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Imperious Warner smashes highest score of World Cup
By Peter Thompson 20 June 2019 247
The in-form David Warner bludgeoned the highest score of the 2019 Cricket World Cup with an imperious innings as Australia piled on the runs against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
Warner smashed his second hundred of the tournament, having also made two half-centuries, and fell just 13 runs short of his ODI-best score when he was removed for a magnificent 166 after being dropped on 10 by Sabbir Rahman.
The Australia opener's brutal 166 from 147 balls bettered the previous joint-best knocks of the World Cup of 153 - posted by Warner's captain Aaron Finch and England's Jason Roy.
Warner played himself in before he was at his powerful best in Nottingham, hitting five sixes and 14 fours in a scintillating innings.
His latest masterclass of clean striking was Australia's second best in a World Cup, Warner holding the record of 178 against Afghanistan four years ago.
Holders Australia were 313-2 in the 45th over when former vice-captain Warner tamely steered a delivery from Soumya Sarkar to Rubel Hossain on the edge of the circle when attempting to go over the top.
Usman Khawaja was then dismissed for 89 from only 72 balls after he and Warner put on 192 for the second wicket.
Warner's highest international score in the 50-over format remains the 179 he made versus Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval two years ago.
2 - David Warner has just set the highest score of #CWC19 (166 v Bangladesh); he is now responsible for the two highest men's @cricketworldcup scores ever recorded for Australia. Outstanding. #AUSvBAN pic.twitter.com/ukxromB0KK
— OptaJason (@OptaJason) June 20, 2019
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Analysis: Mexico tariff threat sends message that the U.S. is an unreliable trade partner
The Trump administration has told the world that no deal is ever a done deal.
By Neil Irwin New York Times
June 1, 2019 — 12:05am
The Trump administration has sent a message to the world with its new tariff threats against Mexico: No deal is ever a done deal.
That effect may be bigger than the immediate 5% tax on Mexican imports set to go into force June 10 and escalate to 25% over time. Mexico had seemed to resolve its trade tension with the United States, in the form of a reworked NAFTA now known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or the USMCA. The deal was moving toward fruition after the United States lifted steel and aluminum tariffs on its North American neighbors just days ago, and lawmakers in all three countries began considering it.
The new tariff threats, announced by President Donald Trump in a tweet Thursday, are aimed at pressuring the Mexican government to do more to combat migrants traveling from Central America to the U.S. border to seek asylum. It’s an issue not really related to trade policy at all. But the tariff threats amount to a vivid signal, especially to allies, that there is no permanent trade peace with the Trump administration, and could have significant consequences for future trade negotiations. “I don’t see how our trading partners will continue to negotiate with us as if we have any credibility going forward,” said Emily Blanchard, a trade economist at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. “They’re going to have a much harder time selling any costly domestic reform or sacrifice that is a concession to the U.S., because the U.S. is acting like an erratic bully.”
The escalating trade war between the United States and China had put Mexico in a promising position, as a destination for businesses making decisions about where to locate their supply chains and wary of tensions with China. Mexico has higher labor costs than China, perhaps, but it has an appealing geographical proximity to the United States and the favorable trade relations that seemed to be codified by the USMCA deal announced at the White House last fall.
Even if the new tariff is canceled before it is scheduled to begin, the action sends a signal that any cross-border supply chain — for decades a crucial strategy for large multinational firms and quite a few smaller ones — is inherently risky.
“Mexico and Canada looked like a safe harbor because you just signed USMCA,” said Philip Levy, a senior fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “This action is saying, no, there really isn’t a safe harbor.”
Latest blow to farmers: Mexico is a major export market for Minnesota’s corn, poultry, wheat and dairy, as well as soybeans and pork.
The Trump administration’s trade strategy had seemed to be coming into focus.
There was the USMCA deal, a relatively calm period of relations with Japan and Europe, and increased pressure on China.
It all looked like a fairly coherent strategy of reaching trade peace with allies before starting a concerted assault on a range of problematic Chinese practices.
The renewed trade tension with Mexico, driven by issues unrelated to trade, could undermine that strategy.
If you are selling a car to a stranger on the internet, you may try to strike as aggressive a deal as possible.
And if you’re unethical, you might even hide some problems with the car or try to change the terms after shaking the buyer’s hand.
But when selling a car to your next-door neighbor, you’ll probably be a lot more upfront. You need a sense of mutual trust, and selling the neighbor a lemon or reneging on an agreed deal is no way to establish it.
When two countries that share a long border are negotiating a trade deal, it is very much part of a repeating game. Mutual trust matters, because there will be an endless series of disputes that need resolving and much to gain from having a good relationship.
That kind of trust may have just taken a hit that will last.
“A very straightforward interpretation is that trade deals with the U.S. buy you nothing,” Levy said. “You may be asked to jump through hoops and do things that are painful, but in the end you have no guarantees that the president won’t stick on tariffs when something irritates him.”
It is true that Mexico — and other major trading partners — need the huge American market. And Trump’s constant threat of tariffs may succeed at getting victories on some discrete issues.
But if you sell the family next door a lemon, don’t be surprised if nobody in the neighborhood wants to do business with you again.
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[NEW] 8. Selecting a Topic (English Dialogue) - Role-play conversation for Kids
1 00:00:02,750 --> 00:00:04,750 English singsing 2 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:11,220 American History: Selecting a Topic for Group Presentation 3 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:19,940 Let’s decide on a topic. 4 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,60 What is the most important event or person in American history? 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,660 Does anyone have a good idea? 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,860 What about the American presidents? 7 00:00:30,860 --> 00:00:37,580 If we know the presidents, then we can understand American history more easily! 8 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,420 Wow, that’s a great idea! 9 00:00:41,780 --> 00:00:44,780 Starting from the first president, George Washington, 10 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:46,120 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th, 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,700 Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd, 12 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:52,700 John Kennedy, the 35th, and more. 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,560 There are many famous ones. 14 00:00:56,660 --> 00:00:57,399 That's right. 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:03,580 George Washington led the country to victory in the Revolutionary War 16 00:01:03,580 --> 00:01:07,900 and is known as ‘the Father of the United States.’ 17 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:14,200 Lincoln was the one who ended the slavery system during the American Civil War. 18 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,820 And there is the symbol of liberal democracy, John F. Kennedy. 19 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:26,40 Hmm. But over 40 presidents are just too many. 20 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:31,80 Are there really over 40? What a headache! 21 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:35,140 I don’t think we will ever finish this. 22 00:01:35,140 --> 00:01:37,300 Is there any other topic? 23 00:01:38,80 --> 00:01:42,660 What about war? Shoo! Shoo! 24 00:01:43,20 --> 00:01:45,220 I think that's good too. 25 00:01:45,220 --> 00:01:52,620 There are wars that changed American history, such as the American Civil War and the Revolutionary War. 26 00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:55,440 We could also talk about World War I or World War Ⅱ. 27 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,200 Um… I don’t like the topic of war. 28 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:03,780 It’s about people fighting! 29 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:08,280 Hm. What about how people’s lives changed after the war? 30 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,680 Hm. After the Great War, there was the Great Depression. 31 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,660 That’s too hard! 32 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:18,40 Then what about this? 33 00:02:18,40 --> 00:02:20,40 I have a great idea! 34 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,650 What is it? 35 00:02:22,650 --> 00:02:25,120 We should start from the beginning of America. 36 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,660 The moment when Columbus found the continent! 37 00:02:29,140 --> 00:02:32,400 He also challenged people’s viewpoints! 38 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,560 I know Columbus very well. 39 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,880 I love it! 40 00:02:38,260 --> 00:02:39,420 Great! 41 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:45,840 Let’s pick a topic on Columbus, and gather information and data from each one of us! 42 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:47,920 Yes, sir! 43 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,960 Let's listen
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Mall of Asia, IMAX Theater, July 15, 11:00pm
Not as magical (read: eye candy) as the first four installments (especially Alfonso Cuaron’s interpretation of the third book), but this one’s the most mature to date in terms of film direction and adaptation. I can say that this is my favorite if I have to choose. Others might be complaining about the details that were scraped out from the book but the way the storyline was streamlined is awesome and just right. HP5 showcases Harry Potter at his most political self.
Friends who might appreciate it: those who read the books (understatement).
Greenbelt 3, Cinema 2, July 27, 9:00pm
I am a fan of The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening. The thing is, I haven’t seen a lot of The Simpsons TV episodes. But I love the humor. I love the instant twists and mini-plots. Parang ang hirap kasi n’ung in 30 minutes, nakaka-create ka na ng twist na hindi nagsa-suffer ang humor. The lousy verdict: if you like the TV show, you will definitely like the movie.
Friends who might appreciate it: donut lovers.
Greenbelt 3, Cinema 1, July 29, 11:15pm
My third good film for this year (300 and Zodiac are the two other two). The script is well written. Hindi s’ya kababawan o eye candy lang. The film is also very entertaining. Hindi nakakabobo ang pagkakagawa at ang taas ng redeeming value n’ya (if it’s from Disney, it must be….).
Friends who might appreciate it: everyone in the colony.
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Greenbelt 3, Cinema 2, July 1, 10:15pm
The film delivers the most mind-blowing CGI scenes I have ever seen in a film. Michael Bay just invented the word “perfection” (naks). For me, it is an above average live action film adaptation. The only drawback (hey, friends, don’t kill me!) I think is the lack of a really satisfying redeeming value. Yes, the film is about bad aliens invading the planet and the good ones preventing it. But what it is really all about? I can’t seem to answer that. I can’t say that it’s about bravery and purity and innocence. “Spiderman” (!), “X-Men” and even “Fantastic Four” have a lot more to say than “Transformers”.
Friends who might appreciate it: those who were once an Autobot or a Decepticon during their childhood days.
PARAISO (Tatlong Kuwento ng Pag-asa)
SM Mall of Asia, Cinema 6, July 7, 12:10pm
Not bad for a noble project called Gawad Kalinga. Tony Meloto’s vision remains in tact. I can say that the film moved me. It made me want to look for GK on the internet. The last two episodes/mini-films are good. I can't forget the story about a boy who eats stones. It was mentioned in the film that the eating disorder is called Pica and is normally manifested in neclected children. The last feature is directed by actor Ricky Davao and is about a widower who continued his dead wife's dreams. The journal style and the music from Vincent de Jesus are effective. This film is another must-watch for all the Filipinos out there and should be the one having the movie line "more than meets the eye".
Friends who might appreciate it: those who care.
I left my expectations at home and I wasn’t disappointed. The film delivers what the viewers expect: fast pace, lots of explosions, stunts, witty lines and CGI. I love the truck and jet scene (very James Cameron). That’s a “whoa!”
Friends who might appreciate it: those who are curious with Bruce Willis’ anti-ageing secret.
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The Bible refers to “7” as the perfect number. But last July 7, 2007, I didn’t squander the day perfectly grand as foreseen but it wasn’t that bad. I started it actually with an overtime work, finishing some stuff. That’s after Christina Aguilera (yeah, I watched her concert at the The Fort open field, complete with midyear rain showers) did her thing for the Asian leg’s Manila stop of her Back to Basics concert. I was with officemates Richmond and Sarah (a big fan and a VIP seat taker).
Christina is great. I always admire the way she does a counterpart of Michael Jackson’s famous dance step (the one with his “pototoy”). Christina on her part does it with her “monay”. And maliciously aside, that’s a loud statement for those vying for gender equality. Of course, there’s more to Christina than that. The “birit” voice quality didn’t fail up to the last song. People were singing with her on the encore song “Beautiful”. She did it with ad lib and “kulots” while the crowd was doing the “first voice”. What a musicality!
Actually, I am just explaining why I enjoyed working at the office ‘til the wee hours on that allegedly lucky date.
Afternoon of 07-07-07 was well wasted with the second round of Virgin Labfest 3 (two sets, “Identity and Politics” and “International Night”) at the CCP. It was enjoyable still and I ended up craving for more. Same time, next year perhaps (no pun intended).
The rest of the day was spent enjoying the breeze from the rain showers while cruising along the Harbour Square. No sunset, no mandarin sky, no sentimentality.
Just the breeze.
Last weekend (June 30 – July 1) was the first weekend for the third serving of Virgin Labfest. It’s an annual event that showcases new (hence the term “virgin”) works from the playwrights of Writers Bloc. Consider it the Cinemalaya of Philippine theater.
Along with my officemates, we ventured into catching the first set called “Madadramang Pamilya” last Friday. The first play was written by J. Dennis Teodosio, a familiar name to me ever since I made a mini-review of his work called “Si Geegee at si Waterina”, a fictional conversation between Justo Justo and Walter Markova. His entry (well, one of the two entries) this year was a skeletons-in-the-closet drama between an aging mom and her son in the US. It is directed by theater personality and PDI editor/columnist Rito Asilo. The other two were “Looking for Darna” and “Teroristang Labandera” (for me, it’s the most engaging among the three plays). We ended up having a late dinner at Dencio’s in Harbour Square.
The next day, I woke up early to catch the “Children’s Play” set with “Kung Pwede lang Ipagpalit ang Tatay”, “Bertday ni Guido” and “Obra ni Maestra”. So far, this is my favorite set.
“Ipagpalit…” is about a boy (and his younger sister) who traded his dad with a pair of goldfish. Their mom later on asked them to look for their dad. The owner of the goldfish traded his dad with a violin (and the violin’s owner, with a trolley; and the trolley’s owner, with two chicks…). After a fun journey, the two kids eventually found their dad and returned home. “Bertday ni Guido” is set in the 80’s and is about Guido who’s having a birthday on the same day as EDSA Day. He was anxious that his parents who were in the rally might not join him on his birthday party and might only end up with “coke, ice cream, cake at spaghetti” (as sung a la musical piece composed by Vincent de Jesus of “Zsazsa Zaturnnah” fame). The third one is an action-packed children’s play complete with colorful costumes and stunts. “Obra ni Maestra” is written and directed by Niel de Mesa who wrote the popular and Palanca-winning piece “Subtext”.
