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Both relatively minor cases came after the Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning yesterday afternoon for areas near Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park and Richmond.
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Health insurance in Indiana
- Indiana relies on the federally facilitated exchange, so residents enroll through HealthCare.gov.
- Open enrollment for 2019 coverage in Indiana ended on December 15.
- Enrollment is still possible for Indiana residents with qualifying events.
- As of July 2019, short-term health plans are available in Illinois with initial terms of up to 364 days.
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Indiana relies on the federally facilitated exchange, so residents enroll through HealthCare.gov.Open enrollment for 2019 coverage is from November 1 through December 15, 2018. About 167,000 Indiana residents enrolled in coverage during the open enrollment period for 2018 coverage.
Two carriers are offering 2019 coverage in the state's individual market. Both exchange insurers plan to expand their coverage areas for 2019. The average filed rate increase for 2019 coverage was 5.1 percent, which is smaller than the rate hikes that applied for 2018.
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Former Gov. Pence became Vice President of the United States in January 2017. in the 2016 election. In the 2016 election, Republican Eric Holcomb won the gubernatorial election in Indiana. Holcomb is opposed to the ACA, and supported House Republicans in their quest to pass the AHCA (the legislation was pulled before a vote, but would have frozen Medicaid expansion funding for new enrollees at the end of 2019, and would have resulted in smaller overall premium subsidies in the individual market, along with significantly higher premiums for people over the age of 50).
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Before the ACA reformed the individual health insurance market, applications were medically underwritten in nearly every state, including Indiana. As a result, people with pre-existing conditions were often ineligible to purchase private plans, or were only able to get policies that excluded their pre-existing conditions or charged them significantly higher premiums for comprehensive coverage.
The Indiana Comprehensive Health Insurance Association (now terminated) was created in 1982 to provide an alternative for residents who were unable to obtain coverage in the private market because of their medical history.
Under the ACA, all new health insurance policies became guaranteed issue starting on January 1, 2014. This aspect of healthcare reform meant that plans in the individual market could be purchased regardless of medical history, making high-risk pools largely obsolete. ICHIA stopped enrolling new members at the end of September 2013. They had originally planned to cease operations and terminate all policies at the end of 2013, but the glitches in Healthcare.gov made it difficult for members to enroll in an exchange plan by mid-December.
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As of 2009, Indiana ranked 15th in overall Medicare spending with $9.7 billion per year. Per Indiana enrollee, IMedicare spends about $9,141 per year – higher than the national average of $8,970.
Indiana Medicare recipients who want additional benefits beyond what original Medicare offers can instead select a Medicare Advantage plan. In Indiana, 24 percent of Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan in 2016 (instead of traditional Medicare), compared with 31 percent nationwide.
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who was Brendan's dance partner in 2013 and finished in fourth place, tweeted: "Sad to hear @BrendanCole now not part of @bbcstrictly Not only a brilliant dancer/choreographer/teacher, it was wonderful to have someone with such experience of the show. It's a wild, wonderful and bonkers environment and he helped me enjoy it and gave others advice too." To which, Charlotte swiftly responded: "I agree @SophieEB xx." Former partner, Kirsty Gallacher, also echoed their thoughts. She wrote: "Sad to hear my great friend @BrendanCole won't be involved in @bbcstrictly anymore. He's been a huge part of the success of the show and personally I don't think it'll be the same without him."
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|Definition: Women who adopt masculine appearance and behaviour to preserve the honour of their birth families
|Keywords: Albania – Balkans – Gender – Kinship – Tradition – Transvestitism – Cross-gender – Household
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|Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
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By Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
|Burrnesha, Albanian sworn virgins, are physiological women, primarily from rural regions of northern Albania, who live as men and refrain from marriage or sexual activity. They adopt masculine dress, hairstyle, work roles, mannerisms, and speech. They may even adopt behaviours that are typically only acceptable for men to practice in their communities, such as smoking, cursing, carrying arms, and drinking liquor. They are sometimes visually indistinguishable from men. However, it is not socially acceptable for them to get married or to have sexual relations of any kind. There are some reports of sworn virgins having made a formal oath of virginity, however this seems more common in theory than in practice (Young 2001).
It is difficult to pinpoint with certainty the origin of this practice due to the lack of records. However, it was described in the kanun, an informal compilation of social rules passed down orally for centuries in these communities. This dates the custom from at least as early as the fifteen century (Gjecovi 2010, Ilia 1993).
The kanun states that it is acceptable for women to live as men if their family has no or few males, if they wish to honourably reject an arranged marriage, or if they simply desire to do so (Gjecovi 2010, Ilia 1993). In practice women may choose to live as men for multiple other reasons, including to inherit their family's property or to fight in war. Overall, becoming a burrneshe is particularly instrumental in allowing women to live with their birth families; under typical circumstances they would move in with their husbands as soon as they married. By living with their birth families sworn virgins are able to offer them various types of support. Firstly, they provide practical support such as labour. Secondly, a family's status increases with the number of its male members. In this way sworn virgins contribute to the symbolic wellbeing of the family, which can have material consequences such as greater leverage in inheritance disputes (Durham 1910, Young 2001).
Sworn virgins not only live as men, they are also treated and respected as men. They are included in spaces typically reserved only for men, such as village meetings and the home's oda (the sitting/dining room). Under typical circumstances women have much lower status than men and are excluded from many spaces and activities, so this shift is significant (Durham 1910, Young 2001). It is also considered safe for sworn virgins to walk alone far from home, for example to travel between villages or to herd goats. This increase in status is often justified as having been earned by the 'sacrifice' that they made in order to support their family as men.
