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The Arrangement is a 1969 film drama film directed by Elia Kazan, based upon his 1967 novel of the same title.

It tells the story of Evangelos Topouzoglou, a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson" (his second pseudonym). Eddie/Evangelos is portrayed by Kirk Douglas.

Eddie is suicidal and slowly having a psychotic breakdown. He is miserable at home in his marriage to his wife, Florence, played by Deborah Kerr, and with his career. He is engaged in a torrid affair with his mistress and co-worker Gwen (Faye Dunaway), and is forced to re-evaluate his life and its priorities while dealing with his willful and aging father (Richard Boone).

Plot
Wealthy ad man Eddie Anderson attempts suicide by swerving his sportscar underneath a tractor trailer. Throughout the film, flashbacks—some memories, some hallucinations—reveal his contempt for his life and its "arrangements." His contentious relationship with his Greek father, Sam Arness—a once-successful importer who despises Eddie for further Anglicizing his name, going to college and refusing to follow the family business—is made worse by Sam's accelerating brain damage from arteriosclerosis. Eddie's long marriage to Florence is now devoid of passion on his part and full of frustration on hers. Arthur, the family lawyer, advises her, to Eddie's disadvantage. Florence's psychoanalyst, Dr. Leibman, also weighs in. Eddie and Gwen, a research assistant at his advertising agency, have been lovers.

Eddie returns to work, where he insults a valued tobacco client by referring to "the big C". He falls afoul of the police by buzzing L.A. in a small plane. Searching for his pilot's license, Florence finds nude photographs of Eddie and Gwen, just as Eddie learns that his father is in a New York City hospital.

In New York, Eddie's brother and sister-in-law want to place Sam in a nursing home, to ease the burden on their long-suffering mother, a burden made worse by Sam's violent paranoia and his insistence on starting a new business. Gwen is also in New York, living with Charles, who tells Eddie how devastated she was by their breakup. Gwen describes her own calculatedly promiscuous behavior to Eddie, behavior that Charles tolerates on the understanding that in the end, they will marry. She has a baby boy, Andy. She does not know who the father is.

Gwen and Eddie become lovers.

Florence follows Eddie to New York. She wants him to come home and work on the "reconstruction" of their marriage. She dismisses Eddie's desire to look after his father himself and explodes when he tells her he was with Gwen.

With the doctor's help, Eddie smuggles Sam out of the hospital to the family home, a huge Victorian mansion on Long Island Sound. Sam calls him Evangelos, stirring powerful memories. Gwen offers to be Eddie's mistress after she marries George, but Eddie insists that he is going to marry her.

Eddie cannot give Sam the money to start up his imaginary business, so decades of pent-up anger explode: Eddie admits he is ashamed of him. While Eddie and Gwen are out in a boat, the family removes Sam by force. Charles takes Gwen and the baby away.

Increasingly distracted, Eddie ultimately confronts the "successful" man that he was. Arthur interrupts this dialogue when he arrives from L.A. Arthur, Florence, and Dr. Liebman press Eddie to turn over all of his community property to Florence. She tells him not to sign, but he does, (using Arthur's name).

In a private conversation with Eddie, Florence confesses her love, She will "stick with him through anything." But when Eddie says he wants to "do absolutely nothing" she replies "Fine. What will you do?" He wants to take time to think—which means selling their lavish holdings and living more simply. Florence simply cannot understand, and her jealousy of Gwen overwhelms her. Eddie accuses her—correctly—of talking to Arthur about committing him.

At the commitment hearing, we learn that Eddie subsequently set fire to the family home and we glimpse the alter egos at each other's throats. Eddie does not explain a gunshot wound: We see that Charles shot him in Gwen's apartment. Eddie asks to go to a psychiatric hospital. The judge tells Gwen that Eddie can release himself at any time by proving he has a job and a home.

Eddie seems to be content among his new friends at the asylum, but Gwen lures him out to try again. Eddie is reconciled to his dying father and tells Gwen that they both wanted the same thing—another chance. He tells her that he loves her. She thanks him and smiles. The final  scene is at Sam's interment, where Florence gives Gwen a wry smile. The last shot is of Eddie smiling gently as his father's coffin is lowered into the grave.

Cast
 Kirk Douglas as Eddie Anderson
 Faye Dunaway as Gwen
 Deborah Kerr as Florence
 Richard Boone as Sam
 Hume Cronyn as Arthur
 Harold Gould as Dr. Leibman
 Michael Murphy as Father Draddy
 Carol Rossen as Gloria
 John Randolph Jones as Charles
 Dianne Hull as Ellen Anderson
 Charles Drake as Finnegan
 Barry Sullivan as Chet Collier (uncredited)

Production
Kazan wanted Eddie to be portrayed by Marlon Brando, who Kazan felt could bring a greater depth to the role and bring it close to the character portrayed in the novel and who had experienced great success with Kazan previously in the films A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, and On the Waterfront. However, Brando refused to take the role, stating that he had no interest in making a film so soon after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Kazan felt this to be a dodge on Brando's part and wondered if the real reasons had more to do with Brando's increasing weight or receding hairline.

Production was shut down twice, with Douglas catching Hong Kong Flu three times.

Reception
The film has a rating of 15% based on 13 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that it "reeks with slightly absurd movie chic but, unlike Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind or Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town, it's not only not much fun, but it's a mess of borrowed styles. What's worse is that it may be largely incomprehensible, on a simple narrative level, unless one has read Kazan's best-selling, 543-page short story that the director has more or less synopsized in his movie." Variety called it "a confused, overly-contrived and overlength film peopled with a set of characters about whom the spectator couldn't care less."

Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 in a more mixed review, writing that it was "one of those long, ponderous, star-filled 'serious' films that were popular in the 1950s, before we began to value style more highly than the director's good intentions. It isn't successful, particularly not on Kazan's terms (he sees it, doubtless, as a bitter sermon on the consequences of selling out). But it does draw nourishment from the remarkable performances of Kirk Douglas and Faye Dunaway." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave it 2 stars out of 4, writing that Kazan "fails to give us a clear characterization of Eddie or the people in his life. What tensions are revealed are clouded by basic directing errors ... It would be nice to excuse Kazan's direction by saying that he was forced to jazz up a weak script, but he wrote the script too."

Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote, "If one did not know that Kazan is a major figure in films, one would find nothing in the way this movie has been made to suggest it. The direction is tight and almost cruelly coercive of the actors. There's nothing in this movie that looks spontaneous, either in the direction or the acting. The actors have no life of their own as performers, no trace of invention; they're just shouting ciphers, acting out ready-made popular ideas about selling out." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "The personal passion which informed the novel is still present in the movie, but on the screen the passion is so compromised and weakened by what passes for technique and invention that it becomes only an intermittent echo." Tony Mastroianni in The Cleveland Press referred to the film as a "bad novel [that] didn't improve very much in the transfer [to film]. Philip Strick of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the film "turns out to have said no more in 125 minutes than it stated during the first six."

