family systems, and there is it's not that the laws cause the different systems. They're sort of a reflection of the different systems. And if you look at all of the states that are more accepting of gay marriage and gay long-term relationships, perhaps not surprisingly, they're all blue. If you look at the states that were the first ones to reject funding for abstinence-alone education, again they were all blue.
So there is the law does come into play when we're looking at what kinds of life choices are, in fact, possible, and so access to contraception and, where necessary, access to abortion is generally easier in the blue states.
CONAN: And it's important not to overlook that last one because some people have pointed out the teen pregnancy rate is just about the same in red states and blue states. It's the teen birthrate that's different, and there, you're talking about abortion.
Ms. CAHN: That's right, and there we are talking about abortion. But as soon as we start talking about abortion, one of the things that June and I argue is that we need to back up. We need to back up and look at contraception, and we need to look at access to contraception and making it as easy as possible for men and women, boys and girls, who are becoming sexually active to access contraception because although no contraception is fail-proof, having access to safe, long-acting contraception can help prevent the need for abortion.
The other thing that we emphasize is the importance of education. And if you look at the abortion rates nationally, college-educated women are much less likely than women the same age to be getting abortions. So education and contraception are what we think are of as cornerstones to the blue family lifestyle.
CONAN: And so we want to ask listeners to get into the conversation. What political, economic and cultural decisions shaped your family in terms of its stability? 800-989-8255 is the phone number. Email us, talk@npr.org. You can join the conversation, as well, at our website. Thats at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
And we have an email that just goes to the point you were talking about. This is Seth(ph) in Portland, says: It seems the difference between red state and blue state philosophies and behavior can be boiled down to one word: education. You would have said access to birth control as well, but education is hugely important here, isn't it?
Ms. CARBONE: It is, and one of the things we've seen happen in the '90s are really striking for a set of shifts countrywide that exacerbated the differences between different states but also different classes.
So what you see happening in the '90s is that teen pregnancy drops across the board. When you then say where did it drop fastest, it dropped fastest in the Northeast, least in the South.
When you ask the question for whom did it drop, you see for whites a drop in both teen pregnancies and teen and abortions. So what's going on is less conception.
When you look at minority women, they actually had a larger drop in teen births, but abortion rates stayed much higher. And when we then tease that out and look at...
CONAN: You said rights. I think you meant to say abortion rates stayed much higher.
Ms. CARBONE: Rates, rates, not rights. You're correct. And when we look at what took place for women between 20 to 24, the numbers are stunning because we see that unintended pregnancy rate going down for the college educated. We see it going up for the poorest women.
And when you ask the question why is it going up, you see lesser use of contraception, and our efforts to tease out the causes suggest you have more immigrant women, you have less access to health care, you have the end of welfare, which means women aren't being funneled into a system with social workers who make sure they have access to what they need. And so you're seeing actually things getting worse for the women who are least well-off.
CONAN: But is it fair to say that you're arguing that liberal social policies, including access to birth control and access to abortion, that those make for better, more stable families?
Ms. CAHN: Yes. We're saying that in the current information economy, where there is a premium if you look at where the jobs are, job increases over the past several decades have occurred in the most highly skilled occupations, as well as in very low-skilled occupations, and people in the middle are being left out.
So if you look at what it is that is driving the new economy and what's going to maximize people's chances, it's going to be getting a good education.
CONAN: Well, talking with Naomi Cahn and June Carbone, co-author of "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture." And we'll be back with your calls. What decisions - political, economic and cultural - shaped your family? 800-989-8255. Email is talk@npr.org. I'm Neal Conan. Stay with us. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan in Washington.
We're talking about red families and blue families, a book that turns much of what we think we know about conservative and liberal family values on its head. They put together a cultural snapshot of the differences between red and blue families. You can read that in an excerpt at the book. Go to npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
The authors are Naomi Cahn and June Carbone, and so we want to know from you: What political, economic and cultural decisions shaped your family? Our number here in Washington, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. Thats at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
And let's see if we can get a caller on the line. We'll start with Shannon(ph). Shannon's with us from Davenport in Iowa.
SHANNON (Caller): Hi.
CONAN: Hi, Shannon.
SHANNON: I'm calling to talk to your guests about I don't know how to say this. I'm someone that kind of breaks all the statistics there. I don't follow the statistical rule for a teen parent.
CONAN: Sure.
SHANNON: And I'm trying to work with teenagers to discuss teen pregnancy and help prevent it.
CONAN: So are you saying you were a teen parent, but things worked out okay?
SHANNON: Things worked out very well.
CONAN: Good.
SHANNON: And it's been a good thing when working with teenagers today to prevent teen pregnancy.
CONAN: Oh, to present yourself as a role model.
SHANNON: Right.
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CONAN: Well, I think one of the important things, this is a statistical study. Individuals obviously vary. And June Carbone, that's you know, obviously, you're going to have differences on both sides. I bet there's been a divorce or two in Massachusetts.
