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After Gartner had posted the trough indicator in January, Mark Beyer had followed up with a blog post in March to explain what ‘trough of disillusionment’ and ‘Hype cycle’ movement means. (Mark Beyer was listed among top Big Data influencers of 2012 by hadoopsphere – link ). |
Let’s face it. Looking or exploring existing data sets to investigate a potential business enhancer would not hurt anyone. End of the day business has to clearly identify what they want to achieve after parsing huge data sets & assess ways to pass on those metric to a system which can further implement them on a consum... |
Derrik, thank you for weighing in on this. |
Corinthians 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. |
Although big data is in the vaunted ‘trough of disillusionment’ , look way out there on the right – the plateau of productivity – and you’ll find ‘predictive analytics’. We all know that more data trumps a clever algorithm. |
Susan Baaghil / Reuters A female Saudi telephone operator works at the International Medical Center in Jeddah June 4, 2007. |
HALA ALDOSARI is a Visiting Scholar of Gender, Women’s Health, and Policy at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. She campaigns and advocates for women’s rights and protection from violence in Saudi Arabia. |
Amal contacted me two years ago. She was 30 years old, a junior university professor, and she needed help. For four years her father had beaten her, locked her in her room, and threatened to stop her from working because she wanted to marry a non-Saudi professor. Now she wanted to explore a potential escape from the co... |
For a Saudi woman, personal choice is a luxury. Her decisions must conform to her male guardian’s. Only women with agreeable guardians can control their lives. The rest must live with whatever limitations their guardians dictate. |
Amal consulted a lawyer, but it left her even more desperate. Courts approve less than five percent of all cases filed to remove guardianship. Even when a court challenge is successful, it is up to a woman’s new guardian, often the next-of-kin male relative, to approve her choices—in this case, a marriage to a non-nati... |
Amal’s only other option was to leave the country and marry abroad. But she would still need a passport and a permit to travel from her guardian. Amal was thus stuck. |
A Saudi woman displays her ornamental products during Janadriyah Culture Festival on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia February 8, 2016. |
Her story is similar to those of thousands of women in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi guardianship system threatens both the safety of its female citizens and the country’s own plans for an economic transformation, since it keeps the potential of half its population locked up. |
Luckily, my own guardian was supportive and allowed me the freedom—denied me by my country—to pursue my choices. I completed a Ph.D., studying violence against women. In the course of my studies, I found that almost one in two Saudi women is subjected to violence and a quarter to sexual abuse before they turn 15. Women... |
Benjamin Clark and his partner Michelle Sacco finished Love in the Wild's second-season in second place during last week's finale of the NBC reality dating series, which featured singles attempting to find love in the Dominican Republic. |
As the runner-up couple, Ben and Michelle just fell short of claiming Love in the Wild's grand prize of an all-expenses paid first class trip around the world together. The pair were beaten by champions Kenneth Barrington and Yanina Beccaria in the season's grueling final adventure, which took the couples two days to c... |
Last week, Ben talked to Reality TV World about his Love in the Wild experience -- including why he thought Summer Mack is just like him in one aspect, whether he admitted to "Chase" Aaron Chase's claims he was acting immature and/or being a hothead during the show, what exactly went wrong in his relationship with Jenn... |
Below is the concluding portion of our exclusive interview with Ben. Click here to read the first half. To begin reading Michelle's interview, click here. Check back with Reality TV World later today for the rest of Michelle's interview. |
Reality TV World: When I talked to Summer and Chase recently, I asked them about how you had told them they seemed like a friendly couple who just happened to be very competitive towards the end of the season. Chase then told me he thought your opinions of them was actually a strategy to keep you and Michelle in the co... |
Benjamin Clark: It wasn't a tactic. I don't think I'm smart enough to have thought of that as any type of strategic method. It was basically just what I saw. They were two people just going through the adventures, like I said, just trying to squash everyone and get to the finish line. |
That was my opinion, whether it's -- you don't have to believe it and you don't have to like it. That's what I thought and rightly or wrongly, I made [that comment] because that's what I saw. |
I think a lot of other people also saw that. I don't know why they jumped down my throat, because that's basically how it was. Whether it's changed after the show, I hope it has. I hope they're madly in love and living together and having a great old time and still together. I hope someone moves over there or vice vers... |
There was no -- they sort of said that, "We don't have to show public displays of affection and all that and hold hands. We show it differently." But there's no real PDA when the cameras are following you around 24/7 and in your bedroom, when you walk in, everywhere. You go to the bathroom and there's cameras everywher... |