See also
 List of American films of 1969

References

External links

1969 films
1969 drama films
Adultery in films
American drama films
1960s English-language films
Films about advertising
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Elia Kazan
Films scored by David Amram
Films set in Los Angeles
Films about mental health
Warner Bros. films
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Evaluation of occupational exposure to EMF from walk-through metal detectors.
Moss CE
American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, May 9-15, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia. Fairfax, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association, 1998 May; :37
Over the last several years the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has received several requests to evaluate occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated by metal detectors used for various security purposes. In 1996 NIOSH evaluated 52 different walk-through arch-style and several handheld metal detectors at 35 United States courthouses located in 15 states. We found no other publications or reports that had measured the EMF exposure from these security devices. However, a few reports did address potential biological effects of walk-through detectors in individuals having pacemakers. Measurements of subradio-frequency magnetic fields, both extremely low frequency (ELF) and very low frequency (VLF), were made both inside the arch as well as outside and away from the surface of the arch. In addition, measurements were made at actual employee location to verify personal exposure levels. During the evaluation, both old and new model metal detectors were evaluated; however, most of the units evaluated were new (less than 5 years old) and all were in good operating conditions. On older models magnetic fields were produced on only one side of the arch, while on the newer units magnetic fields were generated on both sides. The metal detector systems measured in this evaluation are capable of producing fields up to about 50,000 Hz. Equipment used to measure these fields were the EMDEX II exposure system, Multiwave System II waveform capture instrument, Holiday Industries, Inc. Model HI- 3637 three-axis VLF magnetic field meter, and a Hewlett-Packard Model 3561A Digital Signal Analyzer with a special calibrated antenna. The maximum inside arch magnetic field level was 2736 milligauss (mG) in the ELF region and 600 mG in the VLF region, while outside the arch magnetic field levels were 2400 mG (ELF) and 1200 mG (VLF). The results of these measurements indicate that personnel who work in close proximity to these units, under normal operating conditions, are not exposed to magnetic field levels in the subradio- frequency regions in excess of occupational guidelines promulgated by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
Electronic-devices; Electronic-equipment; Exposure-assessment; Exposure-levels; Exposure-limits; Electromagnetic-fields; Magnetic-fields; Metals; Detectors; Warning-devices; Signal-devices; Law-enforcement-workers; Measurement-equipment; Nonionizing-radiation
American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, May 9-15, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia
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// Copyright 2000-2021 JetBrains s.r.o. and contributors. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package com.intellij.ide.fileTemplates.impl;

import com.intellij.ide.fileTemplates.FileTemplateManager;
import com.intellij.ide.plugins.DynamicPluginListener;
import com.intellij.ide.plugins.IdeaPluginDescriptor;
import com.intellij.ide.plugins.IdeaPluginDescriptorImpl;
import com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManagerCore;
import com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginAwareClassLoader;
import com.intellij.openapi.Disposable;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.ApplicationManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.PathManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.ClearableLazyValue;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtilRt;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.objectTree.ThrowableInterner;
import com.intellij.project.ProjectKt;
import com.intellij.util.ReflectionUtil;
import com.intellij.util.UriUtil;
import com.intellij.util.containers.MultiMap;
import com.intellij.util.io.URLUtil;
import org.apache.velocity.runtime.ParserPool;
import org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeServices;
import org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeSingleton;
import org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Stop;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * Serves as a container for all existing template manager types and loads corresponding templates lazily.
 * Reloads templates on plugins change.
 */
class FileTemplatesLoader implements Disposable {
  private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance(FileTemplatesLoader.class);

  static final String TEMPLATES_DIR = "fileTemplates";
  private static final String DEFAULT_TEMPLATES_ROOT = TEMPLATES_DIR;
  private static final String DESCRIPTION_FILE_EXTENSION = "html";
  private static final String DESCRIPTION_EXTENSION_SUFFIX = "." + DESCRIPTION_FILE_EXTENSION;

  private static final Map<String, String> MANAGER_TO_DIR = Map.of(
    FileTemplateManager.DEFAULT_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY, "",
    FileTemplateManager.INTERNAL_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY, "internal",
    FileTemplateManager.INCLUDES_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY, "includes",
    FileTemplateManager.CODE_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY, "code",
    FileTemplateManager.J2EE_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY, "j2ee"
  );

  private final ClearableLazyValue<LoadedConfiguration> myManagers;

  FileTemplatesLoader(@Nullable Project project) {
    myManagers = ClearableLazyValue.createAtomic(() -> loadConfiguration(project));
    ApplicationManager.getApplication().getMessageBus().connect(this).subscribe(DynamicPluginListener.TOPIC, new DynamicPluginListener() {
      @Override
      public void beforePluginUnload(@NotNull IdeaPluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor, boolean isUpdate) {
        // this shouldn't be necessary once we update to a new Velocity Engine with this leak fixed (IDEA-240449, IDEABKL-7932)
        clearClassLeakViaStaticExceptionTrace();
        resetParserPool();
      }

      private void clearClassLeakViaStaticExceptionTrace() {
        Field field = ReflectionUtil.getDeclaredField(Stop.class, "STOP_ALL");
        if (field != null) {
          try {
            ThrowableInterner.clearBacktrace((Throwable)field.get(null));
          }
          catch (Throwable e) {
            LOG.info(e);
          }
        }
      }

      private void resetParserPool() {
        try {
          RuntimeServices ri = RuntimeSingleton.getRuntimeServices();
          Field ppField = ReflectionUtil.getDeclaredField(ri.getClass(), "parserPool");
          if (ppField != null) {
            Object pp = ppField.get(ri);
            if (pp instanceof ParserPool) {
              ((ParserPool)pp).initialize(ri);
            }
          }
        }
        catch (Throwable e) {
          LOG.info(e);
        }
      }

      @Override
      public void pluginLoaded(@NotNull IdeaPluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor) {
        myManagers.drop();
      }

      @Override
      public void pluginUnloaded(@NotNull IdeaPluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor, boolean isUpdate) {
        myManagers.drop();
      }
    });
  }

  @Override
  public void dispose() {}

  @NotNull Collection<@NotNull FTManager> getAllManagers() {
    return myManagers.getValue().getManagers();
  }

  @NotNull
  FTManager getDefaultTemplatesManager() {
    return new FTManager(myManagers.getValue().getManager(FileTemplateManager.DEFAULT_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY));
  }

  @NotNull
  FTManager getInternalTemplatesManager() {
    return new FTManager(myManagers.getValue().getManager(FileTemplateManager.INTERNAL_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY));
  }

  @NotNull
  FTManager getPatternsManager() {
    return new FTManager(myManagers.getValue().getManager(FileTemplateManager.INCLUDES_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY));
  }

