Canadiens have the worst power play in NHL, while the Avalanche ranks 27th in penalty-killing. Habs are almost as bad in the faceoff circle.
Playoff races: After going 1-3-0 in their last four games, the Canadiens have fallen out of a playoff spot. After Thursday night's 4-1 loss to the Blues in St. Louis, the Canadiens are one point behind both the New York Islanders — who hold the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference — and the Buffalo Sabres — who hold the second spot. The Islanders hold three games in hand and the Sabres have one. The Canadiens are on pace for 93 points and last season it took 97 points to make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. The Avalanche hold the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference.
Special teams: The Canadiens have the worst power play in the NHL, going 1-for-17 in the last six games and clicking at only 12.8 per cent for the season. The Avalanche ranks 27th in penalty-killing at 75.5 per cent, so maybe this is a night the Canadiens' power play can do something. The Avalanche are ranked fifth in the NHL on the power play at 25.9 per cent, while the Canadiens rank 20th in penalty-killing at 78.4 per cent. Tomas Tatar leads the Canadiens with four power-play goals, while Mikko Rantanen leads the Avalanche with 10.
Terrific trio: The Avalanche have the best offensive line in the NHL with Nathan MacKinnon at centre between Gabriel Landeskog and Rantanen. The line has scored 73 of the Avalanche's 151 goals this season — or 48 per cent of them. Rantanen is ranked second in the NHL scoring race with 20-48-68 totals — four points behind the Tampa Bay Lightning's Nikita Kucherov (21-51-72) — while MacKinnon ranks fourth (26-40-66) and Landeskog is 17th (27-24-51). When the Avalanche beat the Canadiens 2-1 in Colorado on Dec. 19, Rantanen and Landeskog scored the goals.
The goalies: Carey Price will be looking to end a personal three-game losing streak, during which he has allowed eight goals. Price's last victory was on Jan. 3 when he made 33 saves to shut out the Vancouver Canucks 2-0 at the Bell Centre in his first game back after missing three with a lower-body injury. For the season, Price has a 16-13-4 record with a 2.75 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage. Goaltending has been a problem for the Avalanche, especially over the last nine games when they have a 1-6-2 record while giving up 34 goals. For the season, Semyon Varlamov has an 11-9-5 record with a 2.85 GAA and a .908 save percentage, while Philipp Grubauer has a 9-5-3 record with a 3.29 GAA and a .895 save percentage.
Faceoffs: The Canadiens are almost as bad at faceoffs as they are on the power play, ranking 30th in the NHL in the faceoff circle with a 47 per cent success rate. The Washington Capitals are the only team worse on faceoffs, winning 46.2 per cent. The Avalanche rank 24th at 48.3 per cent.


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Thank you for joining us on the closing date in the Virtual Book Tour for Daughter of Madness, a Epic Fantasy by Amanda J. McGee (2 June 2018, Amanda J. McGee, 249 pages).
This is the second book in the The Creation Saga series.
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Amanda J. McGee is a fantasy author living in Southwest Virginia with the love of her life, two cats, and numerous plants.
Her hobbies include hiking, growing things, cooking, baking, reading, and writing. These last two she attempts to do every day. When in doubt, she believes in consulting her mother. Luckily for them both, she does not always do what her mother says. In general, she believes tea cures all ills.
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Apple Could Be Working On A Successor To iTunes For Windows
When Apple launched macOS Catalina, one of the biggest changes that users had to get used to is the fact that iTunes no longer exists. Instead, Apple launched several apps that is essentially iTunes, but broken up into individual apps to help make the experience less bloated, where there would be a dedicated app just for music, one for videos, and so on.
We had previously heard that those changes would only be for macOS Catalina and that iTunes for Windows would remain as it is for now, but it looks like Apple could be looking to change that in the near future. According to a report from Neowin, they have spotted what appears to be a job listing posted on LinkedIn in which it hints that Apple could be looking to introduce an iTunes successor to Windows.
The job listing calls for a software engineer to develop the "next generation of media apps for Windows", where its description reads, "If you love music and you are passionate about writing code, and want to work with world-class engineering teams that ship to millions of users, the Media Apps team is the place for you."
This has led to speculation that maybe the dedicated Apple Music and Apple TV+ apps could eventually find its way to Windows. There is no word on when that will happen, but it makes sense that they would given that Apple would probably be trying to extend their reach as much as possible.
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'Visionary' Swiss–American photographer Robert Frank dies aged 94
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Beat writer Jack Kerouac said Robert Frank "sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film." Photo: BRYAN THOMAS/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP
Robert Frank, a trailblazing documentary photographer whose raw, piercing aesthetic placed him among the 20th century's greats, has died, according to his gallery. He was 94 years old.
The Swiss-born photographer rose to fame with the publication of his landmark book "The Americans," an unflinching look at US society that proved hugely influential.
A spokesperson from the Manhattan gallery Pace/MacGill told the AFP news agency that Frank died of natural causes in Inverness, Nova Scotia.
Robert Frank's 'Sidelines' exhibition in France in 2018. Photo: BERTRAND LANGLOIS, BRYAN THOMAS / AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
His seminal book – published in France in 1958 and in America one year later – emerged out of a series of road trips across the United States with his family in the mid-1950s, a journey akin to those made by his friend and writer Jack Kerouac and others from the "Beat Generation."
Eschewing classic photographic techniques, Frank pioneered the snapshot, capturing telling vignettes in black and white as they presented themselves, exploring the realities of everyday people for whom the American Dream rang hollow.
He produced 28,000 images that were boiled down to 83 for the book that rewrote the rules of photojournalism.
As Kerouac wrote in the preface of the US edition, Frank "sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film."
At lunch counters and drive-in movie theaters, on Route 66 and at champagne get-togethers, his gritty, subjective style laid bare a wide range of emotions and relationships, notably racial, that were rarely found in the popular illustrated magazines of the time.
Praising Frank's "extraordinarily keen intellect," his gallerist and friend Peter MacGill said the artist "changed the way the world looks at America."
"Through the unvarnished, phenomenally capable eye of an immigrant, he saw us for what we are."
'Tired of romanticism'
Born on November 9, 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland, Frank grew up in a family of German Jewish industrialists, and became passionate about photography at the age of 12. He trained as a photo assistant in Zurich and Basel from 1940 to 1942.
Photographer Robert Frank rose to fame with the publication of his landmark book "The Americans," an unflinching look at US society that proved hugely influential
After World War II, he moved to the United States, pursuing fashion and reporting photography for magazines that included Fortune, Life, Look and Harper's Bazaar.
He grew "tired of romanticism," and, armed with his gut and a pair of Leicas, Frank began recording scenes of daily life.
He developed a friendship with fellow photographer Walker Evans, whose Depression-era photos intrigued him.
But Frank pursued themes including alienation, mass culture and veiled violence with a spontaneity that stood in sharp contrast to Evans' carefully crafted work.
A Guggenheim fellowship gave him the opportunity to visit 48 US states, and he brought back frames of a weary, hard and divided country.
He also found beauty in the overlooked, photographing cars, diners and jukeboxes that went down in the iconography of American life.
And yet, "he never crossed over into celebrity," said photographer Nan Goldin. "He's famous because he made a mark. He collected the world."
Sick of goodbyes
As his reputation grew, Frank abruptly shifted into underground filmmaking, making several films, including "Pull My Daisy" (1959), based on Beat icon Neal Cassady, and a documentary about The Rolling Stones called "Cocksucker Blues" (1972), which was never released.
Footage from Robert Frank's never-released Rolling Stones documentary Cocksucker Blues.
After learning of his death, the legendary English rockers he chronicled dubbed him a "visionary," saying in a statement that Frank "was an incredible artist whose unique style broke the mould."
Frank returned to photography after tragedy struck his family with the death of his daughter Andrea in a 1974 plane crash.
He divorced his first wife and had two children. His son Pablo, who suffered from schizophrenia, killed himself in 1994.
In the meantime, Frank's work had "shifted from being about what I saw to what I felt," he told The Guardian. "I didn't believe in the beauty of a photograph anymore."
He began to create montages, write on his pictures and scratch the negatives.
Remarking on one of Frank's staged silver gelatin prints from 1978 — called "Sick of Goodby's" for a phrase in it that is cursorily daubed on a mirror — the late rocker Lou Reed said "the photos speak of an acceptance of things as they are."
"Robert Frank is a great democrat," Reed said. "We're all in these photos. Paint dripping from a mirror like blood."
"I'm sick of goodbyes. And aren't we all, but it's nice to see it said."
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Q: Restrict Google Place Autocomplete to within a city Currently, I am working on a restaurant app where people can take photos and tag them to a Google Place. However, since my app is targeting developing countries like India, the Google Places are not all very well defined. So I am allowing users to search for a place which they think more accurately reflects the location of their favourite restaurant.
I am using PlaceAutocompleteFragment fragment of Google Places API for android as input mechanism for users to search for their favourite joint. However, to make it easier for them to choose, I want to bias results towards a specific region - more specifically the city that they are performing the search from.
However, how do I get get city of the current location of the user? I can get latitudes, longitudes. But how do I retrieve the city corresponding to a certain lat and long?
Do I need to reverse geocode the address from lat, long to get address? But if I do that, then how do I reliably get a city name? And thereafter what would be the correct provision in the PlaceAutocompleteFragment to set a 'city' filter?
So what would be the easiest way to do it? Any ideas? Appreciate it.

