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Q: Different Bubble Sort algorithm codes - what's the difference? C++ I've come across many different implementations of the Bubble sort algorithm in C++. I'll list a few now (just the few lines that are different of each other) so someone can tell me the difference. I've noticed some use the while loop and it's a bit different, but the lines for going through the array are still the same.
These examples of the code are the ones that go through the array using the for loop.
Example 1:
 for (int i=0; i<size-1); i++)
  for (int j=i+1; j<size; j++)
    //swap lines

Example 2:
for (int j=0; j<(size-1); j++)
  //swap lines

So what's the difference? The second one goes through the whole array each time, and the first one goes through by 1 less each time?
I know the algorithm goes through the array, swaps it and there's no point of going back to the first element of the array again, so I'm guessing the first one is better.
Also, what's the best implementation of the Bubble sort in c++ (please include code if you can)?

A: Bubble sort is O(n^2), and so will always have the nested loops like in Example 1, or something else equivalent to it. Example 2 will be using some other construct, perhaps recursion, to achieve the same goal.
There won't be a single best implementation.  Different implementations are better in different ways.  Bubble sort is sometimes used to have a sort that runs quickly on lists that are close to being in sorted order.  A version that exploits this property will run much faster on ordered lists, but probably run a bit slower on lists that are completely random.


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Sarah's Pick to the State Senate As Sleazy as the Rest of Her Ethics
By State law the gov. of Alaska must choose a democrat to fill the seat of recently resigned dem state senator Kim Elton. The normal process is that the senior Dems in the legislature prepare a list or names of who they would approve, and the gov. chooses from that list the person that she presumably feels she could work best with.
The state party sent up one name, trying to force the governor's hand. She shunned that name and has instead choses Tim Grussendorf. And here is where the problems begin.
Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed legislative aide Tim Grussendorf to the state Senate seat that opened when Juneau Democrat Kim Elton resigned. It's a controversial pick that Grussendorf's own party says it will try to block.
Palin had to pick a Democrat from Juneau for the seat under state law. But Grussendorf was a registered Republican until just weeks ago, then switched to being a Democrat to qualify for the appointment. Grussendorf now needs a majority vote of the nine Democrats in the state Senate to approve his appointment. Anchorage Daily News
Sarah and Grussendorf see no problem with this and can't imagine why the Alaska Democrats are upset. And so the fight begins.
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How Democratic candidates are trying to woo Midwest cities
From housing to transportation, issues confronting the nation are surfacing in the Heartland
By Alissa Walker@awalkerinLA Jan 14, 2020, 5:45pm EST
Des Moines is hosting the final Democratic debate before Iowa's February 3 caucus.
Although media coverage might have you believe that Iowans will caucus based on whatever food-impaled-on-a-stick presidential candidates might have consumed at the Iowa State Fair, the region is facing complex challenges when it comes to housing, transportation, and infrastructure. With the first candidate face-off coming on February 3, here's a look at key national issues that are endemic to the Midwest.
Although the Midwest isn't more rural than anywhere else in the country—one in five U.S. residents lives in what's defined as rural America—what makes the region unique are its "micropolitans," cities and towns of 10,000 to 50,000 residents that are being heralded as economic catalysts for the surrounding areas. The region's small- and mid-sized cities are seeing changes, too, as both employers and residents are coming to town in search of more affordable housing and better quality of life.
With two frontrunning presidential candidates who call the Midwest home, the remaining candidates must capitalize on this opportunity to establish how they'd best address the region's needs. Here are some ways several of the candidates may seek to win over Heartland voters—both at the debates, and as the first wave of caucuses and primaries rolls into view.
Pete Buttigieg's infrastructure plan
Pete Buttigieg unveiled a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that seemed fine-tuned to address specifically Midwestern issues like those the former South Bend, Indiana mayor faced in his own city. Among the investments Buttigieg would make include a public transit overhaul that's specifically focused around his commitment to rural communities, like making sure federal "smart city" transportation grants also go to municipalities outside of cities, and upgrades to public services like water and internet that specifically address decades of racial inequality and federal disinvestment.
Bernie Sanders's climate justice
No candidate has a climate strategy more comprehensive than Sen. Bernie Sanders, and his $16 trillion Green New Deal plan is heavily focused on transitioning workers into new roles in the "just and equitable" economy. This is a big deal for the Midwest, where clean energy jobs are skyrocketing. Another huge component of Sanders' plan centers on helping the country's most marginalized communities recover from climate disasters, like the catastrophic flooding that devastated the Midwest last summer.
Elizabeth Warren's rent relief
The affordable housing crisis is hitting small towns and rural areas hard, too. As part of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's already robust housing plan, new provisions for renters added in November focus on protecting renters' rights, including a national small-dollar grant program that would prevent families from being evicted because of financial emergencies. One particular area of Warren's plan that will resonate with renters is regulating corporate landlords, which have proliferated in many Midwestern communities still reeling from the foreclosure crisis.
Andrew Yang's freedom dividend
The looming threat of automation is a huge issue for industries like car manufacturing, which is almost all consolidated in the states of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. In fact, more than half of all U.S. industrial robots are in operation in the Midwestern region. Andrew Yang's universal basic mobility plan, which would give every American $1,000 per month, is meant to offset the impacts of automation, and might play well with the country's workers who are most worried about losing their jobs to robots.
Amy Klobuchar's agricultural platform
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is the only candidate besides Buttigieg to hail from the Midwest, and accordingly has her own designated "plan from the Heartland." In it, Klobuchar proposes changing how farm subsidies are managed, introducing new tax credits for manufacturing, and providing better disaster aid like crop insurance, all with the stated goal of helping the agriculture industry become less carbon-intensive and more environmentally resilient. She also highlights elements of her other plans, like high-speed rail and internet access, that would help boost farm-focused economies.
Joe Biden's high-speed rail strategy
One aspect of former vice president Joe Biden's $1.7 trillion climate plan would be transformative for the Midwest: "the construction of an end-to-end high speed rail system that will connect the coasts, unlocking new, affordable access for every American." Although "Amtrak Joe"—which he was nicknamed for commuting by train between Delaware and D.C. when he was senator—has been a longtime advocate for rail, his proposal has echoes of an Obama administration effort to funnel $53 billion into rail investments nine years ago that never came to fruition.


