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{"text": "Audio::TagLib::ID3v2::TextIdentificationFrame - An ID3v2 text identification frame implementation\nuse Audio::TagLib::ID3v2::TextIdentificationFrame; my $i = Audio::TagLib::ID3v2::TextIdentificationFrame->new( new(Audio::TagLib::ByteVector->new(\"TALB\"), \"UTF8\"); $i->setText(Audio::TagLib::String->new(\"blah blah\")); print $i->toString()->toCString(), \"\\n\"; # got \"blah blah\".\nConstruct an empty frame of type $type. Uses $encoding as the default text encoding.\nNOTE In this case you must specify the text encoding as it resolves the ambiguity between constructors.\nThis is a dual purpose constructor. $data can either be binary data that should be parsed or (at a minimum) the frame ID.\nDestroys this TextIdentificationFrame instance..\nsee Audio::TagLib::ID3v2::Frame\nReturns the text encoding that will be used in rendering this frame. This defaults to the type that was either specified in the constructor or read from the frame when parsed.\nsee setTextEncoding()\nsee render()\nSets the text encoding to be used when rendering this frame to $encoding.\nsee textEncoding()\nsee render()\nReturns a list of the strings in this frame.."}
{"text": "The Atlantic Ocean was dumping an uncommon barrage of 8-foot, near-freezing bombs along the beaches of Northern New Jersey on March 4, 2002. That same day, 28-year-old Daniel Fraunhofer of Clifton, NJ, decided to cut work short and head to Spring Lake, just north of Manasquan, and brave the conditions alone on his 9’6″. What exactly happened after that, nobody is certain. What we do know is it was the last day Daniel would ever surf — and the first day of a ridiculous controversy.With no real initial investigation, Danny’s friends and family opted to quietly put him to rest, assuming that he suffered a blow to the head in the risky conditions. Now, over a year after the tragedy, Fraunhofer’s widow and her lawyer, Gerald Clark, claim that a strike to the noggin was not what killed Daniel, but the fact that his leash had snapped sometime during his session, leaving him with no option other than swimming. Of course, their claims come with big dollar signs attached and they are gearing up to sue the company that manufactured Daniel’s leash, Stay Covered, and the surf shop that sold it to him, Eastern Lines in Belmar, NJ.\n“We have been conducting an intensive investigation including consulting with top-notch experts,” Gerald Clark says. “We have concluded Danny drowned because his leash broke, his surfboard washed into shore and he was left stranded with nothing to float onto.”\nPaul Mulshine of The Star Ledger in Newark, NJ, wrote a July 10 article on the controversy surrounding Danny’s death and says Clark is ignoring the simple dynamics of surfing. “Nothing to float on?” Mulshine writes. “Human beings float … the typical surfer finds it simple to body-surf to shore after losing his board.”\nAnd Mulshine isn’t the only one shaking his head over this lawsuit. In fact, Pat O’Neill, the son of legendary wetsuit innovator Jack O’Neill and the man credited as the innovator of the surf leash, feels that Fraunhofer’s widow and her lawyer are grossly missing the point.\n“The thing is kinda like ski-stops, not a life preserver,” Pat says. “It’s more dangerous getting drug over the falls and through the duration of the wave than loosing your board all together and having to swim. Besides, if the guy didn’t have enough strength to swim on his own out there he shouldn’t have been surfing that day “\n“If this suit succeeds, Fraunhofer’s widow and her lawyer could profit from [Daniel’s] mistakes,” Mulshine says. “It’s impossible to build a leash that will never break, just as it’s impossible to build a plane that will never crash.” — Andrew Lewis\nStay Covered and Eastern Lines were not able to comment on this issue. For Paul Mulshine’s full article from The Star Ledger, log on to:"}
{"text": ".\nThe Senior Product Designer (SPD) is at the center of our product development process leading the design of simple and delightful user experiences around highly complex data and processes. The SPD collaborates with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and other designers to launch initiatives that create value and improve user experience. The SPD is responsible for concepts, facilitating research, prototyping, and defining visual design. The SPD shows demonstrable leadership, defining the operating structures, facilitating training and providing mentorship, and incorporates their deep understanding of our platform and industry.\nWhile we're based on the westside of Los Angeles, we are open to hiring remotely (within the US) for this role.\nWhat you'll do\n- User Research: Engage with users, plan and execute research studies, and leverage data and evidence to make confident design decisions.\n- Problem Solving: Design end-to-end user experiences through collaborative brainstorming, user journeys, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished visual design comps using Sketch or other tools.\n- Build High-Quality Products: Partner with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to design user experiences from conception to launch. Lead broader design initiatives, such as creating future visions for upcoming products, services, and features.\n- Cross-team Collaboration: Present work and communicate design decisions to stakeholders with confidence and clarity to gather feedback, iterate on and refine design solutions\n- Leadership: Help to grow our team by serving as a mentor and helping the team deliver the highest quality. Implement procedures, training, and workflows for driving efficiency and creating leverage for the team.\n- Ability to travel 1-2 times per year for all staff or team gatherings (once we resume travel).\nWho we're looking for\n- 5+ years as a UX/UI/Product Designer building best-of-class digital products.\n- A strong portfolio demonstrating direct contribution to shipment of 2 or more products successfully with clear metrics on how solutions drove user and/or business outcomes.\n- Experience across the full product development cycle: from ideation and strategy to hands-on implementation.\n- Team leadership experience, through management and/or mentoring of others.\n- Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills.\n- Willing to provide and receive constructive feedback.\nBonus Points\n- Experience working with remote design, and development teams.\n- Experience designing mobile applications for B2C and B2B software.\n- Experience building a product from ground zero or working at an early-stage startup.\n- Experience working with warehousing, logistics, or ERP software.\n- A BFA or MFA with studies in the fields of interaction design, UX, visual design, and/or Human-computer interaction (preferred but not required).\nBenefits:\n• Meaningful equity in a venture backed start-up\n• Competitive Salary\n• Medical, vision, dental, life insurance\n• 401K Matching\n• A clear success path within the company. We want you to grow and lead with us.\nRead Full Job Description"}
{"text": "Gold Reserve Announces Amendment to Tender Offer Notice of Right of Repurchase for 5.50% Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2022 and Proposed Restructuring for Noteholders\nJun 01, 2012, 17:16 ET\nSPOKANE, WA, June 1, 2012 /CNW/ -.\nIn the event that the Restructuring is not approved by the shareholders, in lieu of the transaction described above, the June 15, 2012 Noteholder put option (the \"Put Option\") will be deferred until September 14, 2012 for Holders, including the three largest Noteholders, that have made the Alternative Election and the terms of the Notes subject to the Alternative Election will be amended in certain other respects as described in the Amended Notice.\nAssuming that all Notes other than those held by the three largest Holders are surrendered for repurchase, then together with the maximum principal amount of $12.7 million of Notes that are to be surrendered by the three largest Holders in connection with the Put Option, the Company anticipates that it will utilize a maximum of $40.6 million of cash and, depending on the election of the Holders, may issue from 11.4 million to 13.2 million common shares to repurchase the Notes in connection with the restructuring.\nIn order to surrender the Notes for repurchase pursuant to the Put Option, Holders must deliver a Repurchase Notice to The Bank of New York Mellon, as successor in interest to the Bank of New York, the Trustee and paying agent for the Notes under the Indenture, no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 15, 2012. Holders of Notes complying with the transmittal procedures of The Depository Trust Company need not submit a physical Repurchase Notice to The Bank of New York Mellon. Holders may withdraw any Notes previously surrendered for repurchase pursuant to the Put Option at any time no later than 5 p.m., EDT, on June 15, 2012.\nHolders that wish to elect the Alternative Election must deliver a letter of transmittal no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 29, 2012 pursuant to the instructions in the Amended Notice.\nPursuant to the Indenture, the Notes are currently convertible into 132.626 shares of the Company's common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustment under certain circumstances.\nThe Company will make available to Holders, through The Depository Trust Company, documents specifying the terms, conditions and procedures for surrendering and withdrawing Notes for repurchase. Holders are encouraged to read these documents carefully before making any decision with respect to the surrender of the Notes, because these documents contain important information regarding the details of the Company's obligation to repurchase the Notes.\nAnnual and Special Shareholders Meeting\nAt the annual and special shareholders meeting scheduled to be held on June 27, 2012, the Board of Directors and management of the Company will recommend shareholders approve the Restructuring. Members of the Board and management intend to vote all of the Company's shares held by them in favor of the Restructuring. In connection with these transactions, members of the Board and management have also agreed to a one time waiver of rights under their Change of Control and Retention Units Agreements that would contractually arise as a result of a party acquiring more than 25% of the Company's shares. Shareholders of record on May 21, 2012 will be receiving a Management Information Circular shortly that will describe the Restructuring in more detail, as well as other matters including an amendment and continuance of the Company's Shareholder Rights Plan.\nDoug Belanger, President stated \"This transaction will minimize to the extent practicable shareholder dilution and management and the Board of Directors recommend that shareholders approve this transaction and will be voting their own shares in favor of this transaction. This transaction is good for all stakeholders in that it rationalizes the capital structure of the Company, with greater certainty going forward, while dealing with the refinancing of $102.5 million in convertible debt that can be put to the Company on June 15, 2012.\"\nHolders of Notes are urged to read the Amended Notice, letters of transmittal and related offer materials when they become available because they contain important information. An amendment to our Tender Offer Statement, which includes the offer materials, is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\") today. The Amended Notice,.\"\nFor further information:\nCompany Contact\nA. Douglas Belanger, President\n926 W. Sprague Ave., Suite 200\nSpokane, WA 99201 USA\nTel. (509) 623-1500"}
{"text": "Wanna Run Your Car On Water Right NOW?\nTo run your car on water, you'll need a good guide. The one we recommend the most is Water Car Pro, because it is easy to follow, well researched, and is constantly being updated.\nSince about the beginning of 2008, the \"run your car on water\" niche has attracted a LOT of attention very quickly. It's not surprising that people are so keen to convert their cars. Gas prices are going up very fast, and there are people all over the US protesting about gas prices. Something NEEDS to be done.\nUnfortunately, there are already quite a few junk products out there, from people that just feel like cashing in on this new market. Our favourite guide to help you convert your car is Water Car Pro since it is straight to the point and contains no BS.\nPS: If you would like to contact me, you can do so at my personal address:\nclassydebra51114@gmail.com\nThanks."}
{"text": "There are a number of government personal loans available for everything from paying for a college education, to obtaining financing to buy a home. There are even some government loans which are designed to help a small business owner fund the venture through fixed or low interest rate loans. In addition, there are many government grants that never have to be repaid. Following are some of the different types of government loans and grants and a few tips on how to apply for them.\nGovernment Education Loans\nThe Federal Government provides assistance for students who would like to go to college and cannot afford to pay for it. The Perkins Loan is designed to assist financially challenged undergraduates, as well as graduates, obtain funding to help pay the many costs associated with getting a college education. This loan comes with a fixed interest rate of 5% and typically does not require repayment until the student has been out of school for at least 6 months. To apply for a Perkins Loan, the student can either go online and fill out a free application at the FAFSA website, or visit the guidance office of whatever financial institution they will be attending, to request assistance applying for this loan, as well as information on other grants that may be available.\nSmall Business Government Loans\nSBA loans, which are also known as 7(a) loans, are available to people who are looking for funding in order to get a small business off the ground, or sustain it until profits can be realized. While these loans are known as small business government loans, they are not technically given by the government, but are guaranteed through the government. A person must visit a lender who offers this type of financing in order to apply for it. There are many lenders who participate in this loan program and typically the requirements for application are as follows. The business must be a for profit business, meet certain requirements in terms of size, lack means of internal financing, and show an ability to repay the loan in the appropriate amount of time. In some cases collateral may be asked for, in addition to a statement of personal history for the business owner.\nGovernment Grants\nIn addition to government loans which are available to assist people or businesses with funding resources, there are also a number of grants that are available for the same purpose. The only difference is that grants do not need to be repaid, provided the money is used according to the specified purpose. The easiest way to apply for any type of government grant is to visit the government website directly. There is a lot of information available on the many different types of grants, as well as the criteria that is required in order to obtain one of them. There are even grants available to assist people who are ill in paying for their medical bills. In addition, a person may be able to qualify for a grant in order to help pay of a government home loan.\nGovernment Loan Consolidation Programs\nGovernment loan consolidation is most common among students who would like to group all of their government loans together, in order to realize just one monthly payment with one interest rate. The department of education offers these programs to students who owe money on more than one government loan at a time. To apply for one of these loan consolidation programs offered by the government, there is an application that may be filled out online by visiting the Department of Education website, or a student may opt to go directly to the guidance office of his/her college for assistance in applying."}
{"text": "Campground Review:\nTechnically, this area is not a managed or maintained camping area, and like most remote beaches in Alaska it's first come, first served but you're not likely to have much competition. This spot is located in beautiful Prince William Sound, approximately an hour boat ride from Whittier, Alaska. We set up camp where the beach meets the wooded area As always, it is up to campers to keep the areas free of garbage and pack in/pack out everything. Don't forget to bring along a little shovel to, ahem, bury your personal business and TP. Remember that the tide differential can be huge, so don't let your boat get stranded while exploring the area.\n**************************************************************************\nProduct Review:\nAs a Ranger for The Dyrt, I am occasionally provided with products to test. We recently tested the Midland EX210VP E+Ready Bundle and ML500 LED Lantern with two of the harshest critics around– our 3 and 7 year olds.\nEX210VP E+Ready Bundle – The items in this bundle are a pair of X-Talker T31 walkie talkies and the ER210 emergency weather alert crank radio. The walkie talkies were slightly smaller than others we’ve owned in the past, but they ended up being perfect for our kiddos and felt comfortable in the adults’ hands. The compact size means they fit perfectly in backpacks and jacket pockets, and can also attach via plastic clips. Often my husband will take one of the kids for a canoe ride and exploration in a nearby bay or cove and I’ll stay to beachcomb or hike with the other child, so it’s nice to have an option for keeping in touch while we’re separated, especially since we’ve encountered black bears and other wildlife in the past. Cell service is practically nonexistent in many parts of Alaska so we can’t always rely on our phones.\nI was most excited about the crank radio and it didn’t disappoint! First of all, it’s not heavy and pretty compact - about the size of a little camcorder. My kids loved the flashlight aspect and fought over whose turn it was to hold it. My husband loved the fact that it’s a NOAA weather band radio and he was able to easily access the sea forecast(does that weird computer voice creep anyone else out?) It took a bit of cranking before we could begin charging up a cell phone through the USB cord, but I’m happy as long as we have that capability. And if the battery or crank fail, you still have the option of running the device via solar power.\nML500 LED Lantern – The light output on this is great, although we really didn’t need it since southcentral Alaska is currently seeing 21 hours of functional daylight. My daughter dropped the device on the some jagged beach rocks at low tide and the lantern still worked perfectly, even if the exterior plastic saw a few scuffs. The metal loop is perfect for hanging from the top of the tent. A wide base means it’s stable in a boat, camper, or on the picnic table. And yay for warranties, this is for one year. We didn’t need to run the lantern for long periods of time, but Midland says it’s good for 65/19 hours of illumination at low/high settings, respectively. Cons: This is very minor, but I do wish the lantern had come stocked with the three D batteries required to power the device. I realize Midland most likely went this route to lower the total cost of the light- a set of just two D batteries at our local store runs about $11.\nOverall I’d highly recommend all of these products from Midland. Our items were all color coordinated (red and black) which is kind of nice. We frequently camp with our young children on remote islands and areas only reachable by boat, so it appeals to my mom sensibilities to have gear that is reliable and can be used in a safety/communication capacity as well as for fun."}
{"text": "Literary agent Whitley Abell will help writers gear up for the Publish Your Dreams contest by explaining the do's and dont's of writing query letters at the St. Louis Writers Guild (SLWG) workshop. Whitley, who joined Inklings Literary Agency in 2013, will also talk about what agents look for in submissions.\n314-822-58."}
{"text": "Angels from the realms of glory,\nWing your flight o’er all the earth\nYe who sang creations story,\nNow proclaim messiah’s birth\nI am getting in the Christmas spirit and wanted to make something with fabric using angels as my theme. This little fabric book was created using fabric images of old vintage angel postcards. I added all sorts of vintage hankies, antique laces, hand sewn beads, mother of pearl buttons, and silver snowflake charms throughout.\nThis book is available in my Etsy shop: etsy.com/shop/sugarlumpstudios\nWow i’d love to make a fabric book….have made fabric covers but not an entire book….love it Nancy x\nI hope to find time this winter to make a fabric book.\nI will be delighted if it comes out to be a quarter of what you’ve made.\nHugs\nBeautifully ethereal. Love the laces and angels…\nLove the angel theme, I’m drooling over this it’s sooo beautiful Nancy,\nHugs\nRobyn\nJust beautiful Nancy, I love every page! Hugs and happy Thanksgiving! Marilou\nWords aren’t enough to describe this unbelievably beautiful book, Nancy–it’s absolutely exquisite!\nI´ve missed my words Nancy.\nYour fabric book is very very beautiful.\nPretty girls in it. Stunning work.\nHave a lovely sunday my dear friend. xoxo\nGorgeous Nancy! Your fabric book is beyond gorgeous really! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! xxoo Marilyn\nGorgeously dreamy creation. So very delicate and pretty. penny\nThis is delightful, Nancy!\nWhat a fantastic fabric book. I love it.\nHave a nice weekend my friend.\nHugs\nMARTINA\nTruly scrumptious! Such beautiful images, fabrics, lace and pearly buttons. It’s a dream, Nancy.\nOh how I love the book. It is beautiful!\nit’s sooo beautiful! truly!\nI love your fabric boook….stunning!!!:))\nbeatiful laces and pictures:))\nxox\nGuriana:)\nStunning! Your art work always lifts me up.\nOh this is so beautiful Nancy, such a precious book, created with dreamy images and beautiful exquisite fabric and lots of love. its perfect\nhugs June x\nSo beautiful Nancy!! I love that yummy vintage feel!!Hugs,Cat\nHelt underbart ljuvligt!\nThis is such a beautiful item. All the detail and love that has gone into making it shines through. A lovely way to use wonderful linens."}
{"text": "Sold Individually\n525015 Four Foot 1/2-in Yellow Coated Stainless Steel Flexible Hose Connector\nYellow coating provides additional corrosion protection along the lenght of the connector\nFlow capacity natural BTU's 60500\nFlow capacity LP BTU's 96800\nTo ensure you choose the correct replacement part for your grill, we recommend removing the original part and comparing it to what we list. You can also check your owner's manual to make sure this part will work with your grill."}
{"text": "« BACK TO ORAL HISTORIES\nJames Palmer\nInterview Location: University Park, PA\nInterviewer: Archer Taylor\nCollection: Archer Taylor Technical Collection\nNote: Audio Only\nTAYLOR: We are interviewing Jim Palmer in his lovely home in State College, Pennsylvania, and we are going to explore the history of C-COR Electronics and proceed from there. Let's start with your family background--where you were born, your education, how did you get into engineering, and so on.\nPALMER: My family is from Nebraska. Both pairs of grandparents homesteaded in Nebraska, so I'm a Nebraskan from way back. My mother and father were both born in Nebraska ... father on the homestead property. My mother was born in a sod house, in north central Nebraska. She is still living ... ninety-nine years old and living in her home in Kearney, Nebraska, where I have provided round-the-clock care for her. Her mind is in pretty good shape part of the time. I was a product of the Depression. Remember the dust storms and the problems of those days? I'm somewhat frugal in many of my activities, and I think that really helped in building a company.\nI went to schools in Elmcreek and North Platte and graduated from high school in Kearney in 1941. I graduated a year ahead of Peter G. Peterson, also from that high school. I had a Regent Scholarship to the University of Nebraska. Otherwise, I could not have afforded the $50 tuition. I also worked to pay my living and other expenses. My last job was with American District Telegraph, where I was night operator and guard from midnight until 8 a.m. I worked forty-eight hours one week and fifty-two hours the next week. That year I got higher grades than I did my freshman year when I received an award for highest freshman scholarship in the College of Engineering.\nIn June 1943 there was a great exodus for the service. I enlisted in both the Army and the Navy. The Navy called me up first and sent me to Iowa State. I was allotted four semesters in the Navy V-12 program. So by taking 21 credit hours per semester, I would be able to get my BSEE at Iowa State. The first semester there I was battalion commander since I had two years of ROTC at Nebraska. The last semester I was regimental commander. I graduated from Iowa State with a grade point of 3.95. I got a \"B\" in electronics from John D. Ryder, of quite some fame, in electrical engineering ... IRE and IEEE.\nIn October of 1944, I was sent to Columbia (New York City) Midshipman School, where I graduated as an ensign. I went from there to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, for three months of officer electronics training. I then went to MIT Radar School for four months. By that time all the shooting was over. VJ and VE days had passed and I was assigned as the electronics officer aboard a destroyer in the East China Sea. I had a nice shopping trip to China, Shanghai, Qingdao, Okinawa, Taku Bar that served Beijing.\nOut of the Navy, I went to work for General Electric ... had offers for both GE and Westinghouse. I couldn't really differentiate between the two, but GE offered me $5 more a month which was not the criteria, but the only perceived difference. So I went to work in Schenectady in test and in the advanced engineering program which was quite a coup. They really taught you to think and to think in terms of problem solving.\nI worked for General Electric for five years ending up in switchgear in Philadelphia. I was involved as project manager to develop a mechanical rectifier--a rectifier with contacts that opened and closed 60 times a second to convert AC to DC, which was successful. About that time solid state rectifiers came along, which were about as efficient as a mechanical rectifier with a lot less complexity.\nTAYLOR: Could you put an approximate date on that?\nPALMER: That would be 1948.\nTAYLOR: When were you and Barbara married?\nPALMER: We married in 1948.\nTAYLOR: This was in Philadelphia?\nPALMER: In Philadelphia. Salaries at General Electric had fallen way behind what they should have been, and I went to work for United Engineers and Constructors. Worked as an electrical engineer on the design of a polyvinyl monomer plant for Monsanto and on Gary Steel Works coal chemical facility for U.S. Steel. I didn't like the commuting to the center of Philadelphia so I looked for another job ... one with new interests and new directions.\nI was attached to a position at Haller, Raymond and Brown, an electronics military R&D company, in State College, Pennsylvania ... a beautiful community. It certainly got away from the traffic and the congestion in Philadelphia. That move was 1953 and we've been in State College ever since.\nAt Haller, Raymond and Brown--now HRB Systems--I was a project engineer on a transmission system to transmit radar displays to remote locations over telephone lines using mechanical devices to make the translation. I also did a study for the Signal Corps of communication and navigation systems for Army aircraft. The Army had more aircraft than the Air Force did ... the Grasshopper, the Beaver and helicopters. That gave me an interest in flight that I didn't have before, although my father was a pilot in the First World War This was a propeller that he broke in 1919 [pointing to a broken propeller hanging on the wall].\nTAYLOR: I was wondering about that ... interesting.\nPALMER: Taxiing in a field of leaves, probably at Moffett Field, there was a ditch he didn't see and the plane nosed over. Busted the prop and he kept it.\nTAYLOR: That was a long time ago, I take it.\nPALMER: Yes, 1919.\nTAYLOR: For goodness sake. Was he injured?\nPALMER: No. Probably the only problem was the broken prop. They would have checked out the crank shaft to make sure that it was true.\nAfter a year or so at HRB, the technical director and Walt Brown called me in and asked if I wouldn't look after a little organization that they had started on the side. I would be general manager and they would pay me in stock. This outfit was Community Engineering Corporation, which had one full-time employee, two part-time employees, and a negative equity of $10,000. Obviously, if I could have read a balance sheet, I wouldn't have taken the job, but I couldn't, so ...\nTAYLOR: Can you put a date on that?\nPALMER: That's 1954. I started with HRB in October '53 and this exchange took place in December of 1954, which I marked as my entrance into the cable television industry. I became general manager of that operation. Sometime in early '56 we decided that I was spending forty hours a week on this part-time job and forty hours on my other job ... I should go full time. We went up and down the streets of State College selling stock to our friends and neighbors and I went full time. I became president and was stuck with it for the next thirty-one years.\nTAYLOR: This was Community Equipment Company at that time, which was known as Engineering ...\nPALMER: Community Engineering Corporation.\nTAYLOR: Also known as CECO.\nPALMER: There was some problem using \"engineering\" in the name because none of those other guys were professional engineers, although they were all PhD's. I was a registered engineer. In fact, I was registered in five states at that time, at United Engineers and Constructors. But we had trademark problems with \"CECO\" which we had shortened our name to for use on our literature and products. There were many companies with the name CECO. The one that came down on us was Century Lighting who had trademarked CECO for a system of lights for the broadcast industry. They thought there would be a chance for confusion and they were going at us with a vengeance ... and they were serious!\nSo, we coined the name \"C-COR\" ... just a pure coinage. It maintained the same place in the alphabet and got a listing generally in the first of the \"C's\". It was clear from a copyright standpoint. So we proceeded to change our name to C-COR Electronics, Inc. To trademark it, service mark it--those things to give us protection. We proceeded to make C-COR stand for quality ... quality electronic equipment, quality amplifiers.\nTAYLOR: I can certainly say that was successful, what I've seen in my experience. How did Centre Video get started? Was this about simultaneous with your getting into Community Engineering?\nPALMER: The same gentlemen that started Community Engineering started a company called Central Pennsylvania Corporation to get a license for television broadcasting in 1947, '48, '49. They were unsuccessful in getting a TV license. I am inferring that since they had this corporation and some of the money raised, they said, \"Oh, maybe we ought to get into cable television.\" So they built a cable system in Bellefonte which had early Jerrold equipment. It was a one channel system and probably dates from 1949.\nAnother group of people, overlapping personalities, built a cable system in State College called State College Television Cable Company. Walt Brown was involved with that ... with the antenna site on top of his house, which was on a higher portion of State College and, also, fairly central.\nThere was another company called Centre Video Corporation which was incorporated, again, by some of these same players. With its initial business as a distributer for Jerrold equipment--to sell, service, install Jerrold equipment--it got into arguments with Milt Shapp.\nTAYLOR: Everybody did.\nPALMER: Right.\nTAYLOR: What was CECO or Community Engineering Corporation? What was their business?\nPALMER: Their business was amplifiers.\nTAYLOR: What kind of amplifiers?\nPALMER: The first amplifier was to take a Jerrold strip, use the sheet metal, the tube sockets and to install distributed lines ... make those strips into distributed amplifiers. Plug into the same power supply but then cover bandwidth from 54 to 100+ megahertz.\nTAYLOR: So, CECO, really from the beginning, was a CATV amplifier manufacturer?\nPALMER: Our product was a CATV amplifier. It was broadband and it was a distributed amplifier using 6AK5 tubes.\nTAYLOR: Right from the beginning, you started working for them as unpaid except by stock?\nPALMER: Right.\nTAYLOR: Interesting. That distributed amplifier, this is a transmission line, in the grid, in the plate and that sort of thing. I'd wanted to talk to Fitz Kennedy because I thought he had told me he had a patent. It turns out there was a British guy, I don't know his name, who had the patent on the distributed line and Kennedy got a license to produce it. He was with Spencer at the time building equipment amplifiers for laboratory purposes. They didn't know about CATV. He did have a license for it, but then when the boys down at International Telemeter ... George Brownstein and, I guess, Pat Court wasn't in that, but Ron Mandell, I guess, was in it. There may be some others. They started building distributed amplifiers and ignored the patent situation. They just did it! As a matter of fact, we used the International Telemeter amplifier in Kalispell when we started because it worked better.\nPALMER: What year was that?\nTAYLOR: 1953. But Fitz was pretty bitter about the fact that these guys were doing ... He had gone to the trouble of getting a license and paying a royalty and these guys just went ahead and did it anyway. Were you involved in any license situation or patent situation?\nPALMER: No, we weren't. We used ... I am aware of information in Walt Brown's files that showed German development of the distributed amplifier.\nTAYLOR: It could well be. It was Socks Bridgett that told me how this came about. He's like I am ... his memory is just a little weak and not detailed. It may have been a German, rather than a British. He said British.\nEd. Note: W.S. Percival, British Patent 460, 562 (1935-37) Reference in Rudenberg and Kennedy paper in ELECTRONICS, December, 1949 (McGraw-Hill).\nPALMER: Now, our amplifier was different from the others because we did only the low VHF band. It was a low pass amplifier, and initially, did not attempt to carry the FM band but cut off between 100 and 105 megahertz. SKL's was an all band amplifier, as was International Telemeter. Entron at some point had a distributed amplifier, too.\nTAYLOR: I've got Hank Diambra on my list to talk to yet.\nPALMER: So first we did the strips to plug into the Jerrold power supply which may have been part of the WADO amplifier. But early on, in this same time frame, we did amplifiers in galvanized sheet steel boxes that were messenger mounted, cable powered, with the distributed amplifier circuit in it. And that was initially for antenna site runs.\nTAYLOR: Now, this cable powering, that's another thing I've been tracking a little bit. Diambra used to claim that he had the first cable powering situation. Have you heard him make that claim? That's Entron.\nPALMER: Not specifically, but you know, Hank talks a lot, so ...\nTAYLOR: He does, no question. You did the cable powering 1954, '53?\nPALMER: It would be '53.\nTAYLOR: Okay.\nPALMER: The company did cable powering before I got involved because after a while I changed the transformer approach. Walt Brown used a transformer they could use as an auto transformer to get the different voltages. I did not like that approach, so I changed the circuit and used custom design transformers, with an isolated secondary. This confirms that cable powering was in use at CECO before I arrived in 1954.