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Making the Case for Israel on Campus [incl. Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Norman Finkelstein]
An interview with Professor Alan Dershowitz
inFocus (Jewish Policy Center)
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/14214/making-the-case-for-israel-on-campus-incl-edward
On November 25, inFOCUS editor Jonathan Schanzer interviewed Professor Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, Dershowitz joined the Harvard faculty at the age of 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg. Throughout his distinguished career, he has published 27 books, including What Israel Means to Me (2006), and The Case For Israel (2003).
iF: Please provide your interpretation of the anti-Israel sentiment on campus today.
AD: The anti-Israel sentiment on campus is widely misunderstood and misdiagnosed. The vast majority of university students in the U.S. are not anti-Israel and not pro-Israel. They are uninformed, and if informed, neutral and leaning toward pro-
Israel.
The reason we perceive the sentiment on campus as anti-Israel is that extremists throughout the world hate Israel—extremists on the left and extremists on the right. Israel is the Jew among nations, and the Jew is always caught between the black and the red. On college campuses, extremists of the left have louder voices and have more influence among the faculty—not the faculty of professional schools, but the faculty of arts and sciences. And that serves as a megaphone for anti-Israel attitudes on campuses.
When I speak on campuses, I sense a much more positive attitude towards Israel among serious students, future leaders, than I think many have projected. In other words, this is a winnable fight. We haven't lost, and I think there has been too much dark pessimism.
To be a little self-serving, the success of my book, The Case for Israel, which was a campus best seller, was evidence of the fact that if efforts are made in the right direction, they can have a big impact. Now, I'm an old guy, writing from the perspective of a 70- year-old Jewish guy from Cambridge. If younger people—people who are closer in age to the students—would write books, they would have more of an impact. What we need is more multimedia approaches—websites, Facebook pages, Youtube, and other kinds of direct approaches.
We should not give up on college campuses because I think we have a tabula rasa, a blank slate, among many college students. This is often drowned out by the loud voices of the extreme anti-Israel left.
iF: What about the influence of radical professors in the field of Middle East Studies?
AD: This is a serious problem because we've seen it on so many campuses across the country. Middle East departments have become propaganda departments. Probably the worst in the country is Columbia University, which is a bankrupt department set up by Edward Said. Nobody takes it seriously as a neutral academic enterprise. It doesn't serve educational purposes.
Fortunately, very few people take Middle East studies courses unless they are committed one way or the other. So it becomes a kind of propaganda, counter-propaganda vehicle.
The failure of Middle East Studies departments is not so much that they present an anti-Israel perspective (which they do), but that they have failed as academic departments. The answer is not to create pro-Israel departments, but to create real academic departments where scholarship trumps propaganda.
iF: Please describe your conflict with Norman Finkelstein.
AD: Norman Finkelstein is not an academic. He's a man who publishes screeds, and in one case, an article calling for my assassination. He commissioned a cartoon showing me masturbating in ecstatic joy to dead Lebanese civilians during the Israeli-Lebanese conflict. That's not scholarship.
Nobody takes Finkelstein seriously as an academic or scholar unless they have already been convinced. Very few people read his books. They just support his negative views towards Jews, towards Israel, towards Holocaust survivors, etcetera.
He was exposed for what he is, a pseudo-scholar and a propagandist that was denied tenure by DePaul University. He is now an itinerant lecturer being paid large sums of money by pro-Arab groups to come and speak on university campuses. He's mostly seen as a clown. People come to see how far he is willing to go, what insults he is willing to level. He really has no impact. I don't think he ever changed a single mind, and largely should be ignored.
iF: What are your thoughts about the Arab money pouring into American universities?
AD: Arab money has enormous impact. Take the Carter Center, which is bought, paid for, and owned by Arab money. The Carter Center never criticizes Saudi Arabia, and refuses to call what's going on in Darfur "genocide." It's a disgrace that a fine school like Emory University would allow its name to be polluted by the Carter Center.
I've offered to come to Emory and speak at the Carter Center for free, without even expenses. I'm probably one of the three or four most sought after speakers on college and university campuses. Here I am, offering to go free to the Carter Center, pay my own way, and simply have an opportunity, either to debate Jimmy Carter or just to speak at the Carter Center—and they refuse to allow it. It's not an academic center. It's a propaganda center. Emory University has significant numbers of Jewish students and faculty, and generally a pro-Israel faculty and student body, but the Carter Center is a disgrace and has no appropriate role on a university campus.
What we need are objective, neutral academics—scholarly places where the truth is taught. Arab money has, of course, paid for lots of professorships, lots of centers, but always comes with strings attached. And that's why great universities don't have centers paid for by foreign money, and no university should.
iF: What should be done to reform this problem?
AD: Well, all one has to do is look at Harvard and Yale, which are models. Both have extraordinarily good departments. There is no real conflict in either of the two schools. Arab students, Muslim students, Jewish students, Israeli students work together on common projects, and share holidays together—Jewish and Muslim holidays. They have debates and events in which all sides are presented. The faculty presents the widest array—right-wing, pro-Israel attitudes, reflected by Ruth Wisse, to more centrist pro-Israel perspectives reflected by me and others, to some left wing anti-Israel perspectives. Debate is going on, and classes are not regarded as skewed.
Harvard has been a great success, and so has Yale. Many other college campuses are models of how the Middle East conflict should be taught. It's a few universities that are not—University of California Irvine, Columbia University, Emory's special problem with the Carter Center, and some other places—that receive a lot of attention and appropriately so.
It's far worse in Canada and far, far worse in England. It's also worse in other countries, like France and Germany. It is ironic that England is the worst. The effect has been devastating on the universities. Despite their continuing high status and undeserved reputation, many knowledgeable academics now believe that Cambridge and Oxford have become second-rate universities. We have tremendous numbers of English people applying to Harvard and Yale because they do not want to go to Oxford and Cambridge and get a second- or third-rate education. The graduate and professional schools at Oxford and Cambridge have generally become captive to the extreme Left and the unions, and it has devastated their schools.
Had there been a British-run, anti-Israel academic boycott, the British would be hurt far more than Israel because Israel's scholars are much more highly regarded, in general, than British scholars. The end result would have been, had it been carried out, a boycott of British scholars, not a boycott of Israeli scholars, because academics around the world would benefit far more from collaborating with Israeli scholars than with British scholars.
iF: There are many radical Israeli scholars now, some more radical than the professors here in America. What explains that?
AD: One thing that explains why you have so much anti-Israel radicalism on Israeli campuses is it's almost all by fifth-rate Israeli professors. The career model is very simple. If you are a failure in Israel and can't get a decent job at a decent Israeli university, the way to get a job at third-rate or fourth-rate European or American university is to be virulently anti-Israel. Just hiring another pro-Israel professor from Israel—what's the big deal? But if you are an Israeli who is virulently anti-Israel, then you're interesting. Fifth-rate Israeli professors take that tack and become interesting oddities. If you look at the really radical Israeli professors—the Neve Gordons, the Avi Shlaims—they're fifth-raters. They have no academic credentials.
iF: What are your views on Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of The Israel Lobby?
AD: Well, Walt and Mearsheimer are first-rate academics, which was so devastating about why they chose to write this book.
My own view is that Walt has been pulled around by Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer is a bigot. He's virulently anti-Israel, and he's veered over toward bigotry against the Jewish people. That's not true of Walt. Their public statements are very different. Mearsheimer has become a kind of rock star among anti-Israel fanatics, and he'll say anything to appeal to his audience.
The book is a piece of junk, and every review indicates that. It has been ripped to shreds by every reviewer, including their colleagues at the Kennedy School. But it presents a thesis that a lot of people welcome and want to accept.
The great failings of the book are its omissions. It never talks, or rarely talks about the Saudi lobby. That's an interesting comparison, the Saudi lobby versus the Israel lobby. Saudi Arabia has no support among grassroots people in the U.S., and yet it has enormous influence on the American government. Israel has enormous support among grassroots Americans and probably has less influence—certainly in the executive branch—than Saudi Arabia does. So, it would be very interesting to do a comparison. But they don't do that because it doesn't serve their ends.
iF: Any other omissions?
AD: They talk about how Israel and the Israel lobby supposedly drove the U.S. into the Iraq war. But they never mention the fact that the prime minister of Israel personally went to Bush and told him that it would be a mistake for the U.S. to occupy Iraq. That isn't mentioned in the book because it would undercut their thesis that the Israel lobby, which purports to speak for the Israeli government, drove us to war.
iF: What are your thoughts about Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University's disciple of Edward Said?
AD: He's not a disciple of Edward Said. Edward Said was a serious intellectual who had a political agenda. Khalidi has no objective academic credibility. He is a polemicist, an extremist, and a radical. He was opposed to the Camp David II and Taba peace talks. He advised the Palestinians against accepting a Palestinian state. His views have been very extreme. He really doesn't accept the two-state solution. He was critical of virtually all Palestinian steps toward peace making and, although he's careful how he says it, he's an apologist for terrorism.
The worst thing is that Khalidi will not tolerate dissent within the department. He presides over a department in which students are punished for expressing views contrary to the views of the anti-Israel faculty. He's been just an awful presence at Columbia University in terms of academic freedom and academic credibility.
iF: What should the role of alumni and trustees be in shaping solutions to these problems?
AD: The university consists of the students, faculty, administration, alumni, the board, and donors. They are all part of the university community, and all have a role to play. None of them should have a veto, but all of them should have checks and balances on the others. Alumni and members of the board of trustees should not be embarrassed about providing input on the curriculum, or a range of other issues.
I would generally advise to stay away from decisions involving faculty hiring. That should be left largely to academics. But when it comes to the larger mission of the university, the alumni, students, applicants for admission, and employees all play a role.
iF: Would you say the same for watchdog groups, as well?
AD: Absolutely. Watchdog groups are part of the system of checks and balances. Now, we don't want to return to McCarthyism. But remember that McCarthyism was generated by state power. McCarthyism was not outside people trying to have input in the university. McCarthyism was the government trying to censor what would be taught at university campuses.
I know because I was the president of the student government at Brooklyn College during the time that McCarthyism was still a problem on college campuses. I fought very hard against McCarthyism on the Brooklyn College campus.
iF: Thank you for your time, Professor Dershowitz.
AD: Thank you.
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Q: Entity Framework Code First and populating join tables I been practicing with EF Code First, SQL Express, and ASP.Net MVC3.
When I run the website first the correct tables are generated by the FooInitializer and Student and Image are populated but for some reason the join table (StudentImages) is not being populated.
What could be the issue?
Tables: Student, Image, and StudentImages
public class Student
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Image> Images  { get; set; }
}