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Wayne Simmonds hasn't experienced a win with the Sabres. ©2020, Micheline Veluvolu
Sabres notes: Wayne Simmonds doesn't regret waiving no-trade clause
BUFFALO – Wayne Simmonds doesn't regret waiving his no-trade clause to join the Sabres two weeks ago.
The Sabres, having crept within six points of a playoff spot, wanted the respected veteran winger to help their push. Meanwhile, Simmonds, an unrestricted free agent following the season, wanted a fresh opportunity after enduring a rough campaign.
So far, the deal – the Sabres sent the New Jersey Devils a conditional fifth-round pick – hasn't paid many dividends for either side.
The Sabres imploded after the Feb. 24 trade deadline, losing six straight games before Monday's 3-2 shootout win over the Washington Capitals. Simmonds, who has scored 251 career goals, has registered just one assist and a minus-4 rating with them.
"You can pick and choose your destinations sometimes but it doesn't always work out," Simmonds said prior to the game inside KeyBank Center. "So for me, it was they wanted me so this is the team. I wanted to give an opportunity where I can come and try to get my game in shape and hopefully help with the team."
The Devils, a team the Sabres annihilated twice this season, have compiled a 4-1-2 record since the deadline.
"We've played some good hockey," Simmonds said. "But at the same time, I think we got to play more sustained, good hockey. So for me, it's just trying to get used to the new systems, which isn't too complicated. I think (coach Ralph Krueger) does a good job of explaining everything. So I think I've been OK here."
Despite the Sabres' struggles, Simmonds, 31, has fit in well. Krueger and others have lauded his professionalism.
"He's been a great addition to our locker room," Sabres captain Jack Eichel said. "Obviously, it hasn't translated to wins. But I just think his overall personality, his experience. So everything he brings out of the game has been huge.
"I think our team's been better for it. It's been a pleasure getting to know him, he's a great guy."
Krueger said: "He's been really comfortable in adding what he knows he can add here, and that's just leadership, his language is strong, his personality's calm, he makes sense in all that he says and he's been a really strong addition. Yeah, he's been good to have in the room and he's leaving his mark."
But the NHL knows all about Simmonds' reputation for being a great guy. The 12-year veteran is playing for a new contract and must prove himself on the ice.
Simmonds compiled eight goals, 24 points and a minus-17 rating in 61 games before coming to Buffalo. The Devils are paying half of his remaining $5 million salary.
Age hasn't slowed down Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin, 34, in his 15th NHL season.
Incredibly, Ovechkin is just two goals shy of hitting the prestigious 50-goal mark for the ninth time after scoring in third period Monday.
"It's crazy," Eichel said of Ovechkin likely scoring 50 goals again. "Like, just impressive what he's done with his whole career. He doesn't slow down ever. So honestly, it's a privilege to be able to say that you played against him at the same time. Just to share the ice with him … it seems like he's on pace to do some historical things here. Just to be a part of history is pretty cool."
Ovechkin, who has scored 705 career goals, needs three more to surpass Mike Gartner for the seventh-most goals in NHL history.
The Russian has scored 33 goals and 51 points in 50 career outings against the Sabres.
The Rochester Americans sent top Sabres goalie prospect Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen back to the Cincinnati Cyclones, their ECHL affiliate, on Monday.
The Sabres returned goalie prospect Jonas Johansson, an AHL All-Star, to the Amerks on Friday when Linus Ullmark recovered from his lower-body injury.
Luukkonen, 20, has compiled a 3-4-3 record with a 3.15 goals-against average and an .875 save percentage in 10 games with the Amerks this season.
The Finnish rookie has posted terrific numbers – 12-6-3, 2.16 and .916 – in 22 contests with the Cyclones this season. He underwent hip surgery last April.
Notes: Sabres winger Kyle Okposo played his 800th NHL game on Monday. Meanwhile, winger Sam Reinhart played his 400th game. … The Sabres scratched winger Michael Frolik and defenseman Lawrence Pilut (both healthy). Winger Jimmy Vesey, a scratch Saturday, returned. … Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin's two assists against the Capitals give him 36 in 59 appearances this season, one more than his 82-game rookie total from last year.
Author Bill HoppePosted on 03.10.20 03.10.20 Categories Cincinnati Cyclones, Dahlin, Eichel, Frolik, Johansson, Krueger, Luukkonen, Okposo, Ovechkin, Pilut, Rochester Americans, Simmonds, Ullmark, Vesey, Washington Capitals
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> > > Does it need to disable gnutls?
> > > as expected (if it compiles at all).
> > > have time.
> > take a bit.
> openssl (tested on Debian stable).
I too can confirm that it builds.
> No idea if it works correctly.
Because I was curious I investigated the situation a bit more.
the list of registered protocols.
4) no errors happen even/because both protocols are named the same: "tls"
easy to read and I am no expert for FFmpeg configure's dep system.


