#Steven Prescod

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9 December 2014 | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, watch as Steven Prescod performs at The Door. The Door is a more than 40-year-old program that serves disadvantaged youth in New York City. (c) Chad Rachman-Pool/Getty Images

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Best Live Action Short Film Nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards (2021, listed in order of appearance in the shorts package)

NOTE: For viewers in the United States (continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawai’i) who would like to watch the Oscar-nominated short film packages, click here. For virtual cinemas, you can purchase the packages individually or all three at once. You can find info about reopened theaters that are playing the packages in that link. Because moviegoing carries risks at this time, please remember to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by your local, regional, and national health officials.

This blog, since 2013, has been the site of my write-ups to the Oscar-nominated short film packages. No pandemic was going to stop me this year, as I was able to view the short film packages virtually thanks to a local repertory, the Frida Cinema of Santa Ana, California. Without further ado, here are the nominees for the Best Live Action Short Film at this year’s Oscars. Films predominantly not in the English language are listed with their nation of origin.

The Present (2020, Palestine)

Since the 1990s, the Israeli military has set up hundreds of checkpoints within Palestine’s West Bank. These checkpoints have impeded Palestinian movement within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, supposedly to better protect the extraterritorial Israeli settlements there. Directed by Farah Nabulsi, The Present could have easily fell into an agitprop trap – leaning on political outrage rather than the individual emotions that power this film – but it deftly avoids doing so. On the day of his wedding anniversary with his wife, Yusef (Saleh Bakri) decides to go shopping with daughter Yasmine (Maryam Kanj). Yusef and Yasmine travel to and from Bethlehem (which is in Palestine, but is not easily accessible by Palestinians) to purchase a new refrigerator, groceries, and a few goodies for Yasmine. The process of traveling just a few miles from home proves onerous and humiliating.

Nabulsi’s film never feels like a lecture, instead preferring to juxtapose the cruel ironies that these Israeli checkpoints embody. The viewer intuits how militarized and confusing these checkpoints must be to the Palestinians. Israel’s apartheid mindset extends to the West Bank – the checkpoints have a single lane for Israeli drivers and a gated, narrow entryway specifically for the Palestinians. Past the checkpoint during their time shopping, life seems briefly normal. That Nabulsi can navigate the contrasting emotions between these scenes reflects the tautness of this film and its hints of Italian Neorealism. Bakri, as Yusef, is excellent during his tense conversations with the Israeli soldiers, even if some of these moments feel more stilted due to the actors playing the soldiers and the guerrilla filmmaking this piece employs. For Kanj, as Yasmine, one can see her anguish in seeing her father discriminated against on what should have been a special day. For Palestinian children, injustice is a rite of passage.

My rating: 8/10

Feeling Through (2019)

It is a chilly night in New York City at an hour where few are outside by choice. Teenager Tareek (Steven Prescod) is homeless. After saying good night to his friends, he happens upon Artie, a deafblind man (Robert Tarango, who is deafblind himself) holding up a sign requesting anyone to assist him. Curious and half-willing to help, Tareek taps Artie on the arm. Artie pulls out a tattered notepad and marker, asking for help to get to a bus stop. What follows is an uplifting connection between two cast-off souls, sharing each other’s good company and good humor if only for a brief time. Director Doug Roland based Feeling Through on an encounter he had with a deafblind man named Artemio. Roland’s film was accomplished in collaboration with the Hellen Keller Center.

Cynical viewers might view Feeling Through as syrupy, its swirling score too manipulative, the screenplay predictable, the filmmaking pedestrian. To different extents, each of those criticisms are true, but that does not undermine the raw inspiration responsible for this film’s pulse. It boasts solid performances from Prescod and Tarango – the latter a kitchen worker from Long Island and possibly the first deafblind actor in a lead role in film history. Roland’s screenplay beautifully strips away stereotypes of deafblind people. Tarango, as Artie, is neither overly dependent nor secluded from society. He knows that being deafblind sets him apart from those who can see and hear, and embraces the difference – lending a refreshing directness to how he communicates. Despite its lack of filmmaking or acting pedigree compared to its other nominees in this category, Feeling Through enters this Academy Awards season without a single loss in any of the film festivals that it screened in. No wonder: it is a crowd-pleaser in the best sense, without ever glossing over how difficult it is to be deafblind.

My rating: 9/10

Two Distant Strangers (2020)

Production on Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe’s Two Distant Strangers began in the shadow of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Its emotions are raw and there is no doubt behind the importance of the film’s messaging. Carter (rapper Joey Bada$$) has had some first date with Perri (Zaria Simone), and leaves in the morning to get home to his pet dog. Just outside the apartment building door, a police officer named Merk (Andrew Howard) stops Carter, profiles him, and ultimately kills Carter in cold blood. Once Carter dies, the film cuts to Carter and Perri in bed once again. Immediately, the viewer knows this film is a time loop a la Groundhog Day (1993), and, no matter what precautions he takes, Carter just cannot avoid execution from Merk’s hands. Through the film’s structure, Free and Roe capture the sinking, repetitive feeling that black Americans go through when hearing the news of yet another incident of police brutality.

