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Chile, Education, Global Poverty
Education Helps Eradicate Poverty in Chile
In recent times, some of the largest economic growth in South America has occurred in a small and notoriously narrow country, the Republic of Chile. A standard-bearer of free-market capitalism, Chile's rapid expansion over the past 35 years has been staggering. According to Forbes, "poverty has fallen from 50 percent to 11 percent, per-capita income has increased from 4.000 dollars to almost 20.000 dollars and inflation was reduced from over 250 percent per year to less than 7 percent per year." Often referred to as the "The Miracle of Chile," this development seemed to lift the country out of economic and political chaos and into remarkable prosperity.
In 1973, Chile was in dire straits. Its annual rate of inflation had reached 150 percent and its economy was spiraling downward. On top of this, the country experienced the bloodiest coup of 20th century South America in which the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet seized power from the Socialist president Salvador Allende. Over the course of just one month, over 3,000 Chileans lost their lives as military planes strafed and bombed the presidential palace. Ironically, this militaristic dictator became the source of the economic miracle.
General Pinochet promptly began to dismantle Allende's socialist system and in its place instituted free-market economic policies. To enact these policies, Pinochet gathered together a collection of economists named the 'The Chicago Group,' as many members had studied at the University of Chicago. The group endorsed lower tax rates, the privatization of state companies, lower government spending and deregulation. But this growth came at a price to civil liberties and democratic values. In his 1980 constitution, Pinochet set the stage for Chile's growth by prioritizing economic freedom at the cost of political oppression and social programs.
In 1990, Pinochet failed to retain his office after losing a public election and Chile steered back towards democracy. While his policies in the 1980s had brought the country out of financial failure and into economic prosperity, they left the poorest Chileans behind. Due to tax cuts and lackluster government spending, 45 percent of Chileans still lived in poverty. To the new Chilean government of the 1990s, the next big step was to confront poverty. Their solution was social spending.
Their plan was extraordinarily successful. Between the years of 1989 and 1997, the new Chilean government increased "health and education investments (mostly ignored under Pinochet) by 179.3 and 115 percent respectively," according to a report from Brandeis University. This social spending helped to dramatically lower poverty; every percentage of growth Chile experienced between 1990 and 1996 counted 50 percent more to the reduction of poverty than under Pinochet's regime. Ultimately, the poverty rate fell from 39 percent to 20 percent from 1990 to 2000. In comparison, poverty across South America only fell from 48 percent to 44 percent.
Of all social expenditures, education received the most attention and made the greatest impact. During the 1990s, spending on education grew at a rate of 10.6 percent annually and 274 percent cumulatively over the entire decade. The same Brandeis study mentioned above found that the increases in education spending were particularly effective in decreasing the severity of poverty in Chile.
However, Chile's expansion, while exceptional, has not exactly been miraculous. According to the Brookings Institute, Chile has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world. Unfortunately, Chile's education system, particularly higher education, suffers from a similar form of stratification even though it has expanded by 33 percent in the past two decades. In terms of enrollment, 62 percent of Chileans from the upper 20th percentile in income attend institutions of higher education. By contrast, only 21 percent attend from the lower 20th percentile.
While Chile has developed rapidly, due in large part to social spending in education, it has left many of its poorest behind. With the current president Michelle Bachelet planning further tax increases to provide free education to all Chileans, it is possible that another miracle may be on the horizon.
– Andrew Logan
Sources: BBC, Bloomberg, Brandeis University, Brookings Institute, Forbes, IFPRI, MIT Poverty Action Lab, University of Hawaii
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December 24, 2019 8:30am PT by Jean Bentley
'You' on Netflix: The Ultimate Season 2 Primer
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The Lifetime stalker drama moved from Lifetime to Netflix, and now it moves from New York to Los Angeles for its second season. Find out what to remember from season one and what to know about the new episodes.
While plenty of audience members didn't watch soapy stalker drama You until it hit Netflix, it did originally air on Lifetime — which gave the series an early season two renewal ahead of its premiere. But its streaming home is now its permanent home, as Netflix picked up season two after the cable network reversed course and passed on what was, for it, a low-rated and expensive series.
Netflix originally signed on as the streaming home for the Greg Berlanti-produced drama, helping to offset Lifetime's costs. What happened next illustrated the strength of the streaming behemoth. The company revealed that You was on pace to be seen by 40 million households within its first four weeks of streaming. That dwarfed the 1.1 million average viewers who tuned in on basic cable network Lifetime.
Season one followed quiet bookseller Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), whose crush on aspiring writer Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) turned deadly when he became obsessed with and started stalking her. Season two sees Joe jet to Los Angeles to escape the mess of his relationship with Beck (and the arrival of a certain ex-girlfriend he thought was dead).
Ahead of season two's Dec. 26 premiere, co-creator Sera Gamble tells The Hollywood Reporter what to remember about the first cycle and what to know about the new episodes.
What Happened in Season One
Joe's crush on Beck wasn't innocent — it turns out he was stalking her, and even killed her best friend when she discovered his ill intentions. When Beck found out, Joe killed her, too, and framed her therapist Dr. Nicky (John Stamos) for the crime. Just when he thought he'd gotten away with it, his ex-girlfriend Candace (Ambyr Childers) — the one he thought he'd killed before Beck — returned.
It's Based on a Book (Sort Of)
Season one of You was based largely on Caroline Kepnes' book of the same name, with one major diversion toward the end — Joe's ex-girlfriend Candace is actually alive. That character plays a major role in season two, which is loosely based on You's Los Angeles-set sequel, Hidden Bodies.
"When we realized in season one that we were working our way toward the end and we knew we wanted this twist that Candace was not actually dead, immediately it was clear to us — and this will make sense to people who have read the book — that Candace would essentially become Amy Adams, who was a former love interest slash antagonist for Joe in the second book," Gamble says.
But there are major diversions in season two, as well — a necessity when translating a book to screen. "As you translate a book into filmed entertainment, it evolves and changes and characters take on aspects that just are different than what's in a book both because the plot diverges, and also because an actor is an actual human person saying the words and they bring qualities to each line that you could not have predicted."
NYC ---> LAX
One of the biggest changes of the season is the move from New York City to Los Angeles, a bright and sunny setting for a dark and twisted story.