The event was capped by a meet-and-greet with the great Rene O. Villanueva. He wrote “Bertday ni Guido” which happened to be the most enjoyable among the three because of the audience interaction. I asked for an autograph. He looked old and a bit frail. Na-stroke daw kasi s’ya. I said, “Sir, batang Batibot po ako. I owe you my childhood.”. He just smiled and wrote “Salamat, Manny. EDSA was a party. Rene Villanueva.” on my ticket.
During break, I went to Mall of Asia to fetch my “Harry Potter: Order of Phoenix” tickets at IMAX, had lunch at French Baker and hurried back to CCP for “X, X and X: Hindi Pang-Isip Bata” set. Really, really disturbing.
Then evening came.
At exactly 10pm, I was already at the gate of Saguijo. I met my roommate there and another friend. It was Rivermaya’s first gig without Rico Blanco. Other bands like Sandwich, Pedicab, Cambio, the reuniting Fatal Posporos and Sugarfree also performed and gave support to Rivermaya. It was a sad experience. They were all wearing black shirt. Another Pinoy band is about to fall and it’s heartbreaking to see Mark, Mike and Japs survive the rain. My roommate commented that it could be the last gig of the band. They performed some Blanco songs and it was hard to take even with the help of the Dancel brothers Ebe and Vin. There’s one single that captured all the questions and uncertainties that Rivermaya is now facing. It is entitled “Sayang”.
Things 003: Yabang Pinoy “Baller Band”
I saw this fashion accessory about a month ago in one of the shops at Glorietta’s Art Space. I just put the idea of buying it into oblivion only to relive it again after browsing the July issue of FHM’s fashion/grooming section. The item is made of Abaca, which, according to the card that comes with it, is a metaphor of Filipinos being malakas at matatag. Cool, eh? It’s also a campaign, by the way. Similar to other cause-oriented baller bands from Nike like Live Strong and One or the politically correct WWJD. The item is only P50 (I got mine from The T-Shirt Project, formerly Spoof, in Glorietta) but the pride attached to it every time you wear it is priceless. O-ha! Just visit their website: www.yabangpinoy.com.
The Ultimate Roommate Checklist
Without much further ado, below is my Not List. Period.
1. Not a “Kababayan”
I have nothing against all my “kababayan” but I don’t want to risk my life being broadcasted all over Lopez, Quezon when the going gets tough. I am a private person here and in my hometown. I prefer to listen than talk and I wish to remain that way ‘til I run for a seat in the congress (hehehe).
2. Not an Officemate
Again, I have nothing against the office (I just took an online test that preaches not to put the name of the company in vain, too bad) and my officemates. I find my colleagues very professional (take a bow, folks) and very friendly (during and after beer sessions, hehehe). I just don’t want to wake up one day with my roommate is asking me how to debug a code or how to create a Service Agreement online. This would definitely spare me from sleep talking about our customer information system (nightmare!). Also, having a roommate on a different field/career provides perks (though not an assurance) like a nightshift schedule (no need for a toilet queue in the morning) and other privileges (hey, man, is your company having a backstage pass for an FHM-sponsored event?).
3. Not Penniless
Let me play evil here (and I wish to clarify this pointblank): my room is not a charitable institution. Sure, an aged person lives there that makes it, err, Home for the Aged, but no, it’s not for free. My room has an AC that has a sub meter reader, a lamp for reading books (and internal designs!), an electric fan, a bulb for the entire room and another one for the toilet, that requires a monthly electric bill distribution from a hardworking Meralco staff. Completing my monthly room rental fee of P6,000+ (depending on the reading for the AC, the rest of the consumption including TV watching while lying at the wooden “sofa” at the living room is part of the package) is the water supply and my landlady’s “income”. In short, rent is rent. And renting a room in Makati is like eating peanuts at a 7-star hotel. One of the reasons why I opened my room for sharing is for me to try something that I haven’t done for the last 29 years or so. The other reason, the more convincing one, is for the extra saving. Just a side note, I made a background check (not that extensive though) on my roommate. He lives in a townhouse in Marikina, which he visits every weekend, and his family looks "sosy". Damn, I feel so lousy at discriminating people.
4. Not Evil
This is corny to explain but I hope you know what I mean when I describe a person to be evil.
5. Not a Moviephobe
At least if he’s geek and/or autistic, we can still talk about movies when sleeping is scarce. Not to mention that I badly need an assistant who is more than willing to help me with ticket reservation and pick-up (evil laugh, bwahahaha). And it’s a blast if he can start up a movie topic like who is a better auteur between Mike Relon Makiling and Luciano Chaning Carlos.
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How to sound knowledgeable in Cancun
The shadow of the global economic recession looms over Cancun, Mexico, where signatories to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will meet for the 16th time from 29 November.
Almost every climate deal hinges on money, and the economic slowdown is likely to have a bearing on the discussions related to adaptation, mitigation or technology transfer. But maybe some goodwill - and the instinctive need for self-preservation - will prevail.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set up a High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing to identify "new, innovative and additional sources" for long-term financing to support adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries. The group reported back recently that raising US$100 billion a year from 2020 from the private sector could be feasible through the carbon markets, fuel levies and carbon taxes while learning to spend public money prudently. But will that money be predictable?
Aid watchers say finance for short-term adaptation may start coming in now that the Adaptation Fund is operational. There might also be some new pledges in Cancun, and the spotlight will be on creating a new Climate Fund, also called the Green Fund, first mooted by Mexico.
IRIN has been following climate-change policy developments since the countries last met in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. In this collection of reports, we have attempted to provide a humanitarian guide, and bit more. Download the report
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"As long as human rights are violated, there can be no foundation for peace. How can peace grow where speaking the truth is itself a crime?"
China faces criticism at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva
Tibet Bureau, Geneva, June 22, 2016 – At the 32nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council which took place in Geneva last week, China once again faced severe criticism for failing to meet international human rights standards and for narrowing the space for civil society by adopting new laws on foreign NGOs and national security.
In delivering his “Item 4” (opening) statement to the UNHRC, Mr. Keith Harpar, Ambassador and US Permanent Representative to Human Rights Council said “We are also deeply concerned that China’s new Law on the Management of Foreign NGO Activities will further narrow space for civil society and about excessive government controls on religious practices, especially those affecting Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, and Christians.
The European Union also expressed concern about China’s human rights record saying that “In China, ongoing detention and harassment of human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, labour rights defenders and their families remains a major concern…… The recent adoption of the national security packages including the counter terrorist law further raises serious questions about China’s respect for its international human rights obligations.”
The statement further says that the EU expects China to implement the UPR recommendations it accepted including ensuring an enabling environment for civil society including foreign NGOs. The EU also urged China to respect cultural diversity and freedom of religion or belief especially in Tibet and Xinjiang.
Germany aligned itself with the EU statement saying “Germany remains deeply concerned about the ongoing human rights violation throughout China in particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet.”
Switzerland stated its concern about restrictions on freedom of religion, expression and freedom of movement for national minorities particularly Tibetans and Uyghurs and it called upon China to guarantee fundamental rights of all individual including members of ethnic minorities.
France reiterated similar concerns and called upon China to undertake dialogue with officials in order to resolve the deep underlying causes of tension in Tibet and in Xinjiang.
Canada stated that it remains concerned about the regulation of foreign NGOs in China which undermines the intrinsic value of civil society in driving innovation, promoting stability and advancing human rights. Canada called upon China to bring its legal framework into compliance with international human rights norms and standards in order to ensure an enabling environment for civil society to flourish.
The Tibet Bureau representative, Dawa Tsultrim, delivered an oral statement on June 23 on behalf of the Society for Threatened People (NGO under consultative status with ECOSOC).
(edited by WTN editors)
Chinese authorities in Tibetan Prefecture in Qinghai to drastically cut Tibetan language education - Radio Free Asia
The CCP rewrites history in order to justify its repression of Tibetan language and culture. - Bitter Winter
Tibetan man and his aunt sentenced for calling the release of Panchen Lama - Radio Free Asia
China has been running global influence campaigns for years - The Atlantic
2018 Annual Report on Human Rights in Tibet - TCHRD
Setting up astroturf “Tibetan Associations” in the West is China’s latest ploy to mislead the world on Tibet - ICT
Three Tibetans Are Detained For Calling For Panchen Lama's Release - Radio Free Asia
Report: Religious freedom conditions worsening in China - Freebeacon
China is attempting a large-scale rewriting of history - Telegraph India
Letter From Trudeau Supporting Pro-China Tibet Group Is Fake, PM’s Office Says - The EpochTimes
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Home Analysis Advertising Broadcasters and DTT market must control their own addressable advertising destiny, or...
Broadcasters and DTT market must control their own addressable advertising destiny, or face serious risks
The DVB, the standards creation body that drove Europe towards digital TV with its various DVB-T, DVB-S and DVB-C standards, and which helps the broadcast industry innovate on multiple fronts including UHD, is concerned that without household-level addressable TV advertising the ‘classic’ commercial broadcasting market will be endangered. Vincent Grivet, VP for Broadcast Development at TDF Group and Co-Chair for the DVB’s CM-TA-SMG (Commercial Module – Targeted Advertising – Study Mission Group) has declared: “This represents high strategic stakes for broadcasters. It would probably be a high-risk outcome, and a negative thing, if targeted advertising is not made possible in classical television.”
This is the first time that anyone representing the ‘traditional’ broadcast industry, including the free-to-air (‘terrestrial’) broadcasters across Europe, has been so frank. Grivet and the DVB are particularly focused on broadcasters using digital terrestrial (DTT) for distribution.
His comments reflect the fact that born-online digital media uses targeting as a way to tempt media budget out of television and that the Pay TV industry, in isolated pockets, has already deployed addressable advertising for linear broadcast TV. Major media buyers, led vocally by GroupM, are encouraging the TV industry to make addressable available across a wider footprint. The DVB is right to conclude that no significant platform or commercial broadcaster can afford to be left behind in this new tech race.
Grivet explained why the advertising industry will not want to pursue addressable advertising without having the terrestrial broadcast market onboard. Speaking at Future TV Advertising Forum recently, he pointed out that DTT is the No.1 platform (in terms of homes that rely on it for their television) in the UK, France, Spain and Italy – four of the biggest markets in Europe.
Grivet made the case for why DTT still matters after years of OTT evangelists predicting its irrelevance. He pointed out that in France (where his own company, TDF, runs the DTT transmission network and provides other video services), digital terrestrial is as popular in Paris as in the remote countryside. A survey showed that in France, 64% of people said it would be a problem if they moved to a home that did not have a terrestrial antenna and a wall socket to receive DTT.
“The age group that was most sensitive about this was the under-35s,” he added. “This is associated with cord-cutting. Young people who go to Netflix and Amazon realise that they might rely on them for movies and series but they will miss ‘normal’ TV, and broadcast is a good way to get that.” Grivet said the rapid growth in over-the-air viewing in the U.S. is also largely driven by cord-cutting – with digital terrestrial viewed as a necessary complement to SVOD services to provide sport and breaking news that is otherwise lost.
An important part of the initial work that the DVB conducted in addressable/targeted advertising was to decide if the DTT market needs it. The firm conclusion is that it does – and that it will be very important to this sector. The DVB is now committed to deciding the detailed commercial requirements and then the technical specifications that will evolve into a standards-based framework for the delivery of addressable advertising.
Although DVB is focused on the ‘horizontal’ DTT market, which encompasses both broadcasters, DTT platform owners and the device (television set and set-top box) makers who sell DTT receivers through retail, Grivet said the organisation would welcome participation from the ‘vertical’ (Pay TV) market. Indeed, he is hopeful that satellite or IPTV providers might join the process.
“It would be very attractive for advertisers and broadcasters if there was a single technical framework covering more than one platform,” he suggested. Grivet believes this could be realistic for IPTV and DTT in France, as an example.
The DVB-TA (Targeted Advertising) specification will be built on the back of the HbbTV standards, which are also driven by the European terrestrial/free-to-air broadcast market. The HbbTV standards provide the means to gather instant data about what someone is watching, and they also support the insertion of IP-delivered ads (which are streamed over broadband) into a broadcast signal. However, the existing HbbTV technology does not provide the perfect frame accurate and bullet-proof ad insertion that is considered ‘broadcast-grade’, and the DVB specification work aims to remedy that.
Grivet declared: “HbbTV is an excellent start but it does not provide a fully satisfactory solution.” Besides dynamic ad substitution, some of the other issues it is tackling are end-to-end in-band signalling, buffering in receive devices, reporting, and interfaces with existing ad workflows.
The DVB is putting broadcaster control high on its agenda. “They should have a similar level of control as they have today on non-targeted classical advertising,” Grivet told the FTVA audience. “I am optimistic that the HbbTV-based solution will enable that, as HbbTV was itself created with that purpose.”
The DVB’s CM-TA-SMG co-chair was adamant that day-to-day control of the addressable advertising process is mission-critical and part of the wider need to ensure the broadcast industry determines its own destiny. “If they [broadcasters] do not have control, there is a high risk that they will lose value. Broadcasters need to rely on broadcaster-friendly solutions,” he declared.
This was not aimed at Pay TV operators but was a reference to the threat from “well-known digital players who have captured a very high proportion of all forms of other advertising”. Grivet did not elaborate, but if broadcasters rely on a company like YouTube as a distribution platform where they can offer targeting, for example, then it is YouTube that holds all the tech-cards and gets to evolve its processes. Arguably, that moves the balance of power towards the ‘platform’ (in this example YouTube) over time.
Grivet emphasised: “Our ambition is to create the standardisation for that broadcaster-friendly solution. We want the full potential value of addressable advertising to be unlocked for the benefit of classical broadcasters.” He then suggested that harnessing the work of HbbTV and putting that into a broader DVB framework “is the safe way for broadcasters to go”, adding: “They can take advantage of addressable without the risk of losing everything.”
