Vaazhai Thandu or plaintain stem has numerous benefits.We use it in kootu, Mor kootu, Pachadi and curry. The only difficulty people find in using this is the removal of the fibres.To use a plaintain stem, first remove the outer thick fibrous part peels off easily. Next you get to the shiny layer which is not so loosely attached. This you need to cut vertically all over the surface.
Next cut into thin round discs the stem which is remaining. Now cut each disc into small cubes and put it in a vessel having diluted buttermilk. This prevents the discolouration of the stem. Now take a wooden skewer, insert it into the vessel with the vegetable and make a churning like motion alternating in clockwise and anticlockwise direction. When you take it out, you see that the fibre is collected to the skewer. Take that out and repeat till all the fibre is removed.Drain the liquid completely and you are ready to cook the vegetable now.
Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan. Add the urad dal, red chillies, cumin seeds and fry till the dal becomes brownish. Switch off the fire. Let it cool. Now grind it along with the coconut into a smooth paste. Keep aside.
Add the turmeric powder to the cut vegetable, mix well. Microwave it for 5 minutes , keeping it close. Let it cool.
Add oil to a pan, once heated add mustard seeds, asafoetida and when it splutters, add the cooked vegetables, cooked dhal, ground paste, salt and some water and let it boil for few minutes. Switch off the fire and serve hot with thogayal and rice.


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Clay Center é uma vila localizada no estado norte-americano de Ohio, no Condado de Ottawa.

Demografia
Segundo o censo norte-americano de 2000, a sua população era de 294 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 307, um aumento de 13 (4.4%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
2,3 km², dos quais 2,3 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 12 km ao redor de Clay Center.

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Ligações externas

Vilas do Ohio
Localidades do condado de Ottawa (Ohio)

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Q: Train ibm watson discovery I have 459 json documents in my discovery collection.
I want to train discovery by making some exemples of question and apply ratings to my results: "Relevant" and "Not relevant".
I woulk like to know if I must rate all documents as Relevant or Not relevant results for a query (max 100 doc) or I can rate the Relevent document and some other (10, 15, ...) documents as Not relevant.
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JOHN 6:53 KJV "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,..."
50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Except yee eate the flesh of the sonne of man, and drinke his blood, yee haue no life in you.
Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.
Then Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
In most solemn truth I tell you, said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.
Therfor the Jewis chidden togidere, and seiden, Hou may this yyue to vs his fleisch to ete?
6:53 Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man - Spiritually: unless ye draw continual virtue from him by faith. Eating his flesh is only another expression for believing.
Joh 6:53 Except ye eat of the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood. Appropriate these by faith. Whosoever by faith trusts in the death of Christ and is "baptized into his death" (Ro 6:3), spiritually partakes of the body and blood of Christ. So does he also who eats in loving remembrance of him the emblems that represent his body and blood. Joh 6:63 shows that his words must be taken in a spiritual rather than a literal sense.
Eat My flesh: the Word becomes flesh dwelt among us.Jesus dwelt among us.He came here on earth shared His life,His sufferings.Then,we, too suffers here on earth overcomes as Jesus did.The Word is truth so we eat ingest His truth as our spiritual food. Drink My blood:Life is in the blood.He shed His blood to give us life.We,too,should shed our blood to give life to many.We sacrifice to the point of losing our life,if it calls for it.
We must believe what Jesus has spoken. At the last supper, he hands his disciples bread and wine, and after praying over them, says "This is my Body, " and "This is my Blood. " Here in John Chapter six, Jesus says, "Unless you eat my body and drink my blood, you have no life within you. " When we gather to celebrate, the bread and wine offered on the Altar become for us, the Glorified Body and Blood of Christ for us to eat and drink and be nourished, and to be transformed. We are then invited to become the Body of Christ to others.
I think of John Book 1 where we read that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, that of the only begotten of the father full of Truth and grace, so here we must eat this flesh, or fully believe in the Word which is God, and drink His blood, the blood that is the light that lighteth every man that comes into the world. The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not. The blood of god is that light, we bring these words together in a deep place in ourselves Jesus inhabits these mysterious connections, no to abandon them, as more and more they reveal his love meant for us.