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Matzo Brawl!
Posted on November 29, 2013 by lmharnisch
Note: This is a post I wrote in 2006 for the 1947project and I'm reposting it for newer readers.
Oh Those Shriners: Recall, if you will, the grisly train wreck that killed a large number of Shriners returning from their convention in Los Angeles. It seems that one of them, George F. Hageman, inadvertently touched off a legal dispute between two belles of Reading.
Sarah Reber and Maude Weber went before the court insisting that each of them was the rightful heir of the bachelor, who was "tall and handsome and very popular with the fair sex," The Times says. Both women claim that Hageman "spent his last evening in Reading with them" before he left for the Shrine convention and made promises of $12,000 in stock.
The court awarded the stock to Reber.
The City Beautiful: By the way, this postcard of Broadway and 7th reflects one of Charles Mulford Robinson's complaints in drafting a design for downtown Los Angeles: all the low awnings along the streets. (Note the Orpheum Theatre).
"We are very 'country' with our low awnings," The Times says, quoting Robinson. "A man cannot walk a block without having to duck his head more than once. An ordinance would fix things"
Currant Affairs: And finally, an artistic baker in the Russian quarter has provoked a riot over his preparation of matzo bread, sending five people to jail.
About a month ago, an enterprising baker at Turner Street and Vignes announced that he was going to prepare matzo bread with spice, raisins and currants.
"This was met with some dismay," The Times says, "and the authorities on Orthodox were sent for. They agreed that this would be a digression from the rules laid down by the Jews."
Nonetheless, Joe Wasserman liked the baker's wares and decided he would have them for Thanksgiving dinner, regardless of any ruling. Thus began an argument between Wasserman and his brother Sam, with whom he and his wife had been living rent-free for four months. Sam said that if Joe insisted on eating the matzos, he would tell the grocer that Joe planned to take a trip to San Bernardino despite owing the market $20.
"Yesterday morning, the decorated matzos arrived at the Wasserman home and a family row resulted," The Times said. "The Jewish [illegible] lined the streets until the Russian grocer, hearing the noise, hurried over, whereupon Yiddish, German, Russian and Odessa were all spoken at once and Turner Street sounded like a Tower of Babel. The decorated matzos were thrown out in the street."
"Someone picked up the discarded be-decorated matzo and threw it at [Joe] Wasserman and the entire crowd began to fight."
"The matzo was to have been used as evidence, but a trusty in the jail thoughtlessly ate it yesterday afternoon," The Times says.
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High class woolen fabric is used to make the outer part of Captain Jack Harkness Coat. Double breasted style with six buttons has formed stylish look. The soft viscose lining is present inside of the exterior layer. Grey color makes you sophisticated and impressive. Jack Harkness Coat has two side waist flapped pockets and two inner pockets. Lapel collar has increased the beauty. Long sleeves have open hem cuffs. Front closure is given with buttons. Waist belt is also given in Torchwood Coat with buckle. Above the cuffs three buttons are added.
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Adams, Kenneth (1897-1966)
Aguilar (Santo Domingo-Kewa), Vidal
Aguilar(Santo Domingo-Kewa), Vidal
Kirby, Tom
Rivera, Elias (1937 - 2019)
"Going Home"
H:30 x W:40 x D:Fr32 x 42
Fritz Scholder was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota. He was the fifth consecutive male of his family to bear this name. His paternal grandmother was a member of the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians. Although Scholder did not consider himself an Indian, he was regarded by many as a leader of the New American Indian Art movement.
Throughout his childhood, the painter's family moved frequently, living mostly in small towns in the Dakotas and Wisconsin. In the long winter evenings, young Fritz amused himself by drawing, an interest that was soon channeled into serious art study. The painter Oscar Howe, a Sioux Indian, introduced him to modern art while he was still in high school. In 1957, the family settled in Sacramento, where Scholder earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sacramento State University. At Sacramento, the painter Wayne Thiebaud exposed Scholder to the Pop Art movement. Thiebaud also arranged Scholder's first solo exhibition.
After graduation, Scholder taught public school in Sacramento. In 1961, he won a scholarship to the Southwest Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona, where he earned a Master's of Fine Arts degree.
From 1964 to 1969 he taught painting and art history at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the beginning, he struggled to represent the landscape and people of the Southwest without indulging in the romantic clichés of genre art on the Native themes. In time he created an extraordinary fusion of abstract expressionism, surrealism and pop art to express his unique vision of the Southwestern scene and the Native experience.
Early in his career, he received support from the Rockefeller, Whitney and Ford Foundations. After five years in Santa Fe, he retired from teaching to paint full-time. For the next few years he traveled in Europe and North Africa.
He added sculpture and printmaking to his activities, creating mixed media constructions, bronzes, lithographs, etchings and monotypes. From the beginning, he created works in series: women, landscapes, Indians, butterflies, cats, dogs, dreams, the Empire State Building, ancient Egypt.
Beginning in the late '60s, Fritz Scholder was a guest artist or artist-in-residence at American University, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Santa Fe institute of Fine Arts, and Dartmouth College. He received grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as arts organizations in France and Germany. For many years, he maintained his primary residence in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Over a dozen books have been published on Fritz Scholder and his work, and he has been profiled in two documentaries for public television. In a single year, exhibitions of his work were seen in Japan, France, China, Germany and at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Fritz Scholder died in 2005 at the age of 67. Since his death, interest in his work has continued to grow. In 2008, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian mounted a career retrospective of his work, with exhibitions in both New York City and Washington, D.C.