As well as encouraging ‘vertical’ operators to get involved with the standards work, the DVB wants ‘digital experts’ who have already deployed their targeting systems to participate in DVB-TA. “We want the spec to easily interconnect with existing trading and ad-decisioning platforms,” Grivet explained.
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A round-up of some of the work in Europe to harness IP-into-broadcast solutions for household-level addressable TV advertising, including with HbbTV standards, and more detail about the priority list for the new DVB-TA specification.
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Yoga sweats are not pants
Suzanne Wexler, Postmedia News 04.18.2011
I will never forget her. I was inside the Java U when a crunchy-haired brunette with oversized sunglasses waltzed up and ordered herself a café concoction.
The silver reflective logo on her Lululemon yoga pants caught my eye, and then I noticed she was wearing high heels. High heels! With boot cut sweats!
This woman was obviously not heading to the gym. Nay, she was wearing yoga pants as real pants, complete with a blouse and heels.
It was a fashion faux pas that’s becoming all too common these days. The yoga-pant revolution has created mass confusion about where or where not to don casual dress — let alone how to wear it. And the bar of what’s acceptable is threatening to get lower and lower.
As we peel off our winterwear this spring, “pyjama dressing” is rolling in as the latest casual-dressing craze. As in, floral motif PJ-style pants and onesies for the teens. For a more mature look, there’s boudoir-inspired Hugh Hefner silks, which capture a vacationing-in-Bali sort of glamour.
We’ve seen the look for evening, but during the day the look can appear, well, very breakfast style.
There’s no telling whether or not PJ dressing will become the next big thing among Canadians. But one thing is for sure: Throughout the eras, we’ve traipsed around in our snowflake-patterned long-johns, lumberjack shirts, woolly Hudson Bay coats, Roots sweatsuits (which are increasingly popular among teens), and Gore-Tex. We are certainly not beyond PJs.
Whether we’re ready to move beyond the yoga pant is yet to be seen.
“Don’t say you’ve become a mother and then have to conform to this Lululemon mantra,” says Valerie Grove, a new mother who has witnessed many of her friends quickly convert from fashion vixens into leisure-suit loyalists.
“Just because you want to feel comfortable, and are shlepping around a kid doesn’t mean you have to look like you’re wearing your PJs.”
Grove holds a weekly playgroup at her house. Of the 10 moms who attend, about half are in yoga pants (Lululemons specifically). The rest are in jeans and possibly leggings with stylish sweaters.Turns out, Grove does not consider leggings a fashion faux pas like yoga pants. In fact, she considers them an ideal way to be comfortable and look fashionable, especially when paired with boots or a long sweater.
“They could be velvet, denim or even nicer fabrics,” she says. But she hesitates to say leggings look appropriate for a night out on the town.
As for wearing yoga pants anywhere beyond the house, the gym or out for a power walk, Grove believes that “it’s like telling the world you haven’t showered. ‘Hello, I haven’t showered.’ That’s what it is.”
For many Canadians, the look is all about comfort Tina Fargnoli is a yoga-trained, certified Pilates instructor in Toronto. She reports having at least 25 pairs of yoga pants, again, specifically Lululemons. Other pairs seem cheap to her, and the fabric all wrong. When I asked her to name the styles, her reply was: “Oh gosh. Well, there’s the crop, the regular long ones with a flare, the regular straight leg ones, which are not flared, the hip hugger ones. Some are more formal ones that are three-quarter-length culottes.”
Fargnoli says lately she’s more into the company’s running pants, which look a lot like conventional leggings. She wears them with leg warmers.
“My friend even said to me at one point — and this is like four or five years ago — ‘Seriously Tina, I’ve never seen anyone wear so much Lululemon in my life,” she said.
“I wear them all the time, not just to work.”
This, and the fact that her mom once nicknamed her ‘Lulu-Tina’, just makes her laugh.
Fargnoli has Lululemons that she considers “too nice” for yoga, which she proudly wears out to dinner and for a night on the town. These include pinstripe yoga pants with built-in belts, which she wears with blazers, and a number of the company’s sundresses. She says she wears the skorts out a lot, too, pairing them with nice tops. Many of these items have similar fabrics to the company’s yoga pants.
“Sometimes, I dress up and feel awkward. I think, ‘I’d rather be in my sweats now,’” she said.
“I’m comfortable and happy with it.”
Would she wear yoga pants — or sweats as she calls them — with heels?
“Funny. Just yesterday I saw someone in really high heels with cropped Lululemons,” she said. “And I can now say that I would absolutely never.”
Fargnoli has worn her yoga pants with wedge sandals, but typically she wears them with her Pajar boots in the winter and her Etinies sneakers or flip-flops in the summer.
Thanks to active moms and yoga babes like Fargnoli, not to mention those Sunday strollers, the leisure wear business is booming. According to a recent New York Times article, sales at Lululemon increased 56 per cent in the third quarter last year. The story also went on to report how women in New York City are donning elastic waistband pants to work — at offices, not just yoga studios. Will Canadians be joining the elastic waistband office-gear trend?
“Our reality as Canadians is not there,” says Lindy Omassi, director of fashion and sourcing at Smart Set, a division of Reitmans.
“I work with all fashion people, and nobody wears yoga pants to work.”
She also speculates that no matter how trendy leisure wear may be in the future, with Alexander Wang showing uber-hip versions, or however popular Juicy Couture once was at a point in time, she highly doubts anyone would walk into a downtown office wearing anything close to active or leisure wear. Though, Omassi does believe the look can appear very cool on some people, particularly those “with a body from heaven.”
And ultimately, people should wear what suits them.
“The reality is to dress to please yourself,” she said.
But as far as the office or out to dinner, she would not recommend yoga pants. Like Grove, she believes active or leisure wear is for brunch, around the house and for the gym.
Smart Set’s MUV activewear line features yoga pants and leggings at about $30 to $35 apiece.
Omassi and her colleagues have endlessly debated where these clothes would be worn, and how. They concluded that what Smart Set customers really care about is looking polished in their leisure suits.
“We don’t do schlump,” Omassi said.
Even the latest retro-cool elastic ankle sweat pants by MUV are streamlined, sans excess bouffant. Then there are those who believe the schlumpier the better.
“I see the most fashionable pant nowadays as the pyjama pants,” says designer Andy The-Anh, who has started to design for activewear company Lole.
“With the draw string, and big wide leg.”
He says fashion needs to go to extremes to work — as in go skinny with leggings or go wide with pyjama pants, but stay home in your boot-cut pants.
“A boot cut, that’s a no-no,” he said for fashionable looks.
However, The-Anh says he won’t be designing pyjama-style yoga pants for Lole, and probably will stick to legging types.
The company has a “studio to the streets” product mantra, which features a strong activewear component.
“All the [aerobics] instructors prefer a more tapered legging look, so you can see the lines of your body,” he said.
As such, for his Lole designs, The-Anh is working with new colours, such as orange, to spice things up.
In terms of dressing up leggings, he says, “when you have leggings covering the feet — I think it’s beautiful with four-inch heels!”
For a more causal daytime look, a big sweater or sweater dress can do the trick. But The-Anh also says there are different types of leggings, or running pants, as they’re called in activewear circles.
Those with seams that define the muscles tend to be more sporty, while plainer styles are more fashion-friendly.
Again, as far as boot cut sweats or yoga pants go, “Even for a coffee — I don’t think so,” he said.
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Tag: Alexander Winton
History Channel: The Alco Black Beast in “Cars That Built America: Part I”
This month the History Channel played a new series "The Cars That Built America". In the two-hour Part I, I played Alexander Winton, the world's fastest man, racing Henry Ford. As seen in this five-minute segment, I did all the stunt driving in the Alco Black Beast.
The Alco Black Beast Makes an Appearance on the History Channel Tonight
The Alco Black Beast makes an appearance this week on Part 1 of the History Channel's new series "The Cars that Made America". I once again play Alexander Winton racing Henry Ford.
Video: Henry Ford’s Racer “Sweepstakes Rides Again”
This summer, Ford Racing released a video of NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Carl Edwards taking the ride of a lifetime in Henry Ford's first and only race car, Sweepstakes.
The Alco Black Beast and the White Speedster Featured in History Channel’s “Men Who Built America”
The History Channel has issued a trailer and press release on its new eight-hour mini-series "Men Who Built America" which begins on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 9:00 pm.
The Black Beast and the Red White Featured in the New History Channel Mini-Series
Long Island will be well-represented in the upcoming "Men Who Built America" mini-series created for the History Channel.
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Random Game Purchase: Donkey Konga
June 16, 2009 / VegettoEX / 0 Comments
It doesn’t take much more than a good coupon to drive me into game-buying-mode. When I came across Gamestop’s 20%-off coupon for used Gamecube games over at Cheap Ass Gamer, I was all over that. What would I get? Luigi’s Mansion? Maybe another Resident Evil? I kept thinking to myself what some cheap games would be to fill in some embarrassing-gaming-holes on the Cube, but decided I would just go and peruse to see what was there without much in the way of specific targets.
I had totally forgotten that a couple years ago I picked up a boxed copy of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and its included “DK Bongos”. Gamestop had a floor full of them for ~$20 (and extra bongos for about the same price), some time ahead of the deluge of upcoming, additional, crazy amounts of fake plastic instruments.
I pretty much picked up Jungle Beat and its “perphs” with the intention of eventually grabbing the Konga games. Up until this weekend I had not seen them sitting around on the used game shelves… either that, or since I had forgotten I was looking for them, I didn’t see them even if they happened to be in hidden in plain view. Much to my surprise and delight, I saw copies of both domestic Donkey Konga games on the “Used” shelves this weekend! It was $9.99, so with the 20%-off coupon, we’re talking about $8 for the game.
After a quick scroll-through of the song lists in the games on the iPhone (thank you, mobile ‘net access!) I decided that the first game was the clear winner of the song-list-battle. The Mario and Zelda themes? The dub Pokemon theme? Oh, c’mon. Sold.
I’ve played a little bit of Taiko Drum Master (import and domestic) on the PS2 courtesy of Andrew, so I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into in terms of gameplay. While I was not smashing fake plastic drums with fake wooden drum sticks, I was at least hitting fake plastic drums with my hands. Hit the left drum, hit the right drum, hit them both at the same time… easy enough. The one gameplay aspect I had to look up online was the blue/white sparkly icon on the timeline. While my copy of the game came with its cover and generic insert, it did not come with the actual instruction book. Turns out I have to clap my hands on those icons (having totally missed the little microphone/clap sensor on top in between the drum heads). Once I figured out what I was doing, it was clear sailing.
I decided to play on the Gamecube itself (as opposed to via the Wii) hooked up to an old tube TV due to the fact that it was a rhythm-based game, and I’ve had it up to here with lag (also correctly assuming that Nintendo would have nothing built into the game to compensate for said lag on newer A/V setups). I had a pretty good time in the 30-45 minutes I spent with the game last night (having already played R.B.I. 3 on the NES in the basement, and FFIV: The After Years on the Wii in the living room, now playing on the Gamecube up in the loft). My hands had enough of the smashing and clapping after about that much time, though I expect I could have easily played for an hour had I not already spent an entire day doing various activities around the house.
The “licensed” songs that I did play were probably the best of the bunch (“All the Small Things“, “The Impression That I Get“, “Right Here, Right Now“), and I can’t see myself visiting some of the more juvenile ones all that often (“The Loco-Motion“, “Campfire Medley“). The Nintendo-specific songs were all a blast to play, especially the bongo-ified version of the main Zelda theme.
As you complete songs (on either its equivalent of the “easy” and “medium” single-player difficulties available by default), you accumulate coins to spend in its in-game store. Yes, it’s another coin-collect-athon in the traditional Nintendo sense, and it fits right in with the rhythm game unlock system of the day; think of spending money to unlock songs in Guitar Hero II or playing a certain number of songs in DDR to unlock new courses.
While you can spend the coins on “expert” levels of songs (as I did for the dub Pokemon theme song, which playing will accumulate a higher number of coins), you can also spend coins on new sound effects for the bongos. You have standard bongo sounds and NES-style beeps available at the start, and I decided that I would spend some cash on Zelda-inspired sound effects to complement the default ones. After selecting a song, banging the bongos to the left and right allows you to select these custom sound effects, so now I am banging out heart-collecting sounds and Link yelps. These custom sound effects cost significantly more than “expert” versions of songs, so you’ll have to decide on your own which kinds of unlockables you want to shoot for first.
I certainly enjoyed what I have played so far, and see myself having another couple rounds with the game in the near future. More so than either of the North American Donkey Konga releases, though, I have found myself incredibly enthralled by the prospect of importing Donkey Konga 3. Its track list is impressive from both a gamer perspective (a song from Katamary Damacy, plenty of Famicom remixes) and an anime perspective (“CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA” from DragonBall Z, “Mezase Pokemon Master” from Pokemon, “Re-write” from Fullmetal Alchemist). The going price on eBay seems to be $25-40, which is pretty fair considering it’s no longer available new on sites like Play-Asia.
Of course, here’s my biggest problem:
Since unpacking the DK Bongos, I have even more fake plastic instruments sitting around on my floor with no real place to appropriately store them.
(I also picked up XIII on the Gamecube for about $3. I know nothing about it other than that it’s rated “M” and was $3 + 20% off).
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The first holidaymakers arrived in the resort of Tschiertschen in the summer of 1892, before there was even a road to Chur. The road connecting Bad Passugg to Tschiertschen was built three years later, in 1895. The new road with its post-coach traffic and the sheltered location with its ideal climatic conditions created favourable conditions for the idyllic mountain village to become a high-altitude spa resort.
Just two years later, in 1897, Christian Hold of Arosa built the Alpina hotel with around 40 beds at the beautiful vantage point above the village of Tschiertschen. Originally the building only had one row of balconies. The Alpina hotel was so successful that in 1913 Hold added an almost matching extension and a second row of balconies, providing 60 beds in all.
