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What's up, guys?

Beija here for Complex News.

Game 1 of the 2017 NBA Finals took place last night, and while the Warriors walked away

with a 113-91 victory at Oracle Arena, a bigger storyline took place courtside between Rihanna

and Kevin Durant.

Rihanna is a diehard LeBron James fan, so naturally the 29-year-old pop star was rooting

for the Cavs to steal a Game 1 win.

This fact and her presence on the sideline turned into an entertaining narrative to watch

play out.

It all started when she apparently heckled Durant during a free throw attempt by yelling

"brick!"

Video from a different angle has since proved it wasn't Rihanna, but rather the woman sitting

next to her who tried to rattle KD at the line.

Regardless, fans on Twitter were amused by the moment.

Durant got revenge later in the game by hitting a three and locking eyes with RiRi:

Here's the shot from another angle:

After the game, Durant was asked about the stare down with Rihanna, and the Warriors

star denied it ever took place.

Props to Steph Curry for helping him address the situation that everyone is going to be

talking about until Game 2 on Sunday.

Rihanna wasn't too heartbroken after the loss.

In fact, she doubled down on LeBron and the Cavs' chances of winning the series.

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Global Ethics Forum: Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought - Duration: 27:08.

(soft music)

- Our speaker is James T. Kloppenberg,

and he is the Charles Warren Professor

of American History at Harvard

and teaches European and American intellectual history.

Today he will be discussing

his recently published magnum opus,

entitled Toward Democracy:

The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought.

- My history of democracy

in European and American thought

begins with Michel de Montaigne,

a French writer who lived during the wars of religion

that convulsed Europe throughout the 16th century.

From his chateau east of Bordeaux

in Southwestern France,

Montaigne could see the roaming bands

of Catholic and Protestant soldiers

that made life in the region

insecure for decades and sometimes made it a living hell.

If you visit Montaigne's chateau today,

you get a sense of the life that he lived.

In his study where he created the book of essays

that rank among the most important writings

of the early modern era,

you can still see painted on the beams of his ceiling

his watchwords, the words he lived by.

These include the words that he had inscribed

on a medal that he had cast for himself.

One side reads "Je m'abstiens"

or "I restrain myself"

and on the verso "Que sçais-je," "What do I know?"

Those qualities, restraint and humility,

lay at the heart of Montaigne's personal creed,

along with two other values,

his emphasis on autonomy or self-rule

and his ethic of reciprocity.

Those four values,

restraint, humility, autonomy, and reciprocity,

are central to my argument concerning

democracy as a way of life,

the conception of self-government

whose history I trace in Toward Democracy,

and that explains why I am so worried

about our current situation.

Some of these cultural preconditions are especially crucial.

Restraint, humility, and the ethic of reciprocity

are required if people are going to allow

their worst enemies to govern if they win an election.

That willingness is always fragile,

and it can be destroyed with disastrous consequences.

Think how rare those qualities have been.

Think how often elections in emerging democracies

just precipitate a new round of civil war

between rival ethnic groups,

or rival religious groups,

or groups inhabiting different regions

with different histories or traditions,

or groups loyal to a defeated leader.

The second principle of democracy

is a commitment to autonomy,

the independence of the individual

who internalizes and follows legal and ethical norms.

Without that commitment to autonomy,

majority rule is not enough

because any group of three can yield a majority of two

committed to enslaving the other one.

Yet all of these values,

restraint, humility, reciprocity, and autonomy,

like the principle of popular sovereignty itself,

are delicate and multidimensional cultural constructs,

internally unstable

and very difficult to fit together

using the blunt instrument of politics.

As if that weren't bad enough,

successful democracies depend on

preserving cultural resources

that the struggle to achieve democracy

erodes and sometimes destroys.

And to complicate matters further,

the successful achievement of democracy

has often unleashed forces

that can endanger the cultural resources

on which democracy depends,

a dynamic that we're watching play out in our own day.

The word democracy, as I'm sure many of you know,

descends from the Greek words for the people, the demos,

and power, kratos.