  @NotNull
  FTManager getCodeTemplatesManager() {
    return new FTManager(myManagers.getValue().getManager(FileTemplateManager.CODE_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY));
  }

  @NotNull
  FTManager getJ2eeTemplatesManager() {
    return new FTManager(myManagers.getValue().getManager(FileTemplateManager.J2EE_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY));
  }

  URL getDefaultTemplateDescription() {
    return myManagers.getValue().defaultTemplateDescription;
  }

  URL getDefaultIncludeDescription() {
    return myManagers.getValue().defaultIncludeDescription;
  }

  private static LoadedConfiguration loadConfiguration(@Nullable Project project) {
    Path configDir;
    if (project == null || project.isDefault()) {
      configDir = PathManager.getConfigDir().resolve(TEMPLATES_DIR);
    }
    else {
      configDir = ProjectKt.getStateStore(project).getProjectFilePath().getParent().resolve(TEMPLATES_DIR);
    }

    FileTemplateLoadResult result = loadDefaultTemplates(new ArrayList<>(MANAGER_TO_DIR.values()));
    Map<String, FTManager> managers = new HashMap<>();
    for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry: MANAGER_TO_DIR.entrySet()) {
      String name = entry.getKey();
      String pathPrefix = entry.getValue();
      FTManager manager = new FTManager(name, configDir.resolve(pathPrefix),
                                        name.equals(FileTemplateManager.INTERNAL_TEMPLATES_CATEGORY));
      manager.setDefaultTemplates(result.getResult().get(pathPrefix));
      manager.loadCustomizedContent();
      managers.put(name, manager);
    }

    return new LoadedConfiguration(managers, result.getDefaultTemplateDescription(), result.getDefaultIncludeDescription());
  }

  private static @NotNull FileTemplateLoadResult loadDefaultTemplates(@NotNull List<String> prefixes) {
    FileTemplateLoadResult result = new FileTemplateLoadResult(new MultiMap<>());
    Set<URL> processedUrls = new HashSet<>();
    Set<ClassLoader> processedLoaders = Collections.newSetFromMap(new IdentityHashMap<>());
    for (IdeaPluginDescriptorImpl plugin : PluginManagerCore.getPluginSet().enabledPlugins) {
      ClassLoader loader = plugin.getClassLoader();
      if (((loader instanceof PluginAwareClassLoader) && ((PluginAwareClassLoader)loader).getFiles().isEmpty()) ||
          !processedLoaders.add(loader)) {
        // test or development mode, when IDEA_CORE's loader contains all the classpath
        continue;
      }

      try {
        Enumeration<URL> systemResources = loader.getResources(DEFAULT_TEMPLATES_ROOT);
        while (systemResources.hasMoreElements()) {
          URL url = systemResources.nextElement();
          if (!processedUrls.add(url)) {
            continue;
          }

          List<String> children = UrlUtil.getChildrenRelativePaths(url);
          if (!children.isEmpty()) {
            loadDefaultsFromRoot(url, children, prefixes, result);
          }
        }
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
        LOG.error(e);
      }
    }
    return result;
  }

  private static void loadDefaultsFromRoot(@NotNull URL root,
                                           @NotNull List<String> children,
                                           @NotNull List<String> prefixes,
                                           @NotNull FileTemplateLoadResult result) throws IOException {
    Set<String> descriptionPaths = new HashSet<>();
    for (String path : children) {
      if (path.equals("default.html")) {
        result.setDefaultTemplateDescription(
          URLUtil.internProtocol(new URL(UriUtil.trimTrailingSlashes(root.toExternalForm()) + "/" + path)));
      }
      else if (path.equals("includes/default.html")) {
        result.setDefaultIncludeDescription(URLUtil.internProtocol(new URL(UriUtil.trimTrailingSlashes(root.toExternalForm()) + "/" + path)));
      }
      else if (path.endsWith(DESCRIPTION_EXTENSION_SUFFIX)) {
        descriptionPaths.add(path);
      }
    }

    for (String path : children) {
      if (!path.endsWith(FTManager.TEMPLATE_EXTENSION_SUFFIX)) {
        continue;
      }

      for (String prefix : prefixes) {
        if (!matchesPrefix(path, prefix)) {
          continue;
        }

        String filename = path.substring(prefix.isEmpty() ? 0 : prefix.length() + 1, path.length() - FTManager.TEMPLATE_EXTENSION_SUFFIX.length());
        String extension = FileUtilRt.getExtension(filename);
        String templateName = filename.substring(0, filename.length() - extension.length() - 1);
        URL templateUrl = URLUtil.internProtocol(new URL(UriUtil.trimTrailingSlashes(root.toExternalForm()) + "/" + path));
        String descriptionPath = getDescriptionPath(prefix, templateName, extension, descriptionPaths);
        URL descriptionUrl = descriptionPath == null ? null :
                             URLUtil.internProtocol(new URL(UriUtil.trimTrailingSlashes(root.toExternalForm()) + "/" + descriptionPath));
        assert templateUrl != null;
        result.getResult().putValue(prefix, new DefaultTemplate(templateName, extension, templateUrl, descriptionUrl, descriptionPath));
        // FTManagers loop
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  private static boolean matchesPrefix(@NotNull String path, @NotNull String prefix) {
    if (prefix.isEmpty()) {
      return path.indexOf('/') == -1;
    }
    return FileUtil.startsWith(path, prefix) && path.indexOf('/', prefix.length() + 1) == -1;
  }

  //Example: templateName="NewClass"   templateExtension="java"
  private static @Nullable String getDescriptionPath(@NotNull String pathPrefix,
                                                     @NotNull String templateName,
                                                     @NotNull String templateExtension,
                                                     @NotNull Set<String> descriptionPaths) {
    final Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();

    String descName = MessageFormat
      .format("{0}.{1}_{2}_{3}" + DESCRIPTION_EXTENSION_SUFFIX, templateName, templateExtension,
              locale.getLanguage(), locale.getCountry());
    String descPath = pathPrefix.isEmpty() ? descName : pathPrefix + "/" + descName;
    if (descriptionPaths.contains(descPath)) {
      return descPath;
    }

    descName = MessageFormat.format("{0}.{1}_{2}" + DESCRIPTION_EXTENSION_SUFFIX, templateName, templateExtension, locale.getLanguage());
    descPath = pathPrefix.isEmpty() ? descName : pathPrefix + "/" + descName;
    if (descriptionPaths.contains(descPath)) {
      return descPath;
    }

    descName = templateName + "." + templateExtension + DESCRIPTION_EXTENSION_SUFFIX;
    descPath = pathPrefix.isEmpty() ? descName : pathPrefix + "/" + descName;
    if (descriptionPaths.contains(descPath)) {
      return descPath;
    }
    return null;
  }

  private static class LoadedConfiguration {
    public final URL defaultTemplateDescription;
    public final URL defaultIncludeDescription;

    private final Map<String, FTManager> myManagers;