public class Image
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Filename { get; set; }
    public string Extension { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Student> Students { get; set; }
}

public class FooInitializer : DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges<DBContext>
{

    protected override void Seed(DBContext context)
    {
    var students = new List<Student> {
        new Student { Id = 1, Name = "John" },
        new Student { Id = 2, Name = "Jane" }
    };

    students.ForEach(s => context.Students.Add(s));
    context.SaveChanges();

    var images = new List<Image> {
    new Image { Id = 1, Filename = "IMG_4596.JPG", Extension = ".jpg" },
        new Image { Id = 2, Filename = "IMG_4600.JPG", Extension = ".jpg" }
    };

    images.ForEach(i => context.Images.Add(i));

    students[0].Images.Add(images[0]);
    context.SaveChanges();
    }
}

A: From what I can tell your Image class does not have a reference to the StudentID. Try adding:
public int StudentID { get; set; }

to the Image class maybe?
Also having an ICollection would mean that one image could have multiple students - is this correct? Maybe it should be a public virtual Student Student {...}
EDIT: Also I found this, with a many to many relationship (if thats what you need):
In your OnModelCreating() Method:
modelBuilder.Entity<Student>()
    .HasMany(c => c.Images).WithMany(i => i.Students)
    .Map(t => t.MapLeftKey("StudentId")
        .MapRightKey("ImageID")
        .ToTable("StudentImages"));

taken from this link that states:

A many-to-many relationship between the Instructor and Course
  entities. The code specifies the table and column names for the join
  table. Code First can configure the many-to-many relationship for you
  without this code, but if you don't call it, you will get default
  names such as InstructorInstructorID for the InstructorID column.

EDIT: Here is the code I used the other night, with my implementation of the code first MVC site:
var users = new List<User>
            {
                new User { UserID = new Guid(), Email = "me@me.com", LastOnline = DateTime.Now, Password = "pword", RegistrationDate = DateTime.Now, SecurityAnswer = "me", SecurityQuestion = "who?", Roles = new List<Role>() },
            };

            users.ForEach(s => context.Users.Add(s));
            context.SaveChanges();

            var roles = new List<Role>
            {
                new Role { RoleID = "Admin", Description = "Administration Users", Users = new List<User>() }

            };
            roles.ForEach(r => context.Roles.Add(r));

            users[0].Roles.Add(roles[0]);
            context.SaveChanges();

            var userLicense = new List<UserLicense>
            {
                new UserLicense { AddDateTime = DateTime.Now, LicenseType = "Farmer", Manufacturer = "Motorola", Model = "Droid", PhoneIdentifier = "c0e4223a910f", UserID = users[0].UserID, User = new User() }

            };
            userLicense[0].User = users[0];
            userLicense.ForEach(u => context.UserLicenses.Add(u));
            context.SaveChanges();

            userLicense[0].User = users[0];
            context.SaveChanges();

Notice in each instantiated item, I am also instantiating a new referenced item within the parent object.
EDIT:
Ok try this:
var students = new List<Student> {
    new Student { Id = 1, Name = "John", Images = new List<Image>() },
    new Student { Id = 2, Name = "Jane", Images = new List<Image>() }
};

students.ForEach(s => context.Students.Add(s));
context.SaveChanges();

var images = new List<Image> {
    new Image { Id = 1, Filename = "IMG_4596.JPG", Extension = ".jpg", Students = new List<Student>()  },
    new Image { Id = 2, Filename = "IMG_4600.JPG", Extension = ".jpg", Students = new List<Student>() }
};

images.ForEach(i => context.Images.Add(i));

students[0].Images.Add(images[0]);
students[1].Images.Add(images[1]);
context.SaveChanges();

A: Try adding this before saving changes for each student:
foreach (Image i in s1.Images)
    context.ObjectStateManager.ChangeObjectState(i, System.Data.EntityState.Added);

Also try with System.Data.EntityState.Modified.
Hope this works...