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Science, Please, Explain Why Catchy Songs Loop in Our Heads Forever
Is there more to an earworm than a snappy hook? I spoke to various clever people in music (I needed to get 'Baby Shark' out of my head).
by Patrick Heardman
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I'll start with the science. Distilled down to its purest form, 'music' is a succession of vibrating airwaves picked up by our ears, and interpreted by our brains. Memory is essential here as we're only capable of hearing one tiny instance of sound at a time; our brains string these together and present them to us as continuous 'sound'.
We can't help trying to arrange the sounds our ears pick up into something cohesive, even when what they form isn't close to being 'music' – if you make a two-second loop of pretty much any sound, your brain frantically searches for a pattern and a rhythm within it, and it usually finds one. So what happens when you listen to something that's been precisely constructed to imprint itself on your memory for all of eternity?
This brings us neatly on to "Baby Shark," the heinous children's song documenting three generations of a shark family. Its precise origin is largely unknown – though it's thought to have spawned out of singalongs at American summer camps – but Pinkfong, a Korean YouTube channel for kids, popularised it as an intense mash of gurgling synthesised bass overlaid with an indelible melody that cuts right to the very core of your soul. All the while, as the lyrics progress through the generations of shark from Baby to Daddy to Grandma and so on, the jaws of the accompanying 'shark mouth dance' grow wider, and wider, and wider until you're utterly consumed. And then you play it again.
Last week "Baby Shark" swam to number 32 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. At the time of writing, it had been streamed 20.8 million times over the course of the previous week. But why exactly is it such a catchy song? Every so often, a particularly sticky hit makes stoner chat or pub chat or your inner monologue turn over the idea of what makes a song so hard to get out of your head. Normally, you chew it over for a bit, then move on. So I decided I needed to settle this, speaking to some experts about hooks, the patterns in songs that make them so loop-able and whether there's a sharp science to making music this way.
Thomas Hodgson – Teaching Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, King's College London
I've just listened to it for the first time on YouTube – that's 1:45m of my life I'll never get back. I don't think there's really much to say about the song. Why is it catchy? Part of the answer is to do with familiarity. It follows a basic I-IV-V-I chord progression in C Major (So C, F, C, G), which you could say is a very common pattern in pop music (think: The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" [actually written by Bert Berns and Phil Medley in 1961], The Troggs' "Wild Thing', The Ting Tings' "That's Not My Name," "Mustang Sally"… etc etc.) In terms of the lyrics and melody, there's not much going on here, is there? I wonder whether nonsense lyrics – the "doo doo doo doo" – appeals to certain audiences precisely because it's nonsense.
You don't need a full grasp of the language to follow the song, which may give it a broader appeal. I mean, this is a children's song, right? Is one of the reasons it's had so many streams simply because it's played in the background, or incessantly repeated by toddlers on iPads (in which case, poor parents)? I think we need to be careful not to overstate importance of the stream count.
Interesting music is usually interesting because it deviates in some way from what we expect, or speaks to a part of us. And this is historically because music, like art and literature, is a human response to the world. Over time I'm sure AI will be able to imitate these responses, but that's not the same as experiencing them. On a basic level I think we respond to music because we recognise it was written by someone as their experience of the world, something we can empathise with. Can we empathise with an algorithm?
I'm now going to listen to some other music in a probably vain attempt to get that song out of my head!
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis – Distinguished Professor and Director at Music Cognition Lab, University of Arkansas
There's some evidence that we perceive songs as catchier when we move along with them. Those adorable little shark gestures in "Baby Shark" may actually be helping the tune burrow into your brain. Catchy songs also tend to feature an optimal mix between a conventional attribute that make them easy to remember, and surprising twists that make them distinctive.
"Baby Shark" is pretty easy to sing, which might make it harder to resist singing along in your head while you're listening. Once you've done that, it's that much easier for it to start auto-singing in your head without the external trigger. Some studies have exposed people to catchy music in the lab, and then counted the number of earworms they experience later during a mundane task. They tend to experience more earworms if they had moved to the music while listening.
Science doesn't have a precise formula for a catchy song, because catchiness also depends on factors outside the notes themselves – for example, how recently and how often a person has heard a song, and their overall listening habits. Catchy songs tend to feature an optimal mix of surprise and predictability, but what seems predictable to any one listener can vary depending on the kinds of music they've listened to before.
Dr James Kellaris – composer, musician, and Professor of Marketing at the University of Cincinnati
Catchy songs in general tend to have three characteristics in common: simplicity, repetition, and incongruity. "Baby Shark" is a perfect storm of all three. Creating an earworm is more art than science, but those creating a catchy hook can apply known design principles of simplicity, repetition, and incongruity. Simplicity facilitates learning – perhaps 'over-learning'. Repetition reinforces learning and may convey an implicit suggestion to the brain to continue the repetition mentally, even after the external source of the music is turned off. Incongruity is what causes a 'cognitive itch'. Like a mental mosquito bite, when information is incongruous (or violates listeners' expectations) it motivates cognitive effort to resolve the incongruity. This cognitive effort involves thinking about the offending song.
Spoiler alert: the incongruity in "Baby Shark" is that whereas concluding musical phrases generally end on the tonic (the harmony composed of do-mi-sol; the C chord in the key of C) to signal finality, "Baby Shark'"'s final phrase comes to rest on the dominant (the harmony composed of sol-ti-re; the G chord in the key of C), which signals continuation. The specifics I've nailed down when deciding on catchiness are: simplicity, repetition, incongruity, and a secret ingredient that I can reveal to Noisey readers who send me $5 in an unmarked envelope. But really, which did you master first as a young child: the letters of the alphabet or the melody of the alphabet song? (Clue: birds, whales, and rodents all 'sing').
Mental repetition of melodies can become involuntary, similar to intrusive thoughts. Ironic process theory explains that to suppress a thought, one must remember the thought to be suppressed. Voilà – the 'white bear' effect. (If you tell someone not to think about a white bear, the harder they try the more they think about a white bear). But the best strategy for ridding oneself of an earworm may depend on the reason the song got stuck. For example, if a song is stuck due to overexposure, limiting exposure should help. If a song is stuck because one cannot recall the lyrics, a completion strategy may help. Look up the lyrics, sing through the song once in its entirety.
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So what can we take from this? There's plenty of overlap in what these three say, perhaps especially with regards to repetition, simplicity, and something slightly unexpected or "incongruous" as Dr Kellaris puts it. But there's also a consensus here that it's not quite as formulaic as that, which is positively reassuring. "Baby Shark" hits these three criteria almost too on the nose which is probably why I can't stop listening to it, but also probably why it fills me with utter horror every time I do. It's just too slick and too perfect. It comes as somewhat of a relief then to hear professor Margulis say that science doesn't have a definitive answer to what truly makes a song 'catchy'. Sure there are common traits in catchy songs, but there will always be an indefinable beauty in the music we love that keeps us listening, and that's a beautiful thing.
You can find Patrick on Twitter.
This article was amended on Wednesday 23 January to reflect that Pinkfong is a Korean company, though it publishes material in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, English and Mandarin.
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Gross wages in Romanian private companies rise by 9.5% in 2019, PwC says
Friday, October 18, 2019, 12:22
The average gross salary paid by Romanian private companies is approaching RON 6,000 (EUR 1,260) in 2019, which is 9.5% higher than in 2018, according to the PayWell survey conducted by PwC Romania.
The salary increase reported for 2019 exceeds the level of 4.6% estimated for this year by the respondent companies in the previous edition, Romania-insider says, citing the report.
For 2020, private companies are estimating a 5.7% average gross wage increase.
The highest average wage growth in 2019 was recorded in the hotel sector (+14%). Industry (+11%), leasing (+10%), and retail (+10%), also recorded above-average increases.
The wages of unskilled or low-skilled workers increased by 10%, on average, but the wages of operational managers and top managers also increased rapidly (+13% and +9% respectively), Romania-insider reports.
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Romania birth rate drops to lowest level in 53 years
The number of babies born in Romania in 2019 fell to the lowest level in 53 years, according to an analysis made by local Edupedu.ro, based on data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS) and the National Registry of People Records (RNEP), Romania-insider repots.
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Romania inflation rises in December
Romania's consumer price index (CPI) rose 4% year-on-year in December, following a 3.8% increase in November, figures from the Bucharest-based National Institute of Statistics (INS) show. The latest inflation was the highest since July, when it was 4.1%.
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EBRD pledges support for pro-business reforms in Romania
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is pledging support for Romania's efforts to pursue reforms that unlock investment to the country, the president of the bank, Suma Chakrabarti, says.
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Hungarian income inequality matches Poland
Statistics published by Eurostat show serious income inequality, and the figures indicate that the gap between the richest and the poorest in Hungary has widened further in recent years, reports piacesprofit.hu.
Romania's real net wage annual growth rate slows in November
Romania's average net monthly wage grew by a real 9.8% year-on-year in November, after growing by 10.8% in October, the Bucharest-based National Institute of Statistics (INS) says.
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EFSE lending EUR 7 mln to BT Microfinantare to support Romanian MSEs
The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) said it has provided a loan in lei equivalent to EUR 7 million to BT Microfinantare to expand access to local currency finance for micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Romania.
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Romania central bank maintains key interest rate
Romania's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged as widely expected, news wire Reuters reports.
Iranian investors buy 2 mineral water producers in Romania
Romanian spirits producer Prodal 94, whose portfolio includes the Stalinskaya (vodka) and Wembley (gin) brands, will take over the local mineral water producers Lipomin and Carpatina, local Business Magazin reported as cited by news site romania-insider.com. The transaction has already received the approval of the Competition Council.
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EUR 26 mln for 8 NGO projects available in Romania
A total of EUR 26.5 million will be available to NGOs active in the country through eight project calls launched by Active Citizens Fund Romania, Romaniacurata.ro reported, as cited by news site Romania-insider.
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Romanian central bank FX reserves drop in Dec
The foreign exchange (FX) reserves held by Romania's central bank, excluding gold, totaled EUR 32.926 billion at the end of December, down from EUR 33.817 bln a month earlier, the National Bank of Romania (BNR) said on Friday.