    LoadedConfiguration(@NotNull Map<String, FTManager> managers,
                        URL defaultTemplateDescription,
                        URL defaultIncludeDescription) {

      myManagers = Collections.unmodifiableMap(managers);
      this.defaultTemplateDescription = defaultTemplateDescription;
      this.defaultIncludeDescription = defaultIncludeDescription;
    }

    public FTManager getManager(@NotNull String kind) {
      return myManagers.get(kind);
    }

    public Collection<FTManager> getManagers() {
      return myManagers.values();
    }
  }
}

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Editorial: Journalism more important now than ever
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It goes without saying that at The Whit we value the role journalism and recognize its importance. It is because we recognize these things, that as a staff, we are discouraged and worried by the president's and the public's current attitude toward the media in the United States.
Over the course of the presidential campaign, President Donald J. Trump constantly berated the media and directed his supporters to help him do so during rallies. Sean Spicer, the new administration's White House press secretary, has fussed about unfair coverage from different sources. He most recently entered into a war with the industry over the size of the president's inauguration crowd and about the nature of facts themselves.
But Trump and his team's ability to act this way hasn't come from a vacuum. A decades long tumble in the public's trust in the media created an atmosphere begging for a campaign willing to demonize reporters and their outlets.
A newfound reliance on partisan television and online websites over traditional news outlets has pushed both sides of the political spectrum to its fringes. An impression has been created that anything which reports findings contrary to what you would like to believe, is biased. And not only is it biased, but it's outwardly and embarrassingly so.
There was a time when the nation's most trusted man was a newscaster. Now, newscasters barely even get to mention the facts as they are, overshadowed instead by the squabbling of talking heads arguing along dichotomous political lines and often on the payroll of the network itself.
That citizens continue to seek journalism at all is evidence that they haven't lost sight of its necessity.
The conclusion then may be that "the media" has actually earned the distrust that many citizens feel. As a collective, it has failed to fully realize the potential of the internet without simultaneously destroying its business model. As a collective, it has failed to consistently present unbiased, well-reported and meaningful stories. And as a collective, it failed to shift focus away from the horse race and nonsense of the most volatile and divisive campaign in recent memory, if not ever.
But that is not to say that all media is failing, or that the role of reporting and journalism should be forgotten. That citizens continue to seek journalism at all is evidence that they haven't lost sight of its necessity. Newspapers like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others (mainly of which are state and local papers) have continued to do honest, factual and important reporting.
To those who find themselves upset with the current state of the media, and who perceive it to be as bitterly divided along partisan lines as the public itself, these outlets may just be the answer. Articles, video clips, stories and graphics can be shared so that it appears like everything coming from one outlet is taking the same side. It's only upon waking up and reading, not what as shared on your Facebook and Twitter feed, but whatever is in the paper, that you'll realize these outlets have not lost sense of their mission to be unbiased.
But both the media and the public need to work harder at creating real content, and at seeking out the best of the content being created by others. But it starts with you, just like every other part of this democracy.
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Stuart Hall (Kingston, 3 de febrer de 1932 - Londres, 10 de febrer de 2014) va ser un teòric cultural i sociòleg jamaicà, establert a Anglaterra des de 1951 fins a la seva mort. Al costat de Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart i I. P. Thompson, fou un dels principals referents dels Estudis culturals. Hoggart va fundar en 1964 el Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies a la Universitat de Birmingham i va convidar a Hall a integrar l'equip de recerca. Hall va presidir el centre entre 1968 i 1979. Més tard va ser professor de la Universitat Oberta del Regne Unit, finalitzant els seus estudis en 1997 i conservant el títol de Professor Emèrit.
De tendència marxista, els seus principals referents van ser el propi Marx, l'italià Antonio Gramsci i Raymond Williams. Els seus estudis giren entorn del concepte gramscià d'hegemonia i la seva relació amb els mitjans de comunicació i la cultura popular. En aquest últim, és conegut el seu model de codificació/ descodificació, recollit en el seu llibre Stuart Hall: Critical dialogues in cultural studies (2001, Routledge) on reflexiona sobre la varietat de significats que poden tenir els missatges emesos pels mitjans de comunicació en el que, a través de com van codificats i com es descodifican, es pot extreure diferents significats.

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Comunistes britànics
Escriptors britànics en anglès
Morts el 2014
Persones de Kingston
Sociòlegs britànics
Alumnes de la Universitat d'Oxford
Alumnes del Merton College (Oxford)
Morts a Londres
Sociòlegs americans
Comunistes americans
Escriptors americans

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Q: Getting Facebook albums details in C# I need help in C# http request for getting photo album name from graph api explorer. I tried . here is my code:
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(textBox1.Text))
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Hi give Token " );
            return;
        }
        var FBtoken = textBox1.Text;
        var fb = new FacebookClient(FBtoken);

        dynamic result = fb.Get("me?fields=albums{name}");
        var name = result.albums.data.name;

        MessageBox.Show("Hi " + name);

here I tried to get album name to create a directory to save album photo.

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Tips on how to create excellent customer service.
Customer service is the life blood of any organisation. Done well, it can spiral your financials in a rapid upward fashion, done badly, it can ruin your business.
Today's world is social, give a consumer a bad experience and you can expect it to be tweeted, griped about on Facebook, potentially even blogged about and shared on LinkedIn. The larger companies have processes and PR companies in place to try and twist the negative press, but for SME and start ups, it is imperative to try and avoid negativity in the first place.
Treat every customer like you want to be treated. We all hate poor customer service, we have all moaned when being placed on hold for hours, and we all know companies we wouldn't give business to again because of the salesperson attitude, or the way we were treated.
My business mantra is to treat every customer like they are my biggest investor; everyone I work with gets the platinum service.
I have processes in my business that help me improve my customer service strategy. I have alerts set up on Google so I can track what my customers are saying. I make it a point to find them on social networks so I can hear what they are saying and engage with them through a different platform. I have a sophisticated piece of call centre software, that ensures all of my calls are dealt with quickly and professionally. It is also a fantastic after sales tool that impacts my customer base and leaves my clients feeling like they are golddust.
Always call someone back, even if you don't know what the call is regarding – seize the opportunity and give the right first impression from the word go.
Smile – whether you are on the phone or in person. People buy from people, and not many purchase goods or services from a scowl.
Listen to what the customer wants and needs, the mantra the customer is always right didn't come out of nowhere.
Train your staff and set expectations. If good customer service is to be at the heart of your business ensure they have the training to replicate your standards.
Admit if you get it wrong. If something happens that hasn't gone to plan, don't be afraid to hold up your hand and say you are sorry. It is how you deal with errors that form a lasting impression, not the original error.