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MediaMath in AdWeek
June 25, 2012 in Article
Ad Network Casale Media Readies SSP
Platform showcases real-time bid map
Casale Media, an ad network that specializes in real-time bidding, has launched its own supply-side platform for publishers designed to help them sell excess inventory in an automated fashion, or set up private marketplaces.
Dubbed the Index Platform, the new product, which will effectively compete with PubMatic, Google's AdMeld and The Rubicon Project, will feature several unique bells and whistles, including a real-time visualization of an advertiser's bids on a map of North America with an adjoining stream displaying factors such as the price of each bid and what ad categories are involved.
"It's information that people assume or kind of just take for granted, but when you actually see it, I think it makes the model a little more real," said Andrew Casale, vp of strategy at Casale Media. The platform also lets publishers view metrics such as bids-per-second and bids-per-impression.
Gatehouse Media, Adhance Media and Casale's own Casalex ad exchange are lauch customers, and the platform has integrated with 25 demand-side partners, including Adnetik, Criteo, DataXu, Invite Media (now called DoubleClick Bid Manager) MediaMath, the Trade Desk and Turn.
The 10-year-old company has traditionally been positioned primarily as an ad network. When the RTB craze hit three years ago, Casale Media chose to go supply side while others like Turn and ValueClick went demand side, Casale said. "We see the SSP segment of the market a little underrepresented," said Casale. "There's a handful of SSPs, but now there's somewhere around 40 or 50 DSPs. So it's a good time to innovate and bring a new option to publishers."
Casale Media's move comes as SSPs like PubMatic look to expand beyond their traditional bailiwick. Casale said those companies are "trying to replace the ad server," an endeavor he's unsure will succeed.
"If you talk to any major publisher that's a DFP shop and most are, that's pretty well wired into their infrastructure in every way and making a move away from that ad server is unlikely to happen anytime soon," he said. "While I think it's a great thing to talk about and sounds really interesting, I think it's highly unlikely you're going to see a mass exodus of publishers from the DoubleClick platform." Instead Casale Media's approach is to "find ways to bolt solutions into it that fully equip publishers to transact in this model while maintaining the same infrastructure they have."
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Written by Diana Thebaud Nicholson // April 3, 2013 // Wednesday Nights // 2 Comments
Pipelines and oil spills were on everyone's mind, thanks to the recent spills in Canada and the U.S. and several individuals were armed with facts and figures to bolster arguments for and against Keystone XL, many of which were countered by those armed with different facts and figures. Despite fears of oil spills and the most recent disaster in the U.S. from leakage from the aged (65 years old) Pegasus pipeline, transporting petroleum through pipelines is widely believed to be significantly safer than shipping by truck or train. Gerald cites "a reliability record that's 99.9995 percent" that was stated by Andrew Black of the Association of Oil Pipelines on Wednesday evening's PBS Newshour. [See Comment from Sam Boshra below for another view]
Several points were made:
— Keystone is destined to carry oil to Galveston where it will be refined and exported at a higher price.
— Spills of dilbit are extremely difficult to clean up because it is sludge; thus the news that EPA orders Enbridge to do additional dredging in Kalamazoo River to clean up oil from 2010 spill
— Alberta has no refining capacity
— Maintenance is key, but it appears that the industry is reluctant to invest in it, accepting that the cost of clean-up, including bad publicity is less than the cost of vigilant monitoring and maintenance.
Despite the negatives, most Wednesday Nighters predict that the current Keystone project will be approved by President Obama.
No one denies that the diluted heavy bitumen crude (dilbit) that is exported from Alberta to the U.S. has enhanced the prosperity of the entire country. However, there is increasing concern that in the rush to export a non-renewable resource, planning for the future is noticeably absent. At very least, a portion of our petroleum revenues should be set aside for investment in alternative and/or additional sources of national income when the Alberta petroleum resource is depleted or redundant, in addition to the current Alberta Heritage Fund. It was mentioned that the UAE [UAE and Saudi Arabia to lead renewable energy charge] has shown such foresight and the hope was expressed that Mr. Baird's current visit to the UAE is not only to encourage investment, but also to learn something. Norway's Pension Fund aka Petroleum Fund remains the outstanding example of responsible management of oil revenues.
Petroleum-fueled vehicles are ubiquitous, providing transportation for food, living things animal and human, as well as materials. By their nature, they require that petroleum be available wherever they travel and will do so until other reasonably priced, readily accessible energy sources are available. The same is true of heating fuel of all types; hazards exist with all forms of transportation. Since the decline of the use of horse drawn vehicles we have become addicted to petroleum and are likely to remain so until such time as a suitable, safe, affordable alternative can be provided.
Hurricane Katrina comes to mind when conversation turns to preventable disasters or those in which the adverse effects might have been attenuated if not completely eliminated if the profit motive and/or laissez faire attitudes had not prevailed. If we had introduced electric motor vehicles in the 1980`s, we would be ahead of the game in carbon now. It would appear that humans who have the intelligence to predict the future will opt for the immediate, with mathematics trumping logic. Interestingly, among the major traditional petroleum producing countries, it would appear that only the United Arab Emirates has had the foresight to research alternate energy sources, including solar. When oil was discovered in Western Canada, money was set aside for diversification. With so much of Canadian national well-being so dependent on Alberta`s birthright, we would do well to put more effort into maintaining and intensifying that initiative.
It is predicted that the proposed carbon tax designed to reduce carbon emissions, will not be approved.
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Wednesday Night 1622 was even more fascinating than usual, more because of our greater concern about short term issues than the long term effect of our current behaviour on the lives of our descendants. Our current blind dependency on the commercial value of the bones of our prehistoric ancestors without devoting at least part of that windfall to implement measures to develop the longevity of the good fortune currently bestowed on us by nature appears selfish and short sighted. For some reason, the children's fable of the Three Little Pigs comes to mind.
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Forty years ago this Wednesday, the first portable cell phone call was made in New York. Should this be cause for celebration or mourning for the days when everyone was not attached to the world by an electronic umbilical cord?
We wonder if anyone was aware that Cyprus celebrates Greek Cypriot National Day on April 1st ? In view of recent developments, that would appear ironic.
1622 was an eventful year; perhaps most importantly it marked the introduction of January 1st as the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year.
Also in 1622, King James I disbanded Parliament with which he had a difficult relationship, to put it mildly. As a great believer in the Divine Right of Kings, he had little use for any entity that curtailed his power. Sounds familiar doesn't it?
And it offers a nice segue to the current state of governance in Ottawa … notably, the departure of Kevin Page and the failure to begin the search for a successor. Mr. Page writes eloquently about the implications in Kevin Page: Why being Canada's first parliamentary budget officer 'may have saved my life' – we urge you to absorb his message. Not that the Harper government will revise the legislation that led to the demise of the PBO.
There have been several developments of the "natives are restless" variety recently. The most noted by the media has been the row over the Conservative 'rogue' backbenchers revolt against the iron-fisted control of the PMO and the Party of any interventions in Parliament, including SO-31s; Andrew Coyne has taken up the battle with vehemence: Restoring autonomy to the ordinary MP a battle worth fighting and Mob rule versus Mark Warawa.
Meanwhile it would appear that Federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault has found some serious backbone, having announced that her office will investigate how government communications rules on taxpayer-funded science impact public access to information. This is in response to a detailed complaint Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy? lodged by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and Democracy Watch that lays out repeated examples of taxpayer-funded science being suppressed or limited to pre-packaged media lines across six different government departments and agencies. No need to tell you that the initial reaction from government spokespersons has been dismissive.
And the debate continues over Canada's withdrawal from the UN Convention on Desertification, with a cogent argument presented by Paul Heinbecker It's not just the drought treaty. Canada is vanishing from the United Nations in which he reminds the reader that "because the locus of most of the devastation arising from desertification is in Africa, walking away from a treaty whose creation was led by the Mulroney and Chrétien governments reinforces the impression that Ottawa no longer cares about Africa. It is an impression that this government also went to some trouble and expense to try to reverse. Further, because the worst destruction from desertification is happening in the Sahara region, abandoning the treaty sends a mixed signal about the security issues at stake in Mali and the Sahel, and about Canadian mining interests there as well."
Speaking of international ramifications, in Can the world trust Quebec? Beryl Wajsman argues forcefully (when does he not?) that the provisions of Bill 14 abrogate international human rights agreements and signal a warning to investors that Quebec could disavow international commercial agreements or fail to respect the rules of the GATT or decisions of the WTO.
Tony Deutsch is, with good reason, deeply concerned by recent developments in Hungary and points us to an opinion piece by George Kopits, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Constitutional Mob Rule in Hungary published in the Wall Street Journal.
Last Wednesday we enjoyed an informative discussion of the Keystone pipeline and related pipeline issues, which appeared to convince most that Keystone is a) inevitable and b) not that bad, however the tone of public discourse has changed rapidly over the weekend with the news of the Arkansas Exxon pipeline spill and, as Bloomberg points out, Arkansas Oil Spill Raises Scrutiny of Pipeline Network There was much discussion of fracking, depletion, demand for water and oil pricing, however, no one raised the views expressed by Gail Tverberg of the Christian Science Monitor in How high oil prices lead to financial collapse – her thesis is that financial collapse is related to high oil prices and also to higher costs for other resources as we approach their limits. In her view: "The real danger is financial collapse, coming much earlier than a decline in oil supply. This collapse is related to high oil price, and also to higher costs for other resources as we approach limits (for example, desalination of water where water supply is a problem, and higher natural gas prices in much of the world)." Food for thought?
Education, as always, remains high on our list of topics and the need to encourage more students to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) studies and careers has often been discussed at WN. One of the more intriguing recommendations we have seen recently is a piece by Karthik Kanagasabapathy who advocates Competitive Robotics: Bringing Excitement Back to the Canadian Classroom – he holds that competitiveness is a skill that students need to hone is certainly valid. However, it is not the solution for all students, as evidenced by Monday's news that CBC has identified the two Canadians among the terrorist attackers of the Algerian oil fields as high school friends from London, Ontario poses some disturbing questions about how our society – and our schools – are failing a number of young people. We can console ourselves that at least as far as we know, Canada does not have to cope with scandals like the pervasive test cheating in Atlanta apparently masterminded by former superintendent, Beverly Hall, who had been designated National Superintendent of the Year in 2009 (!).
Education and Literacy go hand-in-hand, but literacy is the basic and vital component to leading a productive life in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. It is essential that the federal government's proposals for upgraded job skills training take into account the woefully low rates of literacy in this country. Matthew Pearson sets out the constraints in his admirable report Starting over – and stalling. While he examines the situation in Ontario, it is certainly no better – and possibly much worse – in other provinces. We would like to see an equivalent study of Quebec which ranks well below Ontario in terms of literacy. The most recent figures we could find were those cited byABC Life Literacy Canada, four out of 10 adult Canadians, age 16 to 65 – representing 9 million Canadians – struggle with low literacy. They fall below level 3 on the prose literacy scale (Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) Survey, Statistics Canada and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005). Considering those adult Canadians with low literacy, 15 per cent have serious problems dealing with any printed materials; an additional 27 per cent can only deal with simple reading tasks (Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, 2005).
That is a sad note to end on, so like our favorite literary character, Eyeore, we will look on the bright side – at least North Korea didn't start a war over the weekend and spoil the holiday.
We have two invitations to flag to Wednesday Nighters.
The first, on Sunday, April 14, is for the Metastock Power to the Private Trader seminar from 9 to 11am at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, PET Airport. Among the new tools featured are MetaStock 12, MetaStock Pro 12 and MetaStock XENITH. The MetaStock product suite, developed by Equis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, is targeted toward the individual investor includes both real-time and end-of-day variants of the software along with data subscriptions, add-ons and third party products.
The second, for Tuesday, April 16 from 5 pm to 8 pm, comes via Anita Nowak. It is the inaugural flagship event The Social Economy Initiative (SEI). Four pre-eminent Quebec-based social economy experts will participate in Strengths of the Social Economy on Tuesday, April 16 at 5:00 pm at the Centre Mont-Royal in downtown Montreal (www.mcgill.ca/sei-flagship). Hosted by the Desautels Faculty of Management's Social Economy Initiative (SEI), this event will involve a lively and informed discussion about why Quebec is considered a global pioneer in this arena, trends in social finance, the role public policy can play in further developing the sector, and what kind of leaders are required for its ongoing success. Please note that you must act very quickly – the deadline for reservations is literally yesterday!
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Several guests at the salon noted that pipeline transport of fuel is overwhelmingly safer than rail. This sounded like a plausible argument, although some of the figures thrown about seemed suspect (Mr. Meisels' "90-10", par exemple). While up-to-date figures for Canada have proven elusive (see Environment Canada ), more recent data from the US National Response Centre is available. While it's neither complete nor cross-referenced (example: incident type X cause), the NRC data indicates that pipeline incident reports topped out at 1896 in '05, with railroad incidents reported that same year numbering 1532 (railroad non-release incidents 1685). While both incident types have decreased since, there were still more than a thousand pipeline incidents reported in each subsequent year. The basic NRC data does not breakdown the spill types by material content/volume, making it difficult to assess how many incidents involved oil and gas (railroad tanks transport a greater variety of materials than do pipelines).
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Federal Rules Don't Control Pipeline Reversals Like Exxon's Burst Pegasus
Risks of using an aging pipeline network for Canadian heavy oil, well-known to industry and discussed over many years, have never been addressed.
The Pegasus pipeline that ruptured and spilled thousands of gallons of tar sands crude in Mayflower was 65 years old, and was initially built to carry thinner oil at lower pressure in the opposite direction than today.
But seven years ago, when Exxon, the pipeline's operator, turned it into a higher-volume line for diluted bitumen from Canada flowing under greater pressure to refineries on the Gulf Coast, federal rules did not require a permit application or safety reviews, according to federal officials.
Inside Climate News http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130403/federal-rules-dont-control-pipeline-reversals-exxons-burst-pegasus


