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Five Fascinating Facts about Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights Jan 27, 2012
Friday Night Lights went off the air last year but it is still one of the most memorable shows in the history of television. It was so popular for many reasons, not the least of which was its plot, story lines and the way the stories were executed. But there are many other aspects of the show that made it even more fascinating and much of it is because of what went on behind the scenes. Here are a few things that made Friday Night Lights great both behind the scenes and on camera.
When filming Friday Night Lights, it wasn't done the typical way like most TV shows are filmed. Instead of rehearsing each scene several times and then shooting it from different angles, the actors were given a great deal of freedom in the way they delivered their lines and the way they moved around. This gave the scenes more realism.
Friday Night Lights didn't use sets that were built in most of the scenes. Instead, they used real places around Austin and Pflugerville, Texas when filming the show. Even the football scenes were filmed at Pflugerville High School and the actors wore real uniforms, jerseys and other things for a more authentic appearance.
Kyle Chandler, a.k.a. Coach Eric Taylor, got his start on a show called Early Edition. On this short-lived series, his character would receive a newspaper about something bad that was going to happen the following day and he took the responsibility to try to prevent the tragedy from happening.
Friday Night Lights was consistently rated as one of the best 10 shows on TV each year while it was on by some of the biggest publications in entertainment, including Time magazine, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly. It also received three AFI awards, a Peabody Award and several other prestigious awards. Kyle Chandler also won the Emmy for best actor in a drama series in 2011 after the show concluded its final season.
According to a research study, Friday Night Lights was very popular among affluent viewers, or those viewers who had a median household income of at least $65,000 a year.
These are just a few of the facts that make Friday Night Lights even more interesting than it already is. Of course, most fans probably already knew these facts, especially if you are a hardcore fan. But it's still fun to explore some of the things that make this a TV series that will undoubtedly stand the test of time.
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Jørgen Elneff Poulsen (født 5. juli 1943 i Branderup, Sønderjylland) er en dansk journalist og tidligere medlem af Folketinget for Det Radikale Venstre og Ny Alliance. Oprindeligt valgt for Ny Alliance ved valget 13. november 2007. Poulsen er desuden tidligere kommunikationschef og generalsekretær for Dansk Røde Kors, og inden da var han udenrigskorrespondent for Danmarks Radio.

Biografi
Jørgen Poulsen voksede op i en husmandsfamilie i Branderup i Sønderjylland. Han blev uddannet journalist og var under elevtiden hos Kalundborg Folkeblad (1964-1967). Derefter var han free-lance i Afrika, før han kom til Danmarks Radio (1968). Her blev han blandt andet kendt for sine meget personlige reportager fra krigs- og katastrofeområder, især fra Biafra og Vietnam. I 1972 blev han ansat i DR's folketingsredaktion, og fra 1974-93 var han DR's udenrigskorrespondent i Stockholm, Hong Kong og Washington D.C.

Som tv-journalist blev Jørgen Poulsen bemærket for sin dramaturgiske opbygning af tv-indslag, hvor billeder og stemninger i høj grad fik lov at fortælle historien. Mange vil huske hans indslag i Søndagsavisen med de udviklingshæmmede fra Svaneparken, men også ubådsjagten i den svenske skærgård og ikke mindst dækningen af mordet på Olof Palme (1986). Forinden havde Jørgen Poulsen lavet filmen "Olof Palme" (1983), som var det eneste eksisterende film-portræt af politikeren, og som efter mordet blev brugt af tv-stationer verden over. Sammen med Palmes bror, Claes Palme, skrev Jørgen Poulsen, bogen "Olof Palme" (Munksgårds Forlag 1986).

I august 1992 fik Jørgen Poulsen orlov fra DR for at koordinere og lede Dansk Røde Kors', Folkekirkens Nødhjælp og Red Barnet' fælles indsamling til de hungerramte i Somalia og i Afrikas Horn. Det lykkedes at engagere hele nationen og indsamle over 70 mio.kr. Efter kampagnen blev Jørgen Poulsen ansat som kommunikationschef i Dansk Røde Kors (1993) og året efter udnævnt til generalsekretær.

