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Hoping for Honduras: Planning a Wedding from Outer Space — By Jennifer Shipp
Caribbean Central America Honduras Uncategorized
April 29, 2019 No Comment Caribbean, Central America, Honduras, Uncategorized
If I were mentally floating 30 to 60 feet above the planet, I'd still feel like a human, but as it is, I feel more like a rocketship…either constantly poised for take-off or orbiting the planet in perpetuity.
The people on remote islands tend to be a bit closed-minded, like people in small, isolated towns in the Great Plains.
But people in bigger cities bumble. They stare at the their phones as they walk down crowded sidewalks. Why are big city people so tuned out? John has taken to running smack into them head-on just to prove a point.
The language of the country where the sidewalk and the bumblers are located doesn't really matter.
And I don't even know why I'm talking about these Little-Known Facts except that I've been calling people all over the world asking questions and generally noting things like the levels of friendliness and intelligence coming from the other end of the line… Because friendliness matters when you're asking important questions about a place you've never seen with your own eyes. A little bit of effort goes a long way, folks.
FACT: A person can only stomach so many phone calls to Ministries of Foreign Affairs in one day.
But anyway, we're planning a wedding now to take place on the Island of St. Vincent's and the Grenadines. I now refer to it as SVG to the islanders themselves because I've been sending lots of emails to them and that's what they call it. Also, I'm tired of typing it out in its entirety.
Today, I researched and readied a trip to the Galapagos Islands and Baños de Agua Santa in Ecuador to hopefully/maybe take place before we leave Ecuador. John says the Galapagos Islands doesn't sound that exotic anymore and I agree. We shrug our shoulders at it. And maybe we won't go. Every day, I bombard Naing Naing with the prospect of some new adventure or some new, nearly insurmountable issue that he can hardly comprehend (he has a lot on his plate already). He tries to block me out because my volume is always on Full Blast these days. Or maybe my volume is permanently on Full Blast, but I've just never noticed it before.
A couple of weeks ago, Naing Naing and I had a long, drawn-out debate about the possible virtues of begging, mendicants, and how the beggar gives something valuable to the beggee (or rather, the person who chooses to "give"). He spent time as a novice in monasteries in Burma, so his views on begging are highly developed and as solid as the temples that dot the landscape in Bagan. I realized during our conversation that he views medicine and disease very differently than I do, though he didn't clarify his position exactly (because we were talking about begging and charity), but it sounds similar to some of the systems common to the Khmers in Cambodia and the Nepali people that live just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Myanmar. His grandmother died of a sadness of some kind…that and from smoking too much.
This emotion-oriented medical model resonates with me, but I don't fully understand it. It's like German New Medicine maybe and certain vibrational models or so it seems.
So last night I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about how cultural views about medicine and health are woven more deeply into the fabric of our being than views about religion and politics because medicine and health actively underlie our views about life and death. Health and medicinal practices have a lot to say about "right" and "wrong", but they sidestep righteousness and tackle the issue only tangentially. Most people don't even realize they follow a Model of Medicine and Health because these beliefs are so deeply ingrained into the psyche. Medicine becomes a high-priority Action Item that's immediately relevant to both life and death during illness. Religion, on the other hand, asks for action and claims to require a certain set of behaviors in order for the system to yield good results in the afterlife, but alas next to every dogmatic requirement is a parenthetical note that says: "optional".
Yesterday, Lydi, Naing Naing, and I went for Naing Naing's yellow fever vaccination (a required vaccine if he ever wants to LEAVE Ecuador) and my only request from the attending nurse was that she shake the little vial before sucking the poisonous liquid out of it. They use only one vial of the vaccine per day at the Public Health Clinic and it contains a gigantic dose of thimerasol (which is full of mercury), but shaking the bottle can keep the dose within a normal range for each individual who gets the shot. Of course, the nurse just stared at me lethargically when I asked her to shake the vial. So I stepped around her and picked up the vial and shook the damn thing myself.
To her, I'm crazy. To anti-vaxxers, I'm crazy (but working within international law). But, I think I know what I'm doing. I need to shake the bottle.
It's like praying…
…because I believe that when I shake the vial, no one will get sick or die from yellow fever or the mercury content of thimerasol.
And about hair…
…I mean, hair cuts. They're so difficult and risky in foreign countries. You never know what you'll get. All of us, including Naing Naing have hair that doesn't fit the norm here in Ecuador. And our hair cuts demonstrate this fact. Barbers and cosmetologists struggle with our natural endowments and try to cut our locks to fit what's familiar to them. Often, the results are surprising, if not hideous. Yesterday, Naing Naing went into the barber 3 inches shorter than he was when he came out.
John, on the other hand, went from having medium length hair, to almost no hair at all.
I ended up with bangs before I could say, "NOOOOooooo!". And Lydian was unabashedly evangelized during her hair cut. When asked if she was a "believer", she responded reflexively by saying, "yes, absolutely". The woman was holding a pair of scissors at neck level so she didn't feel comfortable saying, "My beliefs are complicated". Of course, the woman offered her all kinds of presumptuous and unsolicited advice about marriage and sex (in Spanish, of course) and then tried to force Lydian to have a face mask full of acrylates and methylparabens. Lydi had to refuse the offer (which, by the way, was not free) with caution and the same kind of diplomacy she would have used if she were a dark-skinned native and some newly arrived Spanish Franciscan wanted her to join the local church.
This week, our wedding planner bailed on us in St. Vincent's, so I found our own officiant and started working out the details of a beach wedding (or maybe they'll marry at the courthouse, who knows?). Today, I called three different offices in St. Vincent's about getting Lydi and Naing Naing's marriage certificate apostilled. Two of the offices couldn't understand me when I said, "Aw paw stile" (they're very "Caribbean" on this island, apparently). I called the third office and said the word "Apostille" three times very slowly and finally, FINALLY she understood me and corrected me vehemently… "ah poh STEEL" she said. Then I repeated it and she said "ah poh STEEL" back to me three more times to make sure I had it "right". She told me how long it takes to get the marriage certificate (2 days) and that the apostille takes only 10 minutes (which is WAYYY different than what Suzanne, the wedding planner told me…she said it took 3 weeks). So I called the other two offices back again, now armed with the "correct' pronunciation of the word and learned that 2 days is only part-right. In reality, it takes 9 days to get the certificate and 10 minutes to get the apostille. I'm glad I double-checked because we need that apostilled marriage certificate before the next step in our journey toward Mexico becomes possible.
What's the next step?
Well, ultimately, we're trying to get back to Guanajuato where there's a major drug war going on between 3 different cartels, apparently. But nevermind that. I don't really want to talk about that right now. The next step is still twice-removed from the final destination: we have to fly to Nicaragua and then travel by land to Honduras to go to a Mexican Embassy there where hopefully Lydian will be able to petition for Naing Naing to enter on a temporary residency visa under their Family Unity Laws. There are no guarantees, though. So, we've got a few "Plan B's" that we can implement should things NOT go as planned.
Last night I had a dream that I was putting together a model railroad and my train kept going off the rails, but it didn't really matter because I could just pick up the engine and move it to where it needed to go even without the rails. Still, when the train went off the rails I would religiously put it back on the tracks so that every inch of the rails was traversed between Point A and Point B. And when I woke up, I thought about how nice it would be to look down on a village from an angle and a distance that was comprehensible. Right now, I'm floating in outer space staring down at that big blue ball called Earth thinking, "Man…I can't believe how many problems there are everywhere in the world." I'd love to zoom in on something comprehensible and just watch people…individuals doing good things and bad things, stupid things, and smart things. I'd love to be able to tell the officiant at Lydian and Naing Naing's wedding what we've all been through over the past few months, but I'm afraid he'd get confused and maybe even feel scared of us if he knew. I'd like to tell him not to talk to any of us about God from his little island on his tiny planet, but I'll zip my lips as long as we end up with a marriage certificate that's acceptable worldwide.
Before you respond, I'd like to make an appeal to the concept of dharma and all the foreign languages, delayed flights, embassy workers who can't answer our questions, laws that don't apply, government workers demurring at our need for solid answers, bad haircuts, bank accounts, robberies, lawyers and notarios who failed to do their jobs in a timely manner and without our constant vigilance, ignorant doctors and nurses, evangelists who know better than us about life and death and good and evil, bad/non-existent Internet connections, undelivered parcels, the drug war at home, and pedestrians who are staring down at their phones instead of paying attention to where they're going on every sidewalk from here to Burma that the four of us have had to deal with in the past four months before you tell me your response.
We're having a weird situation and the location of this event is worldwide which makes it hard to escape from it. The more global it gets the harder it becomes to find humor in it. It's not like I can call up a friend and we can joke together about how it doesn't make any sense that so many embassies are only open until 1:00 PM (haha). Don't they have enough to do to keep them busy from 8:00 to 5:00? You'd think so, yes…(haha), but no. What makes those short working hours super funny is time zone differences. (LOL). Now that's FUNNY! HA! Yep…there's nothing funnier than needing to make a phone call (or three) in a foreign language to an embassy at 3:00 AM Your Time.
…make your daughter a wedding dress with a sewing machine you borrowed from the landlady at the AirBnB in Ecuador where you're living temporarily. Then, take the dress to a Caribbean island you've never been to before where she and her fiance will be married by a reverend you've never met and…invite your family and friends to watch the fiasco. It'll be on the beach during the start of the hurricane season. I wonder if there will be decorations and seating. In my mind's eye I see some shepherds hooks and a couple of baskets of flowers hanging from them and maybe a small archway with fabric hanging from it, but that seems ambitious. What are the odds that I could find these things within 3 days of the event what with having to get the marriage license when we arrive and…find the grocery store. We could end up on the beach for the ceremony with no decor except the natural surroundings which would be okay with all of us except a few judgmental friends and relatives…
…or we could end up in a courthouse.
And then we'll head for Honduras via Nicaragua, by land of course, against all the travel warnings along this route before heading back home where a 3-way drug war is currently in progress in our city. "Be glad you're going to Honduras" we tell ourselves, "Be glad you're going there for an unknown amount of time and that you're not going to Haiti." And then we remind ourselves, "You could still end up in Haiti. You could end up back in Myanmar. Don't congratulate yourself on Honduras just yet."
Mentally, as I orbit Earth, I prepare for all the possible countries we could end up having to travel to in order to finally end up in a static location with residency and someday (hopefully) a second passport (this is particularly important for Naing Naing).
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I have an old windows console app that is a small terminal program. I can use it in a console app like a bootloader to talk to my microcontrollers. The micro talks to teraterm just fine at 115200. The vs2017 compile of the term program also shows the menus from the micro at 115200. The same 13k c file compiled with pellesc8 spits out binary, like the stopbits or baudrate is bonkers. There is a bug report that the comport dcb struct might not be padded right or something. The com port stuff is in winbase.h. When I include windows.h in the pelles compile, it gets included from the pelles includes right? I have win10-64 on my machine. At work I'm running win7-32 and probably an older version of pelles, and everything was working. So, there's something about the serial port stuff that isn't working. Maybe someone can write a c console app that sends 'the quick brown fox' out a serial port at 115200 and compile it in vs and pelles, see if it works, report your os ver and 32/64. Thanks folks.
Thanks for the quick reply. Seems like long ago there was CreateFile and now its CreateFileA. Change one letter and my program starts working. I guess the old vc 16 bit version that worked was using CreateFile. Trying to compile it on pellesc8 something was bonkers and it looks like the CreateFileA was it. Everyday its something isnt it? Appreciate the help.