It has always meant popular government,

but for most of Western history

it has been a term of abuse,

not the almost universally accepted ideal

it has become in recent decades.

The word itself entered European discourse only in 1260

with the translation of Aristotle's Politics into Latin,

when the Dominican monks who were charged

with purifying Aristotle's pagan texts

invented the term democracia for popular government.

But widespread challenges to hierarchy

and to the rule of monarchy and aristocracy,

challenges that can properly be called democratic,

because they rested on new assertions about the capacity

of ordinary people,

such challenges emerged only in the 16th and 17th centuries,

when the ideas of Renaissance humanism

mingled with radical varieties of Christianity

to shake the foundations of European culture.

From the appearance of Thomas More's Utopia in 1516

to the peasant rebellions of the 1520s

and the rapid spread of Calvinism,

revolutionary ideas about the capacity of ordinary people

challenged prevailing practices of governance.

As religious warfare intensified

throughout Europe in the 16th century,

the contagious savagery that inspired

Montaigne's emphasis on restraint and humility

infected much of European culture.

The only alternative to endless carnage

appeared to be unchallengeable authority.

For that reason, the anti-democratic

ideas of royal absolutism

came to be the dominant force

in both the theory and the practice of politics.

Democracy in Europe and America

developed against the backdrop

of those murderous wars of religion

and the authoritarian regimes

that emerged to bring order to that chaos.

Early modern misgivings about popular government

have to be understood against the background

of violence perpetrated by ordinary people

against other ordinary people for more than a century.

I think that most scholars

have neglected that gruesome history

that lies behind the emergence of democracy,

a history of horrific violence,

and I think that's the reason why

we so complacently dismiss as elitism

the misgivings about democracy

that were expressed in the 17th and 18th centuries.

That might also explain why scholars today

fail to acknowledge just how revolutionary

the ideas and experiments

with limited or partial popular government were

in the context of those wars of religion.

American historians in the middle of the 20th century

took for granted that the story of America was,

among other things, a story of democracy.

Today, many American historians assume the opposite.

In one recent study, the only democratic communities

in early America are to be found aboard pirate ships.

It is now standard for historians of 18th-century America

to lament the shortcomings of the Revolution

and to treat the Constitution as a retreat from democracy.

I think those judgments are unbalanced.

The history of early America

contains a history of democracy,

and it's not a story of triumph,

but neither is it a fiction.

It is instead the history of struggles

between people with different

and often incompatible ideas

about autonomy, reciprocity,

authority, and community,

and, perhaps above all, about salvation.

In the early 17th century

few of those who engineered the institutions and practices

of popular government on either side of the Atlantic

thought of themselves as democrats.

They associated that idea with the absence of restraint,

with the degradation of government,

and with the indulgence of sin.

Even so, some of the first English settlers to North America

embraced for religious reasons the doctrine of self-rule

that had led them to emigrate from Anglican England

and establish their own communities of saints

in the harsh climate and isolation of New England.

Puritans such as Roger Williams and Thomas Hooker

set up self-governing colonies

in places like Providence and Hartford

to escape the authority of the Church of England

and that of people such as John Winthrop,

the governor of Massachusetts,

people who were just as firmly committed

to the idea of divine sovereignty

as Williams and Hooker

were to the idea of popular sovereignty.

It's sometimes forgotten

that some of the towns and colonies

established in the first half of the 17th century

self-consciously chose the word democracy

to describe the form of government

they were putting in place.

Whatever we might think of such colonies,

which excluded women from positions of authority

and permitted slave-owning,

these new settlements conceived of themselves

as democracies.

And I think we're missing something

if we fail to pay attention

to the reasons why they used that word.

Struggles developed within these colonies

almost immediately,

and important differences separated New England

from the colonies to their south.

But all of England's North American colonies

developed forms of self-rule

in their legislative assemblies,

even those that lacked

the particular institutions of town meeting

that were so pivotal in New England.

When Alexis de Tocqueville

visited the United States in the 1830s,

he called the New England town the cradle of democracy.

I think he was right.

