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As the Trump Administration moves to undo certain climate change policies, a leading group of U.S. psychologists has issued a report that says warming trends and related extreme weather events could wreak havoc on mental health.
"The impacts of climate change will not be restricted to those who are directly affected," said Susan Clayton, co-author of a new report from the American Psychological Association and the nonprofit ecoAmerica.
Climate change presents "a far more widespread threat to our well-being through direct and indirect impacts on mental health," said Clayton, a professor of psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
The report draws attention to the physical effects of climate change, including lung and heart disease, malnutrition and increased risk for asthma and insect-borne diseases such as Zika.
But the psychological effects may be harder to quantify. When flood waters recede or wildfires burn out, human suffering may persist, the researchers said.
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In Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, for example, suicide and/or suicidal thoughts more than doubled. Nearly half the citizenry developed an anxiety or a mood disorder such as depression, while 1 in 6 experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to prior research cited in the new report.
Similarly, nearly 15 percent of residents hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 were found to have symptoms of PTSD, the report said.
Victims of natural disasters who must move because of job or housing loss often feel a lack of control, security, identity and autonomy, the report noted.
This emotional vulnerability extends to subtler weather-related changes such as poorer air quality, onset of drought, the steady decline of food availability (so-called food security) and the rise of heat-related stress. These all take a toll on mental health, the psychologists' group said.
The result, according to the report authors, is a broad swath of people at risk for developing a sense of helplessness, fatalism, resignation and dread as climate change affects the social fabric and identity of their communities.
The report comes on the heels of controversial moves by the Trump Administration to undo U.S. environmental protections put in place by the Obama White House.
Efforts to combat climate change are essential, according to the report authors. Globally, incidence of heat waves tripled between 2011 and 2012. And, warming temperatures are projected to cause sea levels to rise anywhere from 8 inches to more than 6.5 feet by the year 2100, the report said.
This will threaten the safety of roughly 8 million Americans now living in coastal regions, the report authors said.
On the mental health front, a broad review of existing research indicated that between 7 and 40 percent of natural disaster survivors develop some sort of mental health pathology. Besides anxiety and depression, this can include substance abuse.
The report also highlighted the psychiatric harm to children in the face of stress and uncertainty. It's feared they're at risk for behavioral changes that could undermine their developmental well-being and interfere with memory, decision-making and academic achievement.
Besides working toward climate solutions, Clayton said the single best defense strategy is to strengthen social connections.
"Social connections are very important to individual well-being in the best of times, and are a key indicator of resilience following negative events," she added.
Become informed about the likely impact of climate change in your community, and learn how to prepare for it, she advised.
"Being informed will make you feel, and actually be, in greater control," Clayton said.
Optimism can help, too, she noted. "Climate change is a major threat. But we have dealt with major threats before," she said.
The report was released March 30.
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For Cockrell: Paul R. Nesson, Jr.
¶31 … (A)s long as the prosecutor does not ask the jury to make a direct inference of guilt from the defendant's post-arrest silence, asking the jury to draw inferences that impeach the defendant's volunteered testimony on that subject does not violate due process, even though the inferences, if accepted by the jury, might make it more likely it will find the defendant guilty. See Wulff, 200 Wis. 2d at 343-44.
¶32 In this case, the prosecutor wanted the jury to infer that Cockrell was not telling the truth as to why he did not tell the police about the man in the back seat. It is true that, if the jury accepted these inferences, it was more likely to decide Cockrell did not act in self-defense but was instead guilty of attempted homicide. However, we do not agree that this is the same as asking the jury to make a direct inference of guilt from Cockrell's silence.
¶33 The due process inquiry under Doyle is whether the cross-examination of Cockrell or the challenged comments in closing argument were fundamentally unfair to Cockrell given his volunteered testimony on declining to talk to the police about the shooting and his reason for that. Balancing the defense and prosecution interests and applying "considerations of fairness within the context of the truth-seeking function of trials[,]" Mavrick, 601 F.2d at 933, we conclude the challenged cross-examination and closing argument were not fundamentally unfair.