Ms. CARBONE: Absolutely. But I'm glad things worked out well for you, and what do you think the secret was?
SHANNON: Education, absolutely. And I would say that the school that I attended, with other teenagers that were also pregnant, I would say the majority of girls that did go on to be pretty successful versus the ones that didn't were ones that tended to be good students and valued education before they became pregnant and that's continued.
CONAN: Of the kids that you knew, the girls who did get pregnant in high school, as I assume you're talking about, how many of them would you say went on to success, and what percentage didn't?
SHANNON: I would say about five percent.
SHANNON: Not many. But like I said, many of them were very good students early on.
CONAN: And what do the kids you're working with today say when you come to them with stories about the difficulties of teen pregnancy?
SHANNON: Again, I can't help but see it as money. It's a socioeconomic I mean, that's just what I see again and again and again. It's just those on the lower income levels just don't they just don't seem to care what the statistics are, they don't.
CONAN: And so they go ahead anyway. All right. Shannon, thanks very much, and again, we celebrate your success.
SHANNON: Thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye.
Ms. CAHN: It seems as though what's important is being able to support, when women do have children, when women are teens and have children, being able to support them as they continue education.
Another person who has who's going to be breaking the teen-mother model is Bristol Palin. She's presumably going to be quite successful in her life, although let's remember that she is now a spokesperson for abstinence education.
CONAN: There has been some reaction to your book and to publications about it. Ross Douthat in the New York Times pointed out that while the teen birthrate is higher in red families, the teen pregnancy rate is nearly identical we mentioned that earlier.
Quote: So isn't it just contraception that delays childbearing in liberal states? And isn't it just a foolish devotion to abstinence education that leads to teen births and hasty marriages in conservative America? It is also a matter of how plausible an option abortion seems, both morally and practically, depending on who and where you are. And he goes on to conclude: It reflects an attempt, however compromised, to navigate post-sexual-revolution America without relying on abortion.
Is that what you're trying to do?
Ms. CARBONE: No. The way we see this is if you think about it as a system, and you watch the comments on Bristol Palin, almost no one really thought it was about the marriage to Levi. Instead, what you have were red-staters applaud the decision not to have the abortion, and blue-staters be appalled at the thought that anyone would think it was appropriate to have a child at 17, that Bristol was ready and prepared.
If you think about that, the acceptability of the child as a starting point, and then you say, well, you know, if the child really isn't acceptable, and you assume marriage at 17 isn't a good idea either, what's going to happen? And the answer is a system that marches people down to Planned Parenthood, typically, around 17 or 18, 19 at the latest, and thinks of this as part of education or preparation for life.
The U.S. has a higher unintended pregnancy rate than almost any other developed nation, and that's because we don't think of this as systematic. We think of it as you're on your own. And if you're not someplace that's supportive of getting on the pill, then maybe abortion needs to be the fallback.
But for the groups that really have embraced blue, what you see is abortion rates have declined pretty dramatically.
Ms. CAHN: The other thing it's important to remember is abstinence education in general doesn't work if it's abstain until marriage. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy did a survey of young adults and found that about two-thirds of them knew either little or nothing about the birth control pill, and a third of them knew little or nothing about condoms, which are a very basic method of birth control, very accessible and relatively inexpensive method of birth control.
So we need to make sure that contraception is available and that teens know about the availability and the different forms of contraception.
CONAN: But as you well know, in many places in the country, sex education and education about birth control is equated with giving teens permission to have sex.
Ms. CAHN: Exactly, exactly. Whereas what you're doing is you're helping teens navigate the difficult period of sexual awakening, beginning in adolescence, and you're giving them the tools that they need. Just because you have the knowledge doesn't mean you need to use it.
CONAN: But some people dont want schools to release that information or even Planned Parenthood clinics. They think that's the parents' role.
Ms. CARBONE: They do. You know, in my Catholic high school, one of the things we debated, the pope's encyclical on birth control, and I was against it. And I was shocked to discover that the primary argument on the other side was: But nobody who was married would use birth control.
And I was going what? One way of thinking about this is if you're training teens for life, and you're assuming they're going to get married, contraception is pretty important for those of us who are married, as well as women who aren't married.
CONAN: Let's get another caller in. This is Linae(ph), Linae with us from Fort Collins in Colorado.
LINAE (Caller): Hi.
CONAN: Hi.
LINAE: Thanks for taking my call. My family was staunch Republicans and lifelong members of the military, and I basically came out of the womb with Democratic values.
LINAE: And I think what the difference was is that my father being in the military for his entire life, I saw what a truly socialistic-government-taking-care-of-the-family-and-taking-care-of-people system was like, and I thought it was a good idea. Plus...
CONAN: Go ahead.
LINAE: I'm sorry. My father also was a staunch supporter of Eisenhower, and I think it's clear that he would not make it in today's Republican Party.
CONAN: Well, that's another issue, but and Linae, how have those genetic Democratic beliefs shaped your decisions about your family?