There are several different terms used for these women in Albanian. The original term used in the kanun is virgjineshe, meaning virgin (Gjecovi 2010, Ilia 1993). However, today the word burrneshe (plural: burrnesha) is more commonly used. Burrneshe literally means man (burre) followed by a feminine ending (-eshe). There are other terms used less frequently, such as sokoleshe. Sokol literally means falcon but is used to denote a man of especially admirable and stereotypically masculine traits. As with the word burrneshe, the ending –eshe makes this semantically hyper-masculine word grammatically feminine. As such, these terms are simultaneously masculine and feminine, as opposed to representing a third gender category.
In Serbo-Croatian-speaking Balkan countries where this custom exists these women are often referred to as tobelija (Horváth 2003, Horváth 2011). Meanwhile, in other languages the term for these women is usually a local equivalent of 'sworn virgin' (e.g., vergine giurata in Italian) due to the understanding that they sometimes take an oath of virginity.
The words burrneshe and sokoleshe are titles that convey great respect and admiration. They convey bravery, wisdom, and strength of character. Excluding sworn virgins' northern Albanian communities, the rest of the Albanian-speaking world usually uses these titles for women living as typical women who have earned the respect of the speaker. For example, a woman who has confronted considerable hardship in responsible and honorable ways may be called a burrneshe.
The practice of sworn virgins has been reported in several Balkan nations. The highest number of them has been reported among ethnic Albanian communities of northern Albania and Kosovo. However, there have also been reports of ethnic Slavic sworn virgins in Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia (Šarčević 2004, Young 2001, Young and Twigg 2009). The actual numbers of sworn virgins in existence is difficult to measure, however Albanologist and sworn virgin expert Antonia Young (2001) estimates the number to be around 100 at present.
There are other cultures of the world where it is socially acceptable for people to assume lifestyle of another gender for reasons other than gender identity. One particular example of this is an Afghan practice called bacha posh whereby young girls may be dressed as boys. This satisfies the family's son preference while affording the girls more freedom and safety. However, unlike Albanian sworn virgins this practice ends at puberty, after which point it is considered socially unacceptable (Bacha Posh n.d., Strochlic 2018).
Antonia Young's Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins (2001) is the most thorough modern account of Albanian sworn virgins, highlighting the ambivalence of tradition that in this case makes a complete turnaround of customary gender divisions. Edith Durham's High Albania (1910), a detailed account of the author's travels through Northern Albania at the turn of the twentieth century, included frequent mention of sworn virgins. Several academic works tackled more specific questions provoked by this custom. Dickerson (in press) used sociolinguistic analysis to explore sworn virgins' social gender identity, while Horvath's (2003, 2011) anthropological works interrogated the Western gaze in its portrayals of sworn virgins and the Balkans.
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2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season Birdseye Discussion #131
By: NCHurricane2009 , 10:55 AM GMT on October 12, 2012
In the last 24 hours...tropical disturbance Invest 97-L just north of the eastern Bahamas has strengthened into tropical depression sixteen then into Tropical Storm Patty. Patty will be accelerating west-southwestward across the Bahamas and Cuba by late this weekend and Monday. However...it is expected to be a remnant surface trough by then. See Patty special feature section below for details.
Attention continues turning to tropical wave Invest 98-L en route to the Lesser Antilles. It is becoming more apparent that tropical cyclone formation will be likely with this system...and therefore I have upgraded it to a special feature on this blog. This system could soon spin up into a tropical cyclone that brings tropical storm conditions to the Lesser Antilles...Virgin Islands...and Puerto Rico. In addition...computer model runs suggest that Bermuda should also monitor the progress of this system. See the Invest 98-L special feature section below for details.
An outage persists with GOES-E satellite imagery in the last several days. GOES-W has been extended to cover much of the view in the two birdseye charts below. However...the east edge of the GOES-W scan has a bias for showing cold cloud tops that are not actually present. Therefore...I have patched the east side of the atmospheric birdseye chart with Meteosat-9 grafts. The east side of the thermodynamics birdseye chart is left unrepaired...so be mindful that the moisture content on the east side of this chart has a positive bias due to the false illusion of cold cloud tops.
This chart is generated based on surface analysis from the National Hurricane Center TAFB at 0000Z, and the 0123Z-released HPC analysis.
In light blue is upper air analysis, with 200 mb wind barbs calculated by GOES satellite imagery showing the upper-level wind direction. Based on the 200 mb wind barbs, blue-dashed lines are locations of upper troughs, blue-zig-zag lines are locations of upper ridges. Blue Ls are locations of upper lows, blue Hs are locations of upper ridges.
In red is surface analysis, with solid lines indicating locations of surface fronts, dashed lines indicating locations of surface troughs, and zig-zag lines indicating surface ridge axes. Ls indicate surface lows, Hs indicate surface highs.
This chart is generated using GOES water vapor satellite imagery. Brown indicates dry air. White, blue, and purple indicates moist air. An increase in moisture indicates slower air parcel lapse rates with elevation and hence an increase toward instability.
Sea-surface temperatures are overlaid with light blue isotherms. The 26 deg C isotherm is highlighted in red. Waters at and south of the 26 deg C isotherm indicate low-level warmth and hence faster environmental lapse rates with elevation (more instability). Waters north of the 26 deg C isotherm indicate slower environmental lapse rates with elevation (less instability).
Under the upper outflow and reduced shear of the SW end of the paragraph P4 upper ridge...tropical low Invest 97-L has strengthened to Tropical Storm Patty in the last day. However...as anticipated in my previous remarks on this system...1010 mb frontal depression in paragraph P1 is re-amplifying the upper troughing such that the favorable W Atlantic upper ridge is getting booted out and unfavorable westerly vertical shear is pushing in. However...with the 00Z GFS model showing the east half of Patty under the favorable upper ridge for another 24 hrs...I agree with the NHC 11 PM EDT intensity forecast...which keeps Patty at current strength for 24 more hours. I also agree with the 11 PM EDT NHC advisory weakening rate (albeit I forecast the final advisory will be 11 PM Sat while the NHC said by 11 PM Sunday)...which shows weakening beginning in 36 hrs. This is consistent with the 36-hour and beyond 00Z GFS upper wind forecast showing the favorable upper ridge being pushed out altogether while becoming replaced by a large area of shearing southwest upper winds from the paragraph P1 upper troughing.