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Timil Patel
Timil Kaushik Patel born 1 December 1983, Ahmedabad, Gujarat is an Indian born American cricketer.
He played with Indian Ranji team Gujarat from 2002-2010. Played for India Under-19 Team in 2003 that toured England, until he shifted to the United States in 2010. He is right handed-batsman and right arm-leg break bowler.
==Indian Domestic Career==
Patel played 38 first-class matches, scoring a century and taking two five-wicket hauls for Gujarat in India's Ranji Trophy competition before leaving to Los Angeles in 2010
He was shown a quality if an all-rounder while playing in the Gujarat team. He has 1000 runs with an unbeaten century. He has also scored 4 half-centuries for Gujarat.
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he shares a small studio apartment with Liv
he has albinism, and a longish almost horizontal scar over his sternum
he has big hands!
A scrawny and lethargic insomniac with zero people-skills. Emotionally constipated. He looks like he wants to murder everybody in the world, and has a scary reputation, but is mostly just very tired and wants to be left alone. The kind of person who smokes cigarettes because he's too lazy to kill himself. The only person on this godless earth he cherishes is Liv.
Ismael is lazy and seemingly apathetic about everything. He's not an aggressive person, but if someone bothered him and wouldn't stop, he probably wouldn't think twice about cutting them. He'll defend his personal space with teeth and claws.
Liv, rice wine, cemeteries, printing ink, the smell of rain on concrete
Nightmares, other people, and himself
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Ismael has schizoid personality disorder.
He speaks quietly and moves very lazily.
He has very poor social skills, and though he might be able to pick up different details and nuances in someone's behavior, he doesn't know how to interpret the information.
He suffers from nightmares and night terrors, and is permanently sleep-deprived — which is why he looks like Death.
When Liv moves in with him, he starts to sleep a little bit better. It helps that she's there to comfort him when he wakes.
He's not a bad person, but he's very morally grey. He usually leaves it to Liv to decide what's good and bad.
WWLD? (what would Liv do)
Ismael is an orphan, and never really had any friends – everyone just thought he was scary-looking so people always avoided him, so he kinda has the emotional range of a leaf. Except that he hates himself. He always has nightmares and night terrors so he's permanently sleep deprived. He dreams of piles of corpses; everyone's dead and it's all his fault.
Eventually the meets Liv, who finds nothing threatening about him at all. Ismael thinks that the world is ugly and terrible, but Liv is pure and untainted and precious and perfect, and not ugly at all. And she's in a terrible place, and she wants to come with him and he's like fine whatever I guess.
So now they live together and look after each other. Ismael literally never cared about his own well-being before – he always took very little care of himself, and more or less only ever ate out of boredom – but he's very invested in keeping Liv well-fed and happy. Liv always makes sure Ismael eats too.
Ismael comes to cherish Liv above anything else. He doesn't understand why she stays with him, but she does, and she brings colors into his life, because Liv's the kind of person who gets really excited about anything, and she's always like Look at the sky!!! It's so blue!!! Isn't it beautiful?! and Ahh it's raining! ! The grass is so wet!! Isn't it wonderful??, and she sees beauty in everything. Ismael starts to pay attention to the things Liv points out, and over time he learns to appreciate some of the things that he used to hate.
He starts to become a little more of a real human, and a little less of an empty shell. Eventually his deeply rooted self-contempt starts to wear off, when he decides that if someone as beautiful and incorrupt as Liv can love him, maybe he's not the worst person on the planet after all.
(Liv's happiness is what's most important to Ismael. He would walk through fire for her, or rather, he'd do anything. He'd never do anything to make her unhappy, and if she told him she wanted to leave him, walk out the door and never come back, he wouldn't try to stop her. Then he'd shrivel up and die, of course.)
Ismael and Liv live in a small studio apartment on the top floor of a run-down apartment building. Ismael, like Liv, used to be homeless and wander from place to place, until his landlady-to-be found him passed out and half-dead in front of her building. She brought him inside, gave him some food, and decided that though he's scary-looking, he's harmless. So she offered Ismael to stay in one of the apartments in exchange for him taking on the role of the building caretaker, which Ismael accepted. He doesn't do that much really; his job is mostly to do the occasional simple repairs, and changing light-bulbs. Though sometimes he also gets to act as security.
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Garçons manqués ist ein von der deutschen Filmregisseurin Susan Gordanshekan 2005/2006 gedrehter französischsprachiger Dokumentarfilm. Die Uraufführung war 2008 auf dem Filmfestival Sehsüchte.

