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The epitome of a party purse, this multi-colored glittering confection is literal arm candy. It shouts out "time for fun!" The rectangular gold chain and boxy shape is retro and lady-like, but the sparkle begs to be flaunted in a papparazzi moment.
This is the perfect pastel spring bag for a walk through the park, a sidewalk cafe brunch, or sidewalk shopping. Basically, a sunny-day browsing companion to complement the spring blossoms popping up. At 6″ x 10″ x 3″, it's a versatile mid-sized shape, and the crossbody strap keeps it low-maintenance (say, when you want to intertwine your hands with someone else's).
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Q: Polar transformation of pandas DataFrame I have a pandas.DataFrame 2048 by 2048 with index and columns representing y and x coordinates respectively.
I want to make an axis transformation and get to polar coordinates, making a new pandas.DataFrame with index and columns representing radius and polar angle.
The only way I can think of is access the dataframe values one by one, calculating radius and angle and then setting the according value in the new dataframe, but it is extremely slow, since element-wise operations are not that fast in pandas. It's still slow even if I perform the operation row-by-row.
Is there a better way to do that without writing my own CPython extension in C?

A: This should not be problematic if your dataframe is built as I understand it (though I think I am wrong).  To build an example:
from __future__ import division
import numpy as np, pandas as pd

index = np.arange(1,2049,dtype=float)
cols  = np.arange(2050,4098,dtype=float)

df = pd.DataFrame(index=index, columns=cols)

# now calculate angle and radius, then set in new dataframe
phi = np.arctan(df.columns/df.index)
r   = np.power( np.power(df.index,2) + np.power(df.columns,2), 0.5 )

df_polar = pd.DataFrame(index=r, columns=phi)

While this agrees with what you stated, I think I have missed something here.  If this is not right, can you clarify?

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Q: MySQL: how do I do in inline function with ORDER BY? So, I want to create a formula for ordering things by popularity, but I don't want to create a stored procedure or function. I'd like the function just to be in my query.
So, is there a way to do something like
SELECT cols
FROM tables
WHERE conditions
ORDER BY function(){ logic using cols } DESC LIMIT 10

or something like that?

A:
I don't want to create a stored procedure or function

You want to call a function but you don't want to define a function?  Okay...
You can use expressions in the ORDER BY clause, including CASE which is pretty powerful:
SELECT cols
FROM tables
WHERE conditions
ORDER BY CASE WHEN col1 BETWEEN a AND b THEN 1
              WHEN col1 BETWEEN c AND d THEN 2
              ...
         END
     DESC LIMIT 10

But it's often easier to do the calculation in your select-list and then order by that calculated column:
SELECT cols, POW(col1, col2) AS calc1
FROM tables
WHERE conditions
ORDER BY calc1 DESC LIMIT 10