The court also holds that failure to object to efficacy of the "limiting" instruction waived any right to raise it on appeal, ¶¶34-36.


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Federal prosecutor reaches settlement over discrimination in US attorney's office
By Amanda Robert
August 16, 2022, 8:55 am CDT
A longtime federal prosecutor has reached a settlement in his lawsuit alleging retaliation for calling out racially discriminatory actions and language at the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Pell, who is white and based in Orange County, California, alleged in his July 2021 complaint that he was subjected to unwarranted discipline and poor performance reviews after speaking up about discrimination by managers in his office against a Hispanic female prosecutor and other people of color. He also asserted that then-U.S. Attorney Nicola Hanna of the Central District of California did nothing to stop the behavior, which happened from 2018 to 2020.
"This settlement was a victory not only for Mr. Pell but also for the minority employees who work at the U.S. attorney's office who have received the message that this kind of racism will not be tolerated in their workplace," said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and the president and co-founder of West Coast Employment Lawyers, which represents plaintiffs in personal injury and civil litigation, in a news release.
As part of the settlement, the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to change Pell's annual rating back to "outstanding," delete false statements in his reviews, and remove a letter of reprimand for alleged unprofessional conduct from his personnel file, according to the news release. He was awarded a week of additional time off, and while the settlement was nonmonetary, his legal costs were covered.
Hanna, who provided a copy of the settlement agreement to the ABA Journal on Tuesday, contends that prior to the lawsuit, the executive office for U.S. attorneys' Complaint Adjudication Office issued Pell a final decision in April 2021 finding no discrimination or retaliation. The office issued another final decision in May 2021 that dismissed his administrative complaint of discrimination.
"This was a manufactured claim by someone upset with his annual performance review," Hanna also said in an email Tuesday. "As clearly stated in the settlement agreement, main Justice investigated the allegations and found no discrimination or retaliation. The final outcome, a nuisance value settlement, speaks for itself."
Hanna is now a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
According to Pell's complaint, a supervisor described a Hispanic female prosecutor's work as "shoddy" and her written product as "below GC" quality, a reference to general crimes in which newly hired prosecutors are assigned. The supervisor insinuated that she was lazy by asserting that she wasn't properly prepared to charge cases.
Pell said he also reported that one attorney with management responsibilities said a Black employee was wearing his "pimp daddy outfit," while another allegedly called the outgoing criminal chief a "Black mamba."
Pell noted in his complaint that the retaliation and discrimination against him worsened after he filed a formal complaint against officials in the U.S. attorney's office and participated in a racial justice and equity working group with other federal prosecutors. He also said his managers knew that he was in a relationship with a Hispanic woman and had a son with her.
Pell had worked as a federal prosecutor for more than 15 years by the time that he filed his lawsuit. According to the news release, he received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award in criminal practice in 2015.
The settlement was reached April 1 and was recently implemented.
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New project will explore use of digital technologies to support remote learning in performing arts
A new research collaboration, led by Queen Mary University of London, will investigate how digital technologies could be used to support learning in performing arts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professional Ballerina practicing at home during the pandemic. Credit: Kemal Yildirim/iStock.com
The project will bring together scientific experts and renowned dance schools to identify the best strategies to support remote dance teaching, learning and artistry.
For the study, the researchers will evaluate the best format for delivering feedback to dance students being taught remotely, and investigate the potential for AI to train additional skills at home.
Taught by experts
Students participating in the project will be taught remotely by leading choreographer and dance teacher, Erico Montes, with support from other dance professionals including ballet choreographer and Lecturer in Dance at The London Contemporary Dance School Raymond Chai, and professional ballet and Floor Barre teacher and Ballet Mistress to Rambert2, Ms Nina Thilas-Mohs.
The researchers will work with well-known dance schools including the English National Ballet School and the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Other vocational schools are also expected to participate.