LINAE: Well, one of the things that made a difference is when I was 16 years old, and I let my mother know that I was getting serious with a boyfriend, she sat me down and was very practical and said here's how not to get pregnant. And we're going to go to the doctor. We're going to get you the pill.
And because of that, I had the freedom to decide not to get more intimate with my high school boyfriend, but I respected what she said to me about it. And I had and because I used the pill later on when I was in college I did not have to change my life. I had choices that I wouldn't have had otherwise.
CONAN: All right. It sounds like there were genes on both side of that equation. But anyway, Linae, thanks very much for your call. We appreciate it.
LINAE: Thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye. Here's an email from Ramon(ph) in San Francisco: I'm a former student of Professor Carbone. She once mentioned that as couples wait to get married, the rate of first-time divorce goes down. Do those findings hold true?
Ms. CARBONE: Yes. And indeed, they're fascinating because what we found is that if you go back, you know, 30 years, teen pregnancy, always a risk factor for divorce, but after about 21, 22, didn't make that much difference. If you got married at 22, got married at 28, divorce rate's about the same.
Today, that's not true, and it's a change over the last 20 years. Today, for every point at which you increase age, the divorce rate goes down. And when you look at more sophisticated studies, you find that there are really two things happening.
One, if you control for everything you can control for, age is an independent protective factor, less likely to get divorced if you're older. But the other thing that is happening is, in the old days, at least for women, all the good guys were gone after - about 50 percent of college graduates were married by 23, and the view was, slim pickings thereafter. Today, that's not true. The more successful people marry later, and they marry similarly successful people. You know, the difference between teen partying and alcoholism by 29 - don't necessarily know that at 21.
CONAN: Hmm. Let's get another caller on the line, Amy - Amy calling from Queen Creek in Arizona.
AMY (Caller): Hi.
CONAN: Hi, Amy.
AMY: Hi. I was just calling - I feel like I kind of go against most of the statistics that you're using. And I would actually say that religion has played the biggest factor in shaping my values. I got married when I was 20, and I'm now 30. I'm more in love with my husband than I was then even, and we have three kids. I have a bachelor's degree. And I would just say that, you know, religious values are what really gave me the foundation for (unintelligible).
CONAN: And which religion do you subscribe to?
AMY: I'm LDS. I'm Mormon.
CONAN: Okay. And that - like many people in the state of Utah, and indeed, in large parts of Arizona as well. Julie(ph) Carbone has - June, excuse me, Carbone, does religion factor in to your study?
Ms. CARBONE: Yes. Indeed, one of the things we talked about that one of the exceptions to this is if you have two people where the husband and wife both share the same religious values in the same religion, that that's a protective factor. And...
AMY: That makes it...
Ms. CARBONE: ...if they're able to make a go of it. That is, you know, one of the things we find - and again, there's a real split in couples. Those who have traditional values, that live a traditional life, are actually quite happy. I mean, the wealthy are the happiest. Next to them, couples who share the same idea of what family life should be like and realize it are among the happiest married couples.
CONAN: And that seems to describe you, Amy.
AMY: Yes. And, you know, we were both taught abstinence before we were married, and that works for us. But at the same time, my parents taught my sex education class in fifth grade, so...
CONAN: Okay.
AMY: So, I mean, I was well educated in that respect, but I would definitely, you know, teach abstinence to my children.
CONAN: Of course. Thank you very much for the call, Amy.
AMY: Yes. Thank you.
CONAN: June Carbone, you were about to say something else?
Ms. CARBONE: Yes. And that's - there is a second half to this, and that is there is an increasing number of traditional couples who find they can't make a go of it. That is, the wife expects that she will work, at most, part time, that the husband will be the breadwinner, play a fairly traditional role. But they can't do it because he can't get a job that pays enough. Her income is essential to the family. They aren't that well educated. She doesn't particularly like her job and she'd rather be home with the kids. That profile, right now, is a big prescription for divorce.
And when you look at Utah, Utah has the youngest average age of marriage in the country. And it is 17th divorce rates. Now, on the one hand, it's doing really well. But for the demographic it has, which is not terribly diverse, very religious and committed to marriage - that's a pretty high divorce rate. And the Mormon Church, you know, LDS has been looking into the question. What can it do to help reduce divorce rates, and focusing on better preparation for marriage? So I'm saying, there are a lot of pieces of that picture up there.
CONAN: We're talking with Naomi Cahn and June Carbone about their book, "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And I want to get to some emails. This is from Michael in St. Louis. I grew up in the northwest part of Oklahoma, a very conservative part of the country and the state. The most important things that shape opinions in that part of the state - political, social and otherwise - are religion, which we've been talking about, and social pressures from the community. So, that obviously is a factor as well. Stigma, as you say, is not what it once was in terms of either divorce or, indeed, in some parts of the country, about abortion.
Ms. CARBONE: That's right. And we found social pressure being part of a small, close-knit community really does reinforce certain values. So with religion and being part of a small community that shares the same values, then it is easier to live a particular lifestyle. So, yes, that is absolutely critical as well - another factor in terms of how people live their lives.