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The Coal Authority: Managing the legacy of coal mining
The talk aims to provide a brief overview of what the Coal Authority is and the role it performs.
William Holman Hunt: Pre-Raphaelite and Orientalist
This talk will explore how Hunt's commitment to visual truth led him to become the most important and original British artistic interpreter of Palestine during the age of Imperialism
POSTPONED What on earth does the past of Eastern Africa tell us about future sustainability?
This talk has been postponed and will now be held in Spring term.
Prophets of Progress? Predicting the Future of Science and Technology from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov
The first half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of science fiction as a recognised genre, but popular science writers also sought to imagine what the next developments would be, especially in areas with immediate practical applications...
Surviving the Anthropocene: A story of biological gains as well as losses
Professor Chris Thomas presents a York Biology Lecture
Sustainability dilemmas: Short-term political expediency versus long-term planetary exigency
What can be done to encourage politicians, business people and civil society leaders to develop longer-term policy and institutional responses to climate change?
Conservatism and liberalism
In this lecture Andy Hamilton will argue that liberalism and Burkean conservatism lie on a continuum, and that they are analogous in having rationalist and pragmatic forms, the latter represented by Mill
Medieval mysticism and the universe in a hazelnut
Janina Ramirez, Oxford Art Historian, BBC Broadcaster and Honorary Fellow at the Department for History of Art at York, will explore a world of Medieval English Christian mysticism
The Cult of the Book
Professor Brian Cummings of the Department of English and Related Literature will re-examine 400 years of the relationship between the worship of idols and the worship of books, and the way we view books both as 'things' and as visual signs. This event is the Inaugural Lecture of the Friends of the University of York Library and Archives, our supporters circle launched in June this year.
Where stands the Scottish country house in 2016?
How and why are Scottish country houses framed – intellectually, socially, economically and politically – and how has this picture evolved?
Conversion Hysteria 4: Believe It Or Not
Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature since 2006. He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud, and author of more than 16 books of essays and studies from On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (1993) to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014)
CANCELLED Classed lifeworlds of young graduates
Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
The Planet and the public: Communicating geo-environmental science to non-technical audiences
This talk will draw from a decade of putting Earth science 'on the box' to explore a number of questions. How can we best use the entertainment industry to convey 'sound science'? What are the communication barriers that need to be overcome? And also, given the emerging research 'impact' agenda, what are the costs and benefits of early career geo-environmental scientists 'going public'?
Two years after the Umbrella Movement: Exploring the social consequences of political participation
This presentation focuses on exploring both the politics of the personal and the personal consequences of politics, particularly how campaigning for democratisation of society might have an impact on the democratisation of family relationships
PUBlic Seminar
The University of York produces a huge range of research spanning from Nuclear Fusion to Facial Recognition. The PUBlic Seminar gives PhD students and Post-Docs from the Faculty of Science an excellent opportunity to share their passion and expertise with a public audience over a drink in a local pub
Exploration, Orientalism and revival: The European discovery of Egypt's Islamic heritage
The second lecture in the series from the York Islamic Art Circle
Peacebuilding in a turbulent world
Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture is now cancelled. Apologies for any disappointment caused.
'THB state-funded faith schools should be banned'
York Union's final event of the Autumn term focuses on debate around the subject of faith schools
On cartoons, corruption and censorship - in conversation with Aseem Trivedi
Indian cartoonist and human rights defender Aseem Trivedi will be interviewed about his work by the York Press chief feature writer Stephen Lewis
POSTPONED On hip hop, race and politics: The way we talk about things
In this talk, US socio-political pundit Jay Smooth, popular vlogger behind "The Ill Doctrine," discusses everything from present day politics and social justice to music, media, and culture
Ecological aesthetics
In this lecture Alistair Hudson will argue for a rethinking of aesthetics as a universal system of transformation, which permeates and shapes all aspects of our daily lives; in politics, economics, culture and society
Only connect: From green spaces to green infrastructure
Writer and public policy analyst Ken Worpole talks about 'green infrastructure'
The importance of talking to YOU about complex environmental issues: Insights from research with the public on nuclear power, low carbon transitions and climate engineering
Dr Karen Parkhill presents the second lecture in the York Environment lecture series
Nuclear physics out of the lab
Physsoc's last public lecture for the autumn term will be delivered by Professor David Jenkins and will discuss the topic of Nuclear Physics
POSTPONED Breaking the Cycle with Leyla Hussein
York Union present a hard-hitting talk on female genital mutilation (FGM) and how we break the cycle
Understanding the Global Citizen, c.1200-c.1600
This lecture aims to contribute to answering the puzzling question of how decentralised societies were able to lay the groundwork for globalisation of European history and the European globalisation of the world
Unmaking citizens: Racial exclusions and the privilege of a passport
Nisha Kapoor is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She currently leads an ESRC funded research project titled 'Deport Deprive Extradite' which explores race, citizenship and the state in the context of the War on Terror
Miners Shot Down
Film-screening of Miners Shot Down and Q and A with the film's director, Rehad Desai.
Policing and security in a post-Brexit world
Keir Starmer QC MP, British politician and barrister, will be giving the inaugural North Yorkshire Police lecture.
Milner-White and all that: The restoration of York Minster's windows c.1750-c.1950 and its implications for the modern conservator
York Minster preserves the largest and most diverse collection of stained glass in Britain. It is a collection that has survived religious Reformation and iconoclasm, Civil War and two major fires. It also bears the marks of centuries of restoration and repair, some of it skillful and caring, some of it ignorant and careless
Maintaining a Free Press for Somalia
Mahad Omad Diriye is a Somali radio journalist working in Kenya, trying to improve the human rights situation for Somali media workers in exile.
The Foss barrier, what happened and what can we learn
On the evening of 26 December 2015 the Foss barrier was lifted during one of the most severe floods in York. Over 600 properties and businesses were flooded as well as the inner ring road, telephone exchange and other key infrastructure. This presentation summarises the events leading up to that tragic night and the recovery that has happened since
Nurse, midwife, civil servant: A personal perspective
In this lecture David Foster will reflect on his career as a nurse, midwife and most recently a civil servant
No place like home: Irish writing in a changing world
Fintan O'Toole discusses Irish writing
The Archers: An every day story of... the real world? Domestic abuse in Ambridge and beyond
Judith Buchanan talks to Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women's Aid
"Architecture Cures Cancer", But can it Cure Crime? The Architecture of Incarceration and the Architecture of Hope
Is the concept of a 'healthy prison' an oxymoron, or even a desirable goal?
Blizzards of steel: Viking poetry and the battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge
Tuesday 8 November 2016
This lecture will commemorate two local battles and introduce and explore the unfamiliar genre of Old Norse court poetry – a form of literature that enables us to get closer than any other to the cultural world of Viking Age kings and their followers
Protecting ocean life in an era of rapid global change
How do we protect marine species when we don't know where they are or even that they exist? How do we protect life in a realm that is hostile to most of the conservation methods used on land? In this talk, drawing on thirty years' experience studying the sea and its protection, and working with governments and international bodies, Callum Roberts will try to answer these questions.
Cold and trapped: Using lasers to approach absolute zero
We are joined by Dr Andrew Pratt from the Physics Department, where he will explain how lasers can be used to cool objects - something not usually associated with them
Indian classical music: A way of life
Monday 7 November 2016
Indian classical musician, Amjad Ali Khan, will talk about his life and music
The forming of gesture: Notes on Luca Signorelli and Frans van Mieris
The aim of this lecture is to trace the points of intersection and separation between these two conceptions of gestures within the context created by two paintings: Luca Signorelli Comunione degli Apostoli and Frans van Mieris The Letter Writer.
Are there standards in art criticism?
Mr Andrew Wards talks about standards in art criticism
Stillness: Thinking through critical migration studies and challenging citizenship
In the second of this term's Social and Political Sciences seminars Dr Heather Johnson will talk about the responses to migration in Kos
Rosenberg's war: "Iron, honey, gold"
In her lecture, Jean Liddiard will draw out the relationship between Rosenberg's poems and his comments on them in his letters. She will refer to Leavis's experiences during the First World War and discuss his admiration for Rosenberg and that of his student and later colleague on the board of Scrutiny, DW Harding, one of Rosenberg's early editors.
Environmental conflicts, extractive industries and human rights in Colombia
In her talk, Johana will discuss the work of Tierra Digna in the defense of environmental rights in Colombia.
Experiencing art
Rev Dr David Efird will talk about art
Life After Leveson: What has changed for the British press?
Matt Tee, Chief Executive of IPSO, talks about the impact the Leveson Report has had on the British press
Organometallic anticancer drugs with novel modes of action
Many types of cancer are now treated quite effectively by drugs that are increasingly designed and made on the basis of sound knowledge of their mode of action. Nonetheless, there are very many different types of cancer and despite these advances, there are some tumours that remain difficult to treat.
Factory of the Future - Industry 4.0
Are we on the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution - driven by 'embedded' or 'cyber physical' systems interacting intelligently? What does this mean for UK productivity and growth? How will technologies change the way we do business? Are we about to witness a period of advanced reindustrialisation?
The Visual Politics of the WHO in Historical Perspective (1949-1974)
This lecture investigates the visual politics of the World Health Organisation from its inception to the early 1970s
Couple Relationship, Family Management and the Workplace
In her research Dr Gerlinde Mauerer has analysed the work-life-balance of fathers on parental leave and their female partners, as well as the insights of personal managers on paternal leave practices and career opportunities of part-time employees in Austria
Newton and Universal Gravitation: The story of the apple
New students in the Physics department are welcomed to the University with a talk about the apple tree growing in the department's courtyard. An apple tree with a remarkable history. We finally have the opportunity to share this fascinating story to the public
Life after encephalitis
The personal and often devastating experiences of living with an acquired brain injury will be brought vividly to life by Dr Ava Easton, the author of Life after Encephalitis
Howling at the moon: Werewolves in western culture
This lecture examines the folklore origins of werewolves and their role in legend
Haeckel's embryos: Images, evolution and fraud
Dr Nick Hopwood discusses Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings - are they fraud?
Physics Review: 25th Anniversary Celebration
Join Physics Review magazine to celebrate their 25th Anniversary with an exciting lecture from Professor Tim Spiller on quantum communication technologies
Urban Inequalities: Social Distance and Spatial Division
What are the social and spatial implications of deepening economic inequality in cities? Why does economic disparity matter for the social life and spatial form of cities, and what is distinctive about contemporary patterns of urban inequality?
The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery
Catherine Fletcher presents York's Black History Month lecture
The Big Drugs Debate
Join York Union to debate the issues around drug use and control
Integrity, hypocrisy and the corruption of the 'ideal standard'
One of the difficulties one comes up against when considering the concept of integrity, is the unliveability of the lives of moral exemplars. If we don't want to give up all our worldly belongings, leave our families, eschew pleasure and comfort, or go and fight in the resistance, does that leave us compromised and corrupted?
GeekFest 2016 - Free Sunday talks
GeekFest, York's best pop-culture & comic convention, is back! And it's going to be bigger and better! Open to everyone, and held at the University, it's going to be a great weekend with Artists, Dealers, Special Guests and more.
GeekFest 2016 - Free Saturday talks
GeekFest, York's best pop-culture & comic convention, is back! And it's going to be bigger and better! Open to everyone, and held at the University of York, it's going to be a great weekend with Artists, Dealers, Special Guests and more
The beauty of ruins
This talk will offer some informal reflections on the aesthetic interest of ruins
Penthouse and Pavement: Inequality in the 21st Century
Inequality is fast becoming the defining feature of our time. Professor Richard Wilkinson will highlight how more equal societies have better health and fewer social problems.
Challenging stereotypes of 'science' and 'belief': STEM as cultural identity in a pluralist world?
Fern Elsdon-Baker looks at the public perceptions of the relationship between science and faith
Story-telling in the Great Mongol Shahnama
The launch event, Storytelling in the Great Mongol Shahnama, will see Professor Robert Hillenbrand, author of ten books on Islamic architecture and painting, speak on the Shahnama – the national epic of Iran
Conversion and convergence: The Goddess Mazu and the Virgin Mary in global maritime history
This lecture will explore perils at sea, and how and why seafarers prayed to two female figures who represented saviours in the oceans of the early modern world
Universities, Democracy and Public Sociology; The Challenge of the Neo-Liberal Knowledge Regime
This talk will set out the key elements of the neo-liberal knowledge regime that is being brought to completion by the Government's recent Higher Education and Research Bill
Antibiotics and resistance and you
The first of this term's York Biology Lectures
Moral illusions: What are they and why should we care?
In this lecture, Rafe will discuss the curious phenomenon of moral illusions and explain what they tell us about moral thinking
The application of evolutionary computation to the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson's disease
Dr Stephen Smith presents the York Society of Engineers Open Lecture
The criminal brain: Implications for prevention, protection and punishment
Adrian Raine discusses the thorny ethical questions that society can no longer ignore as science increasingly dissects the biological roots of crime
Paintings and photographs
Gregory Currie discusses the differences between paintings and photographs and how an audience might be affected differently by each type of media
Defending Human Rights Defenders: Shrinking space for human rights and civil society
The Centre for Applied Human Rights present a talk on human rights defenders
Critical Emotional Reflexivity in Social Activism
Examining how (rather than why) everyday people become social activists provides insights into the emotionality of not only the personal process, but of bringing about social change
Fusion Energy – promises, progress and prospects
An insight into the physics of fusion power from the Professor Kieran Gibson
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Mafiacraft An Ethnography of Deadly Silence
Puccio-Den Deborah
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I have never seen it". So said Mommo Piromalli, a Ndrangheta crime boss, to a journalist in the seventies. In "Mafiacraft", Deborah Puccio-Den explores the...
Colombia: Bajo Caguan-Caqueta
Pitman Nigel
ISBN: HB: 9780982841983, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, September 2019
In April 2018, a large multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities around the junction of the Caguan and Caqueta Rivers in the lowland Amazonian departme...
Knot of the Soul Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
Pandolfo Stefania
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the so...
From Hospitality to Grace A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
Pitt-Rivers Julian
ISBN: PB: 9780986132520, University of Chicago Press, HAU, December 2017
"The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus" brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes...
Dream Trippers Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality
Palmer David A., Siegler Elijah
ISBN: PB: 9780226484846, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western "alternative" spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China. "Dream Tri...
Peru: Medio Putumayo-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 28
ISBN: HB: 9780982841969, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, October 2017
522 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates, 14 halftones, 12 maps
In February 2016, a multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities of a remote area in northern Amazonian Peru, along the Putumayo, Algodon, and Mutun river...
Peru: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 26
ISBN: PB: 9780982841945, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, September 2015
544 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates
The Cordillera Escalera mountain range on the Loreto-San Martin border in Amazonian Peru was barely known to scientists until the September 2013 expedition described in this report. Richly illustrated with twenty four color plates featuring more than...
Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Palmie Stephan
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...
Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
Pares Luis Nicolau, Sansi Roger
Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Bol...
Nostalgia for the Future West Africa after the Cold War
Piot Charles
Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and...