Dr Elisabetta Versace, Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London and project lead, said: "Whilst many teaching practices have validated methods to transition to remote learning, the training of motor and artistic skills, such as dance, can be particularly challenging. We hope this study will provide us with improved knowledge on teaching methods that could support and enhance remote learning in the arts and sports, as well as mitigate the effects of social distancing on a wide range of physical, psychological, artistic, and cognitive outcomes."
Choreographer and dance teacher, Erico Montes
Using AI for immediate feedback
Through this project, the multidisciplinary research team will develop AI tools that will help dancers receive feedback on their movements in the absence of in-person teaching. This could provide teachers with an opportunity to train skills, such as refined movements, synchrony and self-evaluation, which are normally difficult to teach in remote settings.
Professor Andrea Cavallaro, Professor of Multimedia Signal Processing at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for Intelligent Sensing, said: "We will develop data-driven algorithms to compare the movements of a student with those of our choreographer, in order to understand what they are doing differently and how they can correct their performance. For example, we will evaluate whether a student moves early or late, and how they articulate limbs and other parts of the body. This will enable us to provide individual, immediate feedback."
Dr Versace added: "Whilst there are many immediate downsides to this for those involved in the sector, in the longer term there's a possibility that the shift to remote interactions could present new opportunities to interact and enhance creative projects and learn artistic skills. Often we think of the arts and technology being in competition, but through this project we hope to show how technology, and specifically AI, could actually be used to enhance the arts."
New tools for training and physiotherapy
The project will also take advantage of the expertise available at Queen Mary's Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine to develop new tools and techniques for the remote learning other motor skills in a wider range of settings, including physiotherapy and sports. Dancers will be assessed for physical and physiological traits under the supervision of Dr Manuela Angioi and a feasibility study with injured dancers will also take place at the NHS Dance Medicine clinic at Mile End Hospital, led by Professor Dylan Morrissey, Clinical Professor and Consultant Physiotherapist at the Centre.
Dr Manuela Angioi, Senior Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Medicine at Queen Mary University of London and fellow of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS), said: "We have previously investigated the physical and physiological requirements of dance related activities and we offer research support to a number of Institutions by analysing data in relation to annual physical screening, including the English National Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School. This project will allow us to better understand how selected physical fitness components and aesthetic competence respond to online delivery".
"The collaboration between psychology, sports science and dance medicine will be essential to adapt these AI tools for training and physiotherapy purposes, where patients require feedback from specialists on how appropriate their movements are for rehabilitation and training."
The research project is supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, and will run for a period of 12 months.
Vocational schools interested in taking part in the project should contact Dr Elisabetta Versace (e.versace@qmul.ac.uk) to register their interest.
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The umpires lost the plot, and Carlton couldn't find the goals in a 30-point loss to Richmond on this Friday night at the MCG.
Goalkickers: L. Casboult 2, A. Everitt, L. Henderson, M. Kreuzer 1.
Unfortunately for all concerned, this intense but scrappy Friday night encounter between Richmond and Carlton at the MCG will be remembered for one of the worst displays of umpiring in the modern era. From the opening bounce, all three field umpires appeared anxious and determined to exert their authority, but in their haste they became trigger-happy, and only confused each other. Typical was a bizarre incident during the third quarter, when Carlton ruckman Matthew Kreuzer soared over a pack inside Carlton's 50-metre arc and took a clear mark – only for the responsible umpire to rule that a Richmond player in front got his hands to the ball first. That decision sapped Carlton's resolve, and from then on the result was never in doubt.
Earlier, Carlton had prepared to meet the sixth-placed Tigers by adding experience to the side well-beaten by the Western Bulldogs in the previous round. Omitted were youngsters Blaine Johnson, Mark Whiley, Blaine Boekhorst and Nick Graham (the latter injured), replaced by Bryce Gibbs, Troy Menzel, Andrew Carrazzo and first-gamer Tom Fields. Jason Tutt was nominated as the Blues' substitute before Richmond skipper Trent Cotchin won the toss, and decided to kick toward the rabid Tiger cheer squad at the city end.