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Q: Node.js - How to write variable file names I'd like to run an SVG-PDF-converter, which processes all files in a folder and creates the PDF output files with the corresponding file names:
var fs = require('fs'),
    PDFDocument = require('pdfkit'),
    SVGtoPDF = require('svg-to-pdfkit'),
    glob = require("glob"),
    inputFiles = glob.sync('./input/**/*.svg');

for (let i = 0; i < inputFiles.length; i++) {
    var doc = new PDFDocument(),
        stream = fs.createWriteStream('./output/' + inputFiles[i] + '.pdf'),
        svg = fs.readFileSync(inputFiles[i], 'utf-8');
    SVGtoPDF(doc, svg, 0, 0);
    doc.pipe(stream);
    doc.end();
};

Obviously it doesn't work that way...
How can I use variable file names in createWriteStream?

A: Short answer: Use backquote like this
fs.createWriteStream(`./somefolder/${fileName}.pdf`)

A: var fileName = String(inputFiles[i]),
    outputString = fileName.replace("input", "output"),
    outputStringComplete = outputString.replace("svg", "pdf"),
    stream = fs.createWriteStream(outputStringComplete);

A: You can do something like this to actually fetch the filename using regex. You will get the filenames then you can use this filename to create new file.
const fileDetails = glob.sync('yourpathtodir');
const regex = new RegExp(/[^\\\/]+(?=\.[\w]+$)|[^\\\/]+$/);
const fileNames = [];
fileDetails.forEach(el =>  fileNames.push(regex.exec(el)[0]));
console.log(fileNames);

for (let i = 0; i < fileNames.length; i++) {
    var doc = new PDFDocument(),
        stream = fs.createWriteStream(`./output/${fileNames[i]}.pdf`),
        svg = fs.readFileSync(`${fileNames[i]}.svg`, 'utf-8'); // you might need to provide full name for file
    SVGtoPDF(doc, svg, 0, 0);
    doc.pipe(stream);
    doc.end();
};

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CHELSEA are set to appoint Antonio Conte as their new manager - but he wasn't their first pick for the job.
Barring any late hiccups, Conte will be confirmed as Jose Mourinho's permanent successor at Stamford Bridge.
Italian footy expert Tancredi Palmeri claims Roman Abramovich has broken the news to the ex-Juventus man.
Yesterday Roman Abramovich has communicated to Antonio Conte that he has been chosen for the job.
He wrote on Twitter: "Yesterday Roman Abramovich communicated to Antonio Conte that he has been chosen for the job. Conte is the new Chelsea manager."
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The nature of work is in transition as a consequence of globalization, new technologies and the growing impact of Artificial Intelligence. Young people are leaving our education systems, and these young people who are charged with educating are ill prepared to face the future of work. In manufacturing, for example, the days of bolt-turning assembly work is rapidly giving way to knowledge-based activities such as computer-controlled automation, a new mode of manufacturing that requires not workers with fine craft skills but people who can program and maintain industrial robots to function.
Many other fields are being similarly transformed through the Industry 4.0 revolution: the traditional craft of metal machining is giving way to computerization; in healthcare, the advanced diagnostic equipment on which doctors greatly rely has given rise to dozens of skilled vocations: echocardiogram operators, lab and operating room equipment technicians, hospital IT specialists, and dozens more.
We look forward to our high schools, vocational schools, and post-secondary institutions to provide people who can step into these jobs, for the next generation of graduates will be required to bring a higher level of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) knowledge and training to even entry level jobs.
Understanding of how to work in a world with Artificial Intelligence will be a basic requirement to succeed in the labour market of tomorrow.
Australia's position in the global economy and its regional strength will continue to present it with abundant economic opportunities if it can build a labour force that is up to the challenge. Unfortunately, currently our record in grasping these opportunities is mixed at best. Too many of our young people are leaving school with neither marketable skills nor relevant work experience. Many high school (and bachelor degree) graduates are unprepared to work in our changing economy, as they are learning from curriculum which is becoming too quickly outdated and redundant. Too many learn literally, not laterally and are often not aware of the projected impact of macro factors and the new skills required and take on new challenges.
Where can young people learn about the changing nature of work?
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Skilling Australia Foundation has been engaged by the Australian Government to assist local stakeholders to work together to implement P-TECH learning programs in Australia.