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Q: unable to get Image URL from function Am using php Function to get image URL from sql
but am unable to get image url
function code to get image url
function getUsers() {//returns an array of users
    global $db;
    $list = array();
    $stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT username FROM user_info');
    $users = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    if (is_array($users) || is_object($users)) {
        foreach ($users as $user) {
            array_push($list, $user[0]);
        }return $list;
    }
}

$users = getUsers();

function getImageURL($user) {
    global $db;
    $stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT propic FROM user_info WHERE username=:username');
    $stmt->execute(array(':username' => $user));
    $source = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    return $source;
}

and here is code to display image
<?php
                $user = $_GET['myUser'];
                if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) {
                    $loggedIn = $_SESSION['username'];
                }

                $s = getImageURL($user);
            foreach($s as $URL){
                echo "<img class=\"full\" src=\"$URL[0] \" alt=\"$user's profile picture ERROR PART\"/>";
            }
                ?>

My database connection and user name everything works fine

A: You are forgetting two things:

*

*fetchAll() to obtain your array result set
change this:
$source = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

to this:
$source = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

*

*the correct way to grab your array elements per iteration
change this:
$URL[0]

to this:
$URL['propic']


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Harlan Levey Projects
Crackle & Drag: A film by TR Ericsson
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On this page you can watch the film "Crackle & Drag" and find additional information about the work of TR Ericsson.
Ericsson's practice is one that tends to be shirt wet and hands dirty as it sings a mourning song. His epic project deals with love and loss, laughter and intimacy, struggle and grief. In many ways, the body of work he leaves behind is one of a life spent grieving, of looking back in order to navigate moving ahead with an emotional literacy that can be devastating, beautiful and necessary: A reminder that the end of the world is different every time.
A haunting epitaph of maternal and filial love structured around a series of biographical vignettes that document his mother's life. The passing of time and distance are narrated by voice recordings she left on the artist's answering machine in the mid 90's and early 2000's as she struggled with addiction, poverty and chronic illnesses. She died by suicide in 2003. Like most of Ericsson's work, this film is constructed using a combination of archival and originally shot material.
In the years following his mother's death, Ericsson amassed an archive that would lay the groundwork for his ongoing series Crackle & Drag. The title comes from the song Crackle and Drag by Paul Westerberg of the alt-rock band The Replacements and pays homage to the poet Sylvia Plath and her poem Edge: "...The woman is perfected. Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment…Her blacks crackle and drag."
The artist's archive is an expansive collection of biographical objects dating back to the early 1900s. These artifacts from Ericsson's rustbelt heritage include thousands of snapshots, reams of correspondence and public records as well as numerous household items that document the lives of his working class family. Not solely concerned with the invocation of memory, Crackle & Drag makes a personal struggle public, as Ericsson seeks to narrate, contextualize and transform a crumbling inheritance into an indelible and moving response to love and loss.
Many elements of the archive, which play a role in the film are reproduced in various artworks. These reveal Ericsson to be a process polyglot, though here we draw particular attention to image and text based works, which tend towards Deadpan photo-conceptualism with a graphic sensibility that demonstrates a penchant for both unusual materials and process twists.
Metaphorically and literally, cinders play a large role in this film as well as Ericsson's broader practice.
The burning photographs. The ashes. The fireplace in his grandfather's shop. Cigarettes smoldering in the ashtray. By the end of her life, the floral patterned wallpaper in his mother's dining room was tobacco stained yellow. In an ongoing series of work (2008 - present) Ericsson takes a cue from these walls, using smoke to stain family images onto paper or wooden panels. The results are haunting: delicate, durable and tarnished into an almost glorious gold that never escapes it's poisonous references. These works reflect the DIY Punk spirit of his youth, as well as his training as a painter and draughtsman.The image used here is the same photograph of his 21 year old mother as a young bride that we see in the film poster, or on the pool table.
Like artists Marc Quinn or Janine Antoni who use bodily materials to instill meaning in their work, Ericsson uses a silkscreen process and mixes his mother's funerary ashes into the printing medium. What meaning is instilled with her remains? What remains? A grieving ritual appears over time as a very specific action is repeated with different thoughts in mind to be spread to unknown places again and again. The gesture could be compared with Indonesian tree burials. An organic ritual that gives vitality to human remains so that they'll grow back into the world. It's a gesture that implies an urgent attempt to reclaim what's been lost with the willingness to wait for it. The "tree" Ericsson constructs around his family is elaborate and rich. This is not a tomb or stagnant monument, but rather a dynamic and subversive method of scattering.
This film momentarily however, returns to a time before this ritual as Ericsson must knowingly approach his mother's death once more and as the director, must decide when it happens and how to face it.
The Box Set
In many ways, the film originates with an earlier work, which organized elements of his archive into 150 zines, each intended as notes for a film. The box set is an edition of 10, composed of all 150. According to Ericsson, "In its entirety, it covers more than a century of small fragmented photographic moments; however the looping narrative is far more intimate in scale and points continuously to the aftermath of one woman's passing (my mother). Considered as a film work, the story illustrates a very personal struggle to come to terms with the past while still maintaining an active fidelity to the present moment, which itself is continuously vanishing in time. Watching my beautiful daughter develop probably explains how I came to this work. I love the idea of being able to leave her these short filmic diaries before they completely disappear from memory." He's made sure they won't disappear too quickly. Using the box set of zines as a vehicle, Ericsson places his family's history into prestigious libraries and collections including those of Yale University Library Collection, Harvard University, the MoMA in New York City, The Cleveland Museum of Art and others. As we will see when reading about other works, this placing of the archive and it's material elements add to the burial narrative.
TR Ericsson, Coney Island Baby, 2018
TR Ericsson, Kirtland Road, 2014
TR Ericsson, Can you hear her blacks crackle and drag?, 2018
TR Ericsson, Phone Bill, 2018
TR Ericsson, Poem to Morphine, 2015
TR Ericsson, Letter (March 3, 1994), 2019
TR Ericsson, Letter opener (with bullet casings), 2017
TR Ericsson, Carbon Monoxide, 2015
TR Ericsson, Scarecrow, 2012
TR Ericsson, Crackle & Drag Film, 2015
TR Ericsson, Bad Boy Billy Brat, 2008
TR Ericsson, Bride, 2019
TR Ericsson, Job Master, 2019
TR Ericsson, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, 2020
TR Ericsson, Coney Island, 2020
TR Ericsson, Amitriptyline, 2017
TR Ericsson, Autopsy, 2016
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Chicago Casino Study to Be Released Tuesday
Paris Schutz | August 12, 2019 8:20 pm
UPDATE: Chicago Casino Study: Taxes Too High to Be Profitable
Where to put a Chicago casino? Chicagoans will have some more insight on that soon.
A $120,000 feasibility study evaluating five potential sites proposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now in the hands of the Illinois Gaming Board and will be made public Tuesday morning.
The goal of the report is to determine whether or not a casino would do well in any one of the following locations:
• The old Michael Reese Hospital site in Bronzeville, south of McCormick Place and near the lake.
• A vacant parcel in Lawndale at Kostner Avenue and Roosevelt Road on the West Side.
• Next to Harborside International Golf Center in the Chicago port district on the Far Southeast Side.
• South Works – the old U.S. Steel site on the Far South Side.
• And a parcel of land at Pershing and State – four blocks south of Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side.
Some aldermen have already dismissed the idea of a casino in their ward, including 3rd Ward Ald. Pat Dowell, who is opposed to the Pershing and State site.
"A casino … is simply not appropriate for this site," Dowell said. "A Bronzeville casino would destroy the neighborhood's character without maximizing the benefit to Chicago."
Ald. Sophia King, 4th Ward, has also expressed opposition to the Michael Reese and former U.S. Steel sites, located in her ward. Ald. Michael Scott Jr., 4th Ward, was lukewarm, saying he doesn't think Lawndale has the amenities to support a casino. But if the development included plans for restaurants and other local small businesses, he could be in favor. Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza, 10th Ward, says she supports the Harborside site.
Meanwhile, an economist who has studied the economic impact of casinos said the ideal site will satisfy a few conditions.
"You want to be in a place where you'll have a high demand for gambling services, and being close to downtown Chicago is a way to address that," said Dr. Michael Wenz, professor of economics at Northeastern Illinois University. "So I'd be in a place where you can draw the gamblers from downtown, especially tourists, but draw the economic development and employment opportunities from the areas you want to draw the workers from. In that sense, Michael Reese makes the most sense of the five sites listed."
Lightfoot says she'll wait to see what the report says before speculating on the best location, but that the final site could be in a location outside the five so far put forward.
"Those sites were ones that have historically been talked about over the many years there have been questions about a Chicago casino, but I wouldn't fixate on them because it's not clear that any of those sites will ultimately be ones that are under consideration," Lightfoot said.
The feasibility study will also look at the financial structure of the deal. The bill passed by the Illinois General Assembly allows that the owner would take one-third of the revenue, while the state gets a third and the city gets a third. Lightfoot has expressed doubt that a private operator would even want to be a part of a deal like that.
But Wentz says there'll be enough in each slice of the pie to make an owner happy.
"For a casino operator, the right to have a casino in Chicago is extremely valuable," Wenz said. "It's going to be interesting to see how this evolves, but a casino in Chicago I expect to be wildly profitable even given the structure of the deal."
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Larry Gotkin's recent award-winning work, Birdka Kukri Knife, was accepted for display at the juried Metal, Stone & Wood Exhibit at Tohono Chul Park (Exhibit House Main Gallery) from Friday, April 26 - Sunday, September 1, 2013.
Reception: Friday, April 26 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm.
Show Description: An artist's choice of materials is an essential part of the final aesthetic experience that artwork offers. With textural, compositional and creative nuances, every artistic medium bears its own personality. The exhibit Metal, Stone, and Wood celebrates these three distinctly different materials as they are used in two-dimensional works, sculpture, functional ware, and beyond. The particular weight and texture of carved stone can sit in stark contrast to the polish and angularity of welded steel (or sometimes, vice versa) and the ways in which local artists are engaging with these materials is at the heart of this exciting exhibition.
The gallery and its programs are open to the public (see hours, directions, admission prices, and other details below).
Show Dates: Friday, April 26 - Sunday, September 1, 2013.
Reception: Friday, April 26, 5:30pm - 7:30pm.
Curator's Talks: Tuesday, April 30 at 10 a.m. and Thursday, May 2 at 10 a.m.
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The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has revealed that it is currently working on establishing a radio station for the scheme to enhance its relationship with the public.
The Director-General of NYSC, Major-General Suleiman Kazaure, said this known on Tuesday while speaking at a workshop organised for the scheme's Public Relations Officers' nationwide in Abuja.
He charged the participants to use the forum to analyse NYSC's public relations strategies and come up with ideas that will help improve them for better results.