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Q: Crash involving UISearchDisplayController rotating? My app seems to crash sometimes when I rotate the phone. ViewControllerA has a UISearchDisplayController. ViewControllerA pushes ViewControllerB onto the nav stack.
Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x00000000, 0x00000000
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000791d0 __kill + 8
1   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000791c0 kill + 4
2   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000791b2 raise + 10
3   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0008d6fa abort + 50
4   libstdc++.6.dylib               0x00044a20 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() + 376
5   libobjc.A.dylib                 0x000059ec _objc_terminate + 104
6   libstdc++.6.dylib               0x00042df2 __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) + 46
7   libstdc++.6.dylib               0x00042e46 std::terminate() + 10
8   libstdc++.6.dylib               0x00042f16 __cxa_throw + 78
9   libobjc.A.dylib                 0x000048cc objc_exception_throw + 64
10  CoreFoundation                  0x0009fa70 -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 96
11  CoreFoundation                  0x0009ef0e ___forwarding___ + 502
12  CoreFoundation                  0x00031678 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 40
13  UIKit                           0x00148194 -[UISearchDisplayController windowWillAnimateRotation:] + 92
14  Foundation                      0x00018fb0 _nsnote_callback + 136
15  CoreFoundation                  0x00069e6c __CFXNotificationPost_old + 396
16  CoreFoundation                  0x0001a374 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 112
17  Foundation                      0x000040bc -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 64
18  UIKit                           0x000ed5d0 -[UIWindow _setRotatableClient:toOrientation:duration:force:] + 3108
19  UIKit                           0x000eee6c -[UIWindow _setRotatableViewOrientation:duration:force:] + 44
20  UIKit                           0x0007763c -[UIWindow _updateToInterfaceOrientation:duration:force:] + 68
21  UIKit                           0x000775b6 -[UIWindow _updateInterfaceOrientationFromDeviceOrientation:] + 106
22  UIKit                           0x00077506 -[UIWindow _handleDeviceOrientationChange:] + 82
23  Foundation                      0x00018fb0 _nsnote_callback + 136
24  CoreFoundation                  0x00069e6c __CFXNotificationPost_old + 396
25  CoreFoundation                  0x0001a374 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 112
26  Foundation                      0x000040bc -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 64
27  UIKit                           0x00040582 -[UIDevice setOrientation:animated:] + 138
28  UIKit                           0x0005d670 -[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:] + 2732
29  UIKit                           0x0005ca56 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 38
30  UIKit                           0x0005c500 _UIApplicationHandleEvent + 5016
31  GraphicsServices                0x00004140 PurpleEventCallback + 660
32  CoreFoundation                  0x00071aa4 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 20
33  CoreFoundation                  0x00073848 __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 160
34  CoreFoundation                  0x00074626 __CFRunLoopRun + 514
35  CoreFoundation                  0x0001d8e4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 224
36  CoreFoundation                  0x0001d7ec CFRunLoopRunInMode + 52
37  GraphicsServices                0x000036e8 GSEventRunModal + 108
38  GraphicsServices                0x00003794 GSEventRun + 56
39  UIKit                           0x000062a0 -[UIApplication _run] + 396
40  UIKit                           0x00004e10 UIApplicationMain + 664
41  StockTwits                      0x00002d58 0x1000 + 7512
42  StockTwits                      0x00002d28 0x1000 + 7464

Thread 1:
0   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0002dc4c kevent + 24
1   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000d6e44 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 88
2   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000d6894 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 96
3   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000d6a34 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 120
4   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0007ad82 _pthread_wqthread + 258
5   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00073fcc start_wqthread + 0

Thread 2:
0   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00001658 mach_msg_trap + 20
1   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00003724 mach_msg + 44
2   CoreFoundation                  0x000722c8 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 88
3   CoreFoundation                  0x00074582 __CFRunLoopRun + 350
4   CoreFoundation                  0x0001d8e4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 224
5   CoreFoundation                  0x0001d7ec CFRunLoopRunInMode + 52
6   WebCore                         0x00003056 RunWebThread(void*) + 362
7   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0007a986 _pthread_start + 242
8   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000700e4 thread_start + 0

Thread 3:
0   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00001658 mach_msg_trap + 20
1   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00003724 mach_msg + 44
2   CoreFoundation                  0x000722c8 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 88
3   CoreFoundation                  0x00074582 __CFRunLoopRun + 350
4   CoreFoundation                  0x0001d8e4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 224
5   CoreFoundation                  0x0001d7ec CFRunLoopRunInMode + 52
6   Foundation                      0x0003b71e +[NSURLConnection(NSURLConnectionReallyInternal) _resourceLoadLoop:] + 206
7   Foundation                      0x0000bc96 -[NSThread main] + 38
8   Foundation                      0x000909da __NSThread__main__ + 966
9   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0007a986 _pthread_start + 242
10  libSystem.B.dylib               0x000700e4 thread_start + 0

Thread 4:
0   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00025a20 select$DARWIN_EXTSN + 20
1   CoreFoundation                  0x00077e70 __CFSocketManager + 540
2   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0007a986 _pthread_start + 242
3   libSystem.B.dylib               0x000700e4 thread_start + 0

Thread 5:
0   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0007b85c __workq_kernreturn + 8
1   libSystem.B.dylib               0x0007ae98 _pthread_wqthread + 536
2   libSystem.B.dylib               0x00073fcc start_wqthread + 0

Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State:
    r0: 0x00000000    r1: 0x00000000      r2: 0x00000001      r3: 0x3e90724c
    r4: 0x00000006    r5: 0x09ad4aec      r6: 0x2fffda84      r7: 0x2fffda94
    r8: 0x00000000    r9: 0x00000065     r10: 0x088ca2d0     r11: 0x00000000
    ip: 0x00000025    sp: 0x2fffda94      lr: 0x352741c7      pc: 0x352741d0
  cpsr: 0x080f0010

A: You are calling a selector that is not implemented.
Best way to dig down is switch to debug mode and actually run with debugger attached. It should stop right away at the correct line, or give the information at the console.

