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One Order Of 'Epistemic Closure,' Please, With a Little Bias On the Side
Matthew Vadum
Should reporters who believe that most of America is stupid and insane be in the journalism business? Let's consider the question.
Take left-wing journalist Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic. He's not bad at his job. His insights are often worthwhile and occasionally wise. Yet Ambinder sometimes writes things so foolish that one might expect to read them at the leftist propaganda site Media Matters for America.
His latest adventure in pseudo-intellectual self-absorption passing for journalistic analysis is, "Have Conservatives Gone Mad?" It brims with elitist condescension.
Ambinder observes that:
Serious thinkers on the right have finally gotten around to a full and open debate on the epistemic closure problem that's plaguing the conservative movement.
The issue, to put it in terms that even I can understand, because I didn't study philosophy much in college: has the conservative base gone mad?
This matters to journalists, because I really do want to take Republicans seriously. Mainstream conservative voices are embracing theories that are, to use Julian Sanchez's phrase, "untethered" to the real world.
Let's dissect this masturbatory nonsense that Jonah Goldberg correctly labels "self-serving twaddle."
This phrase, epistemic closure, apparently began infecting the blogosphere after leaping half-formed from the fertile imagination of Julian Sanchez, a very bright, excellent policy wonk and a blogger of some renown who claims to be a libertarian. (I had always thought the correct philosophy word was epistemological, but what do I know.)
But Sanchez's isn't always right and he frequently writes things that make no sense. This is one of those occasions. It's not always easy to divine what exactly Sanchez means because he often writes like an academic trying too hard to impress, dancing around points, using nuance and qualifications so often that meaning is sucked right out of whole paragraphs, and never quite saying things directly.
In using the phrase "epistemic closure," Sanchez seems to be saying that the conservative "mediasphere" is paranoid and suffering from a kind of Obama Derangement Syndrome that prevents its members from thinking rationally. This "mediasphere," indeed the whole conservative movement, is insulated from reality and won't tolerate outside ideas that challenge its core values and perceptions. It treats new information as threatening and closes ranks when challenged.
It seems to be a fancy, all-too-complicated way of saying conservatives are stupid, emotional, and wrong – and if I am misinterpreting Sanchez's writings, it's not my fault. Garbage in, garbage out.
Sanchez's writings on the topic he invented have given rise to what amounts to a circular firing squad of conservatives and libertarians, sucked into a pointless debate. Those intellectuals alleged to be on the right (e.g. Jim Manzi, Megan McArdle, and Bruce Bartlett) who argue that the right suffers from epistemic closure display the same sort of elitist condescension toward the right that one typically sees on the left. Right-wingers yelling at other right-wingers while the Obama administration quite literally dismantles the American republic. They must be popping the champagne corks at Media Matters and the New York Times!
Taking his cue from Sanchez, Ambinder then slicks back his hair, dons his Fonzie jacket and water skis and jumps the shark:
Can anyone deny that the most trenchant and effective criticism of President Obama today comes not from the right but from the left? Rachel Maddow's grilling of administration economic officials. Keith Olbermann's hectoring of Democratic leaders on the public option. Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of Elena Kagan. Ezra Klein and Jonathan Cohn's keepin'-them-honest perspectives on health care. The civil libertarian left on detainees and Gitmo. The Huffington Post on derivatives.
Where to begin? Yes, it is easy to deny that "the most trenchant and effective criticism of President Obama today comes not from the right but from the left," but not when rose-colored glasses have been welded to one's skull.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is a profoundly dishonest broadcaster whose (deliberately?) superficial analysis of the ACORN undercover video saga seems calculated to help the embattled, hopelessly corrupt left-wing shakedown group. With her pleasing Mary Poppins demeanor, Maddow routinely uses evidence selectively and demonizes the right.
As for the others: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is ridiculous, Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com believes every right-winger is a war-criminal-in-waiting, Ezra Klein is a reliably leftist shill in the policy arena, the civil-libertarian left doesn't give a farthing's cuss about defending America, and the Huffington Post is reflexively opposed to just about anything that's good for America. (I regret to say I'm not familiar with Jonathan Cohn's work.)
Apparently unable to understand perspectives he doesn't agree with, Ambinder writes
I want to find Republicans to take seriously, but it is hard. Not because they don't exist – serious Republicans – but because, as Sanchez and others seem to recognize, they are marginalized, even self-marginalizing, and the base itself seems to have developed a notion that bromides are equivalent to policy-thinking, and that therapy is a substitute for thinking.
One has to wonder just how hard Ambinder has been looking.
The conservative movement and Republican Party are filled with intelligent, thoughtful commentators such as Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, David Harsanyi, Phil Kerpen, Christopher Horner, Fred Smith, Grover Norquist, Star Parker, Hugh Hewitt, George Will, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, and (yes) Ted Nugent.
Throw a Nerf football out at a Tea Party rally and you'll hit a serious thinker on the right. They're everywhere. Just because they didn't all graduate from Harvard, as Ambinder did, doesn't mean they shouldn't be taken seriously.
And what about Ambinder's insulting accusation that the Republican base can only spew "bromides"? Sounding like a less thoughtful, whinier version of the iconic leftist thinker Noam Chomsky who similarly moans about the overlap of news and entertainment, Ambinder sneers:
It is absolutely a condition of the age of the triumph of conservative personality politics, where entertainers shouting slogans are taken seriously as political actors, and where the incentive structures exist to stomp on dissent and nuance, causing experimental voices to retrench and allowing a lot of people to pretend that the world around them is not changing. The obsession with ACORN, Climategate, death panels, the militarization of rhetoric, Saul Alinsky, Chicago-style politics, that taxpayers will fund the bailout of banks – these aren't meaningful or interesting or even relevant things to focus on. (The banks will fund their own bailouts.)
Here's a cliché for Ambinder that will no doubt make him cringe: If he can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen. Some people use a kind of shorthand and reduce these ideas to epithets or catchy slogans. So what? That doesn't mean those people don't understand the underlying issues.
The issues Ambinder lists (e.g. ACORN, Climategate, death panels, Alinsky, Chicago hardball politics, and bank bailouts) are for the most part valid concerns that worry large segments of the population. Only a left-winger or a nihilist would say they don't matter.
These are not concerns limited to the right, which helps to explain why a growing number of self-identified progressives, Democrats, and Independents are embracing a nationwide movement in favor of limited government.
Americans are concerned about ACORN because it is a corrupt, radical organization founded by dangerous America-hating 1960s leftists that sucks at the public teat and whose former employee is now president of the United States. If anything, Americans don't care enough about ACORN and the institutional corruption and moral decay it both represents and espouses.
Americans are concerned about Climategate because the documents released in the scandal tend to point to an organized conspiracy attempting to defraud the entire world by pushing the false notion that human beings are warming the planet and can reverse this alleged warming. Americans are concerned because they are constantly bombarded with propaganda by the mainstream media that asserts that only economy-crippling carbon controls can save the planet. Americans know that the media has been lying to them.
Americans are concerned about so-called death panels because ObamaCare mandates them. No, there is no tribunal that explicitly sentences the sick and the elderly to be put on ice floes, but government panels are going to be empowered to ration care. That means matters that ought to be decided by free people trading voluntarily in the marketplace will be decided by politicians and bureaucrats. You better hope your disease has a good lobby in Congress.
Americans are using tough, even harsh rhetoric because they have a well-founded fear that they are losing their country to radicals hell-bent on transforming America into a European-style socialist state. Sure, they sometimes go overboard, but it's nothing compared to the rhetorical excesses that emanated from the left during the presidency of George W. Bush. Remember that leftists made a critically acclaimed movie in 2006 about the assassination of President Bush called Death of a President.
Americans are concerned that the thug tactics of Chicago politics combined with the guerilla tactics of the Marxist Machiavelli, Saul Alinsky — author of Rules for Radicals, and inspiration to radical left-wing community organizers everywhere — have found their way into the Oval Office. They're right to be worried.
Ambinder can choose to disagree that ACORN, Climategate, death panels, Alinsky, Chicago hardball politics, and bank bailouts are important issues, but how dare he say that those who do consider them important issues are crazy. That doesn't pass the smell test.
Ambinder should find a new profession because he's doing a disservice to the American public if he continues in journalism, given his contempt for the majority of Americans.
Perhaps there's a teaching position open at Harvard.
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Q: how does a 3D modeler (such as blender) pick the vertex that you click on? If you click on the model viewer in a 3D Modeler (such as blender or max), it will select the vertex that the mouse was over or near. How does it know which one to use efficiently? How can it use a lasso tool or circle tool efficiently? Does it use screen space  co-ordinates for the vertices or does it use simple ray tracing?
I am trying to make a simple 3D model tool (for fun) and i can't imagine how a circle tool would work. How can it pick the nearest vertex to the mouse co- ordinates without a sort?