"I'm a huge fan of L.A. noir, and we talked a lot about that genre as we were starting the season, both visually and just the content," Gamble says. "I mean, Los Angeles is a sunny place but it is a very dark place. It's a place where people come to reinvent themselves so it seemed pretty perfect for Joe."
It's in Los Angeles where Joe meets the new object of his affection: Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), a wealthy aspiring chef with a co-dependent twin brother, Forty (James Scully). Other key new characters include his apartment super/new friend Delilah (Carmela Zumbado), Delilah's precocious teen sister Ella (Jenna Ortega) and famous comedian Henderson (Chris D'Elia). Russian Doll's Charlie Barnett and Heathers' Melanie Field appear as two of Love's BFFs.
Lifetime ---> Netflix
Although Lifetime ordered a second season of You before the first premiered, the series averaged about 1.1 million viewers (and only 611,000 in same-day ratings) throughout the course of its cable run. Once it hit Netflix, however, it was on track to be watched by 40 million member households in its first four weeks on the service, and the streamer picked up season two as a Netflix original series (producers Warner Bros. remain involved).
"There wasn't a huge amount of adjustment that was required creatively, because Netflix were partners along the way during season one as well. They liked the show. That's why they were picking it up," Gamble says. "And they made it very clear to all of us that they wanted us to deliver the same show, essentially. In their minds, there was nothing particularly broken about it. So if anything we were encouraged to use some of the same principles that you use when you're making commercial television, more maybe then a streaming show that can be basically any length and doesn't have commercial breaks. When you're breaking something for commercial cable, you are constantly thinking about what that next twist or cliff-hanger is because people better be interested if you're going to cut to a tampon commercial. So we retained that spirit when we were breaking the episodes."
Unlike other streaming series, every episode of You season two runs 50 minutes or less.
"Greg Berlanti and I are both really used to cutting things really tight for a 42- to 44-minute runtime and I have to say there were a couple of times in season one where that was just a little bit of a bummer, because what got left on the floor was just some extra great, nuanced moments, usually from Penn, that weren't crucial to the storytelling, but would have been really nice to retain," Gamble says. "And so that's the conversation he and I had as we moved to Netflix. We both agreed that we should use that leeway just to make sure that the character work was really dialed in. But nobody was excited to get super indulgent and frankly, we're not really a show that's made at that really incredible price point that enables you to just go shoot forever and forever. We're like a working-class TV show. We're trying to give you something that looks really, really great, and that comes with limitations and we embrace those."
Built to Binge?
One key change in the move to Netflix, however, is the fact that the series is being released as a binge rather than weekly. But Gamble says she didn't actually change anything when breaking the show for the binge model.
"I think that the culture of bingeing TV has already influenced the way that everybody makes television. It's been like that for the last few years because most TV shows that are airing on actual TV, as it were, have a second window on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon," she explains. "Creators are very aware that it will eventually be binged and I tend to think that some of the principles that make really great week-to-week TV are exactly the same as what makes a good binge, which is a combination of giving you characters that you really are interested in, and then twists in the plot that make you really want to see what happens next, whether that means you just tell Netflix continue, or you hang on for another week."
A bonus, though, is the fact that things can get a little more risqué in sex scenes than they would have on cable, and characters can drop F-bombs liberally.
"I have always been that writer that wants to die on fuck hill. This is a fight that I personally have been fighting since I was working for The CW. This is just me speaking personally, stuff that I chat about with the writers and with Greg Berlanti. This is just my little soapbox: I have always felt that constraints on language were bullshit, and that it was sort of ridiculous. Beyond making actual children's television that airs quite early in the day and is accessible through parental controls, I just feel that these mandates are sort of puritanical. I know I'm ranting a little tiny bit, but I feel like, 'Fuck, I'm a writer, I want to use all the words,' so I frequently have a rousing debate about it with my creative partners at studios and networks. They hear where I'm coming from and they're doing what they can, but it's pretty great to be working for Netflix because I think that they're essentially on the same page. We've come to a place just in the landscape of TV where it's so competitive that if you don't give your creators as complete a toolbox as possible, they're not gonna be able to compete with people on HBO, who get to say and do and show and speak however the fuck they want."
And the sexual content can be more true to life as well: "For me, the two most important things are language and then also having the ability to really have the creative conversation with your partners about the sexual content in the show. There's an unconscious undercurrent in our culture at large that comes out in the way notes tend to be given generally in television — and I'm certainly not pointing fingers at any of my partners that I've worked with over the years because I've worked with some really great progressive, amazing executives — but I do think that as a culture we're especially puritanical around female pleasure. We talked about that a lot in the sex scenes on this particular show — that part of our job in comparing and contrasting Joe's point of view with a more objective point of view on what's happening is really about exploring what exactly is the camera looking at during a sex scene? And the only way we can do that is if we have the general permission to shoot that."
Staying the Same
Ultimately, Gamble says, the series will be very much like the first season viewers latched on to. It was a relief to Gamble, Berlanti and their writers that audiences understood what they were trying to say with the series.
"We're a show where a man is committing a lot of acts of violence and violation, particularly against women...but in order to really explore why so much of the beloved entertainment of our culture centers on men like Joe, we had to have Joe be a guy like that. When you're taking a creative risk like that and you're trying to hit such a very strange, particular tone, there's always the possibility that people will look at it and be like, 'Why the fuck did you make another show where it features violence? What are you trying to say?' So we were really excited and relieved because we worked really hard to find that tone. And so as that response came in, I think we gained confidence that the audience is on the same page with the people making the show just in terms of like, 'What is this experiment? What is this road we're going down with Joe?' We all agree that he's not a character who exists to be redeemed. He kind of exists to be slowly peeled apart like an onion and then burned to the fucking ground over the course of the series. That was the feeling of excitement in the room, especially once we realized how many people had actually watched the show — that we had this glorious playground now where we could really go deep on these things that bother us so much that we want to write about."
You season two premieres Thursday, Dec. 26, on Netflix.
Jean Bentley
THRnews@thr.com @hijean