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The divorce may be off for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. The superstar couple are said to be in the midst of repairing old wounds after the highly controversial nannygate, even going as far as attending church together with their children as a family to collectively heal, according to a source close to the couple over at E! News. "On the weekends they spend a lot of family time together with outings to the farmers market and church," the source says.
Affleck and Garner announced their long-rumoured separation in June after rumours of affairs and drug and alcohol abuse. "There was a lot of tension between them for a while, but it wasn't all about the nanny," the source expands to E! News.
Affleck and Garner have three children together and have been married since 2005.
It must be nice to be married with a doormat wife .
I hope that they make it. But Ben will have to stay clean, sober and abstinent from gambling. And she will have to work on being less co-dependent. Otherwise, it will be back to the same old, same old!


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Dale Spender (nascida em 22 de setembro de 1943) é uma acadêmica feminista australiana, professora, escritora e consultora. Em 1983, Dale Spender foi cofundadora e consultora editorial da Pandora Press, a primeira das editoras feministas dedicadas exclusivamente à não-ficção, empenhada, segundo o New York Times, em mostrar que "as mulheres eram as mães do romance e que qualquer outra versão de sua origem é apenas um mito da criação masculina". Ela foi a editora da série da Biblioteca Feminina Australiana da Penguin desde 1987. O trabalho de Spender é "uma grande contribuição para a recuperação de mulheres escritoras e teóricas e para a documentação da continuidade do ativismo e do pensamento feminista". Nas honras do Dia da Austrália de 1996, Spender foi premiada como Membro da Ordem da Austrália "pelo serviço à comunidade como escritora e pesquisadora no campo da igualdade de oportunidades e status igual para as mulheres".

Primeiros anos
Spender nasceu em Newcastle, Nova Gales do Sul, sobrinha do político Percy Spender e do escritor policial Jean Spender. A mais velha de três filhos, ela tem uma irmã mais nova Lynne e um irmão muito mais novo Graeme. Ela frequentou a Burwood Girls High School em Sydney. No início dos anos 1960, como graduada em mestrado, ela ensinou inglês na Meadowbank Boys High School, nos subúrbios do noroeste de Sydney. Na segunda metade da década de 1960, ensinou literatura inglesa na Dapto High School. Ela começou a lecionar na James Cook University em 1974, antes de ir morar em Londres e publicar o livro Man Made Language (sem tradução para o português) em 1980.

Trabalho
O livro Man Made Language (1980) é fruto da pesquisa de doutorado de Spender na University of London onde ela também ensinou Estudos Feministas. O argumento da obra é que nas sociedades patriarcais os homens controlam a linguagem e isso funciona a seu favor. "A linguagem ajuda a formar os limites da nossa realidade. É o nosso meio de ordenar, classificar e manipular o mundo" (1980:3). Onde os homens se percebem como o gênero dominante, as mulheres desobedientes que não se conformam com seu papel inferior são rotuladas como anormais, promíscuas, neuróticas ou frígidas. Spender traça paralelos com a forma como os termos depreciativos são usados para manter o racismo (1980:6). A linguagem feita pelo homem ilustra como o determinismo linguístico se interconecta com o determinismo econômico para oprimir as mulheres na sociedade e fornece uma ampla gama de análises para fazer isso. O livro explora as deficiências presumidas das mulheres, o silenciamento, a intimidação e a política de nomeação. Também é uma das contribuições acadêmicas fundamentais para a construção da crítica do masculino como norma.

Em 1991, Spender publicou uma paródia literária, The Diary of Elizabeth Pepys (1991 Grafton Books, Londres). Supostamente escrito por Elisabeth Pepys, a esposa de Samuel Pepys, o livro é uma crítica feminista da vida das mulheres na Londres do século XVII.

Spender é cocriadora do banco de dados WIKED (Women's International Knowledge Encyclopedia and Data) e editora fundadora da Athene Series e Pandora Press, editora comissionada da Penguin Australian Women's Library e editora associada da Great Women Series (Reino Unido). Lecionou em universidades em diversos países e realizou mais de 300 palestras por todo o mundo.

Atualmente, Spender está particularmente preocupada com a propriedade intelectual e os efeitos das novas tecnologias: em seus termos, as perspectivas de "nova riqueza" e "novo aprendizado". Seu livro Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace (1995) foi um dos primeiros a analisar o impacto do ciberespaço sobre as mulheres. Por nove anos ela foi diretora da Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) na Austrália e por dois anos (2002–2004) ela foi a presidente. Ela também está envolvida com o Programa Second Chance, que aborda a falta de moradia entre as mulheres na Austrália.

Vida pessoal
Ela está em um relacionamento com o professor Ted Brown há mais de três décadas. Eles não têm filhos. Ela sempre se veste com roupas roxas, uma escolha que ela fez inicialmente por sua referência simbólica às sufragistas. Ela reside em Brisbane, Austrália.

Publicações
 The Spitting Image, Reflections on language, education and social class (Rigby, 1976). Coautoria com Garth Boomer ([[International Standard Book Number|ISBN 0-7270-0162-0)
 Man Made Language (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)
 Learning to Lose: Sexism and Education, (Women's Press, 1980). Coedição com Elizabeth Sarah
 Men's Studies Modified: The Impact of Feminism on the Academic Disciplines (Pergamon Press, 1981)
 Invisible Women: The Schooling Scandal (Writers & Readers Ltd, 1982, Women's Press, 1989)
 Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich (ARK Paperbacks, 1982)
 Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Women's Intellectual Traditions (Women's Press, 1983). Editora.
 There's Always Been a Women's Movement This Century (Pandora Press, 1983)
 Time and Tide Wait for No Man (Pandora Press, 1984)
 For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge (Women's Press, 1985)
 Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (Pandora Press, 1986).
 Editor da série para Pandora Press Mothers of the Novel series (1986–89) material de publicação incluindo de, incluindo Lady Mary Wroath, Anne Weamys, Katherine Philips, Anne Clifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Fanshawe, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Delarivière Manley, Eliza Haywood, bem como as realizações de Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Amelia Opie e Mary Brunton. Também fornece uma lista de 106 mulheres romancistas antes de Jane Austen.
 Scribbling Sisters (Camden Press, 1986) Coautoria com Lynne Spender.
 The Education Papers. Women's Quest for Equality in Britain, 1850-1912 (Routledge 1987). Editora.
 Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers (Penguin Books, 1988)
 The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing (Penguin Books, 1988) Editora
 The Writing or the Sex?, Or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good (Pergamon Press, Athene Series, 1989)
 Co-editado com Janet Todd, Anthology of British Women Writers: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Pandora, 1990)
 Heroines, Anthology of Australian Women Writers; with articles by Ruby Langford Ginibi, Eva Johnson and Diane Bell. (Penguin, 1991). Editora.
 The Diary of Elizabeth Pepys, A spoof of Samuel Pepys' excesses from his wife's imagined diary (Grafton, 1991)
 Living by the Pen: Early British Women Writers (Teachers College Press, 1992). Editora.
 The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship. (Teachers College Press, 1992). Co-editado com Cheris Kramarae.
 Weddings and Wives (Penguin 1994). Editora.
 Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace (Spinifex, 1995)
 The Education Papers. Women's Quest for Equality in Britain, 1850-1912 (Routledge 1987). Editora.
 Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. 4 volumes. Editores gerais: Cheris Kramarae & Dale Spender, 800 colaboradores. (Routledge 2000). Traduzido para espanhol e mandarim.

Discursos
 "Recuperando o Feminismo: Mudança de Gênero: Existe um aplicativo para onde estamos?" Discurso de abertura na conferência bienal da Association of Women Educators 2014, publicado on-line pela Social Change Agency, como "Uma introdução brilhante ao feminismo na Austrália e um chamado para codificar a nova revolução"
 "Construindo ou emburrecendo?" Um discurso de abertura para a Conferência das Comunidades Networking/Networking Communities, 17 de fevereiro de 1998, considera se o novo meio de informação, particularmente a Internet, é uma coisa boa ou ruim para a humanidade.