The opening exchanges were fierce, as Richmond got away to a good start with a quick goal to their full-forward Jack Reiwoldt. Less than five minutes in, the Blues were hit with a haymaker when Michael Jamison was concussed and soon ruled out of the rest of the game after a head clash with his opponent. Already undermanned in defence through the absence of Sam Rowe, the Blues had only small forward Tutt to call on, leaving the Tigers with a real height advantage in attack. Still, Carlton's defenders were resolute early, and they had restricted Richmond to only two majors with three minutes remaining in the first term, when Levi Casboult was paid a relayed free-kick inside the centre square, and launched a spectacular 60-metre bomb that sailed between the posts to keep Carlton well and truly in the contest.
Carlton's endeavour persisted in the second quarter, but sloppy disposal and erratic kicking for goal prevented the Blues from making any real inroads on the scoreboard. Bad misses from set shots by Tutt and Carrazzo, and a 50-metre penalty against Chris Yarran that resulted in goal to Richmond by Cotchin were costly, yet at half-time the difference between the two sides was still a slender 10 points. Under constant physical pressure, Carlton captain Marc Murphy was striving hard to keep the Blues in the contest, with support from Kreuzer, Carrazzo, Cripps and Tuohy. However, the two most influential players on the ground were Tiger defender Alex Rance (who had kept Lachie Henderson near kickless while constantly repelling Carlton attacks) and ruckman Sean Hampson. The big former Blue was having a night out for Richmond, and his dominance around the stoppages was proving vital for the Tigers.
Richmond came out firing after half-time, to post the first four goals of the quarter and lead by 35 points. Murphy, Kreuzer, Tuohy and Dylan Buckley (who provided a memorable moment with a brilliant tumbling mark at half-back) then began a Carlton fightback, and majors to Henderson and Kreuzer kept Blues' hopes flickering. But when Kreuzer's mark was disallowed, and a snap-shot by Murphy missed in the last minute of the quarter, Richmond clung to a 22-point advantage.
Perhaps the Blues could have summoned some resolve had Carrazzo nailed his set-shot free-kick from 25 metres early in the last quarter, especially when the Tigers also caught the goal-kicking yips and missed their next three opportunities. Instead, the game petered out to a predictable Richmond victory - sealed when Tiger star Dustin Martin (who had been hardly sighted for much of the game) eluded Tuohy in a ground ball contest and kicked the last goal of the game.
Aside from the umpires' frequent brain snaps, and their extravagant use of the whistle (55 free kicks were paid in total) Carlton fans were left to reflect on the performance of two former Blues who wore yellow and black in this game. Sean Hampson was the dominant ruckman on the ground, while Shaun Grigg racked up 25 disposals, 7 tackles and four marks against his former club.
In: Bryce Gibbs, Troy Menzel, Andrew Carrazzo, Tom Fields.
Out: Blaine Johnson, Mark Whiley, Blaine Boekhorst, Nick Graham.
Subs: Jason Tutt replaced Michael Jamison during the first quarter.
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Lieutenant Colonel Terry S. Russell is no stranger to firearms. During his 27 years as a soldier, Russell has �been fully trained and qualified, at a minimum annually, to skillfully employ handguns and rifles.� Now, he is stationed at New Jersey�s Picatinny Arsenal, where he serves as the �Product Manager for the Army�s Individual Weapons and Small Arms program.� ... There are few people in the United States of America who know more about guns.
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's message to those attending Friday's NRA-ILA Leadership Forum was in part cautionary: Be wary of "freedom-loathing gun-haters."
"Don't be misled by phony sloganeering like 'common sense gun legislation' or 'smart guns,'" he said. "There is nothing smart about what they are up to, as you and I both know. None of this crap will reduce violence, suicides or mass shootings."
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WAY BACK, THE
WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE
WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW, THE
WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, THE
WOMAN KING, THE
WORLD'S END, THE
WORLD TO COME, THE
WORST MOVIES OF 2013
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, THE
WRATH OF MAN
Ben Affleck gives an emotion-packed performance as Jack Cunningham in Gavin O'Connor's latest effort, THE WAY BACK. Jack, a full-fledged alcoholic, presents a lot of challenges for Affleck who has had his own issues with alcohol addiction.
