In his Talking Points Memo tonight, Bill O'Reilly called on President Obama to "wise up" and prove that he's committed to fighting the jihad.
O'Reilly highlighted an interview Monday in which Martha MacCallum took on a State Department spokesperson, questioning why the administration is avoiding the term "Islamic extremism".
The official responded by stating that it's "not the only kind of extremism" that the country is facing.
O'Reilly remarked that the United States has failed in the effort to diminish the jihad and now the Obama administration "seems disengaged" from fighting it and continues to make "unforced errors."
"It is clear to any fair minded American that there is something amiss with the president's view of the radical Muslim threat," O'Reilly said. "We have the perception that President Obama doesn't care much about defeating the jihad. That's probably not true, but certainly he is not a terror warrior."
Watch the full commentary above, along with the discussion with Imam Malik Mujahid, a producer of the upcoming "Stand With the Prophet" conference in Texas.


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Guangzhou: 'Reverse code scanning' causes congestion, and increased swearing in Cantonese
Katherine Miller | TheBL 09/15/22, 15:02
Code scanning in a Guangzhou subway station, according to Kiefer Lam on Sept. 8, 2022. (YouTube/Screenshot via TheBL/YouTube)
In Guangzhou, due to a pandemic prevention order, the subway stop for public buses was skipped. Local netizens began leaving messages in Cantonese, to avoid censorship and cursed authorities. A few days ago, several metro stations in Guangzhou launched "reverse code scanning," which caused congestion and brought attention to why there is increased swearing in Cantonese.
On September 6, the official Weibo account of the Guangzhou Metro subway announced that they will implement a batch code scan to enter the station and some major stations will require a "reverse code scan." That means, passengers with a health code can check the code on the device located at the station door, and can only enter the station after the display displays an enter signal. Normally, when you have a satisfactory health code, you just need to scan the code and you are admitted, that's called scanning the code forward.
As the Chinese Communist Party vigorously enforcing the zero COVID policy, scanning QR codes has become the standard for Chinese people on the go. When going in and out of public places, there are different QR codes that people need to scan with their mobile phones, including health codes, travel codes, and location codes. Scanning registers personal information in a particular public place, while health codes mainly include information such as the results of an individual's COVID test.
On September 8, the Guangzhou subway began to deploy code scanning to enter the station. At most stations, those entering the station need to scan the location code to enter. Some stations have installed QR code scanners and people need to swipe a health code when entering and leaving the station.
The official media claims that "reverse code scanning" helps the elderly "bridge the digital divide." But in reality, according to NTDTV, subway stations are packed with people, and the scanning codes to enter the station create congestion. If one person can't scan the code, one hundred people will be delayed, which has sparked criticism.
According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), many netizens described the chaos caused by the "reverse scan codes." Some people said that as soon as they left work, they saw a long line of people at the subway entrance waiting to scan the code, and people around were swearing. Some people also said that they had to scramble to scan the code. After scanning, they had to jostle each other to get into the station. Sometimes there was a crowd of people around the code scanner, some people said the code had expired, some people swiped "Scanning can't go" making everyone unable to move.
Local netizens expressed their frustration on social media platforms. Many were retweets with swearing in Cantonese, and the sensitive phrase "Where there is oppression, there is resistance." Because the comments are circulated in Cantonese, many messages have successfully escaped censorship. One Weibo user said that the Guangzhou subway has "clearly shown the whole country that swearing in the local language (Cantonese) is trending."
The text in Cantonese in this picture is, "Where there is oppression, there is resistance. When the country is a mess, it is our responsibility to speak up. The national language censorship system hinders you, but my language system belongs to the people of the world, if you shout in your mother tongue, even if you curse them, you will still get to the top of the search."
According to reports, at the end of last month, Haizhou District in Guangzhou was closed. Subways and buses began a no stop at the Haizhou District point. And when the bus's skipped this stop it caused an "army of bicycles" to appear in the area. At the same time, many netizens started cursing people in Cantonese, and words like "self-governing Cantonese" appeared.
The text in this picture says, "Cantonese Autonomous Cantonese can also use their Cantonese language."
The zero COVID policy has become more and more frantic, so much so that it was derided as the "second cultural revolution." There are also some netizens who think that this is the second "Great Leap Forward" movement.
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Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
'Absurdist dystopian black comedy film' is a pretty heady way of describing The Lobster. It's not inaccurate – it is absurd, it is a black comedy, it's vague background details could suggest a dystopia – but it shunts the movie into a particular genre that invites knowing nods and shared shelf space with obscure, outre flicks, when it's actually a ridiculously simple film, with one rather purposeless tweak that makes its simplicity absurd. I mean, 'purposeless' and absurdity go together, but if you take that tweak away, The Lobster is really just saying one thing for its two hour runtime: relationships are wacky, y'all.
In The Lobster, couples are praised above all else; individuals are stopped by the police and checked to make sure they're partnered up, and it seems that if they're not, they get to check in to 'The Hotel' – which our recently singled David (Colin Farrell) is doing – and given 45 days to find a mate. Should they not secure such a mate by the end of that sentence, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing, accounting for the various critters we see plodding about the forest surrounding the hotel – camels, peacocks, etc. This is a funny concept, and it gives the flick its title: David has chosen a lobster as his fallback transformation (they live a long time; they're always fertile), and it offsets the usual dystopian shtick of death or brainwashing. Fair enough. But that's pretty much all The Lobster has.
Stripping social interactions down to an essentially contractual one – which is the satire here – everyone speaks in monotone soundbytes, and only know to "bond" when they both share the same nuance, such as a limp, or near-sightedness. At the midway point, David breaks free of the hotel to join 'the loners' prowling the woods, but finds they essentially have their own rules as well, just the flipside "anarchist" version of coupling: stringent singledom.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos makes all of this engaging visually, taking a flat, observer approach that mimics the dialogue's tone, but not holding shots for longer than necessary to pad out a joke. Everything feels framed purposefully to depersonalize everyone, which definitely makes the main gag here even more ridiculous. These scenes are then cast against very dramatic, horror-movie-ish stings, captured in slo-mo, once more overblowing the dramaturgy humorously. And the actors – Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux – get the tone, not playing their roles as dullards or hopeless, but just as what's described above: people, with all the need for actual uniqueness and real interactions sucked out of their lives.
But the movie is still ridiculously simple. Early scenes in which singles are trained on the benefits of not being single – if you walk alone, you're raped! – feel like the kind of anti-coupling banter I went through as a high schooler, and extending this out to two hours, while not unentertaining, comes across as someone trying to snark at swipe-right culture, which is… the same as it ever was, just a bit faster paced and digital. Relationships are wacky. I'm not sure The Lobster has more to say than that.


