About Featured Expert: John Correia the founder and owner of Active Self Protection, a self-defense and firearms training company based out of Phoenix, AZ. He travels throughout the country teaching practical self-defense, evidence-based self defense, and defensive strategies, focusing especially on those who utilize firearms in their self-defense toolkit.
Marcus Roth: Hey there folks, welcome again to the Science of Skill podcast. This is Marcus Roth and I'm on the horn tonight with John Correia, who has spent the last 11 years gaining experience in the field of evidence based self-defense training. Now he's here again for the second part of the podcast where we interview John and we really get to look at John's most dynamic skillset this week, evidence based self-defense advice. Hello John, welcome aboard yet again.
John Correia: Thanks for having me, I really appreciate it!
MR: Didn't realize you were such a YouTube star in the self-defense community. All your videos have more than a million views and I was just really blown away by that.
JC: Well thanks man, I wish every one of them had over a million views of course. A few of them do and it's crazy, YouTube celebrity is not something I was necessarily aiming for, but it's great.
MR: You can really see most of his work on his YouTube channel as we just mentioned, and if you want to see that you can head on over to that channel. What was that channel's name again John?
JC: The channel is youTube.com/activeselfprotection – You'll know it's us, there's a big snake head, Active Self Protection, ASP, so we call it ASP in-house.
MR: Let's get into the very basics of what active self protection is and evidence based self defense education, which is what a large portion of your channel really promotes. In a nutshell, what is it and who's it for?
MR: Dashboard cams I'm sure.
JC: Dash cams, to see what actually happens in violent encounters. Armed robberies, car-jackings, stabbings, muggings, assaults of all kinds. When we do that, I've probably watched, oh, 5,000 to 6,000 gunfights at this point. I've probably watched another 10,000 assaults of all kinds, muggings, and stabbings, and car-jackings, things like that. After a while, the patterns start to emerge pretty clearly and then from there, we can start to see principles because things show up again and again, and therefore we have evidence that this works and this doesn't. Then therefore, we can base our training and our approach to that task of self defense based on actual evidence.
MR: Where do you pull these videos exactly anyways? I feel like it must be hard getting the volume of tape that you've seen. Do you know a guy in a local courthouse?
JC: You know, the internet is a crazy place man, and it has some very dark corners. The reality is, probably 99% of the videos that I do at this point are sent to me by my fans, whether on our Facebook page, or on our YouTube channel, or to me via email. Every day people are sending me videos that people have posted online. Some of those videos are on YouTube, some of the are on other host sharing services. It all comes down to, if it was recorded on a surveillance camera, or a dash cam … Dash cams and badge cams are mostly police related so those normally get released by their departments.
MR: I see, so for the listeners who don't quite know and haven't really checked out this channel. One, I'd recommend you do that, it's very interesting stuff, but two, John largely goes over about a three minute surveillance video and gives a play-by-play breakdown of what's occurring. Things that went well in the situation for the good guy and things that the good guy could have done better. The situations are graphic and violent but it must be kind of one of your favorite parts of the job, right?
JC: Well, I mean it is and it's not. Obviously I think when good people defend themselves well, that's gratifying to see somebody protect themselves because I think that's a God given right. There's some very hard ones as well. I don't shy away from the reality of life. I know we don't like to think about that but statistically, the Bureau of Justice Statistics says in America that your cumulative chance of being involved in a violent encounter in your lifetime is something approaching 73%.
MR: Watching one video along that same vein, It was a gun instructor who gets thrown into a violent situation at a convenient store. The whole time he's actively trying to avoid the conflict, right? He's a trained gun instructor, he can clearly draw his firearm and defend himself but he doesn't want to, and you praise him for that the whole time because obviously no one wants to hurt someone. Even at the greatest and last extent, he's backed way deep into a corner, a hallway, and then at that very point when he's about to be punched, he draws and fires. I just really appreciated the praise that you gave the individual there for really showing a textbook example of waiting until the last second to actually use deadly force like you're supposed to, right? It's one thing to preach only defend yourself when you have to, but it's another thing to actually do it when you live it.
JC: There's a paradigm that we talk about in the defensive training community called may, should, and must. The first question you ask is, "May I use deadly force in this instance?" In other words, is it legally defensible? Just because you may, just because you can get away with it legally doesn't mean that you should. Then the next question you have to ask is, "Should I use deadly force in this instance?" Is there another way that you could get out of that situation without using it? Then the final question and the highest question is must. "Must I use deadly force?" If there's no other answer, if there's no other way for you to get out of this situation, well then there's no question that you have to use deadly force. If you don't have to, in other words, if you must not use deadly force then try everything else because a firearm is a tool of last resort. Even if you feel like it shouldn't be, again and again I read of people who use deadly force and the incredible toll it takes on them personally. Even if they win the fight, then you got to fight the fight after the fight, the legal fight. You got to bear consequences ethically, morally, spiritually, relationally, people won't understand, socially, people might not understand. You could get ostracized from various communities that you have, your neighbors might not understand, you can get vilified in the press. All those take a very heavy toll on somebody. I tell people, "Listen, my hope is to get entirely through my life and never have to use my firearm," and I hope everybody else, especially firearms carriers think the same.
MR: I think that's a great segue into my next question I wanted to ask. Can you give our listeners some of the major takeaways, you seem to cover almost every review of a less than optimal self defense situation? I saw one account where an individual attempted to draw their gun on an individual who already had a gun drawn on him, and well, it didn't end well for that man attempting to draw his gun. What would you say is some decent examples of recurring problems you see?
JC: There is one problem that reoccurs again, and again, and again. It's a lack of awareness, a lack of understanding where you are. In the defensive world a lot of people like to call that situational awareness, I kind of am now preferring the term threat assessment, that people don't make adequate and accurate threat assessments. For instance, you see people with their face buried in their phone and their headphones in. They are watching a show on Netflix and because they're radically unaware, the danger is on top of them and impacting them before they can do anything about it. If there was one piece of advice for people who aren't even going to be Kung Fu masters, they don't want to carry a gun, they don't want to do any of that stuff. My big bit of advice would be put your phone in your pocket and be aware of your surroundings. Walk with your head up, see things that are going on around you, and be curious of your environment.
MR: I think it's largely about context of the situational awareness element or the threat assessment element. People want to listen to their phones, they want to watch YouTube videos, but it's where, right? It's where you can do that and where you can't right? You can't do that while walking, one, you might get hit by a car in the city, you won't be aware. It's an exchange, right? You can probably listen to it on the bus, right? There's a lot of people there, it's public, it's very open, and if you're just sitting you probably have some awareness of the situation because it's a small bus compared to the openness of a street.
JC: The more in public you are, the more careful you need to be. I talk all the time about transitional spaces. In places where people are coming and going, anyplace that could allow for an easy ambush and an easy exit by someone, you want to be more careful. Certainly walking down a sidewalk, you need to be aware. You can get ambushed very easy around every corner in every nook and cranny so you want to be much more aware there. Sitting on the bus while the bus is moving, I mean you're in a fairly static environment and so you're less likely for that. I still recommend to people, if you want to listen to your phone, I get it, leave your dominant ear open. The other thing I always tell people, if your phone buzzes or you get a text message or something and you need to look up, and you need to see it, the big thing that I see people do is they put their phone on their chest and then they put their chin on their chest so that they can see their phone and that just takes their eyes completely out. Instead, lift your phone up into your line of sight and get it out in front of you because then you can continue to see what's going on behind it. I also think that smart watch technology is really helpful in that endeavor. When I get a text now, my phone can stay in my pocket, I wear a smart watch, and I can look at my watch and bring it up into my line of sight, still see what's going on around me and check whatever notification it was that came in.
MR: What are some tips for our listeners on making some confrontations that turn violent into a justifiable situation in court? What are your go-to's? I definitely remember that gun instructor I mentioned in the past, his hand was out, he was backing away, he got mopped around the floor of the convenient store for like a solid three minutes on camera before he even went to draw. Anything else of that nature? Actionable tips is what I'm asking for.
JC: Like anything else you need training in this endeavor. If you're going to be a self defender, knowing the law of self defense is important and there are two nationally recognized experts that have written book length treatises that I really recommend. The first one is a long time trainer named Massad Ayoob and he has written a book called Deadly Force. You can get it on Amazon, great book on the legalities of self defense. Mass comes at things from the perspective of a former law enforcement officer. The other one is a nationally renowned attorney named Andrew Branca and his book is called The Law of Self Defense, it's currently in the third generation, the third iteration. I'm actually certified by Andrew, by The Law of Self Defense as a verified instructor graduate. His book, The Law of Self Defense is excellent and very understandable.
MR: The context of that is interesting, right? I saw in one of your videos a man getting robbed for his cell phone and he actually had his concealed carry but he's not in a position to draw it. He gets robbed and the assailant drives away on a motorcycle. Curiously enough, the punisher principle, right? If that man chases after that motorcycle and finds where he lives and a day later comes back and shoots him, that's a problem, right? That's not self defense anymore, that's way too late I think as a great example of it. If he happened to have his concealed carry on him at the time … It's interesting legally that if you shoot him in the moment it becomes legal-ish, it's tentative, right? But not so legal the day later.
JC: That's because again, in that moment you're not protecting your phone, you're protecting your life. If he comes up and says, "Give me your phone," and he sticks a gun in your face, well the threat there is not about the phone, the threat's about your life. You have the right to defend your life, life is the most valuable thing we have. Human beings, legally and morally are of inestimable value, so you have the right to defend that. Once he is gone, so if he's driving off down the road on a motorcycle and I mean the video you're thinking of, he jumped on the bike and he ran off. Then the guy drew his gun and shot down the street at him, well it's incredibly reckless to do that because you're accountable for every bullet that leaves the chamber, leaves the muzzle of your firearm, but also in most jurisdictions, really with very few exceptions, that's also a crime because the imminence is gone. You aren't facing a threat anymore.
MR: Along the same vein, what are some of the sure fire ways to get into legal trouble after a violent confrontation now? Obviously breaking one of those pillars is obviously a very clear way. More specifically I'm talking things that are important to keep in mind so if a situation where force is required and a person is legally justified, they don't accidentally talk themselves into assault charges when they're talking to police post-fact, post-event.
JC: Yes. Remember, once everything goes down, then from that point on if you win the fight, you've got to recognize as a self defender then you instantly engage in a second fight. We call it the fight after the fight and that is the fight for your freedom at that point. You want from start to finish to look like a victim who protected themselves and not like an aggressor who was breaking the law. Now, there's a lot of discussion in the defensive training world as to what does it mean to talk to the police and how much should you talk to the police? I'll give you my understanding and there is some discussion on this and other people have some different perspectives. If you have broken the law, if you are a murderer then shut up, okay? If you have done something stupid then do not say a word and call your attorney and let them fight it out. Now, okay, that being said, for good people who have done good things and are worried about that. I have heard people give advice, "Don't say a word, just say I want to talk to my attorney." Well, I would recommend instead say little and say the right things to the right people.
MR: Wow that's some dynamic legal advice.
JC: Well, and I want everybody to recognize that I am not an attorney.
JC: I'm not offering legal advice, that's my suggestion as a defensive trainer, my suggestion as somebody who is a verified graduate in The Law of Self Defense program. Of course, consult with an attorney in your jurisdiction. I highly recommend if you're a self defender that you have some kind of legal protection for deadly force incidents. I don't like the insurance products out there but there are several defensive use of force services memberships that are very valuable.
MR: Yeah, I certainly should have said self defense advice there, obviously you're not a lawyer. That said, I think that's a great spot to wrap it up. Most of our listeners are older, 40 plus, so I'm really glad you covered the ability to go to the hospital after a very exciting event like this, right? Perfect advice. That's said John, thanks for coming on the cast. Any closing remarks before we wrap this up here?
JC: Well, I think that I recommend that all Americans become self defenders. You don't have to be Rambo, you don't have to have mad Kung Fu skills but we live in a day and in an age that the police cannot protect us from everything that comes our way.
MR: All right, thank you very much for that John. All right, well this has been Marcus Roth and John Correia for the Science of Skill Podcast signing out.


