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Portraying the life and times of Mark Twain – Reporter Online

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Sharing the life and history of Mark Twain from a first-person portrayal was Terrance Lynch during an appearance at the Green Hills Public Library in Palos Hills on Feb. 7. He presented a program called, Between Two Comets: The Life of Mark Twain.

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American novelist Mark Twain penned some of the most beloved and controversial literature of the 19th century.

He captured his audience with humorous stories of boyhood adventure and the faults of mankind, and the roots of human behavior.

Sharing the life and history of Mark Twain from a first-person portrayal was Terrance Lynch at the Green Hills Public Library, 10331 S. Interlochen Drive, Palos Hills, on Feb. 7. The program was entitled, Between Two Comets: The Life of Mark Twain.

My favorite part of portraying Twain is the ease of making people laugh by simply quoting him, said Lynch, of Orland Park. He was such a humorist that I don't need to write a comedy into my presentation. He has already done that for me.

Lynch, who studied theater at Northern Illinois University, is a professional voice-over artist, actor and speaker in the Chicago area for more than 30 years. He is the co-owner of HFK Presents and Histories for Kids, Inc.

Lynchs interest in Twain started by asking clients if they would be interested in seeing him portray Twain. With a positive response, Lynch then began to look into fleshing out Twains life story.

I knew it would be interesting but I wanted to make sure I wasn't just re-telling the same old stories and quotes, Lynch said. With Mark Twain there is so much to talk about that I was sure I would be able to present him in a way that audiences would enjoy.

Twain lived his life between the Halleys Comet appearances of 1835 and 1910.

The significanceof his living between two comets comes from Twain himself, Lynch said. He marked his life by the appearance the year he was born and later in life said he came in with that freak of nature and he will leave with that freak of nature when it appears again. He did just that, dying shortly after the return of Haley's Comet, something I no doubt think he enjoyed predicting. It showed not only his sense of humor but his enjoyment of working his audience.

Mark Twain was born just after Halleys Comet appeared in 1835, and he passed awayone day after it emerged at its brightest in 1910, said Brittany Ramos, adult programming and graphics coordinator at the Green Hills Public Library. As most people know, Halley's Comet is onlyvisible from Earth every 75 to 76 years.Twain even predicted leaving the world with the comet. I like weirdcoincidencesand I can't recall rememberingthis fact until I started planning this event. I love to showcaseportrayals of famous figures. Bringing history to life is so cool and we're lucky to have such a rich history to learn from.

Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835 in the frontier village of Florida, Mo., and spent his youth in nearby Hannibal, on the banks of the Mississippi River. He was only 11 years old when his father died and made the decision to begin working to help provide for his family.

He left school after only the fifth grade to help his family, Lynch said.

After many years of working as a wandering journeyman printer, at the age of 22, Twain traveled down the Mississippi River. He became a steamboat river pilot until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1861, he traveled to Nevada and found work in the world of newspapers. His love of writing led him to write a short story,The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,in 1865, which first brought him national attention.

His pen name, Mark Twain, came from a Mississippi River term meaning the secondmarkon the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or 12 feet, a safe depth for the steamboat, otherwise known as smooth sailing, Lynch explained.

Twain continued to write and in 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After a brief residence in upstate New York as an editor and part owner of theBuffalo Express,he moved to Hartford, Conn., where he lived for 20 years. It was in Hartford where his three daughters were born. His son, Langdon, named after his wifes family, died as an infant.

During the reflection of Twains life, Lynch discussed in detail Twains friendship with President Ulysses S. Grant, including his decision later on in life to write and publish Grants autobiography.

Twain's own account of steam boating experiences and boyhood memories of life beside the Mississippi River were eventually written intoThe Adventures of Tom Sawyerin 1875, and instantly captured the attention of both young and old readers alike.

From there, he wroteThe Prince and the Pauperin 1882, andA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,in 1889.However,his 1885 story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,in which Twain returned to the river scenes he knew best, was considered unacceptable by many of his readers.

The controversial novel discusses slavery and youth mischief. It is a narrative interpreted many ways that still stands a classic today.

Go back and read Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer and you can see he was talking to the adults in the room, not just the kids, Lynch said.

After The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,and the death of Twains wife in 1905, his writings grew bitter with The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburgin 1900, which exposed corruption in a small, typical American town, and Eve's Diaryin 1906, written in memory of his wife.

In 1906 Twain began to work on his autobiography. Portions from it were published in periodicals later that year. With the income from the excerpts of his autobiography, he built a large house in Redding, Conn., and took several trips to Bermuda to improve his declining health. He died on April 21, 1910.

One of my favorite parts about portraying Twain is being able to have a man who died over a century ago tell you how much the social issues and problems are still the same, Lynch said. Maybe one day we will learn from our past. At least when I portray Mark Twain, I can give people that message in a humorous way. Hopefully people will walk away with a smile on their face and a desire to read one of his books or several of them. He had a lot to say and I love the way he said it.