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So now that my map is released I feel that I should help some people out with my discoveries in destructible scenery and help icetiger out with LOD's.
It's actually really simple once you figure out how it works.
First to set up levels of detail you need to create 5 different models for your object. the easiest way that I know of to do this is to create the highest detail model then use the multires modifier to create the lower detailed models.
once that's done export each model seperately, the way you normally would.
but each one has to have a specific name when exported.
then when you compile your model in tool you will have five different levels of detail. when editing the gbxmodel tag in gorilla you will notice you now have five geometry blocks 0 thru 4.
at the top of the gbxmodel tag there is a place to set the cutoff point of each LOD. you can use other models as a reference for this.
create an intact model and a destroyed model.
when exporting the models name the intact model superhigh.jms (or anything you want) and name the destroyed model ~damaged.jms . when you compile in tool it will compile both files into one gbxmodel tag.
then when you edit the gbxmodel tag in guerilla there will be two permutations. One is _base and one is ~damaged.
Now you need to edit the collision tag.
I suggest between 50 to 100 but it depends on what it is.
now scroll down to materials and choose the material you chose at the top. and set the body damage multiplier to 1.
now your object should be destructible. If your having trouble getting it to have an explosion. it has to do with markers and effects. if you need help let me know and I can help you out on that.
none of this should be too confusing, but if anyone is confused I'll add pictures.