Wherever you go, the fact they didn't even kiss or hold hands or anything, it's not public -- you can't say it's not PDA because there's cameras everywhere. That's just how -- cameras are going to pick up that regardless whether I'm doing it in front of you or not. There was a camera there to pick you up, so that wasn'... |
That was just basically, that was honestly -- I wouldn't say fact, but that's how I saw it and that's how ultimately Ken and Yanina saw it. I wasn't lying or trying to knock their relationship, you know? That was just how I saw it. |
Reality TV World: Because of those things you had said about Chase and Summer, Chase also claimed you lack maturity and happen to be a hothead so you often argued your points when you didn't really know what was going on between the couples around you. I want to give you a chance to respond to his comment. Do you think... |
Benjamin Clark: Yeah, I probably wouldn't say I'm immature. I am a hothead and the thing that they didn't catch... was when we did the question [game] between couples, I think one of the questions was, "Who is more ready to settle down?" And I said, "Michelle." And someone brought that up and said, "You're not ready to... |
[Summer] actually came and sat down with [Michelle and I] and was like, "Come on, let's hash this out. Let's see." And Summer said something like, "You're not ready." And I go, "Listen, you're a bit older than me. You and Chase, you might be ready, I'm not ready." We're a lot younger, because I'm 27 and Michelle's 26. ... |
And so, Summer started that whole sort of debate about "We're this," "I think you're friendlier." She actually raised off it and began questioning the legitimacy of Michelle and I's relationship. And that's when I actually fired back. |
Summer was also just as combative as me, so I don't know how he can get off saying I'm a hothead. Summer is basically the female equivalent of me in that aspect. So, you know, he can't look that far when his girlfriend is exactly the same. She's a feisty little character also. |
Reality TV World: So do you have any ill feelings toward Summer and Chase now? |
Benjamin Clark: Oh no, no, no. Not at all. I think Summer's brilliant. I actually like Summer. I like how combative she is. She's feisty. She'll say what she thinks and if she doesn't agree with something, she'll tell you and she'll tell you to your face. I'm the same. I never went behind their backs and then said to t... |
I went to cameras and said, "Oh they're just mates. They don't care about each other. Summer told me to my face and I told her to her face. So I think Summer's great, and Chase is a lovely lad. |
He sided with Summer and I've got no ill feelings towards anyone. After the show, we're sort of in a stressful situation with the cameras there and sometimes things escalated or got blown out of proportion. There were no ill feelings towards them at all. |
Benjamin Clark: Oh okay, good! |
Reality TV World: You were paired up with Jenny for quite some time and it seemed like you had a lot of loyalty towards her as a partner, but viewers were confused as to whether that's all it was or whether you had some real feelings for her and felt a connection. So would you mind talking about that a little bit? What... |
Benjamin Clark: It was -- I did, I did have a lot of loyalty. She picked me, we went through the trios together, she kept me over [Franky Arriola] and that was the instance when I was with [Shauna Dillard] and I said no to her. I said, "Jenn deserves to stay with or without me." |
At that point, when there were only seven girls, I wasn't attracted to any of them, but me and Jenn got along really well and we went through a lot of adventures. I was like -- we had no idea any new girls were coming on -- and I said, "I can stay with Jenn as a friend and we can try it," because I enjoyed her company ... |
I had a great time with her although there was nothing there. There wasn't an attraction; There just wasn't anything there. We got along so great. I am a big believer in being loyal and trust, and it was difficult. As much as Michelle was there, it was difficult at the time because I obviously -- I felt like I was lett... |
But with Michelle and I, there was something there and I was attracted to her. And at the time, it was in the early stages, but we chatted for awhile and we got along really well. Jenn and I were friendly. |
We were only friends, and so I felt like I was letting a friend down and I did feel really bad about sending her back. We got along great, it was just, there was nothing there basically. She's a great looking girl. She's just not my type and I felt awful. I felt awful. |
Reality TV World: Do you think a friendship is a possibility between you and Jenny at this point or no? |
Benjamin Clark: Yeah, yeah, yeah! We still text and stuff. She was actually watching last week's program when I lost my head... she texted me and said, "I can't exactly tell what's happening because it's muted, but you look like you're losing your head! And Michelle is just walking around as cool as a cucumber." She sa... |
Reality TV World: During last night's final adventure, it looked like you and Michelle passed Ken and Yanina in your kayaks while paddling at one point once you had retrieved your floating crate. But shortly afterwards, when paddling to the beach, both pairs appeared to be neck and neck. So could you talk a little bit ... |
Benjamin Clark: Yeah, they actually made it look a little bit closer than what it was. Once we got to the beach, it showed us that we were both opening the crates at the same time. They were a little bit, marginally, ahead at that point. So although it looked like we both got there at the same time, they'd actually mad... |
Reality TV World: Once you and Michelle got to the beach and had to open your crate with a crowbar, you had trouble opening it the right way and decided to smash the top in. (Laughs) Did you lost any time trying to get that crate open or did you find your smashing technique to be just as effective as the regular way to... |