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PR Industry
A mix of skills—new and old—that PR pros must master
PR pros must adapt to new tools and trends, but some tactics never go out of style. Here are four skills every PR pro should cultivate.
By Ellie Schlam
The role of a PR professional has expanded into so many areas—digital, social media, marketing—that it's hard to know what skills are required to do this multifaceted and wide-ranging job.
I recently caught up with PR consultant Michael Smart who shared four essential skills—two old and two new—that all PR pros must have to succeed today.
How many can you check off your list?
Timeless skills
1. The ability to write a simple declarative sentence will never become outdated.
To advance ideas and pitch stories, it is critical that you hone your writing skills.
Clarity and brevity are key when reaching out to journalists. Does the lightbulb go on when they read your prose? Can they understand exactly what you're trying to convey and why it's important? Will they care?
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Many journalists get 400 emails a day, so to pierce the noise you must make your case with a few well-worded sentences. Reporters are writers and particularly critical of the prose they receive. If it's grammatically incorrect, unconvincing or inaccurate, your credibility as a professional will be questioned.
2. Always identify and understand your key audiences.
While every PR pro dreams of a placement in The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, the readers of those venerated publications may not actually be the audience for your message.
Before devising a media list or strategy, it's critical to identify who you need to reach — who will buy your product or service? How old are they, where do they live and what are they reading, watching and consuming? Once you have a clear picture of your audience, you can decide which media outlets are worth targeting and design your pitches accordingly.
Two essential new skills
1. Match your content to your intended platform.
The days of penning a press release and sending it to 200 reporters are over. With the proliferation of online outlets and social media influencers, you will need to reshape the same story for each platform.
Though a news service may still be interested in seeing a press release or a new research study, an online outlet may prefer a video of the professor in the lab showing how he works and explaining his key findings. You could alternatively do an Instagram story highlighting a day in the life of a scientist.
It's important to pick which outlets reach your target audience and then put forth the effort to create content that will play well on the specific medium.
You also need to be flexible and savvy enough to adapt your outreach to the individual habits of the reporter or influencer. Know who wants an email at 7 a.m. and know who only reads Twitter notifications. It's a lot more work, but the results from personalizing both your pitch and method of outreach will be worthwhile.
2. Be willing to abandon old structures—and break the rules.
AP style still has its place but because pitching today is so individual, the way you write for a Buzzfeed pitch cannot possibly follow those guidelines. If you can adapt your style to the outlet's style and show that you understand what they do and what their audience is all about, you'll be more likely to catch their attention.
Bonus tip
In the past, you would never follow up with a reporter more than twice. Be prepared to follow your instinct, not an antiquated rule.
If you've done your homework, crafted a well-written pitch that's right up the alley of the reporter in terms of topics of interest, then keep following up until you get an answer. Chances are he or she may not even have seen it. Now that people can call, text, email or tweet at a reporter, there just aren't enough hours in the day for them to go through all their messages and do their job. If you can follow up in a respectful fashion and include more useful information, you can try to reach out again and still get a hit.
The PR industry has changed drastically and you'll need to use both old and new skills to succeed today. To quote Michael Smart, "If you spend 80 percent of your time on the 20 percent of your list that are most influential to your audience, you'll be successful."
Ellie Schlam is a PR pro with experience in nonprofit, health and education, currently Executive Director of Communications and Marketing at Touro College and University System. " A version of this article originally appeared on Muck Rack, a service that enables you to find journalists to pitch, build media lists, get press alerts and create coverage reports with social media data.
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This article originally appeared on PR Daily in September of 2018.
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Well, what a lovely welcome back from those I abandoned some time ago, and who, it seems, forgive me my absence! I really don't know where I went. Into myself I think, and that 'think' word has a whole lot to do with pretty much everything in life. Thinking is a veritable rock at times until I find myself in a hard place, whence it may become destructive.
Being shoved onto a new path can bring about me a host, not of golden daffodils, but of shrieking wraiths and hobble trees, all out to trip me up. If I stop to think about that, all I achieve is a greater number of shrieking wraiths and more hobble trees. So, although I know they are there, I ignore them, keeping my eyes focussed on that sliver of light way up ahead, and there always is one out there for the seeing.
That light could be a few hours peace, sorry, minutes, in which to write uninterrupted. It could be the thought of a really strong coffee, or some wind-battered gladioli, blood red and wonky chops that need staking. I did a lot of staking this summer past. Hollyhocks standing 9 ft tall and sunflowers dotted about like big yellow umbrellas. Nobody knows who planted them and everybody knows that such triffidicae cannot possibly stand for more than 3 hours on the west coast without enough ropes and pegs to hold down a wedding marquee in a force ten. Notwithstanding, they appeared and they grew and they dazzled all passers by, until last week when they made it clear they had done their bit, and fell over.
When life confounds, all small things take on a grandeur they mostly don't deserve, nor warrant. This phone call to the doctor, that prescription to collect, this carer to call, that occupational therapist to contact for another hand rail or a fancy gadget to make life safer. The wood to unload, another to order, to split the kindling, change the bedding, fix the back light bulb in the car, or to sort out yet another confusion on a laptop or a mobile phone. In ordinary homes, I am guessing the daily grind is divided into blue and pink jobs, although I'm betting the pink part of the arrangement takes on a lot of the blue task list just to make certain it is completed . The light in all this, for me, now, is that I am becoming a real whizz at blue jobs, halting only when faced with a chainsaw. I can see me legless and without fire. Not a good look at all.
What I have learned, too, is how resistant we unpaid carers can be in asking for help. I think we think too much about it. We don't need help after all. We have always sailed alone in this wife/mother life having got over the initial crushing disappointment, one that hit us smack in the chops just after we held out our finger for the wedding ring. Where we were thinking White Knight, he himself was thinking Unpaid Slave, only he never said, because, as we all know, men only grunt once they have exhausted their entire vocabulary during courtship. I wonder, even now, why on earth I am reading my granddaughters fairy tales, when I really should be reading them Tales of the Unexpected, unabridged. We never learn……….
Laughter and light, that's what I want and if it isn't on offer from outside of me then I just have to conjure it up from within. Fun and nonsense costs absolutely nothing to produce, has its own inbuilt marketing plan and requires no staff. The most important thing is to keep moving at all times. That way, I get through the hobble trees and outrun the shrieking wraiths, which, by the way, disappear (noisily) if you blow a great big raspberry into the place where their face should be. If, in the blast of some accusation or criticism from the white knight, I get a fit of giggles, it all miraculously goes away. No darkness is ever stronger than light and it takes one small candle flame to illuminate a room. I may be one small candle flame, but I am damned if I will let any cold wind blow me out.
The other afternoon I was playing with two of my grand-daughters in the garden, We rolled down the grassy bank and bounced on the trampoline after planting some hyacinth bulbs in a border. Earlier I had picked up a unicorn's horn, sparkly gold and crimson attached to a headband. it was a bit tight, but not so tight I remembered it was there as I bounced and rolled and planted. Some walkers came by and stopped to watch us for a moment or two. My granddaughters are very beautiful after all and we will have made a pretty collage on a green hillside.
Hi, I called out. You ok down there?
Yes, we are, came the reply, and still they stood, and looked.
It's coz you're a unicorn Gaga, said the older girl, rolling her eyes at me.
So, it's been over a year since I last wrote anything much beyond a shopping list, my signature on an official form, or, best, one of my loony letters. I knew it had been a while, but over a year seems like more than a while.
What have I been up to during those months and seasons? Learning how to, that's what. Learning how to be a carer for dementia, how to avoid confrontation or tripping hazards; learning how to make the best of an ever-decreasing bubble within which I now live. Oftentimes the frustration and the sadness overwhelmed me, how could it not? Watching a person recede into fairyland, centimetre by centimetre, unable to converse in the old way or to expect sentient reaction to any of a number of daily happenings, is to live as a fool. Learning what not to say, what not to do, how loudly to speak or how softly, how to read a mood swing and for it not to confound are all extra demands, critical demands, demands that offer no option for escape, for the person with dementia lives both in the distant past and also in the moment. What he wants, now, will not wait, even a few minutes; what he needs help with requires instantaneous action, not, any longer, a refusal to budge, having only just sat down. The person with dementia has only his needs in his mind. He can do as little about that as I can, but the legacy of doing everything required is one to be most carefully addressed or I will turn into a whirling dervish and fly right off the planet. So, in order to remain reasonably unexhausted, I must set boundaries. Well, how dare I!! Yes, I do dare. That frightful statistic I read somewhere, announcing that 69% of all unpaid carers die before their time, is a red light indeed. So, I stop and I think whilst the cross traffic passes me by. I think of ways, clever ways, kindly ways, softly spoken firm ways to make it clear I am not an employee, nor a slave; that although I appreciate his limitations, frustrating limitations for such an active man, I am not a robot (tick this box). It is a tricky road to walk and no mistake and I get it wrong endless number of times, when I respond sharply to another interruptive demand for something like 'lunch' when 'lunch' can easily flipping well wait a minute or two. In creating boundaries, whilst still respecting that they easily become tripping hazards, I accept that they appear unfair, unkind and selfish. I will need to erect them over and over again every day till the end of time because they are oft forgot. Whilst I'm busy being firm about them, I must also make them of something soft, something easy to move about, because there are times I do jump in response, not because of a disaster in the next room, but because I cannot imagine what it is to feel that urgent need and to then feel so very upset and angry when She Who Creates Boundaries refuses to leap into her pinny? Must be awful.
As the truth sank in, the removal of a driving licence, a skipper's licence, the ability to walk without sticks or a walker, I feared he would just sit. Not him. Of course, not him. He discovered WhatsApp and friends to WhatsApp with; he involved himself with Alzheimer Scotland, with the Scottish Dementia Working Group, and with an X Box. Yes, really. He hasn't played much on it yet, having a spot of bother with the tv remote and control over the working thingy that sends out warriors into futuristic landscapes, but he will, one day because his spirit is still as strong as ever. I watch him battle with the clues and I share his delight when a riddle is solved. It thinks me often of a spirit strong, one that loses nothing in the demise of dementia. It is the last thing to go, as it was with my mum who died in May. I am fond indeed, of spirit and I have one myself, one that can be confounded at times as I dump a load of self pity on its head, but it doesn't stay down for long, minutes even, rising up with a chuckle and a terse reminder that there are folk much worse off than I. Of the 60 odd unpaid carers on this island, I am among the youngest, at 65. Some of these carers are in their 80s. Now that, Dear Life, is not fair at all. I meet them sometimes in the shop and I look into their eyes as I say hallo and how are you? I know how tough their life is to a degree, but not completely. We share a joke, we chuckle, we shop and we move on. That's spirit for you. And, as I drive home to deal with whatever comes next, I hold their face in my mind and I smile. Tough old bird, I whisper to the fluffy cross-eyed sheep that hangs from my rearview.
Takes one to know one, he replies.