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People with delusions understand metaphor differently – here's how it could help explain schizophrenia
by Felicity Deamer, The Conversation
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Figurative language, by which the speaker intends to communicate something other than what is actually said by the words used, is commonplace in human communication. Some claim that metaphorical expressions such as "My home has become a prison" or "My daughter is a monster" are used on average six times during every minute of conversation.
People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia will have been, just like anyone else, exposed to non-literal language from childhood. But research suggests that they have difficulty accurately interpreting it. Findings also show that they have trouble generally making sense of language in context—that is, inferring someone's intended meaning in a particular situation.
But it isn't clear whether these difficulties with metaphor stem from other cognitive impairments that we associate with schizophrenia, including problems with Theory of Mind (the ability to attribute beliefs, desires and emotions to oneself and to others), working memory, or language more generally. Furthermore, the tasks used to measure metaphor understanding in these studies typically require subjects to explain what they take to be the meaning of the metaphor, which measures expressive skills, rather than just comprehension.
So what are we doing when we take something non-literally? Context is certainly crucial. "She is a pig" can mean at least two different things: an actual farmyard animal, or a friend with poor table manners. That is a very straightforward example, but hearers arrive at a specific non-literal interpretation based on numerous variables.
The exact processes we follow to arrive at an accurate interpretation of a metaphor (or any utterance) remain uncertain. But most endorse the view that, in order to understand a metaphor such as: "My daughter is a monster", features associated with the literal meaning of the metaphor (in this example, "monster") which are irrelevant to the metaphorical interpretation (for example, big, green, hairy) are ignored, while those features that are relevant to the interpretation (nasty, difficult) are not.
Some have suggested their findings provide evidence of a need to actively suppress metaphor irrelevant features when you're in the process of interpreting a metaphor. So it's notable that impaired inhibitory control (the ability to inhibit or suppress salient information) has been shown in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia – all conditions associated with metaphor comprehension deficits.
Indeed, some findings suggest that it is the impaired inhibitory control that is specifically associated with poorer metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia.
With Ellen Palmer, Quoc Vuong, Nicol Ferrier, Andreas Finkelmeyer, Wolfram Hinzen and Stuart Watson, I researched metaphor comprehension in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. But this time we used a novel picture selection task to measure their understanding, so that any difficulties with expression could be ruled out as a causal factor.
A farmyard animal… or someone with bad table manners? Credit: Shutterstock
We also tested participants' performance on two other tasks that measured their ability to understand other people's beliefs, desires and emotional states, and their ability to inhibit an action in order to carry out a task accurately. This enabled us to determine whether performance on the metaphor comprehension task was associated with other, more general cognitive capacities.
We showed that even when IQ, number of years of education, and ability to understand others' beliefs and emotions were considered, participants were significantly more likely to interpret metaphorical expressions literally.
Performance on the inhibitory control task suggested that deficits in this area are likely to be one of multiple factors contributing to the poorer performance of our schizophrenia group on the metaphor trials of the picture selection task.
Given that people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have this propensity to take things literally, might this help us better understand psychosis? And how might the unusual experiences that are characteristic of psychosis (hallucinations and altered mood, for example) elicit, or even require, figurative thinking?
It has been argued that we can only reason about emotion through metaphorical "thinking". Delusional subjects are likely to encounter an increased number of strong and unfamiliar emotions and experiences, which they also make sense of through metaphorical thinking. But perhaps over time this non-literal thinking might come to be understood literally by those with delusions (due in part to these deficits in metaphor comprehension).
What might have started as a best attempt to reason about an ever-more complex set of emotions, feelings and experiences in a loose, less-than-literal way (for example: "It's as though I'm being watched in my own home"), might come, over time, to be understood increasingly literally. This might be "fuelled" by several factors.
First, metaphorical thinking might "colour" the way the world is perceived. There is some evidence to suggest that, even if metaphorical thinking remains appreciated as non-literal, the figurative meaning can remain tinged by the literal meaning. For example, when an utterance such as: "That was just terrific" is intended as an ironic criticism, it remains coloured by the positive, literal meaning. There is no reason to think that such an effect would be confined to irony—it may also extend to other non-literal modes of expression, such as metaphor.
It seems plausible, then, that the thought "I am Jesus" (the kind of thing someone experiencing psychosis might say) – even when interpreted non-literally as an expression of moral self-worth—would remain tinged with the literal meaning. This seems even more likely among those who struggle to separate literal from non-literal meaning.
Finally, if one lives an isolated lifestyle – which is common among individuals experiencing the onset of psychosis – a lack of interpersonal communication can often lead to an increase in intrapersonal communication, that is communication within one's own mind. These thoughts could then become more and more "figurative" as the psychotic episode worsens and the individual becomes more isolated from those who might correct them.
Study locates brain areas for understanding metaphors in healthy and schizophrenic people
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Lewis & Clark advances animal law field
(Portland, Ore.)—The scope of animal law has never been more apparent. A steady stream of media reports about abuse, factory farms, connections between animals and the environment, and the rights of pets reminds us daily of the links between our world and the world of animals. As this subject gains traction in the social consciousness, a leader in the field of animal advocacy, Lewis & Clark Law School, will bring animal law advocates, practitioners and political leaders together to share ideas and resources.
The 15th Annual Animal Law Conference, titled "Building Bridges: Strengthening the Animal Advocacy Movement," will be hosted by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and the National Center for Animal Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. This year's conference will spend three days, Sept. 28-30, delving into several established and emerging issues, including:
• the impacts of global warming
• securing damages for the abuse or loss of pets
• dog fighting
• factory farms
Within the larger theme of this year's conference, speakers will address how diverse groups—even those within other social advocacy campaigns, like the environmental movement—can band together to advance animal law and work for the mutual benefit of animals, humans and the environment. Leaders in the field of animal law will also discuss how improving legal protections for wildlife, domestic and companion animals and animals raised for food serves the interests of humans and animals alike.
"The field of animal law is gaining momentum," said Alexis Fox, co-director of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at Lewis & Clark Law School. "More and more law students and practitioners are showing an interest in animal protection. It is no longer a matter of if the law will recognize the intrinsic value of animals, but when. This conference brings together professionals and students that are interested in animal law to learn from each other and reach out to other advocacy communities."
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), a champion for animal protection legislation in the House of Representatives and a Lewis & Clark Law School alumnus, will give the keynote address at the Saturday evening banquet.
The registration fee of $150, $25 for students, includes ten panels and workshops, a CD of all conference materials, meals and admittance to the banquet and keynote address. Continuing legal education credits are available for attorneys. The conference provides useful information for attorneys, nonprofit and government agencies, educators, students and members of the general public interested in animal law, animal advocacy and the environment.
For conference registration information and a complete schedule of events, visit http://www.lclark.edu/org/saldf/conference.html.
The National Center for Animal Law, based at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., trains and supports animal law students to further the field of animal law and promote legal protections for animals. The center develops curriculum, training, and resources for current and future litigators, prosecutors and judges; executive directors, staff and board members of non-profit organizations; and lobbyists and legislators creating stronger legal protections for animals. The Animal Law Clinic provides legal services in animal protection cases.
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Not sure what to do with all those old magazines? Get creative and turn the pages into paper bowls or coasters! This is a great project to celebrate Earth Day – or just a fun way to spend a lazy afternoon.
Discuss how reusing or repurposing everyday objects can create new items and reduce trash.
Explore other cultures or groups who use recycled objects to create art.
Research and discuss how paper is made.
Neatly cut each magazine page from the binding.
Fold all the paper before assembling.
Fold a page in half lengthwise.
Open the paper and fold the long edges in to meet at the crease you just made in the center.
Fold the new outer edges in again so that they meet in the middle.
Fold in half lengthwise (on original crease) so you have one long strip. Depending on the size of the page, the finished strip will be approx. 1" x 10".
To make the folds crisp, hold the strip at both ends and rub along the edge of a table or firmly rub across the strip with a ruler.
Repeat with remaining pages of both magazines (excluding covers).
To make the bowl, take one paper strip and roll it up as tightly as you can. Run a bit of glue along the open edge to keep it folded. Add a dab of glue to the end of the roll and a piece of tape to hold the coiled center together tightly.
Take the next strip and glue it to the center roll. Wrap it tightly around and tape it. Continue to do this with each page until you have coiled a circle that is 6–7 inches wide. This requires about 100 pages.
Once the circle is complete, gently push the coil into a bowl shape (see note #1 below before moving on).
Coat each side of the bowl with Modge Podge, allowing each side to dry thoroughly in between coats. Three coats of Modge Podge help preserve the paper and make the bowl more stable.
Note #1: If the coils are too loose when you push the bowl into shape, place the paper bowl over a ceramic bowl (to create a bowl shape and hold it in place) while you secure it with a coat of Modge Podge on the outside.
Create coasters by making the coils smaller (3-4 inches across) and leaving them flat.
Using colorful magazine pages and sorting by color, adds academic elements, as does talking about folding pages into halves, fourths and eighths.
This project can also be done with newspaper.