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The science behind political science | Science – Dailyuw

As a major, political science is a staple at any university. Introductory classes teach you about political institutions and international relations.

But where does the science come in?

If you have to put science in the name of your discipline, that probably tells you something about its possible status as a science, Mark Alan Smith, professor of political science, said. Maybe theres a little bit of a discomfort or a protective device kicking in there.

Nevertheless, political scientists, along with researchers of other social science disciplines, do take methods of the hard sciences and apply them to humans as best as they can in order to learn things about the ways in which people and groups behave and form institutions. But its not easy.

Human beings are really complicated, Smith said. Theyre hard to study scientifically.

Many issues of interest in political science cannot be studied in controlled experimental environments, both because it is impractical and unethical to do so.

By contrast, in the natural sciences, controlled experiments are often performed in a lab setting where researchers are able to control most variables affecting the outcome. Researchers can assign different conditions to different groups and observe whether or not the outcome is affected by changes in the conditions they have applied.

But the categories of analysis that political scientists often use, such as socioeconomic status, race, gender, education level, political orientation, and geographic location, cannot be assigned or controlled for in an experimental setting.

You cant randomly assign somebody gender the way you can give them a placebo pill or a real medicine, Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science, said.

As a result, political science research tends to study events as they occur in the real world, collecting data and analyzing it to understand which conditions might predict certain institutional outcomes in political systems and patterns in human political behavior.

Among political scientists, there are quantitative scholars who use measurements and numerical data to come to conclusions, and qualitative scholars who learn primarily from history, interviews, and observation.

Now the mainstream is very quantitative, whereas a generation ago it was very qualitative, Grumbach said.

The increase in quantitative research (probably fueled by more sophisticated computers which can perform more complicated statistical analyses) has arguably given more legitimacy to political science as a science. However, there is some concern that a solely quantitative analysis of human behavior reduces the complexity to simple numbers, so its important that quantitative and qualitative scholars work together and across disciplines to gather the full picture.

Studying people and politics usually starts the same way as studying any other subject: with a question. Like any other scientists, political science researchers ask questions, form hypotheses, come up with tests for their hypotheses, determine what evidence would support or refute them, and collect data and measurements to perform analyses.

Political science can be scientific in that respect, Smith said. It cannot be scientific if you mean complete predictive power or [coming up with] laws of politics that explain everything and always hold.

Humans are complex, diverse, and always changing based on their surroundings. This makes it almost impossible to reach widely accepted scientific conclusions about people and politics in the same way that natural sciences may generate widely-accepted theories such as those of gravity or climate change.

We can be pretty confident about our answers, but there are so many moving parts there, Grumbach said. Some questions will probably get closer to the truth, but then something in society will happen [to disprove them].

Grumbach gave the example of how until very recently, it was widely held in political science that the United States was a stable democracy which would not lean toward an authoritarian system. Then Trump was elected and some fundamental theories of American politics were challenged.

But just because it is not viable to create laws of politics that apply to people in any place at any point in history doesnt mean there is nothing to be learned from individual cases or specific contexts. Many studies in political science strive to understand under what conditions a given pattern may arise.

In fact, when studying specific areas at specific points in time, Smith pointed out, researchers often do find patterns and commonalities with other time periods or locations. This may lead to a greater understanding of the conditions under which people behave in certain ways politically across time and space.

Smith gave the example of right-wing populism gaining popularity in many different countries around the world including Brazil, India, Hungary, Poland, the Philippines, and the United States. Political scientists can analyze the growth of right wing populism in these countries individually and look for similarities, possibly leading to a better understanding of the phenomenon as a whole.

Another layer which makes political science more difficult for people to understand as a science is the fact that political questions are often value-laden. Unlike natural sciences, in which a researchers personal values most likely arent attached to a certain result, political science researchers values may be. But this doesnt mean that all political science research cannot be objective.

A lot of things we study, they are value-laden, for sure, Smith said. And to me, that doesnt mean you throw up your hands and say, well its all just opinion. Thats why you have research methods where you try to discipline your thinking and ground your claims in evidence that can be subject to public scrutiny.

It is important for scientists of all disciplines to be open about their methods and data so that any experiment or analysis could be replicated by another scientist and yield the same result.

Many of the complexities of political science arise from the complexity of human beings. By embracing this complexity, political scientists are able to come up with possible answers for some of the worlds most perplexing questions.

Political scientists theories often arent precise or all-encompassing thats not possible when studying human behavior but they can still teach us a lot about how societies and governments work.