The Energy Hawks pose in front of an oil well. EERC staff loaned them work clothes for the trip. Photo courtesy of EERC.
If you want to learn about energy, go to the source.
Ten "Energy Hawks" did just that.
The UND students – part of a new Grand Challenges research program – spent a week traveling throughout western and central North Dakota to learn about energy challenges and opportunities.
From oil rigs to power plants, infrastructure to law enforcement, the students in the Energy Hawks program saw aspects of energy production that most people never experience.
Energy Hawks were impressed by the size of wind turbine blades. Photo courtesy of EERC.
The Energy Hawks program is spearheaded by Tom Erickson, CEO of the UND Energy & Environmental Research Center and Champion of the One UND Strategic Plan Grand Challenge in energy security and environmental sustainability.
The 10 students, who have a variety of majors, are working over the summer at the EERC.
The students traveled to Watford City on a Sunday afternoon, then met Monday morning with local officials and learned about the growth of the city – which grew from 1,700 people to 6,000 in just seven years – and impacts on law enforcement, social services and schools. They also met with State Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner and toured the north unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Tuesday featured Neset Consulting Service in Tioga, where students learned about oil and gas production, horizontal drilling, and visited Liberty Gas Plant, which collects natural gas from wells.
The highlight was a drilling rig.
Wednesday's tours included the Great Plains Synfuels Plant and Antelope Valley Station power plant in Beulah, where they learned about using coal to make natural gas, fertilizers, chemical feedstocks and electricity. At the Freedom Coal Mine, the largest lignite mine in the U.S., students were especially impressed by the reclamation process and the size of the draglines. They ended the day with a trip to Garrison Dam, which generates hydroelectric power.
Thursday featured Verendrye Electric Cooperative in Velva, along with one of their solar sites, and Prairie Winds wind farm by Max, where the Energy Hawks were wowed by the size of the turbine blades. In Bismarck, they met with state officials from the Department of Mineral Resources, the North Dakota Pipeline Authority, and Public Service Commission.
On Friday, they toured the Dakota Spirit Ethanol Bioprocessing Facility in Spiritwood, which converts corn into ethanol and produces high protein cattle feed and corn oil. The final stop was Spiritwood Station, a combined heat and power plant, which supplies steam and power to Dakota Spirit.
Energy Hawks spent their summer researching energy at the UND Energy & Environmental Research Center. Photo courtesy of EERC.
After a week of 12-hour days and more than 24 hours of driving, the Energy Hawks were, well, energized.
The overall Energy Hawks program and tour was organized and led by Charlene Crocker, EERC research scientist, with logistics by Angie Morgan, EERC administrative assistant.