At roughly the same time

that these New Englanders were experimenting

with forms of self-government in the 1630s and 1640s,

the ideas of religious dissenters back home

were plunging England into civil war.

The English Levellers, as they were called by their enemies,

argued for replacing monarchy

with forms of popular government

that were similar in important respects

to the experiments bubbling up across the Atlantic.

Whereas democrats in New England

became the leading figures of new colonies,

such as Providence and Hartford,

the ideas promulgated by the Levellers

led to the execution of King Charles I

and the bloody struggle in the English Civil War

that eventuated in the protectorate under Oliver Cromwell.

The Leveller leaders were imprisoned,

put to death,

or otherwise marginalized as dangerous radicals.

When the monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II,

the story of popular government in England

pretty much came to an end until,

well, until today,

when the monarchy, against all odds, is as popular as ever.

Not until the 20th century was the word democracy

used in mainstream English political life

as anything but an epithet.

My study of democracy provides

extensive analysis of the writings

of many prominent theorists and many less well-known people

who struggled to flesh out the meanings of democracy

as it developed over a long period of time

on both sides of the Atlantic.

I examined the staccato process

whereby ideas and proposals emerged and were debated,

experiments with democracy were conducted,

sometimes deliberately, sometimes inadvertently,

or for different purposes,

and the results were then assessed,

sometimes positively and just as often negatively.

To reiterate, radical ideas about self-rule,

ideas advanced in England by the Levellers,

by James Harrington, later by John Locke,

who was harried into exile,

and by Algernon Sidney, who was put to death,

those ideas were decisively rejected in England.

But in England's North American colonies

such ideas were not only embraced,

as they were by John Wise,

they were also institutionalized

and they were defended against royal authority.

Those were the ideas that later became the armature

of 18th-century American resistance to Britain.

In short, the seeds of America's democratic Revolution

were planted long before the 1760s and 1770s,

long before Alexander Hamilton met Aaron Burr.

Those seeds developed into different forms

depending on the institutional soil

and the cultural climates

prevailing in the different colonies,

but they all pointed in the direction of self-government.

The cluster of ideas characterized

as the 18th-century Enlightenment

certainly fed that process of growth.

My analysis of the Enlightenment

places America's democratic Revolution,

and perhaps even more controversially,

America's democratic Constitution,

in the framework of European ideas

that informed the Americans' thinking,

including the ideas of that notorious radical,

Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Rousseau was much more influential in America

than has been recognized,

and that's one of the principal arguments of my book.

When Rousseau proposed actual,

rather than hypothetical, constitutional arrangements,

as he did when he was invited

to write frameworks for Poland and for Corsica,

he envisioned regimes of representative democracy.

He intended his idea of the general will,

which is often caricatured

as a blueprint for totalitarianism,

merely to clarify the difference between the common good,

by definition, what is in the public interest,

and the momentary will of the majority,

which he called the will of all,

which has to be measured against something more permanent,

something more enduring,

something more like a constitution

than a public opinion poll.

The constitutions that Rousseau

proposed for Poland and Corsica

were more similar to than different from

those that emerged from the English colonies

that separated from Britain in 1776

and the document produced by the Constitutional Convention

in Philadelphia in 1787.

The templates for the United States Constitution

were forged during the years of the Revolution,

when each of the colonies either revised its charter

to establish its own form of democratic government

or wrote a new constitution.

In tribute to his indispensable contributions

to the debates that led up to this break from England,

it was John Adams who was selected

to write the constitution for Massachusetts,

which remains 237 years later

the fundamental law of the commonwealth,

and it was this document that became the template

for four of the other constitutions that were then written.

The constitution that Adams framed,

as he himself wrote proudly,

was "Locke, Sidney, and Rousseau reduced to practice."

Its purpose was to promote the general will.

Disagreements among Americans

ran deep in the 1780s.

There was widespread dissatisfaction

with the flimsy union created by the

Articles of Confederation

that prompted the calling of the Constitutional Convention

in 1787.

Scholars in the last century have disagreed

about how we should understand that Constitution

almost as vigorously as Americans disagreed over it

during the debates over ratification.