Som dynamisk generalsekretær 1994-2007 formåede han at give organisationen en fremtrædende plads i offentligheden. Samtidig kunne Dansk Røde Kors i de 13 år, hvor Jørgen Poulsen var generalsekretær, notere nye rekorder i indsamlede midler.

Fra 1998-2004 sad Jørgen Poulsen tillige i det nyoprettede Dommerudnævnelsesrådet som udpeger dommere til alle danske domstole inklusive Højesteret. Han var også medlem af det justitsministerielle udvalg, som i 2006 fastlagde reglerne for dommernes bibeskæftigelse.

Jørgen Poulsens afgang fra Røde Kors blev turbulent. Han stillede op til folketingsvalget den 13. november 2007 og blev valgt ind for Ny Alliance. I december kom det frem, at Jørgen Poulsen og Røde Kors var i forhandlinger om en aftrædelsesgodtgørelse. Poulsen forklarede i et interview til Politiken, at han følte sig fyret, og at han ifølge sin kontrakt havde krav på 2 millioner kroner i godtgørelse. Organisationen mente på sin side, at Poulsen reelt selv havde sagt sin stilling op, da det at være generalsekretær i den apolitiske organisation ikke var foreneligt med at være – eller have været – indvalgt i Folketinget. Der kunne derfor heller ikke blive tale om, at Jørgen Poulsen kunne få orlov. Sagen endte med et forlig, hvor Røde Kors udbetalte 750.000 kroner til den afgående generalsekretær – en løsning, som både Røde Kors og Jørgen Poulsen fra flere sider blev kritiseret for.

Politisk karriere

Ved Folketingsvalget 2007 stillede Jørgen Poulsen op for det nystiftede parti Ny Alliance i Sydjylland og blev valgt som et af partiets fem mandater i Folketinget. I begyndelsen af 2008 meldte to af partiets folketingsmedlemmer, Gitte Seeberg og Malou Åmund, sig ud af partiet. Også Jørgen Poulsen kritiserede partiledelsen for at svigte partiets valggrundlag til fordel for en ny-liberalistisk kurs. Kritikken fremførte han bl.a. i en artikel i Berlingske Tidende (15.juni 2008) hvor han modsatte sig, at Saxo Banks direktør Lars Seier Christensen, til gengæld for økonomisk støtte, skulle have sæde i partiets styrende organer og have adgang til at deltage i folketingsgruppens møder. Ligeledes kritiserede han, at partiets ledelse uden om folketingsgruppen havde besluttet at sige nej til Euroen. Det førte til, at han 24. juni blev ekskluderet af Ny Alliances Folketingsgruppe og blev løsgænger. Jørgen Poulsen blev ikke ekskluderet af partiet, men den 29. juni 2008 meldte han sig selv ud. Forinden havde Ny Alliances stifter, Naser Khader kaldt Jørgen Poulsen for »en politisk Tournesol«. Mindre end et år senere forlod også Naser Khader partiet med den begrundelse, at han ikke længere kunne stå inde for partiets neo-liberalistiske kurs.

Den 11. august 2008 blev Jørgen Poulsen medlem af Radikale Venstres folketingsgruppe. Han genopstillede ikke ved folketingsvalget i 2011, men fortsatte som medlem af hovedbestyrelsen og som partiets repræsentant i Europarådet. Som rapportør for Europarådet udarbejdede Jørgen Poulsen i 2009 et sæt nye principper for erstatning til flygtninge og fordrevne i Europa. De blev vedtaget af Europarådets Parlamentariske Forsamling (93-1) i januar 2010 og har fået navnet "Poulsen Principles". De anvendes nu af Den Europæiske menneskerettigheds Domstol (ECtHR) og af FN.

Hædersbevisninger
Jørgen Poulsen modtog IKEA-prisen 1986, Fritz Olsen-prisen 1987 og Bibliotekarforbundets Døssingpris 2004. Berlingske Tidende udpegede ham den 4. oktober 2007 til "Danmarks mest troværdige organisationsleder".

Bøger
Nød og Nødhjælp, Munksgaards Forlag 1974,
Atomkraft, Munksgaards Forlag 1976,
"Olof Palme", Samlerens Forlag 1986.