In THE WAY BACK, we meet a very solitary man, who wakes up in the morning with a beer in the shower, drinks hard alcohol all day at work, then settles in at his favorite dive bar where he drinks enough to pass out --- and start all over again the next day.
Jack has his demons --- we just don't know all of them yet.
He receives a phone call from Father Edward Devine (John Aylward), the head of Bishop Hayes High School, Jack's former Catholic college prep school, where he was a formidable basketball star. The current coach has just suffered a heart attack and Fr. Devine prevails upon Jack to take the job.
After assessing all the reasons why he can't, including the fact that he's never coached, Jack finally acquiesces to the priest's request. His assistant coach, Dan (Al Madrigal), introduces him to the scrappy team of characters who haven't won very many games. But as Jack hits his stride as coach, the players come together and up their game with impressive results.
THE WAY BACK is not really a basketball movie, though O'Connor, who directed MIRACLE (2004) and WARRIOR (2010), does know his way around sports. Clearly, Jack Cunningham has issues and things in his past which exacerbate his disease. This is a story about redemption and ultimately facing those problems which drive one's addiction.
Affleck wanted to take this deep dive into Jack's character. He's faced his own darkness and has been willing to discuss some of those experiences. It's a powerful portrayal that is never overbearing or maudlin. It's an honest expose of a broken man, and Affleck's bone-weary persona adds a great deal to the realism.
He has a few excruciating scenes with his now-separated wife, Angela (Janina Gavankar), who delivers a beautifully sad and quiet performance. When Jack finally opens up to Angela about all his past mistakes, the pain and anguish for both of them is as real as possible. This is truly one of Affleck's finest performances.
THE WAY BACK is not a great film for a variety of reasons. But it is a movie that Affleck is very proud of --- "the idea that you can face hard things and get better". Words to live by ---
Skeptics may look at Ben Affleck's new film and see quite a few clichés masquerading as a sports movie. In fact, there are a number of stereotyped themes, like the reluctant new coach molds a losing team into a winning one or the quiet star of the high school basketball squad comes out of his shell.
However, THE WAY BACK is more than just an inspiring tale about young hoopsters turning their basketball fortunes around. Even more importantly, the story centers around former All-Everything player Jack Cunningham (Affleck) looking for new meaning in a life that has been on a steady downward spiral.
He is separated from wife Angela (Janina Gavankar), he goes to work on a construction site every day where he drinks alcohol many stories above the ground and he continues his alcoholism the rest of the time, even imbibing beers in the shower. There is more to his story --- namely a very tragic event ---revealed later. But can the offer of coaching his high school alma mater bring redemption to Jack?
Affleck's turn is as good as anything the two-time Oscar winner has ever done. We believe Jack really is a basketball coach, which includes the frequent use of profanity directed at both his players and the referees, much to the chagrin of Father Whelan (Jeremy Radin). Of course, this provides much of the humor in the movie, but three elements make THE WAY BACK a very good film.
First, Affleck's performance is so very convincing, both on and off the court. Second, the supporting effort by Al Madrigal as assistant coach/algebra teacher Dan is a highlight. And third, the players are also credible actors in addition to looking like legitimate basketball players.
Director Gavin O'Connor worked overtime to make sure the actors who made the final cut looked like natural athletes. At the top of this list is Brandon Wilson as Brandon, the one player Coach Cunningham calls the best on the fictional Bishop Hayes High School Tigers. And whether you know basketball or not, Wilson instantly looks like the real deal the way he handles himself on the court.
All the basketball game sequences --- even the pre-game warmups --- are well choreographed and photographed. The film has a unique way of flashing the final scores of games, both for the team's early losses and later as they go on an extended winning streak. Certainly, climactic last-second hoops are a trademark of a good basketball story and THE WAY BACK provides us with several chill-inducing, albeit mostly predictable, final shots.