Figure 1: My forecast for Tropical Storm Patty generated very early this morning
As I anticipated in my previous discussion of this system...Patty is stationary while trapped between the paragraph P1 central US surface ridge and paragraph P2 Atlantic surface ridge. With the two ridges shown in models to be of equal strength and opposing influence...coupled with the fact that the gap between the two ridges will be re-enforced by the 968 mb and 1010 mb depressions in paragraph P1...I still expect Patty to be stationary for the timeframe that is the next 24 hrs as I stated yesterday. Alternatively...the NHC shows a southward drift for Patty in the next 24 hrs (so I have a north bias relative to NHC from the get-go as seen in Figure 1)...while the 00Z GFS shows a northeast drift in the next 24 hrs. Therefore I believe my stalled forecast track for the next 24 hrs is a good compromise between these two solutions. After 24 hrs...the models agree that the central US ridge in paragraph P1 will eject eastward and pass to the north of Patty...and tropical wave Invest 98-L should be pushing in from the east by that time. Therefore...I agree with the NHC on an accelerating WSW track after 24 hrs while steered by 98-L and the ridge (but my track line is a little north of the NHC's becauase of my aformentioned initial north bias for the first 24 hrs).
Blue-dashed impact swath in Figure 1 is based on the 11 PM EDT NHC tropical storm wind radius...and extrapolating that along my forecast track along the length where I forecast Patty to be a tropical storm. With that said...we can expect Patty to not bring tropical storm conditions to the Bahamas or any land areas beyond in her forecast WSW track...because she should be dissipated from vertical shear by then. It is hard to distinguish Patty's cold cloud-tops from that of the paragraph P1 W Atlantic cold front's...but it is likely their is a large area of offshore heavy rain east of the center of Patty both inside and outside my impact swath. Because it is hard to distinguish the potential rain shield of Patty from the front's...that is why my impact swath simply represents the area of expected tropical storm winds rather than the area of heaviest rain. I expect the front to sweep up all of Patty's eastern t-storm activity by the time she accelerates WSW...so this area of heavy rain should not affect the Bahamas or any other land areas her WSW track will bring her.
Tropical wave Invest 98-L with 1006 mb low pressure spin is currently approaching the Lesser Antilles..and has gotten better organized in the last 24 hours. It continues to be enhanced by upper outflow of paragraph P3 eastern tropical Atlantic upper ridge...which has become amplified over the system thanks to the system's t-storm latent heat release and thanks to the anticipated diminishing of SW-NE upper trough in paragraph P3. However...the surface low pressure center of 98-L is on the west edge of the favorable upper ridge...so the system still is fighting some SW vertical shear from the SW-NE upper trough for the time being. With the 00Z GFS showing the favorable upper ridge continuing to expand and following the system for the next days...coupled with continued diminishing of the SW-NE upper trough...98-L could quickly spin up into a tropical storm in the next 24 hours...and in fact could become a strong tropical cyclone (certainly stronger than current Tropical Storm Patty).
Models support 98-L tracking NW across the eastern Caribbean region (Lesser Antilles...Virgin Islands...and Puerto Rico area) while rounding the SW edge of paragraph P2 central Atlantic surface ridge...the NW track also supported by expanding ridge weakness from Patty...as well as the 968 mb and 1010 mb frontal depressions mentioned in paragraph P1. The central US surface ridge in paragraph P1 is then progged to eject eastward to the north of 98-L...supporting a more west track toward the Bahamas...but the models show the next mid-latitude system quickly kicking in behind that ridge so that 98-L misses the Bahamas and turns northward toward Bermuda. It is important to emphasize that weak to moderate tropical storm conditions could quickly spin up over portions of the Lesser Antilles...Virgin Islands...and Puerto Rico area in the next 24 to 48 hrs...and that Bermuda could be affected by this system before the next 120 hrs (5 days) passes.
P1...Upper troughing over North America is being re-enforced by cool air advection from strong surface frontal cyclone that has intensified from 985 to 968 mb while moving from eastern Hudson Bay to the E coast of Canada. Cool air advecdtion of 1010 mb frontal depression that shifted from Montana to SE Canada is also supporting the upper troughing. Western convergence of this upper troughing is supporting 1024 and 1029 mb surface ridge centers over the central US. Intense 969 mb frontal cyclone just east of Greenland has weakened to 990 mb while whirling beneath the less-divergent axis of its shortwave upper trough. A long frontal zone formerly extended from this 990 mb center...reaching as far SW as the W Atlantic. This front is now controlled by the aformentioned 968 mb center over the E coast of Canada.
P2...Upper vortex continues south of the Azores. Western convergence of this upper vortex is supporting 1027 mb central Atlantic surface ridge.
P3...SW-NE tilted upper trough in the central Atlantic and eastern Caribbean persists...currently established as a pair of upper vortices. In relatively higher pressures west of the upper trough...a western Caribbean upper ridge persists. Yet another upper ridge persists in relatively higher pressures east of this upper trough...located in the eastern tropical Atlantic over special feature Invest 98-L. To the east of that...the upper trough W of the Cape Verde Islands in the previous discussion has become absorbed by the paragraph P2 upper vortex.
P4...W Atlantic upper ridge remains amplified across the north Atlantic due to warm air advection ahead of 990 mb and 968 mb gale centers mentioned in paragraph P1.
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.


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BlackBerry Still Hugely Popular in the Netherlands
RIM's BlackBerry might be on a sustained losing streak against Android and the iPhone around the world but it is still packing in new users in the Netherlands, research GfK Retail & Technology has reported.
Significantly, 85 percent of new BlackBerry sales came from customers that had previously used conventional phone handsets, with the majority of upgraders being women. This could reflect the BlackBerry's good reputation as a texting device, a mobile application reckoned to be a particular priority for women.