A: autocompleteFragment.setBoundsBias(new LatLngBounds(southwestLatLng, northeastLatLng));

setBoundsBias() takes a LatLngBounds which is made up of two LatLng objects representing the southwest and northeast points of a bounding rectangle. The Google APIs don't appear to provide a method of getting a city's bounds, so you will have to figure out what is an acceptable radius to search within and subtract/add from the user's current latitude and longitude to derive the two points of the bounding rectangle. See: Calculating bounding box a certain distance away from a lat/long coordinate in Java

A: Once you get the address form Geocoder you can get the city name form the address itself.
Hope below code will help you on this
Geocoder geocoder = new Geocoder(this, Locale.getDefault());
 List<Address> addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(MyLat, MyLong, 1);
 String cityName = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(0);
 String stateName = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(1);
 String countryName = addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(2);

For more in detailed google map example you check the links below: http://www.demoadda.com/demo/android/load-googlemap_107

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Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director: Zev Berman
Actors: Beto Cuevas, Brian Presley, Damián Alcázar, Jake Muxworthy, Martha Higareda, Rider Strong, Sean Astin
Country: Mexico, USA
House On The Hill
Based on a true story, "House On The Hill" is a true crime melodrama with strong horror elements, chronicling the outrageous 1980s murder spree of serial killer Leonard Lake, who…
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When a desperate Mr. Freeze, to save his dying wife, kidnaps Barbara (Batgirl) Gordon as an involuntary organ donor, Batman and Robin must find her before the operation can begin.
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Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young…
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Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod (Douglas), leads a precinct of…
GOLDSTONE, the award-winning new feature from Australian auteur Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), is a complex and stylish crime thriller that explores themes of racism, human trafficking, police corruption, corporate malfeasance,…
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Western
Sand Castles
In rural Indiana, Noah and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister, Lauren, who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas…
Revenge of the Ninja
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly…
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This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an…
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs….
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
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The book is a mock-self-help, with 15 lessons which Rachna learnt or which she wants us to give serious thought to on a good-humored day. It is about men, women and children, but mostly about them together in one tea cup, stirred while juggling their roles and messing Rachna's seldom-combed hair.
Her imagination is wild, but this is clearly her real life and so candidly shown you would wonder if your family would cook you if you threw open your house's back door for a 'comical view of life from a woman's perspective'. She has done exactly that, in an organized and fair manner. Organised because the chapters (Lessons) follow a neat chronology of homely phases of evolution – dating to diapers to denial (about age, you know). And fair, because she's not lampooning just men but boys all ages!
For some of us marriage happens. As suddenly there are men growing out of our couches. The husband variety is a particularly interesting species. Lesson 1 itself tells you that 'You will learn that real men really forget', but when women dig mushy memories they 'insist that the recall and recall alone is evidence of true love'. Why shouldn't they? Men, however, with an 'inner mind … operated via a TV remote' never meet our memorable expectations!
All roles that men have to play are important. But none as much as the one 'to record your performance on the video camera' during the society celebrations for Independence Day or selection for Teej Queen. Successfully? Not in this book, no.
When age sets in for a woman (obviously much later than men!) and she has found her voice, the man at home mutates into 'a casual observer (who) has just woken up and turned up the volume of the cricket match and is, at best, vaguely aware, that there is some blurred silhouette of a mid-to-large-sized female in the corner of his eye. It seems to be saying something.' No surprise then that our maids and support staff not just help us but 'are used as role-models during spousal fights'.
We can't blame women. Do you know what we go through to bear kids?!
'Childbirth was not easy! In fact, our first-born, Aisha, was born in extremely alien conditions: at a hospital in Kawasaki in Japan. The only English term those guys knew back then was 'curry and chutney' used while ordering 'curry and chutney' at any Indian or Pakistani restaurant. And, the only Japanese word we knew was 'Sayonara' taught to us by Asha Parekh. Combining the two, one could not do much except have dinner and part: both activities not quite directly relevant to childbirth.
The Japanese government was very kind to us and provided us with the services of an interpreter. We were grateful till we read the fine print: we had to pay her by the hour. The thought of it gave both of us severe uterine contractions. In both cases, it turned out to be a false alarm, since I never went into labour, and Alok discovered he didn't have a uterus.
Rachna has a wide array of experiences to share as a parent, and lessons learnt too. Say, how new age parents cannot rely on threats of 'Budhdha baba' anymore. Kids know there is no old man out to get them, 'and the old man you point to is Ram Jethmalani, in conversation with Arnab Goswami. And he is not out to get them. At this age, there are few things he 'gets'.
So, with kids you need to be ready. With new-age treats, with threats, with non-organic vacations and with answers especially for the 'acid test' questions, which feature God. Rachna helps.
On women, and everything about them!
A lot of feminine ground is covered in 'Dating, Diapers and Denial'. That is, the various issues which beset women at myriad stages of their lives. From keenly observing 'increased political activity in a group of girls' during playtime to later in uncannily similar kitty parties, Rachna gives us a peep into social behavior that we see when more than one women are put together in a tea cup, or in a gym. She even shows us the hilarity of being a work-from-home mother.
Now if only she had elucidated on the gifts NRIs get for their "poorer cousins" in the third world, I would have stood up on my chair and applauded.
That out of the 'two options, one is to find a good parent role model whom you can emulate or a bad parent contrast against whom you can look very good', I pick the latter.
'Dating, Diapers and Denial' is Rachna's "autobiography" but you realize it is a one-size-fits-all stand-up comedy act about our everyday lives. We women will relate to the anecdotes and enjoy, and men are requested to have a good sense of humour. The humour is warm not dry, and with witticisms delivered with a straight-face and right when you are not expecting them.
This was a fun and funny read.
'Dating, Diapers and Denial' by Rachna Singh is published by Alchemy Publishers, 2011.
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* The student will write a paper, a minimum of two pages in length, related to their chosen topic.
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Vanessa Kirby talks about 'Mission: Impossible 7''s "rigorous" COVID-19 protocols