CONAN: This is from Lorna(ph). I agree with the conclusions of your guest. I'm a 59-year-old woman who was raised in a conservative home, married in 19 and divorced three times. I finally got a college education, which changed my life for the better.
This is from Jennifer(ph) in Fort Collins. I just tuned in and heard that educated women tend to conceive at a lower rate than uneducated women. Much of the discussion has been about women. Do you think that the men that educated women associate with are different than the women - men that uneducated women associate with? Can you comment on the role of men in this equation? Then we've mentioned this briefly, but Naomi?
Ms. CAHN: What we found is that people are more likely - are becoming more likely to marry people who are like them. And so, college-educated men and women are likely to be marrying each other. The other thing that's changed with men is men had become a lot more involved in the family and the amount of time that they spend on childcare has increased over the past 30 to 40 years, which then means that they are facilitating a blue lifestyle, in which both mother and father, both man and woman, are able to work and to achieve their potential of balancing work and family much better.
CONAN: And this email finally from Paul(ph) in New York, up in the Mohawk Valley. My wife and I are in the other end of the spectrum. We had our first child in January. I was 50, she was 40. While we don't want the energy we once had when we were younger, our resources are much more significant. I look at the people in our birthing class and who were in the maternity ward and really think we have more advantages than disadvantages. We're able to dedicate all of our resources to our son, who, by the way, is the most perfect child ever born. They get to dispute about that. Thank you both very much for your time today. We appreciate it.
Ms. CAHN: Thank you.
Ms. CARBONE: Thank you.
CONAN: June Carbone and Naomi Cahn, co-authors of "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture." One of them joined us from WQCS in Fort Pierce in Florida, that was June Carbone. And Naomi Cahn with us from the studios at George Washington University here in Washington, D.C. Coming up our big, fat Greek debt crisis. Can the financial meltdown in Athens happen here in Washington? Stay with us.
I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
Excerpt: 'Red Families V. Blue Families'
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Naomi Cahn and June Carbone
Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture
By Naomi Cahn and June Carbone
A CULTURAL SNAPSHOT
The demographic data suggest that life patterns do differ regionally, that some of the differences -- higher teen birthrates, for example -- may be a source of concern, and that the differences are great enough to suggest that family policy and family law are likely to differ regionally. Moreover, the differences in the age at marriage and the incidence of teen births are relatively recent in origin. The entire country experienced a decline in age at marriage and an increase in the teen birthrate in the 1950s; the subsequent decline in fertility and increase in the age at marriage, in contrast, has been far more regionally concentrated, with the changes occurring more thoroughly and dramatically in the Northeast and more slowly in the South, the Mountain West, and the Plains.
The differences in family structure, of course, do not occur in a vacuum. We recognize, for example, that they strongly reflect wealth and that wealth plays a major role in reinforcing both the political and family patterns we describe. Moreover, we realize that family formation varies within the states. White Californians, for example, may experience patterns more like that of Massachusetts, while the large Latino population in California marries and bears children at younger ages, producing state totals distinctly different from those of the South or Northeast. We also make no statement about causation; we cannot say, for example, that a pregnant 19-year-old is choosing to conceive and bear a child because she lives in Mississippi rather than Massachusetts, or even that the Mississippi teen has become pregnant because of a lack of access to contraception, less optimism about her economic future, racial patterns that make early sexuality more common for blacks than whites, or religious patterns that discourage use of birth control or abortion, though we note that others have looked at these issues.
Finally, we acknowledge that our red and blue family paradigms intersect with other cultural constructs. Mormon life in middle-class Utah, for example, may differ significantly from rural life in Baptist portions of Arkansas even as they both embrace portions of the social conservative family frame. Indeed, we suspect that while there may be one dominant blue pattern for the well-educated, there are at least two comparable red patterns. The poorer red areas, such as Arkansas and Oklahoma, combine high rates of early marriage with high teen birthrates. The somewhat better-off families in states such as Utah and Nebraska have high rates of marriage at younger ages with relatively lower levels of teen pregnancy.
Despite the differences within and between states, however, we believe that the cultural differences between regions of the country frame the world views voters bring to the ballot box and the milieus in which legal issues are decided. Issues related to marriage, contraception, abortion, and divorce take on different symbolic and practical meanings if young adults characteristically marry at 22 rather than at 29, and if teen pregnancy is a routine pathway to marriage rather than an inopportune event to be managed. Moreover, we suspect that political attitudes might well vary between states where over half the population lives in married-couple households versus those where household patterns are more diverse.