A: There are a lot of ways to approach this problem.

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*If you have only several thousands of vertexes, it can be very fast to just iterate over all of them.

*If you are just clicking on a vertex (or other object) in one of the views, then you can render the scene into another buffer using a different "color" for each object in the scene.  To figure out which object you clicked on, you just have to read the color from that pixel.

*In other circumstances, you can store the vertex data in a spatial index such as an octree.
Remember: Blender is open-source, so you can just read the source code if you want to find out how Blender does it.

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Police have said that the job is for Northamptonshire residents who are interested in the levels of safety and customer care offered by local pubs, clubs or bars, who have a good eye for detail, and who would be able to spare an hour or more a fortnight.
Volunteers are also needed to act as mystery shoppers to help improve services for victims across the county.
As well as being Northamptonshire residents aged over 18, applicants must be able to follow an improvised script, be impartial and have a keen interest in the quality of services on offer to victims and witnesses of crime.
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The Summit, now in its 12th year, is a gathering of top business leaders and government decision-makers at the UCLA Anderson School of Business. Industry and Government leaders will address topics of pressing concern to Southern California's economy, including local job creation, transit oriented development, and global competitiveness. Previous participants have included U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, L.A. Mayor Hahn, and executives from Fortune 500 companies.
This year's Summit will feature the release of a new UCLA report examining the serious economic threat posed by the region's shortage of workforce housing, and proposing novel solutions that incorporate forward-thinking public policy changes and a new approach to integrating the region's growing transit system.
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Industry Reacts To Facebook's LiveRail Buy
by Tyler Loechner @mp_tyler, July 3, 2014
With its LiveRail acquisition, Facebook has set itself well up to compete with Google and AOL -- two of the largest Internet companies and leaders in the programmatic space -- when it comes to digital video advertising.
LiveRail reached 37.2% of the U.S. population in May, third behind BrightRoll (51.3%) and Specific Media (44.4%), according to comScore's May 2014 U.S. online video rankings. That was slightly ahead of AOL (35%) and Google (34.1%). LiveRail has been third behind BrightRoll and Specific Media since February 2014. AOL was ahead of LiveRail in January 2014.
Facebook's desire to be more competitive in the video ad market did not come cheap. TechCrunch has reported that Facebook paid between $400 and $500 million to buy LiveRail, which would make it one of the priciest ad tech acquisitions we've seen to date.
In addition, LiveRail was expected to go public at some point in the next six months. It would have been the second supply-side ad tech company to hit the public market, following Rubicon Project.
Real-Time Daily reached out to ad tech and video industry experts to hear some initial reactions to Facebook's power play.
Mike Shehan, founder, CEO and president of SpotXchange -- which was sixth on comScore's May 2014 list with a reach of 32.6% -- said: "We want to congratulate LiveRail on their acquisition by Facebook, and believe the collaboration between these two companies will have a huge impact on how data is used in digital video. This news is very significant for our industry in several ways. First and foremost, it validates that the video sector continues to be a top driver of growth within online advertising."
David Burch, senior director of global communications at TubeMogul, which was seventh on comScore's list with 31.3% reach (note: TubeMogul is on the buy-side, not the sell-side), also weighed in.
"We first partnered with LiveRail back in 2011 and are the largest buyer on their exchange according to their CEO. We've been assured that our existing integration and partnership with LiveRail won't change with this acquisition; if anything, our relationship will strengthen. We believe that the main reason our partnership with LiveRail is so fruitful is because we serve different masters -- LiveRail helps publishers while we're beholden to brands. This creates a sense of balance and trust for brands and publishers alike that is missing from the market today, where many companies are a one-stop shop and are trying to take money from all sides."
BrightRoll CEO and founder Tod Sacerdoti believes the news "reinforces the importance of video to marketers and publishers globally."
"As brands and agencies invest more in sight, sound, and motion, buyers and sellers of digital media are realizing the need to have a dedicated video strategy in place along with the technology to enable it."
According to a Facebook newsroom post announcing the acquisition, Facebook has a similar line of thinking. Facebook's VP of ads product marketing and Atlas wrote in the newsroom post: "More relevant ads will be more interesting and engaging to people watching online video, and more effective for marketers too."
Victor Milligan, chief marketing officer at Nexage, says the acquisition is significant for mobile advertisers, given Facebook's mobile-first strategy.