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(LONDON) — Even if you didn't know Mission: Impossible 7 was one of the first productions to spin back up after the COVID-19 pandemic all but shut Hollywood down, you've likely heard the Tom Cruise outburst directed towards crew members who broke the new safety rules. Now co-star Vanessa Kirby is describing what it was like on set with what Cruise called "the gold standard" of safety protocols.
"The protocols, you get pretty used to them quite quickly," she told Collider while promoting her intense new Netflix film Pieces of a Woman.
"Everyone's always two meters apart, everyone's tested three or four times a week. It's really rigorous," The Crown veteran says. However, she explains that she'd had leg up in getting used to the "new normal."
"My sister's also a member of the crew on the film. She's an [assistant director]," Kirby recalls. "She was on the first film [that got] back up [into production], Jurassic World, in July…and so I got to see her do it."
Kirby added, "[I]t was such a wonderful moment because the industry had to shut down and cinemas are closed; to see the films that are getting back up and running and people being able to work was a really beautiful thing."
Pieces of a Woman is reportedly on track for Oscar recognition, although Kirby's co-star Shia LaBeouf was apparently deleted from Netflix's awards consideration page following a lawsuit from his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs that accused him of abuse.
In response, he released a statement to the New York Times in which he apologized for his past behavior, blaming his addiction issues. He said in part, "Although many of these allegations are not true, I am not in the position to defend any of my actions."
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WHO: Ebola fight 'shifts to ending epidemic'
Published	 Friday 30 January 2015	 Published	Fri 30 Jan 2015
The World Health Organization say for the first time in 7 months, the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa has fallen below 100, and the focus of efforts against the disease is shifting from slowing transmission to ending the epidemic.
Efforts in the Ebola fight are now shifting toward ending the epidemic, and include lab and contact tracing.
To reach this goal as quickly as possible, resources have shifted from rapidly building infrastructure to finding and managing new cases, ensuring safe burials and engaging communities, says the latest World Health Organization (WHO) situation report on Ebola.
Different agencies are taking the lead in each new area of focus.
WHO are leading case management, case finding, lab and contact tracing, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are leading action on safe and dignified burials, and UNICEF are leading action on community engagement and social mobilization.
"For the first time since the week ending June 29th, 2014, there have been fewer than 100 new confirmed cases reported in a week in the three most affected countries," declares the WHO report.
There was a total of 99 confirmed cases in the week ending January 25th, 2015: 30 in Guinea, four in Liberia, and 65 in Sierra Leone.
Altogether, these three countries have reported 22,057 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease and 8,795 deaths. Among these numbers are 816 confirmed health worker infections, including 488 reported deaths.
Six other countries - Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain, the UK and the US - have also reported a case or cases that spread from one of the three most affected countries.
The last of these was in the UK, where a health worker who returned from volunteering in Sierra Leone was discharged from hospital on January 24th, 2015 after testing negative twice for Ebola virus disease.
Preparedness to rapidly detect and respond to Ebola exposure
WHO emphasize that unaffected countries are still at risk of importing a case of Ebola for as long as cases are reported in any country.
For this reason, preparedness effort aims to ensure all countries are ready to detect, investigate and report potential Ebola cases and mount effective responses. This support is provided through visits from WHO preparedness support teams, provision of direct technical assistance and guidance and tools.
To this end, the United Nations (UN) agency has prepared a set of tools to support countries improve and accelerate their readiness to detect and respond to Ebola. One example is the WHO Ebola preparedness checklist.
The WHO checklist identifies 11 key elements and tasks for a country to prepare its health system to detect and respond to Ebola.
There is further information, including guidelines and training materials, on the WHO Ebola preparedness website.
The countries to receive the focus of preparedness support are three highest priority countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali and Senegal; followed by high priority countries: Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Sudan, Niger and Togo.
UN praise Africa's response and urge continued push to end the epidemic
At a recent UN African Union Stakeholder Meeting on Ebola, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN special representative and head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), thanked government and civil partners for their support thus far in the fight against Ebola and urged global efforts to continue. He explained that:
"The situation is still perilous. There is still Ebola in more than 25 of the 66 districts, counties and prefectures in the region. I ask you all to maintain support until the task is completed."
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented in world history, and so too is the response. Over 70 countries, hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of people have been directly involved in the fight to stop Ebola.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed highlighted the strong part played by the African Union, which offered to mobilize 1,000 health workers from all over Africa to support the affected countries. He says the response shows Africa has "valuable assets" to support outbreaks, and:
"The epidemic has turned, and we are now beginning to see an overall decline in the number of new cases."
However, he adds that "stopping this outbreak still requires significant additional efforts."
The UN recently launched a new appeal for $1 billion to help fund the Ebola response up to June 2015, which needs resources to support cross-border strategies and integrated response and recovery efforts.
The meeting also discussed proposals to recover the shattered economies and societies of the countries affected. These ideas are expected to lead the way at the European Union High Level Conference on Ebola on March 3rd, 2015.
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I facilitated a workshop on anti-oppression and activism as part the pre-qualification group of the Division of Clinical Psychology annual conference yesterday. This conference was primarily targeted at pre-qualified members of the division of clinical psychology, that is those who are still on their journey towards qualification as clinical psychologists. However, a significant proportion of attendees were qualified and well established clinical psychologists. The conference aimed to acknowledge and support aspiring clinical psychologists' greater presence and voice in the public arena and to recognise their role in actively tackling social inequalities.
Further, the event aimed to highlight the role of critical and community psychology approaches to achieve those aims. I was very excited when I got the invite to facilitate a workshop. This is my element. But something was amiss. I usually get busy on social media when I attend such events. I tweet key messages, my thoughts and impressions on the talks & presentations. However, for most of the day, I was quiet. I did not tweet anything. There was a heaviness for me that I felt required all my emotional attention. As the day progressed all I wanted to do was to cry. After the workshop I facilitated, this was difficult to contain.