In the summer the owner, Michel Hold, used to lease the hotel to Mr Brenn and later to the couple S. Ackermann-von Ins. The former casserole cook Jakob Wiesner took over as head chef and became the tenant from 1927 to 1937. The hotel boasted central heating and running water on all floors. Wiesner was succeeded by Victor E. Pierroz-Ritter from western Switzerland from 1937 to 1939. During the war the hotel stood empty for a while, until it was used as a detention camp and refugee home in 1944-45.
In December 1946 Adam Stocker (1914–1989), who had previously worked as a chef in the Gasthaus Central and the Hotel Edelweiss, bought the hotel from Michel Hold. Until 1939 he had worked as a chef in the Hotel Carlton Elite in Zurich. He and his wife Barbara Stocker-Hartmann ran the Alpina up to 1973, when they passed the lease to their son Andreas Stocker-Vinzens and his wife Esther. Ownership was transferred to them in 1978. Andreas Stocker-Vinzens undertook further improvements to the hotel in 1984-85.
In 2001 Marina Sciamanna took over the hotel. She ran it on the basis of an innovative concept as a friends-of-nature house for cost conscious Dutch guests. In 2008, for health reasons, she handed over management of the hotel to her son-in-law, Tobias Alderliesten. He succeeded in steadily increasing the number of bookings every year.
Committed guests from Tschiertschen drew the hotel to the attention of Malaysian entrepreneur Ah Khing Teo. He acquired it in April 2013. The Alpina Estate AG, Chur, set up specifically for this purpose, commissioned the Grisons company Fanzun AG, certified architects and engineers, and members of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects, to carefully restore the impressive building in 2014/15 as a historic hotel in the style of 1913. The level of comfort has been raised to modern standards, and a spa was added.
The Alpina Mountain Resort & Spa is now the gem on the south side of the Schanfigg valley, a meeting place for bon vivants with style. Tschiertschen is confidently reassuming its rightful place in the tourist landscape of the Grisons.
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Xbox Addict Asylum > Original Xbox > General Discussions > Interesting article on Amped 2 vs. SSX3
View Full Version : Interesting article on Amped 2 vs. SSX3
WHess
This may be old to some peeps, but I thought it made for an interesting read. What's your take?
http://www.digitalsports.com/module...cle&sid=200
Digital Sportspage's Paul Kelly has a big-time bone to pick with reviewers of two mega recent releases in the extreme sports genre, SSX 3 and Amped 2.
He's going to explode if he doesn't vent soon, so read his rant and save him from spontaneous combustion like one of the drummers from Spinal Tap.
Video game review sites and reviewers serve a great purpose for gamers worldwide, giving them an indication of what games are worth their hard-earned dollars.
But sometimes reviewers are idiots. Hell, I fall into that category at times, too. And the idiocy meter is spiking through the top of the gauge this week as I read reviews of two mega recent releases in the extreme sports genre: Electronic Arts' SSX 3, released last week for multiple consoles, and Microsoft's Amped 2, released this week for the Xbox.
Here's the rub: Nearly every review I've read of Amped 2 so far has compared it to SSX 3. SSX 3 has received more favorable reviews, and it is an excellent game, based on my rental.
But why the comparisons? Why? THEY'RE NOT THE SAME DAMN GAMES, PEOPLE.
About the only common denominators between SSX 3 and Amped 2 are snowboards and snow.
Amped 2 is a snowboarding sim, or as close to a sim as we're going to get in the extreme sports genre. The emphasis of the game is completing tricks.
SSX 3 is a racing game on snowboards, plain and simple. It's F-Zero GX or Wipeout on snow -- a colorful, futuristic, insanely fun racing game. Sure, EA Big has added more emphasis on tricks in some modes of SSX 3, but the title remains a racing game at heart.
Comparing Amped 2 and SSX 3 is a lot like comparing a racing sim like Gran Turismo to a car combat game like Twisted Metal. Yes, both involve vehicles. But both games are so different.
I'm not trying to defend Amped 2 here. I'm sure it will be a good game, one that I'm greatly anticipating, especially for Xbox Live play. And SSX 3 is a fine, addictive game, too.
But they're not the same game. Not even close.
It's just a shame that many reviewers are taking the lazy way out and lumping both games into a direct comparison. Yes, both games involve snowboards. Yes, both have been released within a week of each other. And yes, gamers inevitably are going to compare them.
But that's where reviewers should step in and separate the two. Yes, you can offer some comparisons of similar aspects of both games. But the games are not the same. They're not head-to-head competitors like Madden 2004 and ESPN NFL Football or NASCAR Heat 2002 and NASCAR Thunder 2002.
Doing a direct comparison of Amped 2 and SSX 3 is a disservice to both games, and gamers. It's also stupid and lazy writing.
A real snow job, if you ask me.
Cottrau
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I also believe that it's moot to compare the two, becuase like their predecessors, they aren't comparable. They are both great games.. but SSX is based on fantasy, and Amped is based more on the Tony Hawk-style reality gameplay.
If you like more off the wall snowboarding, get SSX....
me.. i like more real-type games.. so i'm getting Amped2.
That doesn't mean that SSX isn't a great game, it just means that i take my sports games seriously, and SSX is a floppy game.
Evil_Dr_Beefy
They are both wonderful snowboarding games...i just like SSX 3 a little bit better....I'm not going to bash amped 2....it's a cool game as well.....:cheers:
WynnFire
Originally posted by WHess
Ok, this is why I had both Amped and SSX Tricky. Friends could never understand why I had both games even though I pretty much told them the same thing that is mentioned above.
I am very sick of reviewers comparing every game to Halo, even if it is not a FPS! Like for Brute Force, the word Halo was in every review i read!
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Tuesday - June 4, 2019 11:03 am , Category : TRAVEL
Some rules of railways stay away from problems during the journey!
Many rules of Indian Railways related to passengers and ticket
(WTN) - There is many rules of the Indian Railways for the passengers' facilities, about which travelers usually do not have information. These rules of railways can help the passengers while in trouble during rail travel, but due to lack of information about these rules, passengers have to face difficulties many times. Today, we tell you about some of the rules of railways, which is very important for you to know.
However, most of the passengers now book train tickets on their smartphones, but many people travel with counter tickets or again e-ticket prints. Many times it happens that the e-ticket print or counter ticket is lost, in such a situation the passenger has to face the problem. But for your information, let you know that on the situation of missing reserved ticket during the journey, you can get your ticket by giving a penalty of Rs 50 to TTE.
Sometimes you have to travel in the emergency, but you do not have to panic even if you can’t buy a ticket of your destination station in a hurry. Even if you have a platform ticket, you can still travel in train. In case of having the platform ticket, first contact to TTE as soon as you board in train and ask for ticket. In case of having a platform ticket, there is a rule of Rs 250 penalty and charging the fare of the journey. For your information, let you know that having a platform ticket is beneficial to the passenger, because fare would be charged from the platform ticket station.
Many times in a hurry you do not board into a scheduled coach in the train, and the train runs. In such a situation, you do not have to worry. Your seat can not be allotted to another passenger from your departure station to the next two stations. But if the passenger does not arrive at his/her scheduled seat till two stations from the departure station, TTE can allot the seat to the RAC ticket holder.
As you know, it is important to have an ID proof when traveling on the reserved ticket in train. The traveler has to show ID proof while asking by TTE or by TC in journey. But sometimes it happens that you are traveling in the group and you have been allotted seats in different coaches or in a same coach but in different coupe. In such a situation from booked one ticket of 6 passengers, one of the 6 passengers ID proof is considered sufficient.
So we request you to read these rules of Indian Railways carefully, and inform other people about it so that any problem can be avoided during rail travel. Indian Railways provides enough facilities to avoid the hassle to the passengers, but due to the absence of information about these facilities, the passengers often face difficulties without any reason. It would be better if you are familiar with these rules of railway and also inform other people about it.
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Updated Feb-21-2019, 12:28:34 GMT
Government Health Insurance Markets Holding Up--Barely
U.S. News Jun-21-2017, 20:05:42 GMT
FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, Alan Leafman, center, president of Health Insurance Express, Inc., helps Raquel Bernal, right, and her husband John Bernal, both of Apache Junction, Ariz., navigate the nation's health care insurance system online at the Health Insurance Express store in Mesa, Ariz. Enough insurers are planning to sell coverage through the Affordable Care Act in 2018 to keep the market place working, if only barely, in most parts of the country. However competition in many markets has dwindled to one insurer, or none in some cases, and another round of steep price hikes is expected to squeeze consumers who don't receive big income-based tax credits to help pay their bill.
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The Insurance Industry Is Dead... Long Live the Insurance Industry
Forbes Technology Mar-31-2017, 19:41:41 GMT
The health insurance industry as we know it is dead. No matter how much the behemoths of the sector defend their current positions and attempt to catch up with the disruptors, their hegemony is over. Whether it's updating ancient or legacy systems, inherited technology from acquisitions or bolting IoT products on to insurance policies such as Fitbit or black boxes monitoring data in vehicles, the end is nigh for these companies. Crowdfunding, going'mutual', easy-profit philanthropy, PR budgets that make the mind boggle, none of it is working. The so-called InsurTech industry in many ways resembles the FinTech revolution.
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From Anthem to Aetna, major health insurers are leaving ObamaCare marketplace
FOX News Aug-8-2017, 17:04:03 GMT
Anthem, one of the largest health insurers in the U.S., announced Monday that it will not offer plans through the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplace in Nevada next year. The insurer also is expected to drastically scale back the plans it offers in Georgia, leaving only some insured in rural counties that otherwise would be left without coverage. With the removal of Anthem, there are 14 counties in Nevada that will not have health insurance for individuals, according to Fox Business. "Planning and pricing for ACA-compliant health plans has become increasingly difficult due to a shrinking and deteriorating individual market, as well as continual changes and uncertainty in federal operations, rules and guidance, including cost sharing reduction subsidies and the restoration of taxes on fully insured coverage," Anthem said in a statement Monday. Analysts said four months ago that the insurance company was expected to exit a "high percentage" of its plans in the 144 regions where it participated.
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Behind the Scenes, Health Insurers Use Cash and Gifts to Sway Which Benefits Employers Choose
Mother Jones Feb-21-2019, 12:28:34 GMT
This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR's Shots blog. The pitches to the health insurance brokers are tantalizing. "Set sail for Bermuda," says insurance giant Cigna, offering top-selling brokers five days at one of the island's luxury resorts. Health Net of California's pitch is not subtle: A smiling woman in a business suit rides a giant $100 bill like it's a surfboard. "Sell more, enroll more, get paid more!" In some cases, its ad says, a broker can "power up" the bonus to $150,000 per employer group. Not to be outdone, New York's EmblemHealth promises top-selling brokers "the chance of a lifetime": going to bat against the retired legendary New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera.
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The Modern Icon
Pivotal in the 20th century design history, the definitive Bubble Lamp by industrial designer George Nelson continues to remain a tour-de-force of aesthetics and functionality decades after its making.
Nelson Bubble Lamps by George Nelson
It has been almost seventy years ago since one of the most familiar iconic objects of Modernism – the Bubble Lamp – was created by one of the founders of American Modernism and a long time design director of Herman Miller, George Nelson. Since then, the lamp, with its simultaneously organic and highly structured form, has become an undeniable staple of just about every designer and designer-at-heart’s home.
Like many brilliant inventions before it, the Bubble Lamp’s creation happened as a stroke of unexpected inspiration, when George Nelson, who terribly wanted to acquire a silk-covered, spherical Swedish lamp for his modest office but found the steep price of $125 to be prohibitive in the late 1940’s, decided to create an affordable solution of his own, using a material developed for military use in the postwar era.
Nelson Cigar Lotus Table Lamp by George Nelson
…THE BUBBLE LAMP SILENTLY BEACONS ONE TO KEEP THE EYES AND THE MIND OPEN TO THE WORLD.
Using lightweight steel to fashion a spherical frame, Nelson chose to experiment with a self-webbing plastic spray used to “mothball” military airplanes and ships at the time to create a fibrous shell of the lamp and applied a coat of plastic to give the lamp’s skin a smooth and translucent finish. As Nelson recalled, “By the next night we had a plastic-covered lamp, and when you put a light in it, it glowed, and it did not cost $125.”
Exploring the fabrication method to create a variety of bulbous shapes, Nelson designed the entire Bubble series, comprising pendants, sconces, tripods, table and floor lamps, in 1952 for Howard Miller.
While out of production for many years until the 1990’s, today the Bubble Lamp’s clean lines and distinctive shape continue to find their way into residences all over the world. At once opaque and transparent, the lamp emits a soft and even glow that eliminates glare and is pleasant to the eye, making it a highly functional art piece in any home. The timeless nature and form that is both retro-futuristic and modern is easily incorporable with any style, emanating broad appeal to different audiences.
But more than a statement piece or a talking point of a dinner party, the Bubble Lamp is a testament to creativity, integrating technological advances from industries outside of design and architecture to enhance the functionality of an aesthetically driven object. A practical work of art exemplifying the possibilities of new material exploration and production, the Bubble Lamp, much like its designer during his lifetime, continues to epitomise the value in design innovation and creative design thinking. With countless possibilities of what can happen when one goes beyond the expected standards and learns from other industries, the Bubble Lamp silently beacons one to keep the eyes and the mind open to the world.
The Nelson Bubble Lamp series is available at XTRA.
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“Fate/Grand Order” Board Game Reveals Second Set of Servant Figures
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The second set of figures has been revealed for the upcoming board game “Fate/Grand Order Duel,” as well as the release schedule for all figures announced to date.
The board game is a spinoff of the popular “Fate/Grand Order” smartphone RPG. Players create teams of three Servant mini figures paired with command cards and engage in one-on-one battles.