The word 'Muslim' is the most sensitive middle name any person or institution can have these days in India. The national public sphere is turning into an echo chamber in which words like Pakistan, Jinnah, Islam, Muslims, terrorism, Kashmir, Madrasa, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Taliban, Jihad, Mughal, Taj Mahal, Babri Masjid, Bangladeshi, Rohingya all constitute just one imagination. In fact, they have also begun to acquire the same meaning, which is both "anti-Hindu" and "anti-national".
So last week when former Vice President and former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Hamid Ansari, came to the campus in Aligarh because he was invited by the University Court to join its prestigious hall of fame, he was simply not allowed to enter the main buildings. Hindu Yuva Vahini members waylaid his convoy. Several students were severely hurt in the lathicharge that followed. The local administration was insensitive, perhaps even complicit, reports say.
Established on a campus of 467.6 hectares, the university today has hostels named after leaders like BR Ambedkar, Sarojini Naidu and the Dalai Lama and many centres of excellence named after Muslims, non-Muslims, Shias, Sunnis, Leftist, nationalists and globalists. This is simply because the university has evolved through a historical and social process, which means it simply cannot manifest the uniformed character of a corporate university.
AMU became the centre of anti-colonialism struggles around the world. It became a debating centre for Marxist thought, especially in north India. It also became the intolerable envy of many traditional Islamic clerics who had once issued fatwas against its founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan for being much too modern.
This diversity of the university's intellectual character was preserved and protected by several institutional mechanisms through which a variety of nationalist voices became members of the University Court. The list of members – among them Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nehru, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah – is a manifestation of the idea of diversity that is a fundamental tenet of AMU. Although the accommodation of several conflicting interests can become very problematic in the political sphere, as we saw around the time of Partition/Independence with the Indian National Congress and the BJP today.
As to the recent controversy around the portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah which has been hanging inside the century-old union hall of the university for the past 80 years, what else can it be except a new drama? Why does Aligarh MP Satish Kumar Gautam want the portrait removed after so many years? What is it about the timing of this move? Is it because elections are nigh and Mr Gautam feels that his seat is in jeopardy because other claimants, including former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh's son, has more powerful backers than him? And if this rumour is true, then is it also true that Mr Gautam feels that one way to protect his turf is to create a controversy around a "Pakistani" icon and then let the fun begin?
Had the portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah been a real political problem for the BJP, Mr Gautam should have asked the PM and BJP chief minister of Maharashtra to raze down Jinnah's house in Mumbai, or perhaps the I&B ministry to delete all the pictures of Jinnah and nationalist leaders in its archives, including Mahatma Gandhi.
Or is the controversy in Jinnah's name actually a populist political competition in which to be seen to be "anti-Muslim" means more votes?
The AMU Union Hall, built in 1884, was among the first students' unions in the country. It hosted several freedom fighters, scholars and anti-colonial leaders before it invited Mohammad Ali Jinnah to speak on March 6, 1940, at a time when the Muslim League leader and the Congress were drifting apart. The 'Pakistan' resolution would be passed two weeks later by the League at its session in Lahore, but it was already clear that all Muslims of India were not going to be bound by the religious argument when they chose one country over another. Barely 225 km away from Aligarh is the Darul Uloom at Deoband which opposed Jinnah and his political ideology tooth and nail and revolted against the partition of the country.
It is clear that all the shades of grey and the paradoxes that exist in the understanding of Islam eludes the BJP. But, perhaps, it is also AMU's fault for remaining much more obsessed with the past rather than engage with the post-independent present, especially in post-liberalisation India. Despite its important contribution in spreading education among Muslims, the post-independence university has failed to expand its political discourse and offer the Muslim community an assertive, alternative and inclusive imagination.
How come the university's political culture is highly sensitive to the global Muslim agenda but least sensitive to the poor at home, whose livelihood and other fundamental rights are compromised on a daily basis? The university's hesitation to boldly engage with like-minded institutions and assert its own progressive credentials is also partly responsible for the state of affairs today. There is absolutely no need for AMU to be embarrassed or shy about its middle name, but the fact remains that it must emerge from the prison of the "Muslim" imagination. Certainly, there is no need for it to start shedding its portraits, including the one of Mohammed Ali Jinnah.