But I think the best studies

of recent years

show that the Constitution cemented, rather than betrayed,

the new nation's commitment to democracy.

The two leading architects of the Constitution,

James Madison of Virginia and James Wilson of Pennsylvania,

from first to last saw themselves

as working for the creation

of a democratic form of government.

But they believed that a democracy could survive

only if the dual dangers of democracy,

unrest leading to anarchy

or the reestablishment of tyranny,

only if both of those could be harnessed

by democratic means.

From Madison's perspective,

the various checks and balances of the federal plan,

and especially the various filters

that operated from the local to the state

and then the national government, would do just that.

Those institutions would provide,

as Madison put it in the first speech he gave

in the Constitutional Convention,

"The only defense against the inconveniences of democracy

"consistent with a democratic form of government."

This was Madison's first speech

at the Constitutional Convention.

"What we want," he says,

"is a form of government that provides a defense

"against the inconveniences of democracy

"consistent with a democratic form of government."

Representative democracy would ensure

that only those whom Madison called virtuous,

by which he meant people capable

of seeing beyond narrow self-interest to the common good,

only those people would be chosen to serve

in positions of authority.

One of the principal objectives of my book is to establish,

or I would say more accurately to reestablish,

the essentially democratic nature

of the American Revolution and the US Constitution.

For the first century after its ratification,

no one in the United States or Europe

doubted that the United States

was the first democratic nation.

I think we need to pay attention to the reasons

why they made that judgment

rather than assuming that we were right and they were wrong.

Few scholars have realized that in Pennsylvania

at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

Madison's principal ally, James Wilson,

wrote the most decisive and influential speeches

in favor of the Constitution

with a copy of Rousseau's Social Contract at his elbow.

The purpose of the Constitution,

as both Madison and Wilson said over and over,

was to secure justice through democracy.

They envisioned a form of government

that would not empower self-interested individuals

or enable majorities to form around particular interests,

but would instead provide the cultural resources

as well as the institutional framework

necessary to enable citizens of the new nation

to defend democracy against its dangers.

Representative democracy would provide the best means

to the end that Rousseau and Wilson

called the general will,

and that John Adams and Madison more often called

the common interest or the public good.

I've noted that de Tocqueville's analysis

of American democracy is important to my argument.

De Tocqueville owed deep debts

to his New England informants

during his stay in Boston,

and his conception of American democracy

depended on those New Englanders' own ethic of reciprocity,

a sensibility that they correctly understood

to be descended from earlier Christian

and classical republican ideals

and that they explained to Tocqueville

lay beneath the institution of the New England town meeting.

That sensibility was shared by Abolitionists,

by champions of women's rights,

such as Frederick Douglass,

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller.

The sensibility of those antebellum reformers

with its emphasis on the ethic of reciprocity

reached a crescendo in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln understood better than most of his contemporaries

the underlying premises of democracy,

and his words are just as powerful in 2017

as they were during his lifetime.

In one of his first public speeches

before the Young Men's Lyceum

in Springfield, Illinois, in 1838,

Lincoln condemned the brutal murder

of an innocent black man by a pro-slavery mob.

He warned that such lawlessness

threatened what Lincoln called

America's as yet undecided experiment,

testing the capability of a people to govern themselves.

Initially, Americans' shared animosity against Britain

had enabled Americans to project their hatreds outward.

But now, what Lincoln called

the basest principles of our nature

had returned in the crusade to preserve,

and even expand, slavery.

The passions being whipped up

on both sides of that struggle now endangered the nation.

Lincoln's own ideas about race

evolved painfully slowly over the rest of his life

until he reached a conviction

concerning the evil of slavery

that Frederick Douglass described

as zealous, radical,

and determined.

No matter how determined Lincoln became to end slavery,

he always tried to balance his own ideas

with his understanding

of the convictions of white Southerners.

In his first inaugural

he pleaded with the South not to secede

but instead to continue to debate slavery.

He concluded with the familiar appeal

to what he called the better angels of our nature,

the commitment to reciprocity,

the commitment violated by slavery,

that he thought all Americans could come to share

across the color line.