My workshop aimed to explore issues of oppression within activism and to invite attendees to better understand how oppression can become perpetuated within social justice campaigning. I have previously written about these issues here. I also hoped to support attendees to implement some anti-oppressive strategies as part of their campaigning and organising. So really, nothing new as far as the issues I usually train and/or write about. Certainly nothing unheard of as far as social justice is concerned. And, again, I should have felt at home. But as the day went on, I found it increasingly emotionally laborious and had to fight off the tears for most of the afternoon.
I cannot fault the pre-qualification group's beautiful running of the conference and I am sure the day would have been simulating and inspiring for most attendees who might have 'learnt' something new. Signed up for a few workshops. And then gone home with the option of not thinking about the issues raised on the day. Indeed, many would certainly have the option to never consider the 'contents' of the conference ever again. And this felt very lonely. To know that most attendees could go home and 'sign off' from issues of oppression for the day felt particularly difficult. For me, the struggles of my life as a Black and multiply oppressed woman cannot be left at the exit door of the conference. There is not much clocking out from my experience of oppression I can do.
And so, whilst most attendees may return to their life and provide feedback to their colleagues and/or relatives on what they might have learnt on the day, I have to face the fact that my everyday reality and that of many others will likely remain unchanged after the event. And, as many may consider how they might evidence their 'understanding' of oppression within their clinical psychology training applications and, possibly proudly hang onto their certificate of attendance to document their continuous professional development on the issues discussed on the day, I have to think about how not to let the same issues drive me or my loved ones to insanity or to death.
About 40 people attended my workshop and I am grateful for their time, attention and engagement particularly as there were two other available options, they had no obligation to want to have this conversation with me. The majority of attendees were graduates, there were a few trainee clinical psychologists and several qualified clinical psychologists too. When I asked attendees how many had received any teaching or training on oppression as part of their graduate, post-graduate or professional journey, not a single hand was raised.
So there was something about making the case for the existence and significance of forces and dynamics which do violence to you. There is something about making experiences of oppression and marginalisation suddenly appear or become real to many. There is something about our experience of the world as marginalised groups, being rendered alien. There is something about contending with the invisibility of certain traumas in a profession that specialises in supporting people to deal with traumatic experiences…There is something about the emotional labour of articulating the ugly warts and open wounds of one's experience to a group of smiling, 'optimistic', noticeably attractive and, quite privileged aspiring psychologists (in the main).
There was something about wanting to scream please wipe the smile off your face, this is serious! People's career are being destroyed. People are being damaged in ways that we can never repair. People are taking their life. People are being tortured. People are being killed. All because of oppression and our stubborn unwillingness to even see or acknowledge its existence, particularly in our mist. So there is something about explaining all of this in a way that can be tolerated. There is something about minding how angry one becomes. There is something about marching on. But all I wanted to do was to cry. I did not. At least not until I got home and felt safe enough to. Or perhaps, I felt home was where I could hide.
A few months ago, I met a clinical psychologist. A woman of colour, like me. She shared with me that upon qualifying and applying for jobs, she was offered her first interview and when asked by a smiley member of an all white interview panel 'how was your experience of training', she burst into tears and started crying uncontrollably. This is what we're dealing with. Raw pain. Just beneath the surface. Sometimes it can't find no hiding place. Of course, there is something about revisiting traumatic experiences that can be triggering but perhaps there is also something overwhelming about articulating one's oppression amidst a display of privilege. Perhaps she too wished she did not have to educate her peers and supervisors on her experience. There is something about the pressure to appear hopeful and to end on a positive note. There is something about maintaining the smile. Today, I will not. Today, I will ask that you stay with the pain. Today, I will lick my wounds.
A powerful discussion of the challenges one faces when speaking truth to privilege, Guilaine. Thank you for sharing with such honesty, and for your courage to give voice to the pain of oppression and invisibility.
Thank you Carol. Means a lot.
Our education systems have been largely designed by people who have through generations benefited from oppression, colonialism, and tyranny. We cannot therefore be surprised that oppression isn't a core part of the curriculum. If space is not created though, it will be taken. I also attended the pre-qual conference and came away feeling, hope, fear, inspired, angry… a whole mix of emotions which culminate in a desire to act. We must change the narrative, we must articulate and challenge oppression, we must create a better more honest future.
Hi Ste, thanks for the comment. I agree our education system has largely been designed by and for the benefit of dominant groups. It will therefore always be biased towards their needs, experiences and reality. It's one thing to rationally know that and another to experience the violence this produces, continually particularly within discourses of power awareness, equality & diversity.
I don't expect that the study of oppressive forces, their impact and manifestations will ever be a core part of our curriculum. However, it is possible to give the issues more attention given we're starting pretty much from almost zero….Other disciplines eg. social work and other countries eg. USA have been incorporating oppression as part of their clinical & counselling psychology programmes for years. They still have a long way to go but are well ahead of us. In the UK psychotherapy and counselling are also much more ahead of 'the game' when it comes to the visibility of issues of the difference and oppression. So hemogenic forces exist absolutely and they are a factor, but they're only part of the story. Perhaps, professional defensiveness, limited critical self/privilege-awareness particularly around race, issues of representation, increased precarity within the profession also feed the status quo?
I have worked in the MH field for 15 years or so and have experienced social marginalisation for most of my life, I know it very well and I can tell you that clinical psychology training has been the most oppressive and institutionally violent professional environment I have ever been in. Hands down.
Of course this may be due to the particularities of where I am located. However, research suggests this goes beyond idiosyncrasies. So there is urgent work that needs to be done. And we can do it. But only if we're willing to see the damage and pain we're causing.
I wish I had words but I am sorry this happens.