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import com.google.api.ads.dfp.lib.DfpService;
import com.google.api.ads.dfp.lib.DfpServiceLogger;
import com.google.api.ads.dfp.lib.DfpUser;
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  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      // Log SOAP XML request and response.
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      // Get DfpUser from "~/dfp.properties".
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      // Get the UserTeamAssociationService.
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          user.getService(DfpService.V201311.USER_TEAM_ASSOCIATION_SERVICE);

      // Set defaults for page and filterStatement.
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      do {
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        if (page.getResults() != null) {
          int i = page.getStartIndex();
          for (UserTeamAssociation userTeamAssociation : page.getResults()) {
            System.out.println(i + ") User team association between user with ID \""
                + userTeamAssociation.getUserId() + "\" and team with ID \""
                + userTeamAssociation.getTeamId() + "\" was found.");
            i++;
          }
        }

        offset += 500;
      } while (offset < page.getTotalResultSetSize());

      System.out.println("Number of results found: " + page.getTotalResultSetSize());
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
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}

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Musicals: Once More with Squealing
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Welcome to a selection of the most glittery, loud, emotional, spectacular, melodramatic, and altogether wonderful musicals from the last 20 years of short film!
That part about short film is not unimportant. It's sometimes said that short film has less rigid rules and limitations, that the imagination can run wild and free. That may be true, but short fiction film is often ruled by time constraints and set dramaturgy. This may be one of the reasons why the movie musical – does a more well-defined genre even exist? – with its scheduled outpourings of emotion and high peaks of extravaganza, fit exceedingly well into the short film format. Fantasy can indeed run wild and free, with literally no whim or flight of fancy too far-fetched. The movie musical, with extra everything on top, is just about perfectly measured in short film.
In short film it's perfectly fine for a SWAT team to sing a little song before crashing in your door and starting to shoot up the place, or for a couple of mice, who also happen to be cleaners at a hamburger restaurant, to do a little tap dance in order to cope with the unbearable lightness of being. You can also tell yourself that the Norwegian Christian Democrat Knut Arild Hareide rose to political fame and glory due to having some serious singing and dancing chops, and that when the Devil rides into London it will be as a leather-clad opera-singing biker. Anything's possible in the land of the short film musical.
Curator: Christoffer Olofsson
KNUT ARILD THE MUSICAL
Based on the untrue story about how Knut Arild Hareide became a party leader, this film follows him on his journey from the safety of his hometown Bømlo, to the big and unpredictable city of Oslo with all its dangers, including impressive dance sequences and amazing songs.
NORWAY 2017. 23 min. DIRECTION: Kolbjørn Haugen, Jon Sindre Fjellvang Klonteig
Bruno, in his thirties and in desperate need of a purpose, ends up homeless after a bad breakup. Without despairing, and under the watchful eye of his motherly big sister, this sawmill worker will find the drive to put his beloved blue suit back on and to rekindle an old flame.
CANADA 2016. 21 min. DIRECTION: Jean-Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné
Lina's lusty longing for her lover receives an absurd and musical twist during an unexpected encounter in a coconut cake factory.
NORWAY 2006. 10 min. DIRECTION: Charlotte Blom
EXPLODING BUDS
Where would Kate be without her Echo? The little temptress Kate needs her friend Echo because she is lovesick. She loves the eccentric artist Bruno, who uses the energy of young talent for his ecstatic parties. Kate recovers from that inside the cave belonging to her wild friend Echo. She wants Echo all for herself, until Echo notices the immense power of love.
GERMANY 2005. 20 min. DIRECTION: Petra Schröder
One morning a woman notices something strange at the café where she has breakfast every morning. All of the other customers and the waiters are in total silence. They all look down. Nobody touches their breakfast. All of a sudden, a song can be heard.
SPAIN 2003. 7 min. DIRECTION: Nacho Vigalondo
HARD WAY: THE ACTION MUSICAL
When Action meets Musical there's only one rule left–you don't shoot them while they're singing and dancing. Jake and his tough SWAT team raid an abandoned factory in order to bring down the country's most dangerous terrorist, the Mother. Naturally everyone's singing and dancing. A story of hard men with hard feelings. Sometimes their voices are a little weak.
GERMANY 2017. 31 min. DIRECTION: Daniel Vogelmann