If you listen to traditional recovery advice at AA or NA meetings, you will hear that recovery is simple. People love to say that the solution is simple, just follow this simple program, and everything will get better. They love to say "the solution is simple." This is said mostly out of fear. In a way, we all want for the solution to be simple.
I am not so sure that addiction is a simple issue, and therefore it may follow that recovery is not necessarily simple either. But even if addiction is complicated, this does not necessarily mean that the solution has to be complicated. Then again, maybe it is complicated. Addiction is often complicated by side issues such as abuse, low self esteem, or even pain and health issues. My guess is that real addiction (and alcoholism) is rarely simple. Sure, we drink because we like to get drunk. And we get high because that is what we learned how to cope with life. But I believe that there may always be complicated issues underlying all of that.
What we can do though is to try to boil it down to a few simple strategies that can hopefully amount to big changes. Even if addiction itself is complicated, perhaps we can still simplify our recovery.
If I look back at my years of successful recovery, I can see that some things that I did were very helpful, while others things were just slightly useful. Not every suggestion that I took turned out to be a slam dunk success. That said, I want to pass on what was has been most helpful to me so that other people know better what to focus on for successful recovery.
For example, let's say that you go to a few AA meetings and take notes while you are at them for suggestions on what to do for your recovery. If you try this (as I once did) then you will quickly realize that while you can certainly implement some of the suggestions, there is no way that you can possibly implement them all. There is simply not enough time in one day to make use of all of the suggestions. Even if you have the very best intentions and want to take any and every positive suggestion that you hear, there is no way that you can possibly do it all (or even try it all, really). You must pick and choose and therefore proiritize.
This is why I take some issue with the people in AA meetings who try to claim that "the solution is simple." They want to tell you to just show up to meetings every day, take the suggestions, and follow through with positive action. This is true to some extent but obviously the real solution is a bit trickier to implement in your real life.
So in my early recovery I tried to take as many suggestions as possible, and in doing so I learned what worked well for me and what did not. But I also worked in a treatment center for several years and was also able to observe hundreds of other people in addiction treatment, and therefore was able to get some evidence of what worked and did not work for others. Because of the position I was in at the rehab I was able to talk with many people and get feedback about how their recovery efforts had worked out for them.
2) Taking daily positive action.
Let me explain in detail how both of these strategies worked and played out for me.
This sounds like a tactic at first but it can actually be part of a greater strategy. This is because it can change how you think in your day to day life, altering your entire mindset.
You can still make a mental agreement with yourself to stop thinking about relapse after you NOTICE.
In other words, this is about raising your awareness. As soon as you notice yourself starting to think about what it might be like to use alcohol or an addictive drug, you force yourself to start thinking about something else. This is not impossible to do. You simply distract yourself and move on with something else. You do not allow yourself to dwell on thoughts of relapse.
It is easy to get caught up in a fantasy of getting drunk or high. It is easy to remember the good times that we had with our drug of choice. But if we allow ourselves to dwell on those thoughts, even for a minute or two, it will make us extremely miserable. The only way to "cure" such misery is to relapse. Obviously we want to avoid that outcome.
Therefore we must not allow ourselves to fantasize about using drugs or alcohol ever again. We may catch ourselves thinking about it, but we must make an agreement with ourselves in advance (like right now, for example) that if we ever NOTICE ourselves thinking about getting drunk or high that we will make every attempt to shift mental gears and distract ourselves. You may even take this a step further and make an agreement with yourself that if you cannot seem to stop thinking about drugs and alcohol that you will call a sponsor or peer in recovery and tell them about your cravings or urges to use.
This is the essence of the zero tolerance policy. First of all you do not allow yourself to tolerate relapse, but then you take it step further and do not allow yourself to tolerate continued cravings, urges, triggers, or thoughts of using. If you are having them it is OK, but if you cannot distract yourself from them after you notice them then you need to take action and get immediate help. This has to be part of your mental agreement with yourself. Promise yourself that you will not tolerate such urges and cravings if they continue. After noticing them you must shut them down immediately. If you cannot shut them down by yourself then you must promise yourself that you will share the thoughts and cravings with other people in recovery. This may make you feel foolish and you may believe that it does not apply to you or that it would not really help you, but you would be mistaken. This is, by my measure, probably the most important thing you can do in your recovery.
1) Don't tolerate relapse for yourself.
2) Don't tolerate thoughts that might lead to relapse, such as cravings, urges, triggers, etc.
3) If you cannot redirect your thoughts after you start having cravings, you must promise to yourself that you will seek help from others and share your secret that you are having thoughts of relapse.
This is a very simple idea but the implications are far more important than I ever realized in the past.
Obviously this sounds like a good idea and common sense, to the point that it is not really a revelation. But you can not really theorize about these ideas, you have to actually live them in order to realize the true benefits.
The idea of taking positive action every day is certainly nothing new. But in recovery it has special implications because you are committed to a new lifestyle anyway. So in making a daily commitment you would do well to consider this idea of building something over the long term, of accumulating positive benefits.
* Taking suggestions from other people to try new things that may improve your life.
* Examining your life to find points of misery and then forming a plan to eliminate them.
* Re-examining your dreams and deciding what is worth pursuing. Taking real action to make them happen.
* Working hard to improve your life situation over time, even if it is only incrementally.
* Working hard to become a better person.
* Making an effort to help other people.
All of those ideas and concepts qualify as taking positive action.
1) Did I stay clean and sober today?
2) Did I take positive action today?
The second question is about building a better future for yourself. This is because the actions that you take today do not generally show positive benefits right away.
At one time I made an effort to start exercising. I was jogging and running with a family member who was already experienced at doing so. For a long time in my early recovery, many different people were suggesting to me that I start exercising. My sponsor was pushing me to get active. My therapist was urging me to start exercising. And I resisted the idea for a while because I was just not ready to take action.
But finally I got into the idea and I decided to give it a fair shot. In the past I had dabbled in the idea of exercise but it never seemed to get any easier. It was just a whole lot of work, with seemingly no real reward.
Now when I finally committed to the idea in my recovery and followed through on it, everything changed. So I started jogging with my family member and I slowly built up to a distance of six miles every jog. Over a period of several weeks I built up to this distance and I was even running every single day.
Now I want you to understand at this point that this was not easy or anything. It really was tough for me. And the reason that it was tough was because I was so out of shape. And there were no immediate rewards. None at all. It was just a lot of hard work and�for quite a while�it did not get any easier.
But eventually, after what seemed like forever, it DID get easier. And at that point all of the rewards of my efforts kicked in 100 percent. Now it was a joy to run. Now it was a gift. Now it was totally awesome. Suddenly I was in great shape, and running was a joy to me.
This did not happen overnight, it took several months. And it was not easy for me at all, in fact it was a lot of hard work and I was not certain that it would ever become easier. But today (over ten years later) I continue to exercise on a regular basis, and I would never dream of going without it. It is far too valuable to me.
Notice that I had to have a bit of faith (not knowing if it would ever become easier) and I had to follow through. I had to commit to something. It took persistent effort.
Another example is with building a side business. I started this out very slowly, in a very low risk venture that required almost no start up money but quite a bit of work on my part. Again, there was no certainty that it would ever pan out. I knew that I might just work hard for a long time and earn nothing, make no money at all.
* Taking daily positive action.
This is the method by which I built a successful business. It took several months, even years for me to receive the full benefits of doing so.
Perhaps your goals are different than mine were. I wanted to get into shape and build a successful side business. I accomplished both of those things by taking positive action every single day�often times for several years straight.
It is said that we often overestimate what we can accomplish in a single year, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in 5 years. So start thinking big. Think of a five year goal for yourself, rather than a new year's resolution that will fizzle out in under a year.
If you cannot commit to a goal for 5 full years, then you might need to choose a different goal. Figure out what you really want for yourself, and find a goal that is worthy of a 5 year commitment.
When you commit to something for a full 5 years and take positive action towards it every single day, you will be amazed at what you can create.
Note that one year is not long enough for most goals of this caliber. If you are really shooting for the stars (and you should be!) then you will not reach success in a mere year. That is not typically going to be long enough. But if you commit to a big, life-changing goal for the next 5 years, then your results should be nothing short of amazing.
What are you going to do instead? What if you don't commit to a 5 year goal? What then?
Then you get nothing. You get no progress. You get no huge rewards. Your life may change a little bit, but it won't get outrageously better. And who wants to settle for that?
If you implement these 2 strategies in your life then further down the road all of the positive benefits that you experience will start to multiply. This is based on synergy and the network effects of all of your positive growth put together.
That probably sounds like a lot of baloney, but it is actually a very sound principle. You may have heard it stated otherwise as "success breeds success.� In other words, if you start making positive growth in several different areas of your life, then everything starts to do better as a whole. This is because the growth and positive action in one area of your life will tend to spill over and positively affect other goals that you are trying to pursue.
Let me give you an example of this "synergy� in real life recovery. I struggled for years to quit smoking cigarettes while I was sober. I could not seem to shake the habit for a long, long time. But then something interesting happened: I started running and jogging on a regular basis, even as I continued to be a smoker. I could tell that there was a correlation here: when I finished jogging, I did not feel like smoking a cigarette, nor did I feel the urge to do so�sometimes for several hours.
This was synergy. My goal of quitting smoking and my goal of getting into better shape were in perfect alignment.
You may have conflicting goals in your life, and if you do, this will be the source of much frustration. This is how you live when you are addicted to something. You take two steps forward and then three steps back, because your addiction is negative and is holding you back from your other goals (that are positive).
Living your life in alignment means that all of your goals compliment each other. I personally found that distance running was complimentary to building a business. In my experience, the discipline required to do both of these things was one and the same. When I learned how to build up more jogging distance, I was also learning the discipline necessary to create a successful side business. That might seem like a stretch to some people but in my mind it made perfect sense.
If you follow these two strategies then you will eventually be living a life of challenges that is fun and fulfilling. I personally love the challenge and growth that you get from learning more about yourself. At times it can be hard or even frustrating but you will come to learn that there is always a reward and a benefit for whatever it is you are struggling through.
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Ikoyi Building Collapse: Flags to fly at half-mast as Sanwo-Olu declares three days mourning
"All flags are to be flown at half-mast in public and private buildings and official engagements cancelled during the mourning period,"
byOluwakemi Adelagun
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared three days of mourning over the Ikoyi building collapse, which occurred on Monday, the commissioner for information and strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, said in a statement Thursday.
At least 32 persons died when a 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, crumbled on Monday afternoon. Emergency responders have, so far, rescued nine people from the rubble.