Even in the greatest of his speeches

at Gettysburg, and then in his second inaugural

when the outcome of the war had finally become clear,

Lincoln refused the gloating triumphalism

of most Northerners.

Instead, he pledged to bind up the nation's wounds,

to achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace

by acting with malice toward none and charity toward all.

For Lincoln, finishing the work of the war

did not mean continued violence,

vengeance, or retribution,

but the slow, steady work of rebuilding the nation

on a broader foundation of justice,

a foundation that would now include those so long excluded.

In the disheartening retreat

from democracy after the Civil War,

white Americans in the North as well as the South

revealed the depth of their racism.

They also revealed

that their commitment to the ethic of reciprocity

that was prized by the Whigs,

by de Tocqueville, and by Lincoln

was rooted in soil far too rocky to survive.

The wounds that opened

during the United States Civil War have not healed.

The divide between

the Confederacy and the Union

remains the principal cultural divide

in the United States today,

the divide that continues to shape our political discourse

and that threatens the ethic of reciprocity

in American democracy.

If you trace the lines

of the most vociferous criticism

of the 21st-century Democratic Party in general,

and of former President Barack Obama in particular,

those lines lead back to the Confederacy.

The Civil War had tragic and lasting consequences

for American democracy.

In its aftermath

the suffrage and civil liberties expanded in the North

and contracted in the South.

Slavery was abolished,

but forms of racial segregation

were reconfigured and reinvigorated

until the Civil Rights Movement at last

forced the nation to dismantle the regime of Jim Crow.

The American Civil War poisoned

the ethic of reciprocity on which democracy depends.

It sanctified the liberty of some individuals,

notably white men,

at the expense of others.

Like all civil wars,

it left a legacy of hatred and distrust

that has made further progress toward democracy

less likely rather than more likely

even today, a century and a half later.

Democracy begins in bloodshed

and it comes to life only through conflict.

In the Atlantic world from the 16th

through the end of the 19th century at least,

when that conflict has taken the shape of civil war,

it has meant if not the end,

then at least the indefinite suspension,

of the trust

on which democracy must rest.

Montaigne was right to emphasize

the importance of restraint and humility

as well as autonomy and reciprocity.

In the absence of those qualities,

he believed that individuals would prize freedom

only to dominate others

and democracy would be impossible.

In such circumstances

only absolute authority could ensure peace.

When we look at the history of democracy

in Europe and America,

it is apparent that the struggles to achieve self-government

have often generated conflicts

that have weakened the cultural conditions

necessary for democracy to survive.

In America our current culture of hyper-partisanship

tends to reinforce the destructive tendencies

toward self-righteousness,

dogmatism, and intolerance,

and to threaten the sensibilities

on which democracy depends.

To conclude with the title of my book's final chapter,

that dynamic has been the tragic irony of democracy.

(audience applauds)

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Wrong Head Crying with Mega Gummy bear Crying songs for kids Finger Family rhymes - Duration: 2:14.

Wrong Head Crying with Mega Gummy bear Crying songs for kids Finger Family rhymes

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Learn Colors with Play Doh Animal Rabbit Mold Fun,Creative For kids|How to Make Playdough Rabbit DIY - Duration: 3:27.

Learn Colors with Play Doh Animal Rabbit Mold Fun,Creative For kids|How to Make Playdough Rabbit DIY

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Rabbi Rhonda Shapiro Rieser — Smith College School for Social Work Spiritual Adviser - Duration: 4:13.

I'm Rabbi Rhonda Shapiro Reiser and I'm the spiritual consultant for the School

for Social Work, so I tend to spirits. I'm trained in interfaith spiritual

direction. I got my doctorate from a Catholic school that had a Protestant

president, and I had a Jewish dissertation adviser in a program that

offers a doctorate in Muslim studies, so I'm pretty adept at dealing with different

spiritual backgrounds. I also trained for two years as a mindfulness leader, so I

deal in spirituality not necessarily religion. Students, depending on the year,

kind of have different questions. Every student is individual, but if I were to give

an absolute generalization, first-year students need strength of spirit to see

if they can actually get through the summer. That's their main question.