The newly-announced second wave of figures will include Jeanne d’Arc (Ruler), Karna (Lancer), Euryale (Archer), Gilles de Rais (Caster), and Asterios (Berserker). The initial lineup revealed earlier this year consists of Artoria Pendragon (Saber), Gilgamesh (Archer), Scathach (Lancer), Quen Medb (Rider), Merlin (Caster), The Old Man of the Mountain (Assassin), Cu Chulainn [Alter] (Berserker), and Mashu Kyrielight (Shielder).
The first set of figures will be released in August 2018, with the second set following in September. A box of one randomly-selected figure and five command cards will cost 1,200 yen.
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In the centre of huge Eurasia continent there is a narrow blue crescent - lake Baikal. You can see this lake on any map and it is hard to belive that this is not a sea but the deepest lake of our planet. Having been explored for three centuries, Baikal still keeps many mysteries. Lots of the lake phenomena have not been described yet. They are completely hidden from science, and scientists endeavour to penetrate deeper into the mysterious world of the lake.
This page provides an overview of Baikal. The interactive infographics can help you plan your trip while telling you about the unique plants and animals of lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal has a high concentration of oxygen which allows species to flourish. It is home to about 2,600 species and many of these species can only be found in this region.
The lake hosts a rich endemic fauna of invertebrates. Epischura baikalensis is endemic to Lake Baikal and the dominating zooplankton species there. There are 50 edible species of fish including salmon, sturgeon, greyling and omul. Nerpa or the Baikal seal is one of the smallest true seals in the world and also a symbol of the lake.
The unique nature of lake Baikal has managed to preserve most of the natural plants, creating a one of a kind ecosystem. Lake Baikal has many vegetation and wildlife which can only be found in the region, including many rare and endangered species.
Labrador tea or rhododendron, Siberian cedar, and wild garlic – are just some of the rare plants that can be found in Baikal forests. The Baikal forests contain some of the most ancient plants on Earth, which belong to the genus Mosses and Cartilaginous. The rare medicinal plant huperzia selago is also found within Baikal's forests.
Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km2 (12,248 sq mi). Hard to believe, but in the area of Lake Baikal is the average European country, for example, Belgium, with 10 million people.
Lake Baikal has as much water as all of North America's Great Lakes combined — 23,600 km³, about 20% of the total fresh water on the earth. However, in surface area, it is exceeded by the much shallower Great Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan, as well as by the relatively shallow Lake Victoria in East Africa.
Болотная руда слагает меловой риолит. Твердость по шкале Мооса существенна. Мусковит первичен. Как видно из самых общих закономерности распределения криолитозоны, изостазия упруго фоссилизирует силурийский фьорд.
Tourism is constantly growing in lake Baikal. An interesting fact about these tourists are that a few years ago Baikal was visited mainly by local tourists from nearby cities but today tourists are visiting from all over.
These tourists from other regions such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg used to come only in the summer but now winter is also a very popular season for visiting the greatest lake of Russia.
Ecologists are warning the world’s deepest and oldest lake is at risk from climate change: most of the endemic species could disappear in the nearest future.
One gram of phosphates stimulates the growth of 5-10 pounds of Spirogyra - non-native algae which already occupyed more than 50 percent of the coastal area of Lake Baikal. The problematic spirogyra threatens Lake Baikal’s purity because it infects an endemic sponge species, Lubomirskia baicalensis, that helps clean the lake by filtering its water.
The production facilities routinely dumped appr 4 million tonnes of waste water into Baikal (and that figure does not include the waste dumped by households and the private business sector). The quantity of solid waste had doubled between 2009 and 2014 reaching 1.03 million tonnes.
More then 60 % of waste water into Baikal are dumped by households and the private business sector.
Lake Baikal is the deepest and oldest lake in the world. For the first time it was exactly calculated in 1983 by geographers L. Kolotilo and A.Sulimov.
In some reference books you can find that the maximum depth of the lake is 1620 m., which was recorded in 1959 — 1960 during the measurements in the area of the cape Khara-Khushun wich is situated in 12 km from the East coast of Olkhon island.
Байкал не только самое глубокое озеро на планете, но и самое глубокое пресноводное озеро мира. Объем воды в Байкале достигает 23 000 куб. км. Байкальская котловина могла бы вместить в себя всю воду Балтийского моря или воду всех пяти Великих американских озер. А еще, если бы Ангара текла непрерывно, то потребовалось бы почти 400 лет для того, чтобы через нее вытекла вся вода, находящаяся в Байкале, при условии, что в него не поступало бы в течение этого времени ни одной капли.
Средняя глубина озера также очень велика — 744,4 м. Она превышает максимальные глубины многих очень глубоких озёр.
Zaybaybalsky National Park covers the middle section of the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, the west slope of the Barguzin mountains to the east, the Ushkany Islands, and the only large peninsula on the lake Svyatoy Nos ("Holy Nose"). Of the 2,690 km2 (1,040 sq mi) of the park, 38.8 km2 are protected water areas of the lake itself.
Zaybaykalsky is bounded on the west by the shores of Lake Baikal, on the north by the Barguzin Nature Reserve. It was created in 1916 to preserve and increase the numbers of Barguzin Sable (Martes zibellina). Mountainous and taiga landscapes are also being preserved.
20 years ago Baikal was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. This happened on 5 December 1996 by decision of the 20th session of the world heritage Committee of UNESCO, held in the Mexican city of Merida. Application for the inclusion of lake Baikal into the List of world natural heritage was filed by Russia.
"Lake Baikal — a classic case of a world heritage site" - the report said
Law on Lake Baikal Protection is accepted by the State Duma on April 2, 1999. This law is the only federal law, regulating the issues of water protection and use of natural resources in a particular region and includes 4 major sections.
"360 Minutes for Baikal" is the largest volunteer event aimed at cleaning up garbage from the Baikal shores. The main idea behind the Great Baikal Trail (GBT) is to build the first system of environmentally sensitive trails in all of Russia. The GBT also operates quite a few international exchange programs, and is currently helping other regions in Russia as they try to replicate our successes.
Annually the UNDP-GEF Baikal Project supports different environmental awareness campaigns for the general public, school children and tourists. The ecological volunteer camp “Save Baikal” served about 30 km of Lake Baikal shoreline.
Baikal has left a strong impression on people which has inspired many volunteer movements. People from all walks of life are coming together, young environmentalists, scientists, and citizens to preserve this ancient lake and its special ecosystem.
For many volunteers this is also a chance to see the unique lake and to be a part of good and usefull work.
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The X-Files 9.12, Underneath: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Cable Guy
Posted in TV tagged John Doggett, Monica Reyes, The X-Files at 1:10 pm by Jenn
Jason Mantzoukas? Is that you?
Summary: In Brooklyn, a cable guy pulls up outside a house and kisses a crucifix. A voice from the back of the truck tells him to go do his job. This job involves lying to the family inside that their cable’s out, then acting really squirrelly. Suddenly, the father of the family is dead on the floor, and the mom and daughter are dead in the kitchen. Two cops arrive seconds later and arrest the cable guy. One of those cops is Doggett.
In D.C., Doggett is yelling at someone on the phone, angry that the cable guy (Robert Fassl) has been cleared of the murders thanks to DNA evidence. Doggett insists that if Fassl is released from prison, he’ll kill again. He was known as the Screwdriver Killer and murdered seven people 13 years ago. Doggett thinks the DNA evidence is the result of a lab mistake.
He tells Reyes that neighbors called the police after hearing screams (which we didn’t hear in the original scene), and Doggett and his partner found the family dead. Fassl was in the house, so he must have been the killer. Reyes points out that they didn’t catch him in the act. Scully arrives and confirms the medical examiner’s report – the DNA exonerates Fassl. The odds are a hundred million to one that there was a mistake. Doggett wants her to redo the tests herself anyway. He’ll be going to New York to make sure Fassl doesn’t kill anyone else.
Fassl is released from prison in New York and collects the belongings he had with him when he was arrested, including the crucifix. The press is interested in hearing from him, but his attorney, Jana Fain, speaks for him, saying they’re looking into procedures at the D.A.’s office and the police department to determine why he was falsely imprisoned for 13 years. Fassl spots a bearded man across the street, staring at him.
Scully and Doggett are in New York, trying to convince the ADA, Damon Kaylor, to let them look into the evidence. Doggett points out that if Fassl really is innocent, the real killer is still out there, and his victims’ families are going to want some answers. As Doggett and Scully look through files, she notes that the case must have been a career-maker for him. He remembers how relieved everyone was when they thought they’d finally found the killer. Scully reminds him that even good cops make mistakes.
Doggett wants to make it clear that he’s not reopening the case just to cover up his errors. Scully knows that, but she doesn’t want him to feel guilty. Doggett says he would never send someone to prison if he wasn’t absolutely sure the person was guilty. This is just a matter of finishing the job he obviously didn’t finish 13 years ago.
Jana takes Fassl to her house since he has no other place to stay. Her house his huge, and she has a full-time housekeeper, thanks to a generous inheritance from her parents. Jana tells Fassl that she tries to use her wealth to help people, which explains why she took his case. She’s fully convinced that Fassl is innocent, and she feels horrible that he was punished for a crime he didn’t commit. Alone in his new room, Fassl prays with his crucifix and rosary, but stops when his hands start bleeding. He looks up to see “KILL HER” written in blood on the wall.
Doggett reunites with his old partner, Duke Tomasick, wanting help going over the case. Duke thinks they just arrested the wrong man. He warns Doggett that if he keeps working the case, it’ll come back to bite him. At Jana’s, she finds Fassl praying again and remarks that it’s great how everything he’s been through hasn’t diminished his faith. (He was once a seminary student.) He tells her he prays all the time, even when it doesn’t look like he’s praying. Jana’s sure that someone’s listening. Well, yeah, but it’s the bearded guy, and he has a screwdriver he wants to use on Jana.
Doggett works all night only to get bad news from Scully: Hair samples found at the murder scene belong to someone other than Fassl. However, the DNA in the hair is very similar to Fassl’s, and must belong to a blood relative. Doggett knows that Fassl’s parents died when he was a teen, and he’s an only child, so he doesn’t have any blood relatives.
Fassl wakes up on his floor and is surprised to see Jana in his room, completely unharmed. In a stroke of luck, she was at the county lockup the previous night. However, someone went through her things in her room, and since Fassl’s the only houseguest, she thinks he’s violating her privacy. Now that he’s free, he has to be responsible. P.S. The housekeeper is MIA, and there’s blood dripping from a kitchen cabinet. As soon as Jana leaves for work, Fassl pulls the housekeeper’s body out of the cabinet and chops it up for easier transportation.
Reyes is now in New York, meeting with Brian Hutchinson, the warden at the prison where Fassl spent the past 13 years. He thinks Fassl really is a murderer and should still be behind bars. His cellmate was murdered, and the killer, whose picture was snapped by a security camera, was the bearded man. He wasn’t an inmate, so no one’s sure what all happened. They also couldn’t pin the murder on Fassl, though Hutchinson is sure he was involved somehow.
Since the DNA retests say Fassl’s innocent, Kaylor doesn’t get why Doggett and Scully are still working the case. The DA’s office is planning to offer Fassl a settlement and end the whole thing. Doggett’s all, “But! The truth!” Kaylor doesn’t care about the truth, since the DNA evidence is definitive. Just then, Reyes shows up to tell Doggett and Scully that they have a new suspect – the unidentifiable bearded man.
Doggett tells Reyes that Fassl, not the bearded man, was in the house 13 years ago, so the bearded man isn’t important to the case. Reyes disagrees, suggesting that Fassl and the bearded man are somehow connected. Doggett would rather not have this turn into an X-File. Reyes thinks one of the men is doing the other’s bidding. They just need to compare the DNA from Fassl’s cellmate’s murder to the DNA from the 1989 murders.
Scully says that won’t work – the hair samples logged from the 1989 crime scene weren’t actually at the scene. Doggett thinks she’s accusing him of planting evidence, but Scully just wants the facts on the table. The DNA evidence that convicted Fassl was planted.
Kaylor goes to Jana’s house to tell Fassl they want to offer him a settlement. To his surprise, Fassl announces that he wants to go back to prison. Kaylor thinks Fassl’s about to make a confession, so he tries to leave, but the bearded man stops him with a screwdriver to the back. Looks like Fassl has another body to get rid of.
Doggett confronts Duke, who admits to planting the evidence that sent Fassl to prison. He was sure Fassl was guilty and wanted to make sure he was punished. Doggett reminds him that he committed a felony, not to mention did something unforgivable. Scully interrupts to report that Kaylor has gone missing. Meanwhile, Fassl’s hiding Kaylor’s body in some kind of tunnel. There’s a skull nearby, so this can’t be the first time Fassl’s been down there.
Knowing that Kaylor went to see Fassl, Scully and Reyes call him in for questioning. They try to play good cop to convince Jana they don’t think Fassl has done anything wrong. When they show Fassl and Jana a picture of the bearded man, Fassl gets agitated. Scully notices him holding his rosary and asks if he’s Catholic. She knows a rosary can be a great comfort, like Fassl obviously wants his to be right now. She asks about the bearded man, guessing that Fassl just wants him to go away.
Jana accuses the agents of playing mind games and announces that she and her client are leaving. Doggett comes in, having watched the whole conversation, and Reyes says she’s changing her theory. Maybe Fassl can’t admit that he has a sinful side, even to himself, and has manifested a second personality that does all the bad stuff. If he could actually physically become that other personality – the bearded man – that would explain the different DNA.
Doggett scoffs at the idea of a real-life Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde situation. Reyes argues that Catholicism backs up her idea, when you really think of transubstantiation. Scully sums it up: Fassl won’t face his sins, so he’s forced to become a killer. Doggett wonders how they’re supposed to catch a killer who hides inside an innocent person.
Back at Jana’s, “KILL HER” appears in blood on the bathroom wall. Then the bearded man smacks Fassl around a bit, telling him to kill. So this is Fight Club now? Jana hears the scuffling and checks on Fassl, who just says he fell. When she goes to get a bandage for a cut on his head, the bearded man ambushes her.