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Q: List groups and number of users in AD using Powershell I am trying to pull a list of groups from AD that start with "pegp" and a count of how many users are in each group and performing this action in PowerShell. This script will give me a list of the all the groups, but I also need how many users are in each group:
$groups = Get-ADGroup -Filter "Name -like 'pegp*'"

$Output = forEach($group in $groups) {

    Get-ADGroup -Identity $group | Select-Object name

}

$Output | Export-Csv C:\temp\file_test2.csv

I then tried this code, but it's not giving me a count of the users in each group and is actually inserting an additional row after each group name in the CSV:
$groups = Get-ADGroup -Filter "Name -like 'pegp*'"

$Output = forEach($group in $groups) {

    Get-ADGroup -Identity $group | Select-Object name
    (Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group).count
}

$Output | Export-Csv C:\temp\file_test4.csv

Since I'm still new to PowerShell and programming in general, I thought I'd reach out to the well of knowledge to help me figure out where I'm going wrong. Thanks!

A: Your current code produces an alternating stream of 1 object with a Name property, and 1 integer, which is why Export-Csv is not producing the results you want - it's expecting uniform input.
What you'll want to do is produce 1 object with 2 properties - for that you could use the Select-Object cmdlet with a calculated property for the member count:
$groupsWithMemberCount = Get-ADGroup -Filter "Name -like 'pegp*'" |Select Name,@{Name='MemberCount';Expression={@(Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $_).Count }}

# no need to call Get-ADGroup again, we already have all the information we need
$groupsWithMemberCount |Export-Csv C:\temp\file_test4.csv -NoTypeInformation

Beware that this counts the total number of members (principals AND nested groups).
If you want only users, filter the ouput from Get-ADGroupMember based on their objectClass:
$groupsWithMemberCount = Get-ADGroup -Filter "Name -like 'pegp*'" |Select Name,@{Name='MemberCount';Expression={@(Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $_ |Where-Object objectClass -eq 'user').Count}}

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"We have to keep fighting so our children will have a better future," said Evelyn Servin, organizer with ACIJ. "We are an immigrant family. We contribute something beautiful. We make this country richer, and not just economically, but in culture. And so we must keep fighting," said Servin.
FIRM and ally groups present included: the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ), Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), and Latin American Coalition (LAC from North Carolina).
This group is part of a larger caravan with delegations from 8 Southeast states convening in New Orleans on Friday. There are over 20 solidarity events going on around the country lifting up the families impacted by the delays caused by this lawsuit of the President's administrative relief programs.


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Göpfersdorf  est une commune allemande de l'est du land de Thuringe située dans l'arrondissement du Pays-d'Altenbourg. Göpfersdorf fait partie de la Communauté d'administration de la Wiera.

Géographie

Göpfersdorf est située à l'est de l'arrondissement, au sud de la forêt de la Leina, à la limite avec l'arrondissement de Zwickau (Saxe), à  au sud-est d'Altenbourg, le chef-lieud e l'arrondissement. Elle regroupe le village de Göpfersdorf et celui de Garbisdorf.

Communes limitrophes (en commençant par le nord et dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre) : Frohnsdorf, Jückelberg, Waldenburg et Ziegelheim.

Histoire

Göpfersdorf a été mentionné pour la première fois par écrit en 1336. L'église de Göpfersdorf, de style gothique tardif, est mentionnée en 1413 dans un document de fondation de l'abbaye Saint-Georges d'Altenbourg. Les deux villages faisaient autrefois du duché de Saxe-Altenbourg.

Monuments
Quellenhof: grande ferme du  à colombages typiques d'Altenbourg, servant de centre culturel et d'expositions ; jardin également protégé, galerie Pferdestall (de l'Écurie), à Garbisdorf
Alter Pferdestall; bâtiment de 1751 (anciennes écuries)
Église de Görpersdorf et son orgue de Hesse de 1829
Église Sainte-Catherine de Garbisdorf
Nombreuses maisons à colombages typiques

Galerie

Démographie

Commune de Göpfersdorf :