Ligações externas
 Site de Dale Spender
 ABC Queensland perfil de Dale Spender
 Entrevista da ABC ' Talking Heads ' com Dale Spender

Historiadoras
Historiadores da Austrália
Pessoas vivas
Nascidos em 1943
Feministas da Austrália
Masculino como norma
!Mais Teoria da História na Wiki (Wikiconcurso de edição)

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The Hereafter in Hinduism
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The original concept of Hereafter is a significant part of Hinduism that was misunderstood, misinterpreted and distorted during the later periods.
By Dr Zakir Naik
First: The Concept of Rebirth in Hinduism
Most of the Hindus believe in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, which is called 'Samsara'. 'Samsara' or the doctrine of rebirth is also known as the theory of reincarnation or of transmigration of the soul. This doctrine is considered to be a basic tenet of Hinduism. According to doctrine of rebirth, differences between individuals, even at the time of their birth, are due to their past karma i.e. actions done in the past birth. For example, if one child is born healthy while another is handicapped or blind, the differences are attributed to their deeds in their previous lives. Those who believe in this theory understand that since all actions may not bear fruit in this life, but there has to be another life for facing or reaping the consequences of one's actions.
It was mentioned in the Bhagvad Gita: "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless." (Bhagvad Gita 2:22)
The Doctrine of Re-birth is also described in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:
"As a Caterpillar which has wriggled to the top of a blade of grass draws itself over to a new blade, so does the soul, after it has put aside its body draws itself over to a new existence." (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4:4:3)
Second: Karma – The law of Cause and Effect
Karma means act, deed, action or activity and refers not only to action undertaken by the body but also to those undertaken by the mind. Karma is actually action and reaction or the law of cause and effect. It is explained by the saying: "As we sow, so shall we reap". A farmer cannot sow wheat and expect rice to grow. Similarly, every good thought, word or deed begets a similar reaction which affects our next life, and every unkind thought, harsh word and evil deed comes back to harm us in this life or in the next life.
Third: Dharma – Righteous Duties
Dharma refers to what are the rights or righteous duties. This includes what is right for the individual, family, the class or caste and also for the universe itself. In order to achieve good karma, life should be led according to Dharma; otherwise it will result in bad karma. Dharma affects both, the present life and the future as well.
Fourth: Moksha – Liberation from the Cycle of Rebirth
Moksha means liberation from the cycle of rebirth or of 'Samsara'. The ultimate aim of every Hindu is that one day the cycle of rebirth will be over and he will not have to be reborn again. This can only happen if there is no karma to cause an individual to be reborn i.e. it looses its good and bad karma.
Fifth: Rebirth Is Not Mentioned in the Vedas
The important point worth noting is that the doctrine of rebirth is not postulated, propounded or even mentioned anywhere in what is considered to be the most authentic Hindu scriptures i.e. the Vedas. The Vedas make no mention of the entire concept of transmigration of souls.
Sixth: Punarjanam Means Life after Death
The Common word used for the doctrine of rebirth is 'Punarjanam'. In Sanskrit 'Punar' or 'Puna', means, 'next time' or 'again' and 'Janam' means 'life'. Therefore, 'Punarjanam' means 'next life' or 'the life hereafter'. It does not mean coming to life on earth again and again as a living creature.
If one reads many of the references to Punarjanam in Hindu Scriptures besides the Vedas, keeping the life in the hereafter in mind, one gets the concept of the next life but not of rebirths or of life again and again. This is true for several quotations of the Bhagvad Gita and Upanishad which speak of Punarjanam.
This concept of repeated births or of cycle of rebirth was developed after the Vedic period. This doctrine was added by Hindu priests in subsequent Hindu scriptures including the Upanishad, Bhagvad Gita and the Puranas in a conscious attempt to rationalize and explain the differences between different individuals at birth and the different circumstances in which people find themselves in, with the concept that Almighty God is not unjust. As far as God is not unjust, the inequalities and differences between people are due to their deeds in their past lives.
Islam has a rational answer to this which we shall discuss in an independent article.
Seventh: Life after Death in the Vedas
There is reference to life after death in the Vedas. It is mentioned in Rig Veda, "The unborn portion, burn that, AGNI, with thy heat; let thy flame, thy splendor, consume it; with those glorious members which thou hast given him, JATAVEDAS, bear him to the world (of the virtuous)." (Book no. 10, Hymn no. 16 verse no. 4.)
The Sanskrit word 'Sukritam u Lokam' means 'the word of the virtuous or region of the pious, referring to the hereafter.' The next verse in Rig Veda, Book 10, hymn 16, verse 5 says: "… Putting on (Celestial) life, let the remains (of bodily like) depart: let him, JATAVEDAS be associated with a body." (Rig Veda 10:16:5)
This verse too refers to a second life i.e. life after death.
Eighth: Paradise – Swarga in the Vedas
'Swarg' i.e. Paradise, is described in several places in the Vedas including Atharva Veda that says: "May all these streams of butter, with their banks of honey, flowing with distilled water and milk and curds and water reach thee in domestic life enhancing thy pleasure. May thou acquire completely these things strengthening the soul in diverse ways." (Book 4, hymn 34, Verse 6, (Devi Chand)
Furthermore, Atharva Veda says: "Having pools of clarified butter, stocks of sweet honey, and having exhilarating drinks for water, full of milk and curds, may all these streams flow to us in the world of happiness swelling sweetly. May our lakes full of lotuses be situated near us". (Atharva Veda, Book 4, hymn 34, verse 6, Veda Pra.)
Also Atharava Veda mentions:
"O both of you! start to accomplish it. Make determined effort to accomplish it. Those having unflinching faith attain this abode of happiness. Whatever ripe offerings you have made in fire of sacrifice, may both; the husband and wife, stand united to guard them with care." (Atharva Veda 6:122:5)
On the other hand, Rig Veda says: "O Aila, the loud-sounding clouds, these divines say to you, since you are indeed subject to death, let your progeny propitiate your revered cosmic forces with oblations, then alone you shall rejoice (with me) in heaven." (Rig Veda 10:95:18)
Ninth: Hell – 'Nark' in Vedas
'Nark' or 'Hell' is also described in the Vedas and the Sanskrit word used is 'Narakasthanam'.
It is also mentioned in Rigveda:
"May the bounteous fire divine, consume them with his fiercely glowing sharp jaws like flames, who disregard the commandments and steadfast laws of most venerable and sagacious Lord." (Rigveda 4:5:4)
These references show that the ancient Hinduism had a concept of hereafter similar to the Islamic faith about the Day of Judgment. However, the original thought was misunderstood, misinterpreted and distorted during the later periods.
Source: Taken from www.islamandhinduism.com with modifications.
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«Рустави» — ныне не существующий советский и грузинский футбольный клуб, более известный под названиями «Металлург» и «Горда».

История
В советское время клуб выступал под названием «Металлург» (Рустави), затем в период независимости Грузии клуб носил названия «Горда» (Рустави) и ФК «Рустави».

В чемпионатах СССР команда из Рустави выступала с 1960 года, играла в закавказских зонах класса «Б» (позже — 2-й лиги). При этом играла нерегулярно — вне второй лиги была в сезонах 1973, 1974, 1977—1979, 1982—1985.

С 1986 «Металлург» (Рустави) выступал в 9-й зоне второй лиги Чемпионата СССР. Большую часть домашних игр команда выигрывала. Самым ярым противником «Металлурга» был кировабадский «Кяпаз». Игры с участием этих команд всегда проходили интересно и при переполненном стадионе.

Лучший результат в эти годы команда показала в 1988 году, когда заняла 3-е место. Тренером команды был тогда Гиви Нодия.

Ветераном команды являлся Хвича Касрашвили. Выступавший под пятым номером Х.Касрашвили был также неизменным капитаном команды.

В 1989 году в Рустави прошёл товарищеский матч между «Металлургом» и тбилисским «Динамо». Несмотря на все усилия руставцев, «класс» команд дал о себе знать. Представитель высшей лиги переиграл «Металлург» со счётом 3:1.

Также в конце 80-х годов XX века «Металлург» провел в Рустави два товарищеских матча с иностранными клубами. Встреча с норвежским «Тромсе» закончилась со счетом 0:0. А игра против шведского клуба АИК завершилась минимальным поражением руставцев. Показав достойный, атакующий футбол против именитого соперника, «Металлург» получил гол в свои ворота в середине игры, причем с дальнего удара чернокожего легионера шведской команды.

С 1990 — в чемпионате Грузии. С 1990 по 1992 и с 1998 по 2003 играла под названием «Горда», в 1993—1998 — «Металлург». После сезона 2002/03, по итогам которого вылетела из высшей лиги, носила названия «Горда-2000» (в сезоне 2003/04), затем — ФК «Рустави».

В середине 2000-х годов команда прекратила существование (последний сезон — 2005/06 в Первой лиге). В это же время в Рустави переехал ФК «Тбилиси», сменив название на «Олимпи» Рустави, позднее этот клуб взял традиционное для города название «Металлург», но правопреемником прежнего клуба не является.

В сезоне 2013/14 во Второй лиге (группа «Восток») сыграла команда «Рустави».