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Love has always been a crucial component of the Persian culture. Whether it's within the sweet verses of Persian Poets or through the spiritual love of Sufis for God, love was spread through Persia and Iran for millennia. But did you know that long before the creation of Valentine's Day, it existed in Persia a day to celebrate love and express respect toward women? This day is called "Sepandarmazgan", or more recently, "Esfandegan".
Celebrating the Mother Earth
The origins and story of this celebration belong to the roots of the Persian Empire, some 3500 years ago. Back then, the Achaemenid Dynasty ruled over one of the world's major empires. Way before Islam, glorious Persian kings from Cyrus the Great to Darius I, were Zoroastrian believers. For them, nature was highly respected and loved, in particular, the fire, seen as a sacred element.
Zoroastrians believed that Earth was a deity called "Sepandarmaz": the loving mother, the guardian angel of Earth, and breeder of all creations and human beings. She protects the earth as a mother tenderly looks after all her children equally. The loving goddess was praised on the fifth day of the fifth month of the solar calendar, both being called after her. Nowadays, it matches with the 29th of Bahman (February 18th).
An expression of love and respect toward women
As a symbol of motherhood, Sepandarmazgan was a holiday to honour women and the concept of fertility. According to the custom, during this day all women were put on a pedestal and men offered them gifts to demonstrate their respect. During that day, women were the sole sovereign rulers, listened and obeyed by all. Thus this day is an eternal manifestation of love and respect toward women. The 11th-century historian Gardizi tells us that it was sometimes called "Mard-Giran", literally "possessing men".
Besides this main ritual dedicated to women, the great Persian scholar Al-Biruni recalls that people ate grapes and pomegranate seeds on this day. For long, the 5th day of Spandarmad was the day of "Jashn-e Barzegaran", the Farmers' Festival: the earth goddess Sepandarmazwas worshipped by planting trees, with the hope that she consents to bring good harvests.
Sepandarmazgan, the purest tradition to celebrate love among Iranians, Amin Karimi | TasteIran
The Iranian Valentine's Day
Contrary to Nowruz and Yalda, two of the Persian deep rooted ceremonies, Sepandarmazgan has slightly faded away in popular culture of Iran but is now the object of a renewed interest. Even though Valentine's Day is celebrated in Iran, as well as everywhere in the world, a few days earlier, it has not outshined its ancestor. It's still the occasion for many couples to celebrate their love, in the purest Iranian tradition. Their offer themselves gifts, as reminded by the red hearts embellishing the shops' windows, before maybe, remembering together the famous Persian love story of Leyli and Majnun in mythical poems of Shahnameh, or Shirin and Khosrow in the collection of Nezami's Panj Ganj as a Unesco's memory of the world heritage.
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Gilbert Bokanowski ( à Toulouse -  à Toulouse), parfois crédité du pseudonyme de Gilbert Boka, était un producteur et un acteur français. Il a notamment interprété à trois reprises le roi Louis XVI pour Sacha Guitry.