Notes et références

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Largest Confirmed Event During Covid-19 Shuttering Coming To Charleston
Credit One Bank Invitational will feature 16 WTA players divided into two teams, including the winners of the two most recent majors, Bianca Andreescu and Sofia Kenin, and 2019 WTA Charleston titlist Madison Keys.
Madison Keys (photo: Brigitte Urban)
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2020 (by Michael Dickens)
Charleston, South Carolina, has been a regular stop on the WTA Tour for the past two decades. However, the 2020 Volvo Car Open was one of the first events cancelled after the coronavirus outbreak shut down professional tennis indefinitely.
Now, 16 WTA players, including Bianca Andreescu and Sofia Kenin, will come together and launch the inaugural Credit One Bank Invitational at LTP Daniel Island in Charleston, June 23-28. It is the largest single confirmed event since tennis started re-opening with regional events in the United States and Europe.
The Credit One Bank Invitational, which will feature 16 singles and eight doubles matches, will raise funds for the Medical University of South Carolina's (MUSC) frontline healthcare workers. The exhibition tournament will be broadcast live on Tennis Channel as part of its (Re)Open Tour and played without fans.
According to Ben Navarro, Owner of Charleston Tennis LLC, "Charleston has proven time and again to be the poster child for resiliency – and in my mind, this special tournament will help accomplish three very critical things," he said in a statement. "First, it is a tangible way to show the world we are able to bring back live sport for public enjoyment; Second, it allows our community and tennis fans all over to support the tennis professionals whose opportunities to compete this year have been severely limited; Third, it helps us show our frontline medical professionals how much we care, with half of the proceeds going directly to support MUSC."
Besides Andreescu, the reigning US Open champion, and Kenin, who won this year's Australian Open, others who will participate in the Credit One Bank Invitational include: Madison Keys, winner of the 2019 Volvo Car Open, and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who will serve as captains. Also: Victoria Azarenka, Sloane Stephens, Monica Puig, Amanda Anisimova, Jennifer Brady, Danielle Collins, Alison Riske, Shelby Rogers, Eugenie Bouchard, Leylah Annie Fernandez, Ajla Tomljanovic and Emma Navarro. (Riske, Anisimova, Collins and Tomljanovic are participating in this weekend's UTR Pro Match Series exhibition in West Palm Beach, Fla.)
THE LATEST: Tennis is coming back to Charleston next month. 🙌
A 16-player team event that includes current major title holders @Bandreescu_ and @SofiaKenin alongside captains @Madison_Keys and @matteksands will kick off on June 23. https://t.co/h3zO3vb4OL
— TENNIS (@Tennis) May 22, 2020
Osaka is world's top-earning female athlete
According to Forbes, Naomi Osaka is the world's top-earning female athlete. Since June 1, 2019, the former World No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion from Japan earned $37.4 million (£30.74 million, 34.29 million euros) from a variety of endorsements and prize money.
The 22-year-old Osaka, who is ranked No. 29 overall, surpassed Serena Williams (at 33rd) in Forbes' annual list of 100 top-earning athletes. She out-earned Williams by $1.4 million. Forbes said Osaka's total is a single-year record for a female athlete and tops the previous mark of $29.7 million set by Maria Sharapova in 2015.
Osaka's career earnings on the WTA Tour have exceeded $14.6 million. She earned more than $6.7 million in 2019. Among her 15 endorsements, Osaka has deals with Nike, Yonex, Nissan Motor, MasterCard and Citizen Watch.
According to Forbes, the highest-paid female athlete every year since it began tracking the list in 1990 has been a tennis player. Sharapova, Li Na, Williams and now Osaka are the only women to rank among the top 100 top money earners in sports since 2012.
22-year-old Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka racked up $37 million in earnings in the past year, more than any other female athlete in history https://t.co/WX8iCK1SUv pic.twitter.com/xfbY0hPUMU
— Forbes (@Forbes) May 22, 2020
Madison Keys: Kindness Wins Day
At age 25, American Madison Keys has devoted plenty of her time and energy beyond the tennis court as a vocal hero and a tireless champion for the empowerment of young women, first through FearlesslyGirl and now through her new foundation Kindness Wins. Friday was the second annual #KindnessWinsDay, which Keys described via Twitter as "really just a day to recognize someone and say thank you."
Plenty of Keys's peers in pro tennis did just that.
Thanking you @Madison_Keys for spreading such a kind and positive message during these tough times for everyone 🤗 https://t.co/LUxhqvqERd
— Petra Kvitova (@Petra_Kvitova) May 22, 2020
❤ #KindnessWinsDay https://t.co/GBTGsjS93w
— Madison Keys (@Madison_Keys) May 22, 2020
At the end of the day, Keys wrote on Twitter: "To all of you who stepped up in our world's time of need, is thank you even enough? Your kindness, compassion and dedication to your jobs and us is something that deserves all of our kindness in return every day." 🙏🏽#KindnessWinsDay
Behind The Racquet – Alison Van Uytvanck
Fifty-seventh-ranked Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium first took up tennis at age 5 and as a professional has played in the shadows of her more-recognized countrywoman Elise Mertens. The 26-year-old from Vilvoorde, who is fluent in Dutch, English and French, has won four singles titles and been a Top 100 fixture since 2013. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 37 in August 2018.
Last December, Van Uytvanck penned a first-person essay for the Instagram series Behind The Racquet in which she described the torment of being bullied by other kids as she tried to learn the sport while at the Belgium Federation. She described the experience as "the toughest moment of my life." However, as she grew older, she began to open up and speak out.
"As many know, I came out about three years ago, when I was 22," Van Uytvanck wrote. "From what I went through it gave me the courage to open up about my sexuality, which I was nervous to do. I have been fortunate to find my girlfriend, Greet Minnen, who I have been with for the past three years now. It was nice to know that my parents dealt with me coming out well, they just wanted me to be happy and healthy. My girlfriend is a huge piece of why I am so happy today. She is one of the first people, outside my family, to give me confidence and tell me I'm beautiful just the way I am, including my hair. I finally felt accepted by someone. We also had the amazing opportunity to play doubles together in this past Wimbledon. It's so good to know that I am supported by many people now.
"When I came out I immediately got a lot of positive support on social media, which shocked me. I feel like myself now, doing what I want to do, even participating in Pride Day during the US Open. Through all my experiences I feel like I need to share my story with others to hopefully help them. My girlfriend and I will sometimes train back at the federation and we talk to as many kids as possible. We tell them how important it is to show respect and tell them if they ever need help or have questions that we are there to answer. We have already helped kids get through events in their life. This makes it all worth it. If I ever get down I remember the kids that bullied me, who 'had more potential', are not playing tennis anymore, and here I am!"
"I was around ten or eleven years old when I first went to the Belgium Federation to train. I quickly realized it was not going to be what I thought it would. I began to be bullied every day by the other kids, who were mostly guys. They would constantly make fun of my hair and it would make me feel miserable. I never felt so alone, having no friends and unable to really talk to parents. I felt like opening up about my bullying, especially to my parents, would just make other people's lives tougher and I never wanted that. After about a year of dealing with this I finally said something to the coaches. They spoke to the kids about the issue, which only helped for about two days until it went back to 'normal'. I had no one to lean on for help and found myself crying in my room day after day. It came to an end when I was kicked out. Beyond not fitting in I was consistently injured and the people at the top didn't believe in me and how my tennis was improving. It was the toughest moment of my life, but has made me the person I am today. It took some time to get passed the experiences I dealt with. My self esteem was very low and I stopped trusting myself. I started to believe the kids that once told me that I actually wasn't beautiful and it led to my lack of confidence in tennis. I first spoke to many psychologists about my traumas, who really were the first people I opened up to. As many know, I came out about three years ago, when I was 22. From what I went through it gave me the courage to open up about my sexuality, which I was nervous to do. I have been fortunate to find my girlfriend, Greet Minnen, who I have been with for the past three years now. It was nice to know that my parents dealt with me coming out well, they just wanted me to be happy and healthy. My girlfriend is a huge piece of why I am so happy today. She is one of the first people, outside my family, to give me confidence and tell me I'm beautiful just the way I am, including my hair. I finally felt accepted by someone. We also had the amazing opportunity to play doubles together in this past Wimbledon…" @alison_van_uytvanck Read full story at behindtheracquet.com (link in bio)
A post shared by Behind The Racquet (@behindtheracquet) on Dec 1, 2019 at 11:40am PST
Christopher Clarey, New York Times tennis correspondent, writes on Twitter: "Strange to see. The French Open's Chatrier Court with a roof after nearly 100 years. All 4 Slams now have main-court retractable roofs."
Strange to see. The French Open's Chatrier Court with a roof after nearly 100 years
All 4 Slams now have main-court retractable roofs
📸Getty pic.twitter.com/6LepPozyXe
— Christopher Clarey (@christophclarey) May 21, 2020
What they're sharing on social media
Naomi Osaka's "Quarantine Pressroom"
This week, Naomi Osaka started a series of Instagram Live chats with fellow tennis pros. On Friday, she shared a lively conversation with France's Gaël Monfils, whom she identified as one of her three favorite players. Among the topics they discussed were Gaël's love of comic books ("I'm crazy about the Avengers, so it's funny"), his favorite dance and his love of Japanese cuisine.
Loved everything about Naomi's chat with Monfils. Started with their shared love of Avengers, and ended with them listening to some Japanese rap.
Next up for Naomi Osaka in her "2020 Quarantine Pressroom": Tsitsipas then Swiatek.
[📽: @naomiosaka] pic.twitter.com/xejpuwpqjn
— Reem Abulleil (@ReemAbulleil) May 22, 2020
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Ethmodiscus is a genus of diatoms found widely scattered throughout the intertropical and temperate zones in the world's oceans. The large diatom genus can get up to 2mm in size, and it has distinct cell features like a vacuole that comprises over 99% of its cell's volume. Despite their large size, they are known to be in open oceans in low quantity. While in the ocean, Ethmodiscus use buoyancy control to migrate up and down to the high nitrogen depths and return to the surface to photosynthesize. Additionally, the biological characteristics of Ethmodiscus are an important component in interpreting deep-sea sedimentary richness and distribution.

Ethmodiscus rex is one of the most frequent species found in deep-sea sediments. The species was found by John D. Wiseman and Ingram N. Hendey in 1952 on the deep-sea floor by the H.M.S. Challenger. During this time, E. rex was known to rarely be found in the living state in plankton communities.