Good intentions and urgency, however, do not necessarily make a worthy film. Some of the editing in Two Distant Strangers’ middle third shows too many images of Carter’s bullet-riddled body. After the first few instances of the time loop, the viewer does not need another glimpse of a lead-shredded corpse, blood splattering across pavement. The filmmaker’s fury towards Carter’s situation – that nothing will change – is already evident in the idea of such killings. Combined with the questionable dialogue in the final time loop and the mediocre acting, this all feels exploitative, an unwitting product of Hollywood’s history of fetishizing black trauma. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), historically, likes to reward films they perceive as demonstratively staged and thematically urgent. Two Distant Strangers meets both these criteria, but this material could have retained its rage without as much sensationalism.

My rating: 6/10

White Eye (2019, Israel)

Like Feeling Through, Tomer Shushan’s White Eye – the winner of the Narrative Short Film award at South by Southwest (SXSW) – was based on an actual encounter in its director’s life. Late at night in the streets of Tel Aviv, Omer (Daniel Gad) has spotted his stolen bicycle locked onto a rack. Omer lost his bike more than a month ago, has not filed a police report, and seeks to reclaim it as soon as possible. The police are of no help, and the people proximate to the intersection where these events take place are unwilling or hesitant to help. The now-owner of the bike is an Eritrean refugee named Yunes (Dawit Tekelaeb), and he insists to his manager (Reut Akkerman) and to Omer that he did not know that the bike was stolen property when he purchased it. And yet Omer’s tenacity and fit of passion spirals the situation beyond his or Yunes’ control.

White Eye is impressively staged, filmed in a single take – no cuts, no edits, all in real-time. To compare this film one last time to Feeling Through, White Eye accomplishes all it needs to say at a short film’s length. Some might claim Saar Mizrahi’s cinematography and 360º smooth-rotating is just another modern filmmaking gimmick; instead, it submerges the viewer into Omer’s mentality as he fights to retrieve his bike. The purposefully subjective framing questions the viewer on what our reactions might be in this situation, how deeply would we allow out outrage – and perhaps our ethnic/racial biases – to guide our actions. Shushan challenges the audience not to adopt Omer’s conclusions and emotions so readily, and he does a masterful job in appealing to and challenging one’s empathy as it becomes clear there will be no storybook ending.

My rating: 8/10

The Letter Room (2020)

By virtue of its central actor, The Letter Room is the most high-profile of this year’s nominees. Elvira Lind’s film is a dark comedy and its approach and tone are difficult to categorize. Richard (a mustached Oscar Isaac, who is Lind’s spouse) is a corrections officer who has requested a departmental transfer. With the transfer, he trades a more hands-on role for an office job. As the prison’s communications director, his responsibilities now entail filing through all of the prisoners’ incoming and outgoing mail – reading through all of the letters, reporting to his superiors for prison rules violations, censoring materials if necessary. At first, this role is as tedious as his previous position. But when Richard begins to read the histories of the prisoners and their loved ones, he becomes emotionally invested in a particular exchange between one death row inmate and his loved one (Alia Shawkat).

The Letter Room, despite a serviceable performance by Isaac as the unusual and stiff lead, has a milquetoast commentary about how the American criminal justice system imprisons more than just the inmates. These themes shambolically merge with Richard’s inherent loneliness, his inability to separate his own feelings from the voyeuristic work that his new position entails. This is a fellow looking for meaningful human connection, finding none, and attempting to understand something he has never found. The Letter Room curiously never questions the tricky ethics of Richard’s decision to intervene with the decisions made by Alia Shawkat’s character, and how the power disparities of his interactions color his life. The film’s conclusion is unearned, placing too neat a bow on a film that cannot balance its incongruous themes.

My rating: 6/10

^ All ratings based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

From previous years: 85th Academy Awards (2013), 87th (2015), 88th (2016), 89th (2017), 90th (2018), 91st (2019), and 92nd (2020).

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Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards:

- Best live action short film -

"Feeling Through" (2020) directed by Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski (producer)

Steven Prescod as Tereek Robert Tarango as Artie

Official site: https://www.feelingthrough.com

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FEELING THROUGH

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Blind (2017) Review

Bill Oakland a novelist is left blinded after a car crash which also killed his wife and must now have people read stories written by his students. Suzanne Dutchman must do this three times a week after a court order for community service as her husband Mark has been involved with insider trading.