Inhalt
Imane ist 15 Jahre alt und lebt mit ihrer Familie in der Hochhaussiedlung "Les Bosquets" im Pariser Vorort Montfermeil, in dem im November 2005 die Vorstadtkrawalle ihren Anfang nahmen. Der Fußballplatz mitten im Herzen der Siedlung ist für die Bewohner ein zentraler Ort, an dem sich der Alltag abspielt. Imane und Sephora werden von allen als "garçons manqués"- als verkappte Jungs bezeichnet. In der Siedlung ist es nicht einfach ein Mädchen zu sein; der Fußball schafft Zusammenhalt und bildet ein Ventil für Aggressionen. Imane träumt davon, Polizistin zu werden, um mit den Vorurteilen aufzuräumen, dass Araber "nur Scheiße bauen". Doch als die Krawalle zwischen den Jugendlichen und der Polizei für kurze Zeit wieder aufflammen, wird sie sich ihrer Identität bewusst.

Hintergrund der Geschichte
Der Film zeigt Menschen, die in mehrfacher Hinsicht am Rande der Gesellschaft leben. Zum einen wird die Bevölkerung einer Pariser Vorstadt mit ihren teils miserablen Lebensumständen und einer fraglichen Gleichstellung in der Berufswahl und im Alltagsleben dargestellt. Zum anderen behandelt der Film das Thema Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Da es sich im Film um eine Mädchenfußballmannschaft handelt, wird weiterhin die Stellung der Frau thematisiert. Es wird sowohl die Diskrepanzen und Akzeptanz von Imane innerhalb der Familie und des unmittelbaren sozialen Umfeldes im Vorort als auch in der französischen Gesellschaft genauer beleuchtet. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob Imane eine respektierte Französin mit allen Rechten oder eine Bürgerin zweiter Klasse ist.

Aufführung auf Filmfestivals
 Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München (HFF Special) 2008
 Interfilm Kurzfilmfestival Berlin 2008
 Escales Documentaires La Rochelle, Frankreich 2008
 Docúpolis 2008 - the International Documentary Film Festival of Barcelona
 doxs! 2008 - Dokumentarfilme für Kinder und Jugendliche der Duisburger Filmwoche
 Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estland 2008
 Grenzlandfilmtage Selb 2008
 Internationales Videofestival Bochum 2008
 Internationales Dokumentarfilmfest München 2008
 Internationales Studentenfilmfest "Sehsüchte" der HFF Potsdam 2008
 Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund/Köln 2008
"Fremde Welten - Gasteig Elements" - 25 Dokumentarfilme der HFF München 2011
Ausstellung "Subjektiv. Dokumentarfilm im 21. Jahrhundert", Pinakothek der Moderne 2011
"Gefilmte Frauen"- im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Frauen", Pinakothek der Moderne 2011
doxs! - Steirischer Herbst, Graz 2012

Filmpreise
Der Film wurde unter anderem mit dem Dokumentarfilmpreis des Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin und den Best First Documentary Award vom Docúpolis 2008 des International Documentary Film Festival of Barcelona prämiert und erhielt von der Deutschen Film- und Medienbewertung das Prädikat "besonders wertvoll".