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Nick at Nite to Launch New Sitcom, More See Dad Run Episodes; Episodic Review: Raising Hope - "Modern Wedding" and New Girl - "Cooler" Airing Tonight on Fox
After five successful seasons on the groundbreaking series iCarly, Jerry Trainor steps into his first starring and producing role on Nick at Nite's brand-new live-action family sitcom, Wendell & Vinnie, premiering Sunday, Feb. 17, at 8pm ET/PT. A multi-camera scripted half-hour, the series follows 30-year-old Vinnie Bassett (Trainor) living the life of a carefree bachelor, when he suddenly becomes the legal guardian of his precocious, wise-beyond-his-years nephew, Wendell (Buddy Handleson, Shake It Up) forming a hysterical odd-couple family dynamic. Nicole Sullivan (The King of Queens, MadTV) also stars as Vinnie's older unlucky-in-love sister, Wilma, with Haley Strode (Gangster Squad) as Vinnie's newly divorced neighbor and love interest, Taryn. The series will air regularly on Sundays at 8pm (ET/PT) followed by the Scott Baio original comedy, See Dad Run at its new time of 8:30pm, which returns with all-new episodes to finish off its 20-episode first season. So far 9 episodes of See Dad Run have aired and also another batch of 20 episodes have been ordered for a second season.
Wendell & Vinnie was also ordered for 20 episodes and follows Vinnie Bassett, proprietor of a pop culture memorabilia store who only takes breaks to read comic books and play video games. His bachelor life comes to a halt when he assumes guardianship of his incredibly intelligent and mature nephew, Wendell. They soon find that 12-year-old Wendell may be just the parent Vinnie needs. This season will find lighthearted Vinnie helping socially awkward Wendell - and vice versa - including Vinnie navigating through PTA politics to help Wendell build a school garden, a sleepover that goes awry when Vinnie becomes the center of attention and Wendell sent to detention after he helps Vinnie get closer to his vice principal. Wendell & Vinnie will also feature special guest appearances by Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), Robin Givens (Head of the Class, House of Payne) and Willie Garson (Sex and the City). In support of the Feb. 17 premiere, NickatNite.com has launched its Wendell & Vinnie show site, which includes trailers, character information, sneak peek photo galleries and message boards as well as a "Are You A Wendell or a Vinnie?" quiz. Full episodes will also be made available after each premiere. Beginning Feb. 18, Wendell & Vinnie episodes will be available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Xbox Video, Vudu, PlayStation Store and Samsung Media Hub. Viewers can keep up with the show on Twitter by following the Nick@Nite handle at @nickatnitetv and by liking the Wendell & Vinnie Facebook page.
On the next...Raising Hope:
By: Todd
Fox's Tuesday sitcom starring Martha Plimpton airs Tuesday nights at 8:00pm and we have just watched the next episode that airs tonight (Jan. 29). In the episode airing tonight, "Modern Wedding," the wedding day is finally here and Sabrina's mom has hired the camera crew from Modern Family to capture the whole blessed event. But a series of catastrophes threatens to ruin the day, including a battle between Maw Maw and Reverend Bob (guest star Leslie Jordan). So Burt and Virginia scramble to save the ceremony and keep Jimmy and Sabrina in ignorant, matrimonial bliss.
It's the event three years in the making - Jimmy and Sabrina's wedding! Sabrina's mom thinks she will be married three or four times, so she decides to hire the Modern Family camera crew to record it. Things then go horribly wrong. Their wedding invitations are sent to an incorrect address. Virginia and Burt try to get them their marriage license as a gift. The cake is too large to fit in Jimmy and Sabrina's car. Maw Maw and Reverend Bob argue their past history. The wedding gets delayed when Reverend Bob refuses to perform the ceremony. A surprise guest from past episodes also makes a visit to the wedding.
Tonight's episode is one of the highlights of the season. It's filmed in the same style of a Modern Family episode. They have a similar opening sequence and font used in the credits. The characters talk to the cameras in a mock-documentary style. There's even a voiceover that sounds like Ed O'Neill. It's just a hilarious episode that pays homage to Modern Family. Like most episodes of the series, it has a great mix of outrageous comedy and heartwarming scenes. B+
A second episode will follow at 8:30pm. In "Yo Zappa Do, Part 1," as a wedding gift, Barney offers to fly Jimmy and Sabrina to Los Angeles for a taping of "Yo Zappa Do," Hope's favorite show. But due to Jimmy's fear of flying, the entire family embarks on a road trip instead. Meanwhile, Burt and Virginia agree to take in Ricardo (guest star Wilmer Valderrama) as a house guest, but he soon wears out his welcome.
Raising Hope is the most underrated and funniest sitcom that more people should be watching. They have quietly put together three solid seasons. I was a big fan of creator Greg Garcia's earlier series My Name Is Earl. Raising Hope has many of the same qualities. They have an excellent cast, quirky comedy, hilarious storylines, flashback scenes and guest stars galore. Virginia and Burt are a hilarious TV couple. The show performed respectably in the ratings the first two seasons, but it has struggled this season. Only around 4 million viewers have tuned in weekly. They would benefit by airing after Glee or another popular Fox show. Despite the low ratings, they were picked up for two additional episodes for season three, upping their total to 24. It wouldn't be shocking to see Fox bring the show back for a fourth season. A big syndication deal is likely coming soon.
On the next...New Girl:
Fox's Tuesday adorkable sitcom starring Zooey Deschanel airs Tuesday nights at 9:00pm and we have just watched the next episode that airs tonight (Jan. 29). And Schmidt happens! In the episode airing tonight, "Cooler," the loft dynamics change forever! Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Winston (Lamorne Morris) go out on a "bro's night" and leave Jess (Zooey Deschanel) by herself in the loft. When her imagination gets the better of her, the guys are forced to return home, but not without some additional company – Holly (guest star Brooklyn Decker), a beautiful woman over whom Nick and Schmidt get highly competitive; and tough-as-nails Daisy (new recurring guest star Brenda Song), who helps Winston get back his mojo. An impromptu game of "Sexy True American" gets out of control, leading to a surprising development in Jess' relationship with one of her roommates.
Tonight's episode main storyline deals with Nick and Schmidt fighting over a stunning woman named Holly (Brooklyn Decker) that they meet at a bar. Winston strikes out with Holly, but he does meet Daisy (Brenda Song from The Suite Life on Deck). Song will be appearing in multiple episodes as Winston's love interest. She is quite different from his last girlfriend, Shelby. The third storyline involves Jess being left alone in the loft and trying to entertain herself by doing things like finishing a marathon. The drinking game "True American," which was featured in the first season, returns with a sexy new twist. Overall, this isn't one of the most consistently funny or strongest episodes of the season. It does feature a couple of beautiful guest stars in Brookyln Decker (as a brunette) and Brenda Song. The major development happens at the end of the episode between two of the characters. Tune in to see the big event that should set the tone for the rest of the season. B-
New Girl is having a decent sophomore season. The ratings have taken quite a dip from the first season. They are missing Glee as a lead-in and haven't been helped by the low-rated sitcoms airing around them. It would be hard to top their first season when they received five Emmy nominations and were on many people's list of top new TV shows of 2012, but they are still producing some quality and entertaining episodes. The show has been kept fresh and funny. Many guest stars have been brought in for single appearances or recurring roles, such as Carla Gugino and Olivia Munn. The adorkable Zooey Deschanel and company are certainly worth watching on Fox's Tuesday night of comedies.
Labels: Episodic Review, Fox, New Girl, Nick at Nite, Raising Hope, Scott Baio, See Dad Run, Wendell and Vinnie
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Q: Set Interrupt Flag (sti) crashes linux kernel I wrote a simple character device for testing purposes (Linux).
I have a VM with 2 cores.
CPU0 and CPU1.
I have this code in the character device:
native_irq_enable();
smp_call_function_single(#Other CPU#,native_irq_enable);
if I compile the character device without the smp_call everything works OK.
If I call to another function for example: smp_call_function_single(#Othe CPU#,native_halt())
, the kernel will not crash. But if I call smp_call_function_single(#Othe CPU#,native_safe_halt()) the kernel will CRASH because I set the IF (interrupt flag).
Is there any reason why when I set the IF from the second CPU the kernel crashes?
(If I set the IF from CPU0 the kernel will not crash.)
Thanks

A: When you send a function to another CPU using smp_call_function_single it will be executed by an IPI handler, re-enabling all interrupts inside an interrupt handler isn't something that you want to do. In particular, the documentation of the function that executes your function explicitly states that all IRQs must be disabled.
When the CPU is the same, your function is simply executed, without sending an IPI, and so generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt and interrupt handlers restrictions don't apply.