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Sibil·la de Fortià, anomenada la Fortiana (o Forciana) (?, vers 1350 - Barcelona, 24 de novembre de 1406), fou reina consort d'Aragó, de València, de Mallorca, de Sardenya i de Còrsega (nominal), duquessa consort d'Atenes i de Neopàtria i comtessa consort de Barcelona, de Rosselló, de Cerdanya i d'Empúries (1377 - 1387). Als textos medievals, el seu nom sovint és escrit com a Sibília de Forcià.

Ascendència

Sibil·la pertanyia al llinatge dels Fortià, de la baixa noblesa, amb possessions al medi rural empordanès, dins el comtat d'Empúries, del qual eren feudataris.

Genealogia simplificada de Sibil·la de Fortià:

Ascens, núpcies i descendència

Sibil·la, llavors una jove de gran bellesa però sense cap formació, entrà al servei de la reina Elionor de Sicília, que l'admeté entre les seves dames possiblement arran d'algun viatge reial a l'Empordà. A la cort s'arranjà el seu matrimoni, el 1371, amb Artal de Foces, noble aragonès llavors ja d'edat avançada protegit per Pere III. Artal, de qui no va tenir descendència, morí el 1374 i la reina Elionor el 1375. Aviat, la jove vídua va atreure l'atenció del monarca, aleshores amb 56 anys, i n'esdevingué l'amant.

Els infants fills d'Elionor, Martí i sobretot Joan, el duc de Girona, van veure amb bons ulls que el pare mantingués aquest lligam, que evitava un nou matrimoni i els problemes dinàstics que podria comportar. Però Pere III tenia uns altres plans, que desplagueren profundament el seu hereu quan es van fer realitat. Efectivament, l'anunci del matrimoni dels amants reials conduí a unes tenses relacions entre el rei i el seu hereu, que aviat empitjorarien, hi implicarien Sibil·la i les esposes successives de Joan (Mata d'Armanyac i Violant de Bar), i facilitarien el perillós alineament de poderosos sectors socials i polítics rere cadascun d'aquests.

L'11 d'octubre de 1377, a Barcelona, Sibil·la es casà amb el rei Pere III el Cerimoniós, convertint-se aíxí en la quarta muller del sobirà. Fou una de les tres reines catalanes que va tenir la corona d'Aragó (juntament amb Elisenda de Montcada i Margarida de Prades) i, sobretot, un cas excepcional entre les consorts dels seus monarques, ja que no procedia ni d'una família reial ni de l'alta noblesa.