"The acquisition affirms what we know in mobile advertising -- that video, and rich media for that matter, are core to brands embracing mobile." Nexage recently reported that video was the fastest-growing vertical in terms of inventory growth on mobile; 516% more mobile video ads were available for programmatic buying in Q1 2014 compared to Q1 2013.
"Without doubt, they will soon represent the majority creative," Milligan added.
Bertrand Quesada, CEO of Ebuzzing, a video ad platform, thinks the news is an "obvious indicator" that Facebook wants to expand its online video presence. "They have made serious investments into video in the past, and buying LiveRail -- with its programmatic and targeting capabilities -- was a logical next step to advance Facebook's own technology."
Quesada is also curious how LiveRail's existing publisher clients will react to the news. "The implications of this move for LiveRail's premium publishers remain to be seen, but publishers tend to be very conscious about third-party access to their data. When Google acquired ad optimization platform Admeld back in 2011, Admeld lost all its big publishers because Google would have access to their data."
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Bobby Campbell from Adkarma, July 7, 2014 at 10:12 a.m.
This points to the trend that video is going to continue its explosive growth and move to the center of the digital advertising universe. Congradulations to Liverail, and congrats to Facebook for a smart move.
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A Historical Verdict Women Officers soon to fly IAF JETS by 2017
24 Oct A Historical Verdict Women Officers soon to fly IAF JETS by 2017
Posted at 19:25h in AFCAT, SSB selected candidates by Nirmal Dhaliwal 0 Comments
women to be allowed to fly as fighter pilots in iaf
In a remarkable decision, by the government on Saturday it has given the green light to the induction of women into the fighting arms of the Indian Air Force (IAF). The accord will lead to the introduction of women fighter pilots into the Indian Air Force. Defence ministry representative Sitanshu Kar issued an statement which talked about the introduction of the women will soon begin from the current bunch. Air chief Marshal Arup Raha had on October 8 talked about the idea for such an introduction was being talked with the defence ministry and that a finding was anticipated. The first women officer to get into the fighter pilot cockpit might be seen by June 2017.
The Ministry of Defence has agreed to the introduction of the women into the Fighter (Combat) force of the IAF. This forward looking march is in keeping with the ambitions of the Indian women and is in line with present day trends in Armed Forces in case of developed nations," a statement by defence ministry spokesperson Kar said. The ministry gave explanation regarding its quick decision giving example of that the accomplishment of the women pilots in helicopters and transport branches has been noteworthy with accordance with their male counterparts. "Introduction of women into the fighter branch would accord them with equal opportunity to prove their skill and steel in combat arms as well," the defence ministry in his statement quoted.
The introduction of the women will begin from the current batch undergoing training of women officers at Air Force Academy (Secunderabad). "After fruitful culmination of the ab-initio training, they would be joining in the fighter branch by June 2016. Thereafter, they would endure advanced training for one year and hence they would enter the fighter pilot cockpit by June 2017," the statement said.
Presently, the Army has been enlisting women officers in the cores such as Engineers, Signals,, Army Aviation (Air Traffic Control), Army Air Defence, ASC, Ordinance, Intelligence, medical and education corps of the service. While the Indian Air Force has been enlisting women into the transport and helicopter branches, the verdict makes way for career opportunities for women officers in all the streams of the Indian Air Force. The declaration said that a all inclusive review of introduction of women in short service as well as permanent commission has been initiated.
The decision is a remarkable decision by the IAF, to allow the females into flying jets.
We have seen nowdays women candidates are much more focused than, male counterparts. We are also proud to have produced India's First Flying Officer late Harita Deol and twins sisters to get through GDO(c). Hope to see more concessions for the women soon ..
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Q: Group by with different select Nhibernate I want to do this SQL query in Nhibernate QueryOver:
SELECT id FROM tb_example
GROUP BY id, name
ORDER BY name

What I tried:
1) I added a .Select in SelectList trying to override the select of SelectGroup but no success
var query = session.QueryOver<Person>()
                   .SelectList(list => list
                   .Select(p => p.Id)
                   .SelectGroup(p => p.Id)
                   .SelectGroup(p => p.Name));
query = query.OrderBy(p => p.Name).Asc;

Generated SQL with query:
SELECT id, id, name FROM tb_example
GROUP BY id, name
ORDER BY name

2) Using query in results of another query. Like this:
SELECT id
FROM
  (SELECT id, name FROM tb_example
  GROUP BY id, name
  ORDER BY name)

But I don't know how to create a query of results from another query.
var groupByQuery = session.QueryOver<Person>()
                       .SelectList(list => list
                       .SelectGroup(p => p.Id)
                       .SelectGroup(p => p.Name));
var query = session.QueryOver<?????>();

How can I do this? Thanks!