Causation, however, runs in multiple directions. Bill Bishop's book The Big Sort argues that the regions have become more distinct -- and different from each other -- as the like-minded have become more likely to move closer to each other. He maintains that the most dramatic movements have occurred in the country's technological centers (e.g., Silicon Valley in California or the high-tech corridor near Boston), which attract well-educated, ambitious -- and overwhelmingly blue -- professionals. Steve Sailer, a columnist at the American Conservative, notes further that states where the costs are lower (cheaper housing and family-related expenses) are more likely to be Republican, suggesting that family-oriented Americans may be voting with their feet as they also seek out more family-friendly communities. Moreover, even if diversity exists within each region, and even if regional differences reflect an amalgam of income, class, race, and the ethnic origins of the original European immigrants who settled there, they frame family law decision making. Other scholars are examining the correlations among these factors and finding statistically significant connections between family styles and voting patterns. Michigan political scientists Ron Lesthaeghe and Lisa Neidert, for example, have demonstrated that family characteristics showed a significant correlation with voting preferences in the last three presidential elections.
They measured family factors in terms of a host of variables that include postponing marriage and childbearing, overall fertility, marriage, abortion, and cohabitation rates, which they describe as indicators of the second demographic transformation (SDT) and which we link to the blue family paradigm. The political scientists found that the weaker the state's score on the composite SDT measure, the more likely it is to vote Republican, which "is to our knowledge one of the highest spatial correlations between demographic and voting behavior on record."
What we are doing in our analysis is both simpler and more complex than that of the political scientists. It is simpler in that we are not performing the type of statistical analysis they perform. Although we accept their more-sophisticated calculation of the strength of the correlation between family characteristics and voting patterns, we do not attempt to say whether each of the variables we discuss independently correlates with political preferences. Instead, we break down the components of their term, "second demographic transition," to examine the role of factors such as teen births or abortion rates in the construction of family understandings.
In the process, we have begun to unlock the factors that help determine the acceptability of legal innovations. Family life has changed in the United States, it has changed unevenly across the country, and it is a major factor determining the life chances of the next generation -- and aggravating the increased inequality that characterizes our society. The critical question for us is understanding the legal frameworks that create and reinforce different pathways to family life, such as the variations between support for abstinence-only education or contraception, the restrictions on or broader availability of abortion, the creation of family-friendly workplaces, and the meaning of marriage or cohabiting relationships. Having observed substantial demographic variation between regions, this brief exercise convinced us to probe further. We wondered what accounts for these regional differences and whether they are reflected in the law. Finding some answers requires returning to the broader literature on the family to which both of us have contributed.
Reprinted from Red Families v. Blue Families published by Oxford University Press, Inc. Copyright 2010 Oxford University Press, Inc.


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Description
Adults are very similar in appearance to Syrphus vitripennis and Syrphus torvus. Females are distinguished from the former by having entirely yellow femora, and from the latter by having no hairs present in their eyes. Males also have bare eyes, unlike S. torvus, but are extremely similar to S. vitripennis, differing only in having some black hairs present on the hind femur and in having the second basal cell of the wing entirely covered by microtrichia. The male genitalia and the larva have been described.

Frons is posterior to the lunulae, shiny black. Sternites have lateral and median black marks. Male femora 3 is black for basal 2/3. Femora 3 is yellow. Lateral margins of tergites are black except at the ends of the yellow bands.

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Palearctic: Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin, Ireland eastward through Europe into Turkey, European Russia and Afghanistan. Also ranges from Urals to Siberia and Russian Far East to the Pacific coast (Kuril Isles) and Japan. Nearctic: Alaska southward to Central USA. Highly migratory.

Nearctic: United States and Canada.

Biology
It is synanthropic, occurring in farmland, orchards, horticultural land, suburban gardens and parks. Also in deciduous and coniferous forest. It flies March to mid-November. The larva feeds on aphids on various herbaceous plants. Adults feed on nectar and pollen. Over much of Europe, there are two chromosome races of S. ribesii, one with 2n = 8, the other with 2n = 10.

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Syrphinae
Syrphini
Flies described in 1758
Diptera of Asia
Muscomorph flies of Europe
Diptera of North America
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


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This week once again belongs to Drake, whose More Life playlist has gone .Mp31 for the third consecutive week. Just behind him is Kodak Black at .Mp33 with his debut Painting Pictures. Bruno Mars, Future, and Migos all cracked the top 10, and The Weeknd, Post Malone, Khalid, Rick Ross, and Big Sean all cracked the top 20.
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1) Drake — More Life: For the third week straight, Drake takes the .Mp31 spot with More Life, his captivating playlist that features Young Thug, Travis Scott, and others. With 136,286 TAEU (total album equivalent units) and 16,252 sales, the album is still much hotter than anything else out right now.
2) Kodak Black — Painting Pictures: Debuting at .Mp33 is Kodak Black with Painting Pictures. His debut album features the likes of Future, Bun B, and Jeezy, all of whom helped him move 71,291 TAEU and 15,473 sales.
3) Bruno Mars — 24K Magic: After 20 weeks on the charts, Bruno Mars comes in at .Mp34 with 24K Magic. Although the album couldn't quite reach .Mp31, it's had no trouble hanging out in the top 5, and with 47,776 TAEU and 19,645 sales this week, it isn't really slowing down at all.