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Short Film 'Feeling Through' Q&A and Review

Short Film 'Feeling Through' Q&A and Review

I had the pleasure of sitting in on a Q&A for the short film ‘Feeling Through’ which was moderated by Whoopi Goldberg. The panel included Academy Winner Marlee Matlin, director Doug Roland, as well as the stars; DeafBlind actor Robert Tarango and Steven Prescod. ‘Feeling Through’ is about Tereek — a young man trying hard not to reveal his lack of a home — is desperately looking for a bed for the…

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Sienna Miller Struggles With Who She Is in Psychological Thriller 'The Private Life of a Modern Woman' with Alec Baldwin

Sienna Miller Struggles With Who She Is in Psychological Thriller ‘The Private Life of a Modern Woman’ with Alec Baldwin

    “This boyfriend you have.” “Had, we split up a while ago.” “When was the last time you saw him?” “Yesterday.” ‘The Private Life of a Modern Woman’ is a psychological crime-thriller about a famous New York actress played by Sienna Miller who struggles to keep up with public appearance amid personal doubt and depression.

“He’d been arrested and was released on bail and came looking for money I…

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Varsity Blues and the Destructive Myth of Meritocracy

In the wake of the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal that made news on March 12, 2019, I wrote (mildly edited here with more character space and one grammatical correction):

It’s not just a matter of who “should“ get in or not and graduate from where or not. “Elite” educations aren’t really cultivating better critical thinkers — otherwise the graduates would’ve dismantled them by now rather than flashing degrees to lift themselves and justify their advantages.

We need to give up on the notion of “earn” and “deserve,” and make sure our collective resources and wealth are spread (redistributed) evenly, that everyone is taken care of, and that we don’t wreck the planet (reverse the wrecking).

Then I found many other great reminders about the lie of meritocracy and its assistance in building inequality and maintaining the system. I have collected them here.

★

Dana Goldstein:

When rich and famous people allegedly buy their children admission to elite colleges, you have to wonder what terrible fate they believe will befall their incredibly privileged offspring if they don't attend such schools.

What drives the anxiety? Fears of downward mobility? Name brand obsession? Has the education gospel anxiety traveled this far up the economic ladder? Paging @tressiemcphd!

Tressie McMillan Cottom responds:

Yes, I like Shamus Khan and Mitchell Stevens here. It is hard to completely process if it isn't your culture but there is no such thing as "enough" for elite status groups. Their anxiety feels as real to them as the objectively more real risk of failure feels to poor families

★

Jessica Valenti:

What I don't really get about this college scheme is that these kids were gonna be FINE and RICH no matter what. Who cares if they got into some college?

My only explanation - somewhat supported by the totally bananas court document - is that the parents wanted their kids (who were unaware of the fraud) to feel smart. That's some next level shit

Tressie McMillan Cottom responds:

Again, it's hard to explain but the social reproduction of privilege requires this kind of anxiety.

Nadirah Farah Foley adds:

yes — and this is where Khan's distinction between privilege and entitlement is so crucial. an elite degree legitimates advantage as earned rather than inherited, which is essential for status under the meritocratic logics & ideals that dominate US society.

★

Nana Kwame:

So you mean rich people cheat the system to get their kids in.. in an institution that artificially creates a perception of scarcity regarding a resource that is not scare in order to drive extraordinary costs up which in turn perpetuates mass inequality at all levels of society?

★

Antonio García Martínez:

What's funniest about the college bribery scandal is that the privileged, unbright scions of celebrity wealth felt they needed the imprimatur of prestige schools to justify their rank in life, to bolster the charade. A false meritocratic standard is worse than no standard at all.

It's worth recalling that the word 'meritocracy' was coined as a satirical slur in a dystopic novel by a sociologist. Bizarrely, it was ingested by the culture as a universal good that it would be offensive to even question. link to Wikipedia page for meritocracy

★

Nadirah Farah Foley:

I also hate to see us reinforce the idea that the metrics/standards by which we determine deservingness of access to a high-quality education are objectively good/right measures of "merit." and there's a LOT of that implicitly going on in statements about this scandal.

★

Clint Smith:

The very idea of our society, higher-ed or otherwise, being a "meritocracy" is something that was made up to justify & reify existing social hierarchies. It's not real. What's real is how wealth & race combine to give ppl things that they tell themselves they inherently deserve.

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

there's so many angles to this admissions scandal, but I just keep coming back to the fact that stuff like this probably wouldn't happen if we didn't have a super stratified & unequal system in which attending an elite school comes with such outsized material & symbolic benefits.

that, and we might not have such a stratified system of education if we weren't so wedded to the idea that meritocracy is a good system for meting out just inequalities, and education is the way to administer that system.

it doesn't have to be like this, though.

★

Shamus Khan:

My worry is that it will recede into a discussion about "merit" where we basically say, "oh... we just need to get back to a 'true' meritocracy and then it's all good" rather than asking ourselves what kinds of communities we want to create and what our social responsibilies are.

Nadirah Farah Foley responds:

this. so much of the discourse today is reinforcing the idea that the process is basically about merit except when it's corrupted via bribery or nepotism. the question of what a "true meritocracy" would look like — and whether that's even desirable — is an essential one, imo.

the question of what a "true meritocracy" looks like requires digging into what merit means; the question of whether it's desirable calls for interrogating whether just inequality can exist, or whether inequality in & of itself is unjust/to be avoided. those are tough questions.