A: Simplest solution I know is:
var query = session
  .QueryOver<Person>()
  .SelectList(list => list
    .SelectGroup(p => p.Id)
    .SelectGroup(p => p.Name));
query = query.OrderBy(p => p.Name).Asc;
query.List().Select(x => (int)x[0]).ToList();

A: Can you try below example
  var groupByQuery =   (from p
        in this.Session.Query<Person>()
        group p by new { Id= p.Id, Name= p.Name}
        into g
        select p).ToList();


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Mine explosion indictment brings some solace to workers' families
After the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion in April 2010, a drilling operation attempts to rescue miners thought to be trapped. Twenty-nine were killed in the disaster.
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By David Zucchino
In the months before shift foreman Dean Jones died in a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia in April 2010, Judy Petersen recalls, her brother complained to his family about persistent ventilation violations.
Petersen, a West Virginia physician, is one of dozens of family members of 29 miners killed in the disaster who have long demanded that the mine's owners be held responsible.
This week, more than four years after the explosion at a mine cited for repeated safety violations, Donald L. Blankenship, the former chief executive of the company that operated the Upper Big Branch, was indicted on federal charges that he conspired to cover up deadly safety violations.
The indictment represented a watershed moment in West Virginia, where mining interests have dominated state politics and for years have beaten back attempts at tougher safety and environmental regulations. Mine owners have paid fines for safety violations but rarely have faced serious criminal charges.
Conspiracy and false-statement charges against Blankenship, the longtime chief executive at Massey Energy Co., have brought a measure of solace to families of the miners who died. But Petersen and other survivors also say safety violations continue to be tolerated by other mine owners in the pursuit of coal profits. Mine safety violations for West Virginia were unavailable Friday. But the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued more than 7,000 notices nationwide this year for coal dust and ventilation violations at underground coal mines.
"We're elated by this indictment," Petersen said Friday. "We pray Don Blankenship goes to prison."
A 43-page federal indictment, handed down Wednesday in Charleston, W.Va., accused Blankenship of conspiring to "commit and cause" hundreds of safety violations "in order to produce more coal, avoid the cost of following safety laws and make more money." The four-count indictment charged Blankenship with concocting an elaborate warning system of coded messages to alert mine foremen of impending safety inspections.
After the disaster, the indictment says, Blankenship made false statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission and others about mine safety practices. He faces 31 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
"It's an important day for many, many families in the central Appalachian coal fields," said Bruce Stanley, a lawyer who has battled Blankenship in court for years on behalf of miners' families. "For the first time in my memory, the CEO of a major coal producer is being held criminally accountable for the atrocious conduct that occurred on his watch."
William Taylor, an attorney representing Blankenship, said in a statement: "Mr. Blankenship is entirely innocent of these charges. He will fight them and he will be acquitted." Taylor called Blankenship "a tireless advocate for mine safety."
Blankenship, who invoked his 5th Amendment rights and refused to answer questions from federal or state investigators, has defended his record at Massey. "If they put me behind bars ... it will be political," he wrote in a 2013 blog post.
Blankenship, who retired several months after the explosion, has been a powerful political force in the state and a reliable Republican campaign contributor. He was reviled by environmentalists for his anti-regulation stand and accused by the families of some miners at Upper Big Branch of directly causing their deaths.
Blankenship's indictment triggered searing statements by some miners and politicians in West Virginia, where the Upper Big Branch explosion, the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in 40 years, is still a volatile issue.
U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) issued a sharply worded statement condemning Blankenship's stewardship at Massey: "As he goes to trial, he will be treated far fairer and with more dignity than he ever treated the miners he employed. And, frankly, it's more than he deserves."
Cecil E. Roberts, president of United Mine Workers of America, said 52 miners died working at Massey mines while Blankenship led the company.
"For coal miners, working for Massey meant putting your life and your limbs at risk," Roberts said in a statement.
Blankenship directed "a conspiracy to impede and hinder federal mine safety officials from carrying out their duties at Upper Big Branch ... so their underground operations could conceal and cover up safety violations that they routinely committed," U.S. Atty. Booth Goodwin in Charleston said in a statement.
The indictment said Blankenship continued to actively undermine safety conditions at the mine even after receiving hundreds of reports and violation notices outlining serious safety shortcomings, including ventilation systems.
"Blankenship could have drastically reduced violations of mandatory federal safety standards ... by taking reasonable steps to follow the law," the indictment said.
It also said that Blankenship pressured managers at Upper Big Branch to ignore safety regulations and instead focus on maximizing production. In a memo to one Upper Big Branch manager in 2008, Blankenship ordered him to "run some coal," the indictment said. Blankenship added: "We'll worry about ventilation or other issues at an appropriate time. Now is not the time."
In March 2006, the indictment said, Blankenship sent a mine manager two handwritten notes accusing him of "insufficient attention to cost-cutting."
"You have a kid to feed. Do your job," one note said. When the manager failed to raise coal production to levels Blankenship demanded, the indictment said, he was warned in another note, "I could Khrushchev you. Do you understand?"
The 2010 explosion was caused by safety violations that prompted coal dust and methane to ignite, according to a 2011 report by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
The investigation found "multiple examples of systematic, intentional and aggressive efforts by Massey to avoid compliance with safety and health standards, and to thwart detection of that noncompliance by federal and state regulators." The report said Massey intimidated miners who sought to report safety violations by threatening to fire them.
Alpha Natural Resources, which bought Massey for $7.12 billion in 2011, said Thursday that Blankenship was never employed by Alpha. "We can only hope that the outcome of the upcoming proceedings will provide some level of comfort and closure for the families of the fallen miners," the company said in a statement.
Stanley, the lawyer who has fought Massey and, like Blankenship, grew up in West Virginia coal country, said of his nemesis: "Don Blankenship has earned every year in prison he might get."
Petersen, the dead mine foreman's sister, said Jones once called a mine manager and demanded that his section be shut down because poor ventilation was endangering his men. He was ordered to continue working and threatened with dismissal if he continued to complain about safety violations, Petersen said.
Petersen said two nephews who work in other West Virginia coal mines were afraid to mention safety violations they had observed for fear of being fired.
"These mine companies are still practicing fear and intimidation," Petersen said. "Until we change the coal mine culture in this state, these dangerous conditions will never improve."
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David Zucchino is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reporting from South Africa. He's a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of Iraq, Lebanon, Africa and inner-city Philadelphia. He has reported from more than two dozen nations, with a recent focus on Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq. He is the author of the books "Thunder Run" and "Myth of the Welfare Queen." Zucchino left The Times in 2015.
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Pakistan's arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was widely seen as an attempt to smooth the way for Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to Washington.