The San Juan Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer program is recruiting individuals interested in helping children who have been victims of abuse and neglect. CASA's mission is to support effective volunteer advocacy for the best interest of abused and neglected children and to assist a child to reach a safe and permanent home. If you are willing to be a powerful voice in a child's life please contact Amy, Beckie or Amanda at the San Juan CASA Program, (505)592-0617. Our Spring CASA Pre-Service Training starts April 25 to May 3, 2018.
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Frankfort Regional Medical Center has been named as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky for 2016 - making the recognition the tenth consecutive for the hospital. The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management (KYSHRM) recently announced the companies that made the 12th Annual Best Places to Work in Kentucky list, presented by Kentucky Career Center and the State Information Data Exchange System (UI SIDES).
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This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Kentucky, benefiting the state's economy, its workforce and businesses. The Best Places to Work in Kentucky 2016 list is made up of 100 companies in three categories – 36 in the small category (15-149 employees), 34 in the medium sized category (150-499 employees), and 30 in the large category (more than 500 employees). Frankfort Regional Medical Center was recognized in the large category.
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Vacherin, Parmesan and Co: How Long Can Cheese Really Be Kept?
Cheese Selection
Too much food, including cheese, often ends up in the bin even though it is still edible. Swiss cheese champion Walo von Mühlenen reveals how long to keep different cheeses.
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Almost everyone is familiar with the situation in the fridge and the big question: Is this still edible or should I throw it away? On average, every Swiss household throws away food worth more than 600 Swiss francs per year. This means around 2.8 million tonnes of food ends up in rubbish bins in Switzerland annually. This includes cheese that may well still be edible.
Swiss world cheese champion, Walo von Mühlenen, reveals which cheeses can be stored for how long. "Most cheeses can be eaten well beyond their best-before dates if they are stored correctly," says Walo von Mühlenen. The general rule is: the softer the cheese, the shorter the shelf life.
Fresh and soft cheese should be stored at zero to eight degrees Celcius. However, these can also be frozen, although this changes their consistency, so they should be consumed quickly after thawing. Semi-hard, hard and extra-hard cheeses dry out more quickly and absorb the flavour of their environment more easily, which is why they should be packaged in a way that protects them from air and flavour.
World Cheese Champion Walo von Mühlenen
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The shelf life of fresh cheeses such as cottage cheese, cream cheese spread, quark or ricotta is up to 45 days, depending on storage and temperature. According to the Swiss cheese affineur, caution is advised after the best-before date – as soon as mould forms on this cheese, it should no longer be eaten.
Soft cheeses such as Vacherin Mont d'Or, Camembert, Brie or Époisses have natural moulds on their surfaces that are edible and healthy. When these cheeses get too old, they develop a strong ammonia taste that is not dangerous but is very intense. However, as soon as soft cheeses develop a green or black mould, they should not be eaten.
Semi-hard cheeses are matured for up to twelve months, which generally gives them a long shelf life. If mould forms on the cut surface, you can easily cut it off and eat the rest of the cheese.
Hard cheeses are matured for up to 36 months, which means that the same applies to them as to semi-hard cheeses: if you cut away the mould, the rest can be eaten without hesitation. Even if the taste changes over time and the cheese becomes very intense, it is still suitable for consumption – but often it no longer tastes as good.
Extra-hard cheese
Extra-hard cheeses, such as Bernese Hobelkäse, Sbrinz or Parmesan are matured for several years which makes them even more durable, so mould takes a long time to penetrate the cheese. If it forms on the surface, you can simply cut it off. Extra-hard cheese is also very stable both in taste and smell.
Dried-out cheese
Dried-out, non-mouldy cheese can always be used. It is best grated. However, as it dries out, the cheese loses its ability to melt. At some point, fat splitting may also occur; this is not dangerous, but it is not tasty either.
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yep the baked potato has fully won me over. for meatless monday i got a tad creative with my toppings. my plan was to create a black and bleu potato. now traditionally black and bleu means beef with bleu cheese but come on folks this is MEATLESS MONDAY, no beef for me. looking for the best black substitute i could find i stumbled across a homemade black bean burger patty in the freezer…..perfect. the potato was topped with the smashed up black bean patty, bleu cheese and on the side was a spinach salad topped with bleu cheese and poppy-seed dressing. for an on the fly creation this one was pretty damn good.


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More than 100 protesters were hurt by police ahead of a G7 summit in Germany, as thousands gathered to decry the group's policies on "capitalism and globalization." Police used pepper spray when a group of protesters tried to break through their cordon, resulting in brief scuffles. Anti-G7 protestors took part in a demonstration in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on June 6, 2015.
The Group of 7 is a group consisting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of seven major advanced economies as reported by the International Monetary Fund: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States meeting to discuss primarily economic issues. Major economies? Where is China, Russia, India and Brazil then?
It looks like a major pro-American political club, but definitely not a largest economy forum. As is known Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa joint in association "BRICS" of five major emerging national economies. None of them does not participate in G7.
Most of the decisions worked out in G7 have political background and pro-American interest to hold the position of global hegemon that cause discontent of many Europeans.
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Pilot Knob, Lick Point, O'Hara Falls Creek, and Clear Creek. Click to enlarge and zoom on the map.
The Clear Creek Roadless Area encompasses 9,000 acres located at the head of Clear Creek along the western boundary of the Nez Perce – Clearwater National Forests. Access can be gained by spurs of Road 1842 on the north, Road 650 on the west, and Road 286 on the east, though some of these roads are closed during the general hunting season to lessen impacts on big game.
The land is mountainous; elevation ranges from 2,000 to 4,600 feet, and steep slopes parallel the creek's drainage, leading to moderately flat ridge tops. Past wildfires and resulting regrowth of vegetation have created dense brush fields of willow, maple, serviceberry, and various other shrubs, as well as young grand fir, Douglas fir, and western red cedar at the fringes. During the winter months, the thick vegetation provides a significant range for elk and moose. If you can navigate through the tall foliage screens you might find yourself on one of the overgrown trails that traverse the area. Deer, bear, and cougar are also found among the hills, meadows, and ridges. In addition, the habitats of the red-naped sapsucker, pileated woodpecker, Columbia spotted frog, and western toad overlap the drainage.
Clear Creek drainage, coupled with the Silver Creek-Pilot Knob Roadless Area to the south, is yearlong grey wolf habitat. The creek itself, despite past industrial activity, remains an important habitat for steelhead, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, whitefish, and salmon. A Chinook summer salmon hatchery is situated northwest of the area near the mouth of the creek outside of the national forest.
Currently, the primary uses of this verdant region include big game winter and summer range, fishing, and hunting. Approximately 14,000 acres have been lost in the last thirty years to road building and logging. More rigorous protection is urgently needed to prevent further segmentation and misuse of this important country.
Description of other Roadless Areas on the Nez Perce – Clearwater National Forests that qualify as Wilderness.


Ah, its finally here! The Rachel Parcell Spring Collection has officially launched and I think it might just be my favorite one yet!
This Skirt is just one of the gorgeous pieces that is apart of the new line. If you watched my insta stories last week I talked about why I love her pieces so much. Obviously the ultra feminine designs and fabric are absolutely stunning and every detail is well thought out. But, each piece fits so well. I have seen her pieces on all body types and everything truly does look flattering on everyone. I also love that her dresses and skirts fit knee length. There is no worrying about them being to short for church or work, or constantly having to pull them down when you stand up.
I've linked all her newest arrives below in the widget. And yes, I snagged a few and one for my Easter dress!


Where spacious skies and the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains lies the United States Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base (AFB) in Colorado Springs, Colorado on the high foothills of Cheyenne Mountain. U.S. Air Force Space Command, through the 14th Air Force and the 460th Air Wing at nearby Buckley AFB on the outskirts of Denver, controls and operates a number of satellites. These satellites provide missile warning all over the earth; when and where missiles are launched from and going to, twenty-four hours a day and 365 days a year. Activated on July 1st, 1971 their mission is to provide superior space-based surveillance to support strategic and tactical decision makers of United States and allied forces worldwide.
This mission is absolutely critical for our national security as it provides real time information to the President and Department of Defense on every ballistic missile launched from Earth including ICBMs, short- and medium-range theater missiles, sea launched missiles and space launches. Close in priority, this mission also detects nuclear detonations globally and is linked to the operations of all of our nation's missile defense systems; both for defense of our nation and for theater/regional combat commanders defending our troops and allies. The latter through the United States Army 1st Space Brigade and Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS).
The primary satellites today are called the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites that use infrared detection and sends information directly or via ground relay stations in Europe and the Pacific to Buckley AFB. The 2nd Space Warning Squadron (2SWS) is made up of approximately twenty operators working in shifts all day, every day controlling the DSP satellites keeping them parked, processing and retrieving information in a geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the equator.
Another set of defense satellites for this mission run by the 460th Space Wing are called the Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) satellites, derived by from the Molniya orbit the Russians developed in the 1960s, which provide extended time and coverage over the Northern Hemisphere. The HEOs are operated by the 11th Space Warning Squadron (11SWS) located at Schriever AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The modernization of the satellites required for this mission will begin with the first satellite launch scheduled for April 30th of the GEO DSP. This will be the first of six that will be added to eventually replace the existing fleet of DSPs. There will be an additional set of HEOs launched in the near future to provide further extended coverage.
The future of the overall mission will also include a new space-based capability to provide not just warning but launch to termination tracking and discrimination of ballistic missiles called the Precision Tracking Space System (PTSS). The PTSS will be a constellation of satellites flying in low earth orbit that will evolve from the two successful test satellites currently deployed, called the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS).
It is without a doubt an extremely challenging and critical mission for the United States Air Force and the Airmen of the 460th Air Wing to identify and process ballistic missile heat signatures quickly and correctly. These Airmen, though unnoticed and unheralded in this mission, are vigilant vanguards for our homeland and our troops overseas.
We appreciate their service and the gravity of their mission.