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Introducing SiaVid, the flexible, customisable video search engine
May 24, 2018 October 13, 2019 James Barnden
Cover image: Screenshot from the SiaVid front-end web interface
Check it out on GitHub
SiaVid has been released for free use under the GNU General Public License, so feel free to have a poke and prod at the code.
So it's been a little while since I've had a chance to update the blog, which has been largely down to me having to focus on University. One of the things I've had the pleasure of working on this year along side a couple of colleagues is an application which we've named SiaVid.
So SiaVid is an open source customisable Data Mining framework, which downloads and extracts different types of information from online videos, making the contents of a video searchable for users in interesting ways. So for example, if you wanted to know when person 2 appears in the video, saying the word "cheese", you can combine a couple of search timelines to do just that, through the pretty graphical interface. So what's under the hood?
The Pipeline Framework
Illustration of how the pipeline interface might be used in an application.
Data processing and search functionality is made possible through three different broad types of plugins, these are Acquirers, Data Miners, and Search Engines. Acquirers are responsible for fetching certain types of data that might be required by Data Miners (e.g. images from a video, sound from a video etc.), one or more Data Miners process data retrieved by Acquirers to produce searchable data (a corpus) which can be searched with a particular Search Engine. A Pipeline holds all plugins necessary for an application, and a specific sequence of plugins can be defined in a Timeline object within the pipeline. For example the pipeline might contain an "AudioFromVideo" acquirer, a "SpeechRecognition" data miner, and a "TrieSearch" search engine, we could then create a Speech Recognition timeline from these plugins, which could then be activated by a user, allowing them to perform speech recognition on the video, and search the results. My own personal focus for this application was on the development of the Speech Recognition and Facial Classification functionality.
Speech Recognition Timeline
The Speech Recognition timeline included in the sample application is made up of an "AudioAcquirer" acquirer, which (yep, you guessed it) acquires audio from a given video link and saves it to a file, it then passes that file on to the "AudioSplitter" data miner which divides the audio file in to a series of smaller files (enabling us to perform speech recognition on multiple cores). The "SpeechRecognitionMiner" data miner takes the output from the audio splitter and generates a series of subtitle chunks, which are made searchable with the "chunkToRIDict", which converts the subtitle chunks to their final searchable format. The result is the ability to search for a word, and be told at which time chunk(s) in a video that word appears.
Facial Classification Timeline
Example of two clusters created by the timeline for a video containing two individual people. In this case, 75% of images are clustered correctly, but we can see some mistakes as well as noisy images (pictures not of faces) brought forward from the facial detection stage.
This timeline consists of an image acquirer, which uses OpenCV to retrieve frames from a video as images, a Facial Detection data miner which uses Haar cascades to detect faces, and save images of them. A FaceClusterer data miner is then given all images of faces, and uses one of two unsupervised clustering algorithms to attempt to group the faces by similarity. The result is a number of clusters, which should hopefully represent individual people featured in the video. The Facial Classification functionality is somewhat experimental, it works very well under certain conditions, but not so well in others! As such, I still consider this a work in progress. In the best cases, if the FaceClusterer is told the number of people up front, it correctly clusters 75% of images, and if you let it work out the number of people for it's self, it correctly clusters images only 54% of the time.
A Closer look at Speech Recognition and Facial Classification
I feel like I've barely been able to scratch the surface of these two tasks in this article, so I'll be writing some more detailed articles over the coming weeks, where I intend to cover:
How speech in audio is interpreted by a computer
Modern tools and models for speech recognition
Methods of evaluating speech recognition
How to represent faces in a computer for facial classification (facial feature encoding)
Supervised and unsupervised image classification
How to evaluate unsupervised classification methods
As always thanks for reading, and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them below, I always appreciate feedback.
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South Dakota to get more than 20K COVID-19 vaccine doses by year's end
In South Dakota, the COVID-19 vaccine will go first to frontline health care workers who are working with COVID-19 patients, then to long-term care residents, then to other health care workers and first responders who would come into contact with COVID-19, and finally to the general population.
Written By: Jeremy Fugleberg | Nov 18th 2020 - 4pm.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota is expecting to get more than 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of the year, a top state health official said Wednesday, Nov. 18.
South Dakota will get "perhaps" 24,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, said Kim Malsam-Rysdon, secretary of the state Department of Health.
"There's a bright spot on the horizon, folks, and that's when we have effective vaccines for COVID," she said.
In South Dakota, the COVID-19 vaccine will go first to frontline health care workers who are working with COVID-19 patients, then to long-term care residents, who have proven particularly vulnerable to the virus. Then the vaccine will go to other health care workers and first responders who would come into contact with COVID-19, and finally to the general population, Malsam-Rysdon said
"We're working with health care providers to be able to deploy that vaccine. There are some challenges with logistics, but I know we're up to the task," she said. "I'm really hoping we're seeing vaccinations happening in December."
Two vaccine makers, Pfizer and Moderna, said in the past week their vaccines were shown to be 95% effective — a welcome high rate of success. Pfizer said earlier this week it has everything in hand to apply for an emergency use authorization from the federal government, the final regulatory step before the vaccine is deployed for public use.
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The news is particularly welcome in South Dakota, where a simmering COVID-19 pandemic during the summer exploded across the state over the last three months, taxing hospitals and health care workers facing a deluge of new patients.
On Wednesday, the South Dakota Department of Health reported that 30 more South Dakotans had died due to COVID-19, raising the state's pandemic death toll to 674. November is already the deadliest month of the pandemic in the state, with 249 fatalities caused by the virus.
State health officials also reported 95 new hospitalizations, with 593 people hospitalized in South Dakota due to COVID-19, a total just below the record high of 607 set last week.
There are now 19,240 South Dakotans who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are considered able to spread the virus, just below the record high of 19,360 set Sunday.
Thus far in the pandemic, 68,674 South Dakotans have tested positive for COVID-19, or about one in 13 state residents. There are 48,757 who have recovered from the virus.
On Wednesday, state health officials briefed reports on the results of a series of mass-testing events recently conducted or underway in several cities around the state. More than 3,800 people had gotten tested at the events, with 9.8% testing positive for the virus.
Of those who tested positive, only about one in three were experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, said Malsam-Rysdon. While only a snapshot, the low symptomatic rate indicates how widespread the virus may be in the state, spreading via those not showing symptoms of the virus.
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Grant Recipients Grants to Artists Music/Sound 2014
James Fei
Photo by Alice Wu.
Born Taipei, Taiwan, 1974
Lives in Oakland, CA
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One of the most important aspects that the FCA award made possible is the ability to plan a series of releases on a timetable, rather than publishing whenever financial resources allows. I spent much of this year reviewing and working on the materials in my recorded archive—evaluating performances, mixing, editing, restoring, and mastering audio.
- James Fei, December 2014
James Fei is active as a composer, performer, and musician on saxophones and live electronics. Compositions for Fei's own ensembles of four alto saxophones focus on physical processes while his sound installations and performance focus on live electronics often focus on electronic and acoustic feedback.
In 2014, with support from his Grants to Artists award, Fei premiered Hysteresis at Roulette, performed The Nerve Meter (2004), and Sine of Merit III (2012) at Stanford University, and continued Sparrows and Ortolans, collaboration with Laetitia Sonami. Fei's works have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, MATA Micro Orchestra, Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest, and at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Merkin Concert Hall, The Kitchen, Knitting Factory, Tonic, Roulette, Experimental Intermedia, MATA Festival, Engine 27, The Stone, ISSUE Project Room, Empty Bottle in Chicago, JFC Club in St. Petersberg, Super Deluxe and Shinjuku Pit Inn in Tokyo, Osaka Arts–Aporia, Osaka, the National Recital Hall in Taiwan, Akedemie der Künste in Berlin, and Beurs van Berlage, Steim, and Overtoom 301 in Amsterdam. Recordings can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, Krabbesholm, and Organized Sound.
Fei has lectured at Columbia University, Wesleyan University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Taipei Normal University, Taipei National University of the Arts, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Theremin Center in Moscow, Pro Arte in St. Petersberg, Krabbesholm in Denmark, IAMAS in Ogaki, Japan, and NUAS in Nogoya, Japan. He received his B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.A. from Wesleyan University. Since 2006 Fei has served as an Associate Professor of Electronic Arts at Mills College.
I work in several interconnected strands of music: traditional scores, improvisation, live electronics, sound installations, and those that fall between categories. The solo pieces for woodwinds that I perform embody the possibilities for the composer/performer: they are not entirely scored but are nonetheless fixed by physical processes. Similarly, works for my Alto Quartet focus on the artifacts of saliva, screams, reeds crippled with cuts, as well as playing at the threshold of audibility. I am interested in those elements usually considered undesirable in sound production. Pieces such as Faktura (2009) and Nominal Dust use solely the residual noise from instruments, mixers, amplifiers, and ambient tone. These dirty bits, like the dust in a room, are usually masked or hidden, but are brought to the surface in the absence of any conventional material.
Recent works have been engaged with the oblique relationships between sound and image. When Tobacco Smoke Smells Also of the Mouth Which Exhales It (2007), extracts the most peripheral sounds from films, reproduced with Foley (sound effects created by props) and electronics. Divorced from all visual and narrative elements, the incidental sounds are no longer functional, with odd timing, long pauses, and unidentifiable associations. In Sound Slowed Down a Thousand Times, a suspended loudspeaker reproduces the word "sound" at 1/1,000th the original speed. The complex fluctuations of the vocal acoustic waveform are stretched, becoming visible but silent.
Cover image of FCA-supported Chamber Works, 2015.
Cover image of FCA-supported Duets, 2015, with Anthony Braxton.
Cover image of FCA-supported Sine of Merit, 2015.
Excerpt of FCA-supported Sine of Merit II, 2015, for analog electronics.
Cover image of FCA-supported Kato, 2015.
Excerpt of score of Kaktura, 2009, for two alto saxophones and mixer with idling electronics.
Excerpt of score of Proun Space, 2002, for two violins and live electronics (harmonic oscillator bank and reverb tank).