Reach reporter Emily Young at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @emilymyoung7

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Weaponizing the law – manilastandard.net

"What is the distinction between what is legal, ethical, and just?"With this column, I begin a series on the concept of lawfare, the proposition that law is being weaponized for political purposesin a good way as when we used law in fighting a military and economic giant, but also unfortunately in an evil way when it is used to violate human rights and suppress our freedoms of expression, press, and dissent.Like religion, morality, and social conventions, law is a normative social practice which purports to guide human behavior and direct human actions and his social, political or economic relations towards a common goal. Apropos is the Latin legal maxim Lex est sanctio sancta jubens honesta et prohibens contraria which says that a law is a sacred sanction, commanding what is right and prohibiting the contrary.Along with other social conventions, law is a norm that melds societies together. Without law, there can only be chaos and anarchy. This is why no modern society can possibly function effectively, if not exist, without some form of rule that brings or imposes order on how people should behave in dealing with others. Law is the reason why hitherto small communities are able to transform themselves into great empires. The Roman empire, which originated from an unknown tribe in Latium, was forged not only by military might but by the legal system, to be known as ius gentium or jus gentium (Latin for "law of nations") which created cohesiveness among the different tribes they conquered. The Roman legal system survived the collapse of the Roman empire and was handed down to and inherited by the great Christian empires of Europe, although the traditional ius gentium of the Roman system was now interspersed with canon or ecclesiastical law.When every person in a collectivity operates under the principle of to each his own, it will result in the breakdown of order and civility, man being impelled only into action in accordance with his primal instinct of self-preservation. Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen and a few other countries have been declared failed states due to loss of control or legitimacy and inability to perform the functions of a state. Factors that drive states into the abyss of lawlessness and anarchy include escalation of communal conflict like in Somalia, Yugoslavia and Yemen, to name a few; collapse of democratic infrastructure such as Nigeria or Madagascar; or crisis in succession like Iran under the Shah or Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.The quest for peace, security and prosperity is a fundamental necessity that drives humans into setting up some form of rules or laws that will create social cohesion and direct the community into achieving a common good. But to attain this, there is a person, group or collectivity of individuals vested with authority to orchestrate the communal effort, make and enforce rules in accordance with the mandate of the sovereign.Since time immemorial, legal theorists have elucidated on the questions: What is law? What is its purpose? What is the distinction between what is legal, ethical, and just? Four major theories of law try to answer these questions: the Natural law theory, Positive law theory, Marxist law theory, and Realist theory of law.The natural law theory is founded on the belief that the source of law is not man or legislation, but God, nature or reason. Preeminent classical philosophers of this persuasion are Plato and Aristotle who explained the nature of natural law. The Catholic philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas borrows from these Greek thinkers, especially Aristotle.The positivist theory posits the view that law is man-made, enacted to oblige or specify an action. This subscribes that law is only effectual as a guide to human behavior unless the language of the law and the methods to interpret it are useful to ordinary citizens. Laws in society are a subset of the sovereigns commands: general orders that apply to classes of actions and people and that are backed up by threat of force or sanction.In simplest terms, law, according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is the will of the ruling class. Marx subscribe to the idea that law and state are the creation of those who have the means of production contrived to exploit those who do not have in order to protect their private property. This theory assumes that perfect equality can only be attained in a Communist stage where there is no private property, class, state and law.As the name suggests, the realists are more interested in the actual workings of the law rather than its theoretical abstractions. Based on this approach, rules not applied to address practical uses are dead; they breathe life only when they are put to good use in real-life situations. On this premise, laws are laws only when applied by the judge and not by legislators. As such, the judge, not the legislator, is the real lawmaker.No single theoretical framework discussed can be dismissed outright as false, discredited in its entirety or swallowed as the repository of truth. In the next column, I will propose an approach that will help us understand and defeat evil lawfare.Facebook: Dean Tony La Vina Twitter: tonylavs

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A Farewell to Titans, Portis and Cranford – Arkansas Business Online

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Ross Cranford likes to think his dad, Wayne Cranford, is having a scotch and soda with Charles Portis somewhere.

That somewhere would not be on this earthly plane. Portis, the beloved novelist and author of True Grit, died Monday, two days after Cranford, a pioneering Little Rock ad man who founded Cranford Johnson, eventually CJRW.

The deaths were a one-two blow to the Arkansas media world.

The men were Arkansas elder statesmen, born here at either end of 1933. Wayne Cranford arrived on New Years Day in Bald Knob, where he went on to become high school valedictorian (without studying much, hed protest) and founder of the student newspaper.

Portis made his entrance on Dec. 28 that year in El Dorado, delivered by a doctor by the name of Slaughter. He went on to fight as a Marine in Korea, cover Europe for the New York Herald Tribune and then write a best-selling novel that became one of the top 25-grossing Western movies of all time.

They met quite a few times, and you know Jon Portis [Charles younger brother and a former Arkansas Gazette editor] worked at Cranford Johnson for a while, said Ross Cranford, who with brothers Jay and Chris Cranford followed their father into the ad business. Theyre partners now in Cranford Co. on Main Street, which Wayne Cranford served as a consultant till his death.