As I love AWS and their products, I just wanted to work for them, too. So I took the chances and applied for some positions at their global Amazon Jobs page. In this post, I'll give you some insights on the application process, how I experienced it.
Note: Unfortunately, I did not receive a job offer and got turned down at the last stage of the interview process. So this is definitely not a guide on how to do the application the right way. It's mainly my personal experience with it.
I applied for some positions at AWS. A few days later, I got married to the most wonderful woman ever. After the wedding, we went on a honeymoon-roadtrip back from my parent's place in Germany to our home in Greece. On this trip, we went via Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece. When we arrived in Budapest, Hungary, I checked my emails and found a response from AWS, asking for dates for an interview via phone.
Honey, I got a response from Amazon. Can we please stop in Budapest for one more night? I really want to do that phone call tomorrow.
She knew how much I wanted to work for AWS, so we stayed at our hotel one more night. The next day, I did the phone call with my cell phone in the hotel room and afterwards we enjoyed beautiful Budapest.
The position I applied for is a Senior Solutions Architect, whose main goal is "helping partners solve tough technical problems". In particular, this means e.g writing whitepapers, doing speeches at conferences, architecting applications together with customers or writing exemplary source code. During my second phone call, I was told about the possibility to choose between different locations for this position. Although this job offer had been for Luxembourg, you can also work in Madrid, Munich or Dubai if you want to. That sounded quite interesting, as I would have loved to move to a new country. All in all, the perfect job advertisement for me.
The following table shows the individual steps, which had been done during the whole application process. I'm going to explain them later on in this post. My main reason for posting the timeline had rather been to show how organized and quickly everything had been done.
Amazon has an own portal for job advertisements, which can be found at www.amazon.jobs. Within the search criterias, just select Amazon Web Services and you're good to go. When you apply for a position, a profile is getting created for you. You can either use an existing authentication provider like e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Google or create a new profile from scratch.
Keep in mind that in the background there are several job application portals, but they all share the base data of your profile. The different job application portals can be reached via the following links.
Note: This list might be incomplete.
After you applied for a job, a confirmation email is sent to you. In case they want to speak to you and go on with the application process, they will send you an email. If they chose to turn you down, you won't get any notifications at this stage of the application process. However, you can see in the job application portal the status of your application, which indicates the last change. During my application process, I did experience the following states.
The Amazon Leadership Principles is a framework with tasks for Amazon's company success. However, to me the tasks itself feel like a formulated list of action items from a PDCA-cycle based on lean manufacturing. Those principles include the following action items.
Note: During the whole interview process, you highly get measured against those leadership principles.
Actually, this had been my first phone call with AWS. At a later stage of the process, I found out that this call is optional. This is mainly done in order to check, if the person might be a match for the position applied for. The questions during this call were ordinary interview questions like e.g. career progression, reasons for quitting current job and salary expectations.
This phone call had been my first technical evaluation. There had been one big question, where I was supposed to find a proper solution. During my explanations, I was also asked questions, which aimed at a more detailed level. When comparing the questions from here to AWS certification topics, this had definitely been associate level questions.
While this phone call, I mainly got questions concerning Amazon's Leadership Principles, which I already mentioned in this post. As far as I remember, the interview partner did pick 2-3 different tasks from the leadership principles and I had to explain, how I did comply with those in the past.
In order to get prepared properly, I did read books, prepared myself for leadership principles questions in more detail and got a certificate.
The books I read as a preparation had been around application architecture design. After I read the books, I realized that some do rather focus on an associate and not professional level. Nevertheless, they get you a good introduction and lead you on to some more advanced ones.
As the Leadership Principles can be found publicly available as described before, I knew from which area possible questions might come. Therefore, I did write down all of the Leadership Priciples and thought about my best personal example for every single principle.
The following picture shows, how my study room looked like the day before I took the flight to Luxembourg for the inhouse interview day.
As part of my preparation, I did take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level test. As I was already working quite a lot with some AWS-services, I did skip the whole practical part for the preparation. My main focus had been around AWS Whitepapers. After around two weeks of getting myself trained on the exam's topics, I did take the test at a certified testing center. As far as I understand it, all tests are designed by AWS, but hold by Kryterion. My upfront knowledge and whitepaper reading were definitely enough and I did pass the exam on my first attempt.
The flight and accommodation had all been organized and paid by AWS upfront. I was given several flight options, from which I could choose from. All had been with Lufthansa for Economy Class tickets. As far as I understood, all AWS flights are always Economy Class, which is in my opinion a quite decent way.
My hotel had been a king-size room at Novotel, which had just been superb with a separate bathroom and toilet, as well as some working space and a couch. The staff there had also been amazingly friendly. As I wanted to iron my clothes for the interview day, I late at night asked for an iron and an ironing board, which just got brought to my room right away.
In the table below, you can see my timetable for the inhouse interview day, how it had been planned upfront. There are three question-marks for the entry of the second interview partner. I'll describe that situation later on, as this interview had been different to the other ones.
Amazon has a quite strict security policy when it comes to their premises. Therefore, I had to identify myself at the entrance. Only after that, I got a security pass to enter the ground floor together with an employee of Amazon. As far as I understood it correctly, the office has three different floors, whereas the main internal and private business is done on the first floor.
As this had been my first interview, my interview partner came to the entrance to go together with me through the security gate. After that we went to a small meeting room, which would stay my interview room for the rest of the day. The interviewer had been a highly educated and amazingly nice person. Same as with the phone interviews, I got one big questions and had to explain how I would solve it. This started by drawing architecture designs to a whiteboard and explaining it. The in detail questions at this stage however had not been on an associate level anymore (like in the technical phone interview). Those questions aimed at a senior level. All in all, this had been an quite good start for me.
This interview should have taken place in a conference room via video chat. However, the interview partner didn't show up. For around 30 minutes, my recruitment coordinator tried to get ahold of the interview partner, but had not luck in doing so. In the end, the recruitment coordinator organized a replacement for that certain interview. It then had been via phone. Unfortunately, the VoIP-conference phone disconnected twice during the call. After re-organizing, not much time had been left and so the phone-call itself only lasted for around 20 minutes. To be honest, at this point I was a bit disappointed about how the interview process was organized.
After the second interview, I had my lunch break. As I was already a few minutes behind my timetable, my lunch break got reduced a little bit. For me this was pretty much OK, as I normally don't have any lunch break at all. As the lunch break started, my recruitment coordinator came to me and told me about the options I have for lunch. At this point, I actually thought that at least one person is going to join me, but that wasn't the case. I understand that some people might think that they're getting interviewed also at lunch if an Amazonian is joining them. For me that would be perfectly fine. When I did organize and interview possible new colleagues for my former company, we always went for some lunch together, as it otherwise feels quite impersonal to me.
From a technical point of view, this definitely had been my most difficult interview. Same as for the other interviews before, I got asked about one certain scenario and how I would scale that scenario. The detail-questions of this interview had been for me highly senior-level ones.
This interview had been on a non-technical background in order to check my social skills. As far as I understand it, this interview is always done by someone, who is not within my future team. This is done to ensure proper and objective evaluation of a candidate, because otherwise a team might accept someone due to e.g. too much workload.
Unfortunately, this also had been the time, where I could feel the lunch break. I normally don't eat for lunch as it sometimes makes me massively tired. On this day however, I just wanted to kill some time and went for lunch.
Looking back at the whole inhouse interview day, I definitely got a NO from that one. Sadly, the interviewer was perfectly right to do so, as I did perform very bad during this after-lunch interview.
The last interview of the day had been done by the manager of the whole team. As the interviewers before did already check on my technical background, this interview was not connected to any AWS-service or architecture. It rather felt like talking to someone at a user group about e.g. what software you're developing at the moment. In my opinion, this had been a very nice interview with again a highly educated, interested and interesting person.
To be honest, I never prepared that much for a job interview and put that many hours of work into it before. However, in the end it didn't work out. This still makes me quite disappointed, as I really would have loved to work for AWS. Even now, it sometimes makes me question myself, what I could have done differently or how I could have prepared better.
The good thing is that AWS is giving you another chance after 12 month. After that period, you may apply for another position, which I'm definitely going to do. So for me, the 'job application at AWS'-route hasn't ended here. I just hit a bump, but it's not the end of the road. In the meantime, I will keep on preparing myself by means of blogging, coding, AWS architecting, taking exams, participate in user groups and visiting other AWS Summits.
When I had my interview day, I needed to sign a NDA concerning all matters of what I might see or experience at the AWS office during that day. As they're always developing a lot of new services and products, they of course need to get themselves some insurance for the privacy of their inventions. Therefore, I did check the legality of this post with AWS upfront. In case you're reading this, every information provided here isn't bound to any legal restriction.