\nTAYLOR: Well, you say, before you were involved with this, they did these things. Were they building amplifiers before you got involved?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: I see.\nPALMER: That was with their one ...\nTAYLOR: Is this single channel?\nPALMER: No, they would be broadband.\nTAYLOR: That was distributed, was it?\nPALMER: Yes. So I think that we can safely say that Community Engineering Corporation, and I think 1953 was the incorporation, always did wide band distributed cable powered amplifiers. Now the WADO retrofit was not cable powered because it used the Jerrold power supply.\nTAYLOR: I see.\nPALMER: But then, in addition to that, there were these big sheet metal boxes that had this little amplifier ... but that was to hang on the messenger strand. And then, we just expanded on that idea. Instead of doing the Jerrold strips, I had an aluminum box that replicated the strips, which did the same thing. Those went into St. Johnsbury, Vermont, for one place.\nOne of our problems with the sheet metal and fabrication where you had to have some volume, you had to get out of the model shop bit. And I had a manufactured aluminum housing, over a pan, and the chassis was a \"z\" shaped piece of metal. So, the grid line could be one side of the \"z\" and the plate line on the other side, and that made the 100 A amplifier 22 dB gain, which was our standard for quite some time. But that started, and maybe somebody else did some cable powering, but nobody totally embraced it for about everything that they did. So, C-COR used cable powering almost exclusively. Used distributed amplifiers for everything except antenna site stuff and messenger mounting. So, those were solid contributions to the ...\nTAYLOR: I didn't realize that you were doing distributed amplifiers from the beginning. I didn't know that.\nPALMER: I went full time as president of Community Engineering Corporation on August 1, 1956. On August 3rd, Community Engineering Corporation became the major owner of Centre Video Corporation which was the majority owner of State College Television Cable Company and the Central Pennsylvania Corporation. So three days after having assumed the presidency of the manufacturing company, CECO, I became very much involved in cable television operation. And for the first time, because I had no involvement with these other companies before that. State College Television Cable Company had 280 subscribers. The Bellefonte Central Pennsylvania Corporation had 500 very irate cable customers.\nTAYLOR: Was it because of quality of service?\nPALMER: Quality of service ... about ready to be thrown out of town. I think maybe both systems had about 1.5 channels.\nTAYLOR: Back on the record Jim, I just looked at a chart that shows that in 1954 the sales of CECO were $24,000, and in 1959 sales were up to $110,000.\nEd Note: The following dialogue refers to catalog data sheets given to the Center.\nPALMER: Now here are pictures of amplifiers. This was the housing and the messenger mounted cable powering, although this is a single channel amplifier for antenna site use. This was a marker generator, splitters and I think this was a strip that would be powered from a Jerrold power supply.\nTAYLOR: I presume that you built your own test equipment pretty much then? Your marker generator, was that one that CECO built?\nPALMER: Yes. We also built a sweep generator, which was a revolving open air capacitor driven by a little induction motor, which would sweep the low band. Interesting, since an induction motor was not synchronous, so you could detect hum on the system, because the hum would move across the screen.\nTAYLOR: It would show up. How about signal level meters?\nPALMER: No, we did not do that.\nTAYLOR: You didn't do that. Did you have anything to use? Was Jerrold's 704B available at that time?\nPALMER: A Jerrold meter was available, I don't remember which one.\nTAYLOR: Probably the 704, I think so.\nPALMER: I was a government witness at the Jerrold anti-trust trial, against Jerrold.\nTAYLOR: This was the side Norm Penwell was in. I think this was the first anti-trust. Is that the one you were speaking of?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: Norm, was in that because we had been building ... I was in the hospital, but our group was building a system in Livingston, Montana. Phil Hamlin was the Jerrold representative and he was over working with Paul McAdam in Livingston. Norm and Jack Penwell and Bruce Hamilton were all building ... working on ours in Livingston. It was a cable race. Coincidentally, they all came in to a little coffee shop one time for coffee. Phil Hamlin and Paul McAdam were on one side of the room, and Norm and Jack and Bruce on the other side, and they began shouting invectives across to each other. Finally, Phil Hamlin said, \"We are going to run you guys straight out of business!\" It was that testimony, and some other things about the service contract that you had to sign, that Norm was one of the witnesses. But it was about, probably in the mid-seventies, that Norm was at one of the conventions, and Milt was there, and they met, and Milt wouldn't talk to Norman. He wouldn't even speak to him.\nPALMER: Now this shows the ... here's the line amplifier, and this is the six tubes of the distributed and here is this \"z\" shaped chassis. So the tube socket was just perched on half the side, with the plates on one side, and the grids on the other, and this power supply and this cover over the top.\nTAYLOR: Are those 6AK5 tubes?\nPALMER: 6AK5's, and then later, 5654's, a military version. Now here's where the scope sweep generators, our own, I guess we had three varieties of this sweep generator--a Simpson model and a Kay. Now this doesn't seem to list a ... it says, \"field strength meters four units.\" So I don't remember what the model number was ... now maybe we didn't call them out, because they were Jerrold.\nTAYLOR: That could be.\nPALMER: This brochure would have had to have been 1958, '59. There are some other items in here of this date.\nTAYLOR: Is anything like this in the museum now, at the Center?\nPALMER: Probably not. My intent is to have the oral history with Strat soon. I guess that \"soon\" is after we get back from the Cayman in March of next year, and to get all of this stuff to him with that recording. I'm going to save a little bit, probably. I'm a saver, but also we want to get rid of it for some other reasons. We need the space ... we are so much involved in art. You will see that later on with a tour of gallery A.\nTAYLOR: Okay.\nPALMER: Here we are talking about our \"firsts\" in the community television industry ... \"wideband distributed amplifiers were RF distribution\" ... we were the low band people ... \"cable powered electronic equipment for systems ... messenger mounting\" ... and then \"ultra low noise preamplifiers with 3 to 5 dB lower noise figure than other units on the market.\"\nTAYLOR: That was the thing I remember from CECO was the low noise preamp.\nPALMER: We had cascade circuits. A preamplifier would be probably this kind of unit here. We had to do everything with a same mechanical housing, but then as soon as the planar triodes became available, and we started with a 6299, and then the 7077. The 7077 was ... General Electric made that tube, and it was going to revolutionize the UHF reception ... which it didn't and UHF reception never really got that big a go. We used that tube and General Electric ... they were wonderful in support. If we had a problem, we could exchange the tubes without really documenting what and when. They trusted us; they helped us and supported us. I think GE was a wonderful supplier to deal with.\nWe made very low noise preamplifiers. We got a patent on a socket for 7077. We had a cavity for UHF frequencies, which worked, works very well. It was just a sheet metal box of different sizes, with a screw in the back to tune it ... quite simple, model shop kind of construction that worked fine.\nTAYLOR: Did that go into a preamp?\nPALMER: Yes. Would this be the input stage?\nTAYLOR: Yes, it would, if ...\nPALMER: Let's return that, too.\nTAYLOR: Okay.\nPALMER: So we could ... we had equalizers. I think we had, early on, sound traps to attenuate the sound carriers. Well, this was a picture of all of our data sheets that showed our messenger mounting. Obviously, cable powering ... here's a 1959 price list of ... so this is, there is a sweep generator ... cable powering ... do you want to ...\nTAYLOR: Is that really the earliest catalog?\nPALMER: This is probably the earliest I have.\nTAYLOR: That would be more useful than this ... first of all, it's undated.\nPALMER: These things are undated, too.\nTAYLOR: The price list is dated ... puts it in a time frame, anyway.\nPALMER: This book was put together way back then. Another early thing that we did was pilot generated automatic level control system. \"Maintains superior automatic level control in terms of a 74 megahertz reference signal, introduced at the antenna site.\" We may well have been the first to do that. And later on, I think we were the first to use two pilots. And we used that first in amplifiers that we supplied to Sruki Switzer for the antenna site run from seventeen miles west of Mississauga, Toronto, area. This was the amplifier which had replaced the two strips. You put it in our own sheet metal, so this could plug into a Jerrold power supply, or plug into our power supply. This was the automatic level control chassis for this.\nTAYLOR: Now, when you came in with the two pilot, was that after the transistor development, or was that on tubes?\nPALMER: I think that would be transistor.\nTAYLOR: That was my recollection.\nPALMER: We really didn't need it on a low band system.\nTAYLOR: That's right.\nPALMER: And our pilot was in the middle ... 74 megahertz, so we had three channels below and two above.\nTAYLOR: And that was really just flat gain control, wasn't it, or did it tilt at the same time?\nPALMER: I think it always was tilted.\nEnd of Tape 1, Side A\nStart Tape 1, Side B\nTAYLOR: We are back on the record now. We missed a little bit, but I don't believe that it's anything especially critical.\nPALMER: Now the rest of this book covers the cable systems.\nTAYLOR: I see TV set rental. Is that a business you got into?\nPALMER: Just in a peripheral manner in State College and in State College only. We owned and leased these television sets in the State College Hotel and the area hospital. The owner and manager of the State College Hotel was Matty Mateer, who was chairman of the board of our company. We owned the sets and the Women's Auxiliary in Bellefonte Hospital rented the sets to patients. That was their fund raising project.\nTAYLOR: Primarily in the hospitals then?\nPALMER: Right, but that was about the limit of it. Rest of this information ... to go on to Cablevision ...\nTAYLOR: One thing of technical interest that was mentioned after the tape had run out is that Walter Brown used open wire line in the Bellefonte system.\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: Which is interesting. Do you know the timing of that?\nPALMER: That would have been before I was around.\nTAYLOR: Prior to what, 1953?\nPALMER: It would be prior to that. Let me see here. \"In 1951, the Bellefonte Company, then the Central Pennsylvania Corporation, began a television cable service to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania\" ... so that was 1951. \"The system initially carried only one channel, Channel 13 from Johnstown, the only channel available at that time. The system was later expanded to carry three channels: Channel 8, Lancaster; Channel 10, Altoona; and Channel 6, Johnstown. Each channel will carry as Channel 2, 4 and 6 on the Jerrold strip system.\"\nTAYLOR: There was a whole system up in White Fish, Montana that was originally built with two wire open lines. The taps were on some hooks that they hooked over the two wires. That was changed pretty quickly.\nPALMER: Here are some claims that ... do you want me to switch?\nTAYLOR: Fine.\nPALMER: Follow this?\nTAYLOR: Whatever seems to come naturally. I'd just like to cover these points when we get to them.\nPALMER: Okay. Here it is printed in our loose leaf catalog, on a page dated '76, that \"in 1953 we had the first messenger mounted; in 1953, the first cable powering; in 1954, first pilot controlled automatic level control system; in 1965, first use of integrated circuits; 1966, first high output solid state equipment.\" This use of integrated circuits would not have been for the main amplifier. This would have been for other uses ... control circuits.\nTAYLOR: These were IC chips?\nPALMER: Yes. Because our high output, solid state equipment ... We stayed with stud-mounted transistors in a cascade, I guess you would say, in a modified cascade output configuration, for quite a while, even after others were using the hybrid amplifiers.\nTAYLOR: Did you ever have amplifiers that were strictly discrete transistors?\nPALMER: Yes, since we had our own output stage, the rest of it would be discrete transistors, also.\nTAYLOR: But not the integrated circuits?\nPALMER: No.\nTAYLOR: This was before the integrated circuits, then?\nPALMER: Before the hybrid.\nTAYLOR: Before the hybrid.\nPALMER: The main amplifier integrated circuits ... My statement here on 1965 first integrated circuits were, \"Integrated circuits in the control circuitry, not in the amplifier stage.\"\nTAYLOR: I see.\nPALMER: \"'68, first used the modulated pilots.\" Now we felt, and I still feel, and I don't know what the practice is now, but that modulated pilot gives a lot of advantages over a CW pilot.\nTAYLOR: Do you want to cite some of those? Is this modulation, special modulation or TV modulation?\nPALMER: Special modulation.\nTAYLOR: Special, okay. You don't have DC circuits to deal with?\nPALMER: Right. You're dealing with AC circuits in the amplifier, not DC circuits. I guess that's the primary thing.\nTAYLOR: I understand.\nPALMER: \"'69, first use of heat fins on castings; 1970, first UHF converter with crystal oven and a Schotke key mixer; '71, first AC power port for trunk amplifier stations.\" Well, we're reaching there ... \"'72, first MATV amplifiers with a CATV quality. In '73, we had a hub antenna site, multi-output amplifier. '75, DC to DC standby power source, and '76, first loop back two-way amplifier with automatic reversing.\"\nTAYLOR: Interesting. My recollection is that you were one of the first, if not the first, to use multiple output transistors, almost parallel hybrid, but not quite.\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: I well remember when George Dixon was demonstrating that, and I was up at a meeting or something, I have forgotten what it was now, but talking about those two outputs, gave you the additional output capability. Not quite the parallel hybrid, because you didn't combine the outputs, but I guess you had a splitter at the drive on the two transistors. One of them you even had four, didn't you? Four output transistors?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: That didn't become very popular as I recall ... didn't go very well until they really came out. Well, feed forward was moving, and the hybrid was the answer to feed forward by some competitors.\nPALMER: Oh, then along we came up with the philosophy that the amplifier spacing was a function of system size, which it is. And I did a IEEE paper in 1966, and you did some work for me on that. So we had three amplifiers, 22 dB gain, 32 dB and 40 dB. And we were quite successful in the 32 dB amplifier ... did a lot of systems with that.\nTAYLOR: Would those be, then, the smaller systems?\nPALMER: Yes, less length and have a higher ...\nTAYLOR: Yes. One thing that has intrigued me for many, many years, is why 22 dB? It's a standard, it's common. They're up a little higher now. I remember when somebody calculated the Naperian optimum of about 9 dB, 8 something dB gain, and yet everything seemed to come up at 22 dB, or 21, something in that neighborhood. I always wondered, \"what drove that.\" Do you have any thoughts on that?\nAn interesting sideline, I was called down to Allentown, by John Walsonavich's bank ... wanted me to make a technical review, because of some borrowing that John was doing. We went out to the end of his system, looking at pictures and checking some performance figures out there, and amazingly, you had 56 amplifiers in cascade, and yet we were getting good results out there ... at least acceptable results. So, finally I asked him for one of his amplifiers ... they were home built. I got them down to Washington, and we ran some tests on them, and discovered that they're an average of about 10 or 11 dB gain. Here was the Naperian number, showing up in actual performance, and you prove it! Took a lot of amplifiers ... 56 amplifiers would be equivalent to what ... maybe 28 or something like that, which was not bad. But I guess I often wondered what drove it up to 22 dB, and I suspect that it was not scientific logic, but maybe economic logic.\nPALMER: Well, it probably was what Jerrold was offering and everybody ... you had to copy what Jerrold was doing.\nTAYLOR: You're exactly right.\nPALMER: There's other work. Derald Cummings did some work on optimum amplifier spacing. His work showed that the 9 dB didn't really work, because you couldn't maintain the low noise figure. It wouldn't have high enough output to drive the output device that had an optimum output. So, it was the inter stages of the amplifier which really drove what the amplifier ... what you could get the best overall reach ... optimize the noise, optimize the output, but you have to have them further apart than 9 dB, and to do that it would take more gain. Anyway, C-COR had multiple spacing and at one point, we were talking with 3M in St. Paul. They had a group that was developing a rural telephone system.\nTAYLOR: I remember they had something or other, CS Cubed, or C-Cubed, or something?\nPALMER: Oh, that's right. CS Cubed, CS Squared ... something like that.\nTAYLOR: Something of that sort, yes, you are right.\nPALMER: I was trying to come up last night with what that was called. Okay, I can't remember the guys name. They had a scientist, who I think was hired for that project, as well as a project manager, and I can't remember his name. Anyway, as we were getting ... I don't know if we had gotten the job, I think maybe we had gotten job, but they selected us based on reliability. They had an interesting ... well, it is a sophisticated company to begin with. I think it's one of our better technical companies in this country ... the way they function, the way they operate, the way they give their technical people 10 percent time to work on things that they want to work on, which has developed a lot of interesting things. You know, this \"Post-It\" thing, came out of that. In fact, I think it was a secretary that came up with that.\nAnyway, this scientist called me one day, and said, \"You know, if we get to looking at these systems, we ought not to be stuck with a fixed spacing. We ought to space these amplifiers at different spacing, depending on the length of run.\" I said, \"Well, that's very interesting. I'll send you a paper on that!\" I think generally that wasn't worth ... that was the only place where somebody was really excited about that capability. So we developed two, or maybe three amplifiers for them, for this telephone system. Built two systems, and they really didn't pan out. The telephone set itself was a transceiver. I don't remember what their telephone set was, so maybe I better not say that. Then later, we did work for Collins Radio, and Collins Radio wanted two-way amplifiers.\nWell, let me go back to 3M. 3M selected C-COR because of our reliability. And what they did to determine what our reliability was, they went to cable systems, got in, and got to the repair technician, and audited his repair records. And they did this for half a dozen companies. Then they got to a system that was C-COR and found out that there were drastically lower repair frequency than other systems. I think after we got that, we had some information, but we started analyzing our own repair information. I've got that someplace ... repair cost as a function of sales volume. We started advertising reliability.\nTAYLOR: Don Dworkin would certainly testify to that! You put the one in somewhere in Tennessee ... Manchester, was it? Said the screwdriver technician installed them, the way he was told to install them, and the thing checked out perfectly, and they never had to touch it. Didn't know anything about it.\nPALMER: We set a hundred thousand hours MTBF. Then the next system, the telephone type system, we did ...\nTAYLOR: When you say telephone type, was this to be in the rural areas to serve telephone as well as television?\nPALMER: Yes. The 3M system was definitely for television and telephone.\nTAYLOR: They were looking for REA money, is what they were looking for?\nPALMER: Yes, they were looking for REA money. Now, Collins Radio did a telephone system, and I don't think television was necessarily a part of that.\nTAYLOR: I see.\nPALMER: Because the system was installed in office buildings. Of course, they could be interested in some video transmission ... there would be nothing to prohibit video transmission. So their system obviously required two-way. But their telephone set ... you pick up the set, signal was detected by a central computer, dialed the number. The computer then assigned a pair of frequencies to send and receive. So that, literally, there was no switching equipment, there was simply frequency assignments. They put one in one of their buildings in Cedar Rapids, and we supplied equipment to do an office building in Caracas. One advantage, you could move a telephone set any place in the system, and your telephone number remained the same.\nTAYLOR: When was this? Was this in the seventies?\nPALMER: It might have been later than that. Two-way amplifiers were pretty well known commodities.\nTAYLOR: Oh yes. The two-way came in the mid-sixties I would say ... somewhere in there. I'm sure it was late sixties, probably.\nPALMER: I think we did more midband split than most of our competitors, so we had more flexibility. These would have been midband systems, so you have about equal bandwidth in each direction.\nTAYLOR: You still have problem with the ingress, unless you have the sleeve connectors and some other RFI protections. That was what the people at EIE experienced. They were one of the first to do a two-way I think, and they had a terrible time with the ingress. They couldn't figure out where it was coming up from for a while, but it was an awful lot of problem.\nPALMER: Or look at the fact that ingress, is ...\nTAYLOR: Is just coming from anywhere.\nPALMER: All of this ...\nTAYLOR: From the whole system.\nPALMER: Right.\nTAYLOR: So, it wasn't until we had the integrated sleeve, or integral sleeve, on the connector that we began to control that mess.\nPALMER: I think there were ... weren't there some attempts to sectionalize the system so that different bands from different areas, to reduce the points of ingress.\nTAYLOR: Yes, and of course that's going really to the end with the fiber backbone now. You come in, and divide down into small areas. Now you can handle the return from a very small area. Typically, currently, there are a couple thousand households, of which you've got a percentage of subscribers. Of those, only a percentage use the two-way. But now they're down to going to 500 homes per optical receiver, and almost certainly, will in the near future, go to 200, maybe even to 100.\nPALMER: Would that be due to noise ... the return noise?\nTAYLOR: No, this is due entirely to be able to use fiber efficiently and effectively and the deeper you can get the fiber, the more you can use it for other services like PCS, or alternative access, whatever.\nPALMER: Well, I guess it's more and more like a star system.\nTAYLOR: Yes, it is. It becomes a star. Although sometimes they put the fiber in a partial tree and branch, but that's limited.\nPALMER: Here is a discussion, 1976, of hybrids versus discretes and that \"C-COR insisted on doing the best possible job for its customers. Therefore, engineers choose the gain block, discrete or hybrid, that would do the best job of meeting performance specifications, and do it reliably.\" And our sticking with discretes a lot longer than others, was based on the reliability.\n(Break)\nTAYLOR: We were talking about hybrids versus discretes, and you indicated that you stuck with the discretes perhaps longer than other companies, based primarily on reliability.\nPALMER: But at this time, the end of '76, I can tell by the way this is written, that \"we choose whichever is best to do the job ... but reliability is part of it.\" But the fact that we are even mentioning hybrids here means that we are looking at hybrids. I am sure that we changed at least some of our amplifiers and maybe most of our amplifiers at that point. I maintained a close relationship with the hybrid suppliers. I have to believe that it was a closer relationship than our competitors did. I personally visited the TRW and Motorola every year and usually got to fairly high levels. On one visit to TRW, I met with the senior vice president that had responsibility for all solid state devices, because his people thought that he should talk to me.\nAnother trip to Motorola ... we were having ... the industry was having a hard time getting hybrids, because they were in short supply. Manufacturers said that they just weren't going to make so many, because they just weren't making enough money. That it was not as profitable for them and that's why they were not increasing production. But everybody was screaming for hybrids. And I told Motorola that, \"Look, the solution is simple.\" I said, \"Raise your prices!\" \"Well, we can't ... TRW over here.\" I said, \"What do you think TRW is going to do ... raise your prices?\" They were flabbergasted that a supplier would come and tell them to raise prices. And they said that. I really had a good relationship with both companies.\nTAYLOR: When did the hybrids first come into the cable market? It would have been before '76.\nPALMER: It would have been before this. I would guess maybe a couple of years before.\nTAYLOR: It wasn't very long after that you did a hybrid selection and got up to 340 megahertz, upper limit with selected hybrids, as one of the first that got beyond 300.\nPALMER: We really kept pushing the limits. I think we were, early on, higher and higher. And even today, and with some of the same technicians doing the one gigahertz amplifier for Queens, and that work, hybrids weren't available. C-COR did development on their own hybrid and then maybe forced hybrid manufacturers to come up with a ... I guess my information is very sketchy, but I have had that information. Now, hybrids are available for one gigahertz. But John Pavlic was making the first hybrids that C-COR was using for that job.\nTAYLOR: For the Brooklyn-Queens?\nPALMER: Right.\nTAYLOR: John Pavlic, is he TRW ... I mean, Motorola?\nPALMER: No, he's a C-COR un-degreed engineer.\nTAYLOR: Okay. Colin Horton was doing some of that. Wasn't he involved in that to some extent?\nPALMER: No. Horton has always been in the system design, the application, and not in the equipment development.\nTAYLOR: Okay, he was just reporting on what was going on?\nPALMER: Right. We had always been very much aware of the heat dissipation. I see here, in this '76 catalog, a section on thermal design. This was an area where I felt I had something specific to contribute and was generally in on heat dissipation methods. I had taken a General Electric in-house course on thermal design, heat dissipation ... used a book by King, and other internal General Electric information ... very excellent information and course. Which really led us to the fins, beryllium oxide as an electric insulator, which also is a decent heat transfer agent. I think we are going to see a lot more of this kind of thing, particularly, when we can artificially produce diamonds, because \"diamond\" is a material that is a good electrical insulator with very good thermal transfer.\nTAYLOR: Is that a fact? I didn't know that.\nPALMER: So that when we can make the deposited diamonds ... I was an investor and a board member of a company here--Diamond Materials, Inc.--which was engaged in that.\nTAYLOR: It's very simple. All you have to do is press it hard enough and heat it high enough and you've got diamonds!\nPALMER: Well, we were using vapor deposition methods. Had some success, but we were too early, and not enough money to back it up. The Japanese are doing a lot and there is a diamond material consortium at the Materials Research Laboratory at Penn State. There is something in this morning's local newspaper about diamonds and the diamond approach. Barbara mentioned it and I didn't look at it yet. I've lost enough money on diamonds for a while.\nTAYLOR: Very interesting story on heat. Back in the early days of transistors ... Do you remember Hank Abajian.\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: And do you know his story about Vermont? He claims to have built the first transistor amplifier in the cable business. He would use it for running down a mountain side. He said one of problems he found was that in the cold temperature, they all went to pot. So he had to put 10 watt heaters inside every chassis in order to keep it warm enough. That was the only time in history, I guess, that you ever kept a transistor heated! I have been trying to locate him, to get him to tell me that story on tape, but I haven't found him yet.\nPALMER: \"Duel pilot control systems.\" So we had that in '76--modulated pilots. \"One of the advantages reduction of RF gain requirements, which simplifies circuitry and improves a reliability ... and then the use of AC amplifiers. Since our pilot control was slope controlled, in cascades up to 10 trunk, trunk amplifiers, single pilot is all that's necessary.\"\nTAYLOR: And they were slope controlled?\nPALMER: They were always slope controlled. C-COR's problem was we couldn't sell. We had to have a technical customer.\nTAYLOR: How about Don Dworkin?\nPALMER: And there were others ... Switzer.\nTAYLOR: And Switzer, yes.\nPALMER: Or, you know, Warner, Warner Amex. Who was the technical VP there? Peter Alden. One year they bought $10 million worth of amplifiers for C-COR. We did every major city they did.\nTAYLOR: Didn't Dworkin then eventually go over to Warner at one time?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: I guess he's retired now, probably.\nPALMER: I think maybe Dworkin was ... now, was he with ATC?\nTAYLOR: No, he was never with ATC.\nPALMER: He was never with ATC or Manhattan Cable?\nTAYLOR: I don't believe so. He'd been with ... Of course, he started with Blonder-Tongue, then Arthur Baum of Vikoa. In fact, he did the first electronics for that company. Then he left that. Don't know if there was something in between. But when Irving Kahn sold his New Jersey group to the New York Times, Dworkin went to work for the New York Times.\nPALMER: Okay, all right. Yes, and we sold a lot of the equipment.\nTAYLOR: Now who was he with when he bought the thing down for Tennessee? Maybe that was Warner ... either Warner Amex or just Warner. I can't remember now. But he sure became a believer in C-COR at that time. Said it to me many times when I was down there.\nPALMER: I guess our first success with ATC was with the Manhattan Cable System, although that was pretty late that ATC got involved. Well, anyway, Bob Tenten, and we, I sold them on ... finally on what they call their \"block amplifiers.\" They had been using DBC, Delta-Benco-Cascade, because they had higher outputs. Said so right on the spec sheet.\nTAYLOR: Dolan has been so tied in with Jerrold on everything, I'm surprised ...\nPALMER: Now Dolan, this was ...\nTAYLOR: This was after Dolan sold to Time.\nPALMER: No, this was Manhattan Cable Television, which was a separate company.\nTAYLOR: No, but that was started by Dolan, because I did some work for him. Then he sold it, well, because ATC was 40 percent owner, and ATC just bought the rest of it.\nPALMER: Schultz was the guy that I started working with there.\nTAYLOR: Oh, yes, Freddy. He's in Switzerland now.\nPALMER: Freddy Schultz, he's in Zurich.\nTAYLOR: Yes. I got Freddy that job at Manhattan Cable. And every time I go abroad and get into Switzerland, he's so grateful for me getting him that job. I didn't do anything, I just gave his name.\nPALMER: He came to State College after I left C-COR, three or four years ago, and called me and came to see me over on Greenbrier Drive. And said, \"Boy, look me up if you ever get to Zurich.\" Anyway, so we started selling some amplifiers to Manhattan Cable. I think that was Bob Tenten, but the higher output units, they still use DBC. Until one day they added the thirty-third channel and things went to pot. And so they started measuring, and found out in the real world, that our amplifier had 10 dB more output than these DBC amplifiers, so we supplied them with a lot of amplifiers. About 4,000 amplifiers in that lower half of Manhattan are all C-COR. Reliability was a part of that, and performance was part of it. This is a complete catalog at a given time.\nTAYLOR: Might talk a little bit about the 400 megahertz bit. Sruki Switzer pushed that very, very hard, on the basis of Warner. No, it wasn't Warner ... Warner was his opposition, I think, in Atlanta.\nPALMER: Would this be Rogers?\nTAYLOR: No, maybe it was the Mid-America group. At any rate, he pushed very hard. I guessed he must have pushed on you, too, to get the 400 megahertz operation because you and I were on a panel together, and both of us were, I suppose we'd be called negative on the 400 megahertz. I felt it just wasn't ready and, I guess essentially, that's what you felt. I would be interested in your views, if you can recall, how it came about and whatever your thoughts are on that.\nPALMER: My thoughts were that this was a franchise gimmick, a sales ploy and meant what I said, \"It wasn't ready yet.\" But, I hope that was the truthful approach at that point in time, because there were other times when we used the frequency game, when we knew that we could do it and it was there, we used that as a sales plug.\nTAYLOR: Well, that was a 340 megahertz thing. That was definitely a sales tool and caused us a little trouble in one of our franchise proceedings, because a competitor had come in and talked about spacing for 400, or something like that ... because C-COR amplifier was already there. But it was an interesting development. Many people at that time though, thought that, \"Who needs fifty channels?\" \"Who in the world could use fifty channels?\" This was happening really before the satellite revolution had really started to go. They had the Mississippi and Florida demonstration from the prize fight in Manila, but it hadn't produced much for the industry operator. It wasn't long after that the networks, the satellite networks, began to explode, and the need for fifty channels was soon apparent, very soon.\nYou've talked off and on as we go along about your manufacturing philosophy, and I think that's one of the key features that I know about C-COR. You may be interested in a little story that I was ... in making an investigation of different equipment for a client. And one of things I wanted to do was to check quality assurance programs. I came to C-COR, I went to Jerrold, and I went to Vikoa. And it's a classic distinction between those three. I went to Vikoa, probably first, and Vikoa's quality assurance was \"all I want is to get paid.\" They had some charts and some things they worked with. I came to the conclusion that you can't have quality product when you have to hire people out of Hoboken. It's almost that simple. Then I went to Jerrold, and they were in the midst of quality assurance program for Western Electric. And Western had a booth, their own room, with all their test equipment, and they were going through the amplifiers. They were doing this on a lot basis ... standard sampling lot basis. And I guess it was a pretty good program. They had a regular ...\nPALMER: A statistical program?