THE WAY BACK is solidly co-written by Brad Inglesby, with help from O'Connor. The director has helmed quality films like THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) which also starred Affleck, and MIRACLE (2004) about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that upset the Russians. So, he knows a thing or two about how to make a stirring sports story.


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Nicole Symmonds is Beliefnet's Prayer editor and also covers Christianity. A New Yorker by birth but a Floridian by tenure, Nicole graduated from Florida A&M University with a B.S. in Public Relations and a minor in Sociology. She moved to NY to pursue a career in journalism which started at In Style magazine. There she learned the ropes of magazine reporting, researching, and writing—and became exponentially more stylish. But what seemed like a deep interest in fashion and entertainment would soon be revealed as merely the vehicle that moved her closer to discovering her purpose, writing and covering matters of the Christian faith. While in her purpose-driven vehicle she can be found traveling between Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens for life, work and worship, respectively. From fashion to faith and the journey isn't over yet…
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Should Religion be a Factor in a Person Excusing Themselves From Jury Duty?
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According to court documents, Superior Court Judge Lora Cubbage questioned a potential juror who said he would be unable to function as a juror because of his religion. The juror said he was "non-denominational. A Baptist."
Cubbage excused him, then told other potential jurors, mentioning African Americans in particular: "Every day we are in the newspaper stating we don't get fairness in the judicial system. … But none of us — most African Americans do not want to serve on a jury. And 90% of the time, it's an African American defendant. So we walk off these juries and we leave open the opportunity for — for juries to exist with no African American sitting on them, to give an African American defendant a fair trial. So we cannot keep complaining if we're going to be part of the problem," Cubbage added, saying she grew up Baptist. "There's nothing about a Baptist background that says we can't listen to the evidence and decide whether" Campbell was treated and charged properly, she said.
This all was said when the three-judge panel ordered a new trial for Allen Anthony Campbell, who was convicted in Guilford County in 2019 of several motor vehicle violations and pleaded guilty to being a habitual felon. He was sentenced to roughly seven to 10 years in prison.
Campbell, who is also Black, did not formally object to the judge's comments. But his attorney said they were still ripe for scrutiny because state law prevents judges from expressing "any opinion in the presence of the jury on any question of fact to be decided by the jury."
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Could Ghost Rider Turn Up on Agents of SHIELD After All?
Morning SpoilersIf there's news about upcoming movies and television you're not supposed to know, you'll find it in here.
J.K. Simmons talks Justice League. A wrestler is making a guest appearance in Arrow's next season. Gillian Anderson teases her American Gods role. Plus, new set pictures from The Dark Tower, what's in store for Lucifer, and tons of new clips from Star Trek Beyond. To me, my Spoilers!
Santiago Cabrera has joined the film.
Supercon
John Malkovich has been cast in the movie, about a group of washed up comics artists and former TV starts planning a heist set against the background of a comic book convention. [Coming Soon]
Star Wars Episode VIII
Mark Hamill has confirmed the film wraps later this month.
J.K. Simmons tells Entertainment Weekly about his "badass" take on Commissioner Gordon.
People of my generation remember Commissioner Gordon as this jolly, ineffectual Santa Claus type, and I think over the years in the comics there's definitely much more of a badass side to him. One of the things that's interesting to me is investigating hopefully a little bit more of that badass [side] … You're living in a universe where it's pretty tough to be a badass compared to somebody like Batman, but in the universe of non-superheroes I like the idea of Commissioner Gordon as a guy that can take care of himself, a guy that's a real partner to Batman, not just a guy that turns on the bat signal and goes, 'Help! Help, Batman!'
Here's a new TV spot.
More set pictures of Idris Elba as Roland have hit the web.
A bunch of new, very short character-focused spots have been released.
A couple of weeks ago, wild speculation emerged that anti-hero Ghost Rider would be joining the show—with the sole evidence being art displayed of a fiery linked chain on the side of a San Diego tram. While that "evidence" is still far more likely to be a reference to the show's recently introduced Inhuman Hellfire (who also, like Ghost Rider, uses a fiery chain), new information recently revealed might offer a far more substantial hint at the Rider's presence in the series.