В 2015 году создан новый клуб «Рустави».

Названия
 1948—1989: «Металлург»
 1990—1993: «Горда»
 1993—1998: «Металлург» (или «Металлурги»)
 1998—2003: «Горда»
 2003—2004: «Горда-2000»
 2003—2006: «Рустави»

Достижения
 Бронзовый призёр зонального турнира Класса Б (Д-2) первенства СССР: 1961.
 Бронзовый призёр зонального турнира Второй лиги СССР (Д-3): 1988.
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата Грузии: 1990, 1991/92.
 Финалист кубка Грузии: .

Тренеры
 Ш. Ш. Чеишвили (1986)
 Т. Ш. Кониашвили (1987)
 Гиви Нодия (1988—1989)
 …
 Гурам Кочиашвили (1993, до 3 сентября)
 Реваз Дзодзуашвили (1993, с 3 сентября — 1996)
 Ясон Аладашвили (1996; 1998-?)
 Гигла Имнадзе (1997, с января)

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Ссылки
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 Профиль на сайте Footballfacts.ru

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Souss Valley, Morocco
Ottmane El Filali is quick to point out that the scraggly vegetation in the surrounding countryside is not dead. He is referring to the argan trees that make up the world's only argan tree forest. It is a unique bit of biodiversity found in the Souss Valley, a pocket of Morocco between the coastal cities of Essaouira and Agadir.
Despite being alive, the trees have shed their small leaves, a survival tactic to minimize the amount of water needed to continue growing. Argan trees, El Filali says, gesturing again at the spiky branches, can sustain themselves on just 180 millimeters of liquid a year — and the moisture can be absorbed as humidity through the rough holes in the tree's trunk.
El Filali makes his career through fun facts like this. A native of Essaouira, he is a tour guide with Ecotourisme et Randonnées (Ecotourism and Hiking), a walking tour outfit found in Essaouira's maze of medina. Among tours of the argan forest, the company runs various half- and full-day tours for those eager to learn more about — or just be out in — the Moroccan countryside.
Essaouira's first ecotourism project:
Ecotourisme et Randonnées was started in 2008 by Frédérique Thevenet and Edouard Pottier, a pair of French expatriates living in Essaouira. In 2006, the couple opened the doors on Restaurant La Découverte (The Discovery Restaurant) in Essaouira and wanted to expand their environmental efforts. Pottier had worked for 18 years as a ranger with the French National Forests Agency, and the couple was eager to continue sharing his knowledge and passion with a Moroccan audience.
"Ecotourism is part of our values," says Thevenet. "We have always paid attention to our impact on the environment and passed that onto our children, too. That's why it was important to put it in place here and try to transmit a little bit to Moroccan families."
Thevenet is sitting in a corner of Restaurant La Découverte, which remains a cozy nook to escape Essaouira's notorious Atlantic gusts. Frédérique and her team of four serve classic Moroccan tagines and pastillas, using fresh, local ingredients and making items like bread, yogurt, and pasta in-house.
The couple found El Filali shortly after starting the walking tours. A geology graduate who had previously guided informal camel tours with his brother, El Filali started on a two-month term and has now been with the company for nine years. During high season, he can offer as many as six tours a week, each highlighting a different natural site, including the Cap Sim sand dunes, Sidi M'Barek waterfall, and Wadi Ksob.
With information about the biodiversity of each, Ecotourisme et Randonnées ensures tourists walk away with a better sense and appreciation of the local environment.
Preserving the Moroccan countryside:
Back in the argan tree forest, El Filali explains the importance of preserving the biodiversity of the Souss Valley. Argan trees, alongside Thuja trees, have come under threat for various reasons, including creeping urbanization and the demand for new agricultural space. None, though, is as eyebrow-raising as a certain local scene: goats in trees. "They work as a team, the goats and camels," El Filali says. "The goats climb and eat the nuts in the branches and the camels eat what they can reach from the ground."
It is comedic to see, but the impact of goats and other factors is no joke: according to El Filali, what was two million hectares (20,000 square kilometers) of argan trees during the 20th century has shrunk to 830,000 hectares (8,300 square kilometers).
That is not good news for the environment, or for the value that argan fruit brings to the region. Argan oil has become a valuable export in recent years, and is coveted for both cuisine and cosmetics. Ultimately, El Filali says it is a matter of helping locals understand the difference between short- and long-term gain. "People want to let the goats eat because they can sell or eat the animal immediately," he says. "But argan trees are more long-term than even the olive harvest because they need less water."
One of the ways Ecotourisme et Randonnées is persuading residents to preserve the argan forest is by providing local Berber families with solar ovens. Left exposed under the intense Moroccan sun, the ovens can cook food just as effectively as a wood-stoked fire or propane tank, albeit more slowly.
"In France, we use a lot of these solar ovens and know the importance of solar energy," Thevenet says of the stoves, which they have provided to two households. "We wanted to do a little thing to try to have Moroccans understand how important solar is for all of us. Using these ovens also spares you the time of collecting wood in the forest, and saves trees."
El Filali is the first to recognize that changing the mentality is a process, particularly with these solar ovens. "If people are used to using wood for cooking they want to keep using it because it has a certain taste," he says. "People also burn the wood to get heat. Solar is really a change to their lifestyle, and getting them to do that can be like asking a Moroccan to drink tea without sugar."
Environmental education in schools:
So how do you change a mentality? Ecotourisme et Randonnées's tactic is to foster a sense of environmentalism among Morocco's next generation. "We think that ecotourism and environmental awareness must go through the children," Thevenet explains.
The company has created programs for private Moroccan schools, including games and composting and recycling workshops that help children understand the importance of their surrounding environment. They also go on field trips to nearby sand dunes where they show children the effects of desertification and why it is important for vegetation to maintain the habitat.
As with the solar ovens, solar energy is another area of focus for school programs. "In the future, we would like to do classes on solar energy. In Europe, it is taking time to bring the environment into schools, and here it will also take time," Thevenet says.
With roots firmly placed in Essaouira, and connections with the surrounding schools and communities, Ecotourisme et Randonnées wants to make sure tourists — and local residents — see the value of Souss Valley's unique biodiversity for years to come.
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Photos: Courtesy of Ecotourisme et Randonnées.
Hilary is a journalist, photographer, and maker of things. She loves working with entrepreneurs to share their stories and has done so around the world.Hilary Duff
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10 days of whirlwind sketching, planning, sculpting and painting! It's been really fun and invigorating to play off of someone else's work.
Bette sent me a great collection of poems. I chose my inspiration poem for it's distinct imagery, soft language and lusty romantic essence.
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Q: How to read json string files in dataframe with spark I have some sample file which has json string in file how to process this type of file in spark.
Sample file
{"Id":"240","Page":"dashboard","test":"working"}
{"Amt": "0.0","deliveryfee": "Free","ProductList": "{{ProductId=1,Price=200,Quantity=1},{ProductId=2,Price=600,Quantity=1}}","sample": "data"}

Reading of file as json
val data = spark.read.option("multiLine", "true").json("/data/test/test.json")

df.printSchema
root
 |-- Amt: string (nullable = true)
 |-- ProductList: string (nullable = true)
 |-- deliveryfee: string (nullable = true)
 |-- sample: string (nullable = true)

printSchema is showing ProductList as String but it is not.

A: You probably want something like this:
{
"Amt": "0.0",
"deliveryfee": "Free",
"ProductList": [{
    "ProductId": 1,
    "Price": 200,
    "Quantity": 1
}, {
    "ProductId": 2,
    "Price": 600,
    "Quantity": 1
}],
"sample": "data"

}
Edited: The point is that the way your JSON in that field is a String, you need to change your JSON, or work with that field as a String