\nTAYLOR: A laid out program, a statistical program, yes. I came up to C-COR and C-COR didn't have any quality assurance program. They just hired people that did the job right to begin with! And of course, you ran tests, but it was dependent on the quality of people that were doing the work. It was so clear the distinction on these things.\nPALMER: Well, on the hybrid bit we literally had a thirty channel test that ran on every hybrid on incoming inspections. So, we probably did more output testing of the ... as we characterized the hybrid on receipt.\nEnd of Tape 1, Side B\nStart Tape 2, Side A\nTAYLOR: The leader has gone through ... we are back in business.\nPALMER: I have always been interested in technical activities, in technical quality, engineering excellence. That's why we merged our cable system operation into TCI. I wanted to get out of that business. We did very well at it but ... You talk about the one thing that Irving Kahn did of putting together all those franchises in New Jersey. Well, hell, we had done that the decade before in Pittsburgh. Allegheny County has something like 125 municipalities. At one point, of those franchised, we had 80 percent of the franchises. I think in Allegheny and Beaver Counties we had 70 or 80 franchises that went together to make our system. So that was all our doing, our franchises and all C-COR equipment. Then we sold that to TCI ... We didn't sell it, we merged with TCI and got TCI stock, which hasn't done that badly.\nThen Warner Amex comes along with the city of Pittsburgh, and that's all C-COR amplifiers. When they had their grand opening with the mayor and city council and everything else, they invited me to the opening. And I went, fortunately, and I got down there and started talking to Peter Alden and I said, \"You know, I don't see any other vendors here.\" He said, \"Well, they weren't invited.\" And I really felt honored.\nTAYLOR: I should think.\nPALMER: We were smaller than other companies because we didn't sell as well, I think. We couldn't get the pitch across of our technical superiority.\nTAYLOR: Was there a price disadvantage? I can't remember now.\nPALMER: I don't think there really was a price disadvantage when you really got down to it.\nTAYLOR: Not significant. One difference was that the Jerrold's and the Magnavox's and so on, the Texcans, would deal and they would make discounts, ad hoc discounts and you would never do that. You had a volume discount, and you'd take this, or not. That may have hurt. To some extent, I suppose, with people like Gene Schneider and Chuck Dolan, they had been with Jerrold almost from the beginning and it's habit. They didn't see any reason to change.\nPALMER: Well, and you can be ... You know, if you have a system that doesn't work and you're with Jerrold ... your stockholders, your investors they have a hard time criticizing you. But if you make a change and go to a small company, a \"C-COR,\" you know, \"Why did you make that change when everybody else is ...?\"\nTAYLOR: Yes, it's true, that somebody evaluating a property, it was better to say it was Jerrold equipment than it was to say it was somebody else's equipment. Not because it was necessarily any better, but ...\nPALMER: And particularly if they couldn't technically understand why it was better.\nTAYLOR: That's right.\nPALMER: Gene Schneider had a chief engineer. I can see him, I can't come up with his name. It was under Richard, the next step down. He didn't believe probably any of the stuff that I've said this morning. I just hadn't sold him. I don't think he had the technical capability that Richard did.\nTAYLOR: It was kind of a puzzle to me. If Richard was certainly capable of understanding it, there must have been something else in that set up. Gene may have been in close association with Jerrold and Shapp, but ... it's hard to say. They have done a great job of marketing, however, there is no question about that.\nPALMER: Well, it's limited scope. We have limited our scope by avoiding all these other areas.\nTAYLOR: Is that a conscious decision?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: To some extent, that may have been a problem, because in the earlier days--the developing days-- when new investors were coming into the business, they wanted a turn key. They wanted everything! And if they could get it all from one company, that is what they wanted. Well, Bruce tried to have cable along with all the other equipment ... converters. He had the whole works ... that didn't work out.\nPALMER: I think some of my commentary letters ... Well, this is a commentary letter, . You got one of those every month. Talked about the failures in the industry, and there were plenty that failed.\nTAYLOR: Yes, there were.\nPALMER: They were chasing these other things, and making deals and getting business and no profit.\nTAYLOR: SKL had some of the same problems. They made only amplifiers and passive devices, and not the rest of the equipment. So, somebody had to be knowledgeable enough to say, \"Buy C-COR amplifiers, but buy Jerrold headend,\" or whatever. And they would go talk to the Jerrold people about buying a headend, and then Jerrold would talk them into buying the rest of their equipment. So, I suspect that was part of what hurt. On the other hand, whether the advantage would have been worth the cost, I don't know.\nPALMER: I guess we have talked about most of these things, except \"surge protectors.\"\nTAYLOR: Yes, that was one of your developments that was innovative.\nPALMER: Right. And I think that was a very important development, and a very important contributor to our reliability. I just have no question at all that was a major item.\nTAYLOR: Do you recall when that began to be instituted, time wise?\nPALMER: Let's see, I don't think it's in this, even in this catalog.\nTAYLOR: Meaning it was after '76?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: Derald Cummings was involved in that, wasn't he?\nPALMER: I think he was, George Dixon and Derald Cummings. It's a diac... that fired a triac.\nTAYLOR: Where are those guys now?\nPALMER: They are both in this area.\nTAYLOR: Out of the cable business though?\nPALMER: Yes. George had a shop on Benner Pike. He does some wood carving.\nTAYLOR: Oh really?\nPALMER: Yes. Cummings, I think he works for Locus. Well, he worked for Locus at one time ... maybe he's still there. I can't give you dates, but as the technology evolved, we went push-pull, feed-forward and parallel.\nTAYLOR: Well, push-pull is really a function of the transistor ... perhaps a necessary function of the transistor. Is that a correct statement? So when you got into the solid state amplifiers ... well, though it was also the midband transmission.\nPALMER: It was more than twelve channels, and you really had to have push-pull to cancel the second order products.\nTAYLOR: To get through ... that's right.\nPALMER: So, it was push-pull that allowed the ... to go beyond twelve channels.\nTAYLOR: You never went through the single ended, second order cancellation that Sylvania and AEL went through. If you properly phase the amplifier, which is really done by biasing the transistor, you could get a periodic cancellation over every three or four amplifiers. The end product, at the end, if it were done right, was that the second order was quite reduced. Both of them tried hard to sell that. In fact, even up to the time Sylvania was acquired by Texscan, they were still using, on some of their amplifiers, the single ended second order cancellation. AEL, I guess, went out of that business before they went to push-pull.\nPALMER: Yes. We never used that, we were always ...\nTAYLOR: Feed-forward, that was how I first met Joe Prescutti. He did thorough analysis of that, and talked to me a good many times about it ... very perceptive. I learned a lot from talking to him about it.\nPALMER: Yes, he did a lot of work in that. A lot of work analyzing it ... how an amplifier went together, and what ...\nTAYLOR: He did very good work on that, very good work. And the parallel hybrid, that came from ... Well, I guess Jerrold had used it actually before it was hybrid, in a certain form, but it didn't work very well because their splitters were not adequate. So the real parallel hybrid probably came from Amperex, Magnavox, Philips, who put the device in single housing, and that seemed to be the first one that really took off.\nPALMER: Now SCAT, my son Chuck had a lot to do with SCAT. I don't know who invented SCAT ... if it was me, or Joe or Chuck, or all three of us. From what I can tell, the system that we came up with is essentially ... I guess two or three years ago, I was at a cable trade show where I talked to the Scientific Atlanta guy. Went down there, interdiction system, or whatever they call it ... you know, and as I recall, it was feature for feature exactly what SCAT was.\nTAYLOR: You know, interdiction is a jamming system.\nPALMER: That's what SCAT was. SCAT is a jamming system, an interdiction, pure and simple, or pure and complex, purely. And the same as what Scientific Atlanta's ... are they selling it?\nTAYLOR: A few. The idea of the compressed digital transmission compression has slowed it down, because people visualize that we're going to have to have a box in the house anyway to decompress the signal ... so they're not buying ... They're staying with the box.\nPALMER: Well, I think we did. We spent a lot of money on SCAT. We thought we had a customer ... we had a customer named Westinghouse, Brad Johnson. Brad told us he was going to use this in a system and, I think, the system changed a couple of times. We built prototype equipment to go into this system. Built it, got ready to install it, wanted a date, and equivocations, etc. Finally he said, \"Oops, we changed our minds.\" There was nothing we could do about it. The thing is, if we had a customer, a committed customer, that worked with us, and stayed with us, I think SCAT would be out there today as a viable process. I was really thrilled when I listened to the Scientific Atlanta guy describe our system. I really felt good about that.\nTAYLOR: Boy, I had the wrong impression of SCAT. I had it all wrong. I thought it was basically an off premises switching system, convertor system. I'll be darned.\nPALMER: Totally interdiction.\nTAYLOR: What kind of jamming did it do? Like the Tanner negative trap or positive trap?\nPALMER: No, they were ...\nTAYLOR: Frequency hopping?\nPALMER: Yes.\nTAYLOR: Were they really? I'll be darned. I didn't know that.\nPALMER: They were RF signals. Now, just how those signals operated, I don't remember.\nTAYLOR: Is any of that in your material?\nPALMER: I haven't looked through the rest of this. Chuck would know and remember. If you have an hour someday, you could give him a call. So our SCAT ... we put a lot of money in it. Our customers pigged out on us. And then we had one small customer who put it in his system and they've had a lot of problems. Some of which might have been, you know, cockpit problems ... customer problems. He was a poor customer. Technically incompetent or didn't have the technical ability to work with it and with us to come through an Alpha test, or a Beta test with the system. And eventually to be marketed, it had to be on integrated circuits. The guts of it would have to be large scale integration. I actually made a trip to Korea to talk with Hyundai, who was starting a large electronics company, on the idea of their developing, or their carrying forward on the development of the hybrid.\nTAYLOR: The LSI.\nPALMER: They expressed interest, and really at that time, I don't think they had the capability. The man that we started ... Hamied Hydery, he's now vice president of engineering at C-COR, went over there, made the first trip over there. He was surprised that the Korean man he was talking with had gotten his three electrical engineering degrees at Penn State. Then, by the time we got over there, he had just left the company and was coming back to the United States, and it was somebody else we were dealing with. But it turned out that we saw he and his wife in Seoul. Let's see, his relationship was his aunt is the registrar at the Palmer Museum of Art and her husband was the acting head of electrical engineering at Penn State.\nTAYLOR: For goodness sake! Did you know this in advance? Was it the reason why you went to Hyundai?\nPALMER: We knew that about the time we made the trip.\nTAYLOR: I see.\nPALMER: Since then, we've stopped in Tokyo and our guide in Tokyo was Suni, who was the registrar's sister. Her husband was a high-up official for IBM in Tokyo. We were in their residence, a 3,000 square foot apartment. They took just delightful care of us. They were Koreans but American citizens. We ate street food ... got to see the kids dancing in the streets on Sunday--just interesting things. We've seen them further.\nTAYLOR: Good.\nPALMER: Well, data transmission. Cliff Shrock worked on a lot of things ... was not too closely controlled. C-COR's treasurer failed to really keep tabs and a strict control over him and he spent himself into oblivion. I like Cliff, thought he was capable, and inventive but very difficult to control. As soon as I left the scene at C-COR, Perry went after him with a vengeance. I don't know what the eventual outcome was. Probably got his house and everything else because he felt that C-COR was really being taken. Yes, maybe that was it.\nTAYLOR: Cliff is back with Cablebus. Our guy, Jim Kearney, was in Korea doing some work for a small company over there. They wanted some, I guess, home security type equipment. Nobody makes that here but Cliff was willing to provide it. He went to Korea and got the sale. But everything he had to build the stuff came C.O.D. and he was having money trouble meeting the C.O.D.'s, so you knew he was in financial straights.\nPALMER: Always.\nTAYLOR: I think he finally got the job done but it was messy. In those straights, he was cutting corners and one thing and another.\nPALMER: Yes, I was really sorry about that. I thought that I could control Cliff from the technical end if our treasurer had really put the screws to him on the financial end.\nTAYLOR: Well, it was the right thinking to get into the digital operation, and Cliff seemed to be a good one to move in that direction. But, as you say, other things conspired to prevent it.\nPALMER: He lost a lot of money for a lot of people.\nTAYLOR: Well, the Cablebus I guess ... Who were the original owners? It was one of the telephone companies--Pacific Bell or ...\nPALMER: No, the originals were the head guy at Tektronics. Another, I think, was chairman, CEO/founder of Tektronics and with him was the head of another big electronics outfit out there. Maybe the outfit with the heads-up display. Then Cablebus was sold to Pacific Bell, whatever the telephone company is with headquarters in Vancouver, Washington. Cliff didn't get along with them and then couldn't ... Cablebus was in two sections. There was the labs and then the manufacture of the alarm business. And I went out with the Pacific Bell ... that name is not quite right.\nTAYLOR: Maybe it's Pacific Northwest Bell?\nPALMER: Bought Cablebus Labs from them. They didn't know what they had and they didn't want it anyway and were tired of ... They could get rid of Shrock in the process, so I bought it. I pumped money into it for maybe three years and then left.\nTAYLOR: I get the feeling the Comlux division, that they have now acquired, is probably a good acquisition. I don't know anything about the financial details of it, but having that capability ... it seems to be a pretty highly respected capability to match C-COR's standards, or standards you set. At least you were in the right direction.\nPALMER: Now, future switched star, now I'm with a company that has a switch star, but then that works. But that's done fairly well. Well, any success with that, has been pretty much Europe ... you know coaxial switched star. But even the activity there has slowed down. Broadband Network's push now is in distant learning systems. It's in AM video, multichannel AM video, and having some success to the system in Indianapolis for the school system ... million plus, it would be a lot of add on to that.\nTAYLOR: These are broadband distribution systems?\nPALMER: Fiber and multichannel, but analog. And we are working on a switch for that kind of system right now. We expect to have that in a few months.\nTAYLOR: This will be an optical switch?\nPALMER: Right.\nTAYLOR: We tried to open a design group, independent like Terry Hulseburg down in Washington. Hired a guy who was beginning to do fairly well. He was innovative, beginning to move into the CAD area. Got us into, maybe, the wrong kind of material, equipment. But he then, while we were still in a losing position, raised his salary and the salary of the people who were working with him without telling us about it. Wholly-owned subsidiary that we were putting notes in to support ... He went pretty fast. I was sorry because I had gotten to know him personally fairly well and LaVerne and his wife were very cordial and did a lot of things together. It was sad but on a much smaller scale it's the same kind of thing.\nPALMER: Here's an extra copy of some of the ... when we went public with ... [Pause in conversation while organizing papers. The following are comments made while going through papers that will be donated to the Center.]\nTAYLOR: That's quite a plan.\nPALMER: I designed all of the control circuits for that place ... the generators, the breakers ... the young pipsqueak at General Electric. This is a paper I published in the General Electric Review in 1949 on the coordination of protective devices.\nTAYLOR: That's J.R. Palmer in his younger days.\nPALMER: Right. Here's a GE patent I got. I got three patents at GE.\nTAYLOR: Did you ever get any patents with C-COR?\nPALMER: No.\nTAYLOR: I guess C-COR has some patents, though, from other people?\nPALMER: Right. Here's letters to our ... here was warranty costs as a percent of total sales in '73 and '76.\nTAYLOR: Generally less than 1 percent.\nPALMER: Yes, '76 is right around that.\nTAYLOR: A quarter percent? What do you figure that the MTBF was that you quoted a figure earlier?\nPALMER: Of these, 200,000 hours! It's obvious curves and space and sales ... this is a set of my commentary letters down through the years. You know, one thing that I am quite proud of in these commentary letters is that I, early on, got the word of the Harrisburg effect ... the interference of 118.25 MHz. I got a tape of the speech the guy was giving around to the FAA on ... Here's the letter I wrote long before the \"shit hit the fan.\" \"You thought you had a thirty channel system ... don't run for your technical type, do this exercise yourself!\"\nTAYLOR: This really happened long before this, because I was a chairman of an IEEE committee and we named Bob Powers as our sub-committee chairman to deal with this issue. Sid Lines came to the meeting and warned us that FAA is pushing us ... this was like 1970. That the FAA is pushing very hard to really tell cable that they can't use any of those frequencies. This is what that letter is saying. I think Garth Kanen was the guy from the FAA.\nPALMER: That's right. But this letter was written shortly after Garth Kanen went around with this tape, and I have a copy of the tape.\nTAYLOR: Okay, I've heard about that. I never did hear the tape but he's ...\nPALMER: In this, I'd offered to stop by our booth. I'll let you listen to this tape.\nTAYLOR: Well, in this meeting, probably in 1970 or '71, he said, \"You fellows are using 250 watts on your networks.\" They said, \"What!\" \"Yes, it's right in your literature ... 250 watts.\" I said, \"Well, I know of nothing that's got 250 watts, anywhere, in any cable television network. Show me the advertisement.\" Never showed me, of course. He quit saying it, but that was the kind of reasoning this guy had ... he was awful. And Harrisburg, of course, just proved that all of his ...\nPALMER: Well, Harrisburg was what he was ... okay, with that background I see he was just waiting for Harrisburg.\nTAYLOR: That's exactly right. He was waiting for Harrisburg.\nPALMER: Harrisburg was a ... really didn't prove the ...\nTAYLOR: Harrisburg was asking for it in some ways.\nPALMER: Yes, it was a real bastard situation.\nTAYLOR: It sure was. I am going to change this over ...\nEnd of Tape 2, Side A\nStart of Tape 2, Side B\nPALMER: There's 118.25\nTAYLOR: It would have all been the same source, and wasn't synchronized.\nPALMER: It wouldn't have nearly been the problem.\nTAYLOR: But Harrisburg ... Jerry Looby who was with us for several years had been with Jerrold when they built the first Harrisburg system and it was just loaded with pressure taps. One of the funny things after the Harrisburg incident, by this time, Sammons had the system, and Hank Cicioni was in the meeting that I was in--an engineering committee meeting. We talked about pressure taps. And he's got a lot of pressure taps, all right, but the pressure taps are not leaking. He said, \"I can prove that they are not leaking.\" Everybody in the room looked at him. He didn't convince anybody, but he still maintained that his pressure taps were not leaking.\nPALMER: I guess the very nature of a pressure tap, leak or no, was going to set up a standing mismatch, or standing waves.\nTAYLOR: It is a mismatch. It is inherently a mismatch, yes.\nPALMER: It was inherently on the radio. Well, let's go get something to eat.\nTAYLOR: All right.\nPALMER: Here is a call on ATS-101 audio video system. Let's take that with us and look at it. Here is a surge protection module.\nTAYLOR: Milford Richey was at Collins for a while. Would you deal with him at all in this?\nPALMER: No. This is '73, surge protection module. That might have been earlier than that, but at least this is ... okay.\n(Break for lunch)\nTAYLOR: We are back from a delightful lunch at the country club which I enjoyed very much. Jim, I certainly appreciate the opportunity to probe the early history of C-COR and Jim Palmer, as well. We will be transcribing this, and after the transcription I will edit, and make any corrections that I notice. I will then send it to you for editing, additions, deletions ... anything that you want to do with it before it becomes finalized.\nIf I should find some things I haven't thought of here while we were talking, I have a little device that I can hook into the telephone and record by phone. So, I may give you a call and ask a question or two, and we'll finish it up that way.\nPALMER: Good.\nTAYLOR: Thank you again, Jim. I appreciate very much your sitting for this interview.\nPALMER: My pleasure. You know, this may be an easy way for me to get some history recorded that I might not really want to or be moved to do without this process."}
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The syntax for atoms is:\natom ::= identifier \| literal \| enclosure enclosure ::= parenth_form \| list_display \| generator_expression \| dict_display \| string_conversion \| yield_atom.\nPython supports string literals and various numeric literals:\nliteral ::= stringliteral \| integer \| longinteger \| floatnumber \| imagnumber\nEvaluation of a literal yields an object of the given type (string, integer, long.)+ [\",\"]] list_iter ::= list_for \| list_if list_if ::= \"if\" old_expression [list_iter] [1].\nA generator expression is a compact generator notation in parentheses:\ngenerator_expression ::= \"(\" expression genexpr_for \")\" genexpr_for ::= \"for\" target_list \"in\" or_test [genexpr_iter] genexpr_iter ::= genexpr_for \| genexpr_if genexpr_if ::= \"if\" old_expression [genexpr_iter] in a separate scope when the next() method is called for the generator object (in the same fashion as for normal generators). However, the in expression of. For example: (xy for x in range(10) for y in bar(x)).\nThe parentheses can be omitted on calls with only one argument. See section Calls for the detail.\nA dictionary display is a possibly empty series of key/datum pairs enclosed in curly braces:\ndict_display ::= \"{\" [key_datum_list] \"}\" key_datum_list ::= key_datum (\",\" key_datum) [\",\"] key_datum ::= expression \":\" expression.\nA.\nyield_atom ::= \"(\" yield_expression \")\" yield_expression ::= \"yield\" [expression_list]\nNew in version 2.5.. The execution starts when one of the generator’s methods is called. At that time, the execution proceeds to the first yield expression, where it is suspended again, returning the value of expression_list to generator’s caller. By suspended we mean that all local state is retained, including the current bindings of local variables, the instruction pointer, and the internal evaluation stack. When the execution is resumed by calling one of the generator’s methods, the function can proceed exactly as if the yield expression was just another external call. The value of the yield expression after resuming depends on the method which resumed the execution.\nAll of this makes generator functions quite similar to coroutines; they yield multiple times, they have more than one entry point and their execution can be suspended. The only difference is that a generator function cannot control where should the execution continue after it yields; the control is always transfered to the generator’s caller.\nThe following generator’s methods can be used to control the execution of a generator function:\nHere is a simple example that demonstrates the behavior of generators and generator functions:\n>>> def echo(value=None): ... print \"Execution starts when 'next()' is called for the first time.\" ... try: ... while True: ... try: ... value = (yield value) ... except Exception,.\nPrimaries represent the most tightly bound operations of the language. Their syntax is:\nprimary ::= atom \| attributeref \| subscription \| slicing \| call\nAn attribute reference is a primary followed by a period and a name:\nattributeref ::=.] [\",\" \"*\".\nNote\nAn implementation may provide built.\nA consequence of this is that although the expression syntax may appear after—. plain or long integer argument. The bitwise inversion of x is defined as -(x+1). It only applies to integral numbers.\nIn all three cases, if the argument does not have the proper type, a TypeError exception is \| m_expr \"%\" u_expr a_expr ::= m_expr \| a_expr \"+\" m_expr \| a_expr \"-\" m_expr\nThe * (multiplication) operator yields the product of its arguments. The arguments must either both be numbers, or one argument must be an integer (plain or long) and the other must be a sequence. In the former case, the numbers are converted to a common type and then multiplied together. In the latter case, sequence repetition is performed; a negative repetition factor yields an empty sequence.\nThe / (division) and // (floor division) operators yield the quotient of their arguments. The numeric arguments are first converted to a common type..). Negative shift counts raise a ValueError exception.. Special method names.\n. [4]. [5] Outcomes other than equality are resolved consistently, but are not otherwise defined. [6]\nMost other objects of built.. [7]\nBoolean operations have the lowest priority of all Python operations:\nexpression ::= conditional_expression \| lambda_form old_expression ::= or_test \| old_lambda_form conditional_expression ::= or_test [\"if\" or_test \"else\" expression] or_test ::= and_test \| or_test \"or\" and_test and_test ::= not_test \| and_test \"and\" not_test not. (See the __nonzero__() special method for a way to change this.) ''.).\nThe Comparisons — and exponentiation, which groups from right to left).\nFootnotes"}
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{"text": "Economic Analysis in Health Care / Edition 1by Stephen Morris, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin\nISBN-10: 047001685X\nISBN-13: 9780470016855\nPub. Date: 06/04/2007\nPublisher: Wiley\nOverview.\n- Adopts an international perspective, using examples and case studies from the UK, the rest of Europe, and other countries.\n- Contains detailed exposition of the economic theory alongside relevant examples and applications\n- Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics (some books focus purely on market-related aspects)\n- Strong author team with very broad experience of writing and teaching health economics\nProduct Details\nTable of Contents\nPreface.\nChapter 1 Introduction to Economic Analysis in Health Care.\n1.1 Life, Death and Big Business: Why Health Economics is Important.\n1.2 Health Care as an Economic Good.\n1.3 Health and Health Care.\n1.4 Wants, Demands and Needs.\n1.5 The Production of Health and Health Care.\n1.6 Deciding Who Gets What in Health Care.\n1.7 Is Health Care Different?\n1.8 Describing versus Evaluating the Use of Health Care Resources.\n1.9 Judging the Use of Health Care Resources.\nSummary.\nPart I Health Care Markets.\nChapter 2 The Demand for Health Care.\n2.1 Demand, Profi ts and Health Policy Targets.\n2.2 Consumer Choice Theory.\n2.2.1 Preferences and Utility.\n2.2.2 Budget Constraints and Maximisation.\n2.3 Demand Functions.\n2.3.1 The Determinants of Demand.\n2.3.2 Estimating Demand Functions.\n2.3.3 Price and Income Elasticity of Demand.\n2.4 Modelling Choices About Health.\n2.4.1 Understanding Consumption of Health and Health Care.\n2.4.2 Understanding Investment in Health Care.\n2.4.3 Predictions of the Grossman Model.\n2.5 Needs, Wants and Demands.\n2.6 Asymmetry of Information and Imperfect Agency.\n2.7 Aggregate Demand for Health Care: Theory and Evidence.\n2.8 Conclusion.\nSummary.\nChapter 3 The Production and Costs of Health Care.\n3.1 Introduction.\n3.2 The Theory of Production.\n3.2.1 Production Functions.\n3.2.2 Isoquants.\n3.2.3 Marginal Products.\n3.2.4 Substitutability between Inputs.\n3.2.5 Production Frontiers.\n3.3 Multi-Product Firms.\n3.4 Returns to Scale, Additivity and Fixed Factors.\n3.5 Costs.\n3.5.1 Costs and Production.\n3.5.2 Cost Functions.\n3.5.3 Economies of Scale, Short-Run Cost Functions and Economies of Scope.\nSummary.\nChapter 4 The Supply of Health Care.\n4.1 Firms, Markets and Industries in the Health Care Sector of the Economy.\n4.2 Structure, Conduct and Performance in the Health Care Industry.\n4.3 Profi t Maximisation Models.\n4.3.1 How Firms Maximise Profi ts.\n4.3.2 Perfect Competition.\n4.3.3 Monopoly.\n4.3.4 Monopolistic Competition.\n4.3.5 Oligopoly.\n4.3.6 Game Theory.\n4.4 Goals Other than Profi t Maximisation.\n4.4.1 Growth Maximisation.\n4.4.2 Behavioural Theories of the Firm.\n4.4.3 Utility Maximisation.\n4.4.4 Maximising Net Income per Physician.\nSummary.\nChapter 5 Markets, Market Failure and the Role of Government in Health Care.\n5.1 Introduction.\n5.2 Using Perfectly Competitive Markets to Allocate Resources.\n5.2.1 Equilibrium in Competitive Markets.\n5.2.2 The Effi ciency of Competitive Markets.\n5.3 Market Failure in Health Care.\n5.3.1 Externalities.\n5.3.2 Caring Externalities.\n5.3.3 Market Power.\n5.3.4 Public Goods.\n5.3.5 Information Imperfections.\n5.4 Government Intervention in Health Care.\n5.4.1 Direct Government Involvement in the Finance and Provision of Health Care.\n5.4.2 Taxes and Subsidies.\n5.4.3 Regulation.\n5.4.4 Provision of Information.\n5.4.5 Theory of Second Best.\n5.5 Government Failure.\nSummary.\nChapter 6 Health Insurance and Health Care Financing.\n6.1 Uncertainty in Health Care.\n6.2 Attitudes to Risk.\n6.3 Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income.\n6.4 The Demand for Health Insurance.\n6.4.1 Total Premium.\n6.4.2 Fair Premium.\n6.4.3 Risk Premium.\n6.5 Risk Pooling.\n6.6 The Supply of Health Insurance.\n6.7 The Market for Health Insurance.\n6.8 Health Insurance Market Failures.\n6.8.1 Adverse Selection.\n6.8.2 Moral Hazard.\n6.8.3 Non-price Competition.\n6.8.4 Incomplete Coverage.\n6.9 A Health Care Financing Framework.\n6.10 Third-Party Payers.\n6.11 Reimbursement.\n6.11.1 Retrospective Reimbursement.\n6.11.2 Prospective Reimbursement.\n6.12 Integration between Third-Party Payers and Health Care Providers.\n6.12.1 Preferred Provider Organisations.\n6.12.2 Health Maintenance Organisations.\n6.12.3 Point-of-Service Plans.\n6.13 Options for Health Care Financing.\n6.13.1 Private Health Insurance.\n6.13.2 Social Health Insurance.\n6.13.3 Taxation.\n6.13.4 The Key Features of Health Care Systems.\nSummary.\nChapter 7 Equity in Health Care.\n7.1 Introduction.\n7.2 Equity in the Finance of Health Care.\n7.2.1 Vertical Equity.\n7.2.2 Kakwani’s Progressivity Index.\n7.2.3 The Relationship between Progressivity and Health Care Financing Systems.\n7.2.4 Horizontal Equity.\n7.3 Equity in Distribution.\n7.3.1 Equity in the Distribution of Health Care, of Health or of Utility?\n7.3.2 Some Concepts of Equity.\n7.3.3 Measuring Equity in Distribution.\n7.3.4 Horizontal Inequity.\n7.3.5 Vertical Equity.\n7.3.6 Inequalities in Health.\nSummary.\nPart II Economic Evaluation in Health Care.\nChapter 8 Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Foundations of Economic Evaluation.\n8.1 The Normative Economics Foundations of Economic Evaluation.\n8.2 Welfare Economics.\n8.3 The Pareto Principle.\n8.4 Potential Pareto Improvements.\n8.5 Social Welfare Functions.\n8.6 Measurability and Comparability of Utility.\n8.7 The Application of Welfare Economics.\n8.8 Non-Welfarism.\n8.9 Is There a Link Between Welfarism and Non-Welfarism?\n8.10 Conclusion.\nSummary.\nChapter 9 Principles of Economic Evaluation in Health Care.\n9.1 What is Economic Evaluation?\n9.2 The Economic Foundations of Economic Evaluation.\n9.2.1 Cost–Benefi t Analysis.\n9.2.2 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.\n9.3 Economic Evaluation Applied to Health Care Programmes.\n9.4 Decision Rules for Cost–Benefi t Analysis.\n9.5 Decision Rules for Cost-Effectiveness and Cost–Utility Analysis.\n9.5.1 Ratio Measures.\n9.5.2 The Cost-Effectiveness Plane.\n9.5.3 The Ceiling Ratio and Acceptability.\n9.5.4 The Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio.\n9.5.5 Net Benefi ts.\n9.5.6 Probabilistic Approaches.\n9.5.7 Decision Analysis.\n9.6 Equity in Economic Evaluation.\nSummary.\nChapter 10 Measuring and Valuing Health Care Output.\n10.1 Introduction.\n10.2 Monetary Valuations of Health Care Benefi ts.\n10.2.1 Revealed Preference.\n10.2.2 Stated Preference.\n10.3 The Measurement of Health Outcomes.\n10.4 Making Health Status Indicators Fit for Purpose.\n10.4.1 Generic and Specifi c Measures.\n10.4.2 Profiles and Indices.\n10.4.3 Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life: an Indifference Curve Approach.\n10.5 The Measurement of Health Gain.\n10.6 Non-Monetary Valuation of Health States.\n10.6.1 Rating Scales, Category Scales and Visual Analogue Scales.\n10.6.2 The Standard Gamble.\n10.6.3 Time Trade-Off.\n10.6.4 How Do We Choose Between These Methods?\n10.7 Multi-Attribute Utility Measures.\n10.8 The Valuation of Health States: Willingness to Pay for Health Changes.\n10.9 The Value of Life.\nSummary.\nChapter 11 Economic Evaluation Methods.\n11.1 Introduction.\n11.2 Selecting the Viewpoint.\n11.3 Estimating Costs.\n11.3.1 Methods and Data Used in Estimating Costs.\n11.3.2 Issues in Costing: Where Do We Draw the Line?\n11.3.3 Issues in Costing: Should Future Costs and Cost Savings Be Factored into Analyses?\n11.3.4 Issues in Costing: What If Cost Data Are Sourced from Different Time Periods?\n11.4 The Measurement of Health Gain.\n11.4.1 Measuring Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) Gains.\n11.4.2 Measuring Healthy Year Equivalents (HYEs).\n11.4.3 Measuring Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs).\n11.5 Discounting.\n11.5.1 The Rationale for Discounting Monetary Costs and Benefi ts.\n11.5.2 The Discounting Formula.\n11.5.3 The Choice of Discount Rate.\n11.5.4 Discounting Health Effects.\n11.6 Modelling-Based Economic Evaluation.\n11.6.1 Using Multiple Sources of Data.\n11.6.2 Decision Analysis.\n11.6.3 Markov Models.\n11.7 Trial-Based Economic Evaluation.\n11.8 Dealing with Uncertainty: Sensitivity Analysis.\n11.8.1 One-Way Sensitivity Analysis.\n11.8.2 Multi-Way Sensitivity Analysis.\n11.8.3 Statistically-Based Sensitivity Analysis.\nSummary.\nChapter 12 The Use of Economic Evaluation in Decision Making.\n12.1 The Decision-Making Context: Why is Economic Evaluation Used?\n12.2 Who Buys Economic Evaluations? Does It Matter?\n12.3 Is Economic Effi ciency All That Matters?\n12.3.1 Need.\n12.3.2 Equity.\n12.3.3 Process-of-Care Considerations.\n12.3.4 Ethical Imperatives.\n12.4 How is Economic Evaluation Used to Make Decisions in Practice?\n12.5 Cost-Effectiveness League Tables.\n12.6 Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis.\n12.6.1 Programme Budgeting.\n12.6.2 Marginal Analysis.\n12.7 Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds.\n12.8 Evaluating Economic Evaluation.\nSummary.\nReferences.\nAuthor Index.\nSubject Index.\nCustomer Reviews\nAverage Review:\nand post it to your social network\nMost Helpful Customer Reviews\nSee all customer reviews >"}