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Candace Cameron Bure Is Here For Holiday Treats, But She's Reading The Nutrition Facts
Oh, and she'd like a cup of tea to go with them.
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Listen up, Candace Cameron Bure reads ALL the nutrition facts. And you cannot fake her out with healthy-looking packaging.
The actress and author of the new book Candace Center Stage came by to taste some holiday treats from Trader Joe's. And, though she's not opposed to a holiday sugar rush, she's just likes to be prepared for it, and TBH, I don't blame her.
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Following an inspection of the cute box of gingerbread oat bars, Candace was skeptical. And after a taste, she determined they were just gingerbread cookies posing as a kid-friendly healthy snack. "Don't let the cute little polar bear fool you—or the name oat bar," she warned, but that didn't stop her from admitting, "it tastes really good."
When charged with the task of sampling an assortment of chocolate-covered goodies, a new bar was set. "With a name like Jingle Jangle it's got to be good," Candace said about the packaging. But when she went in for the chocolate-y pretzel, she wasn't too impressed. What brought her around: the salty/sweet balance of the chocolate-covered popcorn she went for next.
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After thoughtful deliberation, though, it was the Pfeffernüsse— spiced cookies topped with powdered sugar—that won the day. "Those are delicious because it's not super-sweet," she said. And while she thought the cookies might pair nicely with tea, it wasn't enough to assume. So, Candace got a cup to try the combo IRL, and she was right. If that's not commitment to holiday snacking, then I don't know what is.
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The new Apple unlocked iPhone 5c Yellow with 16GM memory has just slipped from the expected delivery date of September 20 to "available to ship by 9/25."
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Rajasthani culture is not only famous for its royalty and tradition but also for its magnificent interior designs on walls which depict the tales of the folks. Interior designing encompasses the hardnosed aspects of realizing structures; including scheduling, cost estimation and most importantly its construction administration.
The Kings of Rajasthan used floor beddings to sit during their entertainment time or while having their meals. Adding low lying deewans or bedding on floors gives your rooms a real royal appear. It not only serves the purpose of new furniture but also enhances the Rajasthani theme effect of your house!
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Twitch's Category for "Real" Sports Might Get Your Kids Into Basketball
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Twitch is already the king of livestreaming and esports, and it may be your next destination for live traditional sports. Twitch's new category for traditional sports includes streams from European football teams, along with live games from the NBA, NHL, RFL, UFC, and NWSL.
To celebrate its commitment to IRL sports, Twitch is hosting a daylong showcase of all its upcoming sports content. The showcase features Major League Soccer star Jimmy Conrad with guest appearances from other sports personalities.
Amazon's interest in traditional sports isn't new. The company quietly gobbles up sports deals every few months, including deals with Thursday Night Football, Premier League soccer, and USA Basketball. Now that football clubs like Arsenal and Real Madrid are coming to Twitch, the platform is sure to make its mark as a serious "real" sports destination, especially for sports-hungry fans in the US.
The Twitch Sports showcase runs all day. At the time of writing, Twitch is streaming an NBA game from January 16th. It's worth tuning in if you're a cable-less freak like me!
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The Lewis Family Playhouse is making patron engagement even more exciting with a new downloadable mobile app. Purchase tickets, post your favorite events on social media, engage with other theatregoers, and be the first to learn about ticket offers, news, and more. The Lewis Family Playhouse App is available for free in the App Store and on Google Play.
As part of the Community Services Department for the City of Rancho Cucamonga, the Lewis Family Playhouse is the first sub-department to pursue technological advances like mobile apps to engage patrons. With the support of the Department of Innovative Technology (DoIT), whose values include inspiring others to see that technology can change lives and simplify how people interact with government, the Lewis Family Playhouse can engage patrons beyond ticket sales. The mobile app also emphasizes the City's commitment to the arts and promotes the status and visibility of community services and parks and recreation amenities.
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I have Meniere's Disease which is an inner ear disorder that causes severe ringing, distortion of sound and hearing a heavy heart beat in the ear.
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I Grant Lee Buffalo sono stati un gruppo musicale rock di Los Angeles che si è sciolto nel 1998.

Biografia
I componenti della band sono Grant-Lee Phillips (voce, polistrumentista), Paul Kimble (basso e tastiere) e Joey Peters (batteria) che facevano già parte di una band chiamata Shiva Burlesque. Kimble lascia la band dopo l'album Copperopolis, e verrà sostituito da Dan Rothchild, figlio del produttore discografico Paul Rothchild, per il loro ultimo disco, Jubilee.

Nel 2001, dopo lo scioglimento, è uscito Storm Hymnal, una raccolta di single e rarità, mentre Grant Lee Phillips comincia una carriera da solista.

Il suono dei Grant Lee Buffalo ha forti elementi che richiamano alla tradizione nord americana e viene spesso paragonato a quello di Neil Young. A detta dello stesso Phillips, i brani dei Grant Lee Buffalo sono spesso come una vecchia auto o un vecchio amplificatore che richiede qualche secondo per riscaldarsi, per poi partire e stupire.

Dal vivo le sonorità più melodiche e tradizionali subiscono spesso una mutazione molto forte verso suoni più distorti e psichedelici attraverso la chitarra a 12 corde di Grant-Lee Phillips.