4) Future — Future: Up from .Mp39 to .Mp38 spot is Future with his self-titled February full-length. The once chart-topping LP tallies 38,215 TAEU and 3,012 sales as it celebrates seven weeks on the charts.
5) Migos — Culture: The "Bad and Boujee" trio come in at .Mp39 this week, up from the .Mp311 position they were in last week. As "T-Shirt" gains popularity, it looks like the ATLiens may have a chart-topping summer ahead of them. This week, it's enough to clock 33,585 TAEU and 1,745 sales.
6) The Weeknd — Starboy: Down to .Mp311 from .Mp310 is The Weeknd's Starboy. The Toronto crooner debuted at .Mp31 nineteen weeks ago, and he still has the power to lay claim to 32,650 TAEU and 6,254 sales.
7) Post Malone — Stoney: At .Mp314 is Post Malone with his debut studio album Stoney. After seventeen weeks on the charts, the record charts 25,594 TAEU and 1,964 sales with a little help from features by Justin Bieber, Quavo, 2 Chainz, and more.
8) Khalid — American Teen: Khalid debuted at .Mp39 five weeks ago and hasn't strayed too far since. Now at .Mp315, the young up-and-comer from El Paso puts up 25,450 TAEU and 2,253 sales with his debut album American Teen.
9) Rick Ross — Rather You Than Me: Rick Ross' latest album is at .Mp316 this week. Rather You Than Me showcases Ross' ability to collaborate. (There is a feature on nearly every song.) This time around, the album does 24,353 TAEU and 12,999 sales.
10) Big Sean — I Decided.: Big Sean's latest LP I Decided. debuted at .Mp31 nine weeks ago. It now sits at .Mp318, with 23,917 TAEU and 3,795 pure sales to its name.
While Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" is still unconquerable at .Mp31, Kendrick Lamar's "Humble." debuts at .Mp32 ahead of incredibly high anticipation of his forthcoming album DAMN. Kendrick bumps Bruno Mars into the .Mp33 spot with "That's What I Like," where he is joined by KYLE & Lil Yachty, The Weeknd & Daft Punk, and Kodak Black in the top 10. Kodak Black has 3 songs total on the Hot 100 this week, which marked the successful launch of his debut studio effort Painting Pictures.
Drizzy Season is still going strong, as the Toronto star lays claim to ten songs on the Hot 100, including .Mp323's "Passionfruit." Quavo has six songs in the Hot 100, three with Migos and three where he's featured as a solo artist. Logic, Calvin Harris with Pharrell, and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie with Kodak Black are among the artist with fresh songs on the chart.
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Trinity Mirror boss Simon Fox outlines his vision of the digital future
Fox, in a presentation to members of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, outlined his experiences of managing businesses through digital disruption
Trinity Mirror chief executive Simon Fox speaking at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce event at the Balmoral Hotel. Pic: Ewan Barry/Tete a Tete Foto
Trinity Mirror boss Simon Fox outlined his vision of the future of newspaper publishing this week to members of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce.
Fox, who joined Trinity Mirror in 2012 from HMV, said if there was a theme to his management career over the past decade, it is probably one of managing businesses "in huge structural decline".
On his appointment as chief executive of Trinity Mirror in 2012, Fox said the move was widely labelled as "frying pan to fire".
"They may be right, they may not be right, but there is no doubt we are in the eye of the storm in news publishing because every aspect of our value chain is being disrupted," Fox said.
While boss of HMV, Fox said the business was already struggling to compete against disruptive technologies when he joined in 2006.
HMV's then stablemate, book retailer Waterstones, was also under pressure from online book retail, with worse to come with the launch of Kindle in 2009 which he says took 25 per cent of the book market within a year of launch.
It wasn't long before Fox concluded Waterstones core competencies - the things it was good at, namely nice stores in convenient locations with knowledgable staff - were no longer relevant when competing against Kindle and Amazon.
He sold the Waterstones business to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut in a £53 million deal in 2011.
In an ironic twist to the digital disruption narrative, Waterstones finally reported a return to profit last year, thanks in part to a revival in demand for physical books.
As Fox pointed out, old technology "always lasts longer than you think".
"When I was running HMV everyone was saying it was the end of the CD, and you probably think the CD is dead, but the fact is it was only last year that the value of downloads and streaming combined equalled the value of the CD market."
In a presentation loosely themed 'managing through digital disruption', Fox suggested all businesses will at some point have to adapt to digital disruption, "the only question is when and at what pace," he said.
"I can't imagine the taxi drivers of most major cities across the world would have though their world would be turned upside down by Uber in just a few years or the hotel industry by Air B&B.
"Financial services, retail, travel - every sector is going through digital disruption."
For the media, digital disruption has changed every aspect of the news business.
News gathering is no longer the preserve of professional journalists - "anyone with a smart phone is now a news gatherer", Fox said.