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{"text": "Integrating sustainability into risk management\nIntegrating sustainability into risk management\nGiven that sustainability issues are being discussed in the media every day, business – as a fundamental stakeholder within society – ignores this topic at its peril. The push for regulation is slowly pressuring organisations to understand and monitor their sustainability impacts and subsequently integrate them into their company-wide risk management systems. To assist these corporations, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in their draft guideline “Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework” have collaborated to provide guidance on how companies should integrate ESG risks into their enterprise risk management systems.\nThe key finding from our interviews is that the systematic integration of sustainability issues into risk management is only at the beginning of its journey. Most companies surveyed are coming up against obstacles before achieving anything near effective integration. Included below are some of the articulated challenges.\nChallenge 1: The time period for certain ESG issues to create an impact\nMore than half of the companies surveyed indicated that a major challenge is the perceived time it takes for sustainability risks to cause or contribute to negative impacts. Currently, risk management typically operates and focuses on short- and medium-term time horizons. However, certain sustainability issues, such as the impacts of water scarcity and climate change, are taking much longer to have a business impact. Per our 2018 Global Water Risk survey, an important number of participants did not see this risk becoming a real concern for another 10 years. It is difficult for management to prioritise or allocate resources to such long-term risks (over shorter-term risks), and therefore the existence of these risks does not necessarily translate into corporate action.\nChallenge 2: Lack of awareness of sustainability in the business context\nAlthough most of the risk managers interviewed were aware of sustainability topics, very few had really seen any progress in recent years and did not believe that they were important for their businesses. Issues around climate change and corporate impacts on people do not seem to have permeated the membranes of most enterprise risk management systems in the organisations where we conducted interviews. Indeed, only one of the companies referred to specific climate change and environmental protection risks. Not one company referred to human rights risks (including labour risks), be they in their own organisation or in their supply chains. This was another surprising finding, given the level of media coverage on poor working conditions, child labour, and modern slavery. This reinforces the view that many companies are barely at the start of their ESG journeys with regard to integrating issues into their risk management processes. Given that the UN Global Compact has been in existence for almost 20 years, the embedding of its four pillars now needs to be prioritised, and at some level addressed within risk registers.\nChallenge 3: Materiality\nAlthough sustainability issues may not rank high on risk registers, the risk managers with whom we spoke did indicate that they are looking to develop an understanding of what sustainability means within their risk universe. Not unsurprisingly, when risk and sustainability come together, the question of materiality becomes a central challenge. The approach to materiality has a fundamentally different starting point for sustainability risks than for conventional financial risks. In order to assess key risk areas, one first needs to consider the impact that the company has on the environment and on the people with whom its products or services interact – not initially on the business itself (as with financial risks). Those that pose the greatest potential to have a severe and negative impact on the environment and/ or people are likely to result in a material risk to the company. These are the risks on which risk managers should focus. By following this process, they introduce a concept of prioritisation.\nChallenge 4: Moving from the nice words in the sustainability reports to making a tangible difference to the business model\nRegulators around the world have identified that the front ends of annual reports, which generally include sustainability issues, need to be more fair and balanced. This means not only reporting the good but also the risks and obstacles that the companies face. This is a real challenge for many. Even if companies want to report on a negative impact or risk (which is likely to already be public in some form or other), their general counsels are more likely than not to advise against public comments. However, what is being seen in practice is that when companies are prepared to report in more balanced ways, the whole report becomes more credible and believable, rather than being viewed as a marketing document. So although some companies have set up steering committees for general sustainability issues that have public reporting within their remit, from the companies interviewed, these sustainability issues do not appear to be filtering through to operational risk management.\nChallenge 5: Sustainability risks exist beyond contractual relationships\nThroughout the world, governments are introducing legislation that makes companies responsible for behaviours beyond their first-tier suppliers – just look at the various pieces of Modern Slavery legislation. Often the most severe and negative ESG risks are those that arise several tiers down the supply chain, where there is no legal relationship with the top organisation. However, governments have recognised that it is these top organisations which use their influence and leverage to address these risks. This may be a complex challenge for risk management to grapple with, but just because it is complex does not mean it should be ignored.\nOne big opportunity: The importance of leadership from top management\nSeveral of the company experts surveyed clearly recommend that the impetus for integration should come from top management and that the Executive Board should actively promote the topic. This is essential. Without leadership from decision-makers and the right tone from the top, they can hardly expect the rest of the business to pursue a sustainable path, let alone expect risk management to address sustainability risks when they do not see them as strategic priorities. Fundamentally, embedding sustainability practices within an organisation requires cultural change – and the behaviours of senior management have a huge influence on this culture. They need to message the importance of sustainability, articulate why it is important for their business, build it into their strategic models, include incentives that promote good sustainability behaviours and not the opposite, and be consistent with their public statements inside the organisation. As former COSO Chairman Bob Hirth says, “Risks to sustainability are ultimately also risks for companies, even if they are new and emerging, complicated or long-term. Issues such as climate change, human rights, or scarcity of resources have the potential to influence the profitability, success, or even survival of organisations.” A risk management system that does not address sustainability issues will forever remain incomplete.\nAbout the enterprise risk management - Integrated framework\nEntities, including businesses, governments and non-profits, face an evolving landscape of environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related risks that can impact their profitability, success and even survival. Given the unique impacts and dependencies of ESG-related risks, COSO and WBCSD have partnered to develop guidance to help entities better understand the full spectrum of these risks and to manage and disclose them effectively. This guidance is designed to help risk management and sustainability practitioners apply enterprise risk management (ERM) concepts and processes to ESG-related risks.\nCOSO’s Enterprise Risk Management — Integrating with Strategy and Performance (COSO ERM Framework) defines risk as “the possibility that events will occur and affect the achievement of strategy and business objectives.” This includes both negative effects (such as a reduction in revenue targets or damage to reputation) as well as positive impacts (that is, opportunities such as an emerging market for new products or cost saving initiatives).\n“This application guidance to the COSO ERM framework is something that can have a massive impact. For those of us who know the relevance of COSO, this is a major step toward the vision that business can speed the transition to a more sustainable world,” says Peter Bakker, President and CEO at WBCSD. “When companies have a better grasp on their risks, they can make better business decisions – often with more sustainable outcomes. We believe this work will help drive positive change in corporate governance, worldwide.”\nHighlights of the guidance include:\n• Approaches to overcome ESG-related risk challenges across the ERM process, from governance to risk identification and assessment through to communication and reporting;\n• Innovative responses to manage both the upside and downside of ESG-related risks;\n• Methods for developing and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement for managing ESG-related risks.\nThis article first appeared in the Global Goals Yearbook 2019, “Aligning profit with purpose”, published by non-profit Macondo Foundation with the support of Mazars.\nSource: Respective study p. 1 and World Business Council for Sustainable Development release from October, 23, 2018"}
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{"text": "Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini has shot down Manchester United's hopes of signing Kevin Strootman in the January transfer window.\nThe Dutch international midfielder is believed to be one of Louis van Gaal's top targets, with a January move reportedly lined up. Van Gaal would have looked to bring Strootman to Old Trafford this summer if the midfielder hadn't been injured.\nUnited are willing to be patient but Roma have moved early in an attempt to end their interest.\nRelated articles\n- Roma insist Strootman is not for sale\n- Manchester United happy to pay Strootman asking price\nUnsellable\n\"He [Strootman] is an extraordinary player, and these rumours [of his sale] have been based on the desires of other clubs,\" said Sabatini, in reference to Manchester United, as reported by the Manchester Evening News.\n\"We want to keep him, he is our point of strength. We hope to see him back in the field with all his powers. He played an exemplary role last season.\n\"Of course he is unsellable, but we must contextualise that I do not say he is for sale. We receive offers, protect him and defend him but I do not know what will happen.\n\"For now we enjoy him even while he is injured. We are not thinking in any way of selling him, we hope to have him return. We must have patience and wait, he is a decisive player.\"\nUnited transfer business\nUnited did strengthen their central midfield over the summer, bringing in Spaniard Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao. He is currently injured though, highlighting the need for at least one more top-class addition in the position.\nStrootman and Portugal international William Carvalho are believed to be two priority targets for United heading towards the winter transfer window.\nStrootman, valued at around £25m, has been sidelined with a knee injury but is expected to be on the comeback trail after ACL surgery in March.\nThe injury ruled him out of a place in Van Gaal's Netherlands squad for the World Cup, but the midfielder was a key part of the new United manager's national team set-up.\nVan Gaal on United's youth policy\nDo YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? Get started today by signing-up and submitting an article HERE:\nArticle Comments"}
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{"text": "This is mostly a photo post...but oh well! I need to go back to Washington D.C. because I really want to see the Smithsonian Museum.\nEisenhower Executive Office Building which is the biggest building I've ever seen. It's huge! The whole building is filled with different details, but the architecture is identical no matter where you look on the building. This building has a long history and many presidents have handled official business in it.\nLater on...\nMy family and I ate at a restaurant called \"Founding Farmers\", it's a pun on the term \"founding fathers.\" The restaurant was so good! We originally weren't going to go in, but it was worth it. I had fish and chips.\nI hope you liked this post!\nHave you ever been to Washington D.C?\nxx\nChristina Madeleine"}
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{"text": "Altenburger Ziegenkäse\nFrom Cookipedia\n- Description\nMilk: Cows’, to which a small amount of goats’ milk is added\nShape and weight: Cylinder with a manufacturing weight of 250 g or halved cylinder\nTexture: close texture with few holes\nFat content: at least 30% by weight in the dry matter\n- Geography\nUnder the Cheese Order as amended on 20 December 1993, rural districts of Altenburg, Schmölln, Gera, Zeitz, Geithain, Grimma, Würzen, and Borna and the town of Gera; after reorganization and renaming as a result of administrative reforms in the Länder of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the rural districts of Altenburger Land, Greiz and Muldentalkreis, parts of the districts of Leipziger Land and Burgenlandkreis. The milk derives its character from the nature of the forage area, a spread-out hilly agricultural landscape with clover-rich pasture. Goat-keeping has traditionally been a prominent feature of the region.\n- History\nTraditional product from the Saxony/Thuringia border area. Originally made as unpasteurised milk cheese on producers' holdings. Addition of the relatively small proportion of goat's milk has its origin in the fact that in the past goats’ milk was consumed directly\n- Production\nMade exclusively from cheese milk produced in the area of manufacture and containing at least 15% goats’ milk; caraway may be added.tenburger Ziegenkäse is not listed below, select a similar type of cheese from the list below to get a rough idea for the number of calories in Altenburger Ziegenk."}
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{"text": "Thing is, I've taken to sitting in my arbor, reading my book and drinking tea and eating a piece of chocolate on most evenings. It is fantastic. The other night I spotted a \"dragon\" in the sky across the field with a flopped ear, little flapping wings and a curved tail. More of a whimsical dragon than - I was just going to say realistic. I've clearly broken from reality for good! I meant more than what most movies portray a \"realistic\" dragon to look like.\nIt even seems to have a distinct face and is puffing out little clouds of \"smoke.\"\nWhich I completely screw up using Paint but hey...\nAs the sun set and what looked like the wing tips highlighted it was looking even more dragon like.\nI suppose there are worse things I could do than spend my evenings watching cloud shapes, reading books, sipping tea and eating chocolate.\n6 comments:\nI think this theme of clouds is overshadowing Blogger this past week. =) I love all these inspired posts about clouds...and yes, even before you outlined it, I could see the dragon and his smoke! =)\nOne of my favorite things to do...except for the cake! lol I would need some sugar free and that would not be as good! I am always looking at clouds and imagining....! You got a great photo! I SEE HIM!!! ♥\nAWESOME! I was cloud gazing quite a bit yesterday too:)\nyes, i see your dragon! there seems to be an abundance of clouds to gaze at here in the northwest. sign. but i DO love cloud art!\nI definitely see the dragon! Hmm chocolate sounds good!\nReminds me of the luckdragon, Falkor, from The Never Ending Story!"}
{"text": "More than 40 years on, its daring fusion of heavy metal, show-tune balladry and light opera remains the high watermark on A Night At The Opera, and a tribute to 70s Queen… A Night at the Opera är det fjärde studioalbumet av den brittiska rockgruppen Queen, utgivet 21 november 1975 i Storbritannien och 2 december i USA.Albumet spelades in mellan augusti och november 1975 i Sarm East, Olympic, Rockfield, Scorpio, Lansdowne och Roundhouse Studios. Queen - A Night At The Opera is ideal for any fans of Queen or appreciator's of good music. 1975 • 12 songs. I'm not Queens biggest fan by any means but I do like a lot of there earlier stuff, it seems a lot more fun for a start. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of its release. Comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity on the back. Without question, ‘A Night At The Opera’ is the crown jewel of Queen’s catalog. A Night At The Opera, named after the Marx Bros film, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of all time. The album's title is taken from the Marx Brothers film of the same name. 5:55. A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. × A Night At The Opera By Queen. QUEEN SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED A Night at the Opera Album Framed - $934.00. Listen free to Queen – A Night at the Opera (Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to ...), Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon and more). Editors' Notes Upon its 1975 release, A Night at the Opera was, reportedly, the most expensive album ever recorded. A Night at the Opera is a 1975 album by English rock band Queen.\nA Night at the Opera is a classic album and one of Queen's best. Their crowning achievement, this fearlessly eclectic album takes equal inspiration from heavy metal and '20s music hall on tracks like \"I'm in Love with My Car\" and \"Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon”, respectively. … Yet to put Queen’s mini-symphony anywhere other than at number one seems churlish and, worse still, fake. Had it been released today, it might not have been as impressive to the Pro-Tools generation, but for the time period, Queen maximized every ounce of technology (and a whole lot of money, too) to create an album that was completely out of this world. Try Prime Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. Listen free to Queen – A Night at the Opera (Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to ...), Lazing … Relisted due to non-paying bidder For auction is a fully signed \"A Night of the Opera\" album. Queen - A Night At The Opera is ideal for any fans of Queen or appreciator's of good music. Fortunately, Queen got their money's worth—and then some. A Night at the Opera is a classic album and one of Queen's best. Efter den makalösa succén på ett slutsålt GöteborgsOperan 2016 gör Göteborg Wind Orchestra nu på begäran ytterligare en konsert med deras färgsprakande hyllning till QUEEN. I'm not Queens biggest fan by any means but I do like a lot of there earlier stuff, it seems a lot more fun for a start. Exceptional on every level, musically, lyrically and artistically, Queen took the strongest elements of their previous two albums to make the ultimate winning combination."}
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{"text": "First of all, I must say I believe there is no hope of peace for this region without a two state solution, and without a stop of these illegal settlements NOW.\nI like that in the video some not-so-well-known-facts are noticed, like that Palestine was never a self-governed state, as after the 1948 partition its land was taken over by Jordan and Egypt (so much for Arab solidarity). And that Israel conquered the West Bank after being once again attacked by its neighbours, in 1967.\nNo hay comentarios:\nPublicar un comentario"}
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{"text": "Roofoods Ltd. (Deliveroo)\nUnited Kingdom (UK)\n1 June 2019 - 31 May 2020\nRegion: Global\nSubject/journal group: All\nThe table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Roofoods Ltd. (Deliveroo)\nStructured, uncertainty-driven exploration in real-world consumer choice\nProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\n2019-06-24\n1 June 2019 - 31 May 2020\nInternational vs. domestic collaboration by Share\n- 72.85% Domestic\n- 27.15% International\nNote: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.\nTop 10 domestic collaborators by Share (6 total)\n- Roofoods Ltd. (Deliveroo), United Kingdom (UK)\n- Domestic institution\n- University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK) (0.43)0.330.10\n- Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom (UK) (0.42)0.330.08\n- The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) (0.35)0.330.01\n- The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) (0.35)0.330.01\n- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) (0.35)0.330.01\n- University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) (0.35)0.330.01\nTop 10 international collaborators by Share (1 total)\n- Roofoods Ltd. (Deliveroo), United Kingdom (UK)\n- Foreign institution\n- Harvard University, United States of America (USA) (0.83)0.330.50\nNote: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.\nNumerical information only is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.\nReturn to institution outputs"}
{"text": "%20Yarn%20W.jpg)\nOur Story\nIn 2013, on the eve of turning 40, I faced a bit of an identity crisis. Having had the privilege of being a full-time mom for 14 years, my two young teens insisted that my job was obsolete, and I began to suspect that they were right. I’d always been an obsessive travel planner, from my family’s big trip to Disney when I was 12, to my husband’s and my honeymoon in Greece, and subsequently to my family’s trips to Scotland to visit my husband’s aunt and cousins. But strangely, I always held a disdain for travel agents, wondering why everyone did not share the same lust that I did for devouring travel guidebooks! What better way to seek out the small, independent accommodations that were either traditional or innovative and sustainable in their approach, and finding places to visit that either brought the history and tradition to life or highlighted the modern craftwork being done by local artisans? With the rise of the internet and online booking, the travel agency was dead anyway, wasn’t it? As it turned out from talking to friends and people in the industry, far from it.\n“My least favorite part of traveling is planning it!”, one friend moaned. “The options on the internet are endless and exhausting!” It turns out that a new breed of Travel Agent was developing- the Specialist. So, I took some courses, got my certification, and dove right in - I would become a Scotland Travel Specialist. It was the country I knew and loved most of all, and my husband’s family connections made it a natural fit. Rowan Tree Travel was born, named for a tree which, in Celtic mythology, protects travelers from bad luck and mischievous spirits.\nI found other people who loved Scotland as much as I did by setting up tables at local Highland Games in New England and talking to people about their special interests and the heritage spots they wanted to explore, and custom designed a lot of wonderful trips for people this way. I started traveling to Scotland on my own to better fulfill my role, went to travel expos, and learned to drive on the “other” side of the road! But it wasn’t long before fate intervened in the form of a woman from my town, now a dear friend.\n“I know you don’t do Iceland, and I know you don’t do groups, and I know you don’t do knitting trips, but would you be able…?” Well, why not? I had not been to Iceland before, other than a layover jaunt to the Blue Lagoon, but I had planned one trip there for a friend, so I had already done a lot of research. I wasn’t a daily knitter, but I did go through compulsive knitting spurts, usually fueled by souvenir yarn picked up along my travels. And so it began…. the Iceland group had a wonderful time and wanted to know where we were going next year… the answer was obvious - Scotland! And so Wool & Whisky was born.\nOne trip a year quickly turned into 4 and then 6 and then 8 with new destinations being constantly requested by my returning participants. Walking tours developed into an offshoot as it was remarked that some of the women loved to walk, but wanted to experience a walking tour without their husbands, for whom the end destination was such a priority that they didn’t have time to stop and smell the roses along the way!\nMeeting so many wonderful new women every year and developing a real sense of community during the course of our adventures together was as much of a highlight as the destinations we were traveling through. Some of those women have become dear friends, others, as the demands of the increasing number of tours required, employees and business partners. I think there is no better way to get to know a person than to travel with them, and I could not have conceived of hiring another person to lead tours before meeting Suzie Briddsang! But Suzie came to travel with the knowledge of a fiber connoisseur and did research ahead as a culture and history lover. When faced with a crisis regarding her post-tour travel plans, I saw her face it and deal with it with calm determination. We kept in touch, and when, a year later I began to realize that I either needed to reduce the number of tours I offered each year or expand, I could think of no one more ideal than Suzie to help me build Rowan Tree Travel.\nAmor Valdez came to us first as a yarn shop tour host during our first trip to the Edinburgh Yarn Festival in 2018. Amor captured our hearts with her sweet disposition and savvy marketing genius. A year later, she also was at a turning point with her business, and agreed to join our team. In the midst of this current pandemic crisis, she continues to push us to new heights as we plan for a big comeback in 2021!\nIt never ceases to amaze me how The Universe has always introduced the right person at the right time in this journey of mine. I can’t wait to see who she presents to me next!\n- Heather Radl, Owner"}
{"text": "Mooney trial pushed to summer\nThe murder trial of Jason Mooney will be postponed until summer and it will not include testimony from a Huntington, W.Va., psychiatrist.\nLawrence County Common Pleas Judge Charles Cooper Monday granted a continuance until June 9. This continuance was granted at the request of Lawrence County Prosecutor J.B. Collier Jr., who said a police officer scheduled to testify in the trial must undergo surgery and will be unavailable for approximately a month. The trial was to have begun Monday. Mooney, of Ironton, is accused of stabbing to death his grandmother, Thelma Mooney, in February 2007.\nCooper also excluded the testimony of Dr. Bobby Miller as an expert witness. During a pretrial hearing last week, Miller said he had examined Mooney and believed he suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, and therefore is likely to have given a false confession to his grandmother’s murder.\nCollier had argued during the hearing that there is no credible scientific evidence to support Miller’s contention. Cooper agreed.\n“I’m satisfied he made the correct decision,” Collier said. Rick Faulkner, attorney for Mooney, was contacted for his comment but did not return the telephone call.\nMooney remains in the Lawrence County Jail under a $1 million bond.\nFuller receives eight years for robbery\nA man accused of twice robbing the Speedway in Burlington pleaded guilty to the charges against him Wednesday in Lawrence... read more"}
{"text": "Printed especially for Pushkin House's exhibition COSMOS: Reverse Perspective, this pack of 8 postcards features two collages from each of the artists in the exhibition - Liz Davis, Fred Scott, Gleb Sobolev and Marina Sokolova. The works explore the experience of looking back at Earth from space, and the insights travelling away from our planet may give us when we return. The postcards also come packaged in a printed sleeve with essays in English and Russian by curator Pierre d'Avoine and historian Yehuda Safran."}
{"text": "Funny story, actually. Quite recently I told a friend of mine how and why xkcd was going downhill and how it was white-knight-esque pseudo-feminist. That was one day before he came out with 714. I was so happy the moment I read that strip, because of the i-told-you-so routine that was coming my friend's way soon. He ended up greeting me with \"Damnit, person. You might be right.\" that day. Great fun.\nAnyway, the reason I am telling this story is that today he was actually the one that lead me to read the strip when I did. He MSN'd me today saying \"Son of a bitch\", \"Why must you ruin things for me.\". I like to imagine he put a period instead of a question mark because he knows how much I like making people, specifically him, suffer. He also thought the author of xkcd was named \"Rupert Murdock\", which is actually kind of a badass name.\nBut my actual point was that keeping these words in mind, I went to the comic. It's hard not to be biased when you're writing a hate blog, it's even harder if your friend tells you something is shit ahead of time - but it's not even that. I looked at the comic. I read it, went back to him, said \"I don't get it\", went back to the comic, read it again, and asked him \"wait, is this actually the joke? Inspector Gadget has a lot of crazy shit 'under his belt'? That's it? That was a joke in the show too, Randall just made it dirty\". Ok that may be paraphrased to insert that hilarious pun.\nBut yes, that is it, my friend confusedly reassured me. Huh. Well. That's not funny.\nI'm going to go more in-depth on the actual joke, but I wanna talk about something else first\nThat doesn't really look like inspector gadget. a big part about inspector gadget was not only his goofy behaviour, but also his looks. Notice that if you take away the face and the hair, you aren't left with much of his original personality or charme. Could randall possibly have picked a more retarded choice in terms of his comic gimmick? The point of a comic is that you don't spell everything out, you show it. Your characters not having faces does not make this easier. Randall did kind of a good job at making him look around and showing that no one is there, but only considering the arbitrary restriction he set himself.\nThe point of that is not to prove that I'm a shitty artist, my point is that faces bring a whole new atmosphere to the comic, and allow randall to express himself better. But since you will all just bitch at me that this is his style (this is a criticism of exactly that, by the way - his style) and that it's just something I have to accept, let's move on.\nI'm not done with the art, though. Why is he shown so far away in the last two panels? There's no walls, no anything. It makes you think he shrinked. Randall, we're not asking you to draw us an oil panting in the background of your comics, but please, at least draw a line that shows us that your characters are not constantly in limbo. Also, I get that you want to show that he's alone, but too small. You have to realize that since you've drawn nothing, the borders of the panel are the first possible boundary of the room. What this means is that Gadget is standing in a hugeass room (both in height and width). The fact that it is empty is usually not a big deal since your stick figures are closeup, and their surroundings are unimportant - in this part however it plays a big role since the idea is that inspector gadget is all alone, but alive. You're getting one of these points accross.\nALSO, what's up with his arms not being down? That's weird, man. He probably realized he drew him too small to pull that off. So that makes it two points for bigger inspector.\nDoesn't that look far less distracting and better than xkcd's version? Yes it does, shut up. Where's YOUR criticism of xkcd? What gives YOU the right to criticize my criticism?\nWell, that leaves one thing. The humor. Sigh. Here's the thing, Inspector gadget was meant to be entertaining, and the fact that he had whatever the fuck seemed convenient in his hat was a joke of the show. What randall did was essentially a conversation I imagine some high schoolers are having somewhere right now. \"Dude! What if Inspector Gadget had like naked chicks in his hat so he can look at them whenever he wants\" \"THAT IS AWESOME! HIGH FIVE! I wish I had naked chicks in my hat, man. Inspector Gadget ROCKS\". We've established that it's a joke of the show, so what did Randall do? He took something that didn't belong (as it was a children's show) and mixed it with an unfitting concept. Actually, it's not like he showed an emo kid taking care of orphans, he just took something innocent and made it dirty. Rule 34, basically. Except it's not really very imaginative or funny. Hell, even if we completely ignore the bluntness of the joke, he still just showed a dude talking. It's not he even made an effort to at least surprise the reader through action (Maybe by inspector gadget pulling a dildo out of his hat or some shit. It still wouldn't be funny, but it'd at least be a little more creative than just saying something stupid.)\nAnd then we have the alt text. A 2girls1cup joke? Really? Again? Actually, not joke. Just reference. The difference is that he thinks he can get away with just mentioning something, instead of deriving humor from it. LAME.\nBut enough about the comic, let's see what the forumites have to say\n\"go go gadget decaying comic\"\n\"...Well congratulations, you've made Inspector Gadget unfunny and disturbing. I didn't even think that was possible. Go go gadget anti-comic!\nIt's like anti-hero, you see, except not at all interesting. And gone gone gadget repetitive lame joke intro phrase.\"\nThis, basically. While half of the forumites thought it would be hilarious to just say \"go go gadget\" and then a vague reference to the comic or anything really (implicitly giving randall credit for saying something unusual after go go gadget), a lot of them were also disappointed with the comic. Understandable.\n\"Just gonna say, xkcd been going downhill recently. Maybe it's just me, but it has a really different feel to it...\"\n\"Point of order: \"Lesbians doing it\" is an event or possibly fantasy, not a \"gadget.\"\nA video camera and cup would be a pair of gadgets, but I don't think they ever appeared in the cartoon. (Binoculars may come in handy if his legs go off instead).\"\nThis guy is funnier than the comic. That's really not saying much, though.\n\"Funny comic, awful (but predictable) mouseover.\"\nI'm slightly uneasy about both the fact that he liked the comic and that he PREDICTED a 2girls1cup joke at the mere mention of lesbian sex. Poor guy.\n\"Go go gadget people getting butthurt over a difference of opinion on what is/isn't funny\"\nI like how this guy calls a bunch of people who just said they didn't like the comic or that xkcd was getting worse butthurt, because he was getting \"butthurt\" over a bunch of people not liking his awesome favorite webcomic. I'm guessing he doesn't know about this site.\nYOU SUCK\nSTFU or I will edit your post to say how much you love dogwangs.\nMore tragicomic stuff from the forums:\n\"ALSO YOU GUYS:, it's ALWAYS funny to reference any (children's) cartoon character in combination with sex.\"\n\"This comic was really, really, REALLY stupid.\nI love it.\"\nThat QC comic with XKCD-shirt wearing girl is a total edit goldmine, here's one I just made where she discovers a certain site we all know and love.\naloria - I was addressing myself to get that out of the way. Nice self-confidence.