The reported success chimes with RIM's claim last week that it had added over one million new subscribers in three weeks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa sales region, but leaves its poor showing in specific countries unexplained.
Globally, the damage is being done mainly by Android, which is growing everywhere, and to some extent by the popular iPhone.
BlackBerry is also the best selling smartphone in the UK and South Africa. 67 million people worldwide have a BlackBerry according to RIM. In late November there were 55 million.


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Neymar takes every team to a higher level - Trapp
Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Kevin Trapp has outlined just how important Neymar is both to the Ligue 1 leaders and the Brazil national team.
The 26-year-old finds himself sidelined due to a broken foot, causing him to miss out as PSG crashed out of the Champions League at the hands of Real Madrid, and Trapp believes his absence was a costly one for the Ligue 1 leaders.
Germany will tackle Brazil in friendly action on Tuesday, and the shot-stopper has said that his club-mate will be equally missed by the national squad.
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"In Paris, Neymar is clearly missing in the team and it won't be different for Brazil," he told Sport Bild. "Neymar has an incredible quality that takes every team to a higher level. His performances often make the difference."
Despite moving to the Parc des Princes last August, the Brazil international has been linked with a move back to Spain, with both Barcelona and Real Madrid linked with the superstar.
Trapp, whose own future is also rather unclear, is hopeful that Neymar will remain with the Parisians for an extended period.
"We're delighted that we have him in the team and hope that he's in Paris for a long time," the Germany international said.
"Every day there's something different about him in the papers. One day he's moving back to Real Madrid then it's back to Barcelona the next day. I don't know what will happen. But we're not annoyed."
He also moved to dismiss reports that Neymar is a troublemaker.
"Despite the hype, his feet are still on the ground, even if it's often portrayed differently," he said.
The 27-year-old is hoping to win just a third international cap on Tuesday in Berlin.


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On Wednesday I hosted the fab Elizabeth Seckman, but that is not all!
Next Friday 25th I will be a guesting on Cassie Mae's blog, on Sunday 3rd Feb I will be hosting the brilliant Annalisa Crawford, and next week I'm interviewing the prolific Patsy Collins.
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Engagement and impact assessment
On 7 December 2015 the Australian Government launched its National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA). One of the measures within the agenda is for Australia to introduce a national impact and engagement assessment, which will examine how universities are translating their research into economic, social and other benefits and encourage greater collaboration between universities, industries and other end-users of research.
Working closely with university and industry stakeholders and through a Steering Committee and working groups, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Department of Education and Training have been developing the framework for the assessment.
In line with the NISA announcement in December 2015, a pilot was undertaken in 2017. The ARC reviewed the pilot, including analysing the engagement and impact assessment methodologies and incorporating feedback from university, industry and end-user participants. This review informed the development of the full assessment.
The national Engagement and Impact Assessment (EI) in 2018 will be undertaken as a companion to Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA).


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a poem for Mike
My Husband Burns the Yard Waste After His Father Dies
The Fire Marshall came, looked, shook his head, nope.
Seventy-five feet from any structure. Not possible in this yard.
Then he turned on a half-wink, sniffed the breeze, said,
Nice spot for a little camp fire.
All morning my husband stands with it, the burning.
He stares, like one does, into the fire
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Minaj calls dustup with Cardi B 'mortifying,' 'humiliating'
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nicki Minaj said being involved in an altercation with Cardi B at a fashion week party was "so mortifying and so humiliating."
Cardi B tried to attack Minaj at the Harper's Bazaar Icons party in New York on Friday. Video circulated on social media showing Cardi B lunging toward Minaj and throwing her shoe at the rapper.
In an Instagram post, Cardi B — who recently had a child — didn't call out Minaj by name but alluded to the fight and said she was sparked because her mothering skills were being disparaged.
"I wanna say that I would never discuss anyone's child. And it's so sad for someone to pin that on me because I'm the bad guy and they're gonna believe them," Minaj said Monday on her Apple Music "Queen Radio" show.
The rappers have been rivals since Cardi B began achieving huge success over the last year. Cardi B recently became the first female rapper to have two songs hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and her debut album, "Invasion of Privacy," is one of the best-selling albums of the year. Minaj continues to find success but has been displaced as rap's top female act.
Minaj said on her show that Cardi B "has built her career off of sympathy and payola."
A barefoot Cardi B was escorted out of the event last week by security and was seen leaving the party with what appeared to be a bump on her head.
"Get this woman some (expletive) help. This woman is at the best stage of her career and she's throwing bottles and throwing shoes? Who the (expletive) is gonna give her an intervention?" Minaj said.
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Police killings of 3 black men left a mark on Detroit's history more than 50 years ago
September 10, 2018
Jeffrey Horner
Senior Lecturer of Urban Studies, Wayne State University
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Police routinely used violent force against blacks in the U.S. before the 1940s, primarily as a means of preserving segregation in cities.
It became a last line of defense for segregationists after the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948 weakened the ability of property owners to refuse to sell to people of color. By the 1950s, with the decline of legalized segregation, many white community associations were organizing to "defend" their neighborhoods against black residents who were seeking housing there. By the 1960s, a squadron of Detroit police officers known as the Big Four began patrols specifically aimed at maintaining racial homogeneity in the city's white neighborhoods.
Albert Cobo, Detroit's mayor from 1950 to 1957, openly campaigned in 1949 on a promise to prevent the "Negro invasion."
In Detroit in the late 1950s and early 1960s, federal urban redevelopment projects – under statutory authority of Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal – displaced thousands of black residents and businesses in the largest black quarter of the city.
Districts known as Paradise Valley and Black Bottom were converted into an interstate freeway and upper middle-class residential district, available to few who were displaced. Seemingly, blacks were no longer welcome even in black areas of the city.