Why You Shouldn't Believe That Ridiculous Agents of SHIELD Rumor
Dave Filoni discusses bringing a Clone Wars character to Rogue One. Michael Bay unveils a new…
TV Line recently reported that the show is looking to cast a pair of Latino brothers in season four, one described as "the most dangerous person in the room," the other "paralyzed in a wheelchair." While those descriptions don't fit the origins of the most well known Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, they do fall more in line with Robbie Reyes, an incarnation of Ghost Rider first introduced in the comics in 2014, who had a disabled brother named Gabriel. This is still all speculation for now, but it's a bit more solid than a chain on the side of a tram.
Cody Rhodes, better known as his wrestling persona Stardust, will guest star in season five. Rhodes and Stephen Amell have developed a rivalry in the ring over the past few years outside of the show, so there's probably a good chance they'll fight each other in his appearance. [Coming Soon]
Stephen Amell tells fans at the Heroes & Villains FanFest that the next season will refocus the show's core.
The villain that we are introducing is a direct result of things that Oliver has done in Star City [and] calls back to a lot of things that happened in the first season of the show. In doing so, It really grounds the show and really focuses on its core value, which is the battle to save Star City.
[TV Line]
Simon Kinberg hypes up Noah Hawley's involvement on the show and its tone in this interview with Moviefone:
Noah [Hawley] is a genius — he wrote and created and directed the pilot to 'Legion' — and it is a very different sensibility than anything we've done with the 'X-Men' movies. Almost, I would say, as radically different as 'Deadpool' was from the mainline 'X-Men' movies.
Gillian Anderson has released a teasing picture of her character, Media, on Twitter.
The first episode of season two is titled "The Adventures of Supergirl".
Finally, DC All Access has released a new video teasing the show's second season.
Additional reporting by Gordon Jackson. Banner art by Jim Cooke.
Is that Anderson as Media as Lucy?
That Supergirl episode title is likely a reference to the Dean Cain Superman show.
Santiago Carbrera is probably familiar to us as Isaac on Heroes and Lancelot on Merlin. He's not the only new Transformers 5 announcement:


The log messages generated by a piece of software tell a story: what, where, when, even why and how if you're lucky. The readers of this story are more often than not other programs: monitoring systems, performance tools, or just filtering the messages down to something a human can actually comprehend. Unfortunately the output of most logging systems is ill-suited to being read by programs. Even worse, most logging systems omit critical information that both humans and their programs need.
Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen, and about whom Dorothea felt some venerating expectation. … If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
You could do a text search for log messages containing the text "Dorothea", but this is likely to fail for some types of searches. You might want to searching for actions involving dinner, but then you would need to search for "dine" and "dinner" and perhaps other words well. A library like structlog that can generate structured log messages will solve this first problem. You could define a "person" field in your messages and then you can search for all messages where person == "Dorothea" as well as other structured queries.
Every time a log message is written out you need to decide how to refer to the objects being logged. In the messages we saw above "Dorothea" and "Miss Brooke" are in fact different identifiers for the same person. Having structured messages doesn't help us find all messages about a specific entity if the object is referred to inconsistently. What you need is infrastructure for converting specific kinds of objects in your code to fields in your structured log messages. Then you can just say "log a message that refers to this Person" and that reusable code will make sure the correct identifier is generated.
Not long after that dinner-party she had become Mrs. Casaubon, and was on her way to Rome.
A marriage has a beginning and eventually an end. The end may be successful, presuming "until death do us part" is a form of success, or a failure. The same is true of all actions, much like function calls in Python are started and eventually return a result or throw an exception. Actions may of course span multiple function calls or extended periods of time.
Actions also generate other actions: a marriage leads to a trip to Rome, the trip to Rome might lead to a visit to the Vatican Museum, and so on. Other unrelated actions are occurring at the same time, resulting in a forest of actions, with root actions that grow a tree of child actions.
You might want to trace an action from beginning to end, e.g. to measure how long it took to run. You might want to know what high-level action caused a particular unexpected low-level action. You might want to know what actions a specific entity was involved with. None of these are possible in most logging systems since they have no concept of actions to begin with.