\nThis was a pretty terrible comic, but I think it'd be even worse with your proposed zoom in the two last panels.\nZooming out to my mind illustrates that after looking around in the second panel, Mr. Gadget has found that he is alone; we can see a larger area around him and there's no one there. Somehow illustrating this is necessary for the comic to be coherent.\nPerson #1, let's be clear. I thought the comic sucked.\nLet's also be clear about something else:\nYou completely misinterpreted the joke.\nThe joke is not that Inspector Gadget has lesbians in his hat. It's that anything he prefaces with \"Go go gadget\" seems to appear from under his hat, as if magically. He says \"Go go gadget lesbians doing it\" not because he has lesbians \"doing it\" under his hat, but instead because he is furtively hoping that if he \"go go gadget\"s them, they will appear. That's why the comic's called furtive; it's Inspector Gadget hoping he has lesbians under his hat. The joke is that his hat might work like that: Anything he announces appears magically under it.\nI know that, dipshit. It's the same thing, though. It's semantics, a matter of how you phrase it. Obviously he doesn't actually have lesbians under his hat.\nalso 5:25 - the idea is not to not zoom out, the idea is not zoom out so much.\nThat line \"Doesn't that look far less distracting and better than xkcd's version? Yes it does, shut up. Where's YOUR criticism of xkcd? What gives YOU the right to criticize my criticism?\" reminds me a lot of Maddox. It's okay, it's really funny :)\nPart of the \"go go gadget\" gags in Inspector Gadget was that it wouldn't go according to plan. The mallet was a common choice in the show, a pair of scissors would also be a possibility.\nThe alt-text was too wordy. It could be improved, while still keeping the same joke, by just keeping the bit about the cup. Maybe the cup should've been part of the visual gag? In either case, a simple \"Yowzaa\" would also work.\nI like that you at least included the alt-text in your analysis Person#1. I was starting to get worried there that you kept going on and on about the strip that, as you said, had very little going on in it. xkcdexplained left it out entirely which is a huge mistake here. The thing is, like you said, there is no joke in the comic. The whole comic then appears to be a set-up for the joke in the alt text. A really, horrible, unfunny, slightly disturbing, moderately confusing, juvenile setup for a horrible, unfunny, moderately disturbing, tired reference joke. I don't think Randal intended the strip itself to be anything more than that, and it certainly isn't regardless of what he thought he was doing, so criticizing it for lack of humor is kind of pointless.\nI can kinda see how the Inspector Gadget 2girls1cup concept might be kind of funny with him gadgeting out the equipment... maybe. But the setup was absolutely horrible, and confusing, and it doesn't quite make sense, and it's so annoyingly juvenile. I can't even enjoy making juvinile sex jokes anymore because xkcd does it so horribly that I'm constantly paralyzed with fear that people will think I'm as lame as Randal if I crack a little sex joke (I mean, we're talking about reducing the quality of my life here. Possibly at the expense of increase the quality of everyone else's life but fuck them anyway. If randal stops making really lame juvinile sex jokes there's enough room in the universe for me to make moderately lame juvinile sex jokes without fear of having my eyes stabbed out). I really think Randal just runs with ideas for jokes even if he can't figure out how to make them funny with proper setups and pacing and making sure they actually make sense. You know, stuff that comedians do to turn abstract ideas about things that are kinda weird into jokes.\n@Person#2 Are you saying that Randal is also so stupid that he mixed up the order of the last two panels? I would totally buy your explanation if the last two panels were reversed in order. You would have to zoom out AFTER he said that to demonstrate that he he was just pathetically hoping that he could bring himself the pleasure of watching two lesbians doing it simply by calling it out and had failed. That would indeed be a joke. Not a good one, but a joke in line with xkcd norms. Also you would have to redefine the word \"furtive\" to mean what you just said it means instead of what it actually means for that to make sense. Either you're an idiot who can't use a dictionary reading things into the comic, or Randal is also an idiot who can't use a dictionary and is also so dumb that he screwed up the order of his frames, or both. If we changed the name of the 717 to something like \"hoping\" or \"please let this work\" (just off the top of my head, you could probably do better with the same concept) and switched the order of the last two frames you'd have a point. But they're not and you don't.\nI'm a comedy genius!\nI have been looking forward to seeing this one get torn to pieces since I saw this travesty of a comic earlier today. Good work. Even though you simply added a few lines to the face, it was 100% more clear that this was Inspector Gadget in the first two completely unnecessary panels. In fact, this could have been a great one-panel strip. To add the icing on the cake, it should have been worded \"two girls doing it\", since that would make them, inherently, lesbians. Saying \"two lesbians doing it\" sounds like something a middle-schooler would say while adjusting his 1-inch thick glasses, followed by a snorty chuckle.\nSince I'm a first time commenter here (and former xkcd fanatic) I'll also add that I love the blog here, big time.\nSo guys who here really loved John Lovitz's role as Bart Bookman in Southland Tales?\nHim, Dwayne Johnson, and...well, really just him and Dwayne Johnson. They were extremely entertaining.\nOH! And Wallace Shawn.\nThe first hour or so of that movie is deliriously, retardedly fun. Then it sort of slows down and increases in pompousness.\nMaletooth, you're NOT a comedy genius! Winnie the Pooh has a FACE! You're totally not as awesome as Randall.\nScary thought: how many people have went to Randalize the Inspector Gadget entry on Wikipedia?\nToo scared to see.\nCaptcha: simer. Simer down, you lickin' too hot, so!\nHonestly? Until I read the last panel I thought it was supposed to be Rorschach.\nAnd I see I wasn't the only one.\nTo be honest I don't like it when people make criticisms like the one I'm about to make because it's not really a valid reaction to \"is this a good comic or not?\"; it's just small-minded nitpicky whinging.\nBut...\nStickfigures.\nClothes.\nBluhh???\nLet's take Inspector Gadgets coat: unless you draw horizontal-to-the-floor stick-shoulders, coats just don't work. They can't.\nOr belts, how come the belt seems to be wrapped around something solid if his body is only one-dimensional? Or well just look at how dorky his hands look poking out of the sleeves.\nThe other thing is, drawing clothes on stick figures in the name of characterisation carries with it the implication that all the non-celebrity stick figures are running around in the nip. If you want a recognisable person, just drop the usual style and draw them properly. Because stick figures & clothes is weird. I don't like it.\n- - - -\nI think you could make a pretty funny (albeit probably short-lived, but hey) comic based around the various complications and contradictions involved with being a stick figure.\nLike how they can't digest food, or they can't tell what way they're facing, or how pointing at something is the same action for them as punching. Stuff like that. You'd run out of material pretty soon but...hmm actually maybe it wouldn't be all that funny...\nHo well.\n@ Fernie:\nOddly, no edits to the Inspector Gadget article that are related to xkcd. Two edits were made the day before this comic went up though, one that deleted the entire page and replaced it with \"go go gadget robopenis!\" and another edit that deleted the entire page and replaced it with an ASCII penis.\ni'm a huge xkcd detractor. usually agree with most of the posts in this blog. xkcd sucks, a lot.\nbut this comic made me laugh - not out loud of course (i mean it's still xkcd after all), but to myself. for some reason i found it pretty damn funny, perhaps because of the stark lack of artwork and very to-the-point punchline. so yeah, i liked this one.\nmaybe i need to lie down.\nRupert Murdoch is an Australian-American media mogul. He is the founder, a major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp).\nI like the idea that Inspector Gadget goes out into the middle of nowhere to watch porn. It seems like his logic to go into a wide open space rather than a bedroom or something.\nThing is, both that and the hat/coat combo are limitations of stick figure drawing. You'd think Randall would figure out the limitations and not write jokes that require detailed art.\nAs for the joke, it really is just \"haha, kids' cartoons have sex\". It's not unfunny, but it's been made before.\n(Note: References are not jokes in and of themselves. Notable people who think otherwise are Seltzer/Friedberg. Not sure why the guy who thinks Monty Python quotes are sad doesn't get this, but whatever.)\nOh, and I love how Randall can go from \"in my porn, people fuck\" pseudofeminism to almost literal objectification of lesbians. Wonder what the feminists have to say about this one. LOL.\nThis is one of the few xkcd comics I agree are truly horrible. I've been refreshing this page since it came out to see you rip it to pieces. I take issue with your criticism of the artwork, however; I found it quite refreshing to see Randall draw something more than a stick-figure.\nNo. Fuck that. It is not impressive or refreshing to see Randall go from drawing shitty ultra-minimalist stick figures to very slightly more detailed stick figures.\nLook at Bill Watterson or Nicholas Gurewitch or John Cullen Murphy or even fucking Mike Krahulik.\nToday, instead of just drawing a crudely-rendered stick figure, Randall went the extra mile and drew a crudely-rendered stick figure wearing a crudely-rendered trenchcoat and hat. Pathetic.\nKeep, you should read flatland.\nthis thing again?\nyes. just click it. i'm like halfway to the video.\ngod damn it, Carl, give me comment editing privileges so I can delete this fucking spam\ni'll delete your spam ;)\nYour life must be so sad :(\nWhy do you enjoy not enjoying something? Wouldn't you prefer to spend your time finding something you enjoy rather than criticizing something you don't enjoy?\nfalse dichotomy\nThis is the first comic I've read that I didn't understand until this explanation. Even then I had to search the year this cartoon aired. Randal is referencing a cartoon that my son watched.\nRandal's youth is showing.\nFirst, referencing some criticism already posted...\n\"Oh, and I love how Randall can go from \"in my porn, people fuck\" pseudofeminism to almost literal objectification of lesbians. Wonder what the feminists have to say about this one. LOL.\"\nYep. Pretty old news, though, the fact that Randall can't make up his mind on his ideological stances. Pretty \"Munroenic\".\n\"Stickfigures.\nClothes.\"\nKeep, I made this same point back at that Halloween/Back to the Future comic. The whole implications of having your comic art done in stick figures should be contemplated further, but Randall just won't do that. If he does, he'll get caught on a lot of complications and may likely be forced to actually draw things, and he'd never want that. Nope, better just ignore that and cash in on the usual loyal blind fans. Yay, meritocracy!\n\"\nCam, that's what RANDALL should have done. Person did enough just by illustrating the concept, the rest is pretty much implicit -- and pretty much impossible, since we know Randall refuses to do anything that adds effort to his comics, like elongating his stick figures' heads so they look more like the character they're supposed to represent.\nMalethoth, I think I saw \"2 bears 1 cup\" before. In a CRACKED Photoshop Contest, no less. shudder\nAll in all, good job, Person #1, a good and long post like I was missing around. Maybe you should kill Carl and replace him here.\nwhat if he already has\nthe joke requires some further thinking and imagination - which you obviously lack. sucks to be you\nfunny, the more I think about it and the more I try to imagine situations where this might be funny the less funny it gets\nthat's because you are a fucking retard.\nas stated before: sucks to be you.\na quality I share with all the xkcd fanboys, apparently\nif you approach this comic with the idea that every XKCD must be funny, and therefore when it's not, you make up a reason for it to be funny, then yeah I guess you'd think it'd funny.\nIt's true, if you have a good enough imagination, you don't even need a joke! You can just sit there and think of funny things.\nThat's what I've started doing, actually. Every time there's an XKCD I just imagine instead that it's an episode of Red Dwarf. XKCD is my favorite comic again!\nget some sleep, your brain seems to need it. and so does your face.\nCaptcha: \"Rob is a pathetic fucktard who thinks he's a writer, hahaha.\". True story.\nMan, trolls these days have no subtlety at all.\n\"subtlety\" is just a code word for COMMUNISM and FASCISM. DON'T LET YOURSELF BE TAKEN IN, AMERICA\nI thought it was better that he wasn't instantly identifiable as Inspector G in the first two panels, because then the last panel acted as a reveal. In other words, he used his so-called substandard art to add to the effectiveness of the punch line.\nI don't like the lazy lesbian reference though. It would have been better to choose some other embarassing item, like \"Go go gadget nose hair remover\".\nMinimalistic art style is no excuse for being lazy. I thought it detracted from this particular comic because, the more I look at the stick figure in the trenchcoat, the more it looks like Rorschach or some flasher pervert, and the less it looks like Inspector Gadget, simply because, as has already been stated, Gadget ACTUALLY HAS A FACE.\nSimon:\n\"Why do you enjoy not enjoying something? Wouldn't you prefer to spend your time finding something you enjoy rather than criticizing something you don't enjoy?\"\nYou just answered your second question with your first. Good game.\nUnrelated to the comic, but I kept noticing an inordinate number of people using the word Jehova on the XKCD forums. I thought at first that it was some sort of weird meme there but then I realized that the word God is censored to Jehova when you post. Any idea why this is?\nAbout 75 comics back or so xkcd got even worse.\nTwo theories: one, Randall (or some other admin on the forums) is an idiot and thinks he's being sensitive to Christians etc. by censoring a word they often take offense to. This would work better if it weren't more likely to piss them off.\nTwo, Randall or some other admin on the forums thinks he's making a hilarious point against Christians etc. who complain about the use of the word 'God' as a vulgarity by changing it to something that's likely to really piss them off.\nApparently it is part of some sort of forum \"game\" for this week.\nThe word computer also becomes Porn storage aparatus or something like that. I think internet becomes blagotube.\nEssentially, just another dumb xkcd thing.\nStrikes me as annoyingly PRO-Christan/Jew. There are other gods out there besides the judeo-christian one; changing all instances of 'god' to 'Jehova' forces it to be all about Captain Jeebus.\nNo Christian would ever do that, though. Like, there are plenty of Christians out there who don't mind people saying 'god' as a vulgarity, because God is not actually the name of God and the commandment goes 'thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain' or whatever.\nJehovah actually being the name of God, this is basically a deliberate violation of the second or third commandment (depending on your particular orthodoxy). If it is pro-Christian then it was done by someone who has never actually interacted with Christians. It reads like it's mostly supposed to piss off Christians to me.\nBUT IN THE LATIN ALPHABET, JEHOVAH STARTS WITH AN 'i'!!!!!\nO_o\nI guess it's their forum and they can do what they like but saying \"nobody is allowed to complain about it\" is kind of a dick move.\nAlso apparently \"mod\" filters to \"god\".\n\"Strikes me as annoyingly PRO-Christan/Jew. There are other gods out there besides the judeo-christian one; changing all instances of 'god' to 'Jehova' forces it to be all about Captain Jeebus.\"\nIt's not even how the Jews say or spell it in a roman alphabet.\n.\"\nhow dare somebody have an opinion (mind you I have neve been particularly fond of the xkcd forum admin team)\nThey should have just made it יְהֹוָה\naloria you are my favorite person.\nYay let's drink\n\"how dare somebody have an opinion (mind you I have neve been particularly fond of the xkcd forum admin team)\"\nIt's pretty common to communities like the XKCD forums: the admins essentially feel that it's your privilege to be there, so anyone who doesn't cater to their whims is banned. This belief pervades every level of the forum's culture, so the forum members also viciously attack people who deviate from forum norms.\nmy little brother just told me that \"The_P\"'s avatar is some guy from pokemon - what the fuck? How old are you??!\nOn a side note: Giving a shit about what other people think and attacking them? .. kinda reminds me of this blog. Don't be hypocritical, Rob.\nFuck, seriously? A moderator on a forum posted that? It's okay to enjoy yourself as a mod, but you should never appear capricious or malicious in your moderating. It's the best way to kill a community. Whoever posted that should get their head out of their ass.\nyes, I am definitely being hypocritical by describing a common tendency in tight-knit forum communities like XKCD. this blog has a super tight-knit community and isn't basically thread after thread of endless flame wars over shit that doesn't matter at all\nIt essentially reads to be like:\n\"Hey, we've decided to act like immature fucktards for a week. Intelligent discourse on whether or not this is a good idea is impossible, as that would be inconsistent with the tenets of immature fucktardery. In order to maintain consistency with the tone of the week, we will throw a temper tantrum and abuse our power if anyone disagrees with us or calls us out on our immature fucktarded behavior.\"\n..sounds like tons of fun!\nEven I'm not that bad, and when I do any kind of administrative action in the channel, people just scream at me until I stop and reverse it.\nhehe, oh those banhammer days were funny\nPerson #1 you tyrant\nAnon 7:52 - specifically, it's an edited picture of a guy from Pokemon. Your implicit age-related insult is retarded and you are most likely a tremendous faggot.\naloria, I can't drink because I am at work right now but I'll start as soon as I get home.\nJust wondering, has anyone taken XKCD's colour name survey?\nI used to go to GameFAQs until I got banned for ridiculously minor infractions. Specifically, I insulted people non-stop for about six weeks, and was punished with a serious of mild but escalating restrictions on my ability to post. When I continued to relentlessly insult people, I was banned.\nFascists.\nYou know, it's funny, people on GameFAQs do complain a lot about how arbitrary its moderators are, but I think it's one of the sites with the very least capricious moderating body. Especially if you compare GameFAQs to any amateur forum, such as a webcomic's. The main issue is just that there's a couple hundred mods on GameFAQs dealing with a couple million registered users. Admittedly, only a few thousand of them are active at any given time, but it's not like every moderator is constantly alert either.\nThere's actually a pretty well-spelled-out body of rules for when you'll get moderated, and the policy of how punishments is determined is pretty easy to figure out and pretty consistently-applied. They don't radically change what's bannable on a whim.\nHey wait none of you guys care at all about this stuff. :(\nI think someone, maybe rob, needs to write a blog post about this, just so we can piss them off.\nI have NO problem with the drawings on the subject comic, although I agree the too-tiny last panels were ill-advised. The coat and hat were quickly explained by the go-go text, the combination of stick figure and drawn coat is not an issue for me, and the look-around swivel was clear.\nThe problem is the comic is utterly witless and illogical, even or especially in the context of the literally cartoonish Inspector Gadget. Lesbians will appear as gadgets, presumably protruding or emanating from him? This is funny? No. This is stupid.\n@The_P: Hey, thank you for the explanation on your avatar, that made it cool again!! ..Well, no, in fact it's still gay and so are you. Have a nice day, moron.\n:)\nperson #1, please don't encourage rob to write another post on a stupid subject. in the end he's gonna think he's actually good at it!\ntoo late he's already written an 85-page dissertation on it.\noh fake Keep. you're so compelling!\nyou do know that people complaining about these posts is the biggest reason I'm still writing them, right?\nRob, it's Emily. I really don't know how to tell you this, but I just found this site and it's really changed how I see you as a person. I don't think we can go on like this with me knowing what a sanctimonious prick you are. I'm leaving you Rob.\nrob:\nall i know is that you're full of shit.\nand btw: you do know that it's a great pleasure for me when you waste hours and hours of your precious life on those fruitless and uninspired rants and comments on this blog, right?\nand please spare us your phony shit about how little time this actually takes, because like i said before: you're full of shit.\nthank you and goodbye\nit's cool, I could never date a girl who doesn't know how to use \"sanctimonious\" correctly.\nEmily, it's Dad. I told you to leave that poor kid Rob alone. Do you want to go back to the hospital again? Now get off the damned computer and do your homework.\nfake Keep: as always, I'm flattered that you think it must take me hours to put the posts together--so, again, thank you--but I really am incredibly fucking lazy and I've got better shit to do.\nThis is by far the absolute worst criticism of xkcd I've ever read. xkcdsucks is seriously going downhill. Yes this comic sucks, but your critique is like somebody vomited words on a page and called it criticism. Its just one long ramble making very few good points.\nYou keep going on about the art. Yeah we get it, xkcd has shitty art. But that's been the critique in the last 50 posts.\nSeriously get some better writers, cause this drivel sucks.\n\"xkcdsucks is seriously going downhill.\"\nthis isn't even written by carl what\n\"Jehovah actually being the name of God\".\nWhen the Bible was translated out of Hebrew, the translator failed to realize that it was two words inter-spliced, and thought that Yahowah was God's name. Except, this was a German translator, so Jehovah.\nOn top of that, Jehovah's witnesses must have forgotten that the word is German, so they took to pronouncing a j and v instead of y and w.\nIt is in fact the gross mistake at God's name that should offend Jews and Christians. Or they could get a sense of humor.\n(Sorry, wild divergence, but this bit of trivia is one I find particularly interesting.)\nIncidentally, even though Inspector Gadget is a buffoon, he should at LEAST be adult enough to say \"having sex\".\nThis is by far the absolute worst criticism of xkcdsucks I've ever read. Anonymous article bashing is seriously going downhill. Yes this article sucks, but your critique is like somebody vomited words on a page and called it criticism. Its just one long ramble making very few good points.\nYou keep going on about people going on about the art. Yeah we get that you get that xkcd has shitty art. But that's been the critique in the last 50 comments.\nSeriously get some better commenters, cause this drivel sucks.\n@Anon 12:34\nAaand we've now gone meta. cool.\nI love the whole \"god's name\" thing. It's so full of intricate rules. I had no idea they had actually spliced together words to keep from offending him. That's so... I'm sure there's a proper medical term for it, but it sounds like god, and the people talking about him, suffer from a cross of autism and ocd. It's very reminiscent of coming up with rules about which tiles to walk on.\nIf you don't like my post, don't read it\nUh, El Dude, have you HEARD about the kosher laws?\nGreat criticism, but I would appreciate it if you didn't start off with 'hey dummies.' On what grounds do you call us dumb?\nok now I am drinking.\nThe grounds that you're dumb?\nOOHH SICK BURN\nTHIS IS WHAT YOU GET\nTHIS IS WHAT YOU GET\nME TOO\nINTERNET HIGH FIVE\nI am drinking a drink called a \"red pussy\" it is good but also very embarassing\nFollowing both the xkcdsucks and xkcd comic threads, I've almost noticed a blending of the two. It seems like more and more Anons come here to (when not choking on their own drool) try to troll this blog. Meanwhile, looking over at the XKCD individual comic threads for the truly terrible comics (like this inspector gadget piece of shit), it seems like it's in equal measure people calling in to say the comic sucks while the other half is the remnants of the diehard circle-jerkers.\nLooks like xkcd's falling popularity is... well, falling faster.\nMaybe I'm just being optimistic.\nOk people, feel free to flame me for throwing in something so completely off-topic and possibly old news, but is this who I think it is?\nIt might be my google skills but I don't think it's been mentioned anywhere online.\nI seem to remember him mentioning that site in his blog a long time ago.\nLol Alsworth said \"minimalistic art style is no excuse for being lazy.\" Isn't that the same thing Carl does? With all the one liner posts that are supposed to be funny because it's one line??\nWhy do you guys praise dinosaur comics so much, when your criticizing xkcd's \"art?\" I mean, dc is just the same every fucking day.\nI wonder why Rorschach is talking about gadgets and lesbians in this comic?\nRyan North is anything but lazy.\n\"Why do you guys praise dinosaur comics so much, when your criticizing xkcd's \"art?\" I mean, dc is just the same every fucking day.\"\nBut DC is actually funny. XKCD is often unfunny, often because Randall's poor art interferes with the delivery of the joke. Art is no obstacle for DC, but it is for XKCD, hence the criticism.\nMan, I absolutely loved XKCD #384. I hope that the next comic is just like it, but with a tautology instead of a punchline.\nI hate xkcd as much as everyone else, but some of these criticisms are weak. Firstly there's nothing sexist about this comic. It merely shows Inspector Gadget to have crude, unrefined taste. Secondly, the fact that 'two lesbians doing it' doesn't fit into the usual gadget template isn't what makes this comic not work.\n718\nThe joke\nWhere is it\nAnonymous who talked about kosher laws: could they be even more hilarious than the name thing? I know about the \"no pork\" and \"no work on saturday\", and that the latter gets interpreted in many different ways. For example, in one fancy jewish neighborhood in one undisclosed city, on saturdays they hire people to stand in elevators (in apartment buildings!) and press buttons for those more orthodox jews who consider button-pressing to be work.\nAnonymous 7:29, Ryan North's feat is that he manages to come up with funny and thoughtful dialogue that fits those pictures almost every time. I mean really fits the facial expressions. That's nothing short of amazing.\nBtw, I actually liked 718.\nIt's a sort of an interesting idea, but this really should've been posted to his blog.\nFor a second I thought Randall was copying Ryan and doing some KLASSIK KOMIX but oh wait, the equation's different.\nOh and he forgot the joke this time.\nSuppose the average habitable lifespan of a planet is one billion years--conservative, since the earth has been fecund for four times that. Let's also suppose that the average length of an intelligent civilization is one hundred thousand years. That's fairly generous. You could then have ten thousand civilizations on the same planet, none of whom ever existed concurrently.\nOne resolution of the Fermi paradox. There HAVE BEEN millions of alien cultures, that never existed simultaneously.\nIt's also why we wouldn't necessarily detect them. Sure, if a species ten thousand light years away from us broadcast continuously for ten thousand years, we would expect to pick up on it. But if there was a relatively brief blurt of communication--say they broadcast continuously for ten thousand years, but did so three hundred million years ago--we wouldn't notice. We've been listening for alien cultures for an extremely short period of time, in evolutionary terms and even moreso in cosmological terms.\nXKCD 718 was funnier the first time, when it was called 384 and had a punchline. Also, there's a Goddamned typo (pracitce) in the alt text, which is unacceptable for a supposedly intellectual webcomic.\n.\"\nyes, because it's impossible for someone to have multiple names\n\"There HAVE BEEN millions of alien cultures, that never existed simultaneously.\"\nThis thought, to me, feels lonelier than the thought that we are alone.\nAlthough 718 isn't funny in it self (you could make up as many such formulas as you like), there might be the possibility that this comic is a parody of statistics (when you consider the alt-text): making up a formula that leads to the same results as you experience when doing research, but that basically is worthless.\nTo comply with the culture on this blog:\nMaybe this strip is aparody of xkcd itself: You can make up as many strips like this as you want, that are unfunny, give no insight, and are basically pointless.\nQuick nitpick - conservative estimates would UNDERestimate the world population to 6.5 billion or so.\nAlso, he gives people a 90% chance to make details not fitting the narrative work, and a 0% chance to actually realize that there is a problem with the story and their friend is wrong.\nCan't argue too much more, since there certainly are a lot of people out there who think aliens are real and know of sightings.\nCarl why must you be spreading communist-nazi lies to the youth of America? Why do you hate freedom?\nOh hey sweet, I went to post how today's comic Flake is \"junk math\" and found out... I've been banned! I did not even see that post saying they would capriciously ban people on a admin fiat about it. I don't know why, but it made me really really angry. I shot off a quick e-mail pointing out that I only read the original post of the topic (why would I want to read pages and pages of people circle jerking how good this mod madness thing is?). I was actually mad enough to send the following to Randall's contact address on his \"blag\". I am sure he doesn't give a shit, but I had to at least let him know that his forum mods (oh should I say \"gods\") are asshats. BTW - I tried to keep it civil and maybe even sucked up a little bit in order to curry favor and get him not to dismiss my claim because I \"made him mad\".\nHere it is:\nI am almost certain that this has no weight in your life and that you probably won't care enough to do anything, but as your forums are representative of you, I feel that I must write you about this. did not get very angry though and simply posted \"This is pretty much dumb\". Your admin then BANNED me from the forum for this. Apparently, somewhere buried in the topic, he said he would ban people who did not kowtow to their whims.\nI just cannot believe that I do not have the freedom to protest the worthiness of something on the xkcd forums. I thought xkcd as a concept was supposed to be all about it being okay to be different and have different opinions. I could see a ban if I were trolling people hard, but I just said \"this is pretty much dumb\". I guess I could justified my opinion more, but it doesn't seem to matter to your power hungry forum leaders who write tripe like:\n.\"\nThere is nothing fun about being banned. He didn't even remove the post I made for goodness sake. He is just enforcing a totalitarian yes-man regime where only those who are willing to pretend like the mods are oh so funny and witty and great because they were given some meaningless web authority are allowed to have fun.\nI would appreciate if you reprimanded your administrators for this behavior and got my account reinstated immediately.\nI contacted him about it too. Let's see what he has to say. I don't think he's even aware of it, since he himself doesn't seem like a douchebag.\n@Person #1 the Second: um, dude, that's not what \"furtive\" means. It means secretive. It has nothing to do with hoping. Are you maybe thinking of \"fervent\" as in \"fervently hoping?\"\nI also created a new account \"modmaddnessprotest\" for the duration of my ban. While not saying anything about mod madness as a game, I did protest the bannings. I wonder how long before they kill that account too. :)\nHaha, oh god. The very idea that Randall had anything to do with NASA, the big fucking dungaree cunt. Imagine making mathematics so vain. I hope he eats a witch's dinner.\nSo maybe I'm an idiot, but what is \"P\" meant to be? He labelled every variable except for that one.\nAlso note the current title of the rules thread: \"xkcd Forum Rules - Post GoatKCD, Get Banned\". I can only imagine the discussion that prompted that.\nOn that note 716 and 717 make excellent goatkcds (the last line of 716 makes it especially excellent).\nIn my rage about the forum stuff, I got distracted. Malethoth: I have frequented gamefaqs since 2001. You are right about the rules being crazy strict there, though I don't think it is a necessarily bad thing. In my opinion, for the most part it keeps the community in line and discussion civil, especially compared to some of the spinoffs that exist (luelinks for example)\nThat being said, I must wholeheartedly agree that the one good thing about the site is relative consistency. It gets messed up when new mods are first chosen, but for the most part, the site is moderated consistently and there is at least a form of recourse to complain to a higher up mod or admin if there are problems.\nLast comic... I don't care. It seems he wanted to make a point about accounts of extraterrestrial contact, but I'm not sure what it is, and why bother making a parody equation to state it.\nCAPTCHA: laderme. Fancy French for \"the skin\". I think.\nSecond CAPTCHA, because I forgot I was posting this comment and got distracted: bullyise. Aw, come on...\nThe xkcd forum dramarama is exactly the kind of thing a bitchy gossip queen like me thrives on. Keep the updates coming!\nToday's Dinosaur comics isn't very worthwhile until you read the title text. Then it surpasses my expectations. We all know Mario 3 is the best video game ever, except it could have been better with more goomba sock!\nDear god. Mod madness. I've never seen anything so dumb defended with such open assholery. I wonder what the mechanism is for choosing mods on those boards. Did Randy pick the initial mods and then it was like, \"if you trust the person, you can make him a mod, and he gets the same right\"? A couple of years ago the mods sounded like nice, intelligent people.\nI'd like to see a graph comic that showed the retards creeping in. Maybe plotting \"friend-distance from Randall\" versus \"idiocy\"?\nanomalies: Belial\n@marsman57\n agree that some of that stuff is pretty offensive. I wonder why it says God->Jehova instead of the more accurate God->\"Purportedly Magic Fairytale Character\"?\nI agree that some of that stuff is pretty offensive. I wonder why it says God->Jehova instead of the more accurate God->\"Purportedly Magic Fairytale Character\"?\nThe mods probably don't want to cause too much of a stir; some people still believe that God exists. They're right, too.\nlol@butthurt qwantzsux\nI think God->\"Santa Claus\" would be more appropriate; some people still believe that Santa exists. They're right, too. My parents told me so.\nSpoken like a world-weary eight-year old.\n@comic\nat least he didnt do a Go Go Inspector G-spot joke\n@anonee mice\nSantachrist, your new god\nSantachrist, Santachrist, we all love Santachrist, he is Santa and Jesus, Goddamn it's Santachrist\nOne thing I used to do was say \"go go gadget\" before doing something incredibly mundane. As if it were an actual achievement. \"Go go gadget pen,\" and then take a pen out of my pocket and start writing, for instance.\nI'm sure there's a joke in there about an unemployed Inspector Gadget, who gets laid off the force but continues to say \"Go Go Gadget\" as he goes about his daily life.\n\"Go Go Gadget Knife and Fork!\"\n... he rummages in a drawer for a few seconds.\n\"Actually, I think I sold my cutlery for beer money. ... Damn.\""}