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Comme acteur
 1954 : Madame du Barry de Christian-Jaque
 1954 : Si Versailles m'était conté... de Sacha Guitry – Louis XVI
 1955 : Napoléon de Sacha Guitry – Louis XVI
 1956 : Si Paris nous était conté de Sacha Guitry – Louis XVI
 1957 : Les trois font la paire de Sacha Guitry – Duval, le producteur
 1957 : Assassins et Voleurs de Sacha Guitry – M. Naquet
 1957 : Le Naïf aux quarante enfants de Philippe Agostini – M. Castel, un professeur
 1958 : La Vie à deux de Clément Duhour – Roland Sauvage, l'éditeur

Comme producteur
 1955 : Napoléon
 1956 : Si Paris nous était conté
 1957 : Les trois font la paire
 1957 : Assassins et Voleurs
 1957 : Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Michael Anderson
 1957 : Le Naïf aux quarante enfants
 1958 : La Vie à deux
 1959 : Vous n'avez rien à déclarer ? de Clément Duhour
 1960 : Le Bal des espions de Michel Clément
 1961 : Les Amours célèbres de Michel Boisrond
 1962 : Le crime ne paie pas de Gérard Oury
 1963 : Les Saintes Nitouches de Pierre Montazel

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Naissance à Toulouse
Naissance en septembre 1920
Décès en octobre 1975
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Truth in the Age of Twitter
Wellesley computer scientists are studying how we can be less susceptible to misinformation online and how to keep falsehoods from spreading
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Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have quickly become part of daily life for many of us, offering an endless conveyor belt of entertainment while we're riding the subway, relaxing on the couch, or sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office. Yet this stream of social media content is a double-edged sword: Not only does it have the potential to entertain us and expand our minds, but it also reveals the limitations of how we process the information we encounter.
Social media content can trick us into believing something that isn't true, or confirm the biases we already have, further polarizing us in our beliefs. There is perhaps no place where this problem is more concerning than in politics, where misinformation has major implications for our democratic process. But why are we, as a society, so susceptible to misinformation? How does misinformation spread? What can we do to combat it? These are the very questions that Wellesley computer science professors Takis Metaxas and Eni Mustafaraj have been studying for more than a decade, since a discovery on Twitter in January 2010 drew them into a social media mystery.
It all started with a special election in Massachusetts: Sen. Ted Kennedy had died, and Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown were in a battle for his vacant seat. The election, while important for the state, wasn't expected to have much reach beyond it. And yet, Metaxas and Mustafaraj noticed something strange: The candidates were trending on worldwide Twitter, suggesting that they were being talked about by large numbers of people everywhere.
So why was this local election suddenly global news? To find out, the pair began collecting tweets about the candidates, which led to what Metaxas calls "a very shocking discovery": Many had been produced by Twitter accounts created just days before the election. And these accounts "were tweeting the same link over and over again to increase the volume of tweets and make this topic trend," Mustafaraj says, with accounts such as @CoakleyAgainstU and @CoakleySaidThat targeting Coakley.
After analyzing over 185,000 tweets, Metaxas and Mustafaraj realized that they weren't from new users who were particularly invested in the Massachusetts election. Rather, many of the accounts had been created by anti-Coakley groups, such as the conservative, Iowa-based American Future Fund, with the goal of quickly spreading negative information about the candidate. In fact, nine accounts created by the American Future Fund sent 929 tweets in two hours, reaching about 60,000 people before Twitter shut them down. Plus, when people Googled the candidates, Google's real-time search function meant that those tweets about the candidates (instead of tweets by them, as is now the case) came up at the top of the results.
Metaxas and Mustafaraj dubbed the attack a "Twitter bomb" in a paper on their findings. (The paper, "From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search," received the WebScience 2010 Best Paper Prize and is available online here.) "We were not expecting to find anything weird with the data we collected, but suddenly we found the first set of bots that were created to influence the voters in Massachusetts," Metaxas says.
"No one had used Twitter at that point to target an election," Mustafaraj adds. As early as 2006, both parties were harnessing Google search to promote negative information about their opponents, and Metaxas says that given the high stakes, it would be surprising if researchers had not found such attempts to influence elections.
Their discovery left them wondering how else Twitter was being leveraged to spread misinformation to the masses. To find out, they built TwitterTrails, an artificial intelligence system based on machine learning that finds and analyzes all tweets related to a particular story going back a week in time.
This analysis is designed to reveal whether a story is true or false by measuring key metrics related to spread and skepticism: who first tweeted about it, when it began gaining momentum, who is spreading it, whether different groups tweeting about it are talking to each other, and how skeptical people are about its accuracy. The idea, Metaxas says, is that if users believe a story is true (and that often maps to a story actually being fact), they will share it widely and won't express much skepticism about its veracity. However, if readers aren't sure whether a story is true, they either won't share it widely, so it won't spread quickly on Twitter, or they will share it while saying they are skeptical about it. Developed primarily for journalists, TwitterTrails has been used to analyze around 1,800 stories on topics ranging from whether Putin's motorcade was shaped like a phallus (it wasn't) to whether NASA published a study that debunks climate change (it didn't), and it is over 90 percent accurate at discerning whether stories are true or false. (For more about TwitterTrails, visit twittertrails.com.)
Despite its success, Metaxas became interested in when and why TwitterTrails fails. "The success rate is quite remarkable, but it is not enough—that was my big surprise," Metaxas says. Perhaps the most glaring example was Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory from the 2016 presidential election alleging that Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 and other Democrats were running a human trafficking ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant. The story was false, yet TwitterTrails thought it might be true, misled by the story's rapid spread after it was mentioned by a pro-government Turkish newspaper eager to highlight political problems in other countries, and a lack of skepticism, since those talking about it already believed it.
'If you create an environment [on social media platforms] … where everything looks the same and sounds the same, you create this confusion of what is the signal and what is the noise.'
—Eni Mustafaraj, assistant professor of computer science
This example highlights a key condition that affects how information spreads on social media: polarization. "In 2012, one of the shocking things that happened to me was being exposed to some research that said, if you give polarized people the same set of data, they become more polarized," Metaxas recalls. The reason? People look selectively at the data, accepting the parts that confirm their prior beliefs, while rejecting the parts that don't. The challenge of polarization, he adds, is that it not only relates to what information we believe, but it also has a strong emotional component, which prevents us from logically and impartially assessing new information. "If you have a polarized audience, it is much easier to spread fake news and rumors—people essentially would not listen with an open mind to what the other side is doing," Metaxas says.
Now, in collaboration with the University of Oxford Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, Metaxas is using TwitterTrails to measure polarization within political contexts such as Brexit and the upcoming election in the United States. "We're trying to study how polarization grows, and what affects polarization: Is it affected by only real-life news, or is it also influenced by false rumors?" Metaxas says. "I think the contribution we can make is to detect highly polarized situations in politics, and maybe figure out interventions to help people have a more reasonable dialogue."
On an individual level, he says, one way to combat polarization is with critical thinking. However, he recognizes that this can be challenging. He suggests trying to approach claims or questions scientifically—creating a hypothesis, and finding and analyzing evidence that both supports and refutes that hypothesis before drawing conclusions. Often, he adds, people stop after finding supporting evidence, thus fueling polarization. Metaxas also cautions against being too trusting of any particular source, and of information that we take in through our senses—pointing out that memory, in particular, can be faulty. "If your data that you're using your critical thinking to evaluate are already compromised because either your trusted sources have fooled you or your senses have fooled you, then it doesn't matter how much logic you put in, essentially you will get out garbage," Metaxas says. "The more people independently think about the question, the more likely it is we will arrive at the correct answer."
Are News Sources Trustworthy?
Mustafaraj took a break from politics after TwitterTrails, but she felt compelled to dive back in when she saw social media being used once again to spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential election—but with more reach and higher stakes. "I decided that I have to go back to this because this problem of what is truth and what is not has now become even more dangerous," she says. Her alarm stemmed not only from the current situation, but also from her experience living in Albania under a totalitarian regime. "I grew up in a society in which we, in a certain way, abolished the real truth, and we were asked to believe in a reality that was fake," she explains, with the government controlling media, television, and just about everything else. "That marks you as a person, how easy it is to create an alternate version of reality."