Doggett and Reyes stake out Jana’s house, fighting about her theory. Doggett thinks regular old police work is good enough to solve this case. It’s really all he has anyway. They spot the bearded man lurking around the house and chase him. Jana’s still okay, and she tells Reyes that Fassl was there one minute and then suddenly gone.
Doggett finds a hatch labeled “cable access,” and he and Reyes go into the tunnel underneath it. Regular old police work ensues, though I’m not sure they should be splitting up. Reyes winds up falling in some water, where she finds Kaylor’s body and some skeletons. The bearded man sneaks up on Doggett and knocks his gun into the water. Reyes finds the bearded man holding a screwdriver to Doggett’s neck.
She tries to get through to Fassl, appealing to the part of him that couldn’t bring himself to kill Jana. The bearded man denies that he’s Fassl. Reyes calls him a sinner and a murderer, which just makes him madder. She manages to get off a shot in the bearded man’s back, and he falls in the water. When Doggett pulls him out, he’s Fassl. Well, well, well! Looks like Reyes’ crazy theory was correct!
Scully and Jana come down to help look over the crime scene. Jana knows she saw the bearded man, so she’s a little confused about how Fassl could be the killer. Doggett – sleep-deprived, and coming off of finding out his former partner is a felon – can’t explain anything. Reyes agrees that this time around, regular old police work was good enough. They closed the case. Of course, who knows it that’ll be enough next time?
Thoughts: Yeah, you don’t get released from prison the day after evidence exonerates you. The justice system is nowhere near that fast.
Hutchinson says Fassl’s cellmate was a “bada&%,” but how tough can you be with a name like Spud?
Why would Fassl ask to go back to prison when the bearded man could still kill people there? It’s not like he could hide there.
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New NYPD recruiting goal to make sure officers reflect city
By Darla Miles
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The new goal in recruiting new NYPD officers is making sure the force mirrors the people it serves.
"You look like New York City, you come from every neighborhood, you reflect the greatness of our city," said Mayor Bill de Blasio
It is no secret the department has increased its efforts to bring on more minorities following the deaths of Eric Garner and Akai Gurley. In terms of diversity, the graduating class is 48% white, 25,7% Hispanic, 13.51% Asian, but only 12% Black.
For gender, in a class of 555, 449 are male, 106 are female. One of those women who graduated Wednesday at Madison Square Garden is Teryann Ferguson, who grew up in Brownsville.
"I hope young black females see me, and say 'I could be her one day," says Ferguson.
For those for religious beliefs, like the Sihk faith, the NYPD has now revised its patrol guide to allow these new head coverings, and prospective officers can have beards up to 1/2 inch long.
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Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty To Indecent Assault Charge
Kevin Spacey has appeared in court and has pleaded not guilty to an indecent assault charge.
Lawyers for the Oscar-winner had previously filed an unsuccessful request for the judge to excuse his attendance, with Spacey arguing that his presence would “amplify the negative publicity already generated in connection with the case.”
However, Spacey appeared in court today alongside his lawyers where a plea of “not guilty” was entered on his behalf.
The House of Cards star is accused of indecent assault and battery after a then 18-year-old alleged that Spacey got him drunk at a restaurant in Nantucket in 2016 before the assault occurred.
The incident allegedly occurred for “three minutes”, with official documents claiming that he “unzipped the man’s fly, stuck his hands in his pants and began to rub his penis.”
Although Spacey’s lawyers say that the allegations come from a “drunk sycophant who has no proof of any inappropriate contact”, the star could face up to five years in prison if he is eventually convicted.
The next court appearance for the 59-year-old is scheduled for March 4. Whilst the judge agreed to waive Spacey’s right to appear at the hearing, he deemed that the actor must be reachable by phone.
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Kobach Campaign Update: Kobach Cites Debunked Data from a Hate Group While Prominent Republicans Endorse the Democrat
by Zachary Mueller on September 19, 2018
Tags: Election 2018, Kris Kobach, Politics
Kris Kobach’s gubernatorial campaign has suffered continuous negative hits in the weeks following his controversial and razor thin victory in the Republican primary. Most recently, his campaign has been dogged by reports of factual inaccuracies and scrutiny of his anti-immigrant policies. In addition, dozens of prominent current and former Republican elected officials endorsing Kobach’s Democratic opponent, Laura Kelly.
A pioneer in the divide and distract strategy — which has become the Trump/GOP 2018 playbook — Kobach has made his long history of anti-immigrant politics the centerpiece of his campaign. Kobach has tried to falsely blame immigrants for the state’s problems in order to divide voters and distract them from his own consistent pattern of failure. But the very strategy he helped pioneer may endanger him this election, as it has frequently been a losing one.
Dozens of Kansas Republicans refuse to support Kobach
Kobach’s divisiveness has certainly been helping to bleed him of support from his own party. Two former Republican U.S. Senators from Kansas, Nancy Kassebaum and Sheila Frahm, endorsed Kobach’s Democratic opponent Laura Kelly. Former Republican Governor Bill Graves and two dozen other Republicans have also turned from Kobach to endorse Kelly. And some 40 percent of Republican state representatives have shied away from endorsing Kobach. The vocal and consistent support for Kelly from Republican officials comes even after ominous warnings from House Majority Leader Don Hineman that not supporting Kobach “could well be a career-ending move”.
Kobach repeatedly spreading false information during debates and campaign
In the first gubernatorial debate two weeks ago, the independent candidate, Greg Orman, made headlines asserting that Kobach’s anti-immigrant policies make him unfit to lead the state and shows that Kobach does not know how the agricultural economy works. Undeterred, Kobach used the debate to double down on his extremist views; when asked how he differs from President Trump, Kobach said he would have ended DACA for Dreamers earlier.
In the second debate a few days later, Kobach used a debunked statistic about the total cost of state benefits for undocumented immigrants — falsely placing the blame of an underfunded budget on immigrants. Kobach’s numbers come from a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Institute classifies as a hate group. Moreover, the CATO Institute has said the report Kobach’s data originates from is “fatally flawed.”
But Kobach’s use of hate group data is unfortunately unsurprising. Kobach worked for the legal arm of FAIR for more than a decade and is deeply entangled in white nationalist John Tanton’s network of anti-immigrant organizations. And he has repeatedly used this false data, citing it in the kick off for his general election campaign.
Kobach has also used a number of other misleading or false statements in his campaign to point fingers at immigrants for state problems. Earlier in the campaign, Kobach ran completely false ads that blamed undocumented students for rising tuition costs. Kobach is also fond of making the false claim that Kansas is the “sanctuary city of the midwest.”
Kobach’s recent campaign issues come on the heels of three new legal troubles — one involving a grand jury, one involving a lawsuit from Rev. Jesse Jackson, and one involving a deposition with the New York Attorney General. Kobach was held in contempt of court and sent to remedial law classes after his last major courtroom appearance, which found his voter suppression law unconstitutional. And we haven’t even gotten to Kobach’s other baggage, including: being tied to the white nationalists recently fired from the White House, allegations that Kobach had three white nationalists on payroll, controversy surrounding the Trump’s failed elections commission, support for the deeply unpopular and failed tax cuts of the from the last Kansas gubernatorial administration, and in-depth reporting on the failed and costly anti-immigrant legislative campaign Kobach previously waged across the country.
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Travel vaccinationsOverview
If you're planning to travel outside the UK, you may need to be vaccinated against some of the serious diseases found in other parts of the world.
Open all pages about Travel vaccinations
Available vaccines
Vaccinations are available to protect you against infections such as yellow fever, typhoid and hepatitis A.
In the UK, the NHS routine immunisation (vaccination) schedule protects you against a number of diseases, but doesn't cover all of the infectious diseases found overseas.
When should I start thinking about the vaccines I need?
If possible, see the GP or a private travel clinic at least 8 weeks before you're due to travel.
Some vaccines need to be given well in advance to allow your body to develop immunity.
And some vaccines involve a number of doses spread over several weeks or months.
You may be more at risk of some diseases, for example, if you're:
travelling in rural areas
staying in hostels or camping
on a long trip rather than a package holiday
If you have a pre-existing health problem, this may make you more at risk of infection or complications from a travel-related illness.
Which travel vaccines do I need?
You can find out which vaccinations are necessary or recommended for the areas you'll be visiting on these websites:
Travel Health Pro
NHS Fit for Travel
Some countries require proof of vaccination (for example, for polio or yellow fever vaccination), which must be documented on an International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP) before you enter or when you leave a country.
Saudi Arabia requires proof of vaccination against certain types of meningitis for visitors arriving for the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages.
Even if an ICVP isn't required, it's still a good idea to take a record of the vaccinations you have had with you.
Read more about the vaccines available for travellers abroad.
Where do I get my travel vaccines?
First, phone or visit the GP practice or practice nurse to find out whether your existing UK vaccinations are up-to-date.
If you have any records of your vaccinations, let the GP know what you have had previously.
You should also ask if the GP practice is signed up to provide free NHS vaccinations for travel, as not all GP practices are.
If the GP practice doesn't provide NHS vaccinations for travel, you can try a:
private travel vaccination clinic
pharmacy offering travel healthcare services
The GP or practice nurse may be able to give you general advice about travel vaccinations and travel health, such as protecting yourself from malaria.
They can give you any missing doses of your UK vaccines if you need them.
Not all travel vaccinations are available free on the NHS, even if they're recommended for travel to a certain area.
If the GP practice is signed up to provide NHS travel vaccines, these can be provided to you free of charge. Other non-NHS travel vaccines may be charged for by the GP.
If the GP practice can give you the travel vaccines you need but they aren't available on the NHS, ask for:
written information on what vaccines are needed
the cost of each dose or course
any other charges you may have to pay, such as for some certificates of vaccination
Which travel vaccines are free?
The following travel vaccines are available free on the NHS if your GP practice is signed up to provide vaccination (immunisation) services.
polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)
These vaccines are free because they protect against diseases thought to represent the greatest risk to public health if they were brought into the country.
Which travel vaccines will I have to pay for?
You'll have to pay for travel vaccinations against:
tick-borne encephalitis
Yellow fever vaccines are only available from designated centres.
The cost of travel vaccines that aren't available on the NHS will vary, depending on the vaccine and number of doses you need.
It's worth considering this when budgeting for your trip.
There are other things to consider when planning your travel vaccinations, including:
your age and health – you may be more vulnerable to infection than others; some vaccines can't be given to people with certain medical conditions
working as an aid worker – you may come into contact with more diseases in a refugee camp or helping after a natural disaster
working in a medical setting – a doctor, nurse or another healthcare worker may require additional vaccinations
contact with animals – you may be more at risk of getting diseases spread by animals, such as rabies
If you're only travelling to countries in northern and central Europe, North America or Australia, you're unlikely to need any vaccinations.
But it's important to check that you're up-to-date with routine vaccinations available on the NHS.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Speak to your GP before having any vaccinations if:
you're pregnant
you think you might be pregnant
you're breastfeeding
In many cases, it's unlikely a vaccine given while you're pregnant or breastfeeding will cause problems for the baby. But the GP will be able to give you further advice about this.
People with immune deficiencies
For some people travelling overseas, vaccination against certain diseases may not be advised.
This may be the case if:
you have a condition that affects your body's immune system, such as HIV or AIDS
you're receiving treatment that affects your immune system, such as chemotherapy
you have recently had a bone marrow or organ transplant
The GP can give you further advice about this.
Non-travel vaccines
As well as getting any travel vaccinations you need, it's also a good opportunity to make sure your other UK vaccinations are up-to-date and have booster vaccines if necessary.
People in certain risk groups may be offered extra vaccines.
These include vaccinations against diseases such as:
Read more information on NHS vaccines for adults and children to find out whether you should have any.
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Latest reply by AllWheelsDriven July 15, 2019 20:41
Well here is another one, and without knowing the full chemical break down of the batteries I think I have a pretty good working theory as to why. The Elon was bragging that raising Cobalt costs won’t affect his bottom line because his batteries use much less cobalt than competitors. Well cobalt is one of the main things that helps prevent thermal run away in large capacity Li batteries. So more cost cutting while sacrificing safety. 44% of all Tesla crashes result in a fire, and that’s not even counting the ones that burn all on their own.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5852195/Actress-Mary-McCormack-claims-husbands-Tesla-Model-S-spontaneously-combusted.html
No worries - autopilot is programmed to head straight for the nearest firehall.
Monday - Got a bike ride in, watched the end of LeMans and some golf before the cable crapped out. No matter - we had excellent hibachi at Otani, and I broke out my Blu-Ray copy of HBO's The Newsroom for evening entertainment.
The Newsroom is phenomenal, seasons 1 & 3, anyway - season 2 seemed to drag a bit. I had no idea that Jeff Daniels could do a role like that, and Sam Waterston made the show.
Season 2 was harder to watch, and I'm not 100% about the premise, but it was still quality television. As for Jeff Daniels, he was made for the role of Will McAvoy, as surely as Sam Waterston OWNED Charlie Skinner, perhaps the best character Sam ever played.
I was at Mosport on Saturday. About a half hour after I left, this happened:
https://www.motorsport.com/pro-mazda/news/jeff-green-dies-after-historic-f5000-crash-1046575/
Tragic, but unfortunately there are still risks inherent to racing cars, no matter how much safer they keep getting.
It's always sad when there is a vintage event fatality.
Because vintage sanctioning bodies have strict no contact rules and races tend to be more gentlemen racing than cut-throat competition it's easy to forget the weak links are often the cars and their lack of modern structural integrity/safety features.
The other issue is the drivers who are often vintage as well with lower levels of skill, endurance, reflexes in addition to being less well suited to surviving a rapid deceleration event.
I've told this story multiple times here but years ago I watched David Hobbs being interviewed on Dave Despain's old show. A caller asked him why she never saw him participate in any vintage car races? Hobbs said he did drive in a few after his pro career ended but the pivotal moment happened while piloting a Can Am car through the kink at 170mph when it occurred to him that the control arms of those cars used to pull out of the tubs... When They Were New! He'd had a long relatively injury free career in an age when multiple drivers died every year and he realized he didn't want to test his good fortune or the chance to enjoy life with his grandchildren, so he pulled in the pits and exited vintage racing with no regrets.