Benjamin Clark: I probably did [lose time]. I think I lost my head again. I just sort of cringed and made a face and then started whaling away at it. It didn't show it. When Michelle had to go and get all the three pieces to make the bike, we had to use a crowbar to get into a larger [crate] to get the base of the bike... |
I used the smashing technique and I got into it quicker than Ken did it, and Ken did it by prying. So I was like, "I'm just going to carry on and it was smaller." But it didn't work as well, and I ended up smashing to bits the idol inside of the crate. We had no idea what was in it. |
It was so bloody heavy and I was just smashing away. By the time I got to the finish line and we were exhausted, [Jenny McCarthy] said we could keep our idols, and mine was the one I smashed into. The leg was falling off, half its face was smashed in. I completely destroyed the idol that was inside. (Laughs) I probably... |
Reality TV World: (Laughs) They didn't give you a new idol to take home for memory sake? |
Benjamin Clark: No, everyone returned with theirs back to America. Mine's probably still in bits on that beach. I ended up leaving mine. |
Reality TV World: Where do you see yourself being with Michelle in a few years from now? Do you think an engagement is a possibility? |
Benjamin Clark: Yeah, absolutely. I honestly am so grateful for the show because I found someone who's completely out of my league and far too good for me, in my opinion. I couldn't be happier, so. |
Above is the concluding portion of our exclusive interview with Ben. Click here to read the first half. To begin reading Michelle's interview, click here. Check back with Reality TV World later today for the rest of Michelle's interview. |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children at the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Skylar Prio, 6, of Cary hunts for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event along with a visi... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com A girl hunts for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event along with a visit from the Easter... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Olivia Koehler, 9, of McHenry unloads her candy from her collected eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were availab... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Children line up to hunt for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event along with a visit fro... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Logan Wall, 3, of Fox River Grove hunts for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event along w... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Clairwyn Steward, 4, of Crystal Lake hunts for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event alon... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Grayson Frank, 3, of Fox River Grove gets a prize from the Easter Bunny while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were availab... |
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Jacob Blanken, 5, of Crystal Lake hunts for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event along w... |
Logan Wall, 3, of Fox River Grove hunts for eggs while attending the annual Easter Egg Hunt at Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove Saturday, April 4, 2015. Nearly 5,000 eggs were hidden for local children, a balloonist was on site, sweets and snacks were available at the event along with a visit from the Easter Bunny. |
Comment: Years ago, potato stew became a common substitution for red beans and rice on “Monday wash day” in Louisiana. Both dishes could be cooked in the black iron pot next to the wash kettle, making lunch a little easier. This was one dish that my Mamere Zeringue made for me and my siblings, and I still prepare it to... |
In a large Dutch oven, heat vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Add flour and stir constantly until a light brown roux is achieved. |
Add onions, celery, bell pepper, and minced garlic. Sauté 3–5 minutes or until vegetables are wilted, stirring constantly. |
Add andouille and cook 5 minutes or until slightly browned. Add stock and potatoes. Bring to a rolling boil, reduce to simmer and cook until potatoes become so tender that some are dissolved to thicken the stock. |
Add shrimp, green onions, and parsley. Cook 5–10 additional minutes or until shrimp are pink and curled. |
Season to taste using salt, pepper, granulated garlic, and hot sauce. Serve hot over steamed white rice. |
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said troopers responded to a call when Pierre Rennie, 24, told a trooper that he had a bomb in a bag. |
Investigators have identified the man accused of making a bomb threat at the Arizona state Capitol building Friday morning. |
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said troopers responded to a call about a suspicious person at 10:53 a.m. where they found 24-year-old Pierre Rennie at the crosswalk between Wesley Bolin Park and the Capitol Plaza. |
Court documents say Rennie told the trooper that he had a bomb in a large duffel bag by a flagpole near 17th Avenue, saying "go ahead and kick it; I dare you." |
Law enforcement locked down the immediate area and called the DPS Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit which eventually determined the bag didn't contain an explosive. |
Rennie was booked into Fourth Avenue Jail on charges of making a terrorist threat and misconduct involving simulated explosive devices. He's being held on $10,000 bond and his next court date is scheduled for Feb. 14 at Maricopa County Superior Court. |
The heavy metal band, Sound of Thunder, has a large audience in Catalonia. |