Many relocated to the 12th Street commercial district, a Jewish quarter where many blacks held jobs, leading to residential overcrowding. This set the stage for the deadliest urban civil insurrection of the 1960s – the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. It was sparked by a police bust of an after-hours drinking establishment frequented by blacks, but years of police brutality and deteriorating social conditions fueled the flame.
One incident in which white police officers killed three black men happened at the height of the insurrection.
I believe these events show that police brutality today, perpetrated disproportionately against blacks in urban areas, is more of a continuation of historic patterns than a set of novel events.
1967 rebellion
The Detroit Rebellion left 43 people dead and caused hundreds of documented and undocumented injuries. The vast majority of the 7,000 people who were arrested were black.
The primary cause of the unrest, according to the 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, was police brutality against blacks followed by unemployment, housing conditions, poor educational opportunities and many other public and social issues that disparately impacted black populations.
One of the most well-documented instances of police brutality in this time involved the deaths of three unarmed black men by white police. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Hersey observed, in his definitive work, "The Algiers Motel Incident," that the "episode contained all of the mythic themes of racial strife in the United States: the arm of the law taking the law into its own hands … the devastation in both black and white human lives that follows in the wake of violence as surely as a ruinous and indiscriminate flood after torrents."
Hersey had initially set out to investigate and report on the causes of the entire uprising in Detroit. Upon on his arrival that August, his attention quickly focused on the incident at the Algiers Motel. His remarkable, exhaustive accounts detail the horrifying chain of events that were overshadowed by the Detroit Rebellion of 1967.
What happened at the Algiers Motel
Hersey, writer Sidney Fine and others have noted that accounts of the events that led to the deaths of Carl Cooper, Aubrey Pollard and Fred Temple have often been conflicting.
But here are the basic facts.
In the early hours of July 26, 1967, Detroit police Officers Ronald August, Robert Paille and David Senak responded to a report of civilian snipers at the Algiers Motel, about 1 mile east of the center of the uprising.
According to eyewitness news accounts and subsequent investigations, officers began a room-to-room search for weapons and suspects once they arrived at the motel annex. Officers Paille and Senak then encountered Fred Temple, an 18-year-old employed by the Ford Motor Company. He was on the phone in an apartment room and the two officers fired on him simultaneously, killing him.
In the meantime, National Guardsmen and additional police had rounded up motel occupants in the lobby of the annex and were questioning and searching them. Rushing down the steps from the second floor and unwittingly entering the lobby was 17-year-old Carl Cooper. He was immediately shot dead, but not before declaring that he didn't have a weapon. Another version of Cooper's death suggests that it occurred earlier, at the time of the initial raid. No one was charged in his death.
Aubrey Pollard was killed in a separate set of interrogations, which Hersey wrote could be described as a "death game." Individual suspects were moved into a separate apartment. There, officers discharged their gun into the floor to simulate an execution to frighten the suspects into talking. According to testimony from Officer August, a struggle ensued in the apartment over August's shotgun, leaving Pollard dead.
No deadly arms were uncovered during the raid. According to eyewitness testimony, the report of snipers that prompted the raid was likely caused by a cap gun used to start races in track events. Witnesses said they saw Cooper firing a few rounds inside and outside of the annex in what one described as an act of mischief.
Officer August was charged with murder after extensive hearings and investigations. His defense counsel Norman Lippitt argued that Hersey's book, which was published only a year after the incident and received extensive news coverage, was "too inflammatory" to allow a fair trial with unprejudiced jurors.
The judge agreed and moved the trial to Mason, Michigan, a small county seat about 90 miles from Detroit, all but guaranteeing an all-white jury. After a six-week long trial, Officer August was acquitted.
A civil rights trial followed in Flint in 1970. Officers August, Paille and Senak were charged with conspiring to deny civil rights to the three victims plus eight others, resulting in an acquittal for all three officers.
The response to the Rebellion of Detroit's electorate in the 1969 mayoral election was a victory for the law and order candidate, Roman Gribbs. His newly appointed chief of police, John Nichols, quickly implemented a novel policing procedure called Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets. A special unit of the Police Department employed police officers in civilian clothes to entrap criminals in crimes that wouldn't have otherwise occurred. Such policing practices, and a growing black population, led to the 1973 election of Detroit's first black mayor, Coleman A. Young.
I believe the Algiers Motel incident illustrates a consistent pattern of deadly police brutality perpetrated against blacks, caused primarily by predispositions to social control of blacks and other persons of color.
As legal methods of social control such as segregation policies were overturned by courts throughout the 20th century, enforcement of existing segregation patterns are increasingly taken on, consciously or unconsciously, by local police departments, often using violence and brutality.
Sadly, these patterns existed long before that fateful night in the Algiers, and continue into our present.
Minority job applicants with 'strong racial identities' may encounter less pay and lower odds of getting hired
September 11, 2018
George B. Cunningham
Professor of Sport Management and Sr. Assistant Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies, Texas A&M University
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Race-based discrimination is common in the hiring process.
For example, racial minorities are less likely than whites to receive a callback when they apply for a job. There are also wide earning gaps, with African-Americans and Latinos earning a fraction of what whites and Asians do.
Yet despite laws that aim to reduce employment discrimination and improve attitudes toward diversity, these patterns have not changed for decades.
When analyzing these problems, researchers and others tend to focus on how the experiences of racial minorities compare with those of whites. Often missing is whether there are differences among individuals of the same racial group in terms of how they experience bias.
That is where my new study, which focuses on perceptions of others' racial identities, comes in.
Perceived identities
People have more than one identity, such as being a mom, a Muslim, an athlete, a scientist and so on.
Just as we commonly think about the importance of each of our identities to who we are – such as being a dad or very religious – we make the same assessments of other people. That is, we evaluate other people's identities to understand which ones are most fundamental to who they are.
And it turns out, the conclusions we come to about each other's "perceived identities" can have a big effect on how we interact with them.