Isn't Pinterest just for women? Does anyone even really use Pinterest for anything? My digital marketing efforts are tough to manage as it is, why do I need to even consider Pinterest to dilute my already thin advertising budget?
In this guide, we're going to address these possible Pinterest pitfalls and break down exactly how Pinterest works, and why it is valuable to digital marketers and marketing agencies – especially those who are trying to sell products.
When advertisers strategize their campaigns, the discussion inevitably starts with Google or Facebook. And why not? Those are the biggest players with the most reach. They have the most advanced algorithms to help you get in front of the right audience, and those audiences tend to have the most potential.
With 'only' 200 million users, Pinterest might seem like an afterthought that's not worth the trouble. However, this social media platform – that helps users gather information on brands and products – can deliver valuable results for the right client with the right strategy.
Although it is a statistic delivered from the company itself, Pinterest users are almost 50% more likely to be introduced to a brand, which is a compelling statistic when considering Pinterest for paid social media outreach.
In the digital marketing world, conversions and bottom-of-funnel activities usually reign supreme because of ROI and CPA targets. Thus, it can be less practical to put together an actionable marketing plan with clear metrics on improving revenue and profit.
But, also consider the fact that 93% of Pinterest users say they use the platform to plan purchases. Again, that is a Pinterest sourced statistic, yet it's quite compelling when you're talking about driving revenue and purchases.
Pinterest is a place where users save and share ideas, content, products – and we all know the value of referrals, testimonials, and reviews. The trickle down effect of acquiring users for the top of your sales funnel can be hard to measure, but there's no doubt that if you are acquiring users that are brand aware, you're doing something valuable for your company's bottom line.
Sharing is a big part of Pinterest. When you save a Promoted Pin, it is shared to your followers. The sharing and bookmarking are where Pinterest really shine. Users will get ideas from trusted influencers who can impact what the masses like, share, pin, and eventually purchase.
It is this expression of self that is innate in all of us, and if you can target the right audience with the right content at the right time, your brand can reap the rewards of being shared, bookmarked, and eventually purchased. It's time to start Pinning!
You'll want to set up a business account to get started, which is a similar process to opening a user account.
In your profile setup, give as much information as you can. This is where users will learn more about you once they find a Pin from you that interests them, so make it as easy as possible for them to learn all about you.
Make sure you have a logo or image that best represents your business. In your 'About You' section, use keywords that describe who you are, but also remember to be targeted about the keywords that you use.
Pinterest is about what people want to do, purchase, or achieve. It is not uncommon to see the word 'dream' come up a lot in Pinterest boards. Users are focused on their dream vacation, dream wedding, dream closet, dream kitchen, dream man cave, and dream house.
Pins inspire their users to think big, and you'll want to have this inspiration mindset when planning out your Promoted Pins.
You want to think about your products in the dream and inspiration context. Then, you will want to strategize a way to present your products on Pinterest to best captivate your audience so that they'll want to share or bookmark your Pin.
You gotta get those referrals and testimonials we talked about earlier! This is what Pinterest is about: Users share, comment on, and repin Pins. Users are sharing ideas, and you want your idea to be a part of the conversation!
For example, show new ways to use your product. Arm & Hammer Baking Soda taught us this classic marketing 101 strategy when they advertised using baking soda as toothpaste amid lagging sales. Find ways to educate your target audience in a helpful and engaging way.
Pins are the format by which Pinterest operates. They can be images or videos. Test as many images as you can to see what works best for your audience. Pinterest can be a great staging area for experimentation to see what resonates with your audience. Don't be afraid to try new things.
Be tasteful about your images. Subtle logos and branding can soften the hard sale and make your product seem less in-your-face.
Use lifestyle images. In the same vein as being tasteful, lifestyle images can show your product in action and subtly give context.
Text overlays can help brand the image and add useful information. Show your personality, but don't overpower the image. Sometimes, however, it doesn't pay to be subtle. Use text overlays for CTAs or to bring attention to a specific user benefit or unique selling point of your product.
Make the typography simple and large enough to read; you don't want users squinting and reading a whole paragraph about your product (which defeats the purpose of the image-focused Pins).
Use high resolution and non-pixelated images. The image is the crux of the Pin, so spend time and effort on making sure your images look great. Pay attention to the vertical aspect ratio, which can affect how the image appears on Pinterest.
The ideal aspect ratio of images is 2:3 and 1:3:5. Tall up-and-down ads take up more real estate and work best, but don't overdo the tall aspect of it. The minimum recommended width is 600 pixels.
Finally, because Pins have a longer life cycle on Pinterest, it is good to put a date on the Pin, especially if you're running a contest or timely type of Pin to make sure it doesn't get confused engagements later.
Make a video to share. Video content, in case you haven't been to YouTube in a while, is all the rage. Show your audience how to do something related to your product. People love how-to videos, especially if these videos are related to subjects and topics that they love.
When starting a board, you'll want to be clear about the description and what will be pinned to it. Try to keep the title under 20 characters because anything over that gets cut off.
Build a board and have a board strategy. Make sure your keywords, description, and title are on point for your boards. Add relevant Pins to it and choose a cover Pin to represent your board.
Featured boards allow you to highlight certain boards to represent your brand. If you have multiple product or service segments, this is a good way to build out separate boards for each, but still prioritize the most important segments. You can use five featured boards and order them the way you like.
There's even Pinterest 'secret boards', which can be a holding area for Pins to be seen only by your team. This can be a great place to gather information for brainstorming sessions, or a rough draft board for a specific client or project. There are an unlimited number of secret boards available to you.
Don't worry about how secret boards appear to the public, because they don't appear to the public at all (hence the 'secret' part). Secret boards are only available to view by people you invite. However, once the secret board is made public, everything on the board will be viewable by the public.
Start a Pinterest business page and start tracking users and engagement.
You will also be able to track your Promoted Pins and other Pinterest advertising efforts with Pinterest's analytics.
Use these metrics to optimize products, images, and segments to increase awareness of your brand.
Don't just rely on Pinterest Analytics to analyze your campaigns. You want to build out tracking parameters for your URL when sending traffic to your website. Seeing how Pinterest advertising efforts compare to other traffic sources – and how Pinterest traffic contributes as a touchpoint to the overall customer journey – is important in attribution and figuring out Pinterest's value in your digital marketing efforts.
One way you can easily build out tracking parameters for your Pinterest campaigns is to use the Campaign URL Builder within Google's tools.
You also want visibility on which keywords, ad groups, and specific ads perform. This granularity will be crucial to optimizing and learning more about what works.
Monitoring your Pinterest profile analytics is a good way to see how your brand awareness shifts based on the various campaigns that you run. You can break down your impressions by Pins and boards. You can get metrics on pins, repins, repinners, and boards. You can also get click data on all of the above.
Pinterest provides a way to understand the interests of your audience, and this is a great way to continue to understand your target audience better so that you can serve ads that get better engagement and conversions – and that ultimately have a better ROI!
You can learn about the demographics of your audience and their interests. You'll also be able to see which boards have your Pins and other brands that your audience likes (hello competitive analysis!).
And don't forget to see what other content is out there competing with your own. You don't necessarily need to copy what other marketers are doing, but their ideas will only enhance your strategy.
When you set up your campaign, you can choose between showing up while users browse and/or when they search. Split up campaigns by placements to see how performance goes for each type of placement.
Different brands will experience different levels of performance for each placement, so don't make assumptions when you leave out a certain placement. Also, when you use both placements in a single campaign or ad group, it may provide more narrow targeting, but it will be less clear which component is responsible for the performance. Segmentation of campaigns, like in all marketing efforts, is a best practice to isolate variables that can be responsible for performance.
One of the ways users can find your content is by searching keywords, so finding relevant keywords for your brand is crucial to your Pinterest branding strategy.
Pinterest allows you 150 keywords for a Promoted Pin, but recommends that you only use 20-30. Choose search targeting for keyword focused campaigns to be more granular about your campaign and ad group segmentation.
Use the Pinterest search bar to search terms relevant to what you're trying to promote to get ideas on what other terms your target audience could be searching that are relevant to your campaign.
You can bid on exact, phrase, and broad match keywords – just like in Google Ads or Bing Ads. Pinterest reveals the importance of keywords by using this method. Just like when you do paid search advertising on Google or Bing, start narrow with exact and phrase match to understand how well the keywords work. For high performing keywords, expand to broad match when appropriate, but keep in mind negative keywords, too.
Pinterest will give you an idea of search volume for certain keywords, but you'll definitely want to experiment with different keyword groups to see how various segments perform. Don't be afraid to get creative.
You can narrow your audience by locations, languages, devices, and gender. Know your target audience and if it can be narrowed using one or all of these attributes; the more detailed your audience, the better.
Pinterest has over 400 different interest targets, with sub-interests within those. They have also expanded this with their Taste Graph, which we will talk about in a bit. Use these in combination with keywords to narrow down your target audience significantly. However, it's best to separate campaigns and ad groups based on either interests or keywords to see how each segment performs.
Just like with high performing audiences on Facebook and LinkedIn or high performing exact match keywords on Google Ads, your best pins should be bid up and promoted heavily, because you know they work! Once you're done maximizing revenue and engagement, you can start to expand to your less popular content.
As we've mentioned, segment your campaigns by different advertising variables as much as possible to determine how well (or how poorly) specific attributes perform with your audience: offers/landing pages, keywords, interests, mobile, and desktop.
There are various campaign goals available: get traffic to your website, build brand awareness (get lots of impressions), boost engagement with your Pins, etc. You'll also want to segment campaigns by your goal (often this coincides with segmenting by offers or landing pages, which is the best practice).
Segment ad groups by Pins and landing pages. Just like you would segment ad groups based on keywords or offers on Google Ads or Facebook, you want to segment your Pinterest Promoted Pins as granulary as possible to isolate differentiating variables in your ad groups or campaigns (keywords, pins, landing pages/offers, etc.) to see not only which promotions perform better, but also to understand why.
Like all of the other social media platforms, Pinterest has a conversion tag that allows you to track conversions and actions across your site and target users on Pinterest based on your website data.
They have a base code snippet that you install across your site, and also an event code that you install whenever you want to track conversions. You can then create audiences based around these conversions, and that can come in handy – especially for Ecommerce companies that have multiple touchpoints that can be retargeted.
You can easily access the conversion tag setup in your business account under the ads section.
Now that Pinterest has the capabilities of the Pinterest tag, publishers can target their website traffic just like with the other available social media marketing platforms.
You'll need to work with a Pinterest Marketing API Partner.
Rich Pins show metadata on the Pin and give Pinterest's users a richer experience. This data is in addition to descriptions, which is incentive to add this to qualifying Pins.
The use of metadata from your website that you can associate with Pins connects the information from your website with your Pins. If you've taken care to make this metadata relevant, it definitely won't hurt performance to connect this data to the appropriate Pins and will probably be quite beneficial. Pinterest encourages this by listing the available metadata layering that is possible for article, product, and recipe Pins. Rich Pin metadata also updates automatically, keeping your pins relevant.
Pinterest supports Open Graph and schema.org formats for marking up your Pins. You'll need to apply for Rich Pins by validating your URL with Pinterest.
As the name implies, just one tap on these pins takes you to the landing page for quick access to a landing page of your choice to engage users who are ready to purchase or learn more.
You only need 100 users to activate this list, which is similar to one of your other audiences that you are already targeting successfully. There is a sliding scale similar to Facebook's 1-10, where '1' most closely matches your target audience. Just like Facebook's Lookalike Audiences, this is a great way to build on your high-performing advertising audiences to prospect to similar types of people.
It is best to start out with Actalike Audiences that match best (1-3) before expanding out to the higher numbers, which have a lower chance of acting like your original audience.
There is an argument that a click at any time of the day is relevant because the content and landing page don't change. There is no evidence that clicks from users at off-peak hours convert less (unless you've done a specific scheduling analysis on your conversions and have found this for your niche).
However, if you don't have an unlimited budget and you want to maximize the audience you can reach, then scheduling Pins at various times of the day can maximize your reach and frequency – and possibly your ROI if you have consistent conversion and engagement metrics.
When you are running ads that take your audience to your website you'll want to use a clear call-to-action (CTA) in your Pin descriptions, just as you would with any other pay-per-click ad. Each click costs you money, and you want to gain value from that money spent (ROI).
As we've said earlier, you'll want to implement conversion tracking, whether it is in conjunction with Pinterest's platform or whether you set up your conversion tracking through Google Analytics.
The easiest way to set up conversion tracking is to have a 'thank you' page that can only be seen once a user performs a certain action. You should have a desired action or outcome whenever you send traffic to your website, especially from a pay-per-click advertising platform like Pinterest.
Instead of the approximately 400 interests by which you could target Pinterest's users, advertising publishers can now use about 5,000 interest categories to target more granular and obscure interests to increase engagement and conversion rate. These options are now available in the Pinterest Ads Manager.
It is worth checking out all the different interests to see which ones are relevant to your audience. Create parallel campaigns with successful campaigns that you have been running and see how these new audiences affect the performance of your ads. Even uncovering a few winning interests will make it worth the time and effort.
Create widgets on your website or app to allow easy follows, pins, and boards.
Using awesome facial recognition algorithms, Pinterest's engineers are starting to allow users to take pictures of objects which Pinterest Lens will analyze and suggest ideas based off the image! This is as high-tech as it sounds. Imagine taking a picture of a sweet bag you saw someone wearing at the mall, and finding where to buy that exact bag by having Pinterest analyze the picture of the bag for you.
For those publishers using Shopify or BigCommerce, you can now post Pins for products that can route users to buy a product with minimal friction from all the steps normally involved with buying online, like entering in payment and contact information.
Many of the publishers on Pinterest sell products anyway, so this is a great way to expand the reach of their Google Shopping or Amazon Shopping campaigns.
You'll first have to apply for Buyable Pins via Shopify or BigCommerce. Once you've been approved, you'll start to see that your pins that link to specific products will have an 'Add to Bag' button.
Make sure your Buyable Pins link to a specific product page and not a category page. Remember to save your Buyable Pins on your public boards to get maximum visibility by your potential audience. Download Pinterest's Browser Button to save the products you want to start selling on Pinterest.
As you can see, Pinterest is not a social media platform to be underestimated anymore, especially if you're a brand with consumer products. Pinterest is basically a place you can allow qualified and interested users to window shop, and it allows you to subtly put your best foot forward for branding yourself (and they expect you to woo them!). It doesn't get any better than that. Happy Pinning and Happy Revenue Making!