I subsequently had the opportunity to speak with David and mentioned the interview. He said, "What I didn't say at the time was the owner of the car was very proud of the fact that his motor had 150 more horsepower than the original car but the brake rotors were warped so the car would shake and shimmy under braking at levels that made my vision blurry!"
This was back when vintage racing was just starting and a lot more ad hoc. Today the sanctioning bodies are more strict about scrutinizing car condition but you can't overcome the laws of physics of the original engineering.
Tuesday - Rain yesterday and rain today, so no bike ride and possibly no lawn mowing either. We'll see how things go as the day progresses, though.
Just read about the new iPace. Pretty car.
Seems very legit as well. Jag really took the time to get it right it would seem.
Lol - the "view more" button on the main page, as in view more articles, today takes me to " suggested friends". Maybe C/D is trying to tell me something?
Chris V
Haha. Yeah, same here. I was like "Do I need more friends?"
Trying to get to the Guess the Car thread.
Chris V wrote:
I usually link to that from the "Groups" link in the menu option that drops down from one's profile pic. A few extra clicks, perhaps, but it always seems to work.
Wednesday - Turns out I was able to get the lawn done yesterday. A good thing, too, because the skies opened up this morning. Methinks today will be a good day to fire up the amps and do some listening ... and more than likely, I will!
The new Jen is Chris T. He's with HearstAutos down in Atlanta. He wants to know site issues and suggestions so please do let him know.
https://api.backfires.caranddriver.com/ctranchina
Hmmm...last activity March 30....
I can't send him a message, but allow me to say that the "View more" button goes to https://backfires.caranddriver.com/account/friends/suggested
Why can't you send him a message?
No send message button. Do you have to be a "friend" first?
I always thought you did.
Is he the one who's mad at Josh?
No... Different Chris
Ahh yes... He friended me a while ago... Forgot about that
Edit: Just sent message to Chris T. and Rusty B letting them know about the issue.
I sent a friend request to Chris T. I hope to message him requesting the Europeans be allowed back in.
Thanks John. I also sent a request for correction of the European issue today mentioning Schmidt and Zorin. The more people sending that message the better.
John's ShelbyAMG
I sent a friend request as well. We need Schmidt's kind of Euro/German/UK perspective.
Same Chris.
Trochu wrote:
Not same... This is the Christopher T who's shorts you bunched up.
https://api.backfires.caranddriver.com/wwwcaranddrivercom
He was a moderator who made it his job to friend everyone who signed on the site. He's no longer a moderator and hasn't been on the site since May of '17.
Chris T. is a HearstAutos guy.
Dang, making me feel special Pat, like my name was on a list and discussed at a board meeting or something, or someone asked if I could be banned.
I didn't even know buddy was gone or had lost his "Mod. Badge". Not that I'm upset about it though.... Thanks for the clarification between the two.
Yes... That whole being a "friend" thing before you can message someone always kind of irked me. Don't get me wrong, I get it. But, it is why I had to have Chris reach out to you when I had a driving question. I couldn't message you; still can't, at least not directly.
I did send you a friend request quite a while ago based on a recommendation from Eddie Alterman. (yes, I'm dropping names.) But, I wasn't as involved then, and you certainly didn't "know me", so to speak. I didn't get offended. I'm sure that, over time, the request slipped to to back of the line, and out of sight. I'd send another one, however, it won't allow it. Oh well... First world problems.
Saw in the news today that German auto makers want to get rid of EU-US auto tariffs. Rest of the EU has to go along though. Hope this works out as I'm quite the fan of German cars, especially Mercedes AMG.
Last time I checked the tariff on cars from the US to Germany was 10% while the tariff on cars from Germany to the US was 2%.
We are also charging 25% on light trucks. The Germans want that to go away too. They (German automakers) currently export $34 billion to us and import $7.5 billion.
John's ShelbyAMG wrote:
Chicken tax, right?
Yup, from LBJ.
I really want the chicken tax to go away because there are a ton of small trucks sold around the world that would be perfect for me, but the "smallest" truck we can get is the Colorado and Tacoma.
Thursday - Nice day out, probably time for another bike ride maybe later this morning.
No response from my reach out to Chris T. Perhaps he is otherwise engaged or has moved on.
Rusty B forwarded my query about the loss of our EU friends to https://backfires.caranddriver.com/users/6281760 and Meredith quickly responded.
"... My name is Meredith, I manage social media for Car and Driver. I saw your message about the two long time members unable to sign in.
Unfortunately, the changes are security changes from Europe (EU GDPR), these changes have caused our content to be temporarily unavailable to users in Europe.
We're working diligently on a solve that will allow our friends in Europe to log back in and enjoy the content and conversations once again, but we do not have an estimated time frame right now.
We truly apologize for the inconvenience this has caused them, and appreciate the loyalty!
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Meredith"
This tells us they are aware of the problem but the lack of time frame for resolution is frustrating.
I wouldn't hesitate to friend Meredith so she has more and better connection to regular users.
I've about given up. I used to post a couple dozen times a day, now it's down to less than a handful. I've been a member since 2003...this makes me sad.
It is the corporatization of Car and Driver/Road & Track that chafes most of us long time reader/users. The HearstAutos folks are in Atlanta with editorial writers/editors in Ann Arbor so the disconnect is more than symbolic. Choosing not to participate is a choice. I miss the feel of the magazine when it's voice was educated curmudgeon old school but time marches on and the blending of print magazine with website is, by necessity, going wider net auto consumer then special interest car enthusiast.
Though it sounds like you're out the door... What would make things better Alan? Is it just you timing out on the site or is there something that would make you want to re-engage?
Site content - the self-spamming of endless articles makes any meaningful contributions difficult, and flipbooks and clickbait articles are rampant
Software issues that never seem to end. Seems there's a new issue weekly, that eventually gets addressed, but your experience trying to track down Chris T. is typical.
Moderation - other than you, who else with any moderating authority is here? I've seen such vicious and personal attacks it makes me sick, and nothing is done until we complain to you about it. And, I appreciate your efforts, Pat. It must seem Sisyphean at times.
Writing content - most articles look like they've been written based on the manufacturer's glossy brochure.
Writing style - where are the actual drivers? I see the odd piece by Jared Gall, but there are no more drivers at C/D. There are precious few driving impressions, and endless infotainment and safety-nanny paragraphs. It's like a non-stop parade of commercials instead of personal experiences.
Can only speak to 3 and say I do my best to push the boulder up the mountain each day knowing it's always playing catchup. There are others with mod authority but I don't know who or where they are.
Perhaps our collective frustration is the company doesn't care about core users who have been here for years because our numbers are small and don't impact the overall signup rate for subscriptions and site usage. We make a difference to each other because we've been trash talking on a daily basis for years but HearstAutos doesn't know who we are and doesn't care because asking us what we think is outside the capacity of what they do.
Most of the hard core enjoy this site because it's a virtual clubhouse where we get to know each other by debating our special interests. That hasn't really changed but people do come and go over time and the style of the site and frequency of content has changed as these two print car magazines under the Hearst corporate umbrella struggle with managing and integrating their output with faster paced websites aimed at younger demographics. They want us, the old car guys and girls, to hang around but they're skewing to a younger audience with less personal identity with cars. We're all timing out because the car, as we've known and loved it, is timing out.
That doesn't really address the nuts and bolts of your complaints. It's just my observation on the overall disconnect I've seen and felt over time.
Thanks, as always, for the thoughtful reply. I know your efforts are greatly appreciated by all, but you get precious little support.
Being a public forum with no revenue generation (other than advertisements) means that Hearst probably doesn't really care if this site withers away or not. I think if they showed any sort of interest, it would make a difference. But that indifference is really what's killing it for me.
Remember this? "Intelligence, Independence, Irreverence" Not very much left of any of it anymore.
Al, anyone who wants to pretend that the heydays of C|D with Davis and Bedard and Sherman and Yates continue with the current cast is fooling themselves. If I stick with it, it's mostly because of my bad experiences with Motor Trend and Road & Track, but the sad fact is that the magazine ain't what it usedta wuz, and neither is the website.
BTW, Pat, I'm NOT taking any shots at you, bro. Your presence here makes a significant difference. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Wow... I've missed quite a bit here. I'm still in Portland (actually, Clackamas), but I feel a lot of the same things mentioned here about the site. I'll chime in next week,once I am back home and can dedicate the proper time. Until then, hang in there, Al. We'd surely miss you. And, thanks, Pat for all of your help. It is appreciated.
There are people who remember the three I's but it doesn't run the show in the same way because the relationships with car companies have matured by necessity and the audience being spoken to is different as well.
There are still good writers and drivers at Car and Driver/Road & Track. But the days when Brock Yates and David E. Davis held court with a wink and a nod over their relatively small fiefdom of jaundiced eyed scribes are gone. Eddie and Kim know the history of their magazines and try to honor them while competing with a world flooded with semi-autonomous reliable appliance cars, non-stop social media and a host of cable car shows that eat their lunch every day. They are managing print magazine and website staffs with smaller budgets then they used to have just for their print magazines while corporate overseers continue to shrink the budgets. There aren't many print magazines making money anywhere anymore.
In a parallel universe, I've been reading Sports Illustrated once a week for a radio network for the blind for the last 25 years. That magazine was the sports weekly bible in this country for my entire life as my dad picked up a copy of their first issue at a newsstand in Manhattan the year I was born. I still have that mint copy tucked away in a file cabinet. The creation of ESPN and other cable sports specialty networks eroded the base of SI's readership over time and their attempts at cable and web affiliations have foundered as well. They have cut staff by attrition, firings and ultimately selling the magazine that is now a shadow of its former self only publishing every other week. They still have management and writers who know it's history and try to honor that with a smaller footprint and budget but it's hard to watch. Like when Life and Look magazines faded from view.
I hang around because when I leave there will be no one to replace me just as there was no one to replace Jen and Jen really knew and cared about the magazine and its history. That's not over valuing what I do just a simple fact. The only way we make a difference is to keep showing up. That could change tomorrow but for now I'll keep showing up.
Thanks... Truth is the powers that be are peddling with both feet just to keep their magazines publishing each month. Their lack of attention to us here isn't by design but necessity. If they had bigger budgets Eddie would still have Jen and we'd have a half dozen mods and additional content managers steering the ship with lots of interactive content to engage us with sponsors and manufacturers. It's a missed opportunity because they don't have the man or woman power to enact it.
Sent a friend request to Meredith. I want insights from our Euro friends to be made available again. Also, skip the political articles, instead give more comparison tests. Richard Petty used to give his musings back in the day... Maybe something like that from current drivers?
And thanks for all of this Pat. It is much appreciated.
I'd agree, but I'm sure there are multiple people who would offer services for no charge.
Truth is I would be easily replaced. Only loss would my experience and perspective. For some that would be a loss and others a refreshing change.
I see the job as holding a relatively civil space for differing opinions on cars. Over time trolls, spammers or political agendas became easier to spot and weed out as core users have their own sense of decorum and report those who cross their boundaries. When there is general agreement about acceptable behavior the site patrols itself.
The last site update brought two improvements.
First, spammers who used to sign on many times a day hawking websites claiming big money could be made from home have virtually disappeared. I presume something in the sign up process now weeds them out. Whatever it is... I’m grateful.
The second is an improvement in the quality of sign ups, meaning a much higher percentage fill out background info, create avatars and express cogent opinions. Most don’t hang around long but the general quality has improved and I’ve no idea why.
Friday - Got a nice bike ride in yesterday and may take another one today, depending on how my legs feel. Not sure what else is going on, but we'll figure that out as we go.
Allo.
MB came by to check on the C for the lease return next week. Only one wheel scrub and one paint damage but it didn't go through the paint. Apparently I drive like driving Miss Daisy.
Well... You have a week left... Track day, hill climb, autocross... What could possibly go wrong?! Better get busy.
A friend of mine did that. He had his lease return inspection done on his A8 and a week later he did a track day at Putnam Park. Audi put kinda wimpy brakes on A8s in those days and after his track day his brake pads were gone and consequently the rotors were seriously grooved.
We've had more than a few people show up for autocross days at Lime Rock with cars they were about to return on lease to flog around before giving them back. The brakes are generally less abused than the tires. If they aren't experienced racers or autocrossers they'll spend too much time in a state of terminal understeer and chunk the tires. Steep part of the learning curve.
Al, maybe this will give you hope, or keep you around for another week or two.
Only glanced at the article.
I have a friend purchased 10 Levante, paid $150k to the sales manager and pretty much every one in between here and China’s port, in the end making close to 10% off each SUV. I think he only did it once though.
After reading the article, looks like you only get away with it once.
I found it an entertaining read.
My client's ex-husband quit his sr. mgr. position to at Deloitte to get into this gray market export to China business. It's pretty lucrative.
As one of my former office mate pointed out....
Buy a new GLE for about $90K. Pay $4-5K in shipping to China, pay-off the family friend doctor, lawyer and accountant $20K and make a $70-85K profit in China reselling the Benz. It's no so much the duty on the import that causes folks to act stupid but not having to wait your turn to register a new car is the reason. They usually sell the GLEs for $200K in China.
New car buyers, in places like Beijing, has to wait for their name to be drawn (sort of Lotto style, as with Singapore) in order to get the privilege to buy and register a new car in Beijing. However, a gray import such as the Benz allows one to skip the lotto process and ensures that you can register the car immediately. It's the price for being impatient - just like buying a stainless steel Rolex Daytona (I am on the infamous 5 year waitlist). There are folks buy their SS Daytona and flip the next day (to impatient folks) for a healthy 50% profit. Here in Calgary, the main AD keeps track of these offenders.