She began by interviewing people about how they decide if news sources are trustworthy. She discovered that many base their decision on whether Googling a news outlet brings up a "knowledge panel," the rectangular box on the right side of the page that provides basic information about the outlet. The knowledge panel for the New York Times, for example, includes when it was founded, where it is headquartered, and who owns it. However, these knowledge panels can be problematic in a couple of ways. First, few local news sources have knowledge panels—only a third of the 8,000 Mustafaraj tested did —generally because they don't have Wikipedia pages, which provide the information for these panels. Additionally, untrustworthy sources may mimic these panels to trick readers. "What we wanted to do is look at how many local newspapers in the United States had good web presences, or when you search Google, did you understand that they were a legitimate local news source as opposed to a misinformation site," explains Emma Lurie '19, who worked with Mustafaraj on the project, and is now a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mustafaraj then shifted her focus to the root of the problem: Wikipedia. "Wikipedia is really important because in the whole web ecosystem, it's now one of the most trusted sources of information," Mustafaraj says. Not only is a Wikipedia page often a top Google result, and the basis for knowledge panels, but it is also used by virtual assistants such as Siri and Alexa. "There is nothing else for free out there that has the scale that Wikipedia has in terms of information, and this unfortunately has made Wikipedia itself a target of misinformation, because if you manipulate Wikipedia, you manipulate Google and all these other things," Mustafaraj says.
Wikipedia also has a more fundamental issue: It is edited by regular people, not professionals, and those people tend to write about their interests—so there are detailed pages for every Star Trek episode, yet few pages for local news sources. Moreover, Wikipedia is plagued by gender bias—only 10 to 15 percent of editors are women—which translates into a gender imbalance in the entries themselves.
To begin tackling these issues, Mustafaraj tapped the Wellesley community for a Wiki-edit-a-thon, part of a larger effort at multiple colleges and universities called Newspapers on Wikipedia. After being trained to edit Wikipedia, students began creating knowledge panels and full Wikipedia pages for local news sources. Mustafaraj has continued teaching her students how to edit Wikipedia, and she edits the resource herself whenever she has time—she encourages anyone who might be interested to become an editor, and start contributing. "I feel like we need to be informed citizens who participate in shaping our information ecosystem—we cannot just leave it to the algorithms and to the companies," Mustafaraj says. "We have to fight misinformation with the facts and our engagement with the truth."
The Complications of Fact-Checking
When Emma Lurie wrote her honors thesis last year with Mustafaraj, she explored another possible course of action against misinformation: fact-checking. She focused on Google's short-lived feature that used machine learning techniques to check the accuracy of a claim by matching it with other information on the subject. The idea behind the feature was simple—it would fact-check a claim from a news story by cross-referencing it with other articles on the topic, linking to sources that confirmed or refuted it. However, the execution proved complicated, as the feature struggled with how to match a claim to a relevant source in certain situations, such as when a claim was made with conditional language ("vaccines may cause autism") or when a claim reported someone else's incorrect statement ("Jenny McCarthy said, 'Vaccines cause autism.'"). The feature was discontinued in 2018, but despite its shortcomings, Lurie remains optimistic. "I think it's clear to me that there's no one solution, there's no one thing you can do to fight misinformation as an individual consumer or as a tech platform, but that doesn't mean it can't get better."
Social media platforms themselves also hinder the fight against misinformation. These platforms have enormous reach, and can be used for microtargeting, where specific groups are targeted with specific claims. Moreover, they are designed to funnel information into a slick, uniform format that can make it almost impossible to discern accurate sources from untrustworthy ones. "If you create an environment like this where everything looks the same and sounds the same, you create this confusion of what is the signal and what is the noise," Mustafaraj explains. These challenges are only compounded by the fact that so much information on the internet is not entirely true or false, making it even harder to know what to believe. "The slew of borderline content that isn't fully untrue and isn't actually factual is much more concerning, much more pervasive, in our current media ecosystems," Lurie says, and it is her biggest concern heading into the 2020 election.
For Mustafaraj and Metaxas, the current informational landscape also reveals a deeper issue. "It's not just a matter of facts. It's a matter of … your system of values, and how you use this system to interpret the facts in the world," Mustafaraj says. "Looking for a technical solution to what is a cultural and societal division is going to be hard."
So what can we as individuals do to counter biases stemming from our values when we encounter new information, or information that doesn't mesh with our existing worldview? Metaxas thinks becoming more self-aware is a good place to start. "We need to understand ourselves, and not to think that the world is just either facts or lies. It is really the way you look at things that matters," he says. "My ultimate goal is to try to figure out how I can help [myself], my students, the general public, understand why we believe what we believe. If we can achieve that, then it's likely that we will not be fooled so easily."
Catherine Caruso '10 is a Boston-based science writer whose work has appeared in various publications, including Scientific American and MIT Technology Review.
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Council to take control over Exmouth's flood gates
If not operated, up to 1,500 residential properties plus numerous commercial properties will remain at flood risk during a storm
Daniel ClarkContent Editor & Politics Reporter
East Devon District Council has agreed to take over control of the highway flood gates in Exmouth to stop the town from flooding.
Installed on the seafront, the flood gates are considered essential and, if they are not operated, up to 1,500 residential properties plus numerous commercial properties will remain at flood risk during a storm event.
They have been operated by the Environment Agency, but with them facing cutbacks, East Devon's cabinet meeting on Wednesday night (October 28) it was no longer feasible for them to be the primary responder and in charge of closing the flood gates when storm events are predicted.
Councillors unanimously agreed that it would be sensible for East Devon District Council to be the primary operator of the highways gates, and a community group operating under Exmouth Town Council, will be the primary operators of non-highways gates.
Storm Brian brings big waves to Exmouth seafront (Image: Jay Carter)
In the event of storm conditions forecast, East Devon District Council would receive a warning from the Environment Agency at least six hours before gate closures would be required.
With co-operation from Devon County Council, who manage the on-street parking on the seafront, parking would be suspended by ticket machines no longer issuing tickets, and remaining tickets timing out.
East Devon would then close the Central Route, via Alexander Terrace, with gates opposite Morton Road and the Eastern Route, via the Esplanade, with gates adjacent to the Premier Inn.
The Western Route, via the Esplanade, with gates adjacent to The Grove, would be the last gate to be closed, as it has the highest threshold, and once the Central and Eastern route gates have been closed, East Devon staff would man the Western route gates, only allowing vehicles out of the impounding area.
Once all vehicles have been removed, the Western Route Gates would be closed.
After the storm or series of storms has passed, the Environment Agency will send a message to indicate the gates can be opened.
East Devon District Council will then open the gates at the earliest opportunity, the meeting heard.
In regards to the non-highway gates, it is envisaged there will be two separate community volunteer groups, one based at the Camperdown area, and another based at the seafront, which will be made up of local people, ideally with at least 10 members at each location, who will be responsible, but should the gates not be able to be closed by the local community group, the closure requirement will be escalated to the council.
Andrew Hancock, service lead for StreetScene, told Wednesday's meeting: "East Devon District Council are geographically well placed to respond to close the gates, as the team best suited to close the gates are based at the Camperdown Depot within Exmouth.
"With a team being based very local to the gates, this will minimise lead time, so gates could be shut later before an event, and opened quicker following an event. This would minimise inconvenience for residents of Exmouth limiting closure periods.
"If the Environment Agency were to lead on gate closures, they would have a minimum half hour travel time to Exmouth. They also have close many other flood gates around the County."
Exmouth flooding
There would be an implication in terms of officer time cost to the council, but Mr Hancock added: "The net cost to the council will be minimal, however this will be at a detriment to other work carried out by the council, which may need to be replaced with overtime working or agency staff. Therefore these are real costs.
"But if East Devon District Council do not take on the operation of the highways gates, worst case scenario is that no-one would close the gates, leaving Exmouth at significant flood risk."
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Supporting the move, Cllr Geoff Jung, cabinet member for coast, country and environment, said: "The scheme to get volunteers to work on the gates has worked elsewhere in Devon and this will be very welcome for the residents of Exmouth to be protected from storms and rising sea levels."
Cllr Paul Hayward, cabinet member for economy, added: "This is a realistic and pragmatic solution to an ever increasing problem."
The cabinet unanimously supported the recommendation for East Devon District Council to be the primary responder to operating the highway flood gates in Exmouth.
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Q: What is a word or phrase to describe when score is the most important part of testing and it does not reflect the real ability of the students? This is an issue in some fields, especially education. Because teachers are usually evaluated by the grades their students get in examinations and the number of excellent students in their class, teachers try their best to help their students get perfect marks but not by giving them quality lessons. They may give them answers during the exam or show them the questionnaire in advance. As for parents, they force their children to study as much as possible in order to get perfect marks.
In Vietnam, this issue is existing, but I am not sure that it is in other countries. I need a word or a phrase to talk about this issue.