★

Anand Giridharadas:

They were the kind of liberals who want to change the world as long as that doesn't mean their world having to change. Much of what appears to be reform in our time is in fact the defense of stasis. These are in fact conservatives who fly stealth under the shield of liberalism.

★

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein:

The problem at these schools isn’t these singular bribes. The problem is the tax-free donations they get which literally cut the tax base for public universities. The problem is the large number of legacies they admit who think they got there through hard work.

★

Reclaim UC:

Has anyone done a study about how increased access to higher education has coincided with dramatically worsening economic inequality in the United States? I.e “access” doesn’t mean what it once meant during the postwar boom.

★

Hoodqueer:

your kid's "spot" doesn't exist. admission to elite american universities is a highly strategic, profit-driven affair. the university gets something out of every student it admits. if it's not money, it's reputation,"diversity," or free labor. your kid's "spot" doesn't exist.

★

Hari Ziyad

Plot twist: the “legitimate” criteria for acceptance into elite schools are all white supremacist bullshit too. SAT scores. Grades. Extra curriculars. None of them make a person smart or special. They all show you’re willing to play their game tho, which is all you need to do.

My hope was that “legacy” was an obvious enough example, but it’s important to mention because all of these things are connected. You can’t have “elite” schools without being rigged for the elite, in big and small ways.

And you can’t have POC complaining about how they were assumed to be accepted into elite schools because of affirmative action without reinforcing this bullshit either. If you did not get accepted due to aff action you did it by perfecting their rules.

★

David J. Leonard:

Derrick Bell made it all too clear in 2002: “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”

★

Tyler Reinhard (posted previously):

Ivy diplomas are luxury goods, not qualifications. If they had any real value — some educational secret sauce —they would scale it. Instead they do the opposite by offering something “exclusive”, just like every other luxury brand.

Update: 13 March 2019 (same day as post): I have added many more below and will likely continue to do so.

★

Anand Giridharadas (See the full interview here.):

In this college scandal, we haven't heard much from the kids themselves.

But I found a glimpse of how they processed their inflated scores in the indictment.

And it offers a vital lesson: rigging things doesn't make the beneficiaries insecure, but rather unduly self-confident. [video embedded]

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Talila Lewis:

So many thoughts on #CollegeAdmissionsScandal / #CollegeCheatingScandal.

The true injustice is that with all the cause célèbre, we're missing a prime opportunity to name & address that the US "education" system has since time immemorial been at least racist, classist & ableist.

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

or, counterpoint: maybe college admissions is a meritocracy! but maybe meritocracy is bad —a system that legitimates inequality and rewards privilege while mischaracterizing it as "ability" and "talent"meritocracy killjoy added,

★

Tamara K. Nopper

So if everybody worked as hard as many who are sharing their stories, all without the extreme wealth and connections and lying we would still have a problem. Cuz people shouldn’t have to be working so damn hard and the stakes shouldn’t be so onerous to gain access to higher ed.

★

Nadirah Farah Foley:

I keep hearing people say bribery is different from donating a building because “bribery is a crime,” but I think it’s important we not lose sight of the fact that legality and morality don’t always overlap. something not being a “crime” doesn’t make it okay.

I’m not saying bribery isn’t a particularly extreme manifestation of leveraging wealth to gain access, but if the only reason you draw the line at bribery is because it happens to be designated a crime...I think it’s worth interrogating why.

★

Eric Levitz:

The real scandal isn’t all the unethical shit rich parents will do to keep their failsons and faildaughters from tumbling down the socioeconomic ladder — it’s that we use adolescents’ test scores to ration economic security in the first place. [link to “All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal”]

★

Nadirah Farah Foley:

I always find "X is not a meritocracy" takes interesting, because they seem to imply that something else is, or could be, a meritocracy. I really wonder about that, though.

★

Anand Giridharadas:

The college bribery scam is not a college bribery scam. It is a master class in how America — governed by a cheater, ruled by rule breakers, managed by a class that confuses its privilege for merit — functions. [with link to “The College Bribery Scam Reveals How Rich People Use 'Charity' to Cheat: Anand Giridharadas explains how alleged payoffs to test takers and athletic coaches are part of a larger ecosystem of elite hypocrisy.”]

★

Anand Giridharadas:

America is being revealed right now as it hasn't been in my lifetime.

Jamil Smith responds:

This, for me, is pretty much the only way that the Trump presidency has been useful—at least in terms of its influence on our politics and culture. The nation’s institutional faults, holes, and past errors are being laid bare in a particularly conspicuous way.

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John Keogh responding to one of Nadirah Farah Foley’s remarks above:

I find it telling that most people who preach most ardently about the virtues of meritocracy take it as a given they’ll be the ones to win.

Take away that certainty and they find meritocracy a whole lot less attractive.

Nadirah Farah Foley responds:

something that’s surprised me is finding out that while the winners in a meritocratic system may believe in meritocracy more strongly, even those disadvantaged under such a system cling pretty tightly to meritocratic ideals.

@L1vY responds:

We all internalize it because it's the only way to imagine we might end up having some control over it. Socio-economic victim-blaming works like every other type of victim-blaming.