Referencer

 Storyteller – En biografi om Jørgen Poulsen / Jesper Strudsholm –
 Biografi hos Folketinget

Journalister fra Danmark
Folketingsmedlemmer fra Ny Alliance
Folketingsmedlemmer i 2000'erne
Tidligere løsgængere i Folketinget
Folketingsmedlemmer i 2010'erne
Tidligere folketingsmedlemmer fra Det Radikale Venstre
Personer i Kraks Blå Bog

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Q: Bottle.py app can't be found by nginx+uwsgi I have a Python 3 bottle.py app that I install into a virtual environment (letting pip automatically fetch dependencies). I'm trying to get it to run under nginx and uwsgi on my raspberry pi.
When I have nginx and uwsgi running, visiting http://localhost/icecrate results in "uWSGI Error Python application not found". I assume this means nginx is properly connecting to uwsgi, and it is uwsgi that can't find the application.
However, If I run the app with uwsgi --http 0.0.0.0:8080 /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/icecrate.ini then http://localhost:8080 gives me the application, which suggests the uwsgi config is at least adequate.
I've been searching Google and the docs for a few hours for a solution. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here.
/etc/nginx/sites-available/icecrate
server {
  listen      80;
  server_name raspberrypi;

  access_log  /home/icecrate/logs/access.log;
  error_log   /home/icecrate/logs/error.log;

  location /icecrate {
    uwsgi_pass unix:///tmp/icecrate.sock;
    include    uwsgi_params;
  }
}

/etc/uwsgi/apps-available/icecrate.ini
[uwsgi]
vhost = true
plugins = python3
socket = /tmp/icecrate.sock
master = true
enable-threads = false
processes = 1

# this just imports the app callable and renames it to application
wsgi-file = /home/icecrate/nginx.py

# I get the same results using this method
#module = icecrate.web
#callable = app

virtualenv = /home/icecrate/env
touch-reload = /home/icecrate/reload

Application code is at GitHub.

A: I ended up nuking the attempt and all the configs and starting over, but I think I got this figured out. I'm fairly certain it was a permissions issue.
By default nginx.conf specified www-data as the user it runs as, and the previous attempt made no effort at dealing with that. All files were owned by myself. Rather than change the default user, I made a home folder for www-data, which now holds the icecrate virtualenv. When setting up the app, I used sudo -s -u www-data to do all the file creation, so all the files have the proper owner and permissions.
The Nginx config is essentially the same, except the virtualenv folder now plays home to the socket and logs:
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name = raspberrypi;

  access_log /home/www-data/icecrate/logs/access.log;
  error_log /home/www-data/icecrate/logs/error.log;

  location /icecrate {
    uwsgi_pass unix:///home/www-data/icecrate/icecrate.sock;
    include uwsgi_params;
  }
}

I skipped some things that looked not important to the problem while rebuilding the uwsgi app ini, but it too is essentially the same:
[uwsgi]
plugins = python3
socket  = /home/www-data/icecrate/icecrate.sock
module  = icecrate.web:app
virtualenv = /home/www-data/icecrate
touch-reload = /home/www-data/icecrate/reload

# like ngnix, uwsgi should be www-data.
uid = www-data
gid = www-data

# don't think this works, though
logto = /home/www-data/icecrate/logs/uwsgi.log

After putting the config files in sites-enabled and apps-enabled respectively, I started nginx and uwsgi and pointed my browser at http://localhost/icecrate and got a bottle.py 404 error. I don't think I've ever been so happy in my life to see a 404.