{"text": "He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Anita Hall.\nTravis' smiling face, sense of humor and warm grace will be deeply missed by his devoted wife of 27 years, Rita Boone; son: Travis Boone, Jr.; daughters: Denise Boone- Pruitt and Fontella Gallow (Sidney); five loving grandchildren; brother: Granison Boone, Jr.; sister: Margaret Diann James; adopted sister: Janice K. Hall; adopted daughter: Kimberly Hart; mother in law: Ruth Fontenot; sisters in law: Thelma Harris and Sharion Jordan; godson: Andrew D. Johns; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, the St Luke church family and friends.\nViewing will begin at 9 AM on Tuesday March 17th followed by a life celebration service at 11:00 am at the Avenue L Baptist Church with his pastor Rev. Charles E. Wheat officiating. Burial will follow at Mainland Memorial Cemetery in Hitchcock, TX."}
{"text": "Xmas Giveaway, Day 2: Item 4\nItem 4 in the Christmas Giveaway is another book: Wuthering Hearts by Kay Woodward, which I gave a 4.5 out of 5 in July 2011, when it was released. It’s sort of a modern take on Wuthering Heights for young adults (girls ~11-15 or so), and yup, this is my review copy.\nSee what you make of it! I’d love it if you post a review of it somewhere to help Kay spread the word.\npiece of advice would you like to give Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?\nThis giveaway is open worldwide.\nGood luck! Santa’s bag re-opens again tomorrow.\n"}
{"text": "What is the best weight loss workout for women? The quickest method to burn fat and sport a lean and sexy body is to regularly participate in a workout program of strength training integrated with HIIT or high strength interval training. This weight loss exercise program has been a proven strategy in melting fat and structure lean muscles in the least quantity of time. Besides burning calories and building fat-burning muscles, you'll prevent the glitch of a weight reduction plateau.\nGetting into a fat loss workout routine for ladies doesn't mean that you'll develop a large and thick body. You'll be raising heavy weights, yes, however the muscles you'll construct will burn calories even if you're at rest. Your muscles become metabolically active and the more you have of it, the more fat you'll melt. Muscles in general are dense and it might appear that you're much heavier on the scale, but don't depend on the pounds you see. You'll be surprised to look great in your slim jeans.\nFor this regular, you have to get a set of 10-20 pounds. dumbbells and a piece of jumping rope. Do 1 set of workout utilizing the dumbbells and 1 set of workout using the jumping rope. Carry out the circuit once again for 3 times, carolinadidomenico but you can do 1 full circuit if you don't have sufficient time. Do this workout 3 times a week to acquire the very best outcomes. As you go along, make it more tough, add more weight for each of this exercises. This is an excellent way to construct a solid rock core and sexy limbs.\nSingle leg deadlift- get a set of dumbbells utilizing an overhand grip. Get the dumbbells and hold them in front of your thighs. The dumbbells ought to be at arms' length. Carry out a standing position where your feet at hip-width distance. Slightly bend your knees. While keeping your knees bent, bend at your hips then sink your torso till it ends up being parallel to the ground. The weight should be kept close to your body as possible. Halt and resume to a standing position. As you do this motion, keep your back naturally arched. Carry out 8 repetitions of this exercise at each side. This is a kind of exercise that will specify your glutes and hamstrings.\nSplit squat jumps- carry out a lunge position while bending your knees. Your front knee ought to be stationed above your ankle. Put your arms at the back and lower down to perform a lunge. Leap off specifically from the ground and exchange your feet while you're leaping. When you land, softly resume to a lunge position while placing your other foot in front. Regularly switch your feet at a quicker rate. Raise your chest and sway your arms in front while you jump. Carry out 5 dives of this regular on each side. This is an exercise that engages all the muscles of your body and at the exact same time blast calories."}
{"text": "To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 27 July 1787\nFrom André Limozin\nLe Havre, 27 July 1787. Encloses bill of lading for the three boxes of books shipped to James Madison on the brig Mary, John Howland, master. Invoice for disbursements for these boxes, amounting to 55.\n9s. 6d., annexed."}
{"text": "Conrad Petzsch-Kunze has always found photography to be the most challenging and rewarding artistic medium. He notes that unpredictable oceans and fluctuating conditions means that waiting for the right moment to capture an image can be gruelling, yet rewarding at the same time. Conrad currently lives on the Gold Coast which means quality surf is in no short supply. Here are five of his favourite shots, with Part 2 to follow soon.\nMICK FANNING AND THE ENTOURAGE. DURANBAH (F/6.3 @ 1/1600 – CANON 7D MKII). One of those dreamy autumn mornings at Duranbah watching Fanning take apart an empty line up. This moment happened fast and I remember having to hustle to get a perspective that worked. Having a fixed focal length of 400mm has its challenges and I didn’t want my frame to be too cropped.\nRYAN HIPWOOD AND DH. (F/5, 1/60 SONY 7R MKII). When chaos enters the shaping bay. DH and Hippo crafting a masterpiece.\nELLIOT MARSHALL. CLOUDBREAK, FIJI (F/7.1, 1/1600 – CANON 7D MK II). This shot was taken late afternoon out at Cloudbreak while on a trip with Ryan Hipwood. It was a full day of filming on the judges tower which was covered in sea snakes and a thick layer of bird poo. I finally made it back to the boat to grab some snacks but the swell started to peak again. It was insane to see this wave’s perfect form. Elliot scored until dark. The colour of the wave keep getting better as the sun dropped lower.\nLIAM O’BRIEN. DURANBAH (F/5.6 @ 1/1600 – CANON 7D MKII). I was on a project for DHD so my focus was to capture the detail of the board. This day was a junky wind swell that most people wouldn’t get much out of. The corner near Lovers lefts had a rip bowl giving LOB the chance to light up.\nTHE GOLD COAST (F/5.6, 1/1250 – CANON 7D MK II). The cold currents rising from the deep during a Northerly pulse.\nWant to see more of Conrad’s goods? Check him out on Instagram here."}
{"text": "As people, we want to go somewhere. We want to learn what’s new and improve our image of the world. But as with every journey, there is one mandatory question: how do we get back?\nThis is one of the things the iPhone made right: a big button you can’t miss to get to get back to your Home (!) screen. Older feature phones have either implemented a back button in each “app” (at different locations) or you can press the Hang up-button. However, this has two disadvantages\n- Back buttons are not consistent\n- Hang-Up is not intuitive\n- Hang-Up “force” closes the app\nYou might argue that back button implementations are still up to the developer, but we have far better guidelines that become less optional as time goes. You may think that Hang-Up is like quitting an app, but it’s not like it says on the button “Press me to go back”. It’s one of the features you’ll be more likely to discover by accident.\nDid you even know this feature? Leave a note in the comments.\nIt’s important to know that people want to have a starting point. When you plan a trip, the first step is to decide where to start at all. That’s why most manuals begin with “On your Home screen, (…)”.\nHaving a starting point helps people remember where they are. If you feel lost, just press Home to be safe and sound. It’s not like Hansel and Gretel, where you’d have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs. It’s not like the cave men exploring a new cave, not knowing if they ever get back. This is 21st century stuff."}
{"text": "Let your imagination and creativity run wild with this deal! The fun and relaxed atmosphere of this deal will allow you and your friends' creativity to express itself through a variety of different media. Choose only one or buy them all! The event is facilitated by an experienced artist with a wide knowledge of different forms of media.\nThe classes offered are:\nContemporary Acrylic on Canvas\nReverse Painting on Windows\nBowling Ball Art\nStepping Stones\nCanvas Door Hangers\nConcrete Leaves.\nALL OF THE PARTIES INCLUDE WINE!\nSchedule your party to accommodate your schedule. You pick the time and day that fits your busy schedule.\nHours are Monday-Friday 10-5\nSaturday 10-4\nClosed on Sunday\nRelax. Unwind. Create!\nThe Potting Shed's story:\nThe Gift Shop opened in August of 2012. The store is full of gifts with a gardener in mind, House Plants, Succulents, Seasonal Gifts and Custom Silk Floral Designs. Classes, demonstrations and guest speakers are held every month. Please join our mailing list of the current monthly events.\nVisit our Facebook page for lots of pictures of flowers, the store and events. We also share fun gardening ideas and weekly specials for our facebook friends.\nWe are a Paybac Partner with Millard Public Schools, a member of the Millard Business Association and part of the Shop Small Movement.\nSign up and receive daily emails for discounted prices at local restaurants, spas & attractions! Already signed up? Simply exit out of this pane and log into your Daily Deal Omaha account."}
{"text": "Euro 2016: Coach Conte wants Italian fans to show their pride\nItaly head coach Antonio Conte celebrates after the match with Simone Zaza .\nItaly coach Antonio Conte said he wants more of the team's supporters at Euro 2016 to show their pride by wearing blue shirts after they secured their place in the knockout stages with a 1-0 win over Sweden on Friday.\nAs the Azzurri secured their second straight win with Eder's late goal, Conte was impressed by the vast number of Swedish supporters inside the stadium in Toulouse wearing their side's bright yellow shirts.\nItaly, in contrast, looked under-represented in the stadium.\n\"Whether our supporters are living in Italy or living elsewhere, I want them to put on a blue shirt,\" he said.\n\"When you see everyone in a yellow (Swedish) shirt, it's fantastic.\n\"Just a blue t-shirt if you want. There were 9,000 (Italian)fans but they were all quite dispersed.\n\"I want everyone to be involved.\"\nAs often happens, Italy went into a major tournament amid media criticism, which Conte believes they have now answered with the wins over Belgium (2-0) and Sweden.\n\"We're starting to get the respect very few people gave us,\" he said.\n\"Very few would have envisaged us making the last 16 after two matches. A number questioned whether we'd get through the group.\n\"It's a huge achievement.\"\nGiorgio Chiellini of Italy and John Guidetti of Sweden in conversation following an incident during their UEFA EURO 2016 Group E match in Toulouse.\nThe coach, due to join Premier League club Chelsea at the end of the tournament, did admit that Italy's performance in a dull first half had been underwhelming.\n\"Everyone was a bit nervous,\" he added, suggesting that past failures were the cause.\n\"They still had some ghosts from the past, which may have affected their performance.\n\"Occasionally I'm disappointed enough to get angry at them. The whole group including myself feels a great burden and responsibility representing the whole country, particularly at a tricky time for the country from every perspective.\"\nConte said that for the final group match against Ireland, he will give some game time to squad players who have not appeared much so far.\nSix players on yellow cards and facing suspension if they collect another could be among those rested.\nSweden's coach Erik Hamren seemed at a loss to explain how his team, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic in attack, can have played two games without having a single shot on target.\n\"Against Ireland we had some really close (efforts) and today we met a really strong team,\" he told reporters.\n\"Belgium did not score against Italy too.\n\"Of course we need to be better in attack if we're going to win (the last game) and I can assure you we're doing our best.\""}
{"text": "Mrs. Chvoy – More than just a math teacher\nDecember 22, 2021\nShe teaches math. She sponsors Key Club. She supports her students in whatever they may need. She loves to attend Broadway plays and musicals in her spare time. Mrs. Chvoy is loved by teachers and students alike.\nMrs. Chvoy has been teaching math at Joliet West High School for 25 years now, and in those years, she has taught in the B-building, E-building, D-building and is now in a classroom in the G-building, which she hopes will be her permanent home for years to come.\nMrs. Chvoy says, “I enjoy teaching and showing students that they can all be successful in math. It’s just a matter of breaking it down into smaller steps.”\nMia Guerro, a freshman that Mrs. Chvoy teaches in Honors Geometry says, “Mrs. Chvoy is one of the best math teachers I’ve had. I love the way she teaches, where she gives us an example, then goes through the problem with us and then lets us do it on our own.”\nNot only does Mrs. Chvoy teach wonderfully, but she is constantly aware of what is going on with sports and clubs, and is always taking the time to go and cheer on students at sports or performance events and congratulate them after a win.\nMrs. Chvoy has also been a sponsor for Key Club—a club that works to serve and give back to the community we live in—for two years. Mrs. Chvoy’s main role as a Key Club sponsor is to facilitate the service projects the students think up. This year, the students in Key Club have written cards for troops serving overseas, made dog toys, created plarn balls which will be used to make sleeping mats for the homeless, and have made blankets for children living in homeless shelters.\nIn her spare time, Mrs. Chvoy loves to read historical fiction, ride roller coasters with her family, and see Broadway musicals with her daughter. Her favorite musical is Hamilton, with Wicked coming in just behind. Most recently she saw Frozen, which she describes as “so amazing and magical.”\nShe says, “My favorite thing about Joliet West is the enormous number of opportunities for students to get involved and make connections with students and staff.” Being such a bright, helpful, caring, and inspirational person, Mrs. Chvoy certainly has made getting to know the staff such a joy for students."}
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{"text": "Mark.\nTo build his cover, Mendez put $10,000 into his briefcase and flew to Los Angeles. He called his friend John Chambers, the veteran makeup artist who had won a 1969 Academy Award for Planet of the Apes.\nThat night the Staffords, Lijeks, Schatz, and Anders dined with the ambassadors of Denmark and New Zealand, and some staff, at the Sheardown residence. The Americans had lit a fire, set out the hors d’oeuvres, and were.\n“They made it out.”"}
{"text": "Joshua Rogers has a newly released album entitled “Unconditional.” He called into “The James Fortune Show” for an exclusive interview to talk about the new project and what to expect. Listen to the audio player to hear exactly why he says the album will bless you!\nRELATED: Joshua Rogers Performing On YAMS At CIAA\nRELATED: Joshua Rogers Remakes “God In Me” By Mary Mary [NEW MUSIC]\nRELATED: Joshua Rogers On How Life Has Changed After Winning BET’s “Sunday Best” [EXCLUSIVE]\nJoshua Rogers Explains Why His Album “Unconditional” Will Bless You [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] was originally published on blackamericaweb.com\nAlso On Praise Philly:"}
{"text": "Boucquez, Janice Therese, a resident of Chatham. Janice Boucquez died at her home on Tuesday April 22, 2014 at the age of 55. Born in Chatham, daughter of Jean (Garrod) Boucquez, Chatham, and the late Maurice Boucquez (1974). Dear mother of Brittany Boucquez, Chatham. Sister of Paula (John) Bialek, London and Douglas (Sheila) Boucquez, Wallaceburg. Janice will be remembered by her niece Vanessa (Matthew) McFadden, Chatham; nephew Kyle Glassford, Windsor; great niece Abi McFadden, Chatham and her dear friend Cindy Mack, Chatham. Friends will be received at the Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair St., Chatham, on Friday April 25, 2014 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. The Funeral Service will be conducted at the Funeral Home on Friday at 1:30 p.m. with Rev. Susan Jolley officiating. Cremation to follow with Interment in St. Anthony Cemetery, Chatham at a later date. Donations in memory of Janice to the Chaham-Kent OSPCA or Outreach for Hunger would be appreciated. Online condolences may be left at\nMcKinlay Funeral Home 459 St. Clair Street, Chatham 519-351-2040\nFor more information about this obituary visit."}
{"text": "Needs assessment guide\nContents\n- 1 Problem Definition and Scope\n- 1.1 What is the problem?\n- 1.1.1 Describe context of the problem\n- 1.1.2 Discuss existing definitions of the issue to arrive at your own definition\n- 1.1.3 Identify who your target clients are\n- 1.1.4 Set inclusion and exclusion criteria\n- 1.1.5 Determine the characteristic & ‘strength’ of your inclusion criteria: what of these criteria are necessary, sufficient?\n- 1.1.6 Describe the typical client’s experience\n- 1.1.7 Conceptualize the desired outcomes for these clients\n- 1.2 Size and significance of the problem\n- 1.3 How is problem likely to change?\n- 2 Client Profile and Client System\n- 2.1 Demographic Characteristics\n- 2.2 Client Segmentation\n- 2.3 Sketch a portrait of a typical member of each segment\n- 2.4 Client System and Ecology\n- 3 Needs Analysis\n- 4 Prioritization\n- 4.1 Possible criteria\n- 4.2 Comparative need and normative need\n- 4.3 Possible principles of prioritization\n- 4.4 Heuristics for Decision Making\n- 5 Types of Information Required from Various Stakeholders\nProblem Definition and Scope\nWhat is the problem?\nDescribe context of the problem\nThis places the issue that your client group is facing in a larger social and historical context. Purpose is to help indicate the larger significance of the issue. Eg, vulnerable seniors facing end-of-life issues are just one group out of many others—disadvantaged dying (disabled, poor, mental health problems etc)\nDiscuss existing definitions of the issue to arrive at your own definition\nSometimes there may be a lack of clarity on the problem area and you may need to discuss how academics, agencies, practitioners define the problem and arrive at a definition that works for your purposes. Eg At risk youth Eg End of life care; palliative care\nIdentify who your target clients are\nThe target client can be defined broadly and in a more encompassing way (youth-at-risk; seniors with mental health issues), or more narrowly (low-income seniors diagnosed with non-cancer terminal illnesses).\nSet inclusion and exclusion criteria\nIt is important to set up your inclusion criteria for the target client so that we can be precise about what we mean when we refer to this group. What criteria should they satisfy for them to qualify for your attention?\nThis is important to determine how large the group is, and to establish whether existing services are getting to them. To put it another way, how would you know if a person should be part of the target client group when you see one?\nDetermine the characteristic & ‘strength’ of your inclusion criteria: what of these criteria are necessary, sufficient?\nEg, we may want to take care of ‘vulnerable seniors’ and have established a few criteria: but what if they were not poor, but did not have family support? What if they have a maid, but had limited family support? In this case, you may decide that if they satisfy some of the criteria (eg 2 out of 3, or at least one out of all of them etc), they will be included.\nIf possible, define client group with greater specificity, eg elderly aged 60-75, smokers aged 18-29.\nDescribe the typical client’s experience\nIt is useful to give an account of the client in a narrative or story-like form, so as to capture and convey the meaningfulness and experience of what a typical client goes through in their everyday life. [We will leave it to later for a more quantitative breakdown of demographic characteristics]\nConceptualize the desired outcomes for these clients\nDon't define the problem as a need for a programme or service. Do not merely define the problem in terms of insufficiencies with the existing services, eg not enough childcare services, lack of integration across services, low capacity, lack of skilled manpower etc.\nInstead, be clear about ultimate outcome you want to achieve. What outcomes are desirable for these clients? If you start with outcomes first, so that you remain open to different ways of getting there; consider alternative programmes, interventions, means to achieve stated outcomes.\nSize and significance of the problem\nFirst, you can start by searching for statistics from various government sources and document them in your catalogue first. Once you have everything in place, you can analyze the information. What you are trying to get at is a sense of how big the problem is.\nTotal number of target clientele when available OR (prevalence rate x population)à size of the universe (size of total potential need/demand for services). This conveys the size of all those who are eligible for intervention\nPrevalence (existing size of problem)\nPrevalence-number of existing cases in specific area during a specified period of time [Expressed as a percentage, eg, the prevalence of drop-outs from secondary schools in Singapore is 2%]\nYou may need to apply differential prevalence rates for segments of the community – e.g. frail elderly have higher rate of mental illness than young elderly (Kettner et al 2008: 75)\nIncidence (new cases)\nIncidence-number of new cases in specific area during a specified period of time (usually a year). This tells us the recent additions of population in need. The incidence rate is the number of new cases divided by the size of the population under consideration. [eg in 2012, if there were 20 new cases of school drop-outs from secondary schools in Singapore, divide that by the number of secondary school students in Singapore (let’s say 200,000). The incidence rate would be 0.0001 or 1 out of every 10,000 ]\nSize of expressed need / demand\nThe utilization rates of specific services can be used to estimate need and demand. The utilization rate and the service rejection rate is an indication of the size of expressed need, that is, demand from those willing to seek out services. However, this is only an approximate indication of the size of the actual demand, because those who have needs may not actually seek help for various reasons (eg pregnant teenagers who want to escape stigma; or a service dominated by clients from a different ethnic group). Therefore, it may not be a good estimation of actual unmet need.\nThese numbers are only calculated for the purpose of conveying a general sense of the size of the problem, but the more detailed and specific calculations for each specific category of need can come later\nConsequence and significance\nSpell out the short to long term consequences of the problem. If you keep asking the ‘so what?’ question you may be able to articulate longer term consequences of the problem that will communicate the importance and weight of the issue. Eg elderly not aging well, but so what? Answer: health care costs go up.\nHow is problem likely to change?\nSocial indicators, trends or projections...Is the total unmet need rising, slowing or stable?\nTrends [How has the problem been changing in previous years?]\nTrack change from previous years. Sometimes funders will also ask what the rate of change is.\nProjections [How will the problem change?]\nSee Synthetic Estimations (McKillip 1998)\nProjections using Historical Data\n-time series data: positive, negative, seasonal trends, cyclical trends -adjustments done to smooth out fluctuations (eg seasonal fluctuations) -method of least squares (regression)\nProjections when history is inadequate\n-Single Factor Projections -Judgmental Methods: eg Delphi Technique\nClient Profile and Client System\nFunction of understanding client profile: To determine what segments or subgroups exist in the overall population, understand the distinctive ways they behave, so as to develop customized services that would serve their unique needs.\nDemographic Characteristics\nTo understand the client profile, we can start with collecting demographic characteristics, which are facts about the makeup of a population, such as age, gender, income level, race, ethnicity, religion, occupation, etc.\nDescribe the common traits of the client population who are at-risk or already experiencing problem (age, sex, race, marital status, class, housing type).\nClient Segmentation\nClear ‘market segments’ are made up of client groups with similar characteristics and that have similar needs. Because they are internally homogenous and respond similarly to external stimulus, they become the basis for planning and developing improvements to service. What services (products) would appeal to what client groups (market segment)?\nFirst of all, ask yourself: Are your clients internally homogenous? Are there meaningful and identifiably different segments? That is, are they similar enough to one another such that the services provided to them are equally appropriate? Or are there systematic differences between them, such that services used for some segments would not be fully appropriate for others?\nYou do not need to segmentize your clients for the sake of it; you segmentize when you have grounds to believe that a one-size-fits-all solution is not working well.\nSketch a portrait of a typical member of each segment\nSketch a portrait or characterize a typical member of each segment, so as to communicate the subjective meanings and lived experience of these members. [e.g. types of sex workers: crack whores, street walkers, high class social escorts, undergrads doing it for pocket money]\nThis need not be extensive and detailed, but enough to capture the circumstances they face, and the motivations and rationale for their behaviour.\nClient System and Ecology\nFunction: Understanding social system and ecology that a client functions within, so as to understand the influences and therefore the strategic points of intervention.\nWho are those at risk or vulnerable to the problem?\nIf we can identify accurately who are those at risk, we can plan to utilize more preventive measures.\nWho are those indirectly affected, or can contribute to the resolution of the problem?\nClient system: those who are indirectly affected, and/or can contribute to the resolution of the problem (eg family, caregivers, professionals, volunteers, peers).\nWe can more comprehensively understand the needs of ‘secondary’ clients that may also need help. Do family members, caregivers and significant others have needs related to problem? If we are clear about primary client group and secondary (eg clients vs caregivers), we can be clear so that you are clear who your programme is supposed to help, and to understand what is your central programme and what is peripheral supportive programmes.\nMore importantly, if we can identify the client system, we can identify where and who to intervene in. E.g., if we know that for younger children, the family unit has more influence, then we can decide to focus on parenting support programmes. If we know that for youth, peers have more influence, then we would focus on their friends. Therefore, it is important to describe the system of support of the clients—we may need to help the caregivers to help the clients.\nHow is the problem distributed in the community?\n-Where are the problems and solutions distributed? Where are concentrations of the problem and target clientele? Where are the services located? -Understanding this will help to avoid over-provision (overlaps and duplication) or under-provision (lack ease of access). This will help to better coordinate services and improve integration across services and agencies.\nInvestigate further: Quantitative Methods for Spatial Analysis Methods of Spatial Analysis for Identifying Concentrations of High Risk Groups (Kettner et al 2008) Overall national average may be low compared to other countries, but in subareas, the indicators may be high. Use of factor analysis (reduce large number of variables into a smaller number of constructs or indicators). If large number of variables are intercorrelated, then these interrelationships may be due to underlying factors.\nNeeds Analysis\nIdentifying and Defining Needs\nApproach: Top-down first, then bottom-up Needs are comprehensively identified through a mix of top-down and ground-up approaches. Environmental scans and trend analysis can give a broad overview of general needs. However, such needs may be removed from actual problems and issues that clients and practitioners face. Therefore, it is important to capture perceived and felt needs from the people directly involved.\n1. Environmental Scanning, Service Utilization Statistics & Literature Review: to find out the range, types & nature of needs [top-down]\n2. Needs Assessment Research: to find out expressed and felt needs from client & community [bottom-up]\nEnvironmental scans and trend analysis can give a broad overview of general needs. General statistics, prevalence rate, normative & comparative assessments are top-down approaches. This is complemented by bottom-up approaches like the use of service statistics (utilization rate, waitlists) as a measurement of expressed needs. However, such needs may still be removed from actual problems and issues that clients and practitioners face. Therefore, it is important to capture perceived and felt needs from the people directly involved.\nBut even the use of these bottom-up approaches by themselves will not give a comprehensive picture as we cannot assume that all persons in need will seek help. For example, service utilisation statistics does not provide the true indication of need as some clients might be facing constraints to utilisation (e.g. no transport to access Senior Activity Centres). It is therefore important to reach out to others beyond those who use the services, to get a sense of needs from the ground up.\nCommunity Needs Assessment\nLocality or neighborhood based\nFSCs and CDCs are best placed to do this: measure and track the full range of needs of the diverse residents within their service boundaries.\nA way to determine community needs by proxy is to derive them from examining the services provided in one area to one population and using this information as the basis to determine the sort of services required in another area with a similar population.\nHowever, we have to be careful because populations which are similar demographically can have different latent and expressed needs.\nAs a result, proper data collection should complement such information by setting out to capture felt community needs directly from the community.\nClient Type Needs Assessment\nCategorizing Needs\nThis is to help organize and analyse the main areas of needs so that we can make sense of the diversity of opinions and studies that unearth a wide variety of needs that clients have. Categorizing such needs would be useful when utilizing the Resource Matrix (see Guide 3) to assess how well existing communal resources are serving these needs.\nTaxonomies of Social Service Programmes & Needs: See United Way: A Taxonomy of Social Goals and Human Service Programs.\nThis is a taxonomy of social goals, the human service system, and the type of programs within those systems, that taken together as a whole, are designed to achieve those broader goals. Eg social goal=optimal social functioning System=individual and family life services; social adjustment and social development; cultural and spiritual enrichment etc Service=Family preservation and Strengthening; Family Substitute (Foster Care); Family Supplement Programs=Counselling, Single-Parent Family Development\nThere is a program index for target groups (see Appendix D, page 289) for a list of programs exclusively designed to assist a target group (Aged, Children and Youth, Handicapped, Low Income, Offenders etc).\nPossible categories\nPublic awareness & acceptance\nScreening, Detection & Diagnosis -proper detection, assessment & diagnosis\nInformation & referral Do target clients (and caregivers) have understandable info to guide decision making & planning for their problem or area of need?\n‘Treatment’ -Psychosocial needs -ADL -Education -Employment [sheltered workshop, JPJS]\nIntegration of various treatments and of flow-through\n‘Aftercare’\nCapability Support Research & Advocacy\nProfessional Competence\nOrganizational Development\nCaregiver or Volunteer Support -knowledge & skills training -respite - social support\nMisc -security: financial, housing etc -transportation and mobility -legal\nPrioritization\nHow do we determine the importance and significance of the problem once we have identified and defined it? Purpose: To develop criteria and heuristics that can be used to prioritize the list of needs and gaps to assist in resource allocation decisions that need to be publicly accountable to our multiple stakeholders.\nNeeds analysis also involves evaluating and ranking needs (Alston & Bowles 2003: 124). In the previous section, we have identified different needs, but we have not yet put all these needs onto a single conceptual plane to determine what is more or less important.\nThis framework is not an algorithm that will systematically transform identified needs into a prioritized list. Such an algorithm is difficult because prioritization of human needs depends on a kind of judgment that is informed by normative values that are diverse and not universally shared.\nAs scholars note, this is often a political act, and therefore, a political act requires consensus building rather than scientific determination.\nPossible criteria\n• Frequency (occurs often)\n• Duration (been around, is persistent)\n• Scope (affects a lot of people, proportion affected)\n• Severity (degree of suffering and pain)\n• Urgency (time sensitive)\n• Perception (whether people think it is a problem; a national priority?)\nComparative need and normative need\nComparative need Purpose: to determine the significance of the need according to normative standards and in comparison to other communities and contexts.\nComparative need is measured by reference to a user already receiving the service in question. Therefore, a person is in comparative need if he or she has the same or worse characteristics as someone receiving the service. The concept also can be applied to districts (for example, district A provides free medical treatment while district B does not) or to countries. However, this method of comparison leaves two questions unanswered as only existing services are being compared. “What if there is a need for a new service?” “Does it also imply that the reference standard is faultless and no longer needs improvement?”\nNature, size and trends of needs should be assessed according to compared to other similar communities to determine how significant it is. [Similarly, for determining the adequacy of solutions in addressing need (see Guide 2), it is also important to compare the access and quality of services in other similar cautious that data collected may in fact be due to over-servicing or under-servicing by service providersrather than an indication of true need for the service by health consumers.