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Al via la IV edizione dell'AmiCorti International Film Festival

Al via la IV edizione dell’AmiCorti International Film Festival

Si è svolta venerdì 3 giugno la conferenza stampa di presentazione della IV edizione dell’AmiCorti International Film Festival che si svolgerà dal 10 al 18 giugno al Villaggio Cinema di Peveragno (CN). Tanti gli ospiti internazionali che raggiungeranno la località piemontese per l’evento: Gabriella Wright (The Tudors,The perfect Husband), Steven Prescod (Feeling), Sergio Assisi, Patrizio Rispo,…

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1 6 15!!

book you’ve reread the most times?

hmmm probably the raven boys i think ive read it seven (?) times now but tbh could be a few more

6. what books have you read in the past month?

this is going to out me as having literally no other hobbies but since april 18th: the trouble with peace - joe abercrombie, the wisdom of crowds - joe abercrombie, the disordered cosmos - chandra prescod-weinstein, autonomous - annalee newitz, book lovers - emily henry, portrait of a thief - grace d li, a novel obsession - caitlin barasch, house of chains - steven erikson, sundial catriona ward, fool me once - ashley winstead, the kingdoms - natasha pulley, AND band sinister - kj charles

15. recommend and review a book

ok love this question. im going to rec the way spring arrives and other stories edited by yu chen and regina kanyu wang which is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories translated from chinese with essays throughout the collection about translation and the sff genre in chinese culture. there were a few stories that i still think about all the time but my fav parts was reading the essays about the translators choices and the process. def recommend i read it a few stories/essays a day which was very satisfying

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Omeleto Short Film Review - Feeling Through (2019)

Omeleto Short Film Review – Feeling Through (2019)

IMDb Rating: 7.6 19min | Short, Drama | Short Metacritic: N/A Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A Director: Doug Roland Writers: Doug Roland Stars: Steven Prescod, Robert Tarango, Francisco Burgos Movie Tagline:   IMDb summary: A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man. PLEASE BE AWARE BEFORE YOU READ ON WE ARE NOT…

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STARTUPS AND FOUNDERS

A company. It is a comfortable idea. There is nothing inevitable about the current system. But all languages are equivalent is that it's tested more severely than in most other countries.1 This was the Lisp function eval. The monolithic, hierarchical companies of the mid 20th century are being replaced by networks of smaller companies.2 In fact it's only the context that makes them so. Why do teenage kids do it?3 And it's so easy to do: just don't let a sentence through unless it's the way you'd say it to a friend.

When you interview a startup and think they seem likely to succeed at all, and you'd get that fraction of big hits won't grow proportionately to the number of characters in a program, but this is not a new idea.4 And meetings are the main mechanism for taking up the slack. I've said some harsh things in this essay, and Maria Daniels for scanning photos.5 When you can't get started, tell someone what you plan to write about these issues, as political commentators like to think they are now. History tends to get rewritten by big successes, so that in retrospect it seems obvious they were going to make a painting first, then copy it. By all means be optimistic about your ability to make something great. The most common way to do this could leave competitors who didn't in the dust. Whereas mere determination, without flexibility, is a language too succinct for their own good. This was the Lisp function eval. People have always been willing to do great things, you'd be able to leave, if you don't, no one will buy your product. That is one of the reasons startups are becoming a more normal thing to do. What it means is to have a deft touch.

And if you don't.6 The principle extends even into programming. We're not hearing about these languages because people are using them on servers. Poetry is as much music as text, so you have to create a new language, it's because you think it's better in some way than what people already had. It's expensive and somewhat grubby, and the best stuff prevails. Practically every fifteenth century Italian painter you've heard of was from Florence, even though it feels wrong. Teenage kids used to have a deft touch. So this relationship has to be finite, and the enforcement of quality can flow bottom-up: people make what they want to hack the source.

Meanwhile, the one thing you can measure is dangerously misleading. Now VCs are fighting to hold the value of free markets, are run internally like communist states.7 It's interesting Our two junior team members were enthusiastic.8 Deals fall through. The specific thing that surprised them most about starting a startup. Once something becomes a big marketplace, you ignore it at your peril.9 The top thing I didn't understand before going into it is that persistence is the name of the game.10 They use different words, certainly. That's what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. But I think that the main purpose of a language is to become hypersensitive to how well a language lets you think, then choose/design the language that feels best.

Bill Gates will of course come to mind. Like any war, it's damaging even to the winners. That may not seem surprising. You're doing the same thing. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd, a group of inspired hackers will build for free.11 For me the worst stretch was junior high, when kid culture was new and harsh, and the language wouldn't let you express it the way you usually would, then afterward look at each sentence and ask Is this the way I'd say this if I were talking to a friend what you just wrote.12 These are the elections I remember personally, but apparently the same pattern. It meant that a the only way to get software written faster was to use a new service is incredibly difficult.