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Q: Google maps API - geocoder doesn't find 'Carson, CA' I have a customer with store locator functionality based on Google maps API. Couple days ago the complained about locator not able to find 'Carson, CA'
Here's a really simple demo from Google itself and it doesn't work either:
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/singlegeocode.html
Is there a way to contact Google support? I tried to search for any contact information but couldn't find anything useful.

A: It does look like a bug as there is a Carson marked on the map south of Los Angeles. It happens: geocoder data gets updated and sometimes things get missed off. Bugs need to be raised in the issue tracker. Be sure to search first (although I didn't find a previous report for this) and choose the right template when raising a new bug.
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list
For a store locator app, you may find searching for West Carson provides a decent start point, although this is hardly a usable workaround. Try using the zip code instead.

A: I don't think this is actually a bug; let me gently suggest that I think you are probably using the wrong API for looking up "Carson, CA." I'm not being harsh, just trying to help. But Geocoding has two basic functions:

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*Given an address as input, reply with the best Lat-Lng coordinates for that address.

*Given coordinates as input, reply with the closest known address (sometimes called Reverse Geocoding).

With "Carson, CA" as input, it doesn't seem like you have given enough information to have defined an address, which probably means that the Geocoder just didn't have enough information. The same goes for the Store Locator; "Carson, CA" isn't a store.
I think what you do want to use for a search of this kind is the Google Places APIdev-guide, because you are actually looking for a place, not coordinates or an address. Using the Google Places Autocomplete, for example, you can set the tool to search for different types, for example: countries, cities, or geocode (and there are others). The first, countries will let you find places such as: Australia, Bahamas, or Canada. The second, cities, will let you find places such as: Albuquerque, Baton Rouge, or Carson, CA. The last, geocode will restrict you to address searches, which is essentially what you are using when using the Geocoder.
I made the same mistake myself the other day when I sent a request to the Geocoder that contained "Wrigley Field"; the result was some address in Georgia on "Wrigley Field Road," which had me very confused until I thought about it for awhile and then it made sense. Wrigley Field is a place, not an address. I have been working with the Autocomplete a bunch lately and that has really made the difference between the two modes of lookup clear. As a possible solution for you, if you don't provide a specific type to the Autocomplete, it will use all of them, which will allow you to find places and/or addresses. It might give you a more functional solution for your site.
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Q: Google Website Optimizer Validation Hey all.  I'm attempting to run a multi-variant test on a page, and just have a quick question on validation.  Due to the size of the site, and the volume of visitors, we are going to segment the test to only a portion of our users (though the test will be run on the same page that ALL visitors go to).  Obviously there is no way to set this in GWO, so we are hoping to employ some tricks.  Here is what I'm thinking.
Say we only want to show this test to visitors who like cake (let's pretend we have a magic formula to determine which users like cake, and which don't).  I was thinking of employing some if / then conditionals.  Reason being, as stated earlier, we only want to show the experiment to a handful of users, and thus only track conversions from a handful of users (we are showing the same test page / conversion page to all users.  This becomes an issue since as we all know, Google does not like cake, and thus their tracker will not see and validate our scripts.  So two issues here:

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*How would I get GWO to validate a script like this?  Can I simply use the offline validation option, and upload a static page that has the same tags in it that I will use on the live site, so that Google can see everything is in place and tagged properly?

*Can I use some simple if / then statements to segment who I show the test to.  As I said before, I'm testing (in this example) whether somebody likes cake - If you don't like cake, you won't see the experiment - you will simply see the normal site.  If you do like cake, the experiment will be run, and you will see variations.
Obviously with this in place, I would need to do checks across the board.  Would something on the page given the following logic work?  Or what kind of issues can you see me running into?
On the test page:
if (userlikescake) {
     output javascript control script (and at end of file do tracking script)
}

then employ similar logic on the page sections, following something like:
if (userlikescake) {
    output javascript page sections scripts
} else {
    output standard website section
}

And then on the conversion page, output something similar to what I employed on the test page to ensure the conversion page only counts a conversion if the visitor was shown the experiment script.
Sorry for the long post, and multiple question - Could really use some help.  Please let me know if any more information is required.

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Obviously there is no way to set this
  in GWO, so we are hoping to employ
  some tricks.

Actually, within GWO you can control the % of your visitors that you expose the test to.  The setting is labeled something like "Total traffic sent through this experiment:".  That is what you should use to limit the exposure of your test to a subset of your total traffic.


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• KCBS-TV Los Angeles is looking into an out-of-state telephone hub should all in-state communications fail;
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Hope Sandrow (born 1951) is an American multi-disciplinary artist.

Early life and education

Sandrow was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She took up drawing at a young age, and eventually attended the Philadelphia College of Art, graduating in 1975.

Career

Sandrow exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1984. In the mid 1980s, she founded the Artist & Homeless Collaborative project. Through it, artists such as Kiki Smith, Robert Kushner, the Guerilla Girls and Ida Applebroog worked on creative projects with women in local homeless shelters. Sandrow's career was interrupted in 1994 by a dental injury that led to a six-year-long chronic infection and a multi-year period of recovery after the cause of the infection was identified and corrected. The Artist & Homeless Collaborative shut down in 1995.

In 2006, after adopting a Paduan rooster she had encountered in the woods, Sandrow began to create art based on raising poultry, including live video of brooding hens, original and commissioned portraits of chickens, and occasional deliveries of eggs from her own chickens to people in the art world. In 2021, some of her artistic and documentary work was included in a New York Historical Society exhibit looking back on the Artist & Homeless Collaborative. Her work is also included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Personal life

As of 2021, Sandrow lives in Shinnecock Hills, New York with her husband, the artist and composer Ulf Skogsbergh.