Cranford helped revolutionize the way Arkansans saw local ads, while Portis charmed the world with five novels full of offbeat characters and wry humor. Portis, a former Arkansas Gazette reporter, sold millions of books; Cranford, a former Arkansas Democrat reporter and briefly editor of the Newport Daily Independent, swayed millions of consumers and voters with his ads.

Portis story of U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn of Fort Smith spawned two Academy Award-winning movies, including John Waynes only Oscar as Cogburn. He reprised the role in Rooster Cogburn, co-starring Katharine Hepburn.

The movies never measured up to Charless work, relatives said in a family obituary from Ruebel Funeral Home.

Cranfords impact was more local, but powerful. He founded Cranford Johnson with artist Jim Johnson in 1960, bringing Madison Avenue-style creative approaches to Little Rock and providing the C in the name of one of Arkansas big, successful ad firms, CJRW. He also kick-started many careers in advertising. He was always supportive of young people, young men and women who wanted to get into the business, Johnson said, calling Cranford more like a brother than friend and business partner. He was a capable leader, and I really think he changed the game of advertising in Arkansas. He was one of the smartest people I ever knew. But chiefly, he was always a really kind, optimistic man.

Cranford was also a brilliant writer, according to CJRW Chairman Emeritus Shelby Woods.

He taught me that every written word is important no matter what context it would be used, said Woods, who is widely considered a nice guy in the rough-and-tumble ad business. He added that Cranford may have been the most gracious man Ive ever known.

Obituaries for Portis noted he was a writers writer, praised by authors like Larry McMurtry, Roy Blount Jr., Calvin Trillin and Nora Ephron. The journalist Ron Rosenbaum described him as perhaps the most original, indescribable sui generis talent overlooked by literary culture in America, and Americas least-known great writer.

But to close friends and loved ones, Buddy Portis was a generous brother, a doting uncle and a steadfast friend who loved cats and dogs, having no preference for one species over another, according to the family obituary.

Portis loved tinkering with cars, an interest sparked by a brief apprenticeship as a mechanic at an Arkansas Chevrolet dealership, the family said. He was a funny guy with an uncanny gift for observing human behavior and capturing it.

Ephron, his friend who wrote the screenplays for Silkwood and When Harry Met Sally, put it this way: Charlie thinks things no one else thinks, she said not long before her death in 2012, noting his eccentricities even back in his New York days. He was a newspaper reporter without a telephone, she said. The Trib made him get one.

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The Best Way to Manage Anger in the Moment – PsychCentral.com

Anger is a tough emotion. It feels so urgent and all-consuming. And we feel like we have to act on it. Right. Now.

And so, we do. We say something cruel or sarcastic. We yell. We slam doors. We become stone-cold silent and refuse to communicate. We replay the situation or interaction over and over. And we get madder and madder.

But even though our anger feels overpowering and overwhelming, we can avoid having a rage-filled, knee-jerk reaction. We can do better in our relationships, and we can take better care of ourselves.

And it starts with a small, simple action.

That is, pause, according to Panthea Saidipour, LCSW, a psychotherapist for young professionals in New York City and an instructor for Human Behavior at New York University. Taking a break gives you time to calm down. It also gives your prefrontal cortex time to come back online.

The cortex is a part of the brain responsible for higher thinking, managing impulses, and controlling behavior especially in relation to emotions. When we become angry, the cortex and amygdala, the more primitive part of our brain involved in fight, flight, freeze responses to threats, stop communicating, Saidipour said. Which is why youre unable to think rationally and end up lashing out, even at the people you love most.

How long should you pause?

Saidipour said that while some experts recommend around 20 minutes, she cant share a specific amount of time because everyone is different.

What I can offer is that youll know the intensity of the emotion has decreased enough once you can think more flexibly again, once a bit of curiosity starts to replace that digging-your-heels-in self-righteousness.

What should you do during your pause?

Saidipour suggested observing your thoughts, feelings, and impulses without acting on them or drawing conclusions about what they mean. It also might help to do some deep breathing to soothe your nervous system.

Right after your pause or later that night, you can also journal about your anger. According to Saidipour, anger is often a secondary emotion that covers up deeper, more vulnerable emotions, such as hurt or betrayal. You might feel slighted, unimportant, overlooked, or rejected, she said.

For example, your partner makes an offhand comment that fails to take into account something important to you and youre instantly seething.

Another helpful way to think of anger is as a notification on your phone, she said: Its flagging some important underlying information, but you need to click it and keep reading to get the full message. Its a flag marking that this intense emotion means something but its meaning wont necessarily be found at face value.

So dig deeper. Ask yourself these three words. Think about the emotions underlying your frustration or outright rage. Reflect on whether these emotions are somehow tied to pivotal past experiences (which can explain why your anger is so big and visceral).