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Teachers are evaluated only by student grades and try to improve the student grades without improving their teaching or students' learning.

This is a common argument topic specific to Education (happening in many countries) and this is often referred to as teaching to the test.
When we teach to the test, we ignore the students' needs and focus on the wrong learning outcomes.
Standardized tests are usually blamed as causing teachers and schools to develop curriculum and lesson plans that teach to the test.  Some of your examples are ways that teaching to the test has pressured teachers to do extreme things just to increase grade scores.

A: A generally benign term for this is grade inflation, where good or excellent grades become the average for an entire class.  While grade inflation can be due to teachers giving out undeserving high marks, it can also be used to describe the situation at some elite schools (such as Harvard or Yale in the United States) where the majority of the students who attend, are already great students who normally achieve excellent scores.
Otherwise, there is no real term for the culture which allows this to happen, other than the usual one like corruption, cronyism, and bribery.   You might also call in an anti-meritocracy in which everyone succeeds regardless of whether they deserve it.


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Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed (21 September 1891 – 30 June 1974) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was also a naturalist and ornithologist who specialized on the birds of Africa.

Life and work
Mackworth-Praed was born in Herefordshire to Robert Herbert and Mary Josephine Jolliffe. where he became interested in shooting and natural history which was also encouraged at school in Sandroyd. After studying at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he settled in East Africa as a farmer.  In 1919 he married, Edith Mary Henrietta, the daughter of Stephenson Robert Clarke and began to help identify African birds in his father-in-law's collection. This brought him to the bird room of the British Museum. He later joined the Scots Guards and served in World War II, rising to the rank of Major in 1941. He returned to live in Castletop, Burley, Hampshire. In the 1930s he began a collaboration with Claude H. B. Grant to produce a 6 volume work on the birds of Africa. In 1958, Grant died and only two volumes were produced. The remainder, completed in 1973, was written by Mackworth-Praed.

He had a parallel career as a sport shooter. In 1924 he won the gold medal as member of the British team in the team running deer, double shots event. He also won two silver medals in the running deer, single shots and double shots competition. In the 1924 Summer Olympics he also participated in the following events:

 Team 100 metre running deer, single shots - fourth place
 Team clay pigeons - eighth place
 individual trap - result unknown
He also competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

He was appointed OBE in 1964.

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 Duck-ringing at Orielton Decoy Pond (1938), film made by Mackworth-Praed

1974 deaths
1891 births
British male sport shooters
Running target shooters
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Olympic shooters of Great Britain
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics
English Olympic medallists
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Trap and double trap shooters
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics