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Young people making a difference
Tuesday 4 March 2014, 04:25 PM (AEDT)
To celebrate this International Women's Day, ABC Splash Live is presenting Making a Difference - young people in conversation with a live studio and online audience, hosted by Libbi Gorr.
How much do we listen to young people and then act on what they say? And how loud are young voices on the issues that really matter?
This Thursday, 6 March 2014 at 2pm AEDT, we bring you a unique, live streaming event where young people speak their mind on issues of local, national and international importance.
Students from anywhere in Australia can take part in the event and drive the discussion by posting Live Chat questions and comments.
This year's International Women's Day theme is 'inspiring change', and our special guests for Making a Difference are doing that and more.
"Using a webcast is an exciting way to reach and involve young people who previously may not have been able to access this discussion." Hayley McQuire
Hayley McQuire is a Darumbal woman from Rockhampton, Queensland and a South Sea Islander descended from Tanna Island, Vanuatu. Hayley is a passionate advocate of every person's right to an education, and serves as the Australian Representative on the Youth Advocacy Group for the United Nations Global Education First Initiative and as a UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador. Currently she works as the Learning and Development Officer for the Australian Indigenous Communications sector, where she sees the powerful role Indigenous media plays in community development.
Hayley is looking forward to hearing the views of girls and guys from across the country. "The reason why I wanted to be involved in this event is to be given the opportunity to engage with young people from around Australia. Using a webcast is an exciting way to reach and involve young people who previously may not have been able to access this discussion," she said.
Mariah Kennedy is 17 years old and live in Geelong, Victoria. From a young age, Mariah has held a passion for social justice and youth advocacy, in particular the eradication of global poverty. At just 11 years old she served as Australian Junior Ambassador and three years later began work as the editor of a children's anthology Reaching Out: Messages of Hope, published by HarperCollins, in June 2013. The same year she was awarded the Australian Young People's Human Rights Award. The book brought together contributions from many acclaimed Australian authors, united in their desire to write about and highlight social injustices throughout the world.
Josie Swords is the immediate past Chair at Young UN Women Australia and is our Online Host for this event. Josie has represented Australia in a number of global forums and among many other activities, she's co-webmistress at feminaust.org, a website dedicated to providing a safe space online for Australian feminists to debate and celebrate.
Making a Difference is supported by the Australian National Committee for UN Women Australia, which works across the Asia-Pacific region on issues such as gender equality and the economic empowerment of women and girls. Julie McKay is Executive Director of the Australian National Committee for UN Women and says we need to listen more to young voices. "We believe it is essential to provide young people the opportunity to speak out, exchange ideas and learn from one another. It is by providing young people an open forum to express themselves and have their say that they develop to be concerned citizens, engaged in issues – and become agents of change," she said.
ABC's head of digital education Annabel Astbury agrees. "This ABC Splash live event allows students to engage with young leaders in the community and gives them the opportunity to create and contribute to meaningful discourse around issues that are important to them as young people," she said.
Hosting and facilitating this half-hour conversation, streaming live across Australia is comedian and 774 ABC broadcaster Libbi Gorr. Libbi's multi-faceted career has encompassed radio, television, print and live performance as writer, performer and producer. She delights in audience engagement and her warmth will draw out the unexpected from everyone. This will be a unique and entertaining event! Throughout, you can follow live updates using #ABCSplashLive
Photo credit: A World Apart © Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown
Pictured L-R: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Malala Yousafzai, Hayley McQuire


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BCBSOK launched the Be Smart-Don't Start program in 2004 to help educate school-aged children about the dangers of tobacco use. The day-long event teaches thousands of Oklahoma youth how to live healthier and make smart choices.
The program offers an anti-tobacco curriculum to more than 900 teachers in 620 schools through the Newspapers in Education program published in The Oklahoman, which reaches almost 200,000 students and more than half a million Oklahoma citizens.
Tobacco use is a major health issue affecting the quality of life in Oklahoma. Educating our children and families can help to improve the health and well-being of Oklahomans today and in the future.
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, nearly 3,300 children under the age of 18 will become new smokers each year, setting them up for serious health risks throughout their lives. The Be Smart-Don't Start program uses fun, hands-on educational activities as a prevention tool.
Additional Be Smart-Don't Start program partners include: American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, Oklahoma City Energy FC, Oklahoma City-County Health Department, Oklahoma State University, and University of Oklahoma. BCBSOK's Mobile Assistance Center was also on-site.
Watch a video about the program.
BCBSOK helps the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic program expand to provide on-site prescription education and assistance.
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Every April, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) employees participate in National Volunteer Week.
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Home News Black-tie dinner with Trump and May includes big pharma CEOs, reports FT
Black-tie dinner with Trump and May includes big pharma CEOs, reports FT
A black-tie dinner has been arranged for UK business leaders — including big pharma CEOs — and the US president, Donald Trump, to be hosted by the prime minister, Theresa May, according to an article published in the Financial Times (FT).
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Among those invited, as reported by the newspaper, are the CEO of Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky, and the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Emma Walmsley.
The location of the event, set to take place next week during the president's visit to the UK, has not been disclosed but based on the information from sources of the FT, it is expected to take place in Blenheim Palace.
At the beginning of the year, Trump sat down for dinner with 15 European executives, including the CEO of Bayer — Germany, Werner Baumann, and the CEO of Novartis — Switzerland, Vas Narasimhan. During that dinner there were discussions on deregulation policies in an effort to encourage trade relationships between Europe and the US.
It is anticipated that the UK-based dinner will be partly aimed at demonstrating the advantages of UK-US trade relations after Brexit, as reported by the FT.
Trump's visit to the UK will be sandwiched between the annual Nato summit in Brussels and a one-on-one meeting with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, set to take place in Finland.
There have also been numerous reports that mass protests are planned to take place at each stage of Trump's UK visit, with a potentially 50,000 strong protest set to take place in London.
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Thanks to all for the questions. That was terrific! My list is healthy again, but questions are always welcome.
On June 2, 2014, Sunny Smith wrote, Hey, I was wondering if any of you guys have any tips on how to spice up travel scenes so they aren't boring? I'm writing a book where the main characters are doing a lot of traveling and I'm learned quickly that if you don't spice it up it can get pretty boring really fast. So that's what I've been doing, but I keep wondering how much spice is too much spice. Where's the line between making the reader so interested they can't stop reading and making them frustrated with it because there just too much stuff going on?
Sunny Smith's question generated a lot of help. This came in from maybeawriter: Well, I know of an older post dealing with road trips called "Enhancing Experience." (April 20, 2011.) Not sure if that helps you, but it might be worth looking at.
And this from Eliza: They don't need a flat tire and a troll bridge every two pages to keep the reader interested. There are simpler ways to spice things up. You know those pesky bits of dialogue you have to put somewhere but too much talking slows down the story? Put the talking with the walking.
And from Elisa: I would suggest reading Crown Duel, by Sherwood Smith, and it's sequel, Court Duel. The first has a lot of traveling in it, and the second has some as well, though not as much. Plus, they're fun books. Especially Crown Duel.
And from carpelibris: Is the journey part of the story, or do you just need to get characters from Point A to Point B? If that's the case, you can just say something like "Three weeks later, footsore, sunburned, and in dire need of baths, they arrived at the palace."
Sunny Smith responded to Carpelibris: It is part of the story, it's actually a quest story like Writer At Heart's so it's pretty major. The worst part is in my first chapter where my POV character is on her way to meet up with the other three mains and she's all by herself in a forest for most of it so there isn't any way for me to put in any juicy dialogue. So I made it interesting because I'm not one to bore myself and I keep wondering if it's too much for the first chapter.
These are great ideas! I'm with carpelibris in that we can truncate a journey with judicious telling, and her suggestion for how to do it is charming, in my opinion.
Let's consider this first chapter as I understand it. Our MC–let's call her Andressa–has to cross a dangerous forest to reach her allies, the other three MCs, who will help her on the next leg of her journey. Andressa's ultimate mission is to find the mythical roc, the bird that, according to prophecy, will lay a golden egg, and the egg has the power to unite three warring kingdoms. Let's say that once Andressa possesses the egg she has to get it to the queen of her home kingdom, because this queen is the only ruler who wants peace.
If nothing is going to happen in the crossing of the forest that will have bearing on the discovery of the roc, one choice is to skip the forest entirely and start the book when Andressa reaches the village where her friends are waiting.
Another possibility is to make the forest crossing have bearing on the quest. It could be some kind of test of Andressa's ability. There are lots of options. Maybe she's been told that she mustn't leave the path through the forest. As she crosses, she keeps being tempted. She can succumb once for a reason we choose. Maybe she gets hungry. An apple tree loaded with low-hanging fruit is growing near the path. She reaches for an apple but keeps her feet planted firmly where they should be. Unfortunately, the apple is just a little farther than she expects. She stumbles and her foot comes down six inches beyond the path.
The reader–and Andressa-–worries that she's already failed at the quest. To make matters worse, when she gets out of the forest, she doesn't tell anyone about the failure.
The point is that whatever we write in our forest-crossing scene should have some bearing on the quest. If it doesn't, our reader may be engaged briefly, but he's soon likely to feel confused about what's important. He may have trouble following the thread.
What happens in that first chapter doesn't have to be quite so focused on the quest as the prophecy idea. We can use the forest adventure to shed light on Andressa's character and her fitness for the task she's taken on. Suppose there are bearions, a cross between a bear and a lion, in this wilderness. Andressa's first mistake is that she leaves crumbs after her evening meal. She curls up to sleep nearby, and a bearion smells the food and finds her. She hears it coming and has time to get ready with her bow and arrow. She shoots off four arrows, but the beast keeps coming, so she runs to a tree to climb. And the reader discovers how bad her coordination is. She can't climb the tree. The four arrows do finish off the bearion before it reaches her, but the reader is worried again. Andressa has proven herself a good shot but also careless and clumsy. She is a weak vessel for such an important mission.
I'd say that one adventure is probably enough for the forest part of the story unless we decide that more of the plot should take place there. After the event we'll probably want to go into Andressa's thoughts about what happened. If she doesn't realize that leaving crumbs was a mistake, the reader is going to worry even more about her. If she does realize and beats up on herself too much, he's going to worry too. If she thinks about the importance of her quest for, say, the people she loves, he's most likely going to like her. If she pities the dead bearion, he is certainly going to.
We can also use thoughts to eat up the miles and set up the trouble to come. During day one she can think about each of the friends she's going to meet if this interminable forest ever comes to an end. She can assess their strengths and shortcomings while her opinions also inform the reader about her. During day two she can think about the war that's raging outside this interminable forest. And during day three she can recall everything she knows about the roc. On day four she can arrive.
A Tale of Two Castles begins with a boat ride to the town of Two Castles, where the body of the story takes place. On the cog (medieval boat) Elodie observes her surroundings. She thinks about where she's going and what her mission is. A lot of thinking goes on. She also gets seasick and receives bad news from a fellow passenger that threatens her plans. Nothing is earth shattering, but the journey fills seventeen pages. It establishes Elodie's character and begins to build the world of the story.
If we don't have dialogue we still have actions and thoughts. And we also have a setting for our MC to interact with, all in the context of her quest. Now let's start down that yellow brick road!
Here are four prompts:
•	Write the scene in which the bearion attacks Andressa. Go on to write her thoughts after she discovers that she isn't going to die.
•	Write Andressa's thoughts as she crosses the forest, and have her consider the issues I named: the other MC's, the war, the roc.
•	Imagine the roc. Write a scene about it in its natural habitat. Reveal something that will make Andressa's quest much more difficult.
•	Write the whole story of Andressa, her three companions, the roc, and the golden egg.
August 6, 2014 Gail Carson Levinekeeping reader interest, writing travel
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26 Responses on "Moving Along"
carpelibris says:
Thank you for the compliment!
I'm having an urge to try to draw a bearion…
gailcarsonlevine says:
I'd like to see it!
I haven't drawn much since I decided to get serious about learning to write (over 15 years ago, eep!), but it does sound like fun!
maybeawriter says:
Awesome ideas in this one! 😀
Anyone have the opposite problem-livening up a story that takes place on a single, rather ordinary location?
I'm adding the question to my list.
Sunny Smith says:
Thanks for all the help Gail! You know, the funny thing is before you wrote this post, my main character who walks through the forest by herself's name started with an A, and I had a creature that was a cross between a lion, a bear, and a moose! I drew a picture of it too!
A Bloose? 🙂
Is there some way you can post the picture? That sounds neat.
Tralestelle says:
carpelibris: did you ever draw the bearion?
I tried, but wasn't satisfied with the result. It's funny, though. Once I started drawing, it was like my fingers remembered how to "feel" the lines. I also learned that I can't sketch worth beans on the computer, only on paper.
I had a moment like that with writing, too. After I'd been doing it a while, I realized that words had shape and heft, and sentences had rhythm, and I could feel them.
Carpelibris, actually, I called a Loram. I think I can find a way to post the picture, I'll try in a minute.
I couldn't get it to work, sorry. I wish you could see it though, it was really cool even though it was just a sketch.
Aw. Thanks for trying, though!
Elsabet says:
Hello, I have a question: What do I do with parents. I really don't like how uninvolved parents are in literature these days. They've all but disappeared! I want the parents in my stories actually BEING there. But them being there means they would cut into the adventures of my kid/teen MCs. How do I work around or through this. Actually, how to I work WITH this? I don't want the parents to be dumb, or dead, or evil, and I don't want the kids to be bratty or sneaky. Kids lying to the parents is just not an option. For one, most parents would see through the lies–therefor making it unrealistic–and secondly, I don't want sneaky, scheming, lying "heroes" in my stories. I don't like glorifying ugliness. Upon occasion I will have one (scheming liar) as an MC, but only to bring a point across, or to create a contrast. So how do I work this? Any suggestions?
Kenzi Anne says:
Elsabet–I know what you mean!! I've discovered it's easier to write parents when they have an actual character. I read the "How To Train Your Dragon" book series a while ago (they are adorable) and I love how the parents are very unique individuals with their own characteristics and personalities that actually add to the story– rather than just being the "mom" or the "dad"–there for reality's sake but not really the story's. Giving them hopes, dreams, fears, etc. like you would for a main or secondary character might help you to incorporate them better into the story and the plot 🙂 parents are people too! Hope this helped!!
Yeah, parents are people! Who woulda thunk? Thanks Kenzi Anne.
I'm putting your question with a similar one from Elisa that came in after the last post.
You could write a story where the kid was trying to rescue their parents, and alternate POV between the kid and the parents…
Well, I really don't like the children-saving-the-parents situation, mostly because it is incredibly cliche and terribly unrealistic. In real life it is almost 99.9% of the time the parents rescuing the kids. And while there is the occasional case of kid-saving-parent, it is rare. And about 98.2% of children's writers have already gone with the .1% chance that the kid would save the parent, so I would like to be accurate, authentic and realistic, and be one of 2.8% of folks that write real-world stuff. Not that I am being ungrateful, I am extremely glad you took time to answer my question, but actually, the real reason I want to write parents like this, is because I am modeling them somewhat off of my own parents. My parents are the very best, they really are. And they would do anything to protect their children. They would never be foolish enough to get caught in a situation where they both needed rescued at the same time, and if, by some completely random circumstance and several simultaneous coincidences of astronomical oddness they did happen to get into such a situation, they would never wish, or even allow us (their kids) to come to harm by trying to rescue them. And that's how most parents are, I think. That's all, no disrespect or anything meant.
Oooohh I love the idea of switching between the kids and parents, though!! It would really move the characterization along and add different voices…I may use this, Carpelibris! Good idea!!!
Thanks.Glad it helped!
So…does anybody else have issues where their writing doesn't flow–it comes out choppy and episodic? I want my stories' events to lead into each other, like a domino effect where each event effects the next (like real life), which is much more fun to read and makes the story have a flow to it (in my opinion), but I just have THE HARDEST TIME IN THE WORLD with it! How do you all work with that?
I've had that problem before too, Kenzie, I usually just try to shrug it off as much as possible and hope I can smooth it out in the editing. I guess this probably isn't very helpful, but I thought I'd mention it.
That's what revisions are for. 🙂
I've added your question to my list.


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'Bows confident despite tough losses
By Billy Hull
2015 February 15 SPT - UH Baseball - Hawaii's LJ Brewster delivers a pitch in the first inning of the Oregon vs Hawaii baseball game at Les Murakami Stadium. HSA photo by Bruce Asato
The "what if" game is an excruciating one to play for the Hawaii baseball team.
The Rainbow Warriors are 4-5 heading into their first road trip of the season that starts Thursday in Malibu, Calif., against Pepperdine (4-4).
Not only have four of those loses been by one run, but UH has had the tying run at third in the bottom of the ninth in each of those matchups, including three times with less than two outs.
UH failed to score in each of those situations.
"After having a couple of days to decompress you have a feeling of definite optimism but definite frustration," Hawaii coach Mike Trapasso said. "You're optimistic because you've shown you're capable of playing well and when you play well you can play with anybody, but it's been frustrating in that I've never been in a stretch where in a week you lose four games with the tying run on third base in the bottom of the ninth."
The team left Hawaii on Wednesday for the first of five regular-season road trips, which are the most since 2009.
Hawaii starts with four games against the Waves, who were one win away from advancing to the College World Series last year before losing to TCU in a Super Regional.
The 'Bows will stay on the mainland for four more days before competing in the Houston College Classic March 6-8 against Nebraska, No. 25 Baylor and No. 6 Houston.
"It's a little better in that it's more conventional college baseball in which you play four days then have four days off and then play three games," said Trapasso, whose team played nine games in nine days to start the season.
The taxing start didn't affect a pitching staff that held opponents to three runs or less in six of nine games.
UH's four starting pitchers have combined for a 3.47 ERA and top relievers Matt Valencia and Cody Culp have tossed 11 shutout innings, allowing only three hits in seven appearances.
Juniors L.J. Brewster and Kyle Von Ruden have done exceptionally well as the weekend starters with Brewster posting a 2.19 ERA and Von Ruden allowing only three earned runs in 11 1/3 innings. Tyler Brashears will continue to serve as the No. 1 starter with sophomore Quintin Torres-Costa the No. 2 guy. Torres-Costa has struck out 15 in 10 2/3 innings but gave up six runs to Hofstra in his last outing.
"I'm pretty comfortable with those four guys," Trapasso said. "They've all given us quality starts. Every now and then for one guy or another, an inning might get away from them but it's pretty solid overall."
The staff could get even deeper with the return of senior Jarrett Arakawa, who has a career 3.36 ERA in 225 1/3 innings.
Arakawa had his second shoulder surgery last summer but is up to 30 pitches off the mound and could see his first action next week in Texas.
He threw a bullpen session on Tuesday and will throw again on Sunday. If that goes well, he could make an appearance at Minute Maid Park.
"It's not an impossibility," Trapasso said. "He's going on this trip because he's really close to where, if he looks good, he'll start the progression of throwing to hitters."
Arakawa never fully healed from his first labrum surgery and pitched 48 1/3 innings last season despite still having a tear in his shoulder. Even with that, he went 2-1 in 10 starts with a 2.42 ERA.
"I can't say that I'm 100 percent as far as where I want to be, but I feel like I could go out and contribute," Arakawa said. "I'm dying to get back out there. Hopefully I can help out this trip."
The Waves are coming off a three-game sweep of Butler last weekend but have lost midweek games to Big West teams Long Beach State and UC Santa Barbara and dropped two of three to Tulane.
UH split a four-game series with Pepperdine last season at Les Murakami Stadium.
RAINBOW BASEBALL
In Malibu, Calif.
>> Who: Hawaii (4-5) vs. Pepperdine (4-4)
>> When: Noon Thursday and Friday; 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday
>> TV: None
>> Radio: KKEA
>> PU: RH Max Gamboa (1-0, 2.25 ERA); RH Jackson McClelland (1-0, 0.00); RH A.J. Puckett (1-1, 5.27); LH Ryan Wilson (1-0, 0.69).
>> UH: RH Tyler Brashears (1-1, 4.38); LH Quintin Torres-Costa (0-1, 5.06); RH L.J. Brewster (2-0, 2.19); RH Kyle Von Ruden (1-0, 2.38)
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83% of UK Motorcycle Accidents Happen In This Weather
Data Reveals The Type of Data That Shows When A Motorbike Accident is Most Likely To Happen
An analysis of over 100,000 UK motorcycle accidents by motorcycling outfitter Motolegends has revealed the surprising statistic that 83% of motorcycle accidents happen in fine weather with no wind. The next most common weather for accidents to occur in are rain with no wind and rain with high winds, which are some weather types more associated with road traffic accidents and delayed stopping times.
Commenting on the research findings, Sara Linney from Motolegends said: "It's no surprise to us that when the weather is better that there are more motorcycle accidents. Most of us love getting out on the open road on a clear day. Unfortunately, more people on the road means more accidents, especially if they're heading out to unfamiliar areas."
"Being on a motorcycle in wind, torrential rain and snow isn't much fun so most motorcyclists – sensibly – avoid heading out during these times, meaning less accidents. Our best advice is to only head out on a motorcycle when it's safe to do so, and to always make sure that you're wearing the right protective clothing."
Further data shows that motorcyclists are three times as likely to have an accident on a dry road surface than a wet or damp surface. Over 78,000 motorcycle accidents took place on dry roads, compared to less than 25,000 on wet or damp road surfaces.
There Are Fewer Motorbike Accidents in Snow and Fog
Despite the poorer driving conditions and safety concerns that come with snow, fog and mist, motorcyclists were far less likely to have an accident in these weather conditions. There were just 600 accidents during periods of snow, fog and mist – likely because of motorcyclists choosing to stay at home, take extra care or take alternative transport.
Less than 1,500 motorcycle accidents were recorded because of frost, ice or snow on the road during the same period, compared to more than 103,000 on dry or wet road surfaces. Flooding over 8cm accounted for just 57 motorcycle accidents in the UK since 2009
In 2020, there were just 2 motorcycle accidents due to flooding, despite the Met Office estimating that the risk of flooding has risen by as much as 20%.
What Season Do Most Motorcycle Accidents Happen In?
Motorcycle accidents are highest in May, June and July with August, September and October following. This means that summer – the most popular time for motorcyclists to be out on their bikes – is also the most likely time for accidents to occur.
The winter months of December, January and February and December are the least likely months for motorcycle accidents to occur, echoing the trends in weather.
Throughout the year, more accidents happen during the day (78,452 in total) than at night (26,475), again highlighting that there are more motorcyclists on the road in favourable conditions.
Are Motorcycle Accidents On The Rise?
2020 saw just over 1,000 motorcycle accidents on the road, almost 25% less than in the previous year and 50% less than in 2018. This follows an ongoing year-on-year reduction in motorcycle accidents, despite a growth in sales of motorcycles and search trends remaining broadly the same each year.
UK Government Road Safety Data https://data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-safety-data
UK Flood Risk - https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/understanding-climate/uk-extreme-events-_heavy-rainfall-and-floods
New Bike Sales Up On Pre-Covid Figures - https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/motorbike-sales-figures/
Google Trends for "motorbike" 2009-date - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-01-01%202021-11-11&geo=GB&q=motorbike


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Jamie Lynn Spears, Paul Butcher and Rest of 'Zoey 101' Cast 15 Years After the Series First Aired
By Pedro Marrero
Nickelodeon had one of his biggest successes in the teen TV series, and during its four-season run, it was the home and school of many young talents that have in one way or another stayed close to the industry.
"Zoey 101" made a TV star on her own right out of superstar pop singer Britney Spears' little sister Jaime Lynn Spears, even if she later opted to become a country music singer, and it gave it a boost to the careers of many young performers as well.
Rumors of a possible revival of the series with its original cast have been around for some time now, and even though some of them have teased about the possibility, nothing has been confirmed on the subject.
While we all hope for these rumors to be fact, let's take a look at what has kept this selected group of performers busy in the 12 years that have gone by since the series ended in 2008.
JAMIE LYNN SPEARS
Jamie Lynn Spears. I Image: Getty Images.
The 28-year-old actress played the title character Zoey Brooks, a multitalented and popular student at the Pacific Coast Academy (PCA) boarding school in Southern California. The show revolves around her social circle.
While Spears became very well known as an actress following her three years in the show, her 2007 pregnancy at age 16 led to her retirement from acting. She went on to pursue a music career, following her older sister Britney's steps.
SEAN FLYNN
The 30-year-old actor played Chase Matthews, the series male lead. He is Zoey's dorky best friend, who develops a secret crush for her, but decides not to do anything about it and protect the friendship.
Matthews spent 4 years away from acting after the show ended, returning in 2012 in the western "Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood." He has since appeared in films like "The Last of Robing Hood" (2013), and TV movies like "The Golden Stars" (2017).
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD
The 29-year-old actor played Logan Reese, a spoiled child from a wealthy family. He thinks of himself as a celebrity and is fond of giving away unsolicited autographed pictures of himself to girls at PCA.
Underwood appeared in his only theatrical feature film "Reality Horror Night" (2009) before appearing in the TV movies "The Magic Studio" (2017), and "The Golden Stars" (2017), and short films like "Time Hoppers" (2018) and "The Unicorn Sisters" (2019).
CHRISTOPHER MASSEY
The 29-year-old actor played Michael Barret, Logan and Chase's roommate and best friend. Along with Logan, he tries to get Chase to reveal his true feelings to Zoey. He is good at jokes, and singing, and a very loyal friend.
Massey hasn't been very active as an actor since his "Zoey 101" days, but his credits include voicing several characters in the animated film "Mary and Max" (2009) and guest-starring in "Switched at Birth" (2012), and "Accountable" (2019).
Victoria Justice. I Image: Getty Images.
The 26-year-old actress played Lola Martinez, Zoey and Nicole's roommate in seasons 2 to 4. She dreams of becoming a movie star and winning an Academy Award before turning 19.
Justice went on to land leading roles in the TV series "Victorious" (2010-2013) on which she showcased her talent as a singer, and "Eye Candy" (2015). She also starred in the films "The Outcasts" (2015), and "Bigger" (2018).
The 29-year-old actor played Quinn Pensky, one of Zoey's best friends. She is impressively intelligent for her age and spends most of her time doing science experiments that frequently go wrong.
Sanders has done a lot of TV work, landing regular roles in series like "The Young and the Restless" (2008), "Big Time Rush" (2009-2013), and "Six Degrees of Separation" (2019). On the big screen, she has been in "Model Minority" (2012), and "Limelight" (2017).
ALEXA NIKOLAS
The 27-year-old actress played Nicole Bristow, a Kansas-born student at PCA who is one of Zoey's roommates in the first two seasons. She didn't get along with former roommate Dana, but had a nicer relationship with her successor, Lola.
Nikolas has guest-starred in series like "CSI: Miami" (2008), "Supernatural" (2009), "Criminal Minds" (2010), "Lie to Me" (2011), and "The Walking Dead" (2012-2013). She was also in the films "Red State" (2011) and "Detention of the Dead" (2012).
PAUL BUTCHER
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The 25-year-old actor played Dustin Brooks, Zoey's younger brother, who is very protective and close to his sister. He is also an advanced student with a scientific-oriented mind.
Butcher went on to land regular roles in the TV series "MyMusic" (2013-2014), and "Destiny 7" (2016), apart from guest-starring in "Criminal Minds" (2009) and "Comedy Bang! Bang!" (2015). He also became a pop singer.
KRISTIN HERRERA
The 30-year-old actress played Dana Cruz, Zoey's roommate in Season 1. She is a tomboyish girl that is very talented at playing basketball. She has a strong personality that can cause her to crash with others.
After her departure from the show in 2005, Herrera continued playing Lourdes Del Torro in "General Hospital" until 2008. She was also in the films "Freedom Writers" (2007), and "Resurrection Mary" (2007).
JACK SALVATORE JR.
The 30-year-old actor played recurrent character Mark Del Figgalo, Quinn's inexpressive once boyfriend.
Salvatore appeared in a few episodes of the TV series "10 Things I Hate About You" (2009-2010), and played minor roles in films like "Stay Cool" (2009), and "Overnight" (2012). He also wrote the screenplay for the drama film "Beat the House" (2015).
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Fatal Flaw Discovered In Invisibility Carpet Cloaks
Invisibility carpets have a flaw that makes the objects they hide detectable
Emerging Technology from the arXivarchive page
In the cat and mouse game of camouflage, the extraordinary development of invisibility cloaks has surely given the mouse the upper hand in recent years. Not only have theorists dramatically developed the ideas behind these devices, but others have built and tested the cloaks themselves. The world of camouflage will never look the same.
Today, the cats fight back by revealing how to detect the presence of an invisibility cloak and to discover the object it hides.
Invisibility cloaks hide objects by steering light around them so that the objects cannot be seen by an observer. The trick is to build a material that steers light in this way.
That turns out to be be extremely hard, partly because the optical properties of these materials has to change from one point to another in a way that achieves this steering, a property known as optical anisotropy. Because of this, the first invisibility cloaks had to be handbuilt and even then managed only to cloak a flat object in two dimensions at a single wavelength of microwave light. Nobody could really imagine how this approach could be made to work on the much smaller scale required for visible light nor over a range of frequencies.
Then a couple of years ago, John Pendry, the theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who has been the intellectual driving force in this field, came up with another approach: the carpet cloak.
The idea was that a layer of dielectric material on a surface could bend light in a way that made it look as if the light were reflecting off the original surface. In other words, this extra layer would be invisible, so anything contained within it would be invisible too.
This technique works for visible light at a wide range of frequencies. What's more, said Pendry, materials that could do this could be entirely uniform–isotropic rather than anisotropic–and so would be much easier to make.
With this one idea, the dream of optical invisibility cloaks came within reach and on this blog, we followed the way this idea evolved from theory to practical devices in just a few months.
Since then, Baile Zhang and buddies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, have been busy looking for the weak point in this idea and now think they've found it. Today, they point out that carpet cloaks have a flaw that makes the objects within them detectable.
The problem, they say, is that isotropic cloaks cannot work perfectly. Here's why. Light can be thought of as a series of wavefronts each with a certain amount of energy. Ordinarily, the direction of energy propagation is at right angles to these wavefronts.
However, in an invisibility cloak, this perpendicular relationship becomes distorted as the light waves are steered. That's what an anisotropic material does. But an isotropic material cannot do this–the energy always propagates at right angles to the wavefronts. This limitation means that isotropic materials cannot hide objects in the way Pendry suggests.
Zhang and co go on to prove their assertion by tracing a ray that passes through the kind of isotropic carpet cloak that Pendry suggested. What they've discovered will shock carpet cloakers all over the world.
According to Zhang and buddies, carpet cloaks don't hide objects, they merely shift them to one side by an amount that is just a bit less than they are high. Crucially the effect depends on the angle at which you are looking. So when illuminated at an angle of 45 degrees, an object 0.2 units tall appears laterally shifted by 0.15 units.
If Zhang and co are correct, this could be a substantial blow for isotropic carpet cloaking. It means that the carpet cloaking effect has a limited angle of view.
Look from directly above and an object can be perfectly hidden, you don't need a carpet cloak for that, just conventional camouflage. The question is how far from the perpendicular can you go before an isotropic optical carpet cloak gives you away.
So in the invisibility wars, this battle goes to the cats. Of course, the mice will be back with a new and improved carpet cloak that gets around this problem. One obvious way out is to make the carpet anisotropic, in other words to vary its structure so that it properly steers light around the object.
Seconds out, round two.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1004.2551: Lateral Shift Makes Ground-Plane Cloak Detectable
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv


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Zimbabwe's Mugabe will now be buried in hometown
The family of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has said he will now be buried in his hometown of Zvimba following a row with the government.
The body of Mr. Mugabe aged 95 has not been buried after his funeral was held on September, 14 because of the row over his resting place.
The Zimbabwean government had insisted that the remains of the ex-President be interred at the Heroes Acre – a national monument and burial ground.
But the family has opposed the decision, insisting that was not the wish of Mr. Mugabe.
Although the Mugabe family subsequently softened its stance after it was agreed that a mausoleum would be built for the former leader, the government has now backtracked.
In a statement published on Thursday, Information Minister Nick Mangwana said the change was in line with policy "to respect the wishes of families of deceased heroes".
Mugabe who ruled for almost four decades died in Singapore in September while receiving treatment for cancer.
He led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980 and ruled the country for 37 years until he resigned in November 2017.
Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe since it's independence until 2017.
Robert Mugabe first served as prime minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as president from 1987 to 2017.
Source: Africafeeds.com
Robert Mugabe finally buried in hometown of Kutama
In "Africa"
Mugabe's remains received in his Zimbabwe home village
Family accepts to bury Mugabe at Zimbabwe Heroes' Acre
Categories: Africa, Southern Africa, World, Zimbabwe
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require 'spec_helper'

describe 'Mapper definition DSL' do
  let(:setup) { ROM.setup(:memory) }
  let(:rom)   { ROM.finalize.env   }

  before do
    setup.relation(:lists)

    setup.default.dataset(:lists).insert(
      list_id: 1,
      list_tasks: [
        { user: 'Jacob', task_id: 1, task_title: 'be nice'    },
        { user: 'Jacob', task_id: 2, task_title: 'sleep well' }
      ]
    )
  end

  describe 'step' do
    let(:mapped) { rom.relation(:lists).as(:lists).to_a }

    it 'applies transformations one by one' do
      setup.mappers do
        define(:lists) do
          step do
            prefix 'list'
            attribute :id
            unfold :tasks
          end

          step do
            unwrap :tasks do
              attribute :task_id
              attribute :name, from: :user
              attribute :task_title
            end
          end

          step do
            group :tasks do
              prefix 'task'
              attribute :id
              attribute :title
            end
          end

          step do
            wrap :user do
              attribute :name
              attribute :tasks
            end
          end
        end
      end

      expect(mapped).to eql [
        {
          id: 1,
          user: {
            name: 'Jacob',
            tasks: [
              { id: 1, title: 'be nice'    },
              { id: 2, title: 'sleep well' }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    end

    it 'applies settings from root' do
      setup.mappers do
        define(:lists) do

          prefix 'list'

          step do
            attribute :id
            attribute :tasks
          end
        end
      end

      expect(mapped).to eql [
        {
          id: 1,
          tasks: [
            { user: 'Jacob', task_id: 1, task_title: 'be nice'    },
            { user: 'Jacob', task_id: 2, task_title: 'sleep well' }
          ]
        }
      ]
    end

    it 'cannot precede attributes' do
      setup.mappers do
        define(:lists) do
          step do
            unfold :tasks, from: :list_tasks
          end
          attribute :id, from: :list_id
        end
      end

      expect { rom }.to raise_error ROM::MapperMisconfiguredError
    end

    it 'cannot succeed attributes' do
      setup.mappers do
        define(:lists) do
          attribute :id, from: :list_id
          step do
            unfold :tasks, from: :list_tasks
          end
        end
      end

      expect { rom }.to raise_error ROM::MapperMisconfiguredError
    end
  end
end

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Motorfyrskib No. II – latarniowiec o kadłubie z klepek dębowych obitych blachą miedzianą, napędzany dwucylindrowym silnikiem dwusuwowym, zwodowany w Danii w 1916. Pełnił służbę pływającego znaku żeglugowego przy jutlandzkich portach. Jednostka była malowana w kolory duńskiej flagi: na czerwonym kadłubie wymalowano podłużny biały pas biegnący wzdłuż, przecięty na śródokręciu pionowym białym pasem. Zasięg światła wynosił 11 Mm, w latach 1917–1969 statek nosił różne nazwy, następnie był pływającą restauracją. W 2009 zatonął przy nabrzeżu dawnej Stoczni Gdańskiej, skąd został wydobyty w grudniu 2018.

Kalendarium i zmiany nazwy
 1917–1920 statek nosił nazwę "Gilleleje Flak N", stacjonował przy porcie w Gilleleje.
 1920–1927 jako "Graadyb" zakotwiczony na podejściu do portu w Esbjergu.
 1927–1930 "Horns-Rev" na płyciźnie Horns Rev.
 1930–1939 pod nazwą "Vyl" na akwenie Vyl, 40 km na zachód od portu w Esbjergu.
 1946–1947 jako "SW-1" zakotwiczony 40 km na zachód od portu Thyborøn.
 1947–1969 ponownie nazwany "Vyl" powrócił na obszar Vyl.
 1978 statek został zakupiony przez klub żeglarski Dragrr Sailing Club, pełnił funkcję statku klubowego.
 1985 jednostkę nabył Arp Hansen, który przebudował ją na pływającą restaurację, zacumowaną w pobliżu Nyhavn Hotel w Kopenhadze.
 koniec lat 90. – właścicielem został Jorgen Olsen, dalsza kontynuacja funkcji restauracyjnej do 2005.
 29 września 2006 statek rozpoczął podróż na holu do Gdańska, dokąd przybył 2 października. W stoczni został umieszczony w suchym doku, gdzie kadłub poddano remontowi.
 16 września 2009 statek przycumowany przy nabrzeżu spółki Drewnica Development zatonął, ale wkrótce został podniesiony.
 3 listopada 2009 ponownie zatonął w basenie dawnej Stoczni Gdańskiej.
 6 grudnia 2018 statek został wydobyty z dna; jego dalsze przeznaczenie jest aktualnie nieznane.

Podobną jednostką jest zbudowany w 1912 Horns Rev (Motorfyrskib No. I), stojący w prywatnym muzeum (Museumsfyrskib) w porcie w Esbjerg w południowej Danii. Jest on najstarszym na świecie, największym i najlepiej zachowanym statkiem latarniowym.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Centralne Muzeum Morskie w Gdańsku
 Lighthouse Explorer
 Pozycja wraku na popiasku.pl

Latarniowce
Statki z XX wieku

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Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word roaring.
"flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.
A term applied to the noise sometimes produced in a voltaic arc, when the electrodes are close together and a heavy current is passing.
We need it back to keep Ebola from roaring back.
The sea was roaring in, flooding the entire main deck.
Justin Bieber is no longer a fan of the roaring masses.
People are worried crude production will come roaring back at these prices.
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Rolling the Dice/ Gambling
Wynn-Walsh meeting called positive
Wynn drops $62m on 1m shares of Wynn Resorts
By Bruce Mohl	Casinos	0 Comments Dec 8, 2015
LAS VEGAS CASINO DEVELOPER STEVE WYNN held a "positive and helpful" meeting with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Tuesday about his Everett casino proposal and then announced late in the day that he had spent about $62 million of his own money purchasing 1 million shares of his company's stock over the last few days.
Wynn's stock purchases between Friday and Tuesday brought his holdings in Wynn Resorts to just over 11 million shares, or about 11 percent of the total. At yesterday's closing price of $61.80, those shares are worth about $684 million. In after-hours trading, the stock price started climbing, and was up about 10 percent at one point.
Wynn's stock purchases come at a time when the company is facing declining sales at its casino in Macau and a several-month delay in the planned opening of a second casino in the Chinese city. The stock's 52-week high is $160.41 and its $52-week low is $50.96. Net revenues for the third quarter ending Sept. 30 were $996.3 million, off 27 percent from the same period a year ago because of a nearly 38 percent decline in revenues from the company's Macau operations. Revenues were off nearly 4 percent at the firm's Las Vegas properties.
Bruce Mohl
Editor, CommonWealth
E-mail @BruceMohl
About Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine. Bruce came to CommonWealth from the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe's State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe's Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state's pension system. He served as the Globe's political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper. At CommonWealth, Bruce helped launch the magazine's website and has written about a wide range of issues with a special focus on politics, tax policy, energy, and gambling. Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Dorchester.
The meeting with Walsh took place five days after Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders dismissed a complaint brought by the city of Boston against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The complaint sought to overturn the Gaming Commission's award of a casino license to Wynn Resorts. Walsh has insisted the proposed Everett casino is partially located in Boston and he wants Charlestown residents, who would be affected by traffic around the casino, to be able to vote up or down on whether they want the facility to get built.
Walsh has not said whether the city will appeal the judge's ruling, but his comments to reporters on Friday suggested he was ready to move on and work more cooperatively with the Las Vegas company. If that were to happen, it would bring to a close a long and bitter battle full of accusations by both sides. Wynn, in fact, has filed a libel suit that is targeting city officials.
Wynn Resorts wants to build a $1.7 billion casino on a stretch of polluted land along the Mystic River in Everett. Wynn spokesman Michael Weaver described the meeting between Walsh and Wynn as "positive and helpful," but otherwise declined comment. City officials also had little to say.
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The Return of the State? French Economic Policy under Nicolas Sarkozy
33 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last revised: 2 Sep 2010
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Jonah Levy
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2011
Date Written: 2010
France would seem to be a prime candidate for a vigorous state response to the economic crisis. The country has a long tradition of dirigiste or state-led economic development and its President, Nicolas Sarkozy has been an outspoken critic of laissez-faire capitalism and proponent of more robust regulation. Following the 2008 financial meltdown, the Sarkozy administration announced a series of statist initiatives, ranging from fiscal stimulus, to industrial policy, to financial and economic regulation. Yet this paper will show that the reality of France's response to the crisis has fallen well short of the statist rhetoric. The government has committed few additional resources, displayed little inclination to steer business strategies, and balked at issuing regulations in the absence of pan-European coordination. This paper argues that Sarkozy's neo-statist initiatives have been largely checked by the legacies of shifts in French economic policy a quarter-century ago. In particular, the break with the dirigiste model in 1983 has deprived French authorities of many of the institutions and instruments associated with state-led development, while the massive expansion of social and labor market programs that eased the movement away from dirigisme has left the government without the fiscal capacity to launch expensive new promotional policies. The broader lesson is that a country's response to crisis is shaped by long-term structural factors, not just short-term political calculations, and that even when neo-liberalism is widely believed to have failed, a statist response must be forged, not simply presumed.
Keywords: France, economic policy, state, political economy, French economy
Levy, Jonah, The Return of the State? French Economic Policy under Nicolas Sarkozy (2010). APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1644667
Jonah Levy (Contact Author)
University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science ( email )
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Q: How to set an object null if all of its fields are null? How to set an object null if all of its fields are null?
De-serializing
Gson gson = new Gson();
DetailUser detailUser = gson.fromJson(json, DetailUser.class);

DetailUser where disconnect should be null if all of its fields are null
public class DetailUser {
    String email;
    Integer age;
    Disconnect disconnect;
}

Disconnect
public class Disconnect {
    String text;
    String beginning;
    String end;
}

JSON by which disconnect should be null
{
    "email":"test@test.test",
    "age":33,
    "disconnect":{}
}

JSON by which disconnect should not be null
{
    "email":"test@test.test",
    "age":33,
    "disconnect":{
                  "text":"test",
                  "beginning":"test",
                  "end":"test"
                 }
}

I expect detailUser.getDisconnect()==null to be true but get false when Disconnect fields (text, beginning, end) are all null.

A: Your problem is that there is a Disconnect object in your json that has all its fields null. Gson is working as it should but if you want to have Disconnect to be null whenever its all fields are null you have some options.
One option  is to create custom JsonDeserializer, like:
public class NullAdapter implements JsonDeserializer<Disconnect> {
    @Override
    public Disconnect deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT,
                JsonDeserializationContext context)
            throws JsonParseException {
        Disconnect dc = new Gson().fromJson(json, typeOfT);
        // Here you decide the criteria in which case to return the Disconnect or null
        // I decided that if any of its fields is not null it is neither null
        if (dc.beginning != null || dc.text != null || dc.end != null) {
            return dc;
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Test it by registering with GsonBuilder():
@Test
public void test() {
    DetailUser du = new GsonBuilder()
            .registerTypeAdapter(Disconnect.class, new NullAdapter())
            .create()
            .fromJson(**YOUR_NULL_JSON**, DetailUser.class);
    assertNull(du.disconnect);
}

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