"All flags are to be flown at half-mast in public and private buildings and official engagements cancelled during the mourning period," Mr Sanwo-Olu said, according to the statement.
"The Lagos State Government, once again, commiserates with all those who lost their loved ones in the unfortunate incident."
The statement said the governor had visited the site of the incident thrice to encourage the rescuers and console relations of those who are believed to have been trapped in the building.
"He was today at the hospital to cheer up those injured before swearing in a six-man panel of Inquiry to find out why the building went down and recommend measures to prevent such incidents."
While swearing in the panel, Mr Sanwo-Olu had given a 30-day timeline for them to submit their findings.
Ikoyi Building Collapse: 19 families report missing persons – Sanwo-Olu
Ikoyi Building Collapse: 'I just want to see my son alive or dead,' father of trapped apprentice says
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Ikoyi Building Collapse: 'I just want to see my son alive or dead,' father of trapped apprentice says
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| ɪzˌlaməˈfəʊbɪə | noun [mass noun]
Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness
Source: APPG on British Muslims report: "Islamophobia defined"
CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDIES
The proposed definition of Islamophobia can be illustrated by a range of examples rather than a list of essential features. These examples do not exhaust the phenomena but show the range of ways by which Islamophobia is experienced – from physical to verbal violence and intimidation, and from socio-economic discrimination and exclusion, to the entrenching of racism in our broader civic life:
Case Study: Verbal Violence or Intimidation
"Punish a Muslim day letters"
Muslims have been advised to "unite" and "carry on as normal" after vile letters were sent encouraging a "Punish a Muslim Day" to take place this…
Case Study: Physical
"We don't like Muslims over here' – Women tied up and tortured man.
Two women who tied up and tortured a man are behind bars for what a court heard was "horrific humiliation". Emma Storey filmed friend Lois…
Man tried to kill Muslim woman and 12-year-old girl as 'revenge' for terror attacks.
A man has been convicted of attempting to murder a Muslim woman and 12-year-old schoolgirl in "revenge" for Islamist terror attacks. Paul Moore, 21, told…
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ISLAMOPHOBIA
Objections to the concept of Islamophobia have remained remarkably fixed over the years, continuing along familiar lines of dismissal despite growing evidence of its virulent spread. In many cases, these objections reprise the criticisms that were made in the past when measures against sexism, racism and homophobia began to be introduced. The FAQs provide a means of recognising where we are and move us beyond current impasses with the proposed definition.
Why is Islamophobia a type of racism when Muslims are not a race?
What do you mean by Muslimness?
Why do we need the term 'Islamophobia'?
How did the term 'Islamophobia' come about?
Why do we need a definition of Islamophobia?
How did this particular definition come about?
Does being critical of Islam make me an Islamophobe?
Why use the term 'Islamophobia' when a phobia is used to describe a psychological condition?
Why shouldn't we use the term 'anti-Muslim hatred'?
Do you have a representative list of examples of Islamophobia?
Are there some tropes that are Islamophobic in all circumstances?
Scientifically no population is a race. Races are not natural but come about by bundling together features such as appearances, attitudes, and behaviour and mapping them on to a population, and placing the resulting group in a racial hierarchy. Muslims are increasingly being treated as other populations regarded as different races. Despite Muslims being from diverse ethnic backgrounds, they are often racialised and discriminated against based on their name, their perceived cultural identity or beliefs. The Runnymede Trust in its 1997 Report popularised the term Islamophobia because it recognized that racism against Muslims was going unchallenged because Muslims were not considered to be a 'racial' group.
Muslimness is similar to commonly found expressions such as Jewishness or Englishness. It describes not so much any person or actual group than a family of overlapping and flexible features by which in a given situation something is seen as having the quality of being Muslim or one's Muslim identity (very much like the way in which tea, or real ale, a stiff upper lip, and fish and chips are associated with being English). Such features can range from the names people use to the clothes they wear, from the languages they speak to the foods they eat – or don't eat. They include associations based on habitats ("Tower Hamlets") or habits (not socialising at the pub). These features are not fixed but rather historical and contextual – some are long enduring ("fanaticism"), others recent ("terrorism"). It is these many shades of targeted expression that Muslimness captures.
Like anti-semitism, racism and sexism, the term Islamophobia allows us to identify cruelties and injustices directed at expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness which otherwise would go unrecognised and thus unchallenged.
Although the term 'Islamophobia' has a far longer history than is usually recognised it came to prominence when the race equality think tank Runnymede Trust published its landmark report, 'Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All' in 1997 Although our understanding and use of the term has significantly moved on since then, twenty years of scholarship, policy and activism have lent the term wide credibility and currency. The new definition makes it more conceptually more robust and fit for purpose.
We have been accustomed to claims that "there is no such thing as Islamophobia" or boasts that "I am proud to be an Islamophobe" without an understanding of what that really means. Meanwhile, there has been a rise in recorded violence, abuse and discrimination against Muslims in the UK and in the West. It is important to identify what we are up against so that we can tackle the issue together.
Believing that greater clarity and consensus will better enable concerted action the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims sought to define Islamophobia following its year-long consultation across the UK. That definition has been endorsed by a cross section of Muslims and academics
Being critical of Islam or any religion does not automatically make you an Islamophobe. You are only an Islamophobe if you use the language of racism targeting expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness to express your views.
Like the terms xenophobia and homophobia, Islamophobia is used without being considered to be a description of a psychological condition.
The term "anti-Muslim hatred" does not incorporate the array of broader structural racial inequalities that Muslims face. Consider, for example, a Muslim facing discrimination at the workplace based on having the name "Muhammad". This is not an example of hatred necessarily yet is clearly racism and Islamophobic.
Our focus is to advance an understanding of Islamophobia as a form of racism. Providing an exhaustive list here risks limiting the definition to such features identified in the list. Instead we hope that those who choose to adopt the definition take ownership and adapt their organisations' existing policies and guidelines on racism to incorporate Islamophobia, seeking guidance from others, or taking advantage of best practice by other groups or societies.
No. Context is crucial. A good rule of thumb is to replace the word 'Muslim' in a statement with another minority – how does it look and sound?
Context, however, is not a matter of private intentions, it is public and social: it depends on not only what is being done or said, and who is doing or saying it, but also on the consequences of such doings and sayings.
The risk of Islamophobia is greater when the perpetrator is in a position of authority or influence and has a track record of making inflammatory statements (including politicians, someone writing in a national media outlet or those with significant following on social media).
Similarly (as long established discussions of comparable forms of racism have shown) the risk of Islamophobia will also be different depending on whether the perpetrator identifies as a Muslim, and how they comport themselves towards the expression of Muslimness.
Significant research and academic study underpins the understanding of Islamophobia in all its forms. The list of web links to other work is not exhaustive and the short bibliography below is only a selective list of publications informing one submission to the report. An expanded set of links and a fuller bibliography is envisaged in due course.
Information hubs about Islamophobia
Selected Bibliography (listed by order of publication)
The Counter-Islamophobia Kit is a two year project is funded by the European Commission – Directorate of Justice, and brings together experts from across Europe.
The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project that connects the academic study of Islamophobia with the public square
The Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP), an initiative of the Center for Race & Gender, focuses on a systematic and empirical approach to the study of Islamophobia and its impact on the American Muslim community.
Islamophobia a challenge for us all. Report of the Runnymede Trust Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, London: The Runnymede Trust, 1997
Malcolm D. Brown, 'Conceptualizing Racism and Islamophobia', in Jessica Ter Wal and Maykel Verkuyten eds., Comparative Perspectives on Racism, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, pp. 73-90
Steven Vertovec, 'Islamophobia and Muslim Recognition in Britain', in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad ed., Muslims in the West: From sojourners to citizens, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.19-35
Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, London: Uniting Britain Trust – Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books, 2004
Matti Bunzl ed., Anti-semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007
Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil, Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives,New York: Columbia University Press, 2010
Chris Allen, Islamophobia, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010
Sayyid, Racism and Islamophobia, International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia, 2011
Barnor Hesse, 'Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Postracial Horizon', The South Atlantic Quarterly 111 (2011), 155-178
Brian Klug, 'Islamophobia: A Concept Comes of Age', Ethnicities 12:5 (2012), 665-681
David Tyrer, The Politics of Islamophobia: Race, Power and Fantasy, London: Pluto Press, 2013
Houda Asal, 'La fabrique d'un noveau concept', Sociologie 5:1 (2014), 13-29
Sayyid, 'A Measure of Islamophobia', Islamophobia Studies Journal, 2.1 (2014), 10-25
Steve Garner and Saher Selod, 'The Racialization of Muslims: Empirical Studies of Islamophobia', Critical Sociology 41:1 (2014), 9-19
Julian Hargreaves, 'Half a Story?: Missing Perspectives in the Criminological Accounts of British Muslim Communities, Crime and the Criminal Justice System', British Journal of Criminology 55:1 (2015), 19-38
Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil, 'Reports of Islamophobia 1997-2017', ReOrient blogs 29.11.17: https://irdproject.com/reports-of-islamophobia-1997-2017/ and UC Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, 29.11.2017: https://www.criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/reports_of_islamophobia_1997_and_2017/
James Carr, Expressions of Islamophobia: Living with Racism in the Neoliberal Era, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018
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Professor Emerita of Sociology
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Visiting Professor in Race, Faith and Culture
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Director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right
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Vice-chair, APPG on British Muslims
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IMA student Betty Yu is a featured speaker
IMA student Betty Yu is a featured speaker at
The 2011 New York Life Symposium: Civic Engagement in the Era of New Media
Wednesday, March 16th from 5 to 8pm in New York City
Betty Yu, Media Action Grassroots Network Coordinator, Center for Media Justice
Betty Yu is a longtime community organizer, media activist, and filmmaker. Prior to joining CMJ, Yu served as director of community outreach and media services at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), New York City's community-access TV organization. She additionally worked as a lead organizer for the Chinese Staff and Workers' Association. Yu was recognized as a semi-finalist for a National Brick "Do Something" Award, the recipient of a Union Square Award for grassroots activism, and a fellow of the National Rockwood Fellowship in Media, Communications and Information Policy.
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YouTube has seen patronage jump by 10 times.
Longer isn't necessarily better when it comes to mobile video. In a statement on Friday, YouTube said that it's phasing out its 30-second unskippable ads for advertisers this year.
Beginning in 2018, brands will not be able to buy the 30-second ad format but can purchase other lengths of unskippable pre-roll ads like 20-second promos and 6-second bumper ads.
"We're committed to providing a better ads experience for users online. As part of that, we've decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers," said a YouTube spokesperson in an email.
Brands can also purchase skippable YouTube ads, which only charge advertisers when someone watches the full length of the commercial, letting the Google-owned site charge higher rates.
The ad development is the latest shift towards mobile for the video site as it moves into emerging areas like livestreaming and virtual reality. According to YouTube, more than 50 percent of its traffic comes from mobile.