Del matrimoni de Sibil·la amb Pere III nasqueren:
 l'infant Alfons d'Aragó (1376-1377), comte de Morella, nascut abans del matrimoni i legitimat el 1377. L'existència real d'aquest infant, però, ha estat discutida, ja que no ha pogut ser documentat i només apareix citat a l'apèndix tardà de la Crònica de Pere el Cerimoniós i, seguint-lo, en Zurita.
 la infanta Isabel d'Aragó (1377-1424), casada el 1407 amb el comte Jaume II d'Urgell i àvia del conestable Pere de Portugal.
 l'infant Pere d'Aragó (1378-1379).

La reina empordanesa
Pere el Cerimoniós s'envoltà després d'aquest casament de nobles empordanesos així com de familiars de Sibil·la (el seu germà Bernat), fet que motivà la desconfiança i l'enemistat d'un bàndol important de la cort -encapçalat per l'hereu Joan (futur Joan I) i la seva segona esposa, la francesa Violant de Bar.

Amb la mort del rei l'any 1387, Sibil·la, tement la represàlia dels seus fillastres, es va refugiar al castell de Sant Martí Sarroca. Efectivament, Joan I i Violant de Bar ordenaren la seva persecució i aconseguiren assetjar-la al mateix castell de Sant Martí Sarroca. Sense resistència, la reina vídua es lliurà a la nova parella reial.

El suport de la petita noblesa i de la burgesia (sobretot del Consell de Cent de Barcelona, que Pere III li havia procurat), d'alguns nobles destacats com el comte Hug Roger II de Pallars Sobirà o del papa d'Avinyó Benet XIII, impedí que Joan i Violant, i l'alta noblesa, poguessin anar massa lluny en la seva venjança.

Joan I la reclogué durant un temps al castell de Montcada i finalment va poder residir, sota vigilància, a Barcelona. Martí l'Humà millorà les seves condicions de vida i la tractà amb més respecte.

D'aquesta època és l'elogi de Bernat Metge, antic servidor de Joan i Violant que ara, processat, cercava de congratular-se amb el nou monarca amb la seva obra Lo somni (1399):

Mort i enterrament
Sibil·la de Fortià morí a Barcelona el 24 de novembre de 1406.

Per ordre del rei Martí, fou enterrada, amb funerals d'estat, al convent de Sant Francesc de Barcelona (convent de Framenors), lloc tradicional d'enterrament dels reis i reines de la corona d'Aragó a la ciutat. Sibil·la hi ocupà el sepulcre que havia deixat lliure Alfons el Benigne en ser traslladat el 1369 al convent de Sant Francesc de Lleida. Mai no fou traslladada al panteó oficial de Poblet.

Quan el convent de Framenors fou enderrocat, el 1837, les seves despulles, com les dels altres personatges reials enterrats allí, foren traslladades, el 20 d'abril de 1852, a la catedral de Barcelona i dipositades primer en una urna encastada en el mur de la capella dels Màrtirs del claustre, sufragada per Isabel II, i, el 13 d'octubre de 1998, traslladades a l'interior del temple, en una altra urna col·locada sobre el mur de l'esquerra de l'altar major.

Fins fa pocs anys, s'ha pensat que la figura jacent d'una reina procedent de Framenors i actualment conservada al Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya corresponia a la tomba de la reina Sibil·la. S'ha pogut demostrar, però, que pertany a la tomba de Maria de Xipre.

Iconografia
Es coneixen les següents representacions iconogràfiques medievals de Sibil·la de Fortià:
 Frescos de la capella de Santo Tomàs, a l'església de San Miguel de Daroca, obra del mestre de San Miguel de Daroca (entre 1377-1380), conservats al Museo Provincial de Zaragoza.
 Custòdia reliquiari dels Corporals de Daroca, obra en argent daurat de Pere Moragues (1384), oferta per Pere i Sibil·la per commemorar el miracle de Llutxent (Museo de l'antiga colegiata de Santa María de Daroca).
 Sepulcre de l'arquebisbe de Saragossa Lope Fernández de Luna, obra en alabastre de Pere Moragues, a la capella de San Miguel anomenada la Parroquieta, de la catedral de Saragossa.

Llegenda negra
L'oposició de la parella reial, Joan I i Violant de Bar, i de l'alta noblesa, triomfants amb l'entronització del primer el 1387, i el duríssim procés que va seguir a continuació contra Sibil·la i els seus familiars i aliats, van posar en circulació, ja des d'aquell moment, una imatge de Sibil·la de Fortià com a madrastra malvada, intrigant, dotada de poders malèfics, en última instància d'intrusa que ascendeix només gràcies als seus dots sexuals. Una imatge òbviament interessada i que no es correspon amb la veritat històrica, però que ha gaudit, ja des de l'edat mitjana, de poderosos altaveus. El primer va ser Jaume Roig, que no es va poder resistir a una imatge femenina tan ideal per als seus propòsits literaris a l'Espill:

Zurita, que coneixia la documentació oficial i també l'obra de Roig, neda entre dues aigües als seus Anales de la Corona de Aragón. Però és al , amb el drama històric Batalla de reines de Pitarra, que també parteix del retrat de Roig, que aquesta imatge distorsionada arriba a grans proporcions, i és, de fet, el principal culpable de la seva pervivència, demostrada en obres posteriors que ignoren o prefereixen ignorar la Sibil·la real. A tall d'anècdota, és il·lustrativa la pudorosa resistència dels habitants de Fortià, relativament recent, davant la proposta de rebatejar amb el nom de la reina un dels carrers de la població efectuada per l'alcaldia.

Posteritat

La reina Sibil·la ha estat un personatge present en diferents obres de ficció ja des de finals del .

Clàssics

Glossen Sibil·la de Fortià, de forma ben antitètica:

 Bernat Metge, Lo somni, llib. IV, cap. 6.

 Jaume Roig, Espill, llib. I, 2a part, vv. 541-589.

Teatre

L'oposició entre Sibil·la de Fortià i Violant de Bar és el nucli argumental de les obres següents:

 Frederic Soler (Pitarra), Batalla de reines, estrenada al Teatre Romea de Barcelona el 25 de gener de 1887.

 Esteve Albert i Corp, Sibil·la de Fortià, estrenada a Castelló d'Empúries el 6 d'agost de 1969.

 Montserrat Via i Albert Tell (companyia Pa amb Teatre), Sibil·la de Fortià, estrenada al Centre Cívic de Fortià el 16 de juny de 2007.

Novel·la històrica

És la protagonista o un personatge destacat en les obres següents:

 Joaquim Borrell Garcia, Sibil·la, la plebea que va regnar, Barcelona, Columna, 2001.

 José Luis Corral Lafuente, El invierno de la Corona: Pedro el Ceremonioso, Barcelona, Edhasa, 1999.

Per altra banda, té carrers i places dedicats en algunes poblacions del país, sobretot a l'Empordà (Figueres, Fortià, l'Escala, etc.) i dona nom a un restaurant al seu poble natal. A Fortià, existeix un casal conegut popularment com a casa de la reina Sibil·la, la fàbrica actual del qual, però, data del . Vegeu Fortià (llinatge).

Referències

Bibliografia

 J. Bassegoda Nonell, "Las tumbas reales de la catedral de Barcelona", Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, 13 (1999), 237-255.
 A. Boscolo, Sibila di Fortià, regina d'Aragona, Pàdua, CEDAM, 1970 [trad. catalana: La reina Sibil·la de Fortià, Barcelona, Rafael Dalmau, 1971].
 L. Riber, Sibilia de Fortiá, Madrid, Ediciones y Publicaciones Españolas, 1944.
 J. M. Roca, "La reyna empordanesa", Sobiranes de Catalunya: recull de monografies històriques, Barcelona, Fundació Concepció Rabell i Cibils, viuda Romaguera, 1928, pp. 9-211.
 R. Tasis i Marca, La vida del rei En Pere III, Barcelona, Aedos, 1954.

Enllaços externs

 Pintures de San Miguel de Daroca (Románico Aragonés) .
 Presentació de Sibil·la de Fortià (2007) (YouTube).
 Restaurant Reina Sibil·la (Fortià) .

Comtes consorts de Barcelona
Reis consorts d'Aragó
Reis consorts de Mallorca
Reis consorts de València
Fortià
Morts a Barcelona
Comtes catalans històrics
Altempordanesos històrics
Polítics altempordanesos
Enterrats a la Catedral de Barcelona