Second-year students are not sure that this is their calling.

They have gone to their internship and they are filled with self-doubt even though

most of them are filled with the desire to continue to work. Third-year students

often wonder whether what they're doing is going to matter, and that's a big one

for them. So, those aren't the only questions that we explore, but those are

the questions for each group that come up most frequently. And then there are

issues of life and death, suffering, all of these are questions when you're doing

the work that come up. So I deal with those. Those are in individual counseling.

I do pastoral counseling, I don't do therapeutic counseling. I am a therapist

so I know the difference between the two. I am very willing to refer if somebody

has a psychological need, but a lot of the students just want someone to talk to.

I don't take notes, it's just you and me having a chat, and they can call me

anytime and I'll make arrangements to see them.

I do what I call holy fool programs, so my

big one is make-your-own-sundae day, and that is where we get ice cream and we're

outside of Scales on the patio, and staff and the deans serve the students ice

cream, and you can get whatever you want. There are no calories that day.

So that's one. The other one that I do is called bubble day, and I give students

little packages of bubbles, little jars of bubbles, so that they can blow

bubbles in class. I don't know how the professors feel about that,

but I feel that among bubbles are very spiritual items and are necessary

sometimes in the classroom, so we have bubble day.

And my big one is instant mastery, 3-minute mastery, which is very hard to

do in the school for social work. So I will bring half a dozen ukuleles and I will stand

outside the classroom building and as people come out I will draft people and

give them the ukulele and all you need is one chord that you can play with one

finger, and we do several rounds of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and that seems to make

everybody smile. Students will notice me at least once a week I'm at

Scales for either lunch or dinner, so I will just sit down to a table and see how

students are doing. I don't have an office but I do have an email address:

rshapiroreiser@smith.edu

There's going to be issues that come up

that are not just issues of the psyche they're also issues of the soul. And that

is what I am here for.

And I love working with students, so I'm very excited to start the summer.

For more infomation >> Rabbi Rhonda Shapiro Rieser — Smith College School for Social Work Spiritual Adviser - Duration: 4:13.

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Ремень для Коннера/Belt for Conner - Duration: 31:31.

For more infomation >> Ремень для Коннера/Belt for Conner - Duration: 31:31.

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Deaf Boys for Hoy - Duration: 9:01.

Hey, you get over there!

We are on a new team.

This is our first game!

Yeah!

We are Deaf and the players over there are hearing. Wow, it is a challenge to communicate with them.

It is no big deal. We just teach them sign language and they can learn as time goes by.

Yeah, true, true.

Yeah, I agree.

Absolutely!

I'm bored, no play.

Same here.

Why didn't three of us play baseball game?

I don't know.

Hey, can ask the coach.

We haven't played.

Well...

To be honest with you,

It is difficult for you to play because you can't hear.

Wait a minute, we don't need ears to play baseball!

We have sharp eyes that we can catch everything.

Deaf people are more skilled than hearing people.

Really?

Let me think about it.

Maybe next game you can play. Ok?

Just watch and learn from it. Alright?

Ok, fine.

I have an idea!

We can look at the computer and find a skilled Deaf baseball player.

That, that is who the most skillful Deaf player, it is William "Dummy" Hoy! Oh!

After running to first base, he dared to go ahead and stole second base then stole third base again!

Finally, he ran to home base helping the team to earn points! He helped the team to win!

Yeah! Yeah!

Good idea to point out.

Why don't we print and show to the coach that there was an outstanding Deaf baseball player.

Yeah, good idea!

We need to practice.

Yeah, let's go!

We must practice hard like Dummy Hoy!

Absolutely!

Remember, we viewed a movie how long time ago that Dummy Hoy practiced by using a wall with a

square on it that he practiced by throwing a ball to the target.

Now, we get to practice with this that we throw here.

Hey, so that is where the ball goes to this target.

Yes, indeed! Let's throw!

I would like to show you this.

His name is William "Dummy" Hoy. He has a reputation as an outstanding Deaf baseball player.