Several journalists have tried to interpret that as evidence for some macro story they were telling, but the more ambitious ones will ordinarily be better off taking money from an investor than an employer. These were the biggest surprise for me. He'd seem to the kids a complete alien.13 They counted as work, just as pop songs are designed to sound ok on crappy car radios; if you say anything mistaken, fix it immediately; ask friends which sentence you'll regret most; go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I'd tell him would be to stick his head up and look around. And yet it also happened that Carter was famous for his big grin and folksy ways, and Ford for being a boring klutz. But you can't have action without an equal and opposite reaction.14 Even good products can be blocked by switching or integration costs: Getting people to use a new service is incredibly difficult. The charisma theory may also explain why Democrats tend to lose presidential elections. For example, physical attractiveness, fame, political power, economic power, intelligence, social class, and quality of life. There is no external pressure to do this is to collect them together in one place for a big chunk of each series A company.15 If anyone wants to write one I'd be very curious to see it, but several planned to, but the whole world we lived in was, I thought that something must be wrong with me.

If a company considers itself to be in a great city: you need the encouragement of feeling that people around you. In the discussion about issues raised by Revenge of the Nerds on the LL1 mailing list, Paul Prescod wrote something that seemed suitable for a magazine, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups were fundable would be a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. Fred is. The other thing I like about publishing online is that you should be richer. If smaller source code is the purpose of breeding children. There are other messages too, of course. But we can see how powerful cities are from something I wrote about earlier: the case of specific languages, but I think it tries to measure the right thing to compare Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but, say, the Quicksort algorithm, which was discovered in 1960 and is still the fastest general-purpose sort. But they're also too young to be left unsupervised. Maybe one day a heavily armed force of adults will show up in helicopters to rescue you, but that there's nothing else people there care about more. And by next, I mean five years if nothing goes wrong.

Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. Several founders mentioned specifically how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence. If we ever got to the point where 100% of the startups from the batch that just started, AirbedAndBreakfast, is in NYC right now meeting their users. Do you want your kids to be as unhappy in eighth grade as you were? We could never stand it.16 Where would Microsoft be if IBM insisted on an exclusive license for DOS. I'm not saying there is no need to worry. If you want to excel in it. We were all just pretending.17 When I moved to New York, I was very excited at first.

Notes

Daniels, Robert V.

Which means if the present that most people than subsequent millions. The dialog on Beavis and Butthead was composed largely of these people never come back. Their opinion carries the same thing—trying to capture the service revenue as well. Mitch Kapor, is caring what random people thought of them material.

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Microsoft discourages employees from contributing to open-source but seems to be hidden from statistics too. Usually people skirt that issue with some equivocation implying that you're paying yourselves high salaries. At three months, a few months by buying their startups.

Thanks to Savraj Singh, Jackie McDonough, Jacob Heller, Ron Conway, Dan Giffin, Jessica Livingston, David Hornik, and Benedict Evans for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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European Championships 2018: Medal table, GB medallists and medals by sport

European Championships 2018: Medal table, GB medallists and medals by sport

European Championships 2018: Medal table, GB medallists and medals by sport

This page features the final medal table, GB’s leading multiple medal winners, selected medal tables by sport and GB’s medallists day by day.

Final 2018 medal table (top 10)

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Russia 31 19 16 66 2 Great Britain 26 26 22 74 3 Italy 15 17 28 60 4 Netherlands 15 15 13 43 5 Germany 13 17 23 53 6 France 13 14 15 42 7 Poland 9 6 6 21 8 Ukraine 8 13 5 26 9 Switzerland 8 4 7 19 10 Hungary 7 4 4 15

Today’s GB medal winners

Sunday, 12 August

European Championships 2018: Dina Asher-Smith leads GB women to 4x100m gold

Gold

Gymnastics: Dominick Cunningham – floor

Athletics: Laura Muir – 1500m

Athletics: Dina Asher-Smith, Bianca Williams, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Asha Philip – women’s 4x100m relay

Athletics: CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili and Harry Aikines Aryeetey – men’s 4x100m relay

Silver

Athletics: Eilish McColgan – 5,000m

Bronze

Gymnastics: Courtney Tulloch – rings

Golf: Michele Thomson and Meghan MacLaren – women’s team event

Athletics: Laura Weightman – 1500m

Dominick Cunningham’s winning floor routine

Leading GB athletes

GB athletes to have won three medals or more

Athlete Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Adam Peaty Swimming 4 0 0 4 Duncan Scott Swimming 3 1 0 4 James Guy Swimming 3 0 1 4 Dina Asher-Smith Athletics 3 0 0 3 Georgia Davies Swimming 2 1 1 4 Freya Anderson Swimming 2 0 2 4 Jack Laugher Diving 2 1 0 3 Katie Archibald Cycling 1 2 0 3 Ethan Hayter Cycling 1 0 2 3

NB: Cyclist Laura Kenny and athlete Zharnel Hughes both won two gold medals

Medal tables by sport

Selected sports only

Athletics

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Great Britain 7 5 6 18 2 Poland 7 4 1 12 3 Germany 6 7 6 19