Remember not to judge or criticize yourself for your anger. Many of us get uncomfortable with this emotion and tend to pretend it doesnt exist until it grows and grows, and we explode. Instead, think of your anger as a valid message youre trying to understand. And of course, if youve lashed out, absolutely take responsibility, apologize, and learn to manage your anger effectively (in addition to pausing).

But we can only do that once we accept that its OK to feel this way. Which is also the beginning of accepting ourselves.

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Black Mirror Season 6 Role Cast Released, New Analysis, Everything You Need To Know About This. – Pop Culture Times

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We get this series for the first time on 4 December 2011, and after the hit of its season 1, we are getting more and more season of it.

Its total of 5 seasons has been streamed successfully and liked by its viewers quicky

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The main story revolves around the manipulation of human behavior due to technology.it revolves around a group of peoples personal lives and how technology manipulates their behavior.

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Is the series gets renewed for its further season? We have good news for its fan Black Mirror confirmed its renewal for another season. This sci-fi series had entertained us for all its five seasons and will continue to do it for its next season with existing stories to be move forwarded.

We dont have any official confirmation from Netflix about its season 6 release, but we expect its season 6 to get streamed at the end of 2020 according to our prediction. Lets see is it going to be true or not!

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Lytx Supercharges its Video Telematics with Enhanced Risk Detection to Help Eradicate Distracted Driving – Yahoo Finance

- Artificial Intelligence-powered, state-of-the-art innovation from Lytx identifies texting while driving and other high-risk driving behaviors

- Lytx is unrivaled in capturing cell phone-related distraction - combining its ultra-precise AI with the discernment of professional human review

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Lytx kicked-off its annual User Group Conference today by unveiling a next-generation technology designed to address distracted driving: enhanced machine vision and artificial intelligence-powered risk detection.

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Each day in the U.S., over 1,000 people are injured, and nine are killed, because of distracted driving. To help combat this epidemic and alleviate other high-risk behaviors for its clients, Lytx, a leading global provider of video telematics solutions for commercial, public sector and field services fleets, has enhanced its machine vision and artificial intelligence (MV+AI)-powered technology to provide near real-time insight into risky behaviors like texting and driving.

This cutting-edge technology acts like a co-pilot, constantly monitoring the road and the driver, detecting risky driving and triggering short video clips to provide insight into what's really going on inside the vehicle. Lytx's risk detection technology is included as part of its Driver Safety Suiteand now includes the following four new MV+AI triggers: handheld device, no seatbelt, food or drink, and driver smoking. It can be coupled with Lytx's Fleet Tracking Service to provide a complete and integrated solution for fleets looking to optimize their vehicle technology with a single vendor.

"The future of fleet innovation is on display at Lytx's conference this week," said Brandon Nixon, Lytx chairman and CEO. "Fleets of all sizes across all sectors are represented at the event. They are seeing first-hand how our next-generation technology will give them the tools to proactively tackle some of the toughest problems like distracted driving facing the transportation industry."

Nixon continued: "Because of the vast scope and scale of our driving data, we have advanced the use of MV+AI to unprecedented levels within the industry. We now have the ability to more fully and accurately capture and identify risk for the fleets we serve even better than before."

Lytx presents a superior and accurate view of risk, with greater than 95% accuracy across more than 60 risky driving behaviors. In 2019 alone, Lytx labeled over 1.75 million minutes of video with cell phone use, driver unbelted, smoking and food/drink behaviors. Powered by this wealth of data, Lytx is unrivaled in combining the precision of artificial intelligence (AI) with the discernment of professional human review.

New Triggers Provide Superior View of Risky Driving Behaviors

With 120 billion miles of driving data analyzed and 100,000 risky driving events captured daily, Lytx is uniquely positioned to develop accurate MV+AI-powered technologies for detecting risk. This deep pool of high-quality driving data, validated by professionally trained analysts, ensures a high level of precision in training Lytx's AI algorithms to understand which data points are most important in building an accurate picture of risk. The program delivers prescriptive and customized coaching insights to fleet managers.

The new triggers announced today are an extension of Lytx's existing MV+AI road-view triggers launched in 2015: rolling stop, lane departure, following distance and critical distance. Both sets of triggers monitor for driving behavior patterns and select short video highlights to be analyzed and screened by Lytx's artificial intelligence for accuracy. The validated video clips are then automatically sent via a 4G LTE cellular connection from the vehicle to the cloud, where they may be viewed by a client via their Lytx account from any internet-connected computer, smartphone or tablet.

Fleet managers and drivers then have the opportunity to view these video clips using Lytx's proprietary coaching workflow. This program has been proven to help change driving behavior and is associated with up to 50% reduction in collisions and 80% reduction in associated claims costs.

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"Texting while driving and driving without a seatbelt, as well as industry-specific use cases, like smoking, eating or drinking while driving, are critical risky behaviors for clients," said Jim Brady, Lytx vice president of product management. "Other video telematics providers that attempt to detect these types of behaviors either bring back a large percentage of false positives or burden clients with mountains of data. By comparison, Lytx's MV+AI algorithms are the most advanced in the industry, so our clients only receive the most important clips that represent key coachable moments in a format that doesn't overwhelm them."