References

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'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'
Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple . . .
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Have you tried any other brands of HPT or just FR?
Asda ones are quite sensitive at 15miu. It all sounds very good, maybe you just dont have enough of the hormone to show up on a FR. I know they say they detect it up to 6 days early but im not really convinced they are all that sensitive.
mIU means "million International Units". It is a standard unit of measure often seen in medical/pharmacological applications. Generally, seeing this in relation to pregnancy tests, it's often something about how much hormone is in a urine or blood sample. Nowadays a urine test can detect hcg when it has reached a level of between 25-50 "parts per million (international units)". Some are even more sensitive at 10/15miu.
If you think about it like tiny microscopic little drops, then you could think of it as: if the sample taken (or absorbed) equals a million microscopic drops---then some of those drops are hcg and the rest is just regular urine waste.
So if one says it can detect at 15 and the other says it can detect at 50, then the one that says 15 is much more sensitive and can detect hcg sooner. Hope that makes sense. It's just all about concentration levels of hormones.


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With September just a few days away I wanted to remind everyone that this first month of Fall is going to be a busy one. For all my Las Vegas friends, I'm starting off with a TIMELINE forward viewing workshop at the Ganesha Center on Thursday Sept. 1st. It begins at 6 p.m. and is 4 hours long. The price is $25/person and you'll need to make a reservation as seating is limited. I'll also be conducting 2 hour private regression sessions at Ganesha from Aug. 31st through Sept. 4th. The cost is $150 for a two hour session. Please contact Ganesha Center for all reservations.
Next I'll be back in my old stomping grounds of Arizona for 4 days hosted by the Shrine of Holy Wisdom in Tempe. Starting at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9th with a free talk and book signing then followed on Saturday, Sept. 10th at 6 p.m. with a TIMELINE past life regression workshop. Cost for the 4 hour workshop is $35/person. I'll also be holding two hour private past life regression sessions on Sept. 11th & 12th. Cost is $150/session. Please contact the Shrine of Holy Wisdom at 480.219.9633 for all reservations.
The next stop in Sept. will be my hometown of Johnstown, PA. I'll be conducting two past life regression workshops hosted by VOMA. The first is Saturday, Sept. 24th. 2-6 p.m. and then again on Sunday Sept. 25th. 5-9 p.m. Workshop cost is $35/person. Please contact VOMA for reservations.
October 9th you'll find me up in Portland, OR for a TIMELINE regression workshop at the New Renaissance Bookshop. The workshop is four hours and begins at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9th. Cost is $40/person. Contact New Renaissance Bookshop for reservations. I'll also be conducting private regression sessions. Contact me at 310.390.9333 to set up an appointment between Oct. 8th and 11th in the Portland area.
That's the calendar update for now. Glad to be back out on the road again and hope to see all of you soon.
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Figures, you will be in Portland and I will be in Alaska. Thst would have been a great opportunity to finally meet you in person. Maybe next time! looks like everything is going well for you Randy!
Isn't that the way it always works out. I'm leaving tomorrow to start my drive up there. The traveling's been non-stop for the past month or so now. Looking forward to my visit in the Pacific Northwest.
I see no activity here or in Facebook for a few months. Hope all is well with you and yours.


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What can following our dreams do for us? Can they help us be a better person?
Earlier this year a client whom I've been coaching lost his job. Initially this was a shock and "rocked" his world. However on reflection, in spite of fears and insecurities that arose, he decided and was encouraged to follow what he's really passionate about, his dreams. Since then he has made excellent progress in that direction and in time will, I feel, reach great heights in his chosen field. Even more importantly he will positively touch many peoples lives with what he will create.
One day coming home on the bus in Chacago he saw a homeless man. In the past when he was unhappy within himself "doing a job" he really didn't like he would turn a blind eye to such a person and sometimes direct negative thoughts at them. However since he has chosen to follow his passions, irrespective of fears that arise, he is a lot more at peace within himself. Consequently on seeing such a homeless person he feels compassion  and directs such positive thoughts towards them.


This example demonstrates adding your own type coercers.
Type coercion allows you to pass a value of the wrong type to a component's parameter. Tapestry will see it and ask its TypeCoercer service to "coerce" it to the right type.
This enables passing a Long to an Integer parameter, a String to a Boolean parameter, a BigDecimal to a Double parameter, and so on. The full list is here.
Tapestry's DateField works with java.util.Date. Let's say you also wanted it to work with Joda Time's DateMidnight and LocalDate.
To achieve this, we have contributed 4 type coercers. You can see the contribution in AppModule, below.
To help you debug coercions, you can ask the TypeCoercer service to explain how it will coerce one type to another.
References: Form, Type Coercion, TypeCoercer Service, TypeCoercer, DateField, Joda Time.
This enables passing a Long to an Integer parameter, a String to a Boolean parameter, a BigDecimal to a Double parameter, and so on.
how it will coerce one type to another.
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Q: Is the analysis of residual variance still ANOVA? What about the regression, generalized models, quantile regression? I noticed the term ANOVA used in many contexts.
The one we are taught is ANOVA using the general linear model and only categorical independent variables. We ask if the variables affect the continuous outcome, or in other words, if there are differences between means across groups determined by the values of the categorical variables.
But this is immediately equivalent to test main effects in the regression model.
When we have variables with levels: A={A1, A2, A3} and B={B1, B2}, then the regression analysis will tell us about the coefficients for certain combinations of Ai and Bi (for example A2_B3) vs. the intercept, which is the combination of baseline values (A1_B1). If we wanted to ask if the A is a statistically significant effect, we test jointly A1, A2, A3. Same for B and their interaction A:B.
In R, for example, this is done using anova() procedure, which compares nested models: A + B + A:B vs: A, B and A + B. This is called also "analysis of variance table".
And so far I can understand it, because in both cases we speak about the same general linear model. All the statistical assumptions about group normality (which also means residual normality here) and homogeneity of variance (which also means homoscedasticity of variance) hold.
But now, I want to add continuous variables. Such ANOVA with continuous variables is ANCOVA = ANOVA adjusted for numerical covariates. But again, when we employ the linear model for that, Y = X0 + X1b1 (for A_1_B2) + x2b2 (for A2_B1) + .... _ xnbn (for some continuous variable Z), we can also test the main effects for A, B and now also Z. And again we use the "anova()" procedure - the analysis of residual variance table.
Let's go deeper. If I have a linear model with repeated data with clearly violated independence over time and issues with variance, I can employ a linear model fit via Generalized Least Square.
And again, I can test the main effects with anova() executed over the GLS fit linear model, to compare nested models term by term. Now the assumption of homogeneity of variable doesn't hold for the raw data. That's why we used the GLS!
Let's go even deeper and run some GLM, a logistic regression. We can also use the anova() to compare nested models and find the main effects = to say if categorical variable A, B and continuous variable Z affect the binary outcome. Now it is called "analysis of deviance table" rather than "residual variance".
And now neither assumption for the raw data is met!
We can also ask for the anova() for quantile regression, generalized additive models. This goes into madness.
Maybe this just unfortunate name of the anova() function, which should be called "joint_analysis_of_contrasts()". But other software also use the term "type 3 ANOVA" to analyze the main effects. Maybe we have been taught only the very special case of it.
Is ANOVA run over a GLM or GAM still the good old ANOVA, even if it handles continuous variables and allows me to violate all assumptions known from the linear model? Is this all ANOVA or only a "replacement word" for a more generic analysis?
And second question, how should I name properly the analysis in my article? "The main effects of the model have been evaluated using the ANOVA-type analysis", or "[...] analysis of residual variance analysis" or "[...] joint analysis of model coefficients" or any other wording that will be understood and accepted by reviewers.
Please help me to organize my knowledge about that.