As a researcher who has spent the last 19 years examining diversity and inclusion, I was interested in how perceptions of identity affected a racial minority's prospects as a job applicant. More specifically, I wanted to know if the perception that an applicant has a strong racial identity affected her ability to get a job and how much she'd get paid.
Presumed identity
Past research has shown that our inferences about others' personal identities can influence how we interact with them.
In some cases, people might talk about how their identity is important to them, or how it reflects a critical part of who they are as a person. In other cases, we make assessments based on cues. For example, we might think someone strongly identifies as Latino when they are members of a Latino student organization. Or, we might infer a weak identity among people who engage in actions that are seemingly contrary to the interests of their group.
For example, psychologists Cheryl Kaiser and Jennifer Pratt-Hyatt found found that whites interact more positively with racial minorities they believe weakly identify with their race – and more negatively with those with stronger racial identifies. Specifically, whites expressed more desire to be their friends and offer favorable ratings of their personality.
Presumed identity and work
Drawing on their work, Astin Vick, a former student of mine, and I examined whether African-American women's and Latinas' presumed racial identity affect their job ratings.
Using an online data collection platform, we asked 238 white people who indicated that they currently or previously worked in the fitness industry to review the application of someone applying to be a club manager. They were told to review a job description, a hiring directive from the club owner, a summary of each applicant's relevant background and a picture.
All applicants had the same experience, work history and education. The pictures were used to indicate an applicant's race. Most importantly, we varied each applicant's relevant affiliations and community service to suggest whether she had a strong identification to her racial group or a weak one.
For example, membership in the Latino Fitness Instructors Association or volunteering for former President Barack Obama's campaign would signal a strong identification to an applicant's Latina or black racial group. Belonging to the neutral-sounding Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches Association or volunteering for Obama's opponent in the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney, would signal a weak one.
The participants then filled in a questionnaire to measure their perceptions of the applicant they reviewed, including work attributes such as "untested" or "expert," hiring recommendation and suggested salary.
Our results showed that most people did in fact use cues from the application file to form views of the applicant's racial identity, which in turn informed their hiring and salary recommendations. Essentially, as we expected, applicants perceived as identifying strongly with their racial group were less likely to be recommended for a job. And, when they were, received lower suggested salaries – on average US$2,000 less – than those signaling weak associations.
The story does not end there, though, since we also knew each participant's gender. And we found that men showed a slightly different pattern than the one described above.
Men recommended roughly the same salaries for African-American women and Latinas who identified weakly with their racial groups. But for those with strong perceived identifies, they penalized Latinas far more than African-Americans. That is, they recommended the club pay Latinas with a strong racial identify about $5,000 less than African-Americans.
These small changes can add up over time. Over a 15-year tenure with a company, that difference results in $96,489 difference in inflation-adjusted earnings.
The impact
Our study illustrates several key points.
First, though racial minorities, as a collective, face bias in employment, there is considerable within group variability. An applicant's specific race matters, as does her or his presumed racial identity.
Second, raters use cues on a resume to infer a job applicant's racial identity. They then use this information in their decision-making. Aware of this pattern, some job seekers remove race-related activities on their resumes, what Sonia Kang, an associate professor of organizational behavior, refers to as racial whitening.
Finally, research has shown that diversity in the workplace leads to greater organizational performance and employee well-being. As such, employers would be wise to be on the lookout for biases like the one we found that are likely to lead to less diverse work forces and take steps to overcome them when hiring new workers.
Will a 'Saturday Night Live' makeover rescue the Emmys?
By LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
Tuesday, September 11
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Excited about Monday's 70th Emmy Awards? Probably not. That's an educated guess based on shrinking interest in entertainment's back-slapping ceremonies generally and television's biggest night in particular.
Last year's Emmys drew 11.4 million viewers, a smidge above 2016's worst-ever 11.3 million. The 2018 Oscars dipped to an all-time low with 26.5 million viewers — still more than double that of its small-screen sibling.
But imagine this: An expert in producing live TV jumps in to invigorate the stale, decades-old Emmy format by orchestrating more laughs, more surprises and fewer trophy presentations capped by giddy yet dull speeches.
(Sorry, that last one isn't going to happen, explanation below.)
The magic could be delivered by "Saturday Night Live" impresario Lorne Michaels, who's producing his first Emmy Awards since the late 80s, back when the top nominees included "The Golden Girls" and "thirtysomething."
The contenders for the Emmys airing at 8 p.m. EDT Monday on NBC are unique and distinctly contemporary, "Atlanta" and "The Handmaid's Tale" among them, but can the tradition-bound ceremony possibly be their equal?
Ken Davenport, a Tony-Award winning Broadway producer ("Kinky Boots," "Once on This Island"), says Michaels' live-TV resume could give the ceremony hosted by "SNL" faux news anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost what it needs.
"Because of Lorne and the hosts, I think it will have a feeling that something exciting could happen at any moment," Davenport said. "Everyone gets such a kick out of watching 'Saturday Night Live' when a host starts to laugh. … It's just a little bit higher stakes."
Michaels' choice of his "Weekend Update" stars is part of the "SNL" stamp he's giving the night. Kate McKinnon, Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are among the current and former cast members and guest stars serving as presenters.
The dive into the "SNL" talent pool is reminiscent of Michaels' approach to the 1988 Emmys, which opened with Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks performing as "SNL" characters the Sweeney sisters. The sketch show's Al Franken and Robert Smigel were among the ceremony's writers.
Nominee Tracey Ullman declared them the "hippest" Emmys ever, while a Variety review called the ceremony a "vast improvement" over the 1987 ceremony and briskly efficient but "devoid of humor or emotional wallop."
Michaels, who declined to be interviewed for this story, has certainly upped his game and expanded his creative empire since then, with credits including "30 Rock," "Portlandia" and Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show."
Crown jewel "SNL," entering its 44th season this fall, received 21 Emmy nods this year and holds the record for most-nominated show ever with 252. Its satirical broadsides at President Donald Trump and his allies have delivered a ratings boost and renewed cultural relevance.