La band ha incluso molto spesso temi sociali e politici nei propri testi.
In Italia hanno affrontato diversi tour anche come gruppo di apertura dei R.E.M..

Il 22 settembre 2010 Grant-Lee Phillips ha annunciato alcuni concerti che saranno tenuti dalla formazione originale nelle città di New York, Londra e Glasgow nei primi mesi del 2011.
Si tratta quindi di un ritorno, a distanza di circa 14 anni.

Discografia
Fuzzy (1993)
Buffalondon (1993)
Mighty Joe Moon (1994)
Copperopolis (1996)
Jubilee (1998)
Storm Hymnal - Gems From The Vault Of (2001)

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Victor Botha Interview -Death Trooper
I recently got the chance to interview Victor Botha, formerly in the British army, but now a Death Trooper in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Death troopers were an elite variant of the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers who were part of Imperial Intelligence. They served as protective details and bodyguards for important Imperial officers and members of the Tarkin Initiative, as well as being used as special-mission experts. They wore black suits of armour and specialized helmets that scrambled verbal communications. Death troopers were trained in unarmed combat, heavy weapons, and sniping. Specializing in commando missions, the troopers were experts at covering their tracks, leaving little to no evidence of their missions.
The earliest known deployment of the death troopers was in 13 BBYwhen they served Director Orson Krennic on his mission to find and capture Galen Erso. They would continue to protect the director until his death on Scarif at the start of the Galactic Civil War.
Another death trooper squad served with the forces of Grand Admiral Thrawn during his campaign against the early Rebel Alliance and participated in the Battle of Atollon. A squad of death troopers was also deployed to a freighter to protect a large kyber crystal en route to the Tonnis sector to eventually be transported and used for the primary weapon system of the Death Star. During the Ghost crew mission to Lothal, a death trooper tried to capture the crew leading the pursuit.
How does working on Star Wars compare to all your work on other projects?
Star Wars was the first project I worked on. Prior to that, I served in the British Army for 12 years.
How did you get the role of a Death Trooper in Rogue One?
When I was in the process of leaving the army, my wife signed me up to an agency providing extras for movies with a military background. A week later the agent called me and asked if I wanted to attend a casting. He could not give me the name of the movie but just said the code name for it was "Los Alamos". I was a bit nervous, attending Pinewood Studios for the first time.
There were about 15-20 other guys there also for the casting, no one knew what it was for until we got asked to go through to the costume area. There was Star Wars stuff everywhere. We were asked to put the costume on so that the director can see us do movements and run in it. We then got told that they will contact us if we will be used. Two days later I got a call saying I was one of the six guys picked for the role.
What was the costume like, they look so cool?
As cool as they look, the first few days were hell. It took about 45min to just get it all on, and that was with the help of a costume guy basically doing it all for you. The costume was made out of hard moulded plastic, which rubbed and dug into your body and the first few days getting used to it was not pleasant, but no one has ever seen the Death Trooper so they all wanted to see you and that made up for it a bit.
Can you describe your time filming scenes for Rogue One?
At first, I was very excited, but then I got to see the main actors and got called to set to do the first scene I got so nervous.
The first scene was in some spaceship command centre and we had to walk up some steps, and my oh my it was so difficult seeing anything through that helmet visor. I just kept telling myself do not trip or fall over, it would be so embarrassing. Luckily all went well and I did not fall over. The sets were just amazing. The stuff they build in the studios is like you have never seen before. They make it look so real because there was none of that green screen stuff, so everything was build for the sets.
What are some of your fondest memories from your time in Star Wars?
I was lucky enough to get picked to go to Iceland for filming. Once again a first for me. Even though the weather wasn't too great, the area, landscape and sets the made out there in the highland of Iceland was breathtaking. We were in the middle of nowhere in between mountains and ice glaciers filming Star Wars, I had to pinch myself every now and again to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
Was there much interaction between yourself and the directors, if so, what sort of things would you discuss?
I myself only had interaction with the Director once when I was directed to shoot "Chirrut" the blind Jedi. The Director just told me where to point my gun at and in what position I had to be. The other times on set everything is done through assistant directors who gives you all the info for the set.
If you could play any other characters, who would it be and why?
To be honest, the Death Trooper was the best role for me, it was a character no one ever saw before and I don't think they will ever see them again, one in a million.
Who are some of your favourite characters from the franchise and why?
To be honest, I have never watched a Star Wars film before I did this movie and had to catch up a bit, but the one that stood out for me in Rogue one was Director Krennic played Ben Mendelsohn. He was such a funny guy behind the scenes, always joking with the crew and messing about but as soon as he had to go on set he never forgot his lines and was very professional.
As I mentioned before I never saw a Star Wars movie before being in it, so was never a massive fan. Now though it will always be that first movie I had a part in, being a character no one has ever seen.
Did you ever think your work would lead to a franchise like Star Wars?
No, never. I was just a soldier before and would never have thought I would get a role in a big franchise movie like this.
What are some of your favourite scenes from the Star Wars films and why?
For me personally, it was the beach assault we had to do on "Scarif". The set they build on an old RAF base in north London was incredible. It took a whole week to shoot the scenes we were in there and it was hard work, running through that water every time, running onto the beach going down into various shooting positions, trying not to trip over again, haha.
So yes, this scene for me just because I know all the hard work that went into it.
Do you attend many comic conventions, if so, what does fan interaction mean to you, and do you have any appearances coming up?
This year I'm doing a few events so far. Cardiff in May, Mexico in August and Holland in November. Fan interaction is very important to me. I have my own fan page on Facebook and give various info about the movie to fans. Particularly to the fans building the Death Trooper costume themselves. Just to see the appreciation they have for me talking to them gives me great satisfaction.
A huge thank you goes to Victor for sharing these answers with me, and I would like to wish him good luck in the future.
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LatinX KidLit Book Festival 2020.
All of the #LKBF2020 video sessions are available on the LatinX KidLit Festival YouTube channel and will continue to be available indefinitely.
Latinx Kidlit Book Festival Book List V.2 This spreadsheet offers tabs by age-level, novels in verse, anthologies, graphic novels, and books in Spanish.
Author Introductions from the LatinX Book Festival 2020 on Flipgrid. Nearly 100 authors included.
Educator Resources from the LatinX Book Festival 2020 includes Educator Guides to over 40 titles.
Podcasts from the LatinX Book Festival 2020.
LatinXs in KidLit: Exploring the World of YA, MG, and Children's Literature. 2021 Books By/For/About LatinX. [Young Adult, Middle Grade, Children]