For the Lytx Enhanced Risk Detection Fact Sheet click here.To learn more about upgrading or deploying with Lytx, visit Lytx.com.

End NoteThird-party studieshighlight that AI can be faster and more accurate than humans in reviewing and spotting issues. Studies also show AI performing with expert-level accuracy at scale. Lytx uses both MV+AI and professional human review.

About LytxLytx isa leading provider of video telematics, analytics, safety and productivity solutions for commercial, public sector and field services fleets. Our unrivaled Driver Safety Program, powered by our best-in-class DriveCam Event Recorder, is proven to help save lives and reduce risk. We harness the power of video to help clients see what happened in the past, manage their operations more efficiently in the present and improve driver behavior to change the future. Our customizable services and programs span driver safety, risk detection, fleet tracking, compliance and fuel management. Using the world's largest driving database of its kind, along with proprietary machine vision and artificial intelligence technology, we help protect and connect thousands of fleets and more than millions of drivers worldwide. For more information on Lytx telematics system, visithttp://www.lytx.com,@lytxon Twitter,LinkedIn, ourFacebookpage or ourYouTubechannel.

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One of Jane Austen’s Most Famous Women Is Actually a Total ‘Dick’ – The Daily Beast

Whenever Emma Woodhouse, the beautiful and bratty amateur matchmaker at the center of Jane Austens novel Emma, is translated to the screen, something tends to be lost. Previous big- and small-screen adaptations have often softened the personality Austen famously imagined that no one but myself will much like. Emma is an anti-heroine, after all. Her meddlesome arrogance should often repel us. Yet onscreen, filmmakers and actors frequently lose their nerve, creating instead a romantic heroine who is charmingly stuck-up. Adorably arrogant. Spoiled and selfish, but sweetly so.

What a live-action Emma rarely is? Human. Horny. And sometimes blithely, viciously cruel. Autumn de Wilde, the director of a vibrant new Emma adaptation in theaters this week, underscores the latter point matter-of-factly. Yeah, she says, Emmas a dick.

A laugh erupts shortly after she says it; she then proceeds with the put-upon air of a parent as she discusses her movies Miss Woodhouse, brought to life by Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, Split) and scripted by Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton. Much of de Wildes Emma. (stylized with a period in the title, connoting the exasperation and awe the character inspires) adapts Austens story faithfully, preserving its satirical take on the absurdities of high society and the fussy boredom of small-town life. Here, Emma is the Regency-era queen bee of a small English town, convinced she knows whats best for everyone around her. She befriends the shy orphan Harriet (Mia Goth) as an act of charity, plotting to marry her off to some bachelor in her social circleone below Emmas own station, naturally, but still well-off enough for her taste.

But human emotion is delicate and Emma overestimates their malleability. Through naivety and the hubris of someone born so handsome, clever, and rich, Emma accidentally engineers one life-imploding mess after another. And she does not always face the fallout with grace. At times, Emma is just such a jerk and you just want to strangle her, de Wilde notes. Shes remarkably intelligent, but she has not had a lot of experience with human behavior. Shes been very isolated. Harriet is her first friend who wasnt paid to be her friend. She lives with a lot of old people. It makes sense that she is a confusing personality. Yet there is something intimately familiar about her; there is something of her worstand bestqualities in many of us.

De Wilde, Catton, and Taylor-Joy conspired to preserve Emmas sharpest edges and to bring humanity to her mistakesbecause who wasnt a well-meaning jerk at 21 years old? In her most despicable moment, the disastrous Box Hill picnic, one of Emmas charms turns against her. With a quip she intended to be witty, she insults a longtime acquaintance named Miss Bates (Miranda Hart), a tediously chatty woman. Suddenly Miss Bates, who has always called Emma a friend despite how the heiress avoids her in public and mocks her in private, is all too aware of the younger womans disdain for her.

Its a brutal moment, one that de Wilde and Taylor-Joy lean into more boldly than previous adaptations have dared (the 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale versions and Amy Heckerlings 1995 high-school masterpiece Clueless included). Their aim is to implicate the audience, too, they explain. Miss Bates sobs and an angry lecture from her longtime friend (and love interest) George Knightley (Johnny Flynn) devastate Emma, sparing her none of the immense weight of her words consequences. Taylor-Joy beams recalling the shocked gasps shes heard whenever watching the Box Hill scene with audiences. Im like, Oh, weve got you! Youve been laughing at these interactions between Emma and Miss Bates the whole movie, but when shes been genuinely cruel, youre forced to check yourself, as Emma does.