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Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America
Jack Weatherford
Fawcett Columbine, 1992 - History - 310 pages
"Well written, imagery-ridden...A tale of what was, what became, and what is today regarding the Indian relation to the European civilization that 'grafted' itself onto this ancient system.'" (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the New World re-created the societies they had known in England, France, and Spain. But as anthropologist Jack Weatherford, author of INDIAN GIVERS, brilliantly shows, the Europeans actually grafted their civilization onto the deep and nourishing roots of Native American customs and beliefs. Our place names, our farming and hunting techniques, our crafts, the very blood that flows in our veins--all derive from American Indians ways that we consistently fail to see.
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The Road to Tuktoyaktuk
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Women and a Few Men Who Led the Way
Native Roots: How the Indians Nourished America
J. McIver Weatherford
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Claude Denis
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America ends at Tuktoyaktuk. There the land yields to the Arctic Ocean and the polar ice cap. Except for a few distant islands, human habitation stops. The frozen world beyond Tuktoyaktuk belongs to the seal-hunting polar bears that eternally wander the ice, and to the small herds of caribou and wild musk oxen that inhabit the most northern islands of the earth.
The treeless, nearly barren Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula juts hesitantly from the Canadian mainland into the cold Arctic waters, but for most of the year the ice covering the land of frozen bogs and lakes looks much like the ice covering the ocean. The only landmarks separating Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula from the Arctic Ocean are the scattered pingos, the small, round ice volcanoes that poke up out of the earth like ruptured navels. In contrast to the frozen sea, the frozen land also serves as home to a band of nine hundred native Inuvialuit who built their village around a rocky bay at the base of the peninsula.
Tuktoyaktuk also hosts a second settlement, a radar station huddled within its own fence and protected by its secretive domes. The United States military operates the station as part of the DEW line, the Distant Early Warning system, across the Arctic. No two cultures could seem more different than this native village of polar bear and beluga hunters next to a compound of radar technicians, electronics specialists, and computer personnel. One group belongs to the frozen land where it has lived for millennia, and the other is totally alien and composed of rotating cadres of young men and a few women from a much different environment. If cut off from outside contacts and supply lines, the people of the radar station would probably die as soon as they exhausted their food, gasoline, and ammunition, but the Inuvialuit could continue to survive on the peninsula alone for another thousand or so years, just as they have done in the past.
America ends in Tuktoyaktuk not merely because the road ends there, but because Tuktoyaktuk represents the final stages of a process of social and cultural contact that has taken five centuries to unfold. Tuktoyaktuk straddles the continent''s last frontier, where the radically different worlds of "native Inuvialuit and modern Americans face each other. In Tuktoyaktuk there seems to be no today; one sees only yesterday on one side and tomorrow on the other.
Despite their differences, the two communities, so far from other human habitation, hug up against each other for mutual protection and warmth against the Arctic wind and the eternal night of winter. The military station provides a few jobs and goods for the local Inuvialuit. The Inuvialuit hunters share caribou with the men stationed at the radar station, and sometimes the technicians get sconelike bannock from the village women, or buy their souvenir moccasins and dolls made from seal fur.
"I had experienced this same symbiosis of dramatically different cultures in several special places, before coming to Tuktoyaktuk. I had seen it among the Bedouin herding their sheep and camels across the Egyptian desert, living at once in permanent contact with the cities of the Nile, and yet maintaining a vast cultural distance from them. I had seen the same cultural gap in the fearful face of a Chinese boy soldier nervously watching an elderly Tibetan women throw herself forcefully and repeatedly in the dirt to prostrate herself before the barred doors of the Jokhang, the holiest temple of Tibetan Buddhism. I had seen it in the mild flirtation and haughty withdrawal of nearly naked tribal women crossing the Sahara on the back of a truck and separated from the blue-veiled Tuareg warriors by a wall of desert salt slabs being hauled to market in Timbuktu.
William, a hunter from Tuktoyaktuk, running with his dogs and sledge past the radar station fence, appeared much like Abdul the Badu walking his camels at a respectful distance from the pyramid of Meidum near al-Faiyum oasis. But there was also a major distinction that separated the cultural mix of Tuktoyaktuk from that which I found in all those other places. The nomadic Bedouin have lived beside the stone cities of the Nile for thousands of years. The scene of the Badu driving his herds and flocks past the pyramids could have been the same three thousand years ago as it is today. The Chinese and the Tibetans have lived side by side for thousands of years, sometimes at war and sometimes peacefully sharing religion, tea, and, in marriage, each other''s children. The Bororo, the Bambara, and the Tuareg of the Sahel have visited the salt market of Timbuktu for as long as the city has existed.
These ancient cultures have maintained their cultural and spatial distance and yet interacted with one another for millennia. In Tuktoyaktuk, the interaction has just begun within the lifetime of the people still living there. The mixture of the other cultures I had seen across the globe had been allowed to work itself out slowly through thousands of years, but in America, disparate cultures have clashed more quickly and intensely than ever before in human history.
In the fourteenth century, the North African historian and social philosopher Abd-al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun became the first scholar to analyze the importance of the relationship between tribal and urban nations. In his lengthy study the Muqaddamah, the preface to world history, he recognized that the key to understanding Mediterranean and even world civilization lay in this dynamic tension between the tribal peoples and the cities. The cultural contact of such different groups added vitality to their political systems, their economic ties, and their religious beliefs. Most of the world''s great empires have arisen when small states conquered surrounding tribes or when nomadic tribes such as the Mongols, Huns, Tartars, or Arabs conquered settled nations. During times of peace, tribal peoples often controlled the commerce between major urban areas such as the salt, gold, and ivory routes across West Africa or the Silk Road that connected the ancient Mediterranean with India and China. By controlling the lines of commerce, they also controlled the flow of ideas and the spread of world religions. Without the tribal people, the urban people remained isolated and stagnant.
Ibn Khaldun died in 1406, the century of Spain''s "discovery" of America, but the ensuing history of North America has proven the accuracy of his analysis. With the arrival of explorers followed by traders and settlers, a chain reaction of cultural explosions ripped across North America.
The coming together of the varied native cultures of North America with the rest of the world generated a long list of superlatives. The United States became the world''s first federal democracy and, together with Canada, made North America the largest democratic area in the world. Later it became the most potent military power in the world, and the technological leader in the exploration of outer space. As the largest producer of agricultural and industrial goods, the United States and Canada became the world''s largest common market and one of its most powerful economic engines.
The great achievements of North America in economics, politics, technology, and agriculture have resulted from the rich diversity of peoples and cultures that have come together in this continent, a mixture that has created new social systems and a uniquely American culture. Beneath the surface of each of these American accomplishments lie indigenous roots. The settlers grafted their civilization onto the native American roots, and together they produced a hybrid civilization of unprecedented vigor.
Only a historical moment ago, a mere thousand years, the first European settlers arrived from Scandinavia, ready to make new settlements on the Atlantic Coast of Canada. After the thorough and decisive defeat of this Viking colony, the Europeans did not return for five hundred years, until the accidental arrival of three Spanish ships lost in the Caribbean in 1492. Yet another century passed before arrival of the first permanent European settlers and their African slaves in what was to become the United States and Canada.
This cultural transformation that started with the voyages of Leif Eriksson and his followers to North America around A.D. 1000, accelerated with the English settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and reached a frenzy as it moved westward toward the Pacific coast in the nineteenth century, has now reached distant Tuktoyaktuk, where it is winding down on the Arctic shore. The process of change through cultural contact and the mixture of various populations will probably continue as long as humans live on earth, but it will probably never again attain the dramatic proportions that it did in North America in the last few centuries.
All of America was once Tuktoyaktuk. At some time in the last five hundred years every valley, every beach, every river, every lake, every mountain, every island, every plain, every forest, and every community has stood on the cutting edge of the frontier where the old world encountered the new, where the civilizations of incoming settlers encountered the civilizations of native America. The American frontier mixed together Pilgrims with Pequots, Frenchman with Hurons, Spaniards with Choctaws, Africans with Seminoles, Germans with Dakotas, Basques with Navajos, Chinese with Haida, Jews with Kiowas, Russians with Aleuts, Vietnamese with Menominees, Scandinavians with Inuit, Hmong with Ojib-was, and Dutch with Dene. The scramble of peoples and cultures in North America has created a cultural mixture that probably will not be repeated in world history until we
Title Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America
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Author Jack Weatherford
Publisher Fawcett Columbine, 1992
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John Streur, the chief executive of the investment firm Calvert Research & Management, remembers exactly where he was when he learned of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Mr. Streur recalled standing in New York's Pennsylvania Station on the afternoon of Feb. 14, squinting at his iPhone in disbelief as he read that 17 teenagers and teachers had been shot dead, he said recently. As chief of one of the world's biggest responsible investing mutual funds, Mr. Streur was an activist on issues including climate change and equality, yet he said he felt powerless when it came to gun violence. Now, he wanted to see if he could use Calvert's financial clout to change the way guns — most notably the AR-15 military-style assault rifle used in the massacre and weapons like it — were sold in the United States.
Two weeks after the shooting, on Feb. 28, he told his assistant: "Get Kroger on the phone." But the management at Kroger, one of the nation's largest grocery-store chains, was gearing up for an earnings release and wasn't taking investor calls.
Calvert, which was acquired by Eaton Vance in 2016, currently has roughly $14 billion in assets and owns $2.6 million worth of Kroger shares. Mr. Streur wanted management to know "if they weren't going to stop selling guns to kids," he would file a resolution to take it to a shareholder vote.
The morning after his call, Kroger said it would stop selling guns to those under the age of 21. Two weeks later, the chain said its stores would stop selling firearms altogether, citing a slump in gun sales.
Mr. Streur, 58, has long been a leader in what's called environmental, social and governance investing, starting in a boutique money management firm in 1991. But lately, his profile on Wall Street and beyond has been raised by the gun debate. After recent mass shootings, questions have been asked about what role investors might play in forcing companies to ask themselves whether they are complicit in gun violence, and whether businesses, banks or firearm retailers should set rules limiting gun sales or lending to gun manufacturers.
Mr. Streur has been at the forefront of this discourse, taking America's gunfight to the front lines of finance. Since the Parkland shootings, he has spoken about the importance of responsible investing on a panel in New York, at the Milken Institute annual conference in Los Angeles and at global investing conferences in Berlin and Melbourne, Australia.
Jim Prescott, a compliance officer at Ariel Investments who has known Mr. Streur for more than 20 years, said he had a theory about where his friend's passion comes from. "John's sense of morality, his drive to excel — that comes from somewhere out there in Wisconsin," Mr. Prescott said.
Mr. Streur grew up in Milwaukee in a family that he said "aspired to be middle class," but always fell short. He excelled in high school sports and was offered football scholarships by several top colleges, but turned them down to try his hand at rowing instead. He wound up winning a national championship in his freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, and by age 20 had made the United States national rowing team. He said it was there he learned that "background, pedigree and privilege matter not" when compared to hard work and determination.
After graduation, Mr. Streur joined the Wall Street investment giant Lehman Brothers. But the fiercely competitive, profit-hungry finance world was an uncomfortable fit, and he said he was quickly disillusioned by what he called "greedy" banking culture.
In August 1990, Mr. Streur left Wall Street to become a partner in a small money management firm, the Burridge Group, in Chicago. It was here that Mr. Streur was first exposed to the idea of responsible investing when his clients asked if he could divest their money from "unsavory" companies, like those involved in tobacco, gambling or guns. Mr. Streur rose to become the president of Burridge, where he worked on divestment drives for 17 years.
During this time, Mr. Streur became increasingly frustrated by the limited impact of socially responsible investing. He went door-to-door on Wall Street trying to convince some of the titans of investment banking that responsible investing matters and should be woven into their business strategies, but faced repeated rejection, he said. In 2007, he said, his own research showed that fewer than 15 responsible investing companies with more than $1 billion in assets were operating in the United States at the time.
A year later, Lehman Brothers, a goliath of investment banking in America, went bankrupt, triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. This proved to Mr. Streur that "the financial system itself didn't know what it was doing." He resigned from Burridge Group, now known as AMG Funds, to devote himself completely to socially responsible investing.
Mr. Streur landed at the helm of a small responsible investment firm called Portfolio 21 in Portland, Ore. He bought and moved to a 2,000-acre sustainably-run cattle ranch along the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountain Range and plunged back into competitive rowing — winning gold in the 2013 FISA World Masters Rowing Championships in Varese, Italy.
In 2014, Calvert came courting.
Until recently, corporate America was still questioning whether responsible investing could work: Did it hurt profits? Did anyone really care?
"Those questions were valid six years ago," Mr. Streur said. "But no one asks them anymore." He has watched responsible investing move from the margins to the mainstream.
In the United States, responsibly invested assets have been on an upward march since the mid-2000s, climbing to $8.7 trillion in 2016 from $6.6 trillion in 2014, according to the latest Global Sustainable Investment Alliance Review.
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, which was established in 2011, is pushing for a new "social and environmental" measure to be included in the annual reports publicly traded companies must submit to the government each year. And in January Laurence D. Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, said if businesses wanted his firm's support, they must make a positive contribution to the world because "society is demanding" it.