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Plantations, and farms were far too large for their owners alone to take care of. Brazil today is known for having a population of 75 million people of African descent. Are there some morals universally known as wrong? William remembers being very devoted to his master, as he knew the terrible way that other masters treated their slaves. So does a great small company pioneer. Their law and policy viewed slavery as a form of property.
Slavery keeps people bound and from ever becoming free. Slavery also had many members of the Union question if owning humans and treat them as property was just. To prove this I will provide an analysis of chronological events that displayed acts of slavery and racism. Countless individuals have dedicated numerous hours researching and contemplating this tendentious debate that has been discussed ever since slavery 's first appearance in America in 1619. As living humans, it is our responsibility to investigate this question as it applies to our own observation and behavior.
Its complex existence greatly impacted social views, politics and many industries in colonial America, these effects would transcend that era. So why is it that every time you go and visit a historical place like the Hampton-Preston mansion in Columbia South Carolina, the Lowell Factory where the mill girls work in Massachusetts or the Old town of Williamsburg Virginia they only talk about the good things that happened at these place, like such things as who owned. Slavery began in prehistoric times and has been practiced ever since. Even the Founding Fathers decided not to touch the slavery issue, wishing that it will die out eventually. Slavery was wrong and is still wrong, even if it occurred everywhere, especially during the ancient times. The northern states really didn t need it because they were business states. Civil War is referred to as the Second American Revolution with some fantastic historians.
He gets used to seeing the slaves being treated as objects and sees nothing wrong with it. On their behalf, they argued that the slaves were treated poorly by their masters, it was a sin to be involved in slavery, and the Africans were unhappy because they were forced to move from their homeland. Indentureship Indentured laborers were assigned contracts in which they were paid wages to work for a specified period of time. Abolitionism, American Anti-Slavery Society, American Civil War 838 Words 3 Pages. Why did the North and South come to such different views of slavery in the years prior to the Civil War? Hence, two different varieties of savings arose along with the consequent friction between both. Slavery influenced the evolution of both Black and White Americans a handed down version of discrimination from generation to generation a permanent divide between both Black and White Americans today; I say.
Born in slavery: Mary Reynolds Mary Reynolds was born to slavery. The acts against slaves made it seem as if they were worthless, which is not equality at all. Slavery is a crime against those who are enslaved because they are exploited and denied life privileges. But in the South, most slaves still worked on large farms called Plantations. Yet without realizing we are supporting slavery. Unlike the other ideas he rejected the idea that insanity could be demonstrated to be used to described Brown 's actions. Nevertheless, this has become one of the most important lessons for the human nation — there is no condition under which one person can possess supremacy over another one.
The two of these themes occur inside her book, The Color Purple. However, slavery had evolved over time. Slaves cost at least three more times than a regular servant for the reason that slavery was their life, it was their job. The issue of slavery has been touched upon often in the course ofhistory. It is necessary to pay tribute to all these people who in spite of the cruelty in their lives managed to remain kind inside and some of them even tried to understand their masters. Everyone now knows that this is not true but back then they didn t know and really didn t care.
I, like most people, do not think about where my clothes came from or where the diamond in the engagement ring came from; subsequently, I alone depend on 43 slaves. Both men and women were forced into demanding field work, mental torture, and denied basic human rights. Evidently, society was not functioning in the perceptions above during this age. Brown was really into the slave thing, he hated it. He is scared to make the wrong move, fearing that he may caught by the beasts who lie in wait, and going back into slavery. These Africans had their culture, homes and families taken from them without explanation. Would you like to be a slave? As the years went by and slavery continued to plague both countries, revolts were planned.
If it was for a selfish solution, you're sacrificing a life many other families would love to raise as their own. You should be informed that, how slavery affected main issue of controversy that contributed to the split of the Union: slavery. Another reason why slavery is wrong is that it violates the right to life. The moral case was important. The relationship between Dana and Rufus changed over the years. This phenomena has done a lot of harm to million of people, taking away lives and destroying the fate of the people who could have been happy.
Why was slavery wrong? How was it so bad as it was?
Choosing Good Essay about Slavery In areas, the job appears to overemphasize the capability of slaves to withstand. Greene had been taught by William Lloyd Garrison. I am here to tell you today why this is such a false statement. The setting of the book is the homes of former slaves. Behn gives little detail on this location, instead wanting us to focus on underlying themes and characters. The legacy of slavery to this day continues to affect the attitudes and feelings that both whites and blacks feel towards the treatment of. Slavery became institutionalized because more slaves were needed to meet a high demand.
Our neighbors to the north and south Canada and Mexico kept slaves. Child abuse is defined as any unnecessary or intentional physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children. Although at first there were slaves in both the northern and southern part of the United States, by the early nineteenth century, slavery had died out in the North. Close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from African and the West Indies during the Atlantic slave trade. It is American history and the more we know about it, the better we can understand what is going on today in our country.