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The stars of show jumping shine in this iconic, glamorous destination on the French Riviera for the sixth leg of the LGCT and GCL circuit.
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The home of the dazzling Cannes Film Festival and the super-yachts of the Port of Cannes hosts an incredible level of sport just steps from the world-famous La Croissette and the shimmering Mediterranean coastline.
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Positioned close to the Mediterranean Port of Cannes and the super-yachts in the bay, the second of three French events of the Tour is a very special horse show in the heart of the French Riviera. The original 'International Show Jumping of Cannes' has been on the circuit since it was launched in 2006 and is one of the most historic events. Now a regular fixture on the LGCT calendar, the show has grown every year and welcomes thousands of visitors through its gates each summer.
Cannes, a resort town on the French Riviera, is famed for its international film festival. Its Boulevard de la Croisette, curving along the coast, is lined with sandy beaches, upmarket boutiques and palatial hotels. It's also home to the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, a modern building complete with red carpet and Allée des Étoiles – Cannes' walk of fame. Drawn by the incredible level of sport on offer and the collection of international show jumping stars in attendance, visitors enjoy the ambience, glamour and nightlife of this famous city, home of course to the dazzling Cannes Film Festival.
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Why Are Students With Disabilities So Invisible in STEM Education?
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A former K-5 public school principal turned author, presenter, and independent consultant, DeWitt provides insights and advice for education leaders. He can be found at www.petermdewitt.com.
By Peter DeWitt — July 27, 2020 9 min read
Peter DeWitt is a former K-5 public school principal turned author, presenter, and independent consultant.
Today's guest post is co-written by Joe Schneiderwind, a future math teacher, and Janelle Johnson, an associate professor of STEM education at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
In the United States, we lament the lack of diversity in STEM fields and in teacher education, but many of our actions as educators continue to "weed out" students from nondominant communities and those who are differently abled. Society, parents, and other students need to understand that students with disabilities are as capable of academic achievement as any other student given the proper accommodations that allow for success. This is an issue that should not be limited to the silo of disability studies—it is one that must be recognized by all teachers.
Students with disabilities are less likely to complete high school than other students, but why?
There are certainly many social and societal factors that serve as barriers, but school and classroom practices are contributing factors as well. Elementary students with disabilities tend to be tracked away from pursuing advanced academic endeavors. These students are systematically "hidden" from general education and forced into separate classrooms, different programs, and alternative schools. School funding formulas based on standardized assessments incentivize schools to do just that since students with disabilities tend to receive lower scores on these high-pressure exams.
Recent research has shown that 10 percent of students entering postsecondary education have some type of self-identified disability, but there is stark disproportionality of students with disabilities enrolled in advanced coursework in high school. In secondary education, few students with disabilities take AP or IB or enroll in STEM classes or programs. Students with disabilities account for about 12 percent of the student population in secondary school but only 1 percent of the students in Advanced Placement courses. Further illustrating the disparities apparent in STEM fields, high school students with disabilities acquire approximately the same number of credits in English as other students but far fewer credits in math or science. This underrepresentation can lead people to assume that students with disabilities are less capable, particularly in STEM-related fields, and the students themselves may begin to believe they are less qualified, feeding a cycle of low expectations and underperformance.
Research shows the impact of social upbringing, the media, and self-reinforcement on students who are statistically not "supposed" to do well—they tend not to, and this is referred to as the expectancy effect. The expectancy effect leads to lower test performance, less interest in pursuing studies in science and mathematics, and reduced effort to pursue counter-stereotypic skills, among other things. Most studies on expectancy effect focus on racial and ethnic minorities or women in STEM fields, but it is logical to assume the same damaging effect on students with disabilities. Peña performed a thorough search of peer-reviewed articles published in four of the top academic journals. It was found that only 1 percent of published work in these journals had to do with disabilities; and, while published work on students with disabilities has decreased in the last two decades, college admissions of students with disabilities have increased. Recognition of an issue in academia tends to be reflected in the amount of published works on the subject, and this poses a serious concern in recognizing the difficulties that these students will endure. Further, research on students with disabilities tends to group them as a whole rather than separating them into those with intellectual or learning disabilities and those with other disabilities, which can have significant effects on the outcomes of research as it pertains to education.
Blind Spots in STEM Education
When we began writing this blog we realized the research literature on this area was extremely thin. One helpful 2012 publication by Moon et al. is titled "Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)." The authors write that "teachers, instructors, and professors are frequently unable, unprepared, or otherwise ill-equipped to recognize and address the needs of students with disabilities. As a result, course content may be inaccessible." If students cannot access opportunities that feed into a STEM pipeline, they are essentially invisible. Students with disabilities therefore remain underrepresented in STEM fields, and a need exists to help uncover barriers that students with disabilities encounter in STEM laboratories, for example. One out of 10 students in postsecondary education identify as having a disability, and we know many other students who do not report having a disability because of the stigma it carries. The combination of the lack of accurate numbers of students with disabilities and the overall invisibility of this issue make it urgent to address.
Blind Spots in Teaching and Teacher Education
Federal policies that recognize the rights of students with disabilities were an important step and meant teachers could not legally ignore these students. But many educators don't seem to fully understand what students with disabilities need. While there are educators who do specialize in working with exceptional learners, training for teachers who do not work in special education can be limited. Tools and approaches like Universal Design for Learning are helpful in supporting differentiation in order to help all students. But they do not necessarily help classroom teachers recognize their own potential bias about the ability of students with disabilities that lower their expectations of students' academic potential.
And what about teachers who have disabilities? Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA pertains to both students and teachers; students have the additional support of education laws like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Employees are protected by Section 504 and the ADA so long as they can perform essential functions, but how well do these policies actually support teachers who have disabilities? If we consider that only 35 percent of individuals with disabilities who are qualified for a position are actually employed, the lack of specific resources pertaining to teachers with disabilities is troubling.
As Joe says:
I face an extremely difficult and progressive physical disability myself, so one could say that I have a soft spot in my heart for students who face any challenges fated to them in the form of a disability. I am fortunate in the fact that my disability was not noticeably prohibitive until after achieving a graduate education, but this makes me think back and realize how little I knew about, or was exposed to, anybody with a disability. Students with disabilities deserve every opportunity that I had as an able-bodied student, and I don't believe that is being afforded to them. —Joe Schneiderwind
Important societal transformation is happening with growing awareness of racism and seeking out actions we can take to change the equation. Individuals with disabilities also suffer the effects of discrimination, and there are actions we can and must take to dismantle the systemic barriers to educational opportunity for all our students. Principals can actively recruit teachers with disabilities and let them know they are welcome and will be supported in the workplace. Prior to implementing anything new or different, teachers can ask students with disabilities what they think would be helpful or what has been helpful in the past. This would help prevent falling into the same trap of promoting what the teachers think would be helpful without quantitative or qualitative data to support these accommodations. In this age of technology, there are many available tools to assist students with disabilities. Referring more specifically to physical disabilities, make sure to learn about and provide students and families access to technology programs and related hardware such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, MathTalk, Vocola, Equatio, and Google Speech to Text, all of which allow for access to what able-bodied students take for granted—the beauty and simplicity of paper and pencil.