I've been blogging about Google for a long time -- over 5 years now. I started a blog in the olden days called Google Addiction, and the rest was history.
I've been blogging about Google for a long time -- over 5 years now. I started a blog in the olden days called Google Addiction, and the rest was history. While my blogging experience was extremely rewarding and exciting, it's time to move on.
Over my 5 years blogging, there has been so much change. People back then didn't "get" smart phones, and only a select group of people could actually afford data plans for their devices. Fast forward to today, we are living in such an exciting world. There are opportunities around every corner, and new exciting things happening every day that would have seemed impossible only 5 years ago. Mobile devices -- iPhone, Android and now Windows Phone 7 -- are changing the way we live, work and communicate before our eyes.
If today isn't exciting enough for you, fast forward another 5 years. Can you even imagine what things will be like? Things are going to continue evolving, and among others, Google will be standing at the forefront of innovation -- with things like Google's artificial intelligence (and who knows, maybe even robot cars!) becoming an everyday thing. I, for one, can't wait to see what the world looks like on November 15, 2015.
I've met so many inspiring people, and have learned so much -- and I'm sure that will continue. I won't be actively blogging going forward, but you can find me if you look. I may revive Google Addiction at some point, so keep your eyes there. Though it's going to be weird not blogging, the lack of comments and email from you guys in my inbox is what I'm really going to miss.
Bye everyone. It was a slice!