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Q: Read csv file by changeable columns using pandas I'm developing a software that reads a csv file and create a list for each column.
After in my program I will plot this data using DataTime on X coordinates and S1;S2;S3... as Y coordinates
My csv file:
DateTime;S1;S2;S3
2020-07-16 15:11:34.358231;677.0552427707063;787.6245155900142;543.0755073183745
2020-07-16 15:11:34.360247;535.4790551706492;317.65859520197984;218.64223032216418
2020-07-16 15:11:34.362263;451.9436928722545;449.5560971162404;215.33038976545765
2020-07-16 15:11:34.364279;72.31352267938303;251.55939892326035;896.9233907560412
2020-07-16 15:11:34.366295;758.7365312885398;686.7909954314093;303.9852170969752
2020-07-16 15:11:34.368311;593.8244329562257;698.5981983561348;369.11408762777785
2020-07-16 15:11:34.370327;338.56552989499176;469.327619765774;331.0295457896333
2020-07-16 15:11:34.372343;729.3276090259968;690.776181594403;97.6830657885398
2020-07-16 15:11:34.374359;284.58252864976197;569.0028638781417;196.02767689983673
2020-07-16 15:11:34.376375;909.5920826056772;178.28447193362686;240.4015082916274

I want to read the file by columns but this file can change the number of columns because Signals are variables. For example I can have S1;S2;S3;S4;S5...
So I want to be able to read the columns independently how many columns I have.
DateTime column is standard so I can read it 1 time.
This is my actual code:
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime
from csv import reader

class Read_csv:

    def csv_reader(self, file_name):

        with open(file_name, 'r') as read_obj:
            csv_reader = reader(read_obj)
            csv_header = next(csv_reader)

        df = pd.read_csv(file_name, delimiter = ';')
        self.datetime_array = list(map(lambda x: datetime.strptime(x, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f'), df["DateTime"]))

        for i in range((len(csv_header)-1)):
            #TODO:read signals columns

My updated code:
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

class Read_csv:

    def csv_reader(self, file_name):

        df = pd.read_csv(file_name, delimiter = ';', parse_dates=['DateTime']).set_index('DateTime')

        df.plot()
        sns.lineplot(data=df)

        plt.savefig("Signals_Chart.png")

This is my result with double legend:

A: *

*The best thing to do is learn how pandas and matplotlib integrated to make data manipulation and plotting easier.

*Pandas: Visualization
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np  # for test data
import string  # for test data
from datetime import datetime  # for test data
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# plt styling parameters
plt.style.use('seaborn')
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (16.0, 10.0)
plt.rcParams["patch.force_edgecolor"] = True

# test data with 26 columns and a date column as index
np.random.seed(365)
cols = list(string.ascii_uppercase)
length = 10
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(length, 26) * 1000, columns=cols, index=pd.bdate_range(datetime.today(), freq='d', periods=length).tolist())

# using pandas.DataFrame.plot
df.plot()
plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.04, 0.5), loc="center left", borderaxespad=0)

using seaborn
sns.lineplot(data=df, dashes=False)
plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.04, 0.5), loc="center left", borderaxespad=0)

with your sample data in a file called test.csv
# read in the file
df = pd.read_csv('test.csv', delimiter = ';', parse_dates=['DateTime']).set_index('DateTime')

# plot the file
sns.lineplot(data=df)


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Donaustadtbrücke è una stazione della linea U2 della metropolitana di Vienna situata nel 22º distretto. La stazione è entrata in servizio il 2 ottobre 2010, nel contesto della terza fase di estensione della metropolitana e come parte del prolungamento della U2 da Stadion.

Descrizione
La stazione si trova sulla riva sinistra del Danubio sopra l'autostrada Donauufer e prende il nome dall'omonimo ponte, mentre nei progetti originari era indicata con il nome provvisorio Seestern. I binari sono affiancati in posizione centrale e l'accesso ai treni avviene da marciapiedi laterali.