Joe Schneiderwind is a future math teacher who was a student in Dr. Janelle Johnson's multicultural education class. Students had to choose an issue they were passionate about to research and share a "Call to Action" with their classmates. Joe's reflection on his own educational experiences led him to research the underrepresentation of students with disabilities in STEM fields. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. He graduated with a B.S. in engineering physics in 2009 and an M.S. in applied mathematics in 2011. By 2014, he was heavily dependent on a wheelchair. After leaving a Ph.D. program due to further progression of his disability, he is now attending Metropolitan State University of Denver seeking licensure to teach secondary mathematics.
Dr. Janelle Johnson is an associate professor of STEM education at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She is the co-editor of STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement , and Transformation (2018), and the principal investigator on two National Science Foundation grants—A Community-based Approach to Engaging Students and Teachers in Effective STEM Education ITEST grant, and Inclusive STEM Teaching Preparation at an Urban Commuter University (U-STEM) Robert Noyce grant. Her work focuses on professional development with teachers toward interdisciplinary and inclusive STEM teaching and learning. She taught math and earth-science courses to bilingual and ESL students in Guatemala and in Arizona for eight years at elementary, middle, and high school levels.
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Jeannis, H., Joseph, J., Goldberg, M., Seelman, K., Schmeler, M., & Cooper, R. A. (2018). Full-participation of students with physical disabilities in science and engineering laboratories. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 13(2), 186-193.
Moon, N. W., Todd, R. L., Morton, D. L., & Ivey, E. (2012). Accommodating students with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Atlanta, GA: Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, Georgia Institute of Technology, 8-21.
Newman, L., Wagner, M., Huang, T., Shaver, D., Knokey, A. M., Yu, J., ... & Cameto, R. (2011). Secondary School Programs and Performance of Students with Disabilities: A Special Topic Report of Findings from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2). NCSER 2012-3000. National Center for Special Education Research.
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Peña, E. V. (2014). Marginalization of published scholarship on students with disabilities in higher education journals. Journal of College Student Development, 55(1), 30-40.
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Raising the bar won't hurt.
Trying to fit into average is how many of us go along in our daily activities. As professionals and family members, sometimes not even realizing so; we fall victims of our own routines and the standards we set for ourselves, trying to simply go along with the daily burden. No crime here, everyone takes this road every now and then, in which we feel comfort on just coping with the situations and where going the "extra mile" is not needed. Let's face it, if this is applied to every aspect of our lives most likely it will be the first step towards mediocrity.
Perspective: Average people see the problem; visionaries provide solutions. If there is something that goes hand by hand with perspective is personality. Developing and embracing your personality by focusing solely on your opportunity areas and strengths by not forcing a predetermined way of thinking will allow you to have a wider perspective not only of yourself but of the world that surrounds you; helping you to provide thoughtful and effective solutions for any problem that life encounters you with.
Going the Extra Mile: Average people provide the solution they are asked to deliver; visionaries provide the solution that is needed. Whenever you are assigned a task in any area of your life, it is now a social standard for you to take the easiest and fastest route to complete it, providing only standard quality. Being it some project at work or some family task, doing more than asked and "going the extra mile" in such task will surprise and delight those around you.
Diverse Routine: Average people cope with daily life; visionaries live an exciting blend of creativity and variety. Avoid creating a rigid routine around your daily life; this will only create tension and boredom. Adding one or two extracurricular activities to your schedule and mixing them with friends and family is a great way to bond and to enjoy your own personal passions. Let us be the ones who change the routine and not the routine the one to change us!
Raise the bar: Average people achieve to maintain standards; visionaries set new standards every day. If today was good, make tomorrow even better. Setting higher standards based on reasonable goals that can be reached will keep us striving for excellence, always on the look for better versions for ourselves, ready to deliver in every aspect of our lives.
Develop your personality to have a better perspective.
Excellence is your new quality standard.
Modify your routine to stay creative and relaxed.
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The following is a transcript that gives an overview of accounting with Clay Clark, US Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Coach, and Tim Redmond on Thrive15.com, a premiere Ohio business college.
Clay: Tim Redmond, thank you for being here sir from the bottom of this business coach heart.
Tim: Yeah, it's great to be here again Clay, I am excited about … I am excited about this topic!
Clay: Well I think that financial planning and accounting, and these sorts of things are things that a lot of people maybe don't get excited about, but that we have to know. We are talking specifically today about financial planning 101; getting on the road to riches. Here is the idea. The first principle is waking up to reality.
Clay: Tim, being completely financially in the hole is something that most people are very familiar with. In fact, on October 21st, US Today had an article where they said that, this is crazy statistics here. They said that for people that are 10 years away from retirement, the median savings is $12,000. So people who are 10 years away from retirement, they only have $12,000 saved. I have learned this information as a business coach.
Clay: One third of the people between 55 and 64 haven't saved anything. This is sad to me as a business coach.
Clay: So in your mind, what is going on where most people are living completely in the toilet financially? What is happening?
Tim: Just a little bit of background on where I'm going to come from, because I think as I begin to talk, if people can know a little bit of my background.
Tim: I am a CPA.
Tim: Okay, and so don't turn me off right now because I said that, because we know what a CPA stands for, right?
Tim: Constant pain in the abdomen.
Tim: Or another body part. What I have done, is I'm really not active as a CPA per se, but I'm active in business coaching.
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Tim: Teaching them how to read it, how to have a healthy relationship with money and cash is so so important. So why, why do people mess up so much in this area? I think there's just a lack of knowledge of what to do.
Tim: Another thing is there's such negativity that they see with finances that they almost run the other way. They've seen their parents fight over it or get divorced over it. They've seen business partners betray them, and so they've got a lot of emotion on this thing, and it's almost like it's this radioactive thing that, they know they ought to learn more about it, but it's like this radioactive thing that's created so much pain in their lives.
Clay: So do you think most people just don't look at their financial statements till they're 55 or 65? What's going on?
Tim: I think there's a number of reasons why people re in such a mess financially. I think, first of all, the way they were raised, they really haven't learned about managing finances.
Tim: They haven't learned it from their parents, or they … What they've seen really, is not only a lack of knowledge, but they've seen a lot of pain attached to cash and money, and money shortages. The parents fight about it all the time, their parents may have gotten a divorce over it, business partner may betrayed the mom or dad, so they hear about all this negativity about finances, so what they want to do is they want say: "Listen, that's a really painful area, I don't want to learn about it, I don't watch it, I want to stay away from it, but hey I want this, I want this." We're very impulse, compulsive, there's no discipline. So we live in the moment, and we find ourselves on less than $12,000, and we're just 20 years from dying.
Clay: (Laughs) Okay well, talk to this business coach about principle number 2 here. Buying assets and stop buying liabilities. So principle 1, we just need to wake up to the reality.
Clay: The second is we got to start buying assets and stop buying liabilities. Now, Tim, Dave Ramsey, I love this guy, best selling financial planning, he's a best-selling author, financial planner, radio-show host, just great guy.
Clay: He says: "Most of the things we buy are wants, and we call them needs, but they're wants." So Tim, in your minds, what kinds of things are most of us confusing as needs, but they're really wants? Because you coach a lot of clients, you see them just go through massive amounts of cash.
Tim: Right. I look at there's two kinds of things you buy. One of the things you buy, you buy it to make you money.
Tim: So, if you want to buy a computer because you're a writer or you're a graphic artist, or you want to do something on that computer, you want to do data management or analysis or whatever, you can do that. Or you can buy a computer, same thing, you can buy a computer, and spend the whole day playing on Facebook and surfing the Internet and doing nothing to make money. So what people do, Clay, is we buy a bunch of stuff, clothes, which I'm glad you're wearing clothes now, that's a good thing.
Clay: Yeah, it's a good thing.
Tim: 'They're normally 500 bucks! I mean I'm saving 150 bucks!' So it always makes me nervous when my wife tells me how much she saved. (Laughs) That's like half the equation. How much did you spend? You know? Anyway, the idea here is when we buy stuff that doesn't make us money, those are expenses, when we buy stuff that we can buy money with it, those are the good kind of assets, and I think that's what Dave Ramsey and other people are making that differentiation.