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Since insecticides have killed most bees in China's Sichuan province, local farmers are forced to fertilize the flowers themselves. But the "bee-men" may now be a dying breed.
NANXIN — It is the height of pollination season in the orchards of China's southwestern Sichuan province. Perched on the apple trees' branches, farmers of the Nanxin village twist and turn to reach the flowers that are the furthest away. Doing what bees do anywhere else in the world requires a certain degree of agility.
Zhen Xiuqiong, 56, has been climbing her and her neighbors' trees at the arrival of every spring for the past 20 years. Branches sometimes break, but Xiuqiong says she is never scared. To her, it's all a matter of getting used to it.
Each year, all working-age villagers are summoned for hand-pollination. This spring, the activity started in mid-April and had to be completed before the 27th or the 28th. This strict timeframe, fixed by the weather and the flowering cycle, requires them to be fast. Even the oldest of these acrobatic villagers are dexterous enough that they can lay the pollen on every tree's flower in just half an hour. Such performance is necessary as each owner has between 100 and 200 apple trees.
Zeng Zigao, 38, explains that the system is largely based on mutual assistance: relatives are asked for help during the time of the procedure. Yet the deadline is so close that he also has to employ seasonal workers — five to six people this year, whom he pays 80 RMB (9.2 euros) a day and provides meals for.
"It's an investment but if I miss the season, I won't have enough fruits, so it's a guarantee of productivity," Zeng explains. The farmer considers himself lucky. In other orchards, workers are already asking for 100 RMB per day.
The best tool for hand-pollination is a shaft, at the end of which there is either a cigarette filter or the tip of an eraser pen. Around their necks, the "bee-men" and "bee-women" wear a small chewing-gum box filled with the pollen they gathered from other apple trees' flowers, before drying it out in the sun and grinding it.
In other Chinese regions, people can buy pollen from middlemen, but, in Nanxin, they think their powder might be of low quality. Pollen loses its fertility quickly, sometimes even before reaching its destination.
These cultivators hide nothing about their techniques. Yet when it comes to the reasons that force them to replace insects, their answers become vaguer. From the top of his tree, Kang Zhaogui, 49, claims that the fall of the bee population has been clear here since the 1990s.
Some journalists have not hesitated to make a connection with the Great Leap Forward, a campaign launched by Mao Zedong in 1958 that led to the Great Famine. Chinese people were asked to get rid of the sparrows that were "stealing" people's grains, which, in turn, led to the proliferation of insects — and, eventually, to the mass spraying of insecticides.
Yet none of the Chinese researchers that studied hand-pollination gives any credit whatsoever to this theory.
What happened, then? The first possible explanation is that the surface area of forests — bees' natural habitat — has shrunk in favor of fields in the region over the last few decades. This territorial deficit doesn't explain everything. In reality, poorly-educated farmers largely use phytosanitary products to eliminate insects that may harm their fruits. They prefer spreading too much than not enough as their income mainly depends on their harvest. With 0.08 hectare of arable land per inhabitant in China (compared to 0.28 in France and 0.51 in the U.S., according to the World Bank), "farmers want to use their fields in the most intense way possible," says Tang Ya, a professor at Sichuan University.
Hand-pollination also enables farmers to guarantee cross-fertilization with the most popular varieties of apples on the market. Treating each flower meticulously guarantees a tree full of fruit when the time to harvest has come.
An Jiandong, a researcher from the Department of Apiculture at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, notes that, to this day, no legitimate study on the decline of pollinators in China has been conducted.
"Hand-pollination requires a large workforce and bees understand plants a lot better than humans," Jiandong says.
Zhen Xiuqiong, the farmer perched on her branch, sees irony in the situation — her husband is a beekeeper. He rents out his bees to certain orchards in the region, but he will never let them gather pollen on the trees that keep his wife so busy. She is heavy-handed when it comes to insecticides. "If the bees pollinated here, they would die," Zhen says.
Her neighbor, Kang Zhaogui, agrees, saying it should be required to destroy the chemicals before the flowers blossom, so that no one renting out their bees would risk losing them in a plantation.
At a time when the low quality of farm-produced food has become a major political issue in China, the residents of Nanxin acknowledge that the authorities have become stricter when it comes to fruit control. As a result, farmers now tend to use less powerful insecticides — even though some admit they compensate by spraying more often.
According to Professor Tang, who often goes to Nanxin, the socio-economic changes that China is currently experiencing are making hand-pollination more and more costly. When farmers started doing it at the end of the 1980s, the expenses seemed insignificant.
The increasing cost of living is already forcing villagers to turn to other, more profitable fruits. If apples are sold for only one RMB per pound (0.12 euros) to wholesalers, cherries can reach a price up to 20 times higher.
According to the scientist, the rapid wage growth could discourage farmers from resorting to hand-pollination. Travelling beekeepers renting out their bees could replace the "bee-men," on the condition that residents accept to decrease their use of toxic agents.
But, most importantly, Tang observes that the younger generation is more attracted to the city lights than to the prospect of working as a beekeeper carrying his hives from one village to another. All these elements, the environmental expert hopes, could encourage farmers to adopt "sustainable" practices, that would likely allow bees to resume their work.