\nSocial indicator analysis: to compare regions or communities with others to determine area variations and target group variations (Alston & Bowles 2003: 131); historical trends; size of potential service users; population characteristics. Helps outline problem, but cannot help devise solutions. Social Indicators, social trends or demographics of the community (e.g. age, gender, family size, employment status). (e.g. crime rate, school drop-out rate). Normative need A normative need is established by custom, authority or general consensus eg estimate rate of serious violence in families by use rate of incidence per population. Identified according to a norm (or set standard); such norms are generally set by experts and usually determined according to some criterion (e.g. standards of unfitness in houses). Normative need tends to be professionally defined and has a knowledge base. A desirable standard is set by professionals, policy makers or social scientists, against which the actual standard is compared. Those below the standard are said to be in need of support and special services. A good example is the intelligent quotient (IQ) which is used to indicate people with special needs (below a score of 80 is defined as moderately retarded). Social security entitlement is also normatively defined. People’s need is measured against their assets. Only if the asset value is below a set amount, which is defined by policy makers, then eligibility results. Indeed the setting of the amount is not value-free, it is relative to the socio-political and economic situations, and may change from time to time. In evaluating societal established standards, if the community is at or above those standards, then there is no need (see Kettner et al 2008: 52). Assessment of Normative Need by Extrapolating from Existing Studies. Using prevalence rates to estimate. But need to apply differential rates for segments of the community, eg frail elderly have higher rate of mental illness than young elderly. Also, be aware of the definition of the concept, ‘mental illness’ may be defined differently for different studies. Also possible to complement this by inviting expert (who will be familiar with statistics & research) to propose specific strategies and suggest reasonable levels of service provision (Kettner 2008: 75). Normative Need – Identified according to a norm (or set standard); such norms are generally set by experts and usually determined according to some criterion (e.g. standards of unfitness in houses). (Bradshaw, 1972)\nPossible principles of prioritization\nPrinciple of prioritization #1: basic needs first\nDeal with basic needs first before dealing with esteem and belonging (derived from Maslow). For example, family violence programs (see Kettner et al 2008: 53). -family violence programs: deal with basic needs first before deal with esteem and belonging (derived from Maslow) (see Kettner et al 2008: 53) -Rather than spending resources on developing sophisticated technologies, priority is to primary medical care and health services for the general population (philosophy derived from Ponsioen’s 1962 notion of need) (see Kettner et al 2008: 53)\nPrinciple of prioritization #2: general need more important than specific need\nFor example, rather than spending resources on developing sophisticated technologies, priority is to primary medical care and health services for the general population (philosophy derived from Ponsioen’s 1962 notion of need) (see Kettner et al 2008: 53)\nHeuristics for Decision Making\nHeuristic 1: ranking\nTo help groups reach consensus on the priorities of needs, we can utilize ranking: “Ranking is a process that encourages individual stakeholders to develop their own ranked priority list of need problem areas for the target population. Individual listings of ranked needs are then summed to create a composite or summary ranking” (Petersen & Alexander 2001: 78).\nHowever, the fundamental weakness of the ranking methodology for establishing need priorities is that it pits the needs of specific special interest groups against each other...One means of addressing this issue is to segment, or subdivide, target populations or general need areas prior to ranking to ensure that the needs of specific target population subgroups, eg infants, teens, adults, women, elderly, and children with special health care needs, are addressed. Need rankings can then be developed for each subpopulation (Petersen & Alexander 2001: 79-80).\nPrecise, but difficult to determine criteria and weightage for measurement. In all likelihood, precise ranking of needs would be unnecessary since what is actually needed is a broad sense of the amount of time and resources to be invested in a few key areas. Knowing the fine-grained details of how specifically one need ranks higher than another will not drastically affect the amount of resources invested in them if we know they are important problems that both need to be addressed.\nIndividual stakeholders develop own ranked priorities and individual listings of ranked needs are summed to create composite or summary (Petersen & Alexander, Needs Assessment in Public Health, 78).\nHowever, the weakness of the ranking methodology for establishing need priorities is that it pits the needs of special interest groups against each other (Petersen & Alexander, Needs Assessment in Public Health, 81).\nCriteria for ranking could consider: • Size of the problem • Seriousness of the problem, etc\nHeuristic 2: Alignment between different information on needs\nReal need is determined when normative, felt, expressed, comparative need is present.\nBradshaw (1972) provided a methodology in making a ‘real’ need possible. His proposal was to first delineate four types of social needs, namely, (a) normative; (b) felt; (c) expressed; and (d) comparative, then to examine their presence in a given situation. The presence of all types of needs is equated to real need. He proposed a taxonomy of need in which the four need-types, when considered in a reality need situation, were each assigned a plus sign (presence of need) or a minus sign (absence of need). Real need is defined as presence in all four standards. The taxonomy gives rise to 12 possible combinations (for example, ++++, ----, ++--) which helps in decision-making.\nBradshaw’s approach to need is a useful framework for policy-making and for analysing policy to the extent that political, economic and social factors can be taken into account in deciding needs and services.\nHeuristic 3: Indicate how many principles a programme satisfies\nA practical but less precise way for decision making is to include in our needs & gaps report a checklist of all the criteria used to assess the importance of a need. For each need, we would indicate how many of the above criteria have been satisfied, without necessarily making a case that one need is more important than another\nHeuristic 4: Effort-Impact Analysis\nHeuristic 5: Decision-Matrix or Optimal Criteria Matrix\nTypes of Information Required from Various Stakeholders\nGovernment Agencies VWOs Clients etc"}
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{"text": "The loss suffered by the Railways due to the agitation in Punjab over the Cenral farm reform laws has already crossed an estimated ₹1,200 crore as protests on train tracks continued at 32 places across the State, the national transporter said on Wednesday.\nAlso read: Punjab CM stages dharna in Delhi, alleges step-motherly treatment by Centre ₹1.\nAlso read: Punjab passes its own three agriculture Bills.\nAlso read: War of words over suspension of goods trains to Punjab\nAmarinder stages dharna in Delhi\nMeanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday launched a dharna here to “save” his State and its farmers with a hard-hitting attack on the Centre, alleging “step-motherly” treatment towards Punjab.\nLed by Mr. Singh, all Congress MLAs and MPs from Punjab staged a dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.\nThe Congress, many other Opposition parties and several farmers organisations have been protesting against the recent farm legislations, alleging that these will harm the interests of farmers and benefit corporates, a claim denied by the government.ates.\nPlease Email the Editor"}
{"text": "Sealed Air Corporation (SEE): Today's Featured Consumer Non-Durables Laggard\nBy TheStreet Wire \| 05/02/13 - 05:01 PM EDT\nSealed Air Corporation ( SEE) pushed the Consumer Non-Durables industry lower today making it today's featured Consumer Non-Durables laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, Sealed Air Corporation fell $0.43 (-1.9%) to $21.77 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2,786,720 shares of Sealed Air Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,876,600 shares. The stock ranged in price between $21.68-$22.51 after having opened the day at $22.21 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $22.20. Other companies within the Consumer Non-Durables industry that declined today were: Ever-Glory International Group ( EVK), down 6.1%, Deswell Industries ( DSWL), down 5.0%, International Paper ( IP), down 3.5% and Fuwei Films (Holdings ( FFHL),. The company operates through three segments: Food & Beverage (F&B), Institutional & Laundry (I&L), and Protective Packaging. Sealed Air Corporation has a market cap of $4.3 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are up 26.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Sealed Air Corporation a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.\nTheStreet Ratings rates Sealed Air Corporation.\nOn the positive front,\nTandy Brands Accessories (\nTBAC), down 10.7%,\nElizabeth Arden (\nRDEN), down 8.5%,\nOrient Paper (\nONP), down 7.4% and\nTrue Religion Apparel (\nTRLG), down 6"}
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{"text": "First her and her brother Gert. Something about the tone of their voices together stuck with me. Matched with catchy songs, I was hooked.\nI saw them a few other times over the years, but them being from Belgium, they didn’t get to the states too often. When they did, it was never near me 🙁\nThey took a long hiatus to work on other projects, and FINALLY in 2010 they got back together released the album “Echo Mountain”. Except for a few select shows, they didn’t tour it in the states. Argh!\nIt’s 2013, and they have finally came over to promote their new recording, “Little Echoes”! I saw them not only in Seattle, but Portland as well…. and they did NOT disappoint! They still sound just as good as ever.\nThey toured as a 3-person band (which is how Little Echoes is recorded). Not only did they perform Echo Mountain songs and a few Cocoon Crash classics, but they mixed in a few covers as well (Snow Patrol, Pointer Sisters).\nI decided that Seattle would be where I would take photos, and Portland where I could get my drink on and ENJOY the show. (And enjoy it I did! Doug Fir is a awesome club to see a show at…. the front of the club became a party during “I’m so Excited” lol). I’m pretty sure that both shows are identical in the setlist. Requests were shouted out, but they didn’t have any of it rehearsed (dang, hearing “Shadowman” would have been awesome).\nI hope they keep making records and come out this way again, that was a really good time. And if not…..well at least I got to enjoy them one more time. Thanks guys.\nSETLIST – Portland 5/1/13 (according to the setlist paper)\nKilling Dragons\nEcho Mountain\n16\nCome Live the Life\nButterflies Instead\nSister\nI Wanna Get Lost\nNot an Addict\nChasing Cars\nIf This isn’t Right\nNo Surprises\nMessage to my Girl\nSomeone Just Like You\nI Can Do Better than You\nI Will Carry You\nIf You’re Not Scared\nE: My Heart\nI’m So Excited\nLetting Go\nPhotos for the Seattle show can be viewed here."}
{"text": "Chris Rice and Craig Cameron have announced a return to the Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship; though owing to Craig’s BTRDA Rally Series commitments, a substitute co-driver will be sought for the Manx National and Rally van Wervik.\nThey will start the season in Chris’ classic shape GC8 Subaru Impreza in the B14 class, but Chris hopes to have his newer Subaru, which owing to work and other commitments has been two years in the build, completed later in the season.\nChris has twice won the Group N4 class of the Championship but has been away from the stages for a couple of seasons.\nCraig first joined Chris in the co-driver’s seat on the Tour of Epynt in 2012 and has since become a familiar face in the gravel championship as both a driver and co-driver in the Rallynuts Subaru Impreza. The pair look forward to what promises to be some very strong competition and whilst their expectations for the early part of the season are modest, they hope to be on the pace later on in the year.\nBe the first to comment"}
{"text": "The Motorcade Sped Backwards\nSome good news this morning: Steinski's getting a long-overdue career retrospective, What Does It All Mean? It's out at the end of May, and is pretty comprehensive - although it does miss off We'll Be Right Back, the satire on television advertising that, erm, ended up being licensed to advertise Ovaltine. Apparently it doesn't appear because of the theological vacuum that created, but because it was the only release he did for Island records.\nThe press release came with an mp3 stapled to it: The Pay Off Mix.\n2 comments:\nSteinski is a genius. It is very long over due to see him get a retrospective. No \"We'll be Right back?\"...dumb move. Negativeland also are super cool at fusing medai sound bites so beautifully.\nMrs Kennedy, jumped up, she cried \"oh no!\"\nAs a general rule, posts will only be deleted if they reek of spam."}
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{"text": "The Musica Famous Sale is officially on. It runs from the 31st of May to the 1st of August 2012. You can download the full gaming catalogue by clicking on the image.\nWhat you need to know:\n- The XBOX 360 + 2 Standard Controls + 5 Games + Wireless Steering Wheel + 3 Month XBOX Live Membership is the biggest XBOX Console Deal in South Africa\n- Considering that you can get XBOX 360′s for R1999.00, I find it absolutely amazing that they can still sell PS2′s for 1399.00.\n- The PS3 + 2 Controls + God of War Deal actually isn’t that great\n- Ultimately, if you’re looking to buy a PS3 or XBOX 360, there are much better console deals out there\n- All in all, it’s a very good looking catalogue, but that doesn’t make up for the lack of good deals"}
{"text": "Welcome to the Wayland Players website!\nWe hope you find all the information you need to join the group, come and see us perform or simply learn more about the Wayland Players.\nThe Wayland Players, Watton, Norfolk are an amateur dramatics group who have been successfully entertaining audiences at the Queens Hall, Watton since 1949. It’s not all about productions, the Players enjoy a range of social events including trips to the theatre, meals in local restaurants, summer BBQ’s or just getting together for a drink & a chat.\nTons Of Money\nWife: \"Who do we owe money to?\"\nHusband: \"Everyone we've ever dealt with.\"\nLouise Allington's response to this is to fake her husband's death, in order to bring him back as a long lost relative who would inherit the money that has just been left to them, but without any obligation to pay off debtors.\nNaturally, as this all happens at the beginning of ‘Tons of Money’, the Wayland Players Spring production, we know there are more complications ahead. Two other men claim to be the long lost relative, and his real widow \"recognizes\" the impostors but humours the genuine one as a harmless lunatic.\nThis classic Aldwych farce, set in the 1920s and revised by Alan Ayckbourn for the National Theatre, demands that the audience suspends all disbelief. Even when one character after another seems, in the words of one of them, to have \"the brain of a very, very small potted shrimp!\"\nPerformances are on the evenings of April 27 – 29 with a matinee on Saturday 29th. Tickets, priced just £7.50, will be available from the Wayland Players Honorary Ticket agents, Adcocks of Watton from Monday 27th March.\nJenny Mann, Director"}
{"text": "About baseballcodex\nBaseballcodex is a project by a baseball fan / computer programmer / mathematician, demonstrating\nnew possibilities in baseball analysis by combining modern browser capabilities with realtime baseball data.\nIf you have any questions, comments, suggestions, etc, please email me or tweet to me.\nMany thanks to MLB Advanced Media for making their extensive game data available to all of us baseball fans."}
{"text": "Good Newwz overview: Good Newwz is an upcoming Indian comedy-drama film about two couples tryst with in vitro fertilization,. Film released on 27 December 2019.\nSong – Maana Dil (Movie – Good Newwz)\n-ani\nSong – Maana Dil Full Official Video\nSong – Maana Dil (To stream & download Full Song)\n- Gaana –\n- JioSaavn –\n- Wynk Music –\n- iTunes –\n- Apple Music –\n- Google Play –\n- Hungama –\n- Spotify –\n- YouTube Music –.\nThe original trailer of the film has not been released yet, but it is being said that soon the trailer of the film will also be released and stay with us to know more details of the film."}
{"text": "Bellator MMA star and world-renowned grappler Dillon Danis has been recently arrested by police officers in New Jersey. A video has been surfacing on the internet in which Bellator Fighter Dillon Danis has been seen getting arrested by the police also a photo of him in police custody has been all over the internet since Monday. He was taken into custody by an officer outside of an establishment believed to be the Beachcomber Bar and Grill in Seaside Heights, N.J. There’s no official confirmation of the news yet and neither has Dillon Danis revealed anything about this incident.\n/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63119684/usa_today_10810454.0.jpg)\nCheck out the video of Dillon Danis struggling with cops below courtesy of Tom DeBlass. In the video you can, Dillon was struggling to get free from the police while they take him into custody.\nDillon Danis getting arrested! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/bc6xQNUef5\n— Lord Ronik (@Ronik56) September 21, 2021\n“Does anyone recognize this guy? Hahaha oh Dillon Danis, next time you’re around my way let me know. I have real savages around these parts that can make sure no one hurts you. Get your shit together. Don’t talk shit either because you were 15 minutes from me and I never heard a thing.” – DeBlass captioned the post.\nNow, Dillon, has himself issue a tweet in which he is trying to give some kind of hint on that incident. He wasn’t pretty vocal about what happened but the tweet he just posted a few hours ago suggested something about the incident.\nyou need people like me\n— Dillon Danis (@dillondanis) September 20, 2021\n“you need people like me”\nDillon Danis is a high-level BJJ fighter and a grappler. But the thing that actually took him to the limelight is his friendships with the biggest MMA star in the world Conor Mcgregor. Conor Mcgregor and Dillon Danis hail from the same gym in Ireland. He is also the head BJJ coach for Conor during his fight camps. He was also among the few people involved in the UFC 229 aftermath in which Khabib Nurmagomedov after defeating Conor jumped over the cage to fight Dillon. He has recently been headlined due to his feud with celebrity boxer Jake Paul.\nDanis is 2-0 in his Pro MMA career and fights in the Bellator’s welterweight division. He scored both of his victories via submission. He hasn’t fought in Bellator since June of 2019. Dillon still keeps himself active by calling out fighters irrespective of their organization. He is recently dealing with some injuries and will be looking forward to competing soon.\nPurchase the UFC merch here.\nDownload the Fanatics Fantasy MMA app here."}
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{"text": "By Annette Richie, Station Officer / CFU member\nI don’t normally imagine you are interested in what I did last weekend, but in this instance I’m hoping you might !!\nLast Sunday I went down to the Shed for my second RFS training day.\nI had a ball and learnt so much important information that I’ll need if I get called out as a CFU member in the future.\nThe RFS officers are constantly updating their knowledge and skills and it is important we do the same. Basic training was only the tip of the iceberg.\nThis past Sunday 3 Island addresses were plucked out of the hat. We all piled into the big trucks (my first time) and went off to find these addresses. You will not be surprised to know that on Scotland Island, some of these addresses didn’t even exist. It is this local knowledge that will be essential if we are called out to conduct CFU activities in an emergency. The more we know the more useful we will be.\nA simulated car crash at the top of Bell was our first stop and we joined the RFS guys as they prioritized their activities, deployed equipment and made safe the scene. We removed the injured driver; extinguished and mopped up. While we were adjacent to the Bell CFU cabinet, the two CFU\nmembers present did an audit of the box. Do you know what’s in there ? It’s your cabinet.\nNext it was off to Thompson Street to a ‘house fire’. We checked out the flammable stuff around the house that would need to be removed. Plotted the nearby tanks as sources of water. Checked the house for occupants, identified hazards and put out the fire and mopped up afterwards.\nOn to Florence Terrace to a ‘tree down over some wires’. This again was interesting as the RFS guys talked about their priorities and procedures. As a CFU member you might be required to clear surrounding houses with the RFS men working on the problem.\nThen it was back to the Fire Shed for a debriefing and a beautiful lunch prepared by Lara.\nAs I said, normally I don’t write stories about my weekends but thought this might be a good one to share.\nWe’ve done our basic training and are all kitted out with our amazing uniforms, now we need to keep our training up and familiarize ourselves with as many aspects of our Island as possible. Just wearing the uniform and boots for a day is an exercise in itself! By taking part in these monthly exercises we will become more confident living in this bush fire prone."}
{"text": "Mobility's lesser-known fact: It's not just about BYOD\nSummary: Much like cloud computing and big data, bring your own device has become an irritating buzzword that is being tossed around with unrelenting vigour in the IT industry, but mobility isn't just about BYOD.\nAustralia has one of the highest smartphone penetration rates in the world, and we're known to be early adopters of new technology, so bringing the likes of iPhones and iPads into work just seems like natural progression; the inexorable outcome.\n(Image: ZDNet/Spandas Lui)\nBut bring your own device (BYOD) is by no means the end point; it's just an early symptom of the wider mobility trend infiltrating the corporate world. Mobile devices being used within organisations are changing how workers do their jobs, where they're doing their jobs, and how companies prioritise workspaces.\nIt's all about the workers\nAttracting and retaining staff is now a priority for many companies, as skilled and talented workers are increasingly hard to come by. According to a report by professional services firm Deloitte, for every 100 people retiring over the next five years, there are less than 125 people leaving education and joining the workforce; that's the lowest ratio in Australia's history.\nTo ensure that they have the right people, organisations must consider offering flexible working conditions to make themselves more appealing. BYOD is, of course, part of the solution, but it really is about catering to workers' preferences.\n\"People want to work the way they live — they don't want to step back in time when they walk through the office door,\" Google industry director Claire Hatton said at the launch of Deloitte's The Connected Workplace Report, which Google commissioned. \"Consumer devices they use at home are faster and newer than the ones they have at work, and they want to use them to be more efficient.\"\nWhile remote working is becoming increasingly popular, Google's CFO Patrick Pichette has made it clear that the company much prefers its employees to be in the office, where they can bounce ideas off each other, face to face.\nBut Google does value collaboration tools on mobile devices so staff can work around the office while still being able to communicate with teams overseas.\n\"It makes it easier for employees to connect and share together; it makes a whole heap of sense,\" Hatton said. \"It also makes them happier.\"\nAnd happy employees are loyal employees. Having collaboration tools handy gives employees flexibility in working, as well.\n\"Working is no longer about nine to five in the office,\" Hatton said. \"It's really about being able to work where you want and how you want.\"\nOrganisations are also self-reflecting on how to accommodate what workers want, while reconciling it with their business needs.\n\"Businesses are saying, 'we need to change — to increase productivity, we need to understand how our people are working',\" Cisco Australia CTO Kevin Bloch told ZDNet. \"Technology comes after that and is a critical ingredient, and the key technology is mobility.\n\"If you're going to have a mobile workforce, you have to be able to move them around.\"\nIt isn't just IT managers who have to deal with the consequences of mobility becoming much more prevalent in the workplace; even human resource (HR) managers have to think about mobility when recruiting and retaining staff.\nIt's not only impacting the people, it is impacting the workplace itself, and Bloch has seen the activity-based workplace (ABW) become part of the mainstream, thanks to the rise of mobility.\n\"ABW is to work with a workspace allocated on outcomes, not on people — hot-desking was an old term for it, and ABW is more comprehensive,\" he said.\n\"The IT industry talks a lot about terms like BYOD, H.265 — these are really technical terms that early adopters like, but the mainstream couldn't really care about.\"\nABW involves employees being able to book a workspace that is suitable for their needs at any given time. Spaces are allocated not based on hierarchy, but on who has a need for it.\nWith many people now BYOD-ing or remote working, sometimes up to 40 percent of office desks could be left unused within a company, according to Bloch. ABW means organisations can offer a flexible work environment and can, in some instances, even reduce overall office spaces, he said.\n\"The term doesn't come from the IT industry; it comes from the property and architecture industry,\" Bloch said. \"The IT industry talks a lot about terms like BYOD, H.265 — these are really technical terms that early adopters like, but the mainstream couldn't really care about.\"\nABW is something the mainstream already cares about. Companies like Macquarie Bank, Microsoft, and even Cisco are already convinced on it.\nIn the case of Cisco, the company is going global with ABW. Locally, the vendor is in the process of consolidating its Chatswood office with the one in St Leonards.\n\"As we roll it out around the world, we're not just talking about a couple of million dollars in savings; it's tens of millions of dollars on real estate,\" Bloch said. \"It also improves productivity and efficiency. For example, a lot of times, people allocate meeting rooms with expensive equipment that isn't being used very often or effectively.\n\"What we can do now is if the room is free, people know they can get access to it and it's not based on title; just because you're the senior vice-president of the company, doesn't mean you have first dibs on the meeting room, because allocation is based on outcomes.\"\nThe way ABW helps with productivity and efficiency is by breaking down the walls between different departments, according to Bloch.\n\"Putting people in different departments into different floors is actually not good for business anymore,\" he said. \"We need to be able to swarm, to be able to get people moving and mobile as the business evolves.\n\"If you need cross-functional teams together for a particular business initiative, ABW can facilitate that much better.\"\nCompanies can also use specialised software to get a more comprehensive view of just how effectively workspaces are being used to help with facilities management in real time, Bloch said.\nMobility inside and out\nMobility is not only changing work life inside the office, but outside, as well.\nField force automation (FFA) involves using portable technology to capture data, be it for sales or services, and instantly transmitted to back-end systems, thus skipping a lot of paperwork and processing time.\nFFA has become increasingly prevalent and much more sophisticated over the years. These days, it's not just mobile sales teams that are doing FFA, but skilled manual workers, as well.\n\"Putting people in different departments into different floors is actually not good for business anymore.\"\nThere was a time when tradespeople just required a sturdy phone that was water, dust, and/or shock resistant in case of wear and tear on the job. That's why the Nokia 5140 had such a good run, and was still in demand long after it was discontinued.\nKeeping records on the jobs they do consists of scribbling details onto paperwork and inputting them into computers later down the track. Tradespeople who work for a larger company may have administration staff input that information into back-end systems for them. The trouble is, paperwork is easily lost, and sometimes the writing may be illegible.\nFFA usually involved the use of specialised handhelds and PDAs. Nowadays, smartphones have taken over the job.\n\"We're seeing FFA functions delivered through apps — there's some interesting stuff going on here,\" IBM marketing manager for mobile, Jonathan Baxter, told ZDNet.\nOne of the vendor's clients, Crown Melbourne, has a building maintenance crew consisting of over 100 tradespeople tending to the entertainment and casino complex. From electricians to plumbers, these workers have been issued iPhone 4 devices preloaded with IBM software to register and track repair jobs in real time. This has ensured that different tradespeople don't get double-booked for the same job, and has enabled the crew to respond faster to repairs.\nBecause its iPhones were connected directly to the back-end financial and work order management systems, it has allowed Crown Melbourne to budget better for maintenance work around the complex, as well.\n\"Organisations might have thousands of maintenance guys across a whole bunch of facilities, and when somebody finds a leak, they usually fill out a field report. But with geolocation capabilities on the phone, they can just take a photo, geotag it, send it off, and it automatically goes to the right department.\"\nGeolocation isn't usually done inside the building, but old technology is being used in new ways to make it easier to do so, he said.\n\"There is now a lot of work going on now with using the signal strength of common, off-the-shelf routers to triangulate where workers are,\" Baxter said. \"From an enterprise perspective, a lot of organisations are using this kind of technique to map out their facilities and do geolocation inside buildings.\"\nMobility in the enterprise isn't going away any time soon, and it's constantly evolving. BYOD may be the dominating mobility topic right now, but it is merely a glimpse of the future.\nKick off your day with ZDNet's daily email newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it."}
{"text": "Air sector : international trade union call\nAs workers and union activists in the airline and airport sectors, first of all, we want to send our internationalist support and solidarity to all our colleagues who, despite the emergence of the coronavirus (Covid-19), are forced to continue working even more and with a lack or inadequacy of of safety devices, thus putting their own, their family health at risk, at the same time, we send our solidarity to all and all, especially the precarious people who, due to this crisis, are losing their jobs without a salary.\nIt is not the market that should decide !\nWe are absolutely aware of this strong crisis that the air and airport sector is experiencing, due to the health emergency (Covid-19), in which airlines are being forced (only in the midst of a crisis) to cut the operation by up to 95% . Since the beginning of the emergency, which had its first outbreak in the Wuhan region in China, there has been a reduction in activities.\nThere as been demands for safety devices (masks and gloves), until the claim for the closure of airports to commercial traffic. We were and still are not being heard, if today, there is a strong decrease in air traffic, it is only due to the reduced market demand (ticket sales) and not to a policy of blocking commercial flights to stop the spread of the virus (Covid -19).\nYou can’t keep working !\nIn full respect for health workers, as workers in the air-airport sector, we have been working without any protection since the beginning, in some cases with a total ban on the use of a mask and gloves while we continue to have direct contact with thousands of passengers inside airports and airplanes. All of this is irresponsible and unacceptable, there will be new provisions of laws, from various governments, on the subject of health and safety, which will grant the protection of workers and passengers health : only a real blockage of commercial traffic can guarantee protection health, ensuring only emergency flights (food transport, medicines, sick people, etc.) and flights to ensure family reunification and to repatration.\nWorkers should not pay for the crisis\nClearly, the momentary suspension of air traffic, for the maximum duration of the health emergency, should not be paid by workers in the air-airport sector, nor should it be paid by colleagues in the supply sector (cafeteria, cleaning, shops, bars, etc.), this crisis must be paid by those who, for decades, have profited from a constantly growing sector, which generates billions of euros in revenue every year, of which only a small part reaches workers. The crisis must be paid by the bosses and governments, who must guarantee stability and full wages for all workers in the sector, at this time of full crisis, and when we are ready to take off again.\n[ ; ; ;]"}