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Arsene Wenger yesterday confirmed the worst kept secret at Arsenal that Thierry Henry would return to the club as cover for Robin van Persie. The six week deal has been struck to provide cover for the Dutchman while Marouane Chamakh and Gervinho are away at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Henry can play against Fulham on Monday provided the relevant paperwork is submitted to the FA and Premier League. But Wenger has said the French striker is two weeks away from making a full return. Personally I don't think we've got time to wait for that period of double training sessions to be completed. We need a player who is ready now and I expect Henry to be back in a red and white shirt prior to Wenger's two week prediction, even taking a place on the bench on Monday.
The initial loan deal runs out after our Champions League away leg game with AC Milan on February 15. There is an option to extend it for a further 11 days to make Henry's last game on loan with us the match at the Grove against Spurs. How fitting it would be if he scored the winning goal against them in his final match before heading back to New York.
The manager has explained his thinking behind the deal and said he knew on Henry's first day of training at London Colney back on November 17 that he'd make a move to re-sign Arsenal's leading record goal scorer.
"I knew that we needed a short-term solution and [I knew] that he has the quality and capacity to help us out. You do not find players on the planet of this quality who are available for two months."
The question I would ask is whether it is just for two months we need someone. Henry is an ideal option whilst Gervinho and Chamakh are away, but with Wenger having little option up front other than van Persie, I hope this doesn't kill off any potential moves for other strikers we could make during January.
We all know Henry won't be the same player we last saw in 2007. And Wenger has stressed he's still got the attributes we need and that's why he's decided to bring him back to north London.
"Nobody expects him to be what he was 10 years ago — we just want him to help out.
"I think it is credit to him to want to help a club that has given him so much. Therefore I feel there is no pressure to be the player he was before.
"You can never take away from people what they have done, that will remain for ever. The same with Thierry. It's just that we need a short-term solution."
There has been talk of this move threatening Henry's legacy. And that is something which Bob Wilson doesn't think will be tarnished even if this loan spell doesn't go as well as everyone hopes it will.
I think it's a case of waiting and seeing with our own eyes what Henry can offer. He's obviously impressed Wenger in training enough to be offered the chance to return and I would suggest that our manager is a good judge of a player. We must remember that Robin van Persie is still the main man. Henry is purely cover for a player who is closing in on Alan Shearer's 36 calendar year goal scoring record. Two goals this afternoon will equal that record and a hat-trick will break it.
The team news is just how we thought it would be. There are no new injuries following the Wolves game and Theo Walcott is back in the squad following his illness. I would expect Wenger to revert to his strongest available 11.
The manager may make a couple of changes with the Fulham game coming up on Monday. One player who won't be back in the team any time soon is Abou Diaby, who the manager can't put a time scale to a return on.
Elsewhere the BBC report that Emmanuel Frimpong will head to Wolves on loan until the end of the season, despite late interest in the midfielder from QPR and Aston Villa. I think it's a good move for the player. He needs to get more games under his belt and I have no doubt that he'll come back to us a stronger player following this loan deal.
We need to return to winning ways following our frustrating draw against Wolves. With Liverpool winning last night against Newcastle we drop to fifth position in the league. But if we win, we'll go above them again and if Aston Villa can take anything from Chelsea and we take maximum points later, we'll go fourth.
I hope the buzz created by Henry returning can inspire us to victory. And what better way to do that would be with a Robin van Persie hat-trick. Where ever you are watching the game enjoy it.