It's already a winner this year, claiming seven trophies at last weekend's creative arts ceremony, including one for "SNL" guest host Tiffany Haddish. That ties it with the formidable "Game of Thrones" in the run-up to Monday's main event.
"Lorne Michaels has on speed-dial enough people to make it a really interesting broadcast," said Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor and director of its Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture. "If anybody is positioned to do it, he is. He's from live television and knows how to play to a live audience."
But it's not just TV viewers who matter. Any awards show is tasked with spotlighting the wider industry it represents.
In 2009, the TV academy proposed showing edited acceptances of eight awards given out before the main event to make room for more entertainment, a la the Tony and Grammys, with then-ceremony host Neil Patrick Harris gamely defended the approach as providing "the best show we can to the audience."
But those in the affected — and, let's face it, less-glamorous categories, including writers and directors — pushed back hard. The idea was ditched, and viewers will sit (or not) through 26 awards Monday.
Trying another tack that year to stem an already worrisome ratings slide, the number of nominations slots was increased for top categories including comedy and drama. The hope was to squeeze in more popular fare, but it's still the case that a critically acclaimed niche show such as "Mr. Robot" will be nominated than, say, long-time hit "NCIS."
(Earlier in 2009, a ratings-conscious movie academy doubled the possible number of best picture nominees to 10 in hopes of making room for another blockbuster like "Titanic," which delivered equivalent Oscar viewership. A plan to add a popular film category in 2019 was shelved when critics denounced it as pandering.)
Tom O'Neil, editor of Gold Derby and author of "The Emmys" and an Emmy voter as well, argues for adding nominees to all categories to recognize the so-called "peak TV" flood of streaming, cable and broadcast programs.
"Why not expand each race to 10 or 12 nominees in order to be more inclusive and to please Emmycast viewers who tune in to see their favorites?" O'Neil said. "The TV academy is not adapting fast enough to the modern media scene."
Broadway producer Davenport contends that TV industry members who support an awards-bloated ceremony are missing the point.
"We can go on and on about how awards shows are for recognizing excellence, and they are, but they are an industry's best chance at marketing itself that it will have all year," he said. The Oscars typically feature a splashy opening and are punctuated by performances of the nominated songs, and the Emmys should follow suit by drawing on TV's crowd-pleasing strengths.
"There's more performance on television than there ever has been, with 'American Idol' and 'The Voice' and 'America's Got Talent'" among others, he said. "There's got to be some way to showcase that talent."
Syracuse's Thompson suggests more drastic changes to a Hollywood rite he calls "stodgy" and mindlessly hidebound: "Moses didn't have a third tablet that said awards show had to have a red carpet, an orchestra and bad presenters' speeches."
The Emmys could be approached as a comedy extravaganza, he said, or (possibly said tongue-in-cheek) be held on the "Family Feud" set with Steve Harvey as host.
But like the awards themselves, there would be winners and losers.
"By making the Emmys a really good show, in some ways you've got to sacrifice some of the things that are most dear to the people who are involved," Thompson said.
Online: https://www.emmys.com
Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelberap.org and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lynnelber


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Tour De France Betting
The Tour De France is a bicycle race that occurs every year throughout France and surrounding countries. The race is over 2,000 miles and broken into 21 days, which they call stages. Individual times for each stage are totaled to determine the overall winner. The racer that is in the lead will wear a yellow jersey during the race. The course for the Tour De France changes every year, but it has always finished in Paris. The race typically alternates between clockwise and counter clockwise circuits. The Tour De France runs from July 4th through July 26th.
History of Tour De France
The first Tour De France was held in 1903. The original Tour De France was meant to run for just six days, but later moved to 19 days. The origin dates back to Dreyfus Affair, who was a famous French man. It was started as a way to sell more newspapers during the time. The winner of the Tour De France has always received monetary reward. When the race started, 20,000 Francs was given, and in the most recent race; 2009; $450,000 was awarded fir the title winner. Only one rider has won the Tour De France seven times in the history. American Lance Armstrong won the event from 1999-2005, which ranged for seven straight years. Next are four riders that have won the Tour De France give times, including Jacques Anquetil in 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964. Eddy Merckx in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1974. Bernard Hinault won the event in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985. Also, Miguel Indurain won the Tour De France in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.
The youngest rider to ever win the Tour De France was Henri Cornet who was 19 years old when he won it in 1904. The oldest winner is Firmin Lambot who was 36 years old when he won it in 1922. Riders from France have more events then any other country. The French riders have won the Tour De France 36 times, followed by Belgium (18), Spain (12), United States (10), and Italy (9). Six other countries have won a Tour De France event. There has been four deaths during the Tour De France, with the latest coming in 1995 when Fabio Casartelli crashed while riding 55 miles per hour. The first death came in 1910 when Adolphe Heliere drowned during a resting day.
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Often, managers have all of the strengths they need to succeed in the job – except the ability to manage employees well. If they are not equipped with management know-how, it can be a surprisingly overwhelming transition from individual contributor to people manager.
Being able to manage well can help minimize the stress that comes with the role, and a good manager can successfully handle staff, projects, performance, conflict, and themselves while they evaluate and continuously improve their effectiveness as a manager.
Learning to Manage walks participants through the process of successful management by introducing the tools and techniques for effectively handling five target areas – people, projects, performance, problems, and personal development. Each of these areas is essential to minimizing the stress associated with the transition from individual work as you learn to delegate, communicate, and most of all, develop your employees – laying the foundation for productivity and organizational success.


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In this time of aggressive business, every one of the enterprises needs conspicuous techniques to gain an upper hand. Innovation assumes a crucial job in giving enterprises the truly necessary edge by making their mind-boggling business activities progressively successful and smooth.