Amid the debate over whether the Spanish region of Catalonia should be allowed to gain its independence, a heavy metal band from the Washington, DC, area has found an unlikely new audience: Catalans. |
In early October, Catalan leaders held a referendum on whether the region should separate from Spain. The Spanish government called the vote illegal. National police cracked down hard, shooting rubber bullets and using batons to beat back people trying to vote. Nearly 900 people were injured. |
As the violence unfolded, a woman named Nina Osegueda was monitoring the news closely. She lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, but her mother is Catalan. Many of her relatives still live in Catalonia, including her grandfather, uncles and cousins. |
Osegueda wanted to show her support for her family, and came up with an idea. She’s the lead singer of an independent heavy metal band called A Sound of Thunder, which had recently recorded a version of the Catalonian anthem. Two days after the independence vote, they decided to post their song to YouTube. |
But the song took off. Within two weeks, it had over a million hits on YouTube. Osegueda’s grandfather became a mini-celebrity in his hometown in northeastern Spain, and one of her uncles did a radio interview about her. Some people even wrote her to say the song made them cry. |
“As a metal band, we usually don’t have this huge emotional impact on people. So for people to say it brought them to tears, it was very surprising,” she says. |
Here's a version of the traditional anthem, with English subtitles. |
In the song, Osegueda sings in both English and Catalan, which she said was a little intimidating. Of course, her family in Catalonia is fluent, but she isn’t. |
And she is going to keep trying. She and her band dream of touring in Europe now, including, perhaps, a stop in Catalonia. |
2016’s been pretty rough in a lot of ways, but one good thing about this year is that we’re getting not one, but two Disney animated features. Zootopia, released in March, continued the studio’s reputation for excellence, and next month Moana will try its best to carry on that torch. |
You’ve surely seen trailers for Moana already, featuring newcomer Auli’i Cravalho as the Polynesian princess and Dwayne Johnson as Maui, the demigod who accompanies her on her quest to save her people. At the Festival People en Español this past weekend in New York, Disney showcased a whole lot more, sharing five gorge... |
Below the jump, read our detailed recap of the five clips and then scroll to the bottom for our general impressions on the Moana footage. |
The first clip we saw was the very first scene of Moana. We open on what looks like an old Polynesian design, simplistic and 2D compared to Disney’s usual glossy CG look. “In the beginning, there was only ocean,” begins a voiceover, laying out the history behind the world of Moana. The voice tells of Mother Te Fiti, th... |
The animation transitions into the more familiar Disney CG-animated look as we watch Maui stealing the Heart of Te Fiti. He shifts from bird to bug to lizard to person, racing through the jungle and flying over the ocean. But without her heart, the voiceover continues, Te Fiti began to crumble and eventually gave birth... |
Moana ventures into the cave and finds a vast space with a blue waterfall on the other side. The entire area is scattered with ships. She approaches one, climbs aboard, and looks at the waterfall, apparently imagining herself sailing the seas. When she comes across a drum, she bangs it twice… and something bangs back. ... |
The tribe lands on the shore, and the scene skips forward to show another group of people setting sail from that same shore. We then return to Moana in the cave. “We were voyagers!” she shouts in exhilaration. She continues repeating the sentence as she runs back out of the cave. |
We saw a longer version of the clip released by Disney today, with a little more context. Animator Jorgue Ruiz explained to us that the scene takes place after Moana and Maui have been caught in a storm, only to wash up on a mysterious island. It’s daylight, and Moana hears someone approaching. She realizes it’s Maui, ... |
Maui appears and spots the boat. “A boat, a boat! The gods have given me a boat!” He picks up the boat and sees Moana and Hei Hei underneath it. He’s so startled he drops the boat. When he picks it up again, he sees Hei Hei buried up to his neck in the sand, but Moana has disappeared. |
Maui’s response to all of this is to seem confused. “It sounds like you don’t like me,” he tells Moana. He claims he’s been in exile for 1,000 because of the gift he gave humanity — the power to create life (i.e., the Heart of Te Fiti). |
Moana and Maui are on their boat, with a ship full of Kakamora ahead. Maui begins to steer away from the Kakamora, but Moana insists they need to confront the Kakamora. The little pirates have gotten ahold of Hei Hei, who’s swallowed the heart of Te Fiti. Maui tells her, “Forget it, you’ll never get it back,” but over ... |
She’s immediately attacked by the Kakamora, who seem to be a warlike tribe. They’re chasing after her and assailing her with blow darts. At one point, two of the pirates accidentally hit their leader, who looks pissed off before he passes out — it’s a cute and funny moment, even in the midst of all the chaos. Eventuall... |
Back on board, Hei Hei coughs up the Heart of Te Fiti. Moana catches it and lets out a triumphant, “Got it!” But then she and Maui look up and realize they’re surrounded by several other Kakamora ships. After the clip played, animator Jorge Ruiz told us that the scene was heavily influenced by Mad Max: Fury Road. |
Moana has a special relationship with the ocean, and in the last clip we saw we learned how it all began. Ruiz revealed this was actually the first scene the Moana team animated. |
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