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Masaaki Suzuki is an organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan. He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christian and amateur musicians. He studied composition and organ at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and was later taught harpsichord and organ by Ton Koopman and Piet Kee at the Sweelink Conservatory in Holland. In 1993 he began teaching at Kobe University, and founded the Bach Collegium in 1990. The group began giving concerts regularly in 1992, and made its first recordings three years later.
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ST. HELIER, Jersey–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) announced today the publication of its 2018 Annual Report featuring its vision, mission and values, employee stories and videos, business highlights and selected financial information. In 2018, Novocure made a commitment to put into words its vision, mission and values as part of its corporate objective of investing in its people and culture.
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Mathias Le Fevre is a style influencer from Denmark who has a keen eye for detail, style and tailoring. His clean, crisp style made him a perfect fit for our brand. I created three outfits for Mathias to showcase at this Summers London mens fashion week and Pitti Uomo. All incorporating fresh, earthy tones, with lightweight, crease free fabrics that are perfect for travel.
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Michaił Michajłowicz Biessonow (ros. Михаил Михайлович Бессонов, ur. w grudniu 1901 we wsi Miedwieżje w guberni stawropolskiej, zm. 2 lipca 1963) – radziecki działacz partyjny i państwowy.

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Od 1920 do 1924 służył w Armii Czerwonej, od 1924 należał do RKP(b). Działał w związkach zawodowych, 1929-1930 studiował w Północnokaukaskiej Praktycznej Akademii Rolniczej im. Andriejewa, a 1930-1933 w Nowoczerkaskim Instytucie Rolniczym, po czym został zastępcą szefa i następnie szefem wydziału politycznego sowchozu na Północnym Kaukazie. Od 1937 do kwietnia 1939 był I sekretarzem Nowopokrowskiego Komitetu Rejonowego WKP(b) w Kraju Krasnodarskim, potem kierownikiem Wydziału Kierowniczych Organów Partyjnych Krasnodarskiego Komitetu Krajowego WKP(b), a od czerwca 1939 do września 1940 sekretarzem tego komitetu ds. kadr. Od 1940 do 7 września 1942 był III sekretarzem KC Komunistycznej Partii (bolszewików) Mołdawii, później zastępcą przewodniczącego Komitetu Wykonawczego Krasnodarskiej Rady Krajowej, od kwietnia do sierpnia 1943 sekretarzem Krasnodarskiego Komitetu Krajowego WKP(b), potem zastępcą sekretarza tego komitetu ds. hodowli, a od lipca 1944 do marca 1949 przewodniczącym Komitetu Wykonawczego Krasnodarskiej Rady Krajowej. W 1948 uczył się na kursach przy KC WKP(b), od lipca 1948 do kwietnia 1949 był przewodniczącym Komitetu Wykonawczego Czelabińskiej Rady Obwodowej, od 20 kwietnia 1949 do 1 października 1952 zastępcą przewodniczącego Rady Ministrów RFSRR, później zastępcą szefa inspekcji przy ministrze gospodarki rolnej i zapasów ZSRR i 1954-1955 pełnomocnikiem KC KPZR ds. organizowania sowchozów strefy kzyłtusskiej w obwodzie kokczetawskim w Kazachskiej SRR.

Odznaczenia
 Order Wojny Ojczyźnianej I klasy
 Order Czerwonego Sztandaru Pracy (16 marca 1940)
 Order Znak Honoru

Przypisy

Odznaczeni Orderem Czerwonego Sztandaru Pracy
Odznaczeni Orderem Wojny Ojczyźnianej I klasy
Odznaczeni Orderem "Znak Honoru"
Radzieccy politycy
Urodzeni w 1901
Zmarli w 1963


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A photo of, and quote from, the Respondent appeared in a advertisement supporting Proposition 1 that was sponsored by Yes for Public Safety and mailed on January 25, 2019. The Respondent was President of the Spokane City Council & a mayoral candidate at the time of the mailing. The mailer did not identify the Respondent as a mayoral candidate, was mailed several months before the election for which the Respondent was a candidate, and sought to influence the outcome of an election for which the Respondent was not a candidate.
The mailer did not appear to be an in-kind contribution to the Respondent because its purpose was to support Proposition 1 and any indirect benefit to the Respondent's mayoral candidacy was incidental and below the contribution limit for the office sought. Based on these findings, staff determined that, in this instance, the Respondent's appearance in an ad supporting a ballot measure did not amount to a finding of an actual violation warranting further investigation. The PDC dismissed the matter and did not conduct a more formal investigation into the complaint or pursue further enforcement in this case.