Versatile Applications made by app designers are the most recent mechanical advancement which has reformed the plans of action as different enterprises are settling on this to secure the greatest number of advantages. The portable application market is becoming quicker than a beanstalk.
Organizations are hoping to lift their image name and income diagram with successful utilization of a business portable application. Other than this business is picking up advantages from a versatile application, for example, upgraded permeability, viable client support, and simple correspondence.
A large portion of the organizations has begun building up a versatile application to help their center business exercises and increment deals.
Various versatile application advancement organizations in the market have blasted, organizations have a lot of choices to pick the most appropriate application for their business prerequisites. Application designers are utilizing different portable application advancement advances, for example, JAVA, Objective C, Swift, Groovy, XML, and more to grow exceedingly intelligent business applications.
Research indicates 90% of the associations had expanded their versatile application interests in 2016. Gartner says by 2017, the interest for business applications will expand multiple times more than the general limit of the application engineers.
Independent of the size of the business whether it's a little, medium or huge scale organization, you have to advance your business with the goal that clients can without much of a stretch get all required data about you and your contributions. There is no uncertainty that portable applications are changing the relations among clients and specialist organizations.
Purchasers are glad to locate an advantageous method to get to all the data. So also, a specialist organization discovers it similarly helpful to cooperate with its clients.
To put it plainly, portable innovation is the most ideal medium to infiltrate another market. Applications can give more deals and furthermore improved client commitment.
In case despite everything you're supposing to build up an application, it's a great opportunity to actualize your arrangement. From online networking applications like Facebook, WhatsApp to quest for new employment applications LinkedIn, From Blogging applications like Medium to taxi specialist co-ops Uber.
Various enterprises picked up a gigantic measure of favorable circumstances by utilizing versatile applications to associate their worldwide crowd with a plan to advance their business and catch piece of the overall industry.
Here are the means by which versatile applications are increasing the value of different ventures
Various ventures over the globe are discovering approaches to position their image and improve gainfulness with the viable utilization of portable applications. As of now, versatile application improvement has totally changed the market and taken the manner in which business works to another dimension.
With the expanding advancement of vigorous portable applications, there are bunches of organizations that are attempting to up the creativity extends to the versatile improvement.
At present, there are various businesses that are exploiting from portable application yet here we are recording few of the top enterprises which are enormously profited by the utilization of versatile applications, so we should examine those ventures:
IT Industry
To pull in different businesses towards most recent advances, the IT industry needs to demonstrate their development and mechanical favorable circumstances to their clients first.
The vast majority of the product organizations are flawlessly demonstrating how they can change the scene of the business world with novel portable applications. IT organizations use business applications to introduce their portfolio just as their business related to different ventures.
Regardless of whether you are giving IT answers for your clients or need to control ventures with new thoughts, a vigorous portable application causes you to convey the best quality administrations.
Training Industry
Versatility has made learning helpful and reasonable in the present age. E-learning is a standout amongst the most prominent instructive patterns since recent years.
The Mobile application upgrades the enthusiasm of students in learning and understanding substance rapidly. Different colleges, universities, schools are utilizing portable applications to build the nature of training.
A higher level of proficiency can be accomplished with the assistance of versatile innovation. Applications are useful in improving the coordinated effort between the understudies and the educators.
Understudies are permitted to access taking in modules and notes from anyplace whenever. Video learning and another modified programming of this are additionally getting well known.
Portability has absolutely diminished the imperative of separation between the instruction supplier and student. It is through innovation that separations can be connected and instruction can be brought to the understudy's doorstep.
Instructive applications are there to customize training and increment the range of adapting regardless of topographical limits. Applications are likewise useful in dealing with the general task of the instructive framework.
Versatile applications, portable innovation, and the framework to enable this figuring out how to advance likewise overflow into related territories of instruction, for example, Infrastructure improvement, educator preparing and advancement, specialized help, content advancement, creating educational programs, scholastic organization, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
To put it plainly, there's a versatile environment and the following application you manufacture could be anyplace in this consistently growing biological system.
Human services Industry
There are complete 100000+ social insurance and wellness applications accessible for both versatile and tablets. It's been assessed that the worldwide medicinal services portable application market will reach USD 26 billion by 2017.
Over 20% of the cell phone clients have in any event one human services application on their versatile. (In the middle of the age gathering of 18-29). This number will contact half before the finish of 2018. 40% of specialists accept that portable applications can decrease understanding facility visits fundamentally.
Over 30% of specialists are utilizing versatile applications to achieve their patients. These numbers above are all that anyone could need to show the effect medicinal services portable applications have in the business.
Versatile applications are helping both specialist co-ops just as patients. Portability improves the medicinal office, decrease multifaceted nature and snappy administration.
From getting E-Health reports to fixing arrangements for checking drug collaborations, both clinic and patients have officially utilized portable applications all the time.
Retail Industry
The retail business is an immense segment with different complexities. Versatile application designers can construct creative and intuitive portable applications which can change the whole scene of retail business to offer better client administration and activity.
Business applications help retailers to demonstrate all the data identified with their items with a 360 degree see. Maybe a couple of the retailers are utilizing IoT versatile applications and coordinate expanded reality technology to give an amazingly abnormal state of client administration.
Versatile applications help the retail industry to connect with their clients all the more shutting and assemble a network inside their portable application. With portability arrangements, one can make unwaveringness projects and retail a considerable lot of their clients.
Retail portable applications give a few extraordinary highlights to give retailers chances to connect target clients, advance items, make a brand picture and at last increment deals. Retail entrepreneurs are understanding the significance of portable applications for their business and they are including it into their business methodology for future development.
Envision two situations: Going to your store, investing hours in grabbing things OR Relaxing on a couch at home, requesting whatever required through your application and getting that at the doorstep. Life can't be simpler for a purchaser.
xVersatile application is a need for independent venture or enormous monster development. On the off chance that you need to keep in the race, join the prevailing fashion. Give your clients not only an item. Shock them with a lovely shopping voyage.