So there is a such thing that a Deaf baseball player existed!

Also, we had practiced.

We really want to play game.

Three of you, come here. You guys go!

These three Deaf boys faced a challenge with the hearing players. What was the challenge?

After the coach told the boy that they couldn't play baseball, what did they say to the coach?

True or False? Dummy Hoy stole 596 bases.

True or False?

How did the Deaf baseball players convince the coach to let them play baseball?

What does discrimination mean?

How did the coach discriminate the deaf players?

The challenge was communication.

One of the boys said that we don't need ears to play baseball.

We have sharp eyes that we can easily detect more than hearing people.

How did the boys convince the coach?

They printed the information to show the coach a skilled deaf baseball player named Dummy Hoy.

They had a heated discussion and finally, it was resolved.

It is true that Dummy Hoy stole 596 bases.

Discrimination means denying opportunities just because of their deafness, disability like wheelchair users, blind people, etc.

Also, skin color (race), and religion.

How the boys were discriminated? They were denied the opportunity to play just because they couldn't hear.

For more infomation >> Deaf Boys for Hoy - Duration: 9:01.

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Play Doh Lollipops Learning Colors for Childrens|How To Make Giant Play Doh Lollipops|PlayDoh Guides - Duration: 1:56.

Play Doh Lollipops Learning Colors for Childrens|How To Make Giant Play Doh Lollipops|PlayDoh Guides

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Obamas Purchase DC Rental House for $8.1M - Duration: 0:54.

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Jefferson Parish Officials Prepare For Hurricane Season - Duration: 1:48.

HURRICANE

SEASON.

OUR REPORT WAS AT THE PARISH

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER

WHERE OFFICIALS TALKED ABOUT

THEIR PLANS.

REPORTER: PARISH PRESIDENT SAYS

JEFFERSON PARISH IS PREPARED

MORE NOW THAN EVER FOR HURRICANE

SEASON.

TODAY WE GOT A CHANCE TO SEE AND

HEAR WHY IT IS HE FEELS THAT

WAY.

>> OUR DRAINAGE SYSTEM IS ONE OF

THE VERY BEST AROUND.

AND WE HAVE STORM-PROOFED ALL OF

OUR MAJOR PUMP STATIONS TO WITH

STAND CATEGORY THREE HURRICANES.

REPORTER: JEFFERSON PARISH

LEADERS AND PARTNERS ALL SPOKE

ON IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO THE

PARISH'S EMERGENCY PLAN AS WE

EMBARK UPON HURRICANE SEASON,

2017.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS

EXPECTING AN ABOVE NORMAL

SEASON.

ALL SYSTEMS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

ARE IN PLACE TO MONITOR STORMS

AND THIS YEAR SOME NEW THINGS

WILL BE ENACTED TO BETTER WARN

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

>> THE TWO MOST EXCITING ARE THE

STORM SURGE WATCH AND WARNING.

THEY WILL NOW BE ACCOMPANIED BY

TEXT DESCRIPTIONS AND THEY'LL

ALSO BE, IN THE CASE OF THE

STORM SURGE WARNING, TONE

ALERTED ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO

AND ALSO THROUGH THE WIRELESS

EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM.

REPORTER: WHEN IT COMES TO FLOOD

PROTECTION, SEALA AND EAST

JEFFERSON LEVEE DISTRICTS SAY

LEVEES, FLOOD GATES AND FLOOD

WALLS ON THE PARISH'S EAST AND

WEST BANKS HAVE ALL BEEN

INSPECTED AND ARE ALL READY FOR

THE SEASON.

>> WE'RE CONFIDENT IN OUR SYSTEM

BUT WE URGE EVERYBODY TO TAKE

THEIR OWN PRECAUTIONS IN

PREPARATION FOR THE STORM SEASON

AND TO LISTEN TO EVERYTHING THAT

THEIR LOCAL OFFICIALS HAVE TO

SAY.

REPORTER: THEY ENCOURAGE

JEFFERSON PARISH RESIDENTS TO

VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR EMERGENCY

PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION AND TO

TAKE TIME TO SIGN UP NOW FOR THE

EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM CALLED

J.P. ALERT.