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Volume 1, Issue 3, December 2004
Welcome to the December 2004 issue of Econ Journal Watch. EJW is a triannual peer-reviewed journal for scholarly commentary on academic economics.
In this issue's Comments,
Peter Minowitz argues William Grampp mishandled Adam Smith in his article appearing in the JPE.
James Forder suggests that Alan Blinder's survey treating "credibility" (appearing in the AER) neglects particular ways central bankers and academic economists might understand that term differently.
Fabio Rojas examines how George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton, writing in the JEL, apply identity and politics to school reform.
Philip Coelho, Daniel Klein, and James McClure explore Wolfgang Pesendorfer's model of fashion cycles in the AER. Wolfgang Pesendorfer responds.
Jih Y. Chang and Rati Ram conclude their exchange with Jeffrey Edwards and Anya McGuirk over economic growth, levels of development, and income inequality.
In Character Issues: Drawing on religious history and rival doctrines, Robert H. Nelson distinguishes two ways of economic enlightenment: scholasticism and pietism. He suggests that the scholastic church of academic economics should give way to more pietistic movements, and shows that leading figures writing in the EJ's centennial issue provide support for such a reformation.
In Investigating the Apparatus, Randall Holcombe dissects the National Research Council's rankings of economics departments, and reflects on the impact on economic research.
Economics in Practice: By studying the indices of leading textbooks, Dan Johansson shows that core Ph.D. theory is devoid of entrepreneurship, institutions, property rights, and economic freedom. He reflects on a profession that is like Hamlet without the Danish prince.
Letters on statistical significance by Thomas Schelling and Robert Gelfond appear in Correspondence; Stephen Ziliak and Deirdre McCloskey reply.
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The 1975 question Machine Morality and Human Responsibility in their latest 'Music For Cars' album era clue.
After The 1975 returned to social media yesterday to point to their newly renovated countdown clock of a website, fans spent their waking hours downloading a hidden zip file containing four mysterious images, which you can read all about over here.
Clicking this link will bring up an excerpt of a 2015 conversation between Google researchers and an artificial intelligence that has taught itself from analysing movie subtitles and IT helpdesk transcripts (rather than be programmed by a human operator).
According to Cnet, a paper that the researchers published was prefaced with this introduction: "Our model converses by predicting the next sentence given the previous sentence or sentences in a conversation. The strength of our model is that it...requires much fewer hand-crafted rules. We find that this straightforward model can generate simple conversations given a large conversational training dataset."
Human: ok... so what is the definition of morality?
Machine: i don't have ethics .
Machine: you're not a cop .
Machine: i don't know how to tell you.
Machine: i'm sorry , i don't know what else to say.
As Gizmodo points out here, the above conversation with the AI fails the Turing Test, but it does bring to light some important questions about Machine Morality and Human Responsibility. So, buckle in!
1). The below TED Talk is a great introduction as to why "intelligent machines can fail in ways that don't fit human error patterns -- and in ways we won't expect or be prepared for." Techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci says: "We cannot outsource our responsibilities to machines. We must hold on ever tighter to human values and human ethics."
2). This 2011 essay by Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis technology and society journal is a very, very long read, but it will answer all of your questions about futurists, the advance of moral machines, and introduces the dilemma of it not being clear what qualifications that that computer programmers have that would make them "excellent or even average moral instructors" to the artificial intelligences they are training.
Rubin says: "As programmers, it seems they would be as unlikely as anyone else ever to have so much as taken a course in ethics, if that would even help. And given that the metric for 'Friendliness' in AIs is supposed to be that their values would reflect those of most human beings, the common disdain of computer scientists for the humanities, the study of what it is to be human, is not encouraging."
3). The 1975's new album is titled 'Music For Cars'. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology happens to operate a website called the 'Moral Machine', which describes itself as: "A platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving cars. We show you moral dilemmas, where a driverless car must choose the lesser of two evils, such as killing two passengers or five pedestrians."
4). This article in The New Yorker by NYU Cognitive Science Professor Gary Marcus builds on the above, discussing the upcoming era "in which it will no longer be optional for machines to have ethical systems," but the impossible problem of how to teach machines to be ethical.
SO! In summary... we still have no idea what The 1975 are up to and we are still super confused. Just another day in May.
MusicThe 1975 release four new poster designs.
MusicThe 1975 offer custom leather jackets and an Allen patch in new pop-up shops.
MusicAn update on The 1975's album feat. a song that's gonna make us all cry.
MusicThe 1975 are starting to record 'Music For Cars'.
MusicThe 1975 tease lyrics for new song 'Give Yourself A Try'?
MusicQuiz: Which member of The 1975 are you?
MusicThe 1975 being The 1975... at the 2017 Brit Awards.