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Brooke Shields and Calvin Klein Reportedly Teaming Up Again
By Jihan Forbes
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 05: Brooke Shields attends the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on June 5, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)Getty Images
A legend never goes out of style, and Brooke Shields is living proof. The model and actress has had an illustrious career, complete with several iconic pop culture moments we won't soon forget. One of her most prominent, of course, is that Calvin Klein campaign she did at just 15 years old 1980. The ad, in which Shields says, "What gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing," turned out to cause quite a controversy, as some thought it suggested that then-teenaged Shields wasn't wearing underwear. The ad went on to be banned by ABC and CBS New York, according to the New York Times.
Well now, Shields and Calvin Klein are reportedly teaming up again 37 years later to make some more magic. According to Page Six, Shields has been tapped by the brand to star in an upcoming campaign, which we wager will be nothing short of epic. The project was announced by Calvin Klein CEO Steve Shiffman during an event at Cannes Lions. "We are going to be working with Brooke again very soon," he said.
There is always an appetite for nostalgia, so of course we're psyched about the possibility of seeing 52-year-old Shields effortlessly slay a campaign once again for Calvin Klein. The actress told the New York Post in 2010 that while she was surprised her 1980 ad became "so legendary," she wasn't shocked by the backlash. "The controversy didn't surprise me because I'd had experience with it since I was 11. The pants came above my belly button — even the one with my shirt open, you didn't see anything. Compared to the things I'd done before, this was like being in winter gear."
We can't wait to see what Calvin Klein and Brooke Shields may have up their sleeves for this go-round.
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An American by birth, Henry R. Pike was led to Christ by his Sunday school teacher in 1946. At the age of eighteen, he lost the ambulatory function of both legs in a serious high school football accident. Because of this, he has spent his life walking with the aid of long leg braces and crutches. Among his earned degrees, he holds a Ph. D in religious education. In 1974, he released the documentary, Religion Red and Rotten, exposing the World Council of Churches and their financial support of the communist-backed terrorist groups operating in Africa. His massive work, A History of Communism in South Africa, was the first comprehensive and definitive book ever written on this subject. While attending to his son in a Johannesburg hospital, diagnosed at that time with "terminal leukemia," he was impressed to begin the work, Suffering and Death, the Saint's Highest Calling. It has gone through many printings, bringing fresh hope and good cheer to thousands of hurting people in different parts of the world. With his wife, Addien, they have served as missionaries for over five decades. Most of their gospel labors were in Australia and South Africa. Unable to travel due to declining health, the author is now permanently confined to a wheelchair. The Pikes make their home in the southern United States.
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Newsletter July 9, 2018
A Snowden retrospective
By his actions in revealing top secret data about personal information of American, and foreign, citizens, , young Mr. Snowden has done irreparable damage to America's national defense and protection programs.
Until he violated his oath of secrecy, we were able to watch, and track not only the all-pervasive and deadly Muslim terrorists world-wide but also keep a close watch on domestic American trouble-makers such as infested this country during the Vietnam war. Now, his actions have severely compromised various American computer companies who, until this week, were able and willing to assist our protective measures.
These companies are now being attacked by their millions of users and I am assured that many of them are losing customers at an alarming rate.
One of our most important resources for compiling files on any person expressing negative or anti-government views, Facebook, is having serious troubles.
When the FBI became involved in that project, they could clearly see how valuable an intelligence asset it could be. Their control of Internet II and their strong, on-going relationship with search engine Google paled into insignificance beside the trove of valuable data that Facebook was able to provide them.
Now, all of this valuable sourcing is destroyed, due solely to the misguided youth who, quite literally, stabbed all of us in the intelligence community in the back.
But we also suffered even worse damage when it was revealed that many other countries eagerly assisted our NSA (and the CIA, the FBI and the DHS) in allowing us to also keep records, and conduct discreet surveillance, on citizens of other countries, such at the UK, France, Germany, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Switzerland, China and Russia.
Just recently, Snowden surfaced documents to the effect that the United States had hacked many hundreds of targets in outwardly neutral Hong Kong, to include state officials, many businesses and schools and students both in that city as well as identical targets on the PRC mainland. He made the claim that these were only part of the annual 60,000 NSA interdiction operations.
One of the worst hit countries was our long-time ally, Great Britain.
The British face domestic problems even more accentuated than those of the United States. They have a large and very restive black population as well as a larger Muslim one (approximately 1.6 million) and many of these are the young, dissatisfied types so easily recruited by the imams bent on furthering religious attacks on Christian communities that are perceived as "oppressing" Muslim countries. And in the black population, many of the younger members are also targets for Muslim fanaticism. The Muslim population percentages in larger UK cities, for example are: Greater London – 17% (1.3 million of 7.5 million) and the industrial city of Birmingham 14.3% (139,771)
Their authorities are absolutely in full cooperation with American identification projects and we have had the total support of the following UK internet providers:
BT Group: operates the BT Total Broadband brand and has 4.6 million customers.The company has broadband to other ISPs through the Openreach brand. It also operates under the Plusnet brand. Plusnet was founded in 1997..
Sky Broadband: a digital TV provider that also provides broadband and home phone services. Launched in 2006, it has its headquarters in London, UK. It offers bundle services with TV, home phone and broadband services. It has operated the Be Unlimited brand since February 2013. In 2013 it acquired O2's home broadband business
Virgin Media: offers consumers a quadruple play bundle of TV, broadband, home phone and mobile. The UK ISP has approximately 10 million customers.The company also provides fibre optic broadband of up to 100Mb, with 120Mb
TalkTalk: TalkTalk offers broadband service to consumers in the UK. Launched in 2004, the ISP has a customer base of 4.12 million. The ISP offers broadband and landline phone services, primarily through LLU. TalkTalk also operates the AOL Broadband brand.
Updata : – Updata Infrastructure UK is a broadband provider focusing on public sector markets with a customer base covering schools, local authorities and primary care trusts.
EE: Operates home broadband under the EE brand, previously operated as Orange Broadband.
Also working closely with U.S. identification/interdiction programs are several top UK domestic intelligence agencies. These are: The British government's eavesdropping agency GCHQ. GCHQ, has had access to the system since June, 2010. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), which is the agency which supplies Her Majesty's Government with foreign intelligence.
Prism programme allowed GCHQ to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.
The JTLS (Joint Technical Language Service) is a small department and cross-government resource responsible for mainly technical language support and translation and interpreting services across government departments. It is co-located with GCHQ for administrative purposes.
GCHQ has contacted the PRISM program of the National Security Agency (NSA) more than 19,785 times with requests for information on the citizens of the UK since 2007 and cross-government resource responsible for mainly technical language support and translation and interpreting services across government departments. It is co-located with GCHQ for administrative purposes.
The FBI and the NSA can tap directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies.
The Director of US National Intelligence has officially stated that American law ensures that only 'non-US persons outside the US are targeted'
Mr. Snowden's untimely revelations have caused political upheaval in the upper governmental levels of the UK and these agencies are now making extraodinary efforts to distance themselves from American intelligence gathering efforts.
Mr. Snowden has, in fact, done terrible damage, not only to UK relations but threatened additional revelations stand well to create even more serious problems with the governments of both Germany and France.
While the intelligence agencies of these countries are both involved, heavily, in mutually satisfactory exchanges of information, like the political figures in the UK, they fear the Snowden revelations would cause serious problems with their electorates and are making efforts to terminate their hitherto very successful, complete assistance in the matter of observing all of their populations.
While many countries are eager to identify potential, and actual, Muslim terrorists in their own country, political constraints will prevent them from either acknowledging or participating in further such interdictions of their own people.
For this reason, bringing Mr. Snowden to public trial, with a conviction and a subsequently long prison sentence would certainly be in order, and one must weigh the deterrent factor with the probable adverse publicity attendant upon such a trial. And, as has been discussed, simply terminating him with extreme prejudice might prove to be the most effective course, but again, public perceptions must be taken into consideration.
Further, we have reason to believe that Mr. Snowden in all probability has taken out an "insurance policy" against termination by removing many sensitive and potentially highly damaging documents and again, this must be taken into consideration.
It is to be regretted that many of our most secret computer programs are staffed by young techinical experts who do not have the world-outlook that our older agents possess and often involve themselves in so-called ethical problems that, in point of fact, are none of their business.
There's widespread anger in Europe about the reports that the US accessed personal data from leading internet companies, if the fiery debate at the European Parliament is anything to go by. Commissioner Tonio Borg said the EU wants a "clear commitment" from the US to respect the rights of European citizens when it comes to data protection.
He said the commission would raise the issue with the US at a meeting in Dublin on Friday. The German MEP, Manfred Weber, said it was "completely unacceptable" that the US has different rules for its own citizens and those of other countries. A Dutch MEP, Sophie In't Veld, criticised the commission for failing to protect EU citizens.
She said the reports of surveillance cast doubt on the special relationship between Europe and the US. But the British MEP Timothy Kirkhope warned against knee-jerk anti-Americanism, saying "friends listen most when you talk and not when you shout."
US officials say the snooping programme known as Prism, revealed in last week's leaks, is authorised under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa).
It gives the US National Security Agency (NSA) the power to obtain emails and phone records relating to non-US nationals.
But details about the individuals targeted under the act remain secret, and there are concerns the NSA is overstepping its powers.
Documents leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers claimed the US authorities had direct access to the servers of nine major US technology firms, including Apple, Facebook and Google.
Mr Snowden told the Guardian that individual operatives had the power to tap into anyone's emails at any time.
Although the firms have denied granting such access, saying they agreed only to legal requests, US officials have admitted Prism exists.
In the US, the controversy has focused on the possibility that conversations of US citizens may inadvertently be captured.
But overseas, governments and activists point out that US law provides foreigners with no protection.
And it is interesting to note that Edward Snowden actually worked for the CIA in Switzerland and quit in disgust at the revelations he found in top secret communications.
Snowden contacted WikiLeaks but was unaware, when he did so, that the organization was under the control of Russian intelligence.
The Russians subsequently hired Snowden and when he moved to Hawaii and worked for Booz-Hamilton, he was a paid employee of Russian intelligence.
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Q: Spring in Kotlin, creating Cassandra tables doesn't work it seems that there might be an issue with annotating data tables with kotlin, it didn't work with jdbc and now it is the same with cassandra.
I keep getting this