De Wilde wanted nothing less. In her initial pitch to Working Title and Blueprint Pictures for her vision of Emma, she was precise: I said, if this scene with Miss Bates doesnt land and affect you emotionally, the movies fucked, she recalls. I wanted everyone to be guilty, not just Emma. That mob mentality that were familiar with in school, where you just join in and make fun of someone, and with maturity you realize you were just a pawn in this bullshit, that you should not be poking fun at anyone? Almost everyone has a moment they can remember, hopefully with shame, when they did.

Taylor-Joy, too, was upfront about her desire not to spare her Emma from the most unlikeable qualities Austen assigned her; she said as much in her first sit-down with de Wilde. I think women in particular get stereotyped into 2-D boxes. Youre the cute one. Youre the best friend. Youre the mean girl. Youre the funny one. I wanted Emma to be everything, she says. Shes delicious to watch. You want to go in and shake her a couple of times. But shes also a human being and not just, Im lovely and sweet and a woman. It adds dimension.

Finding and channeling Emmas unrivaled confidence didnt come easily at first, however. All of a sudden, I was in a room during rehearsals with all of these people that I really looked up to and I was supposed to be leading the ship. It definitely made me insecure. I was concerned about taking on this role, she remembers. Even after becoming close with Emma (whom Taylor-Joy speaks of more like an absent friend than a movie role), the heiresss popular, carefree existence still stands a world apart from the actress own adolescent experiences.

To a stranger, that perhaps sounds implausible. The gifted 23-year-old actress was first scouted as a model, after all. She was born in Miami and spent her first six years in Argentina before relocating to England, where she dropped out of school at 16 to have a go at the only career shed ever wanted: acting. It was a chance encounter with a Downton Abbey actor that scored her an agent and then a breakthrough role in 2015, in director Robert Eggers Puritan-panic horror flick The Witch. But before all that, her most distinctive featureher wide-set, otherworldly brown eyesbecame a frequent target for bullies, she says.

When I was very little, I was very independent and very much off with the fairies, Taylor-Joy recalls, draped gracefully over a couch several stories above Central Park. (When she first bustles into the room, shes still cheerfully abuzz from her first-ever morning talk show appearance on Good Morning America, relieved to be past the anticipation: Im a future worrier, she explains. Once its happening, Im all good.)

Id be creating worlds all by myself and I could get kids involved in them. I just believed in the reality of what I was doing very fervently.

She grew up on a farm, surrounded by animals and her imagination. (Taylor-Joy is the youngest of six; the brother closest to her in age is 10 years her elder.) Id be creating worlds all by myself and I could get kids involved in them. I just believed in the reality of what I was doing very fervently. But when I hit about 12, 13, I was a total outcast. I was very badly bullied and definitely did not see myself as a queen bee in any way.

Shes worked nearly nonstop since 2015, anchoring the genre-bending teen thriller Thoroughbreds, appearing in two M. Night Shyamalan movies (Split and Glass), and starring later this year in her first big-budget superhero movie, the long-delayed New Mutants. (When asked if the films rumored reshoots ever took, Taylor-Joy says they did not.) An Edgar Wright horror flick and a Netflix miniseries about a Cold War-era chess champion will also debut this year; shes about to be everywhere. But Emma Woodhouse holds a special place. For one, its the only role for which Taylor-Joy has ever shed real blood on cue.

For the scene in which a flustered Mr. Knightley finally confesses his love for Emma, de Wilde and Catton devised a departure from Austens novel: Emmas nose starts to bleed, heightening the scenes comedy and humanizing an otherwise picture-perfect confession. De Wilde herself is prone to nosebleeds; the morning of the scenes shoot, she received a video from Taylor-Joy showing off an authentic one of her own. I looked at the video and I got a nosebleed, de Wilde recalls in disbelief.

Hours later, as Taylor-Joy worked a vial of fake blood into her nose for the scene, my nose just started bleeding, the actress remembers. It just happened. Johnny and Autumn freaked out. I mean, because it was strange. They were like, What do we do, what do we do? Are you OK? And I was like, What do you mean what do we do, keep rolling! This is gold! Her costar Flynn was still in a panic when she took charge: I just yelled at Johnny like, Ask me to marry you! she laughs. Its actually a bit morbid of me to say this, but thats one of the proudest things I have of me on screen. Every time my blood shows up, Im like, That was me. How does that even happen?

The screwball romantic comedies from which de Wilde and her cast drew inspiration, including Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, could hardly have done it better.

The pursuit of authenticity (of a less gruesome sort) guides much of de Wildes Emma.. The director immersed herself in the fashion, music, food, and dances of Austens world, determined to demystify a time period often depicted in yellowed, antique tones on screen. Her Emma. is lush, brimming with teals, marigolds, and pinks in its costumes, sets, and food design. Here, bright color is not just for women. Men were really drawn to color [in the Regency period] as well, de Wilde notes. She points to Mr. Knightleys bright yellow riding coat as an example. I think possibly in movies past, they would have shied away from something like that and thought he should look more manly. But it was fun to go into this time period where the definitions of manly and feminine were different.