El Comité de Libros Infantiles de Bank Street College of Education. The Best Children's Picture Books of the Year in Spanish, 2021 Edition. 11 pages.
"Children's and YA Books by LatinX Authors." Brightly, 2020. "Featuring a wide variety of titles for kids of all ages, including picture books, middle grade & chapter books, and young adult reads, these stories recognize Latinx contributions to the world of children's literature and are great for reading at any time of year. Share these books with little and big kids alike."
Cartaya, Pablo. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora. Viking, 2017. When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Bejar, Ruth. Lucky Broken Girl. Puffin, 2018. "[I]n the 1960s, a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie's plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time." Pura Belpre Award.
High School Nonfiction
Brimner, Larry Dane. Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights. Penguin Random House, 2014.
Engle, Margarita. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015]. "In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War." --Amazon. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again? MEMOIR
Ortiz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2018. "... [A] bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today."
It's Not All Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out. Annick, 2012.
Mitchell, Pablo. History of Latinos : Eexploring Diverse Rroots. Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014.
Vecchione, Patrice and Alyssa Raymond, eds. Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience. Triangle Square, 2019. "This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees." POETRY
Price, Gary. "University of Texas Libraries: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections Launches High School Curriculum Site." Infodocket, 21 Aug 2020.
High School Fiction
Alvarez, Julia. Return to Sender. "After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected to her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?"
Acevedo, Elizabeth. Clap When You Land. Quill Tree, 2020. "Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi's secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered."
Acevedo, Elizabeth. With Fire on High. Quill Tree, 2019. "Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it's not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free."
Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X. Quill Tree, 2020. "Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook …. With Mami's determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, … she can't stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent." Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.
Davis, Joshua. Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream. 1st ed., 2014. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. "In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the National Underwater Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded, beat-up public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much-but two inspiring science teachers had convinced them that four impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean should try to build an underwater robot."
De la Pena, Matt. All his YA books
Engle, Margarita. All her YA books
López, Diana. Ask my mood ring how I feel: a novel. 1st ed. Little, Brown and Co., 2013. "When thirteen-year-old Erica "Chia" Montenegro finds out her mother has breast cancer, she makes a promise to God to raise money for breast cancer awareness and discovers that when family and friends work together, miracles can happen."
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. All the Stars Denied. Lee & Low, 2018. "In the heart of the Great Depression, everywhere in Texas is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming No Dogs or Mexicans and No Mexicans Allowed. … [H]er family becomes a target of repatriation efforts to send Mexicans back to Mexico whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped across the border and separated from half her family, Estrella must figure out a way to survive and care for her mother and baby brother." Companion novel to Shame the Stars.
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Shame the Stars. Tu Books, 2016. "Eighteen-year-old Joaquin del Toro's future looks bright. With his older brother in the priesthood, he's set to inherit his family s Texas ranch. He s in love with Dulcena and she s in love with him. But it's 1915, and trouble has been brewing along the US-Mexico border. On one side, the Mexican Revolution is taking hold; on the other, Texas Rangers fight Tejano insurgents, and ordinary citizens are caught in the middle. … a rich reimagining of Romeo and Juliet set in Texas during the explosive years of Mexico s revolution."
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Summer of the Mariposas. Lee & Low, 2015. "When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero's journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey that would rival Homer's original tale. With the supernatural aid of ghostly La Llorona via a magical earring, Odilia and her little sisters travel a road of tribulation to their long-lost grandmother s house. Along the way, they must outsmart a witch and her Evil Trinity: a wily warlock, a coven of vicious half-human barn owls, and a bloodthirsty livestock-hunting chupacabras. Can these fantastic trials prepare Odilia and her sisters for what happens when they face their final test, returning home to the real world, where goddesses and ghosts can no longer help them?"
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Under the Mesquite. Lee & Low, 2011. "Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's battle with cancer in this young adult novel in verse."
Quintero, Isabel. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces. Cinco Puntos Press, 2014. "Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, her friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity."
Sanchez, Alex. Getting it. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006. "Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school."
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2012. "Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before."
Serros, Michele M. Honey Blonde Chica : a Novel. Simon Pulse, 2006. "Evie Gomez finds herself caught between two very different friends when Dee Dee returns to town after living a few years in Mexico City."
Soto, Gary. Pacific Crossing. Harcourt Brace, c1992. "Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends."
Stork, Francisco X. The Last Summer of the Death Warriors. Scholastic, 2010. "When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death Warrior's Manifesto," which will help him to live out his last days fully--ideally, he says, with the love of the beautiful Marisol. As Pancho tracks down his sister's murderer, he finds himself falling under the influence of D.Q. and Marisol, who is everything D.Q. said she would be;and he is inexorably drawn to a decision: to honor his sister and her death, or embrace the way of the Death Warrior and choose life."
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Scholastic, 2011. "Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear ― part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo's differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer . . . to join "the real world." But Marcelo thinks, "The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others."
Stork, Francisco X. The Memory of Light. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2016. "When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own."
Zoboi, Ibi. Pride and Prejudice Remix. Balzer & Bray, 2019. "Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable." "Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color."
Zoboi, Ibi. American Street. Balzer & Bray, 2018. "On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit's west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost." National Book Award Finalist.