Dopo l'apertura della stazione della metropolitana, il traffico passeggeri della vicina stazione S-Bahn di Lobau è diminuito notevolmente, tanto da causarne la chiusura nel dicembre 2014.

Nel 2013, l'artista portoghese Pedro Cabrita Reis ha dipinto di rosso-arancio e bianco parte del muro della sezione nord e ha installato un faro alto 10 metri sulla stazione. La stessa colorazione è stata usata anche per la stazione Donaumarina situata sull'altra sponda del Danubio. Secondo l'idea dell'artista, questo rappresenta "un attraversamento ideale del Danubio, un secondo ponte artistico".

Ingressi
 Neue Donau
 Effenbergplatz

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Stazioni della metropolitana di Vienna
Linea U2 (metropolitana di Vienna)

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Q: Listview not updating based on dropdowns I have an asp dropdown for cities, followed by a dropdown for buildings within the selected city, followed by a listview of rooms in the selected building:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="CityListUpdatePanel" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="CityListDropDown" class="form-control" Width="250" runat="server" DataSourceID="CityListDataSource" DataTextField="name" DataValueField="id" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="CityListDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:ObjectDataSource ID="CityListDataSource" runat="server" SelectMethod="GetListOfCities" TypeName="RoomTraq.CityDataServiceReference.CityDataServiceClient"></asp:ObjectDataSource>
    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="BuildingListUpdatePanel" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="BuildingListDropDown" class="form-control" Width="250" runat="server" DataSourceID="BuildingListDataSource" DataTextField="name" DataValueField="id" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="BuildingListDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:ObjectDataSource ID="BuildingListDataSource" runat="server" SelectMethod="BuildingsByCity" TypeName="RoomTraq.BuildingDataServiceReference.BuildingDataServiceClient">
            <SelectParameters>
                <asp:ControlParameter ControlID="CityListDropDown" Name="CityId" PropertyName="SelectedValue" Type="Int64" />
            </SelectParameters>
        </asp:ObjectDataSource>
    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="RoomListUpdatePanel" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:ListView ID="ListView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="RoomListDataSource" InsertItemPosition="LastItem">

        ....

        <asp:ObjectDataSource ID="RoomListDataSource" runat="server" DataObjectTypeName="RoomTraq.RoomDataServiceReference.Room" DeleteMethod="DeleteRoom" InsertMethod="AddNewRoom" SelectMethod="RoomsByBuilding" TypeName="RoomTraq.RoomDataServiceReference.RoomDataServiceClient" UpdateMethod="UpdateRoom">
            <SelectParameters>
                <asp:ControlParameter ControlID="BuildingListDropDown" Name="BuildingId" PropertyName="SelectedValue" Type="Int64" />
            </SelectParameters>
        </asp:ObjectDataSource>

As you can see, each element gets its data from a datasource that uses the previous element's selected value as the parameter for the query.
In the code behind, I have
    protected void CityListDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        BuildingListUpdatePanel.Update();
        RoomListUpdatePanel.Update();
    }

    protected void BuildingListDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        RoomListUpdatePanel.Update();
    }

When the page first comes up, everything displays properly with the first city selected and the list of buildings for that city, and the list of rooms for the first building.
When I choose a different building, the list of rooms updates properly.
PROBLEM: When I choose a different city, the list of buildings updates properly, but the list of rooms does not get updated.  Both should update - I have them in update panels so I can do a partial page update of just those panels, and I am telling the panels to update, but the panel does not update itself.  The web service that I have serving out the room data never gets called, until I choose a different building.  But that leaves my page in a bad state when the building list has updated to reflect the new city selection, but the room list is still showing the rooms for a building in the previous city.
Help Please!!