DESCRIPTION: The Lapland Longspur is a passerine bird with a conical bill. Breeding male has a black face, throat, neck and crown, and a rufous patch on the nape. Back, wings and tail are brown with beige stripes. White band along the black areas, and the flanks are dark brown to black. Under parts are light grey. Bill is yellow, legs are grey. Females are mottled brown and their bill and legs are grey. The bird measures around 15 cm (6 inches).
NAME: The English name (and Latin species name) refers to the region (Lapland) where the first individual was identified, and 'Longspur' refers to the long rear claw of this bird. The Latin genus name 'Calcarius' also refers to its rear claw. Also called 'Lapland Bunting'.
HABITAT: Arctic wet tundra in the summer, grasslands or fields in the winter.
DIET: Forages on the ground for insects and seeds. Can eat thousands of flies in a single day.
NESTING: Nest built on the ground. Around four to six light green eggs are laid, incubated by the female. Chicks fed by both parents.
DISTRIBUTION: Breeds in the Arctic around the globe. During migration is found in Canada east of the Rockies, winters in the north part of contiguous USA east of the Rockies, the Russian steppes, Denmark and northeast China.
ON PEI: Does not breed on Prince Edward Island, only found during migration, then uncommon to fairly common depending on the years.
CONSERVATION: During the winter Lapland longspurs can form huge flocks numbering in the millions. If they then hit human-built structures during a snowstorm thousands may get killed. Their population however appears stable, although not much is currently precisely known on their global trends.
NOTES: Lapland longspurs use their long hind claw in walking and running on the ground.


The ST650 replaced the original non-valve ST100/ST550 series with a new integrated valve system. The ST650 insert will fit into the P17/B17 housings used by the ST100/ST550. The ST650 has now been replaced by the ST850.
The valve sleeve is held in place by the black knurled screw-down cap and the insert is retained into the valve sleeve by a clevis pin.
04-400 Hull Nut for P17.