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Het Tankmonument in Wiltz, in het Groothertogdom Luxemburg, werd in 1946 als herinnering aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog opgericht.

Geschiedenis
De Amerikaanse M4 Sherman, die heden op een platform staat opgesteld, was in het Ardennenoffensief betrokken bij de Slag om Bastenaken. Door onoplettendheid van de bestuurder kwam de tank eind december 1944 in het naburige Erpeldange-sur-Sûre vast te zitten in een mestvaalt. Vluchtend voor de Duitse Wehrmacht, moest de bemanning het voertuig achterlaten.

Medio 1946 werd de tank, nadat Duitse krijgsgevangenen de muur rond de vaalt hadden verwijderd, met een vrachtwagenlier langzaam uit de mest getrokken. De motor van de Sherman was buiten werking, zodat meerdere vrachtwagens het voertuig naar Wiltz moesten slepen, waar het op de Place des Martyrs als tankmonument een aandenken aan de Slag bij Wiltz werd.

In 2014 werd de tank naar Bastenaken gebracht om in de Bastogne Barracks (Koninklijk Legermuseum) te worden gerestaureerd. Na terugkomst in Wiltz, in 2016, kreeg de M4 Sherman een nieuwe plek op het uitkijkpunt "Belle-Vue".

Tankmonument
Wiltz


Director David Byrne takes an outside-looking-in glance at Texas and Texans in True Stories. Casting himself as the protagonist/narrator, Byrne adopts what he thinks is "standard" western garb and drives his red convertible into the small town of Virgil. Here he observes the town's preparations for celebrating Texas' sesquicentennial, taking time out to introduce us to several of the local oddballs. Swoosie Kurtz plays Miss Rollings, the Laziest Woman in the World; Alix Elias is The Cute Woman, who decorates her home in the most hideously "sweet" manner imaginable; John Goodman is talent-contest entrant Louis Fyne, who harbors dreams of being a C&W star; Spalding Gray is Earl Culver, a vegetable-obsessed civic leader; Jo Harvey Allen is The Lying Woman; and so it goes.


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Young Enterprise Awards Galore!
Both of Withington's Young Enterprise teams have had a very successful year in 2019-20, winning awards at inter-school competitions, of which the concluding rounds were completed digitally. This did not stop our Withington team, YouPhoria, from progressing to the Regional Final, one step away from the National Final.
In the early rounds of the competition, the two companies, Lovender Botanics and YouPhoria, came away with three awards, reported here.
North and South Manchester Finals – Two More Awards
Next, it should have been the north & south Manchester finals at HSBC, Spinningfields. For obvious reasons, all companies were required to submit all parts of the competition digitally: Presentation, Company Report and Display Stand images.
We are delighted to report that Lovender Botanics were awarded 'Best Presentation' and YouPhoria 'Best Overall Company'.
This qualified YouPhoria to represent Manchester at the Digital Greater Manchester Final on the 30th April against 10 other companies from Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Rochdale & Oldham, Trafford, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Wigan.
YE Coordinator Ms Ositelu said: "These teams have been fantastic and have really pulled together, using lunchtimes and staying after school to ensure that their digital submissions would be ready for the deadline. This is something both teams can be proud of and rejoice about at such difficult times! We are also very grateful to Withington parent, Mr Joel Rosenblatt, for his kind support of our Young Enterprise programme."
Greater Manchester Final Runners Up
At the Greater Manchester Final held on 30th April, YouPhoria were runners up, qualifying them for the (digital) North West Finals, which were held a week later.
The team, whose product is a self-care package containing a personalised positivity mug, a hot chocolate stick, luxury chamomile tea, a little book of positivity, a scrunchie and, of course, essential fluffy socks, proved to be a big hit with the judges and the perfect product to boost wellbeing in these uncertain times.
Two Awards at the Regional Final
At the Regional Final, eight teams from Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester competed in a final that had been due to be held at Lancaster University Management School on 6th May, but was still judged by Lancaster University's Dr Li Xiao and LUMS alumna Alice Hackett, now of the Hut Group. The teams competed across five categories – Teamwork, Sustainability, Marketing, Customer Service and Presenting. A true credit to Withington, YouPhoria won two of the five available awards: Best Customer Service and Best Teamwork.
Young Enterprise Coordinator Ms Ositelu said: "These awards really reflect the caring and empathetic nature of the team, something of which they should be very proud. Indeed, they did work so well together throughout the year and have always had the customer as their main focus. I'm so proud of their achievement and journey. They have been such a delightful group to work with and so have Lovender Botanics."
(photos were taken in December 2019 and February 2020)