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Asses the evidence that television in the 1960's was creating social change Essay
June 18, 2019 adminFree Summaries
There is no doubt that during the 1960's there was a significant cultural change in the UK; this could be accounted for in a very large part by the expansion of the BBC and the introduction of commercial TV of 1955 because television began to deal with real issues. This new commercial television used by ITV meant that the BBC had to change in order to gain viewing ratings, a competitive audience. Indeed new programs such as 'Up the Junction' were endemic of what were to become 'kitchen sink drama'(1) which was intended to interest an audience in the public, by dealing with issues they faced on a daily basis such as the homelessness in 'Cathy come home' . Confrontation of this thorny new issue prompted the Labour government to legislate policies (2) in order help the homeless, and is a prime example of television creating social change.
However it is also quite conceivable that this new medium was not creating social change but was merely a reflection of it, for instance the change in majority public opinion at the start of the 1960's is not born out in television but chiefly in the fact of a Labour rather than conservative government being elected in 1964. Further more while the provocative issues were bring handled in television, 'imitations of high class culture' (2) were still prevalent even though society would seem to be shifting further to the political left. Even more evidence for this shown in the fact that ITV and the BBC were both managed by people with the same middle class 'social background' (2), on the other hand this does not discount them from an understanding of society; these managers continued to attract vast audiences throughout the 60's and Sir Hugh Greene, the director general of the time, was one of the key figures in the birth of a new genre, 'political satire' (1).
This reflection of culture was not to produce a wealth of social change in the 60's but rather to nationalise social changes that had already 'taken place' (2) in earlier decades by putting them on the public screen, after all television couldn't predict what the public would like but could flesh out recent cultural changes to appeal to a public which had instigated them.
However while television had not created social change ideologically, its mere existence as a family or social activity had changed culture as people would 'discussed what they had watched the night before' (2) and 'domestication' (Scannel) of television brought debate over old changes and thus help justify them to a national consciousness. Indeed television became part of 'national and personal identity'.
In conclusion television was creating social change in the 1960's not by confronting new issues as such, but more by building up a new national reflective culture, looking back at recent social reforms and so producing a culture which would instigate new ones. Television became its own reflective sub-culture only producing social change after it had become part of culture by dealing with recent social changes just as the public had, it epitomised the 60's but was not chief cause of the decade's sweeping social changes.
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Recap: Eternal Love (Ep. 13)
January 10, 2023 December 28, 2022 thedramallama
Bai Qian decides to release Ye Hua at the same cave that she found him in. She finds a new injured bird and takes it back with her to rehab it. Later that night, she accidentally knocks the birdcage over while she's sleeping. Ye Hua catches it before it can hit the ground, then climbs into bed next to her. He's cohabitated with her for three months now. If he doesn't marry her, who will?
Yan Zhi studies the Yuqing Fan, then makes it disappear. The Golden Lion Beast reveals himself to Yan Zhi and tells her what happened 70,000 years ago when Li Jing led the coup against Li Yuan. Yan Zhi doesn't think Li Jing would do such a thing, but the Golden Lion Beast also reveals how Li Yuan killed Li Jing's mother, and that could be reason enough for Li Jing to want to usurp him. The whole situation stinks of Celestial Clan intervention.
The street hawker who tried to steal the Yuqing Fan from Bai Qian now spots her walking through the market with a black snake tail hanging out of her basket. Black snakes are feared as demons in Zhongrong kingdom. He causes a scene, grabbing the basket from her and proclaiming in front of everyone that she's a witch and possesses a black snake.
The townspeople call for the snake to be burned. The hawker apparently has some amount of Daoist ability: he binds Bai Qian with a Demon-Binding Rope that was passed down from his teacher and summons a torch. Bai Qian tackles him before he can set the basket on fire and shields the basket as the townspeople start pelting them with vegetables, demanding the snake's death.
Yan Zhi and the Golden Lion Beast watch from her lodging's window. She's about to intervene when the Golden Lion Beast stays her hand, telling her to take a closer look at the "snake" in the basket – it's actually a dragon. The Golden Lion Beast wants Yan Zhi to help him free Li Yuan, by stealing Li Jing's military token.
Ye Hua flies out of the basket in his full dragon form and the townspeople recognize him as a dragon god. They start bowing. Ye Hua drenches the Daoist street hawker with water. Bai Qian is most concerned with how she's supposed to feed him when he's so big.
Now that Ye Hua has revealed his full form, the Palace will know where he is. He tells Bai Qian to wait for him; he'll be back. (She can't hear!)
The townspeople are now extremely apologetic and welcoming toward Bai Qian upon seeing that she has the dragon god's favor. They beg her to stay, but she leaves, looking uncomfortable.
Ye Hua asks for Si Ming's help in tracking down the Yuqing Fan, but because it belongs to the immortal realm, Si Ming has no written record of it. Instead, he offers to look into the mortal woman that Ye Hua seems interested in. Ye Hua declines, but does ask Si Ming to go to the mortal realm and do something for him.
Su Jin visits Ye Hua's in his quarters, wanting to serve him one last time. She's not supposed to be there now that she's supposed to become one of the Celestial Monarch's concubines. Ye Hua tells her to leave, warning her that if she doesn't, he'll have someone come to his rooms and if she's seen here with him, she'll never be allowed to become a concubine. He leaves and she collapses to the ground behind him, crying. He is the only reason why she is marrying the Celestial Monarch; she's doing it for him.
Ye Hua tells Lian Song of his plan to go be with the mortal woman. She makes him feel like he's found something that he's been searching for for a long time. Lian Song smiles – he's in love. Ye Hua claims he's just repaying a debt and doesn't seem to want to admit that he's fallen in love, but Lian Song is happy about it. He guesses that Ye Hua has come to ask how to make her like him. Lian Song claims all he has to do is smile at her, but Ye Hua seems skeptical. He suggests playing hero instead. Ye Hua asks if this is how he won over the mortal woman he was in love with. Lian Song seems annoyed that Ye Hua brought up Cheng Yu and switches the focus back to him. Ye Hua says that Bai Qian is not a normal woman; she wasn't even afraid when she saw his true form. Lian Song suggests that Ye Hua feign injury; Ye Hua likes this idea.
Ye Hua has sent Si Ming to go after the street hawker Daoist who was harassing Bai Qian. The man has a nightmare while Si Ming watches over him. It looks like he's doomed to die this year anyway. Si Ming ponders what kind of fate to write him.
Bai Qian sadly talks to herself about all the plans she had made to help her little black snake weather the winter. The next morning, she finds Ye Hua (the human) weak and coughing up blood outside her hut. She helps him half-disrobe and gently treats his wound (with the same harmful herb she used on him when he was in dragon form whoops), crying as she sees the extent of his injuries.
Ye Hua wonders if he overdid it with his injuries and heals himself a little bit when she's not looking. Bai Qian is astonished to find his wounds healed; he suggests that maybe she had used some miracle herbs on him.
Bai Qian feeds and cares for Ye Hua, sharing how she's pretty lonely here as the only person for miles around and takes care of wounded animals just to have some company. (So she's basically a Disney princess?) Ye Hua asks for her name. She doesn't have one. He gives her a name: Su Su, for how plain she dresses (but it can also mean "white" as in bai, like her real family name).
He tells her his real name, Ye Hua, and writes it out on her hand when she asks. It's somewhat intimate and she seems shook. Later, she falls asleep at the kitchen table, having given Ye Hua her bed. He gets up and gently carries her to bed, then lies down next to her. She turns over and puts her arm around him.
Su Su tries to cook for Ye Hua but ends up smoking herself out of her kitchen. She runs into Ye Hua, who forgets that he's supposed to be injured and has to fake pain when she frets over accidentally bumping his injury. He asks why there's so much smoke; she says that it's always like this whenever she cooks. He wonders how she's survived up until now. She shares that she's not a picky eater, so she'll usually forage for berries or will occasionally roast small animals. He comments that at least she knows to eat cooked meat and not raw meat. Su Su responds that she can't eat raw meat – her stomach will hurt if she does. (Clearly, she has tried.) A snake she once cared for, though, he loved raw meat. She shares how finicky the snake was, always needing to sleep with her on the bed. She even bought a wool blanket for him. Ye Hua tells her that snakes don't need to sleep on beds and don't need blankets. Su Su says in a completely serious voice that her snake must have been special – eventually he turned into a giant black dragon and flew away.
Su Su leaves to go forage for more medicinal herbs. When she doesn't return after a while, Ye Hua leaves to go find her. When he does, she admits that she got lost. The last time she came into this forest, she was lost for a week before she found her way home. She tells him that it's okay if he laughs at her. He responds that he's very tolerant of people who aren't smart. (Wow, rude! Just because she lacks experience doesn't mean she's dumb.)
They stop to rest on the way home and Su Su feels sorry for herself and how incapable she is. She's probably best suited to care for small animals; no wonder the dragon left once he grew big and never came back. He's probably disdainful of her.
Ye Hua suggests that maybe the dragon had to leave. If he was a god, then he was probably in the mortal realm to deal with a demon; gods can't stay in the mortal realm for long without impacting the fates of mortals.
They settle down for the night and Ye Hua tells Su Su about the Golden Lion Beast and how he wreaked havoc on the Zhongrong kingdom, until he was defeated by the black dragon, which got injured and eventually met her. But Su Su has fallen asleep by the time he gets to the end of the story.
Why does everyone seem to instantly fall in love with Bai Qian? Is it because we're watching from the perspective of an immortal, so three months happens in three seconds? I get that Ye Hua was a dragon for most of the interaction we've seen between him and Bai Qian and that's not exactly the most expressive, but how did we get from one-sided conversation to "I'll marry you"?!
That being said, it is pretty cute how Ye Hua has fallen into puppy love with Bai Qian and is going to such great lengths to get her to like him back. We're finally getting those small moments that I've been wanting, where we see them form a real connection. It's nice to slow down and experience a mortal's pace of life, instead of the immortal one where you blink and all of a sudden a few thousand years have flown by.
While I love badass Bai Qian who is one of the most powerful immortals in the realm (though we haven't really seen her powers yet, have we?), there is also something really endearing about sweet, innocent Su Su. She's naive, but earnest and with a backbone.
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