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What are the major components of stratified rocks?
Answer. Answer: The most common cause of stratification is variation in the transporting ability of the depositing agent. Water and wind sort sediments according to size, weight, and shape of particles, and these sediments settle in layers of relative homogeneity.
Which type of rock is used to determine the absolute age of igneous rocks?
What are the four principles of stratigraphy?
Steno's laws of stratigraphy describe the patterns in which rock layers are deposited. The four laws are the law of superposition, law of original horizontality, law of cross-cutting relationships, and law of lateral continuity. Nicolaus Steno was a 17th-century Danish geologist.
Why are the layers of sedimentary rocks not horizontal?
Because of the Law of Original Horizontality, we know that sedimentary rocks that are not horizontal either were formed in special ways or, more often, were moved from their horizontal position by later events, such as tilting during episodes of mountain building.
What are the causes of stratification?
Stratification occurs as a result of a density differential between two water layers and can arise as a result of the differences in salinity, temperature, or a combination of both. Stratification is more likely when the mixing forces of wind and wave action are minimal and this occurs more often in the summer months.
What is original horizontality in geology?
The Law of Original Horizontality was first proposed by Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno in the 17th century. The law states that layers of sediment were originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity. Any rock layers that are now folded and tilted have since been altered by later outside forces.
Which principle tells you how rock layers are laid?
What is the meaning of geology?
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē ("earth") and -λoγία, -logia, ("study of", "discourse")) is an Earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
What type of rock layer is easy to date?
Absolute Dating It's often much easier to date volcanic rocks than the fossils themselves or the sedimentary rocks they are found in. So, often layers of volcanic rocks above and below the layers containing fossils can be dated to provide a date range for the fossil containing rocks.
Which one of the following is a chronostratigraphic unit?
Chronostratigraphic units are bodies of rocks, layered or unlayered, that were formed during a specified interval of geologic time. The units of geologic time during which chronostratigraphic units were formed are called geochronologic units.
How do rock layers work?
Layers of rock are deposited horizontally at the bottom of a lake (principle of original horizontality). Younger layers are deposited on top of older layers (principle of superposition). Layers that cut across other layers are younger than the layers they cut through (principle of cross-cutting relationships).
What do you think is the importance of studying stratified rocks to education Brainly?
Answer. Answer: It is important because it indicates the relative age of the rock layers and fossils in the interpretation of our Earth's history.
What is layer dating?
Most sedimentary rocks are laid down in flat, horizontal layers. Relative dating arranges geological events – and the rocks they leave behind – in a sequence. The method of reading the order is called stratigraphy (layers of rock are called strata).
What is the importance of studying stratified rocks in education?
Answer: important in the interpretation of the Earth's history because it indicates the relative age of the rock layers and fossils.
What does a Geochronologist do?
Geochronology is the science of determining the age of rocks, fossils, and sediments using signatures inherent in the rocks themselves. Absolute geochronology can be accomplished through radioactive isotopes, whereas relative geochronology is provided by tools such as palaeomagnetism and stable isotope ratios.
What is the importance of stratigraphy?
Stratigraphy is of paramount importance in the exploration for mineral deposits in sedimentary rocks because the scientific exploration for any such deposit requires that the geological events which determined its formation and location be known.
What causes tilting in rock layers?
Angular unconformity also causes geologic tilting. Angular unconformity occurs when parallel strata of sedimentary rocks are deposited on layers that are tilted, perhaps as a result of erosion.
Why is it important to study rocks?
Geologists study rocks because they contain clues about what the Earth was like in the past. Different rocks form under only certain conditions and even the dullest gray lump of a rock can tell us something important about the past.
Why are fossils so uncommon in older rocks?
Why are fossils so uncommon in older rocks? A rock stratum is tilted noticeably from horizontal.
Which rock layer is the youngest?
Over time, the sediments pile up to form horizontal layers of sedimentary rocks. The bottom layer of rock forms first, which means it is oldest. Each layer above that is younger, and the top layer is youngest of all.
What is Chronostratigraphic unit?
How does stratification of rocks works?
stratification (Lat.,=made in layers), layered structure formed by the deposition of sedimentary rocks. Changes between strata are interpreted as the result of fluctuations in the intensity and persistence of the depositional agent, e.g., currents, wind, or waves, or in changes in the source of the sediment.
Can erosion cause gaps in rock layers?
a break in the geologic record created when rock layers are eroded or when sediment is not deposited for a long period of time. Missing rock layers create gaps in rock layer sequences called unconformities.


East Midlands Trains, working in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council, is offering people the chance to travel on its popular Robin Hood Line services for just £2 return throughout the day on Sunday 24 and Sunday 31 October.
Offering over a 50% saving on the normal train fare, this special promotion is designed to encourage people to leave the car at home and enjoy a hassle-free day out in Nottingham.
The Robin Hood Line, which provides train services from Worksop, Mansfield and stations to Nottingham, has benefited from many improvements. In December 2008, East Midlands Trains launched Sunday services on the Robin Hood Line for the first time in over 40 years. That timetable change also brought a later weekday evening train returning from Nottingham.
Commenting on the offer, Marc Turley, Head of Marketing for East Midlands Trains, said: "We're extremely pleased to be working with Nottinghamshire County Council to launch this fantastic promotion.
Councillor Richard Jackson, Nottinghamshire County Council's Cabinet Member for Transport, said "We are very pleased that East Midlands Trains is taking this excellent initiative in offering cheap Sunday fares. Hundreds of people already use this service every Sunday, but we hope that many more will now give it a try, especially as it will be so much cheaper than the petrol and parking costs of driving into Nottingham".
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The US dollar was helped overnight with surprisingly low jobless claims numbers in the US. NAB's'S Gavin Friend says it points to a tightening labour market, which should, theoretically, keep the upward pressure on wages. Yet, we also saw production prices fall overnight. He also discusses, with Phil Dobbie, the Halloween Brextension, the US earnings season and what to keep an eye on today, including the RBA's financial stability review.
David Koch gives his advice to small business owners on what to do right now — spend and grow or save and assume a lean future?
Are We Lost In Our Work?
Dalton Conley says we're really engaging in "weisure" — a cross between work and leisure that is consuming more and more of our time.