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Dallas Mavericks at Denver Nuggets Free NBA Picks & Odds 3-28-2016
by Josh Schonwald - 3/27/2016
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The Dallas Mavericks travel to Pepsi Center to play the Denver Nuggets on Monday, March 28, 2016. The opening line for this game has Denver as 1.5 point favorites and the over/under has been set at 212.
The Mavericks come into this game with an overall record of 35-37 and a road record of 15-20. They are 4th in the Southwest Division. They currently have a point differential of -0.6 as they are averaging 103.2 points per game while giving up 103.8 per contest. Dallas is 5-8 against division opponents and they have a conference record of 22-22. They are 2-8 in their last 10 games. The Nuggets have an overall record of 31-42 and a home record of 17-19. They currently are 4th in the Northwest Division. They are averaging 102.5 points per game and surrendering 104.9, good for a point differential of -2.4. Denver has a division record of 4-9 and a conference record of 16-27. In their last 10 games they are 6-4.
Dirk Nowitzki comes into this contest averaging 18.8 points per game while playing 31.4 minutes per night so far this season for the Mavericks. He pulls down 6.7 rebounds per game and dishes out 1.8 assists per game as well. His field goal percentage is 46% while his free throw percentage is currently at 89%. Wesley Matthews averages 12.3 points per game in 33.3 minutes per contest this season. He averages 1.9 assists per contest and 3.1 rebounds per game for Dallas. His field goal percentage is 39% for the year while his free throw percentage is 86%.
Kenneth Faried averages 12.9 points per game while playing 25.7 minutes per contest this year for the Nuggets. He grabs 8.8 rebounds per game and has 1.2 assists per contest on the year. His field goal percentage is 57% and his free throw percentage currently is at 60%. Gary Harris averages 12.2 points per game this season and he sees the court an average of 32.2 minutes per contest. He also averages 3 rebounds per contest and 1.8 assists per game. His field goal percentage is 47% and his free throw percentage is 81%.
Dallas averages 103.2 points per contest this season which ranks them 12th in the NBA. Their average scoring margin is -0.6 and their shooting percentage is 45% as a team which has them ranked 19th. Behind the arc they shoot 35% which is good for 20th in the league. They average 50.4 rebounds per game and 22.5 assists per game which ranks them 23rd and 15th in those offensive categories. In the turnover department they rank 2nd with 12.8 per game. The Mavericks allow 103.8 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 18th in the league. They also allow a 45% shooting percentage and a 35% average from behind the arc ranking them 15th and 10th in those defensive categories. Opponents average 54.3 rebounds a game which ranks 24th and they give up 22 assists per contest which puts them in 15th place in the league. They force 13.8 turnovers per game which ranks them 20th in the league.
Denver averages 102.5 points per game this year which ranks them 16th in the league. Their average scoring margin is -2.4 and their shooting percentage is 44% as a team which has them sitting in the 22nd spot in the league. Behind the arc they shoot 34% which is good for 24th in the NBA. They average 53.6 rebounds per game and 22.5 assists per contest which ranks them 6th and 13th respectively. In the turnover department the Nuggets rank 18th with 14.7 per game. The Nuggets allow 104.9 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 23rd in the league. They also allow a 46% shooting percentage and a 37% average from behind the arc ranking them 22nd and 28th in those defensive statistics. Opponents average 50.6 rebounds a game which ranks 10th and they give up 23.5 assists per contest which puts them in 25th place in the league. The Nuggets force 13.8 turnovers per game which ranks them 18th in the NBA.
The Mavericks average 100.7 points per game on the road this season and they have scored 118.3 ppg in their past 3 contests. They have an average scoring differential of -3.7 on the road and in their past 3 games their difference is -0.7 per contest. The Mavericks have an offensive rating of 106.8 and a defensive rating of 107.4. In terms of pace they average 94.8 possessions per 48 minutes and their effective field goal percentage is 50%. As a team they have a true shooting percentage of 55% and they shoot 3 pointers on 33% of their shots. Dallas turns the ball over an average of 11.9 times per 100 possessions and they force 12.6 on the defensive end. Their defensive effective field goal percentage for the season currently is 50%.
The Nuggets score 104.7 ppg at home and they have averaged 103.7 points per contest in their last 3 games. They have an average scoring differential of -7 in their past 3 contests and at home this season they have a difference of -1.2 points per game. The Nuggets rating on offense is 105.9 and they have a defensive rating of 108.4. They get 95.9 possessions per 48 minutes and they have an effective field goal percentage of 49%. As a unit they have a true shooting percentage of 53% and they attempt 3 pointers on 27% of their shot attempts. Denver turns the ball over on 13.2 out of every 100 possessions and their opponents average 12.8 turnovers per 100 possessions. Their defensive effective field goal percentage for the year is 52%.
Dallas Mavericks Betting Trends
The Dallas Mavericks are 38-33-1 against the spread
The Dallas Mavericks are 35-35-2 against the over/under
Denver Nuggets Betting Trends
The Denver Nuggets are 39-31-3 against the spread
The Denver Nuggets are 42-29-2 against the over/under
Dallas Mavericks Injuries
03/26/16 PG Deron Williams Abdominal expected to miss Sunday vs. Sacramento & Monday vs. Denver
03/26/16 PG Devin Harris Personal is upgraded to probable Sunday vs. Sacramento
03/22/16 F Chandler Parsons Knee out for season
03/17/16 F Jeremy Evans Shoulder out for season
Denver Nuggets Injuries
11/12/15 F Wilson Chandler Hip out for season
03/26/16 F Kenneth Faried Back probable Sunday vs. LA Clippers
02/28/16 F Danilo Gallinari Ankle out indefinitely
Josh's Pick: Take Dallas
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Relationship between Media Coverage and Social and Environmental Issues
Media denotes a section or form of communication channels that is intended to get in touch with a very large audience such as the population of nation or state. Examples include newspapers, magazines, books, televisions radios and the internet. It serves various constructive purposes such as advocating both for business and social concerns, entertainment, and public service announcements. Media also has negative characteristics some of which include the inability to transmit tacit knowledge, manipulation of large groups of people through its outlets, biasness and its inability to act as peoples' watchdog to wrongs happening in the society. The population covered by media consists of people with diversified characters, opinions, educational backgrounds, and religion. The influence of media to people in a given population- their social, political, environmental, economic and religious issues- is therefore quite variable. Social issues are matters directly or indirectly affecting many or all members of the society and may be considered as societal problems, moral degraders or both. Some examples include poverty, violence, abortion, rape and social injustice. Environmental issues on the other hand are those changes in the environmental conditions which directly or indirectly affect the society such as global warming, climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity, etcetera. The media has a social and moral obligation to highlight these issues and help in mitigating them if not totally curbing them. This paper describes both negative and positive nature of the relationship between media coverage and social and environmental issues within the perceptual and contextual role of media in contemporary society. The writer assumes that media has continued to maintain a positive relationship with both social and environmental issues facing the society despite its false starts.