"In the old days, at the very least, if you had a story you had to come to a news organisation to distribute your story because we had invested hundreds of millions of pounds in printing presses, in logistics to get newspapers to the news stand every morning, and we still have that structure.
"But in this 'always on' world, access to Twitter, Facebook and any number of social platforms is a free and immediate way to distribute and redistribute news, so those great assets are being disrupted by the likes of Facebook and so forth."
Classified advertising, the life blood of regional newspapers, has also been disrupted by the likes of AutoTrader, RightMove, and Ebay, and newspapers themselves are being disrupted by digital start-ups unencumbered by legacy print assets.
To illustrate the extent of the decline in print, Fox took a copy of the Daily Record, ripping it in half as a visual prop to demonstrate newspaper circulation has halved in the past 10 years.
He ripped the page again to illustrate print advertising has quartered in the same period.
"When I think about core competencies in print, and I think about what makes print special – and people tell me there is no future in print - there are those who think that there is no value in print, that it's just paper, it will go on the fire, its useless, but I don't believe that at all," he says, and with a sleight of hand, unfolds the pieces to show an intact newspaper.
"I think the core competencies in what we do are of trusted journalism, of great brands of great relationships with advertisers – I think they transcend the media," he said.
"And that is why I think we have been able to make that transition to digital."
Fox said from his observations, most news brands are "completely disjointed".
"Editorial have their vision, commercial have another, print is doing this, digital is doing that, product development team are over here, finance is doing this, and its absolutely key that for us to be successful, every part of the business is joined up.
"Editorial working hand in hand with commercial, our regionals with our nationals our digital with our print and so on and so forth.
"Having that, and ensuring everyone within the organisation knows which way is north, I think is the foremost most important thing to do.
"Our vision as it happens, is to be a dynamic and growing media business that is an essential part of our customers' daily lives.
"We want to be essential to our readers and essential to our advertisers."
Fox said Trinity Mirror was forced to change, and fast, to keep pace with new technology.
He said in Scotland, Trinity Mirror is "by far the market leader" in terms of our digital reach, and across the UK is now joint number one with Mail Online.
"Of course that doesn't happen by accident," he said. "It was very much by design."
"The first thing we had to do was totally transform the way our newsroom operates because the pace of a traditional news room is for journalists to come in in the morning to be told to cover a few stories and to make sure they file before we go to press.
"Well, that's not the digital world.
"Its 24-7, its always on and the pace is totally relentless.
"The digital world is one where analytics is deeply embedded in absolutely everything we do.
"So we have completely reorganised our news rooms, brought in different skills, different tools, social media skills because we need to be on Facebook and Twitter, analytic skills and in particular data journalism.
"We realised it wasn't enough to just be good at news and sport and what's on, we actually wanted to be the definitive source of data for where people live.
"What's the best school? What's the waiting list at the local hospital? What are the crime statistics on my street? What are the property prices? What is the traffic like in the morning?
"We have invested a huge amount building what I think is definitively the best data source for our local news brands so we are the definitive go-to place."
Fox said as a business, understanding what you are good at is no longer enough in the face of digital disruption, you also need to understand customers, which for the media is its readers and its advertisers.
"In the old days it was simple: advertisers sent us their artwork and we put it in the paper and that was that," Fox said.
"And we still like that and still do that.
"But of course our range of product has gotten infinitely more complex: mobile advertising, programmatic, native, video, geo-targeted, location based – we offer just a huge array of products because our advertisers have gotten far more sophisticated than they ever were.
"And we thought about what our core competencies are, and of course one of those as journalists is we tell stories, and we tell them rather well.
"So rather than just receiving artwork, increasingly we are saying to our customers: 'what is the communication challenge you wish to solve, and let us try to solve it for you'.
"Lets use our journalists and our skills to tell your story.
"For example we worked on a campaign for VisitScotland where we sent Daily Record columnists around Scotland to interview people who best capture that special spirit of Scotland.
"We wrote features on those people, we took videos, we hosted that content online and in the paper.
"We ran a competition which garnered thousands of entries and we told a really compelling story for VisitScotland.
"Another example was a campaign to get more people to play golf, and we also ran live events in six shopping centres around Scotland, and again we told stories - about celebrities who had got back into golf, about how golf had actually transformed the lives of people recovering from injury and the role it played in their recovery.
"So, give us a challenge.
"We love to tell stories, and increasingly we see that as one of our core competencies."
Another challenge Fox outlined was in meeting the needs of the communities newspapers report on.
"One of the things that we discovered relatively recently was we were presenting an unrelentingly bleak picture of the cities which we serve," he said.
"The old adage, 'if it bleeds it leads', meant that our big metropolitan dailies in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle were just full of crime and drugs, making people frightened to step out of their door for fear of being mugged or whatever.
"And people told us, 'no we love living in Liverpool and you are meant to be champions of the city, why are you doing this?'
"And the fact is, the cities have changed and we need to make people feel good about the cities they live in."
Fox added: "Of course our editors won't gloss over the bad stuff. If it happens, we of course cover it.