We had a fun and busy weekend.We cleaned up after our decorating day on Friday, we hosted several families on Sunday afternoon into the evening. All four girls went to stay at our friends house, with their daughters, while the parents went on a short anniversary trip and their sons were on a hunting trip with their granddad.
Yesterday, I went to breakfast with my men (that live at home), did a bit of shopping, and then came home to make some Christmas gifts.
Today, my younger girls are home with their friends, and Lindsay and Emily are at work. There is baking going on, friendship being shared, and lots of happy smiles.
Emily, Sarah, Kyle, Tim and I went to pick out a tree yesterday. This is the one we chose.
I have some wreaths and garlands for outdoors yet and then I'm done. Sarah, Kyle, Kayleigh and I all worked hard yesterday. I like to get it done early and then really enjoy it all season!
We host a lot of people during the holidays and it is beginning tonight with a friends' birthday! Just a small gathering but it'll be fun.
Are you decorating yet, or do you like to wait until later in the month?
The turkey is slow roasting, the smell spreading through the house. Everyone is still snug in bed, savoring the chance to sleep in.
I have been thinking about the Pilgrims, who risked everything to come to a new world in order to have the freedom to worship the Lord differently than the way the official church was worshiping. I wonder if I would have that kind of courage.
Makes me laugh hysterically every time I see it!
We had a lovely day. Tim and I took Lindsay to work then went to breakfast. He has to work two 12 hour days this weekend, so we squeezed in some time together. After he left for work - our farrier, arrived with his sons to file and clip the horses hooves. We chatted about some issues Cheyenne is having with a crack on her hoof. It is a relief to know that he feels it is not serious, and should grow out. Then the youngest kids, Kay and Kamryn and I ran errands, fun ones. We went to JoAnn's and got some things for Christmas gifts we are making. Then off to an Amish hardware store to pick up a gift for Tim and my Dad that Kyle and Sarah have been saving their own money to buy. They are so excited! Home again, finally to do a bit of sewing, knitting, advising, guiding etc... I am thankful.
www.theblessingofverity.com The Lord brought this beautiful family into our lives this year when they began to attend our church. They have 10 children ages 17 to 1. They have just added this beautiful 9 and a half year old daughter, Katerina Hope Musser.
If you haven't heard of their journey, I hope you will take sometime to read at their blog The Blessing Of Verity and see what our redeeming God has been up to!
Praying today for their journey home, which will mean landing at the airport and heading straight to the Children's Hospital. They are waiting for this wee girl.
Our tree from last year!
Don't worry. I am still embracing Thanksgiving. It is such a special holiday. A set apart day to give Thanks to our God for all His blessings. However you do all realize that with Thanksgiving only 1 week away - that means the next day will be decorating day! Oh, yeah! I really like a natural look for Christmas - along with red plaid, and that is what I will do again this year. No lime green or aqua colors for our holiday decor (though we love to wear those colors!).
The way I change things up is to use my things in a different way each year, or perhaps move something to a different room. Every room gets some Christmas cheer, even if it is just some greens or lights.
So let's chat. Do you decorate for the whole season, wait until just before Christmas, or not at all? What is your style? This is my favorite time of year celebrating the birth of our Savior!
My niece Jill and her husband Rodney are going to be parents very soon.
Their little boy, Logan, is due in early December.
This fabric is so cheerful and fun...it is showing lighter on the computer than it is in real life.
I made it a rag quilt because I wanted it to be a 'toss on the floor for the baby to lay on' kind of quilt. I made it with turtles because they have chosen the most delightful baby bedding!
Turtle Reeffrom Target.com - isn't it the cutest?
I need to pop it into the mail so it can arrive before Logan does!
Even though I adore Christmas, I never rush the season.
I want us to celebrate all we have to be thankful for - we have been given so much!
I love the pilgrims, who came here as separatists from the Church of England. They had been in Holland for many years and were concerned with the culture and how their children were being influenced by it.
The risked so much to come and make a new place. A place where they could worship God in freedom. I love my children knowing the history of Thanksgiving and that it is not about football and shopping. It is a day to be remember to be Thankful!
Mom and I talked about our menu today - Turkey, of course. I always slow roast my turkeys overnight. Here is a link to a post on how I do this.
I am working on plans for Thanksgiving - you'll hear more about that tomorrow.
I am also working on our Ladies Christmas Tea at church. This year will be a bit different - we will be doing a really special project - hoping to bless some of the families in the hospital where are friends the Mussers' will be with their adopted daughter Katerina. Their blog The Blessing of Verity has the ongoing story. They get to go to the orphanage today and get her!We realize that families with sick children are under a lot of stress, and we want to be able to bless them!
Today will be much colder, and breezy. Brrr.
Lindsay and Rachel are very excited. It will be just us girls today, as Tim and Kyle are off to a Father/Son event and my Dad is at his church's Men's Retreat.
What's on your schedule for today?
One of the things we firmly believe is in the blessings that come from having a multi-generational vision. It was a deliberate decision on our part when my parents moved to Pennsylvania to include them in our lives.
My husband works hard at work and at home. One of the things he does at home is to provide firewood for us to burn in our wood stove during the late fall and winter. He also decided a few years ago to make sure my parents had a full supply of firewood to burn as well. Yesterday was delivery day.
Here is the wood piled up in the back of my husband's truck. I know he had plans to move the leftover wood from last year into the wood rack in the utility room at my parent's home, and then load this wood into the racks in the garage. That way my parents don't have to go outside to get wood in the middle of the winter!


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Hellenism 332-167, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem: Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991.
There are almost no written records enabling us to reconstruct the history of Jerusalem for the next hundred years, up to the fall of the Persian Empire before the youthful wonder king of Macedonia, Alexander the Great, in the year 332 BC. What is known however is that Jerusalem was now the capital of a considerably truncated Judah, the Jewish region within the larger Persian satrapy (colonial province) called Abar-Naharah (Aramaic for "beyond the river"). It appears to have experienced rather less turbulence than the previous years, and from the prophet Joel we get a picture at the beginning of the fourth century of a pastoral and God-fearing people. Beyond the city walls, Jewish farmers tend their olive groves, vineyards and cornfields. Above the Temple Mount rises the smoke of sacrifice. And at the great annual festivals come the murmur of the throngs at prayer in the Temple courts and the shout of their responses.
From the history of the area we know that at this time the influences of the Greeks, great seafarers and traders, was making itself felt in the Middle East, and Judah could not have been immune. This Hellenistic influence was given wings by the phenomenal military successes of Alexander, who had conquered western Asia, including India, before he died in 323 BC at the age of thirty-two.
Alexander left Jerusalem untouched, but with his death came the disintegration of his newly-won empire, his generals quarrelling among themselves. Two of them vied with each other for the control of, among other areas, the land of Judah. The two were Ptolemy, who had seized Egypt and set up his capital in newly established Alexandria, and Seleucus, who after some years had become master in the north, with capitals in Antioch in Syria and Seleucia in Babylonia. After a series of battles fought between former comrades-in-arms, Ptolemy won, and for the next century Jerusalem came under the authority of his dynasty.
Ptolemy took back with him to Egypt a large number of Jewish prisoners, and from this nucleus there grew the important Jewish community of Alexandria, soon to become the greatest centre of Diaspora Jewry. Beyond this, however, Ptolemaic rule in Jerusalem and Judah was on the whole benevolent, and the Jews enjoyed almost complete autonomy, though they paid an annual tribute. This period, the third century BC, was one of comparative stability—though the Seleucids tried several times to take the country and were driven back by the Ptolemies—and Jerusalem developed and prospered. Contemporary Greek writings dwell on the thriving agriculture of Judah and the strength of Jerusalem, its community well organized and administered. The Temple and its worship continue to dominate Jewish national life.
Incidentally, it was under Ptolemy II's patronage that the translation of the Bible into the Greek language was inaugurated in Alexandria. The result was the Septuagint—so called because the translation was believed to have been done by seventy notable Jewish scholars brought specially to Alexandria from Jerusalem for the purpose. The project was initiated by the Jewish community of Alexandria so that their Greek-speaking children could remain familiar with their own sacred writings.
To these Jews of Alexandria, as indeed to the growing Jewish communities in other cities of Egypt and elsewhere in the world, Jerusalem remained the city of their devotion, and the Temple the target of their spiritual loyalty. Exile enhanced their fervor towards the Holy City—just as it had to the Babylonian deportees. When they prayed, they turned to Jerusalem. Each year they sent their half-shekel for the support of national worship as Temple tribute. Whenever they were able, they went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem on the annual "pilgrim" festivals. This was to be the pattern continued by Diaspora Jewry after the Great Exile in AD 70.
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