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Popular Blackpool cocktail bar Don Pepe to close for good next month
A popular Blackpool cocktail bar owner is set to retire – and the bar itself is to close for good.
Bill Tankard's Done Pepe bar is set to close in a matter of weeks
Billy Tankard, 66, has been running the Don Pepe cocktail and juice bar, on King Street, for 27 years.
During that time, the bar's unique drinks have gained a near-legendary status, with names such as Boy Meets Girl and the racy One Night Stand.
Billy has become so synonymous with the friendly venue that some regulars even call him 'Don'.
Inside the Don Pepe bar
But the Yorkshire-born businessman, who bought the then-struggling establishment back in 1994, will shut the doors for the last time on Sunday July 18.
It's the end of the line for Don Pepe because a row of buildings on King Street is being demolished to make way for gleaming new offices as part oftown centre regeneration plans. The bar has been compulsorily purchased by the council.
Billy, who grew up in Castleford, said: "I'll miss the social side the most. There are some people who come in just to see me, to have a chat and a couple of drinks and it will be hard to say goodbye to that.
"We cater for all ages and there's a great atmopshere in the bar.
"Some people who've been coming here for years do call me Don – and I don't mind!"
Billy started out in the supermarket trade in Leeds and spent 11 years to Australia.
Back in England, a family trip to Blackpool led to him buying Don Pepe and he added: "I've made some great friends."
For the next few weeks, Don Pepe is open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 5pm until midnight.
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The Daily News: Orca advocates join lower Snake River dam removal debate
By Mallory Gruben
Port, power groups fear whales could undercut Columbia system commerce
Proposals to breach the four Lower Snake River dams have found fresh support in orca advocates who want the dams removed to restore a "critical" food source for Puget Sound's endangered killer whales.
What do the dams have to do with the orcas, which live hundreds of miles from the Snake River? To put it simply, the dams affect chinook salmon runs, a winter food source for the starving orcas.
It's a breath of new life for a decades-long debate on whether to remove the dams — a decision that could dramatically impact the local port and power industries in Cowlitz County.
"Without the Snake River dams, you don't have the peaking power capability to back up wind and solar. And you don't have the ability for inland empire farmers to get their product to market at a price that can be sold internationally," said Rob Rich, vice president of marine services for Shaver Transportation, a regional tug and barge company that hauls commodities on the Snake and Columbia rivers.
Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite are the four dams advocates hope to see breached.
Courtesy Corps of Engineers
Gov. Jay Inslee's Orca Recovery Task Force wants dam-breaching brought into the killer whale conversation with a $750,000 "stakeholder forum," which may or may not be approved as the Legislature winds down work on the state budget.
Conservationists and business industries are almost as split over the forum as they are about the dams.
On one side, conservationists back proposals to remove the dams to assist Chinook salmon runs, but Islee's Orca Recovery Task Force recognizes the need to account for any consequence of dam removal, said Stephanie Solien, co-chair of the the group.
"There's just no doubt about it: The dams have had a huge impact, and we really felt that it needs to be looked at as a possible solution. But we can't do that until people come to the table and communities that rely on the dams have a chance to have their voices heard," Solien said.
The barge in the foreground of this photo unloads wheat into the Export Grain Terminal, known as the EGT, at its facility at the Port of Longview. Barges like this use the Columbia/Snake River system to move nearly 10 percent of all U.S. wheat exports each year.
Courtesy of the Port of Longview
On the opposing side, business and industry officials say the dams provide huge benefits to the Northwest economy through port cargo transportation and clean energy, and removing them could hurt the industries that rely on the river. Plus, these groups contend that the public has had ample opportunity to be involved with forums at the federal level.
"All of these things folks have been asking for in the last couple of months, like a dam-breaching impacts forum, is already being done by the federal agencies (the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation), and their process includes the states and the tribes — and it will have the opportunity for citizens to provide our public comment," said Kristen Meira, executive director of Pacific Northwest Waterways Association (PNWA), a coalition of ports, businesses and other public agencies.
Dwindling salmon populations
The movement to remove the dams dates back to at least 1991, when Snake River sockeye salmon were listed under the Endangered Species Act. Since then, 12 other salmon species have been added to the list, including three that are native to the Columbia/Snake River Basin.
Salmon advocates, including Joseph Bogaard, executive director of Save Our Wild Salmon, point to the dams as one of the leading causes for the salmon's decline. They turned the Snake and Columbia rivers into a series of slack, warm water pools that exhaust young salmon's energy on their way to the ocean, Bogaard said.
"As a result, if they get to the ocean alive, they are severely depleted of nutrition and energy. … They are much less likely to survive, and they come back at lower levels," he said.
The Columbia/Snake River Basin was "once the most productive salmon landscape on the planet," producing 10 million to 20 million returning adults annually, Bogaard said. Last year, just more than 175,000 spring chinook returned from the ocean, according to a 2019 TAC fish run forecast.
Fewer fish mean less food for the orca, whose diets consist primarily of Chinook. And less food means a lower survival rate. Puget Sound's Southern Resident orca population, once numbering 200, now is 74, a 30-year low. Many other factors, such as pollution, vessel noise and boat-caused injuries are also thought to be involved in their decline.
"There's a number of causes of decline for orca, but the most important and pressing one is that we need to get them more food," Bogaard said.
Snake River Chinook are not the orcas' only food. They also eat Chinook originating from rivers in Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River in Canada, among other rivers. But Snake River Chinook are among the 10 most important food stocks for orcas, according to NOAA Fisheries. And they are especially important in the winter months, when food sources are more scarce and some orca pods are spending time near the mouth of the Columbia River where spring Chinook are returning.
Bogaard said removing the dams is not a "silver bullet," but it is a "critical step" in helping the salmon and orca.
This map shows the areas where the three Southern Resident orca pods (J-pod, K-pod and L-pod) frequent during fall, winter and spring months. All three pods move to the Salish Sea, which includes Puget Sound, in the summer. K-pod and L-pod spend a portion of the winter along the Washington coast near the mouth of the Columbia River, where they're likely to feed on spring chinook returning to the Columbia and Snake rivers.
The opposing side, though, argues that healthy salmon populations can coexist with the dams, thanks to investments to make the structures more fish friendly. Adding safe fish passageways and spilling more water over the dams have increased the survival rate of juvenile chinook to more than 90 percent — without the need to remove the dams completely, said Meira, the PNWA director.
Dams necessary for local ports
The shipping locks that are part of the lower Snake River dams — and which make the river navigable by barge — mean the river is an "important gateway" for U.S. wheat and forest projects, according to Meira's organization. In 2017, more than 3.5 million tons of cargo was barged along the waterway. That's the equivalent of 244 four-barge tows. Much of that cargo goes to the local grain terminals at the port of Kalama and Longview.
It would more than 135,000 semi-trucks or 35,000 rail cars to move the same amount of goods. And those alternative modes of transportation are less fuel efficient, have higher emissions and would congest roads and railways, according to PNWA.
The Port of Longview opposes dam removal for this very reason.
"The benefit of barging is that it takes trains and trucks off the road. It's also more environmentally friendly," said port spokeswoman Ashley Helenberg. "If one of the efforts is to improve the environment, it would be a counterproductive argument to place that cargo on rails or in trucks."
Barging also keeps the price for the goods — especially wheat — competitive on the international market, said Rob Rich of Shaver Transportation. That's hugely important for families who work in river-based transportation and wheat farming, he said.
"All of the wheat the comes down the river by barge is from the inland empire. … It's from our local farmers," Rich said. "The Snake River accounts for nearly 10 percent of all United States wheat that is exported … and there's a reason it's shipped by barge. You can't ship it by rail or truck and compete in the international market."
Without the dams, barge transport is "not possible at all," Meira said. All the cargo moved on the river would need to be shipped another way.
Rich added that "people who want the dams removed say you could truck it or rail it, but there is not possible way for us to do that," and keep prices competitive.
Clean, renewable energy
The dams are also an important piece of the Northwest's energy industry. Those four structures — the Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite dams — account for about 10 to 15 percent of the total megawatts generated by the 31-dam Columbia hydropower system.
Cowlitz PUD General Manager Steve Kern said there is no immediate replacement for that clean energy source. Solar and wind technologies are not yet "adequate or reliable" enough to meet Northwest power needs, he said, and other replacements might require burning coal and gas.
It could also mean an increase in consumer electric rates as the PUD and other energy groups invest in alternative sources for power to meet the region's growing demand for energy.
"(The dams) are not a resource we should throw away without carefully looking at the benefits," Kern said.
A multimillion dollar federal study investigating the dam's effects on river wildlife is currently underway. That study will look at strategies for salmon recovery while also considering the effect of those plans on different river and dam "user groups," like ports and utility districts, said Matt Rabe, spokesman with the Army Corps of Engineers in Portland. A draft of the study should be released early in 2020, and a final decision is slated for September of that year.
No species recovery
Federal, state and local agencies have spent billions of dollars trying to recovery salmon runs. Despite that expenditure, the runs still are struggling. Not a single one of the endangered runs has recovered adequately enough to be taken off the endangered species list, said Bogaard, the salmon advocate.
"What we've been doing a long time has cost a tremendous amount of money, and it hasn't worked. If we are going to comply with the law and we are going to save these species, we will have to do things differently," he said.
His proposal is to bring dam removal back to the "center of the conversation."
Bogaard attended a conference in Idaho where legislators, farmers, power industry officials and other communities did just that, marking a "pretty significant pivot point" in the debate, he said. Even Republican legislators from Idaho showed their support for "taking a closer look at … restoring the Snake River," Bogaard said.
Solien, the chochair for Gov. Inslee's Orca Task Force, agreed that interest groups can no longer "stay in our own silos and keep fighting and suing each other." Instead, they need to create a plan that addresses the needs of the Washington communities, should the federal government decide to breach the dams, she said.
But Meira said that the forum is "a bit of a head scratcher" because it "won't result in anything that is as actionable as what the federal agencies are doing." Kern and Rich added that they don't think it's worth investing even more taxpayer dollars to replicate the current federal study.
However, despite their opposition to funding the forum, port and power officials said they still want a seat at the table should it happen.
"We want to ensure all interests are represented and a balanced solution is reached. … We definitely want to be part of the conversation," Helenberg said.