{"text": "Complaining about school lunches has been a time-honored tradition for most students in public schools. A bland sandwich on white bread, canned vegetables warmed over on a steam table, a dab of pudding and a small carton of milk — it all had a certain “institutional” quality that rarely left anyone asking for seconds.\nBut in schools like Whittier Elementary in Kansas City, Kan., officials say that’s starting to change.\n“We hear less complaining now,” said Geri Cunningham, who is now in her fourth year as principal at Whittier. “Prior to this year, our lunches were prepackaged — prepared elsewhere in a central kitchen and brought to us in a sealed pack and heated.”\nGeri Cunningham, principal at Whittier Elementary in Kansas City, Kan.\nToday, students go through line and take their choice of entrees, some of which are now being made from scratch. There are also more choices of fresh fruits and vegetables. And starting soon, much of that will include organic produce from local farmers in the Kansas City metro region.\n“I have that in the works,” said Karla Robinson, director of nutritional services for Kansas City Unified School District 500.\n“I’m speaking to farmers now. We think that our first purchases are going to take place within the next couple of weeks. And we’re going to work with these farmers that are now developing their crops that are going to be ready for us in the spring when new things come out. But right now they’re going to have things like Swiss chard, for example. And these are all organic products, and we’ll be able to incorporate those within the meals that we serve,” Robinson said.\nThe changes have made a noticeable improvement in the quality of school meals, Cunningham said.\n“So even the corn — the corn today tastes a whole lot different than the corn that’s been cooked, packaged and then heated again,” she said.\nMost of the changes are the result of new federal guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency that governs the national school lunch program. The guidelines were intended to make school meals leaner and healthier by following the latest nutritional standards to include fewer calories, less protein and more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.\n→ Rep. Huelskamp pushes to repeal new nutrition guidelines\nIn USD 500, where 88 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price meals — and where, for some students, the food they eat at school may be the only balanced meal they eat all day — district officials are going further by incorporating healthy eating as part of an overall strategy to improve student learning.\nThat’s no small task in a district like Kansas City where, according to 2011 student assessment scores, roughly one-third of all students are below proficient in reading and math.\nBreakfast in the classroom\nSeveral academic studies in recent years have demonstrated a clear link between healthy nutrition and academic performance of students.\nIn 2005, for example, a study published in the Journal of Nutrition found that food insecurity — “the limited or uncertain availability of or inability to acquire nutritionally adequate, safe and acceptable foods due to financial resource constraint” — is strongly associated at early grade levels with lower academic performance in reading and math for both girls and boys. It’s also related to a decline in social development among boys, as well as greater body mass index gains for girls.\nOther studies have suggested that eating breakfast may improve cognitive function related to memory, test grades and school attendance.\nIt’s often said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But as any parent of school-age children knows, it’s also one of the hardest to fit into a busy schedule, especially for middle and high school students whose school days typically begin earlier. Fixing breakfast at home requires getting up earlier. And even when breakfast is offered at school, students who rely on bus transportation often can’t get to school early enough to take part.\nKarla Robinson, director of nutritional services for Kansas City Unified School District 500.\nIn Kansas City, and several other districts in Kansas, local officials are confronting that dilemma with a program called Breakfast in the Classroom, and Robinson said it’s showing results in KCK classrooms.\nInstead of lining up in the cafeteria before school to order breakfast, breakfast is delivered directly in the first-hour class. Students and teachers alike spend the first 10 minutes eating breakfast at their desks as they also get ready for the day’s lessons.\n“We’re delivering it directly to the kids,” Robinson said. \"The bell rings and they pick up their breakfast, they all eat and 10 minutes later it’s done and they go on with their day. They’re more focused (and) there are fewer problems in the nurse’s office.”\n“We did have a nurse who emailed (recently) and said that she was a little hesitant at first with the Breakfast in the Classroom, but she said, ‘I have to say, it is awesome.’ She has had not one student come to her and say they had a stomach ache, as she had had in previous years, and she said she was sure it was because they were eating breakfast.”\nBreakfast in the Classroom is a pilot project this year in one high school, three middle schools and nine elementary schools. The meals are free to all students. The additional cost to the district is minimal, Robinson said, because in each of the schools where it’s being done, more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals anyway. A $207,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation provided additional funding, enabling the district to absorb the rest of the cost in its overall nutrition budget.\nRobinson said providing the meals for free to all students also helps remove the stigma that some students feel when they’re identified as a free-meal student.\nBefore starting Breakfast in the Classroom, Robinson said only about 37 percent of the students were taking advantage of school breakfasts. In middle and high schools, participation ran only about 15 percent. Now, in the buildings where it’s being implemented, participation is near 100 percent.\nNot everyone is happy\nThe new nutritional guidelines were mandated by Congress in 2010 in the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act.\nThe law represented the first changes in child nutrition programs in 15 years, according to the Kansas State Department of Education, or KSDE. It also included an increase in federal subsidies of 6 cents per-meal for each meal served that meets the new standards — the first increase above inflation that schools had received in more than 30 years.\n<img src=\"\" /><br clear=\"all\" />\nWeeks after the guidelines went into effect, some students from the district of Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp made a music video protesting the guidelines. The video — called “We Are Hungry,” spoofing a pop song by the band Fun — has been viewed nearly 800,000 already, and last week was covered widely in the national media and on The Daily Show. Read our coverage and watch the video here.\nLike many federal programs, however, the new guidelines and additional funding came with additional strings and regulations, some of which are not sitting well with some parents.\nCheryl Johnson, director of child nutrition and wellness for KSDE, said her office has received complaints from some parents, especially the parents of student athletes, regarding the new calorie limits.\nPreviously, federal standards established a minimum calorie per meal standard but did not impose a maximum. The new standards set caps of 550 to 650 calories per meal for students kindergarten through fifth grade; 600 to 700 calories per meal for grades 6 through 8; and 750 to 850 calories per meal for grades 9 through 12. Some of those maximums are lower than the previous minimums.\n“We have had some calls, especially from parents of athletes where schools had been giving additional portions and subsidizing them,” Johnson said. “Now they can’t do that. The school districts had determined they wanted to provide bigger portions and they were paying for that with taxpayer dollars.”\nSchools still have the option of providing additional portions to students who ask for them, Johnson said, but they cannot count those additional portions as reimbursable meals.\nJohnson said she has also heard from Kansas ranchers who expressed concerns that the new standards might call for cutting back on meat products. But Johnson said those concerns were unfounded. The new standards call for two ounces of meat or meat-substitute in each meal, the same as before.\nJohnson said she supported the changes because they more accurately reflected current standards for nutrition and health.\nRelated story\n→ Some say new meal guidelines should be scrapped."}
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{"text": "Canon is throwing down the gauntlet to other camera manufacturers with the launch today of a 21Mp digital SLR (single lens reflex)\nThe Canon EOS-1DS Mark III is a full-frame digital SLR camera capable of capturing 5fps (frames per second). It can capture 56 large Jpeg shots in a row in continuous mode or 12 RAW (uncompressed) shots, proving that high megapixel counts are no longer a bar to capturing action.\nThe EOS-1DS Mark III is driven by two Digic III processors and uses a newly-developed 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor. Canon says RAW images (uncompressed Tiffs) of more than 100MB in size can be captured by its new sensor. Images can be composed, previewed and reviewed on the 1DS Mark III's 3in LCD viewfinder which has a Live View mode.\nCanon EOS-1DS Mark III\nThe Canon EOS-1DS Mark III will be a companion model to the EOS-1D Mark III that Canon launched early this year. The 1DS Mark III is Canon's new flagship model and has 57 custom functions including preset and user-definable picture styles.\nPreset styles range from standard, landscape and portrait to ones designed with professional photographers in mind. The neutral setting is designed for image post-processing, faithful is for colour matching subjects depend on the colour temperature, while monochrome is a specific setting for sepia, toning and colour filter effects. Users will also be able to add their own Picture Styles or to download additional presets from Canon's website.\nUsers will also be able to adjust ISO lighting levels easily as Canon has seen fit to include a dedicated ISO button on the EOS-1DS Mark III. The current ISO setting will be on permanent display on the camera's LCD. It has a ISO spectrum of 100-1,600.\nAs well as now standard Exif data (which logs the settings used for each shot for use when editing or setting up the image for printing) the EOS-1DS Mark III supports GPS tagging so location information about each photo is stored whenever the camera is used in conjunction with a GPS device. The 1DS Mark III has wireless capabilities, too, and can beam photos this way to an external storage device or to an FTP server.\nIn common with other cameras Canon announced today, the EOS 1DS Mark III will be on sale in the UK from October for £5999.99 ."}
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{"text": "On February 11, 2011 over 250 guests gathered to celebrate the 21st Annual Kappa Scholarship Endowment Fund (KSEF) Valentines Day Scholarship Ball at the elegant Edgewood Country Club in Pittsburgh, PA. The black tie affair featured a red carpet entrance for all guests, an eight piece live band and a delicious sit down meal. Each year the KSEF hosts this scholarship fund raiser which helps provide scholarships for African American young men and women in the Greater Pittsburgh area. The fund anticipates awarding record high scholarships this year (2012) at its annual scholarship luncheon scheduled for June 9, 2012. The event co-chairs were Brothers Russell Howard and Elder Watson Diggs Awardee Eric Morris.\n"}
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{"text": "- SKU\n- 227848401\n- Abstract Product Id\n- 108345\n- Concrete Product Id\n- 458924\nMAVIC Cosmic Pro Carbon SL UST Disc WTS 28“/700 C road front wheel 2019\n949‘s Cosmic Pro Carbon SL UST Disc front wheel for road bikes with disc brakes combines all the latest top technologies of the French wheel specialist for maximum performance. The high-grade full carbon rim with iTgMAX technology is especially designed for use with modern disc brakes and made from a large number of carbon fibre layers with full-length fibres, which guarantees outstanding stability. The aerodynamic, 45 mm deep and 28 mm wide NACA rim profile reduces the wheel’s aerodynamic drag while increasing riding stability in crosswinds. Besides, an inner rim width of 19 mm goes perfectly together with a 25 mm wide tyre, which can also be used tubeless thanks to the UST-Road-Tubeless Technology. Thus, you can enjoy even lower rolling resistance, smoother and more comfortable rolling as well as additional safety thanks to increased puncture resistance. Therefore, Mavic’s Cosmic Pro Carbon SL UST Disc front wheel is an all-rounder in a class of its own, impressing with top performance and a low weight.\nConsisting of a single front wheel incl. tyre:\n• Full carbon rim made of 3K carbon with iTgMAX technology\n• Wind tunnel tested NACA aero rim profile\n• For disc brakes (Centerlock)\n• Width: approx. 28 mm/depth: approx. 45 mm\n• ETRTO: 622 x 19 C\n• For Presta valves\n• Spokes: aero steel spokes, double butted\n• Number of spokes: 20 pcs\n• Lacing:2-cross\n• Nipples: ABS aluminium, self-locking\n• Aluminium hub body, aluminium axle\n• Bearings: self-adjusting, sealed cartridge bearings(QRM Auto)\n• Brake disc mount: Centerlock\n• Axle: 12x100 mm (thru axle)\n• Weight: approx. 680 g (without tyre)\n• Recommended tyre width: 25 – 32 mm\n• Recommended max. system weight: 120 kg (cyclist, bike, gear and luggage)\n• ASTM category 1: For use on paved roads only\nIn the box: Mavic Cosmic Pro Carbon SL UST Disc front wheel, Mavic Yksion Pro UST tyre (700 x 25C, 127 TPI, approx. 260 g, max. tyre pressure with inner tube 7,7 bars/110 PSI, tubeless 25 mm 6,0 Bar/87 PSI, protective nylon inlay), conversion kit 5x100 mm and UST valve\n- Material: carbon:\n- Yes\n- Tubeless ready:\n- Yes\n- Freehub body:\n- 0\n- Manufacturer`s ref.:\n- LF8055100\n- GTIN:\n- 889645677057\n- Axle:\n- 12 x 100 mm"}
{"text": "By Abhishek Jha:\nAbout five months after the Bill was passed by the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Bill, 2015 (GCTOC) has been cleared by the Home Ministry and sent to the President for his assent. The Home Ministry had asked for some clarifications on the Bill in July after some issues were raised by the IT Ministry. The only change that it has brought to the Bill is that the final authority on interception of phone calls will rest with the Union Home Secretary instead of the State Home Secretary, reports say.\nWhen the Bill in its present form (GUJCOC, the earlier version, has been rejected thrice by presidents Abdul Kalam and Pratibha Patil) was passed by the Gujarat Assembly this year, we had discussed whether Gujarat needs this Bill at all. Continuing this discussion, it would be beneficial to learn what is in store for us if the President accepts the Bill.\nIn Narendra Modi’s own words, it’s a ‘xerox-copy’ of the MCOCA. However, MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) was put in force after the Mumbai serial blasts. The ‘teeth and nails’ that Modi wanted during his time in Gujarat were neither required then, nor are required now. In fact, Gujarat has zero instances of ‘offences against state’ and ‘sedition’ for the year 2014 according to NCRB’s statistics. It also has no instance of any offence under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for 2014. There is no cause that one can possibly link to the enacting of this law. Yet the state is about to assume powers that go beyond those provided by the Evidence Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).\nThese extra powers that the state wants- modelled on the MCOCA- were first tested when Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) and Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) were in force. Both these acts are no longer in force. There was a good reason for that. The two most contentious aspects of GCTOC are the provisions that make confessions made before police officers of the rank of SP and above admissible in court as evidence and the extension of the time required for filing chargesheet to 180 days. Both these special powers come without any improvement in the methods and means of investigation available to the police. We know what this resulted in when TADA was in force. A PUDR report says that between 1985 and 1990, 11,657 people were arrested in Gujarat under it, of which only 18 were convicted in TADA offences i.e. only 0.15% of people tried under this act had committed an offence required to be tried under TADA. Despite that, the police could arrest these people and keep them in lock up for an entire year without bail. This is because no bail could be granted before the accused could prove his innocence, and that could not happen until a chargesheet was filed, which the police could do in a period of one year. This period is 180 days in GCTOC, which is still the double of what is mandated by CrPC. All these caveats have no checks on them. On the other hand, very much like the provisions of AFSPA, section 25 of this Bill provides that, ‘No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the State Government or any officer or authority of the State Government for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act and the rules or any order made thereunder.’\nThe admissibility of confessions made before the police too is likely to result in eroding of the sub-section that follows the provision in the Bill, which provides that the confession ‘shall be recorded in the atmosphere free from threat and inducement’. Since the Evidence Act makes confessions before police officers irrelevant, there is little room that a confession will come to be used in court that has been made under threat. This accountability gone, the investigation is likely to become shoddier in cases that require rigorous work, precisely the one of organised crime and terrorism. This makes one wonder whether GCTOC is just another bill being tested in the laboratory along with MCOCA, before we have another draconian law hanging over us. That TADA and POTA were discontinued shows that it is a step back in time and can only set bad precedents."}
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{"text": "Charlize Theron Shaved Head Eize Theron has been hitting red carpets all over the world to promote her two films, Prometheus and Snow White and the Huntsman. The actress, however, now looks significantly different from the way she looked at those premieres; She’s still got her stellar sense of style, but her golden locks are now missing.\nEXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Never-Seen Photos From ‘Prometheus’\nTheron was spotted sporting a shaved head hidden under a bowler hat while walking around Beverly Hills with her 6-month-old son Jackson on Monday. (Watch the video from E! News below).\nPHOTOS: MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet: Best and Worst\nThe actress shaved her head for her role in upcoming action film, Mad Max: Fury Road, a rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Theron will play Furiosa in the long-delayed project, which is set to start filming this summer in Namibia, Africa. Directed by George Miller, the fourth film in the franchise also stars Tom Hardy.\nTheron, who’s been attached to the project since 2009, has changed her physical appearance for a film before. For 2003’s Monster, she gained about 30 pounds, had her eyebroys partially shaved and bleached and wore prosthetic dentures to push out her mouth slightly.\nRelated Stories\nTHR Newsletters\nSign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day"}
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{"text": "Hi friends! Happy Friday! I’m so glad the weekend is heeeeere. What do you have going on this weekend? I’m looking forward to catching an F45 class with a friend (I LOVE IT – more below) and heading off with the fam on a little roadtrip. I hope you have a lovely weekend ahead!\nA huge highlight from this past week was celebrating Liv’s birthday! I can’t even believe she’s 10. This kid is so brilliantly smart and has a heart of gold. She’s made such amazing friends and is the best big sis to P. I’m so proud of her and being a mama to these two incredible kids is my very favorite thing.\nThe annual birthday pic collage:\n(brb going to cry)\nShe wanted a pig themed party – she loves baby pigs – and we invited some of her closest friends to Defy trampoline park.\n(I ordered the little fence and the pigs from Amazon)\nPlus store-bought cupcakes and I added these little pigs on top.\nSince there was no way I could find pre-made pig treat bags, I just printed out pig faces and glued them to these goodie bags.\nIt was the perfect day celebrating. <3\nFriday Faves\nIt’s time for some faves from the week and around the web. As always, I love hearing about your favorite things, so please shout out something you’re loving in the comments section below.\nRead, watch, listen:\nKelly Clarkson has BLESSED US with this cover. Listen to the magic heeeeeeere.\nEmily in Paris. It’s such a joy to watch, the fashion is insane, and I’m so pumped that they renewed it for two more seasons! It’s the only thing I like on TV right now lol.\nDefinitely check out this week’s podcast episode with Danny Matranga!\n10 ways to help a new mom.\nFitness + good eats:\nA plate of avocado toast from Prep and Pastry with chicken sausage. I was interested to see if this would cause a spike with my CGM – I’ve been using Nutrisense for the past couple of weeks – and zero spikes! It rated the meal a 10 and I agree wholeheartedly. 😉\nF45. YOU GUYS. I tried this for the first time last week with a friend and I absolutely love it. I’ve been wanting to get more HIIT-style workouts – I can do them at the gym but I get bored using the rower and treadmill – and this was everything I was looking for. I’m going to be incorporating it into my routine 1-2 times a week (depending on what I have going on and my teaching schedule), but I’ve been loving the combination of exercises, the community environment, the music, and the motivational push. Stay tuned for a Focus On post all about it! If you have any questions, please let me know, and if you’ve tried F45, leave your experience in the comments!\nHow exercise can slow signs of aging.\nFashion + beauty:\nI ordered these Chelsea boots a while ago and still haven’t found a pair of jeans that work perfectly with them. (I just can’t do the wide leg jean and chelsea boot combo.) Instead, I’m just looking forward to wearing these with printed dresses and skirts in the spring! Please let me know if you’ve seen any cute wintery styling tips.\nMe trying on trendy jeans:\nLoving this tarte palette. It’s small – so it’s easy to stash in a travel bag or a backpack – and has all of the classic neutral colors. I have super sensitive eyes and tarte is one of the only brands that doesn’t make them itchy.\nMy fave Zela jacket is on sale.\nOrdered these cute heart sweatshirts for the girls.\nHappy Friday, friends!\nxo\nGina"}
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{"text": "When I did my first tests and calculations about the use of solar power to drive a PC I was quite amazed at the inefficiency of the process and today’s ‘laboratory conditions’ test proves just how much room for improvement there is. It’s thanks to devices like UMPCs that this is project is at all possible because I really doubt it would have worked with even a ‘power saving’ notebook PC.\nToday I stayed at the campsite and put the Solar panel and Li-Ion battery through a 3 hours test. Its was a cloudless day with a very thin haze, 22 degrees centigrade and for reference I’m located at about 50 degrees north and 7 degrees east. The date is the 30th of August which is heading towards Autumn here in Germany. The test was done from 11:00 – 14:00 and I took the empty Li-Ion battery and charged it with the solar panel for 3 hours.\nI estimate that about 1.2KW of energy hit my 7000 cm2 panel with about 660W falling on the Solar cells (3500 cm2). After conversion to electricity it created about 50w/hr of energy. Of that, about 40W was taken by the Li-Ion battery because it only uses a fixed current and voltage. It won’t adapt to the power available. Due to input voltage conversions and charging losses, this left me with an estimated 30W of energy and after taking this through yet another set of voltage conversions and charging process, left me with a rather poor 18W of power. Of course this is enough for a few hours of work but isn’t it incredible that so much power is wasted (or rather passed back as heat!)\nI spent the rest of the afternoon trying to work out how this process could be improved and I’ve come up with a list of ideas that could help. I’ll talk though them in the next post but right now I need to put some more cream on the back of my legs because through all the concentration I forgot about the sun and I’ve burned the bit right behind the knee. That’s going to be really enjoyable tomorrow when I make the 70km dash to Bonn.\nHere’s a diagram I created quickly on the Q1b. Hopefuly it makes things a bit clearer. How would you improve the architechture?"}
{"text": "The OpenStack network_config.json implementation fails on Hyper-V compute nodes\nBug Description\n=== Begin SRU Template ===\n[Impact]\nWhen a config drive provides network_data.json on Azure OpenStack,\ncloud-init will fail to configure networking.\nConsole log and /var/log/\nValueError: Unknown network_data link type: hyperv\nThis woudl also occur when the type of the network device as declared\nto cloud-init was 'hw_veb', 'hyperv', 'vhostuser' or 'vrouter'.\n[Test Case]\nLaunch an instance with config drive on hyperv cloud.\n[Regression Potential]\nLow to none. cloud-init is relaxing requirements and will accept things\nnow that it previously complained were invalid.\n=== End SRU Template ===\nWe have discovered an issue when booting Xenial instances on OpenStack environments (Liberty or newer) and Hyper-V compute nodes using config drive as metadata source.\nWhen applying the network_\nhttp://\nThe fix would be to add 'hyperv' as a link type here:\n/usr/lib/\nRelated bugs:\n* bug 1674946: cloud-init fails with \"Unknown network_data link type: dvs\n* bug 1642679: OpenStack network_config.json implementation fails on Hyper-V compute nodes\nRelated branches\n- Adrian Vladu (community): Approve\n- Alessandro Pilotti (community): Approve\n- Ryan Harper: Approve\n- Diff: 34 lines (+14/-2)1 file modifiedcloudinit/sources/helpers/openstack.py (+14/-2)\nHi,\nI've subscribed Xiang to this as he recently pinged me on a different string that may appear as a network device. My response to him was:\n\| This non-sense really needs to stop.\n\| We need to fix openstack to stop sending arbitrary \"types\" of network\n\| devices that mean nothing to the guest.\n\|\n\| No new ones should be allowed.\n\|\n\| 'vhostuser' or 'ovs' means nothing to the guest. They just see a nic.\n\| They can't possibly use that information in any way, so telling them is\n\| not helpful. The type of the device should be 'tap' or 'ethernet'.\n\|\n\| Can you submit a merge proposal upstream that does that?\n\|\n\| We can take these things in, but they're silly and quite obviously busted,\n\| unless you have some information that shows why they're not.\nI'm willing to take this, but lets please work to fix the source\nof the problem.\nAdrian,\nCan you please file a merge proposal upstream to fix this?\nYou're welcome to use this bug. I've made it \"Also affects nova\"."}
{"text": "Trails\nMy favorites\nMy Current location\nLatest Searches\nPopular searches\nRandom\n \nMinworth - United Kingdom\nWhere do you want to go ?\nDrag or zoom and click on the desired location. 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{"text": "Award! & FST: The Farm\nI was nominated for another award – The Very Inspired Blogger Award! By the awesome Kristy at Bliss at Home. I just nominated 15 blog and I don’t think I could do another 15. Instead I’ll tell you that Kristy is one of the most prolific DIY bloggers I read and everything is her own stuff. I get really tired of these blogs that are little more than Pinterest-lite. Bliss is anything but that, so when I say that I feel honored she’s noticed a blogger who is lucky to get off a post a week, know that I truly mean it. She nominated a lot of other great blogs too, so please check those out. I really like the WordPress community and how positive everyone always is. It makes blogging so much fun. Perfect strangers say the nicest things about you and that always feels great.\nInstead of telling you 7 things about me you may or may not know I’ll share a little bit about the place I grew up. It’s a more thoughtful Family Story Time post than my usual, comic stuff, but I’ve been in a pondering mood so here goes:\nThe farm I grew up on was roughly 60 acres of woods with about 15 acres of cleared land. Most of the cleared land was on top of a hill. The Hill, as we called it, is one of the highest points in the area with a near 360 degree view of the surrounding area. My father boasted that it was the prime spot in East Texas. It’s a great spot for watching shooting stars and for viewing the Milky Way on clear nights. The cows liked to graze on the Hill, being one of the only cleared parts of the farm with abundant wild grass. We’d go up there to chase the cows or hop around hay bales. When I was a teenager, the younger kids would go up there to play with Gault, our pure white Brahmin. Gault was quite a character and he deserves his own post.\nWe had two ponds. One was rain fed and built in my childhood. But the other was a spring fed pond that was there when we moved in. Because it was born from an underwater spring, it never dried up and the excess water in rainy times would bleed off into the creek that ran through our property. It was a lovely creek – probably the only part of the farm that I could never loathe as a teenager. Parts of it were magical to my fertile imagination. Parts of it were also riddled with hidden water moccasins – real or imagined. (Water moccasins, also called cottonmouths, are fat, short ugly water snakes with a temper as mean as their bite is deadly.) But on the whole, I loved that creek. It was also spring fed, and so would be cool often even in the hottest parts of the summer. If we found a section with particularly clear water and enough depth to at least sit in, we’d spend a week or two making enough ruckus to keep the water moccasins away for the foreseeable future and then finally work up the courage to get in and splash around.\nIf I was bored in the house, I’d just go running around the farm all by myself, although usually there was a sibling or two who would join. When you’ve got five, one of them is usually game for an adventure. Every once in a while we’d find a particularly magical spot, a spot with beautiful green grass growing and no trees. I called them glens – like in fairy tales. Meadow is probably a more accurate term, but that word didn’t possess the mystery and enchantment of the word “glen”. These glens were usually near the creek, as well, which only added to the charm. I have no idea how the grass got there, and I particularly don’t understand how the bahia-grass didn’t over-take it, but when I’d find one it was like finding a hidden treasure that was mine and mine alone. We’d set up camp there for weeks after finding one and make up all kinds of stories, playing all day until our mom’s ear-splitting whistle told us it was dinner time. Mostly about being runaway orphans, I suppose. (We were very into the Boxcar Children series for a while.)\nSometimes I miss that farm so much. But that farm – that place and time – is gone. When I was a child I knew every pathway, every bend in the creek, exactly which path was the fastest to the Hill from where I was. I had favorite trees, favorite glens, and favorite parts of the creek. I knew which parts the cows favored, which parts the horses favored, and which parts the water moccasins favored, as well. When I go back, one of the things that strikes me is the unfamiliarity of the place. It feels very wild to me now. Untamed, unknown, and undone. My favorite pathways have been lost through years of disuse and even familiar trees are gone or grown so much that I no longer recognize them. The water has found new paths through the forest, so the creek bends and turns differently. The magic no longer jumps out at me. Maybe it’s hidden there – waiting for me to earn it again.\nCongratulations! 🙂"}
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{"text": "quit1Syllabification: quit\nPronunciation: /kwit /\nverb (quits, quitting; past and past participle quitted or quit)\n- 1 [with object] Leave (a place), usually permanently: he was ordered to quit the cabin immediatelyMore example sentences\nleave, vacate, exit, depart from, withdraw from; abandon, desert\n-.\n- 1.1 • informal Resign from (a job): she quit her job in a pizza restaurant [no object]: he quit as manager of struggling Third Division CityMore example sentences\nresign from, leave, give up, hand in one's notice, stand down from, relinquish, vacate, walk out on, retire from• informal chuck, pack inpack it in, call it quits\n-.\n- 1.2 • informal , chiefly North American Stop or discontinue (an action or activity): quit moaning! I want to quit smokingMore example sentences\ngive up, stop, cease, discontinue, drop, break off, abandon, abstain from, desist from, refrain from, avoid, forgo\n- In order to care for the patient, most families had to quit other activities.\n- I hate having to quit a project, leaving it unfinished.\n- Why do you quit your routine when you begin to make progress?\nadjective[predic.] (quit of) Back to top\nPhrases\nOrigin\nMiddle English (in the sense 'set free'): from Old French quiter (verb), quite (adjective), from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere 'be still', from quies 'quiet'.\nMore definitions of quitDefinition of quit in:\n- The British & World English dictionary\n- The English Synonyms\n- The US English Synonyms\nGet more from Oxford Dictionaries\nquit2Syllabification: quit\nPronunciation: / kwit/.\nMore definitions of quitDefinition of quit in:\n- The British & World English dictionary\n- The English Synonyms\n- The US English Synonyms\nGet more from Oxford Dictionaries"}
{"text": ".\nSomehow, incredibly, Ninja Theory’s managed to impart their own style on the franchise, while leaving its “feel” intact. I can happily report that while the game’s taken on a entirely different aesthetic, it feels just like Devil May Cry. If you weren’t one of the 275000 Gamescom attendees who had the chance to play the game, here’s a video showing the same bit of gameplay on offer at the show.\nLast Updated: August 20, 2012"}
{"text": "Yesterday we were lucky enough to go to Manchester to watch the 2014 Soccer Aid match. It’s such a great concept – footballing legends and celebrities, stars of film and TV, going head to head in a biennial event as England take on ‘The Rest Of The World’.\nIt was started by Robbie Williams and Jonathan Wilkes back in 2006. And whilst it’s a lot of fun to watch – and clearly even more fun to take part in – it’s all done for charity, namely to raise money for UNICEF.\nUNICEF believes that “every child should have clean water, food, health care, education and a safe environment in which to grow up”. It is not funded by the UN and relies on voluntary donations.\n£5 could provide 75 children with safe drinking water door a month.\n£25 could protect 93 children against deadly polio.\n£50 could provide enough mosquito nets to protect 13 families from malaria, which kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds.\n£100 could provide 238 packets of high energy biscuits to give children the nutrients they need in an emergency.\nWhen we arrived we were spoilt for choice with the array of foods on sale but we opted for fish and chips and sat in the sunshine together to eat. The forecast had been dreadful and although we were caught in an absolutely torrential downpour whilst driving to the ground, the clouds parted and the weather was glorious. We made our way to our seats and were helped by very friendly stewards. Both teams came out in their suits to greet the crowd before the match started and we managed to get some photos although I wish I’d taken my camera as my phone didn’t capture people clearly.\nThe match was fantastic! We had seats right behind the east stand goal (and had a perfect view of David Seaman’s bottom for the first half!) The crowd were in fine spirits and we were sat with lovely people all around. One gentleman even offered to take a photo for us.\nWe decided to leave a few minutes early as the traffic had been an absolute nightmare on the way in and as we had quite a long journey home, we didn’t want to get caught up in another traffic jam. So with 8 minutes to go – and the score at 2:2 – we headed back to the car. Which meant that we missed the final two goals. But it did mean that we reached the car, changed our 4 year old into his pyjamas and were out of the car park before the crowds.\nIt was a fabulous day and it’s all for a fabulous cause. And if you want to help, you can text CHILD to 70333 to donate £5\nsounds like a fab day!! I love man vs food, brilliant picture there!! x\nThank you. I am gutted I didn’t have my camera. Adam Richman is fabulous and I would’ve loved a clearer picture of him. And me together, obviously 😉\nGreat post Claire, & i’m in good company, Michael Sheen hey.\n🙂 I nearly fell over when he tweeted me! I might’ve had an overexcited, over emotional hug with Mr sixdegreesofharmony too x\nAh sounds awesome. I really want to go one day! x"}

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