Caused by: org.springframework.data.cassandra.CassandraInvalidQueryException: Query; CQL [TRUNCATE ingredients]; table ingredients does not exist

@Data
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor(access = AccessLevel.PRIVATE, force = true)
@Table("ingredients")
data class Ingredients(
    @PrimaryKey
    val id: String,
    val name: String,
    val type: Type
)

here is the UDT
@Data
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor(access = AccessLevel.PRIVATE, force = true)
@UserDefinedType("ingredients")
data class IngredientUDT(
    var name: String,
    var type: Type
)

here is the Configuration class

@Configuration
@EnableCassandraRepositories
class DataInitializer: AbstractCassandraConfiguration() {

    @Primary
    fun cqlSession(): CqlSession {
        return CqlSession.builder().build()
    }

    override fun getKeyspaceName(): String {
        return "tacocloud"
    }

    override fun getEntityBasePackages(): Array<String> {
        return arrayOf("sia.tacocloud")
    }

    @Bean
    fun dataLoader(repo: IngredientsRepository): ApplicationRunner {
        return ApplicationRunner {
            repo.deleteAll()
            repo.save(Ingredients("FLTO", "Flour Tortilla", Type.WRAP))
            repo.save(Ingredients("COTO", "Corn Tortilla", Type.WRAP))
            repo.save(Ingredients("GRBF", "Ground Beef", Type.PROTEIN))
            repo.save(Ingredients("CARN", "Carnitas", Type.PROTEIN))
            repo.save(Ingredients("TMTO", "Diced Tomatoes", Type.VEGGIES))
            repo.save(Ingredients("LETC", "Lettuce", Type.VEGGIES))
            repo.save(Ingredients("CHED", "Cheddar", Type.CHEESE))
            repo.save(Ingredients("JACK", "Monterrey Jack", Type.CHEESE))
            repo.save(Ingredients("SLSA", "Salsa", Type.CHEESE))
            repo.save(Ingredients("SRCR", "Sour Cream", Type.CHEESE))
        }
    }
}

here is the properties file
#Cassandra settings
spring.data.cassandra.keyspace-name = tacocloud
spring.data.cassandra.schema-action = RECREATE
spring.data.cassandra.local-datacenter = datacenter1
basic.load-balancing-policy.local-datacenter = datacenter1
spring.data.cassandra.contact-points=127.0.0.1
spring.data.cassandra.port=9042
spring.data.cassandra.username = ***
spring.data.cassandra.password = ***

whats wrong with this?

A: I solved it by removing the @Data annotation from Data classes... didn't thought it would be that simple...
but it worked.

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