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Resident Evil: Afterlife (oryg. Resident Evil 4: Afterlife) – film fabularny z 2010 roku.

Fabuła
Alice (Milla Jovovich) wraz z oddziałem swoich klonów niszczy tokijską bazę korporacji Umbrella, następnie zaś szuka oazy ocalałych, tajemniczej Arkadii, miasta na Alasce. W miejscu o podanych współrzędnych odnajduje jedynie jedną osobę, Claire Redfield, przywódczynię konwoju ocalalych, znaną z poprzedniej części filmu. Wraz z Claire, cierpiącą na amnezję, kontynuuje lotniczy zwiad nad terytorium Ameryki Północnej, poszukując oaz wolnych od zombie i wirusa. Odnajdują kilkuosobową grupę ocalałych, zabarykadowanych w dawnym więzieniu w Los Angeles, otoczonych hordami żywych trupów. W pobliżu oczekuje również tajemnicza Arkadia, która okazuje się być statkiem.

Obsada
 Milla Jovovich – Alice
 Ali Larter – Claire Redfield
 Wentworth Miller – Chris Redfield
 Spencer Locke – K-Mart
 Shawn Roberts – Albert Wesker
 Kim Coates – Bennett
 Kacey Barnfield – Crystal
 Boris Kodjoe – Luther West
 Sergio Peris-Mencheta – Angel Ortiz
 Norman Yeung – Kim Yong
 Ray Olubowale – Axeman
 Fulvio Cecere – Wendell
 Sienna Guillory – Jill Valentine

Bibliografia

Amerykańskie filmy z gatunku horror
Amerykańskie filmy z 2010 roku
Filmy w reżyserii Paula Williama Scotta Andersona
Filmy wytwórni Screen Gems
Filmy 3D z lat 2010–2019
Sequele
Filmy, których akcja toczy się w Los Angeles
Filmy z serii Resident Evil
Japońskie filmy z 2010 roku
Kanadyjskie filmy z 2010 roku
Filmy kręcone w Japonii
Filmy, których akcja toczy się w Tokio
Filmy fantastyczne z 2010 roku
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