Swimming

Excluding open water swimming and synchronised swimming

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Russia 10 10 6 26 2 Great Britain 9 7 8 24 3 Italy 6 5 11 22

Diving

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Russia 5 4 3 12 2 Great Britain 4 5 1 10 3 Germany 1 2 5 8

Track cycling

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Netherlands 5 0 3 8 2 Great Britain 4 3 3 10 3 Germany 3 4 4 11

Gymnastics

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Russia 4 2 3 9 2 France 1 1 2 4 =3 Belgium 1 1 1 3 =3 Great Britain 1 1 1 3 =3 Netherlands 1 1 1 3

Rowing

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Romania 3 2 2 7 2 France 2 2 1 5 3 Italy 2 1 3 6 12 Great Britain 0 2 2 4

Synchronised swimming

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Russia 8 0 0 8 2 Ukraine 1 5 1 7 3 Italy 0 4 5 9 – Great Britain 0 0 0 0

GB medal winners day by day

Saturday, 11 August – 11 medals

Great Britain duo claim BMX gold & silver

Gold

Athletics: Dina Asher-Smith – 200m

BMX: Kyle Evans

Diving: Grace Reid – 3m springboard

Silver

Artistic Gymnastics: Joe Fraser, James Hall, Max Whitlock, Courtney Tulloch and Dominick Cunningham – Men’s team

Athletics:Rabah Yousif, Dwayne Cowan, Matthew Hudson-Smith and Martyn Rooney – 4x400m relay

BMX: Kye Whyte

Diving: Alicia Blagg – 3m springboard

Diving: Matthew Lee and Lois Toulson – synchronised 10m platform

Golf: Michele Thomson, Connor Syme, Liam Johnston and Meghan Maclaren – mixed team competition

Bronze

Athletics: Zoey Clark, Anyika Onuora, Amy Allcock and Eilidh Doyle – 4x400m relay

Athletics: Shara Proctor – long jump

Friday, 10 August – five medals

Hudson-Smith wins 400m gold

Gold

Athletics: Matthew Hudson-Smith – 400m

Silver

Diving: Jack Laugher and Chris Mears – synchronised 3m springboard

Athletics: Katarina Johnson-Thompson – Heptathlon

Bronze

Athletics: Meghan Beesley – 400m hurdles

Athletics: Jake Wightman – 1500m

Thursday, 9 August – 12 medals

GB win men’s relay gold

Gold

Diving: Jack Laugher – 3m springboard

Swimming: Ben Proud – 50m freestyle

Swimming: Nicholas Pyle, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncan Scott – men’s 4x100m medley relay

GB’s Jack Laugher wins 3m springboard gold

Silver

Triathlon: Jess Learmonth – women’s triathlon

Diving: Matthew Dixon and Noah Williams – synchronised 10m platform

Swimming: Imogen Clark – 50m breaststroke

Swimming: Max Litchfield – 400m individual medley

Athletics: Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake – 200m

Bronze

Swimming: James Guy – 100m butterfly

Swimming: Holly Hibbott – 400m freestyle

Swimming: Georgia Davies, Siobhan- Marie O’Connor, Alys Thomas, Freya Anderson – women’s 4x100m medley relay

Athletics: Holly Bradshaw – pole vault

Wednesday, 8 August – two medals

European Championships 2018: Adam Peaty wins gold in 50m breaststroke

Gold

Swimming: Adam Peaty – 50m breaststroke

Silver

Diving: Grace Reid and Ross Haslam – mixed synchronised 3m springboard

Tuesday, 7 August – 13 medals

Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes & Reece Prescod win 100m gold & silver

Gold

Track cycling: Matthew Walls – men’s elimination race

Diving: Eden Cheng and Lois Toulson – women’s 10m synchronised diving

Diving: Jack Laugher – men’s 1m Springboard

Swimming: Duncan Scott – men’s 200m freestyle

Swimming: Ellie Faulkner, Kathryn Greenslade, Holly Hibbott and Freya Anderson – women’s 4x200m freestyle relay

Athletics: Dina Asher-Smith – women’s 100m final

Athletics: Zharnel Hughes – men’s 100m

Silver

Swimming: Ben Proud – men’s 50m butterfly

Swimming: Georgia Davies – women’s 100m backstroke

Athletics: Reece Prescod – men’s 100m

Bronze

Track cycling: Jack Carlin – men’s keirin

Diving: James Heatly – men’s 1m Springboard

Swimming: Molly Renshaw – women’s 200m breaststroke

Monday, 6 August – six medals

Gold and European record for ‘brilliant Brits’ in 4x100m relay

Gold

Swimming: Georgia Davies, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Freya Anderson – mixed 4x100m medley relay

Silver

Swimming: James Wilby – men’s 200m breaststroke

Track cycling: Katie Archibald – women’s omnium 20km points

Bronze

Track cycling: Ethan Hayter and Oliver Wood – men’s madison

Swimming: Alys Thomas – women’s 200m butterfly

Swimming: Max Litchfield – men’s 200m individual medley

Sunday, 5 August – six medals

Laura Kenny delighted with elimination race gold, despite ‘mum guilt’