YOU CAN FIND LINK TOS TO BOTH ON

For more infomation >> Jefferson Parish Officials Prepare For Hurricane Season - Duration: 1:48.

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Amanda Holden strips to lingerie for red hot shoot with Alesha Dixon - Duration: 2:47.

Amanda Holden strips to lingerie for red hot shoot with Alesha Dixon

The Britains Got Talent beauties have teamed up for a cover shoot of sizzling proportions for Fabulous magazine. Posing against a plain white backdrop, the hotties stripped down to skimpy outfits and draped themselves over each other.

Amanda wore a black thong and strapless bra, with a see-through one-piece draped over the top.

She stood side on with a hand on her hip, rocking a scarlet manicure and diamond jewellery. Her golden tresses tumbled around her shoulders in loose curls and she sported an enviable bronzed glow.

In the makeup stakes, the 46-year-old teamed a nude pout with arched eyebrows, fake lashes and a sweep of highlighter across her cheekbones. Meanwhile, Alesha opted for a tiny crop top and an embellished miniskirt that showed off her endless pins.

She rocked statement earrings and wore her raven tresses slicked back behind her ears. Some killer contouring to accentuate her cheekbones topped off the look, alongside a lick of body oil.

Both babes looked every bit the lean, mean, pouting machines as they smouldered into the camera.

In the accompanying interview they discussed stripping off, simmering tensions and Simon Cowell – which seems timely considering todays backlash. Ofcom received a whopping 216 complaints for Amandas latest daring ensemble, which was 90% cleavage.

Meanwhile, fans on social media blasted the yummy mummy, branding the look inappropriate for a family show.

For more infomation >> Amanda Holden strips to lingerie for red hot shoot with Alesha Dixon - Duration: 2:47.

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Dozens gather at prayer vigil for 2 killed near Kinston housing complex - Duration: 0:55.

THIS MORNING

DOZENS OF PEOPLE

GATHERED TO

REMEMBER TWO MEN...

SHOT AND KILLED THIS

WEEK.

THE MURDERS

HAPPENED OUTSIDE THE

"MITCHELL WOOTEN"

APARTMENT COMPLEX ON

WEDNESDAY.

POLICE SAY A 15-

YEAR-OLD WAS

ARRESTED AND CHARGED

IN THE CASE.

ONE OF THE VICTIMS'

MOTHERS SAYS THE

VIOLENCE NEEDS TO

STOP.

SHE HOPES THE

COMMUNITY REMEMBERS

HER SON IN A POSITIVE

WAY.

"he wanted to go into the

military...

He was to meet with a

recruiter on monday, he

didn't want to go to a four

year college because he

didn't want his children to

have to rely on government

assistance.

he wanted to provide...

And he wanted to give them

the chance that he had.

KINSTON POLICE SAY

THEY'RE WORKING ON

SEVERAL INITIATIVES TO

PREVENT RETALIATION

AND LOWER THE CITY'S

CRIME RATE.

THIS MEANS PAIRING

UP WITH THE "LENOIR

COUNTY SHERIFF'S

OFFICE," THE "S-B-I," "A-

L-E" AND OTHER

ORGANIZATIONS.

A MAN CHARGED WITH

KILLING HIS FOUR-

For more infomation >> Dozens gather at prayer vigil for 2 killed near Kinston housing complex - Duration: 0:55.

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It's a Great Day for Pam and Her New CR-V Touring! - Duration: 0:37.

Hi, I'm Pam Smith

I just bought a brand new Honda CR-V Touring

and I love it!

It's got wonderful features,

much better than what my Volkswagen had.

So, I'm excited to start driving around in it.

The sales people have been absolutely marvellous.

I love to shop locally, we just live around the corner.

So we can walk over here for anything that

we need and they guarantee that they will

keep us happy no matter what

and they give us the best deal.

My husband went to every dealership in the

Lower Mainland to see if he could get a better deal

Couldn't get a better deal than what we got

here, so we're happy campers.

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