Rockford elected a new mayor and we've got some questions for him. It's not what you're thinking.
May 1, 2017 will be the first day on the job as Rockford's mayor for Tom McNamara. You can bet his first day will be loaded with deep questions from Rockford news sources, which is not us.
We do have questions, though. From food, to traffic tickets, to weekend activities - we hit him with the most random questions we could think of.


We could find little specific information on Ortega's investments beyond real estate. If Ortega is as serious about climate change as the actions above suggest, disclosing more of his investment activity could inspire similar action among his peers.
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ (May 7, 2021) The International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) is proud to announce our endorsement for Assemblywoman BettyLou DeCroce re-election to the NJ General Assembly in District 26. The Assemblywoman has demonstrated her support for our association and others at the port through her actions as a member of the State Transportation Committee. She has worked tirelessly to help keep our ports open and thriving during these challenging economic times and the restrictions imposed during the pandemic.
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Alain Resnais: Je t'aime, je t'aime
Je t'aime, je t'aime
d. Alain Resnais (1968)
Alain Resnais is, I believe, best known for his first two feature films, Hiroshima mon amour (1959; my thoughts here) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961), two films that explore memory and the fragmentation of time and identity as individuals proceed to eek out their days in the present. In these films, with the help of writers such as Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, Resnais produced a vivid and visual interpretation of William Faulkner's famous line from Requiem for a Nun: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." He continues to zoom in on this theme with another enigmatic, fragmented narrative structure in his fifth feature, Je t'aime, je t'aime, which is getting a lovely Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber today.
As before, to script this film Resnais sought help from an author known for experimental work, this time to the Belgian absurdist science fiction writer Jacques Sternberg. According to Jonathan Rosenbaum who wrote the essay that is included with Kino's release, the film's script was formed out of 800 to 900 pages of Sternberg's automatic writing, which consisted of many large fragments. While a film that results from such a process might not sound appealing, Resnais and Sternberg have put together a tightly constructed film that, despite the fragmented narrative, is more accessible than either Hiroshima mon amour or Last Year in Marienbad, the latter of which is famously tough, if not impossible, to crack — not that it should crack.
Some of the accessibility is due to the film's framing device. As mentioned above, Sternberg was known as a science fiction writer, and Je t'aime, je t'aime is ostensibly a science fiction film that incorporates time travel. While it doesn't appear that Resnais was particularly interested in the science fiction element as anything other than a means to explore the past's effects on the present, the device serves as something to get us into the story. It allows us to explore, in terms that we are more comfortable with since the science fiction helps us open up to the irrational, the way the past assaults us, though we may be too scared to meet our memories head on.
The protagonist is a man named Claude Ridder (Claude Rich). When the film starts, he is being released from the mental hospital where he was receiving treatment after attempting to commit suicide (he quips that he was never very good with guns; that's why he missed). He barely gets out the door when he is approached by a couple of scientists who ask if he'd like to participate in an experiment. He knows little about the experiment, just that it's something to do with time travel and that, as the first human subject, he is the ideal candidate because, as they've seen by his recent actions, he has nothing to lose.
Claude is very willing. He doesn't even go home first but gets right into their car and travels to the rural research facility. When asked if he's scared he says that he has been afraid most of his life, but that he isn't anymore. He lies down on the strange orb, and the experiment is a success: he is sent back in time to relive (though not interact with or change) his past.
From the drab experimental chamber, Claude bursts from the sea. He is on vacation with his lover, Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot). However, the experiment is not as safe as the scientists had hoped. Once Claude has ventured into the past, he keeps shifting from one scene to another, then to another, all out of chronological order. He repeats many of them; indeed, he bursts from the sea so many times that it starts to feel more like he's floundering, trying not to drown. The scientists do not know how to retrieve him.
As I mentioned above, the science fiction element is incidental. This isn't really a movie about sending someone into the past and then not being able to retrieve him. In Jonathan Rosenbaum's essay, he says the film, "as Resnais himself pointed out, consists not of flashbacks but of moments of entrapment in a perpetual present." It's a movie about someone who has actively, but futilely, avoided his past; when he revisits it, which we do in memory, he drowns in it.
The fragmented narrative, which may frustrate some, is necessary as it allows us to circle the primary catalysts for trauma, much as we may do in real life. Our mind swirls back to events orbiting the heart of the matter. The fragmentation is a way of cutting things off before we get too close. In Je t'aime, je t'aime, it takes us some time to feel (I won't use the word understand as that implies resolution) what is going on, just what the narrative is avoiding, but we get enough information early on to feel the emotional stakes.
We see Claude with Catrine together, but we know that they were not together at the beginning of the movie. Indeed, we learn soon that Catrine is dead. Claude struggles to continue living — or cease to live — in the present despite his difficult past.
I personally still like Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad more. I find their enigmas, the lack of a stabilizing framing device, more invigorating, but I've had more time with them. I've found that Je t'aime, je t'aime is digging into my subconscious in similar ways, so who knows how it will settle down and affect me in the future. I'm looking forward to the relationship, and I highly recommend the film.
Supplements: The Kino disc comes with a number of insightful supplements that look at the film more than just the film production. Those are my favorite kind.
First we get a 12:43-minute audio interview with Alain Resnais. I love listening to Resnais discuss what he was going for with any particular film. He is thoughtful and sophisticated, and he can articulate in language many of the things that I thought might only be expressible (if at all) in film. I was likewise fascinated to learn that, for him, the title Je t'aime, je t'aime sounds like an alarm going off. I had not considered that before, but it does help explain the title treatment: when the film begins, the title shows up in bright red on black.
Next we get a 15:45-minute interview with Claude Rich. Though he's worked with a number of great directors — René Clair, Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, among others — I don't really know him or his work. I came to appreciate him more as the film went on and I watched him develop a character through non-chronological fragments. Here he talks mostly about the experience of making the film.
Lastly, other than a trailer and the essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum, which I brought up above, we get a 20:31-minute feature called The Meeting of Alain Resnais and Jacques Sternberg. This is mainly an interview with Sternberg by film scholar François Thomas. I loved this feature, especially since I enjoy hearing how Resnais worked with writers who often had little or nothing to do with film before Resnais came calling. Working on this film was meaningful for Sternberg: if you want to read more stories about Claude's time travels, he's written them.
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By Trevor Berrett|2018-05-13T19:44:07-04:00November 10th, 2015|Categories: Alain Resnais, Film Reviews|Tags: French|2 Comments
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Lee Monks November 12, 2015 at 10:49 am
This looks fascinating – I'm going to try and watch it in the following days. I love Marienbad as you know. And thanks for continually posting these film reviews. Oh and great stills!
Trevor Berrett November 12, 2015 at 1:13 pm
I think you'll find a lot to love here, Lee — please let me know how it goes!
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Gunnedah's Bec Smyth has a knack for finding the try-line. She's scored eight tries from 12 games in the women's 7s competition this year with four of those coming in her past three games. The Red Devil, who's at home playing on the edges, said service from her inside played a big role in her try-scoring ability but also noted another factor. "Sometimes it's more that I don't want to get tackled because I see the girls in the middle get smashed. So I just run as fast as I can," Smyth said. The Red Devils will be hoping Smyth will be able to keep her try-scoring run going as Gunnedah faces Pirates in the preliminary final at Weebolla Oval, Moree on Saturday. After finishing on top of the ladder, Pirates lost 20-17 in their semi-final against Inverell last week to set up the showdown for a spot in the grand final with the Red Devils. Smyth said the match could be won and lost on the fringes. "A little bit nervous but I'm excited, too," Smyth said of her feelings heading into the match. "It'll be really hard but I think our girls are tough enough to do it. "They're [Pirates] really quick so it'll be more about keeping them away from the outside and not letting them go around us." The Red Devils have arguably been the biggest improvers of the competition. READ ALSO: They didn't score a win until round nine but a pair of victories of against Scone kick-started their season. They went on to win another nine games from their remaining 14 matches to finish fourth. "It's really great. It's different to most clubs I've been in. I know a few of the girls hadn't even played any sort of sport and they've all really improved," she said. "John's such a good coach as well. "He really seems to know what he's talking about and always knows different ways of teaching us things." Knowing how desperately they want another crack at the Highlanders, Pirates coach Andrew Bowden expects his side to come out firing. He said they were a bit disheartened by the way the game finished up on Saturday, but have trained well this week. "There wasn't really too much we had to work on, just our rush defence and shutting the play down, and our slide defence," he said. They will welcome back UNE Lions squad member Sharnee Magner from injury but that has been counter-balanced by the loss of Miah O'Sullivan. The Country rep will be a big loss but Bowden has no doubt they can get the job done. "I think the girls we have in our side are just as good," he said. They won't be taking the Red Devils lightly though. "Gunnedah will be just as good (as Inverell)," Bowden said. Kick-off is at 2.35pm.
Gunnedah's Bec Smyth has a knack for finding the try-line.
She's scored eight tries from 12 games in the women's 7s competition this year with four of those coming in her past three games.
The Red Devil, who's at home playing on the edges, said service from her inside played a big role in her try-scoring ability but also noted another factor.
"Sometimes it's more that I don't want to get tackled because I see the girls in the middle get smashed. So I just run as fast as I can," Smyth said.
The Red Devils will be hoping Smyth will be able to keep her try-scoring run going as Gunnedah faces Pirates in the preliminary final at Weebolla Oval, Moree on Saturday.
After finishing on top of the ladder, Pirates lost 20-17 in their semi-final against Inverell last week to set up the showdown for a spot in the grand final with the Red Devils.
Smyth said the match could be won and lost on the fringes.
"A little bit nervous but I'm excited, too," Smyth said of her feelings heading into the match.
"It'll be really hard but I think our girls are tough enough to do it.
The Red Devils have arguably been the biggest improvers of the competition.
They didn't score a win until round nine but a pair of victories of against Scone kick-started their season.
They went on to win another nine games from their remaining 14 matches to finish fourth.
"It's really great. It's different to most clubs I've been in. I know a few of the girls hadn't even played any sort of sport and they've all really improved," she said.
"John's such a good coach as well.
Knowing how desperately they want another crack at the Highlanders, Pirates coach Andrew Bowden expects his side to come out firing.
He said they were a bit disheartened by the way the game finished up on Saturday, but have trained well this week.
"There wasn't really too much we had to work on, just our rush defence and shutting the play down, and our slide defence," he said.
They will welcome back UNE Lions squad member Sharnee Magner from injury but that has been counter-balanced by the loss of Miah O'Sullivan.
The Country rep will be a big loss but Bowden has no doubt they can get the job done.
"I think the girls we have in our side are just as good," he said.
They won't be taking the Red Devils lightly though.