"But we also genuinely want to improve the communities we work in, and we can do that by showing those communities in a more positive light."
However, when pressed by a member of audience if there was commercial evidence to support the business case for presenting news in a more positive light, Fox conceded, "advertisers prefer it".
He added: "Having your brand sitting alongside a long list of depressing news is probably no less contextual so I would say that while it immediately resonates with advertisers it has not led to an immediate uplift in sales."
Fox was asked on his thoughts on the longevity of the print industry, and when we might see the end of printed newspapers.
He said: "I think print still has a life.
"There are of course different types of newspapers.
"You have free newspapers, daily newspapers , weekly newspapers and weekend newspapers.
"I happen to believe the weekend newspaper will be the last to go because its a very different type of read.
"The consumer is out of the hustle and bustle of the week and the writing tends to be less newsy and more in long form.
"I think free newspapers will be the first to disappear as they rely only on advertising whereas paid for has two revenue streams, including cover price.
"But I think there will be fewer daily newspapers in the next few years."
Fox proved his faith in print with the launch of New Day in February, the first national newspaper launch since the Independent launched its slimmed down version, i, in 2010 and the first standalone print newspaper to launch in 30 years.
However New Day was closed after just 10 weeks when circulation failed to live up to expectations.
Fox said: "Sometimes we bring products to market, and if they don't work we have to get out of those quickly.
"And there was a lot about the New Day that I really liked.
"It was a product that didn't tell people what to think.
"It was written by an diverse editorial team and presented news in a very positive way.
"However, what we discovered all too quickly was although the focus groups in our market research were wildly positive, when we actually launched the product, all those people, the Daily Mail readers who said they would read it, they didn't change.
"They were so ingrained in their behaviour that we couldn't get them to switch."
While the national newspaper launch was short-lived, Fox said having regional scale is still "really important", a view cemented last year in the £220 million deal to acquire regional publisher Local World, which added 83 print titles, including 16 dailies and 36 paid-for weeklies, to the Trinity Mirror stable.
Fox said the acquisition was an important step for the group, as it was able to quickly bring the titles into the wider group technology base.
He said: "We are now regionally three times bigger than our nearest competitor and we are able to invest in data journalism video journalism, the websites the apps and all the additions - and if you don't keep investing in this stuff you are not going to be able to provide the user experience – you can only do that when you have scale."
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Q: When $\bigcap_{i=1}^n I_i =\prod_{i=1}^n I_i$ for any (noncommutative) ring? In some thesis there are given ideals $I_i \subset R$ which are pair comaximal and generated by central elements of ring $R$ and it's written "then $\bigcap_{i=1}^n I_i =\prod_{i=1}^n I_i$ for any $n\geq 1.$" $R$ is, of course, any noncommutative ring. This fact is used to proof another theorem stating semiprimitivity of some algebra, which I have to understand.
I know commutative version of Chinese Remainder Theorem, which requires only pair comaximality. I suppose that hypothese about generating by central elements is very important, but I have problems to obtain the proof of this fact.

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Jedno z možných použití národních účtů je pro klasifikaci faktorových příjmů a měření jejich příslušných podílů, jako v národním důchodu. Pokud se však zaměřuje na příjem osob nebo domácností, často se používají úpravy národních účtů nebo jiných zdrojových údajů. Zde je úrok často na zlomku příjmu směřujícího k horním (nebo dolním) x procentům domácností, dalším x procentům atd. (Definovaným stejně rozloženými body řezu, řekněme kvintily) a na faktorech, které by mohly ovlivnit (globalizace, daňová politika, technologie atd.).

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Q: Calling a method from a superclass with a reference to a derived one class Vertebrates {
  public void move() {
    System.out.println("Move");
  }
}
class Mammel extends Vertebrates {
  public void move() {
    System.out.println("Walk");
  }
}
class Dog extends Mammel{
  public void move() {
    System.out.println("Walk on haws");
  }
}
class Demo {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    Dog d = new Dog();
    //insert code here
  }
}

How can I call the move() method of Vertebrate by using the reference d of type Dog, using super statement or something?

A: You should not do that! There is a reason why we have OOP and encapsulation! This kind of problem is usually a design problem. You should reconsider your choices and ask yourself if the methods should be implemented differently.
(There is still a way:
class Dog extends Mammel{
  public void move() {
    System.out.println("Walk on haws");
    try {
     this.getClass()
         .getSuperclass()
         .getSuperclass()
         .getMethod("move", new Class[]{} )
         .invoke(  this.getClass().getSuperclass().getSuperclass().newInstance() ,new Object[]{}  );
    } catch (IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException | InstantiationException | NoSuchMethodException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}
class HelloWorld {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    Dog d = new Dog();
    d.move();
    //insert code here
  }
}

prints: Walk on haws Move
Note: This is not how you should use java. There may be some highly specific edge cases where this is needed, but these are very rare. )

A: You can try this
  ((Vertebrates )d).move();