A story may involve many characters in many places at many times. The novelist has the power to present the internal consciousness of not just one character but many: their ways of thinking, their different perceptions of reality.
Similarly, actions in a distributed system may span multiple processes. An incoming request to one server may cause a ripple of effects reaching many other processes; the logs from a single process in isolation are insufficient to understand what happened and why.
Eliot is designed to solve all of these problems. For simplicity's sake this example focuses on problems 1 and 3; problem 2 is covered by the type system and problem 4 by cross-process actions.
We can see different messages are related insofar as they refer to the same person, or the same thing… but we can't trace the relationship in terms of actions. Was looking at a statue the result of visiting Rome? There's no way we can tell from the log messages. We could manually log start and finish messages but that won't suffice when we have many interleaved actions involving the same objects. Which of twenty parallel HTTP request tried to insert a row into the database? Chronological messages simply cannot tell us that.
The solution is to introduce two new concepts: actions and tasks. An "action" is something with a start and an end; the end can be successful or it can fail due to an exception. Log messages, as well as log actions, know the log action whose context they are running in. The result is a tree of actions. A "task" is a top-level action, a basic entry point into the program which drives other actions. The task is therefore the root of the tree of actions. For example, an HTTP request received by a web server might be a task.
Actions provide a Python context manager. When the action or task starts a start message is logged. If the block finishes successfully a success message is logged for the action; if an exception is thrown a failure message is logged for the action with the exception type and contents. Not shown here but supported by the API is the ability to add fields to the success messages for an action. A similar API supports Twisted's Deferreds.
No longer isolated fragments of meaning, our log messages are now a story. Log events have context, you can tell where they came from and what they led to without guesswork. Was looking at a statue the result of the honeymoon? It most definitely was.


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Cala Abierta es una pequeña playa del municipio de Cartagena (Murcia). Es una pequeña playa situado al E de Cala Cerrada, al O del Cabezo de Atalayón, y al S del paraje del Castillo y el pico de La Picadera . El acceso a la playa, es desde un sendero que sale de la E-23, saliendo a la altura del collado de Juan Catalina; y bajando por la fuente del Zurdo. Tiene una longitud de 80 m, y de ancho, 10 m. Su arena es de color gris y textura fina, y su ocupación es muy baja debido a la dificultad del acceso.

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100-Year-Old Portraits of Immigrants to Ellis Island Show the People Who Helped Shape America
By Sara Barnes on July 25, 2016
To understand our present, we must first have a sense of our past. The historic Ellis Island in the United States is a symbol of the "melting pot" that has come to define the country—it's a place where many modern families got their start in America. Active between 1892 and 1954, it served as an immigration inspection station for the millions of people arriving into the country. A 17-year-old named Annie Moore from Cork, Ireland was the first of 700 immigrants who arrived on January 1—opening day. At its peak, the site saw 11,747 people arrive in April of 1907.
Those who went through Ellis Island represented low-income passengers trying to immigrate to the United States—first and second class travelers were considered wealthy enough as to not become a burden to the state and were examined on board the ships. The people who were sent to the island underwent medical examinations, interviews, and legal inspections, often with very little in tow. While waiting (for money, travel tickets, or family members), amateur photographer Augustus Sherman snapped portraits of the immigrants in their native dress, from grown men and women to small children. The black and white images are a fascinating look at these cultures throughout history, as well as an important reminder of the people who helped make America what it is today.
The New York Public Library currently houses Sherman's photographs. In 2005, these images were compiled and published into a book called Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920. The full-page portrait publication is now available through Amazon.
Above: German stowaway
Ruthenian woman
Italian woman
Three Dutch women
Russian Cossacks
Romanian piper
Dutch children
Slovak woman and children
Children from Lapland
Cossack man from the steppes of Russia
Algerian man
Norwegian woman
Hindu boy
Guadeloupean woman
Slovakian women
Three women from Guadeloupe
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Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled 'Embroidered Life' that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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