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Day: 12 September 2018
How can we make our cities safer in the face of terror attacks?
by Sam Allcock
After a series of unpleasant, high-profile terrorist attacks across Europe in the past few years, there has been a huge push in urban planning and civil engineering to mitigate the possibility and impact of these awful events. The main obstacle is that, unfortunately, many of Europe's beautiful historic cities ...
Why a high-end German kitchen could sell your London property
There's a slowdown in the UK property market and it's hitting London hardest. House prices in the capital for the first half of 2018 fell at the fastest annual rate since the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It may not be the best time to sell your London property, especially if ...
Compassion in World Farming slam Gove over back tracking
Compassion in World Farming is concerned UK Government may be back tracking on live export commitment. The environmental organisation welcomed the publication of the Agricultural Bill but are concerned that Gove appears to be back tracking on his live export commitment. James West, Senior Policy Manager at Compassion in World Farming, said: "Compassion in World Farming welcome the publication of the Agriculture Bill, ...
Odds slashed on Tory leadership contest to take place amid coup talk
Bookmakers have been forced to slash the odds of a Conservative leadership contest taking place, amid reports that a Tory coup is being plotted. Paddy Power make it 15/8, in from 3/1 yesterday, that a leadership contest will take place this year following a series of large and sustained bets. This comes as ...
"It's appalling to place all responsibility on unwell people" Corbyn highlights Universal Credit issues in PMQs
Today (Wednesday 12 September 2018) in Prime Minister's Questions Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn mentioned mental health charity Mind while talking about Government plans to move more than 2 million people on existing benefits over to Universal Credit. Under these proposals disabled people currently getting ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) will receive a ...
Earliest evidence of a drawing by humans found in cave…and it's a LONG time ago
The find - at Blombos Cave in the Southern Cape area of South Africa - predates previous drawings from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia by at least 30,000 years
New plant species discovered in museum 'already extinct'
The stunning flower is an especially rare discovery as it belongs to a group called mycoheterotrophs
Couple post facebook ad to try & sell 'sh*thole' new build home
Jillian Widlake say their dream move to Devon turned into a nightmare
Jägerbombed! Wetherspoons bans various EU spirits
JD Wetherspoon have decided to no longer sell Jägermeister (a herbal liqueur from Germany, French brandy Courvoisie and French brandy Hennessy Fine de Cognac. They will offer more drinks from the UK in a bid to crack down on drinks which come from the EU. The move is said to ...
Switzerland 'running out of snow – due to global warming'
Art satellite data suggests the popular ski destination, featuring the spectacular Swiss Alps, is melting - and has lost almost 20 per cent of its snow
Why keeping honeybees might not be always be a good idea
The fashion for having a hive in the garden or on rooftops has done "more harm than good" because honeybees are less efficient pollinators than wild bees
One city accounts for half of the top 10 highest claiming unemployment benefits areas in the UK
Five areas of the city feature prominently among a league table of constituencies with the highest proportion of claimants.
Humans are the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom, here's why
The evolutionary development enabled our ancestors to come out of the forests and survive the arid savannahs of Africa, say scientists.
Legislation on increasing flexible working 'has failed'
Researchers found no significant overall increase in the number of employees working flexibly since the changes came into effect four years ago
New way of smoothing over visible facial scars developed
Researchers say the novel cosmetic product, designed to fill small to moderate facial scars, has shown promise in covering such deformities
London Ambulance service gives five-year-old bravery award for doing something amazing for mum
Tyler Lawrence was getting ready for school when his mum suffered a fit and collapsed, but the clever little boy knew exactly what to do.
*Universally speaking – I take it back and you make me nervous* – PMQs 12th Sept
It was a very lively exchange today between the two leaders, they have only been back a week, but they are now off on their jollies for the party conference season, may as well throw the kitchen sink at your opponent. Weirdly Jeremy Corbyn had some corn sticking out from ...
Woman jailed for being getaway driver after brutal South East London kidnapping and stabbing
by Ben Gelblum
Jade Bowden, 27, is the last of a group of five to be jailed for the brutal kidnapping.
Tottenham Hotspur star was surrounded by vomit & slurring words when pulled over for jumping red light
The World Cup winning Tottenham keeper was more than twice over the booze limit when breath-tested, magistrates were told
Juncker indicates he won't accept May's Post-Brexit single market plan
During Jean-Claude Juncker's annual state of the union address he said that sections of the single market could "certainly not" be offered to countries outside the EU trading area. These comments would appear to pour cold water on the Theresa May's plan to keep Britain in the single market for ...
Michael Gove backpedals on Brexit animal welfare vows & denies plot to oust Theresa May
Michael Gove this morning denied that fellow hard Brexit Tories are plotting to oust their party leader. Talking to the BBC's Today programme Mr Gove insisted that "loose talk" of a leadership challenge could "undermine" Brexit negotiations, despite reports that 50 of his colleagues met last night to discuss ditching ...
Hiker becomes IMPALED on a sharp hunting arrow while completing idyllic trail
Janis Bronson, 59, was five miles into a hike on the Lower Russian Mountain trail in Cooper Landing, Alaska, when a sharp arrow was driven straight through her thigh on September 6.
Police probe death of boy, seven, who fell off wall in London pub beer garden
The boy died after being rushed to hospital from The King Harold pub in Harold Wood, east London
Second UK patient has been diagnosed with monkeypox, days after the first was discovered
The patient, who tested positive at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, had recently travelled to Nigeria
Thieves swipe £1,000 of pennies from art installation
Artist Anna Brownsted said she was "amazed" that anyone had managed to make off with the 356kg of coinage
Watch – Moment a crazed man sets fire to a bank in a busy city centre
Seconds later he can be seen emerging from the branch with a meat cleaver in his hand - terrifying the lunchtime crowd
Man to be sentenced for keeping 4ft live CROCODILE at his home
Lee Thompson, 36, hoarded the massive caiman along with 16 live snakes and a scorpion in a bedroom
One-in-five used cars advertised online in London 'have safety issues'
London Trading Standards (LTS) inspectors found everything from safety recalls to dodgy mileage in vehicles for sale across the capital
CARRY ON STAR DIES – Actress Fenella Fielding has passed away, aged 90
She is the second Carry On stalwart to die within a week following the death of Liz Fraser, aged 88, last Thursday
Tens of thousands of Jaguar Land Rover jobs at risk due to Brexit
by Jack Peat
Brexit could put tens of thousands of Jaguar Land Rover jobs at risk and cost the company £1.2 billion, chief executive Ralf Speth has warned. Speaking to Sky News he highlighted that the company depends on "free, frictionless, seamless logistics", which could come under threat if the right deal is ...
I'LL BE BARK – Artist creates life-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger out of wood
Wood carving artist James O'Neal created the sculptor
Jacob Rees-Mogg proves he really is "a thoroughly modern bigot"
Jacob Rees-Mogg proved accusations that he is a "thoroughly modern bigot" to be true this week after defending Boris Johnson's adultery despite having strong views on abortion and other religious matters. The Conservative MP made an appearance on the Jeremy Vine show this week and was questioned on his hypocritical ...
Now we know: Brexit means Thatcherism on steroids
by Darragh Roche
The European Research Group, Jacob Rees-Mogg's hard Brexit think tank, is trying to hide its real views about the UK's future. The ERG's 140-page report on post-Brexit Britain has not been published. It was shelved at the last minute because it contains a clear blueprint for the country Rees-Mogg and ...
Best wellness retreats in the world
by Jess Young
The stress of modern day life can take a toll on the best of us. Congested cities, high-pressure nine-to-fives, not to mention living lifestyles at supersonic speeds, while trying to squeeze in dinner dates with friends and time for hobbies, can leave anyone burned out and in need of recovery. ...


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Ян ЛеКун (,  6 червня 1960, Париж, Франція) — науковець в галузі комп'ютерних наук, відомий своїм внеском в машинне навчання, комп'ютерний зір, робототехніку та комп'ютерну нейронауку. Добре відомий своїми працями в галузі оптичного розпізнавання символів та комп'ютерного зору із застосуванням згорткових нейронних мереж LeNet. Також він є одним з авторів технології DjVu та мови програмування lush.

Біографія
Отримав докторський ступінь з інформатики в  Університеті П'єра і Марії Кюрі в 1987 році.

1988 року почав працювати в Bell Labs, де розробив серію методів машинного навчання, в тому числі  згорткові нейронні мережі.

1996 року перейшов до дослідницького центру AT&T Labs, де працював над технологією стиснення зображень DjVu, яка використовується багатьма вебсайтами, зокрема Internet Archive, для розповсюдження сканованих документів. В AT&T він співпрацював з  та Володимиром Вапником.

З 2003 року працює в  Нью-Йоркському університеті.

У грудні 2013 очолив лабораторію штучного інтелекту Facebook в Нью-Йорку.

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 Персональна сторіна Яна ЛеКуна
 Yann LeCun's lab website at NYU
 Yann LeCun's website at Collège de France
 Yann LeCun's List of PhD Students
 Yann LeCun's publications
  Convolutional Neural Networks
 DjVuLibre website
 Lush website
 AMA: Yann LeCun (self.MachineLearning)  www.reddit.com Ask Me Anything: Yann LeCun
 IEEE Spectrum Article
 Technology Review article

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