The fashion and indie rock photographer turned director built a career on artful riots of color in her portraits and music videos for artists including Beck, the White Stripes, Jenny Lewis, and Elliott Smith. She spent more than two decades behind the camera before her feature film debut. Through all her work, shes maintained a simple rule: If it looks edible, people will like iteven people who think they dont like color, she says. If you go to a pastry shop, youre like, I want the pink one. Whether youre a guy or a girl, youre like, That looks so good. I dont think men reach for, like, the manly cupcake, you know? Thats been one way I tried to break some of these stereotypes of what belongs to men and what belongs to women.

I dont think men reach for, like, the manly cupcake, you know? Thats been one way I tried to break some of these stereotypes of what belongs to men and what belongs to women.

De Wildes historically accurate approach to the social mores of 1815 England also meant actors rarely touch onscreen, producing a fascination with how sexy the results of that repression can be. A white-hot sexual charge courses through the smallest moments of contact: a gentle brush on the arm; a stolen glance; a bite into a strawberry. (Then there is Mr. Knightleys bare butt, which takes center stage in a delicate dressing scene.) It certainly made the actors feel electric. This was a time period where physical contact was very limited, if youre following the rules.

That spark runs not only between love interests, but between best friends, too. Its also very important the first time Harriet touches Emma, or Emma touches Harriet, de Wilde explains. Right before Emma and Harriets big breakup, Harriet touches Emmas face. Thats a really important, tiny moment.

Where Austens version of Emma and Harriets friendship ends rather coldly (Emma resigns herself to her little friends wish to marry a farmer, and the two drift slowly apart), Cattons script forces Emma to humble herself to Harriet, apologizing for nearly ruining her life. Emma. is as much the love story of two best friends as it is of Emma and Mr. Knightley. A girls first best friend is one of the most passionate experiences shell ever have, de Wilde explains. Its like, Love is possible and I live to do anything for this person and I feel that that person will do anything for me. Its pretty powerful, and it can be the first real heartbreak, too. So much is at stake and no one realizes that thats whats so exciting about it.

Taylor-Joys and de Wildes memories of real-life friendships shaped the film. Its one reason why Emma. benefits from a female director: Its wonderful to be able to, when youre playing a scene with Harriet, go up to Autumn and be like, I remember when I did this with my friend and this happened. And she goes, I went the whole other way with my friend when I did that, Taylor-Joy remembers. We have this collective memory of what it is to be a young woman that we can portray on screen.

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Grimes ‘Miss Anthropocene’ Review: How Good is the New Record? – Thrillist

Sadie: Totally -- the record feels like a product of 2020, both in its calico electro sounds and the post-modern, nihilistic take on watching the world go up in flames. I agree the conceptual stuff is mostly secondary to the sonic exhilaration you get while listening. I think a handful of her themes were easy to parse, like how the record sounds like it's being delivered from a pro-global warming anti-hero. Songs like "We Appreciate Power" are in-your-face with with absurdist lyrics that read like a constitution for a new AI populous ("Pledge allegiance to the world's most powerful computer / Simulation is the future"). Looking closer at "Violence," you can draw a disturbing analogy between an abusive relationship and humanity's sadistic/masochistic relationship with the Earth. Honestly, it's sort of like a genre novel that I would probably deem too nerdy to pick up and unpack. At times it plays as pretty gimmicky, but ultimately you do "submit" to it. I guess I will pledge allegiance to the big, smart computer!

More than genre, the production is thrilling because of how far-reaching it is. "New Gods" hypnotizes with its goth synths over her girlish,digitized voice; "Darkseid," featuring frequent collaborator and Taiwanese artist PAN, has a dark rap swagger and continues to make a case for globalized pop. As she trances on the sprawling "Before the fever," "This is the sound of the end of the world," and if thats the case, I'm inclined to let it all burn if the apocalypse is going to sound that damn good. (Not actually, though.) But if anything, Miss Anthropocene is more of a prophecy of an AI-produced music future than anything else.

Dan:LOL, I'm bummed you wouldn't pick up the genre novel version of this record! And, yes, I agree: as much as I admire the music, I wouldn't want to live under the thumb of the AI capable of producing Miss Anthropocene. (Maybe this is what Andrew Yang was warning us all against?) As a piece of music, I liked its clanging, swaggering vibe even if I didn't always connect to the larger message.

Oddly enough, I recently re-watched the Steven Spielberg movie A.I., where Haley Joel Osment plays a robot-child dreaming of becoming a "real" boy, and it's funny how some of the turn-of-the-millennium anxieties about androids imitating human behavior have been replaced by this quasi-combative curiosity about humans becoming more like our algorithmically-minded overlords. Grimes has hinted that her next record will "move on" from some of the darker themes here, but I hope she doesn't abandon them entirely. She hasn't finished terraforming this strange planet yet.

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