Man is a social being and cannot exist on his own. He has to depend on others for co-existence. This mutual relationship with others brings forth the aspect of society. Due to the fact that people are of different characters, co-existence portends social problems whose magnitudes depend on how the society copes with them. This is the point where the media comes in. Media are business entities out to make profits (Kiousis & McCombs 142). This drive leads them into selecting topics suitable in improving their business through strategies like maintaining their audience by appealing to them. This fact has been stressed further by the agenda setting theory of media which claims that media does not direct people into what to think, but what to think about (Kiousis & McCombs 142). This role conflicts with media as a watchdog to and an instrument of fighting social norms. Some social issues which may have a more significant impact on the society are not reported extensively whereas others which may not be as important or even negative to societal existence are reported accurately with extensive coverage or sensation resulting in moral panic.
Mass media, especially television, has also contributed to some social evils like violence through broadcast of programs which are violent in nature like wrestling or episodes of unnecessary wars. The effect of this has been found to affect severely the children and the youth as depicted in the media's effect cultivation theory. This theory, developed by George Gerbner, has in its fundamental claim that persistent long-term exposure to television content has little but measurable effects on the perceptual worlds of audience members (Entman 121-122). Gerbner further claims that heavy television viewing creates an exaggerated belief in a "mean and scary world" and that television has surpassed religion as the key storyteller of our culture (Carrie & Bonds 56). The theory is most famous for its applications to the correlations between media violence and violent behavior and according to Gerbner, the children, elderly, African-Americans, Latinos, women and the less educated are often the victims of television violence (Bryant & Zillman 46-7). Television is not a reflection of the world but a world in itself and a kind of modern day religion that affects every aspect of social life of its audience. People cultivate perceptions of reality by television, meaning that they make assumptions about others, places and things from fictional sitcoms, soap operas, dramas and television news all of which have direct impact on social decisions and actions (Gerbner et al, 17-40). From fictional sitcoms, people tend to take the fiction in them seriously and even go to an extent of reflecting them on their life. From soap operas, they take the stage acting as a real life situation; many envying to live the 'movie superstar's life' forgetting that it is only stage managed. Dramas have similar effects too while the effect of the news is variable depending on its content and area of coverage. For instance, news showing people striking or demonstrating for their rights ends up spreading the message that striking and demonstrating are the solutions to oppression and decaying societal morals. If such news receives countrywide coverage, mass revolts may be opted for instead of conventional democratic processes and political dialogues.
The repetitive nature of mass-produced messages and images forms the conventional symbolic environment that people base their perceptions on. For example, most of television programs are commercially designed to be watched by nearly everyone in a moderately nonselective fashion. This design is aimed at widening the target audience. Newsprints and radio programs may also have the same strategy. These strategies cultivate the very predispositions and preferences that used to be acquired from other primary sources like parental counseling and are largely contributed by the continuous absence of parents to preoccupy their children with other activities and to monitor their habits of utilizing the mass media. Children who watch violent television programs like wrestling end up being violent and aggressive in schools (UCLA Center for Communication Policy par 2-14). Later in life, they become more prone to being on the wrong side of law. They grow seeing incidences of violence in these programs whose effects are gradual. At first, they may not be influenced much but as time elapses, they unconsciously start engaging in violence when faced with some situations since their minds are already preformed to think that violence can solve problems better. In fact, in 1993, at a conference of the National Council for Families and Television, it was estimated that 10% of the violence in the United States result from television viewing (UCLA Center for Communication Policy par 2-14). Television violence incidences forms a necessary part of plot and character development accurately portraying real life and it is responsible for actual violence in society, a diehard social issue in many societies.
Social moral decadence has also been compromised to some extent by the media. When the society gets exposed to some other cultures through the mass media, their moral values become affected. This effect is more rampant in developing countries in the East and in Sub-Saharan Africa where western culture has been of great influence to the youth propagated by the mass media whose coverage extends that far. Western hip-hop music which seems to glorify social evils like adultery, demeaning the feminine as sexual pet, fornication and use of vulgar language is of great impact to the youths who tend to give a try to whatever they hear or see. Evidently, the youths' modes of dressing have changed from decent wear to scanty clothes whereas cases of premarital pregnancies have been on the rise ostensibly perpetuated by glorification of sex. To this effect the media which is supposed to be the societal guider in maintaining morals and preventing social evils, acts contrarily by promoting them.
The role of media in propagating environmental issues is an area of concern to many who view it as a champion of societal good. Media coverage has in many instances failed in sensitizing environmental issues facing the society such as global warming, climatic change and resource depletion, loss of biodiversity, pollution, land degradation and global dimming. Instead of having enlightening coverage of the issues, they make them a liberal versus conservative or science vs. scientific hype issues (Boykoff & Boykoff par 1-10). Instead of doing analysis, they drive the issues into political discussions, because they draw better media ratings from making politics out of virtually everything that is contentious.