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Q: What is the best way to split css files for IE through assets:precompile assets pipeline I am using the  CssSplitter module by CristianPeters. And I am hoping to have the split occur during the assets:precompile task and the only way I have been successful so far is to patch the Sprockets::StaticCompiler. Hoping there is a better way to do it.
I appreciate any advice

A: When confronted to this problem, I just split my manifest in 2 :

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*having 1 for base (reset, twitter bootstrap, …) and

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A: If you are writing stylesheets specifically for the IEs, it's best not to concatenate them all together. Therefore, I would have a main manifest file, where I would load all my general stylesheet files together, and 1/2/3 manifest(s) for the IE(s) using the conditional comments (http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html) :
<%= stylesheet_link_tag :application %> // main manifest
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in this manner I would be assured that the css loading performance wouldn't be hurt in the non-IE browsers and that my IE-specific stylesheets would not be loaded for the various versions in which they are anyways not supposed to be loaded (IE6 corrections in IE7, p.ex.).


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The government's flagship agricultural programme, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ), has been acknowledged as the "Most Outstanding Programme" among the many interventions introduced by the government.
The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG), which acknowledged the performance of the programme, noted that the PFJ initiative held great prospects for the agricultural sector.
A citation to the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, stated that the policy had evoked "euphoria, excitement and unparalleled coverage" for players in the industry.
A delegation of the chamber, led by its National Chairperson, Ms Marjorie Abdin, presented the citation to the minister in his office last Friday.
She noted that the programme was a revolutionary step towards reviving the agricultural sector in the country.
Ms Abdin, who presented the citation to Dr Akoto, explained that the presentation was acknowledgement of the outstanding contribution of the programme to the country's agricultural industry.
The group also honoured the minister for championing the Planting for Food and Jobs programme, describing his work as "outstanding performance" since his appointment.
The latest award follows similar recognition by the Association of Aides to Regional Chairmen of the NPP, which voted Dr Akoto as the best performing appointee for the year 2018.
Dr Akoto expressed appreciation to the CAG for the honour and recognition of the contribution of the ministry.
He reiterated the commitment of the government and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to the agricultural sector.
Dr Akoto said the award to the ministry was a due recognition of the impact the programme had had on the businesses of members of the chamber.
The delegation also included a board member and Chairman of the National Farmers and Fishers Award Winners Association of Ghana, Mr Davies Narh Korboe, and the CEO of the chamber, Mr Anthony Morrison.
Others were the Senior Advisor, Research & Development of the chamber, Prof. Paa Nii Johnson, who is also with the University of Ghana/CSIR; the Director of Food and Intellectual Property, Dr Courage Adanu Bessah; a Senior Policy Advisor at the chamber, Togbe Festus, and the Resource Economist at the chamber, Mr Ebenezer Ennibil.