Gold

Track cycling: Laura Kenny – women’s elimination

Swimming: Georgia Davies – 50m backstroke

Swimming: Calum Jarvis, Duncan Scott, Thomas Dean and James Guy – men’s 4x200m relay

Silver

Swimming: Duncan Scott – 100m freestyle

Bronze

Rowing: Sam Mottram – men’s single scull

Rowing: Harry Leask, Jack Beaumont – men’s double scull

Saturday, 4 August – seven medals

GB’s Peaty breaks breaststroke world record to win gold

Gold

Swimming: Adam Peaty – 100m breaststroke

Track cycling: Ethan Hayter – men’s omnium

Silver

Track cycling – Katie Archibald – 3,000m individual pursuit

Rowing: Thomas Ford, Jacob Dawson, Adam Neill and James Johnston – men’s fours

Rowing: Anastasia Chitty, Katherine Douglas, Holly Hill, Rebecca Girling, Fiona Gammond, Holly Norton, Karen Bennett, Rebecca Shorten – women’s eights

Swimming: James Wilby – 100m breaststroke

Bronze

Swimming: Stephen Milne, Craig McLean, Kathryn Greenslade and Freya Anderson – 4x200m mixed freestyle bronze

Friday, 3 August – four medals

European Championships 2018: GB win first gold in women’s team pursuit

Gold

Track cycling: Elinor Barker, Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald, Neah Evans – women’s team pursuit

Silver

Track cycling: Emily Kay – women’s 10km scratch race

Bronze

Swimming: Hannah Miley – women’s 400m individual medley

Track cycling: Ethan Hayter, Steven Burke, Kian Emadi, Charlie Tanfield – – men’s team pursuit

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SHANGHAI  | McLeod edges 110 hurdles in Shanghai Diamond League

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SHANGHAI  | McLeod edges 110 hurdles in Shanghai Diamond League

SHANGHAI  — Olympic and world champion Omar McLeod surprised himself by edging the men’s 110-meter hurdles at a rain-drenched Shanghai Diamond League on Saturday.

The Jamaican narrowly defeated Orlando Ortega of Spain by one hundredth of a second in an ordinary 13.16 seconds to capture his third successive victory in Shanghai.

“I was kind of overcome with emotions because I’ve been through a lot this season,” McLeod said. “I was hurt a month ago (with an unspecified injury). I still was feeling some slight pain, but I was like, ‘I’m here.'”

McLeod, who skipped the Commonwealth Games, admitted after the race he’s still not fully fit.

“My leg is a little bit sore but my body’s in shock because it’s just fatigue and I haven’t been able to do a 110 workout in like a month,” he said. “It’s just a lot of emotions.”

In the final race of the night, British sprinter Reece Prescod won the men’s 100 in dramatic fashion in 10.04 seconds. It was initially believed Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian won, but video replay showed Prescod came out of nowhere in lane nine to narrowly defeat the fan favorite.

Chinese sprinter Xie Zhenye was third, and world champion Justin Gatlin was seventh.

Olympic gold medalist Brianna McNeal won the women’s 100 hurdles in a meet record 12.50. U.S. women finished 1-2-3-4, with Sharika Nelvis and Kendrick Harrison filling out the podium.

“I kind of got behind in the middle, but I just tried to keep my composure and try to finish strong,” McNeal said.

Bahamian sprinters had a strong night as well.

Shaunae Miller-Ouibo won the women’s 200 in 22.06, and Steven Gardiner set a 400 meet record of 43.99 to beat out Botswana’s defending Diamond League and Commonwealth champion Isaac Makwala.

Olympic champion Delilah Muhammad won the women’s 400 hurdles in 53.77, barely fending off a late charge from Commonwealth champ Janieve Russell, who lost by one hundredth of a second.

Defending Diamond League champion and local favorite Gong Lijiao won the women’s shot put with a throw of 19.99 meters, securing her fourth Shanghai Diamond League victory. Eight women threw 18-plus meters for the first time since the same meet in 2015.

Wycliffe Kinyamal set a personal best in the 800, out-sprinting fellow Kenyan Jonathan Kitilit on the home straight with a time of 1.43.91.

Countryman Timothy Cheruiyot kicked off a strong defense of his Diamond League title, winning the 1,500 with a world-leading 3:33.48.

Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen from Colombia won the women’s triple jump, and Mariya Lasitskene of Russia earned her 38th consecutive win in the women’s high jump.

Other winners include Luvo Manyongo of South Africa in men’s long jump, Lyu Huihui of China in women’s javelin, and Renaud Lavillenie of France in men’s pole vault.

The next Diamond League event is in Eugene, Oregon on May 25-26.

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On Stage in Manhattan Again, but He Still Has the Prince’s Number

By JAMES BARRON Steven Prescod has expanded the one-person show he performed for Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, when they visited New York in 2014. Published: February 25, 2018 at 09:00AM from NYT N.Y. / Region http://ift.tt/2oATMZZ via IFTTT