Environmental issues are real and usually find their way into the media, but only in ways that are not so important. They are relegated to the periphery of importance compared to all other topics of media coverage (Kester, 2008). Most media channels do not comprehend the consequences of environmental relapse until the society is faced with them in such a way there is a radical change in the lifestyles of the people. This reflects the fact that many modern journalists find environmental issues unrealistic and not worthy of descriptions that endear journalists to their clients. The old aspirations of journalists to report societal ills and imbalances are equated with words like "fairness," "accuracy," "balance," "comprehensiveness" and "truth" only if these describe the more important aspects of news coverage of which environment is not as appealing until its issues are grave.
In terms of arising issues, journalists are taught to abide by the norm of balance; identifying the most prevailing, widespread positions and then telling "both" sides of the story. Balance aims at attaining neutrality. It requires that reporters present the views of legitimate spokespersons of the conflicting sides in any significant dispute, and provide both sides with roughly equal attention. Balanced coverage does not, however, always mean accurate coverage. In terms of environmental issues, "balance" may allow skepticism. Many skeptics most of whom have vested interests in environmental issues or are not able to appreciate environmental responsibility opting for other forms detrimental to it, use every coverage opportunity to take control of the media (Boykoff & Boykoff par 1-10). This is exemplified in the case where carbon based industries fund environmental skeptics to come up with theories contradicting the known causes of global warming in a desperate move to keep themselves in business.
On the positive, media coverage can be praised for its efforts in counteracting some social and environmental issues. Mass media coverage promotes civic education to the society; teaching people about their civic rights and enabling them to understand their leaders and the government better (Anderson & Meyer 67). Through such coverage, social issues such as injustice, suppression of human rights, social or gender discrimination and affirmative action have been well and clearly highlighted in the society promoting democracy and a unified community whereby all people are equal as per the provisions of their country constitutions. Without civic education, people fail to know their constitutional rights and are likely to be oppressed.
Media comes first as the most trusted institution by many people even before judiciary or the government in contemporary society. Due to this, mass media has for a long time been the people's watchdog; monitoring the government and its agents, other agencies and peer journalistic establishments in their activities. As a result, social issues like corruption have been reduced in places where effective media exist.
Nowadays, people have become busy in their jobs and businesses thereby giving little regard to social development of their children on issues like sex education and drug control. This can also be attributed to the fact that some parents fear their children reaction when they initiate these topics. Mass media has been left as the only tool for teaching these topics on a neutral ground evidential in many counseling programs in media broadcasts. Counseling programs do not only benefit the children. Parents also have their share on late night programs which target societal issues like marriages, sex education, societal relationships and politics. In so doing, media coverage helps in providing the necessary information to them on these topics and thus mitigating the long term effects of such societal issues.
Media also has played its role as a gatekeeper; mediating the flow of messages by incorporating a diverse and unbiased range of political perspectives and social actors. Through this role, the media facilitates conflict managements which are serious social issues facing many countries. For example, the resigned acceptance in Russia, ethnic violence in Kenya and protests in Turkey and Mexico, the political turmoil and cholera crisis in Zimbabwe, the middle east crisis and many more.
Mass media as people's watchdog has been monitoring government concern toward environment by covering its environmental crusades and since the government needs to appeal to its citizens, it has continually intervened in instances where environmental degradation threatens the very comfort of its citizens. This has somewhat minimized most environmental crises around the world. Media coverage on environmental issues like draughts, pollution and environmental degradation has helped to highlight areas of the environment that are seriously affected. This coverage attract the attention of 'would be problems solvers' like the non governmental organizations (NGOs) or community based organizations (CBOs) and other advocates of environmental sanity and sustainability who could not have known the magnitude of the problems had the media not highlighted them. The extensive coverage of the mass media in almost all regions is due to the fact that most media houses have reporters based at grass root levels and who are primary witnesses of devastating societal disregard for environmental responsibility, circumstances that they sometimes report with a passion.
During crises like droughts, famine or any other serious environmental or social issue, media coverage plays a significant role in organizing well wishers who are ready to help in such situations. As an example, following the recent draughts and escalating prices of consumer goods early this year, Kenyan media houses hit international news headlines by organizing one of the most successful campaign of its kind in history dubbed Kenya in twenty four hours, whereby well able citizens dropped off food donations at strategic points during the stipulated twenty four hours. These donations were later forwarded to specific NGOs for distribution. In such a case, media coverage played an important role in highlighting the plight of the less fortunate and organizing the citizens towards their rescue.
The role of media coverage on social and environmental issues remains central to its measure of strength in serving the society. The population covered by media consists of people with diversified characters, opinions, educational backgrounds, and religion and thus the influence of media on them varies as a function of how effective the coverage is the kind of media in use and what the journalists consider profitable and appropriate for its client audience. Media has negative as well as positive characteristics. Its negative characteristics are exemplified in its inability to transmit tacit knowledge, manipulation of large groups of people through its outlets, biasness and its inability to act as peoples' watchdog to wrongs happening in the society while on the positive, media acts as the watchdog on social and environmental enlightener and as a gatekeeper to societal virtues. Evidences adduced herein suggests that, in reality, the show of media systems frequently fall far short of lofty desires, with important costs for the workings of the civic sphere and the general society. Whereas the media has faltered in many instances in its core coverage roles, it is also important to note that it has continue to maintain a positive relationship with both social and environmental issues facing the society.
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