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When AMC announced a spin-off of The Walking Dead, I have to admit, I was both curious and resistant. I mean, part of what makes The Walking Dead so good (now that they've gotten into their groove) is the source material that it's based upon. The TV series has pretty much surpassed the comic, in my opinion, but it was the comic that provided the bones upon which Kirkman and company built the most popular scripted-series on television. They had most of the characters, most of the situations, most of the major plot points, all worked out in advance.
With a new series, set in the opening moments of the zombie apocalypse — everything Rick Grimes slept through — we are working with a clean slate; new characters, a new setting, and a new approach to the world we've come to know with the original series. Theoretically, The Walking Dead is a show that could be spun out exactly like the various incarnations of CSI have spawned, with a new cast in a new city confronting the same-old-same-old. So I applaud the creators for at least giving us something different from what we've gotten used to with regular franchise television.
At the same time, what we're getting could be bog-standard Zombie Movie 101.
So, as someone who has immersed himself in zombie films (see here), I decided to approach this new series as something other than a normal TV series or mini-leading-to-an-ongoing-series experience. This first season is 6 episodes (with a second season already approved), so I'm going to look at this kind of like the UK one-and-done mini-series, Dead Set, and see if what they're putting together here stands on its own as a massive (maybe the most massive?) zombie film.
Granted, there won't be a set ending. But this first season should tell a complete story about the beginnings of the zombie apocalypse; and as such, there are certain elements it has to touch upon, and certain plot points it has to incorporate.
Since we're not going for comedy here (which is often the fallback for creators who can't really handle the gravity of the material they're working with), we have to have a solid grounding in reality and a cast of characters that, even if they're not likeable, are intriguing. We have to become invested in their struggles before those struggles involve making head-shots.
For Fear the Walking Dead we have a showrunner, Dave Erickson, with a history of gritty, grounded work (Sons of Anarchy, Low Winter Sun), and the original creator, Robert Kirkman scripting this extended length, 90 minute pilot. We have a cast that includes Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, and Rubén Blades, so right out of the gate we have a solid core (although, to be honest, Blades isn't in the pilot).
But more importantly, we have a group of characters that are interesting; not only interesting, but real. The show opens with drug-addict son, Nick (Frank Dillane) waking up in an abandoned church that he and other junkies use as a "haven" of sorts, to find that his friend has died and turned into a flesh-eating zombie. Fleeing from the carnage, as one would do, he ends up in traffic, hit by a car, and in a hospital, where his family show up to discover that he was brought in raving about blood, death, and chaos. But it's okay. He's all better now.
It's never a bad idea to have the first characters we interact with be untrustworthy. That little bit of uncertainty is part of the storytelling process. It allows the other characters — the normals — to dismiss the impending horror as delusion, as hallucination. It also allows us the opening to have more tormented and flawed central characters.
And Nick is flawed as fuck.
The rest of the episode might be a little slow for some viewers, but the slow burn is effective and allows for enough time to not only craft multi-dimensional characters, but to let those characters breathe and open up the world they live in. We're given glimpses into the everyday lives of the characters, as well as a somewhat disturbing glimpse at the 1984-state under which modern schools currently operate. Not only are metal detectors a commonplace, the principal (a very Obama-esque Scott Lawerence) is able to listen in on any classroom he chooses, at will, just by flipping a switch. High School in the modern world is a pseudo-totalitarian state, it seems.
This underlying paranoia and fear creates a running subtext for the impending catastrophe (not to mention the family dynamics at work before the show even begins). This is especially effective given that instead of the singular focus of The Walking Dead's original premiere (Rick's awakening and rediscovery of the world), we are casting a wide net so far as narrative perspectives go. Questions of trust are already an issue and are only going to grow as the world begins to fall apart around our cast of characters.
According to Erickson this first season will cover about 3 weeks of time, and they're establishing the Rick was in a coma for 4 to 5 weeks, so when the season ends we're still going to be at least a couple of weeks from the start of The Walking Dead. Given the state of the world when Rick woke up, those people complaining about not enough zombie action shouldn't have long to wait.
Of course, the Walking Dead timeline isn't set in stone, with Dr. Jenner at the end of season one saying that zombies began appearing here and there up to 6 and a half months earlier and it was day 63 since the virus went worldwide. Regardless, society collapsed quickly and Fear the Walking Dead is going to give us a front-row seat.
The good news there is that, at least in the pilot, the creative team has learned the lessons of Walking Dead and is implementing them already. We're not getting a lot of over-writing – although there are a couple of rough spots as characters get established – and the director, Adam Davidson, does a good job of getting out of the actors' ways and letting them do their jobs. There were a couple of jump scares that didn't really work at the time, but when taken as an opening salvo in a larger single work, should serve as foreshadowing or straight set-ups for future scares (I'm looking at you Mr. Principal).
All in all, this was a solid, if predictable, piece of filmmaking. The family dynamics are borderline cliché, but do a great job setting up future conflicts, especially given the prospect of separation that will be raised as the world comes tumbling down. The lack of zombie action in the pilot shouldn't be any kind of deal-breaker, since the whole purpose of this series is to see how the world falls apart. We have to establish the world before we destroy it, after all. That's how storytelling works.
Fear the Walking Dead 1.01 "Pilot"
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