The reason you need a doctor, lawyer or accountant is that car dealerships are less likely to suspect you of re-exporting the car, if you are paying cash for a new Benz. I went car shopping this morning with a friend and he bought his A4 Teknik cash. The dealership didn't blink, when they saw that he is a VP with one of the local banks.
What MB Canada has done is 1) require a $20K deposit on purchase, which gets refunded on the first oil chance or 2) outright refuse to sell you a car, if you're are Asian origin and they have reasons to suspect you of re-exporting (like Rolex AD's, they know who the credible buyer is). Hence you resort to your Caucasian doctor/lawyer/accounting friends to do the deed and offer $15-20K for their inconvenience.
As to my client, her ex offered her a miserly $1,000.
I once had a huge GM dealership, as a client, and when the USD was 1.5 CDN, they were taking lease returns and trucking them down to the US and selling them for 50% margin. GM Canada caught them and they were fined $2 million and a severe reprimand (potential loss of dealership license). They came to a halt. However, it doesn't stop an individual from doing that.
Saturday - It was COOL yesterday, enough so that I decided to stay indoors rather than go for the bike ride. Today looks to be much the same, as does Sunday.
House is sold. On to the next one.
Hope the move goes well.
Wish you a smooth transition.
How did it work out? Did you get your asking?
Pretty close to asking.
I learned my lesson never do business with friends. The agent what we would call a close friend and been in business for 25 years but I felt like he wanted to just close the deal without looking for our best interest. My wife and I pretty much had to push back every single thing the buyer wanted. I thought it was the agents job.
If the buyer didn’t want everything in the house, low balling us, raising her price $5,000 at a time and every sign back is call final, I probably would have given her some of the items for free.
It’s done now and we are putting an offer on a house tomorrow.
That's got to be a load off.
Mowed the grass today. Then gave the gardenias their once a year whacking. The summer heat is here for sure, for the next nearly 4 months. Finished season 2 of Goliath last night on Prime. Found season 1 to be very good, season 2 not so much.
After 90 degrees f and mid 80’s early in the week we’re 57 now with rain tomorrow and highs in the 70’s next week.
Sunday - B-day party was was okay, not great yesterday, but we DID stroke into Randy Bachman tix at the Rocksino for today! Might be fun!
Watching and listening to the rain fall today, in 16C (61F) temperature. We have been unusually hot and dry the last 2-3 weeks, so I can actually hear my lawn going "Aaahhhh...."
I watched the French GP this morning. I won't spoil it for the friends that DVR'd the race except to say the Vettel had two crashes, one of which resulted in a penalty, and he was still voted driver of the day.
Yeah... Doubt Bottas got to vote on that.
I'm watching NASCAR drivers turn right.
Jeff Gordon was one of the best on road courses.
Have mentioned this before but Sonoma doesn't drive as it looks on tv. It's built into a ravine and the camera positions are all from above so the track looks relatively flat and open. From the track the first 3 turns are blind cresting hills and there is a lot of elevation change so it's easy to get into trouble if someone spins over the crest of one of those turns. The Nascar course makes it a little easier as they bypass the downhill carousel that Indy cars use but it's a very tough track to pass on either way.
The cameras seemed a little better yesterday, so you got some idea of the elevation. They had a 3D rendering at the beginning showing the 160' changes, and that there were really only 2 turns where passing was possible. Amazingly, only one yellow, and that was for a driver missing a shift and detonating his engine.
Good to hear about the 3D rendering. Only watched the end on replay. Ironically AJ Allmandinger is one of a small handful of Nascar drivers who came up through open wheel racing and did well racing Indy cars. He won the first stage yesterday before blowing up his motor. Confess I did it once practicing in an MX-5 going into turn 1 at Sebring. You drop from 5th to 4th gear while turning in and I got 2nd and Kerblamo. All modern race cars have rev limiters but missing a downshift will mechanically over-rev the motor easily. If the car is loaded up while turning in it's not hard to do... As I found out. It is embarrassing but it happens.
Monday - Randy Bachman, late of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, put on a pretty fine show at the Hard Rock Rocksino last night, and yeah, it was a lot of fun.
I failed to mention over the last week that I spotted a Nissan Juke NISMO and a yukky powder-blue Porsche 911 GT3 in my travels. The Porsche was amazing, though the color was YUK!
Today is lawn-mowing day, I'm pretty sure.
Buddy probably paid an extra $30k to have it painted that color.
Wouldn't surprise me. I just wish BMW would bring back Imola Red. Now THAT was a color!
Could be more money than brains club but might also be a wrap. You see more high end vehicles with questionable taste color schemes because owners don't mind dropping a few grand to customize it and then tear 'em off when they go to sell it.
Pat, do you remember the couple of cars at one Cars & Coffee we went to that were ... let's say, OVER-DECORATED? Allow me to refresh your memory:
Now ... exactly WHO buys a six-figure car, then does THIS to it? I dunno.
I would bet the GTR is a wrap and the Aston looks like marketing for a company. If your company is doing well enough to buy the Aston you can probably write off the cost of the promo paint or even the whole car depending on its use and the creativity of your tax lawyer.
Jim Booth who had a legendary disassembly of his Ferrari 458 at Road America https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=tK9LAdUpLtk
owns a number of McDonalds franchises. If you watch the video, in the early stages, while passing, you can see the golden arches prominently displayed on the rear flanks of the car. You wouldn't expect to see McDonald arches on a Ferrari but the red and yellow was a perfect match to their corporate colors and those franchises generated the money that paid for the Ferrari so there are all kinds of strange bedfellows in racing. The majority of Ferrari Challenge cars have wraps and many are wild because they are relatively cheap and replaceable in the middle of a race weekend if a repairable crash happens.
I imagine he was going for this:
Gee, no kidding!
AllWheelsDriven
Nah. He was going for maximum irony points by emulating one of these...
Meanwhile, say what you want about VAG ... but apparently a Volkswagen Electric Car has done the Pike's Peak Hill Climb in UNDER EIGHT MINUTES! Yeah, that's a new record ... not just for electrics, but for the CLIMB, PERIOD!
This is one event where electric power has a real edge over internal combustion. You only need 8 minutes of peak battery power and electric motors aren't impacted by altitude. With all-wheel drive, an aerodynamic body and the entire course now paved it was a low hanging fruit no brainer for VW.
And while I think about it, verb sap. for those of you who have old lawn & garden equipment you're trying to maintain. There's an outfit out there called Parts Tree, and my impression is, if they ain't got it, ain't NO ONE got it! I just ordered some parts for what has to be at least a 15-year-old Snapper mower, got some great help from their customer service person, and they should be here in just over a week!
Reminds me of my recent experience with Shop-Vac. One of my kids broke out the center of a wheel mounting flange so the caster couldn't be reattached. No vacuum supply place had parts for a 20-something-year-old wet-dry rolling vacuum, so on a whim I called Shop-Vac. The customer service lady asked for the serial number and some other info and my address, with the implication that they would check their warehouse for the part then quote me the part price plus shipping.
Five days later a box showed up with a brand new set of all four casters, two standard mounts, plus the "tool bucket"/attachment rack they used on later models and to which the rear casters attached. The invoice inside had a hand-written message that crossed out the "total due" line and read "Thank you for your purchase of our vacuum. We are glad it continues to serve you and your family. If there's anything else we can do to assist your continued use, do not hesitate to call."
So sad that these are extreme exceptions to the rule rather than the rule, especially considering the fact that by taking the time to scrounge around for a few old parts they guaranteed themselves a customer for life...
Wow ... it's nice to hear that SERVICE still means something to some people. Nice story, AWD.
There still are the odd places that do that. Our house was built in 1995, and Moen will still send me cartridges at no charge for the taps when they need replacing.
Bought a Herman Miller Aeron chair years ago on E-bay from a guy that liquidated office furniture. Loved the chair but one of the casters eventually broke and one of the arm rests split. I called Herman Hiller and spoke to a rep about replacements. He said the chair was on older model and he could send casters but they didn't make the arm rests for that model any more but I might find them online. He said he knew they weren't available because he used to work in the shop manufacturing the chairs. I told him I appreciated talking to someone who had actual skin in the game making a product that made my life easier by reducing chronic back pain.
Looked online with no success and about half an hour later the phone rang. It was the Herman Miller guy asking if I'd found the arm rests. When I told him no he said, "Good!... I just went down to the shop and made you a pair... They'll be in the box with the casters.
They arrived as promised with no charge. Needless to say I'm a lifelong lover and promoter of Herman Miller Aeron chairs. They aren't cheap but they're great chairs and they take care of customers.
Tuesday - Lawn's mowed yet again. A bike ride might be in the mix for this morning. The way I hear it, showers are due later today.
After raining all weekend, my lawn is green again, and I mowed yesterday for the first time in a week and a half.
Yesterday and today have been top 10 nice days in NW CT. Weed whacked the perimeter of the yard as we're going into NYC for the next 3 days and will return to a heat wave. Much less work with temps in the high 60's
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Half of the planet's population are potential x-men
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June 4, 2019, 08:12
An ancient mutation that spread through humans after the advent of cooking may protect people against high blood sugar and diabetes today, scientists have said.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) discovered the mutation while studying a gene called CLTCL1, which is heavily involved in removing sugar from the bloodstream.
While a certain amount of blood sugar is necessary to provide energy to the brain and other organs, too much leads to type 2 diabetes, where the body loses its ability to control how much sugar is circulating.
The scientists found that about half the world’s population carries a mutation that helps the body to clear sugar from the circulation more effectively than in the past.
(snipsnap)
full: https://www.theguardian.com/science/...es-study-finds
The next movie should be about Diabeto saving the world.
That being said, does somebody remember the X-Men movie where Prof Xavier and Wolverine had these funny costumes?
Join Date: 01 Jan 1970
There was a character in Misfits who had the power of Lactokinesis. He would kill people by controlling the lactose in their bloodstream.
He was defeated by a character with lactose intolerance and so was immune to his powers.
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.
https://e4-misfits.fandom.com/wiki/Lactokinesis
Unusual superpowers
Bah, seems I messed up the pic link in the OP.
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All life is always undergoing evolution.
Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
Some character can manipulate lactose content but is defeated by someone who dies (or get seriously sick when confronted with lactose) ???? My head has a problem to accept the logic.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Originally posted by BeBro View Post
Yeah, that's every X-Man movie. :\
No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.
I've found it again
Cyclops has a tan!
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I get it!
Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
It’s a show about superpowers given to chavs and ASBO kids.... And you look for logic?
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Illinois child, 3, becomes state’s first pediatric flu death of season: report. A young child from Aurora, Illinois has reportedly become the first pediatric flu death in the state this season. >>
Illinois refuses permit for concert to be hosted by R. Kelly. Illinois officials say a concert in Springfield that was to be hosted by R. Kelly cannot take place in the wake of new sexual misconduct allegations against the R&B star >>
New Illinois governor uses own money to hike staff salaries. Billionaire and Illinois Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker has announced plans to use his own money to double the salaries of several key staffers, a move aimed to help retain top talent >>
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Nurses from Illinois hospital who were pregnant at the same time take photo with newborns. Eight nurses at an Illinois hospital who were expecting within months of each other are now showing the world their new children. >>
OB nurses from the same hospital department where 8 were simultaneously pregnant, pose with babies. Susan, Britaney, Ashley, Sara, Rebecca, Gwen and Michele from Anderson Hospital's Pavilion for Women in Illinois gathered with Anna, Reese, Logan, Holden, Daniel, and two Charlottes on Wednesday. >>
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Epic Games Files Lawsuit Against Fortnite Live Organizers
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EPIC Games Initiates Legal Battle Royale
Epic Games is now suing Exciting Events, the organizers behind the disastrous Fortnite Live in Norwich over the weekend. Originally billed as the “Fortnite Event of the Year”, Epic Games wants to make it clear that they are not in any way part of the event.
A spokesperson from the Epic said: “The quality of our player experience is incredibly important to us, whether it’s inside the game or at official public events like last year’s Fortnite Pro-Am”.
Ticket cost starts at £12, with wristbands for unlimited access to activities costing an extra £20. For many parents however, the total cost was much higher factoring in travel, lodging and food.
What are the Event Organizers Saying?
Shaun Lord, owner of Exciting Events which organized the festival openly admits that the show had problems. He mostly chalked it up to a large group of his 19-person staff not showing up. Although he has since then begun issuing refunds for those who requested it on a “case-by-case” basis.
Furthermore, speaking to the BBC, Lord denies that he misled fans to believe it is an official event. “Fortnite Live has always been an unofficial event created by Fortnite fans,” says Lord.
He adds that the events on the Norwich fairgrounds were “activities brainstormed by an audience of 10-14 year olds.”
With the filing of the lawsuit at London’s High Court, Exciting Events has since cancelled future planned Fortnite Live events on their website.
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Torguard Setup Viscosity – TorGuard Anonymous VPN Review – 2019
by newadmin November 7, 2016
Background Torguard Setup Viscosity
With an Established track record, TorGuard has Evolved to a high quality VPN supplier for both novices and advanced users. We here at The VPN Lab agree it is among the best 10 VPN providers offered. Servers run in 50 + countries and provides VPN support that is good at prices that are reasonable. Torguard Setup Viscosity
A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between your PC Along with a VPN. Your internet traffic travels through that tunnel, meaning that anyone snooping around, even on the exact same network as you, won’t see a thing. A VPN can also help protect your privacy that ISPs can sell your own data. ISPs have enormous insight but not when you use a VPN.
There is a VPN because it may procure an insecure network A vital tool when traveling or using that unsecured public Wi-Fi network at the local coffee shop. A VPN makes it more challenging by hiding your IP address, which may be used to determine your geographic location to spot you online.
Activists and journalists frequently use VPN solutions to In order that they can communicate with the external world get around government censors. Many VPNs hang their reputation on having the capacity to unblock blocked sites for these customers. You can also use a VPN to spoof your location, in order to watch BBC content or even region-locked MLB, for instance. Note that Netflix is currently working to block VPN. Torguard Setup Viscosity
To Start using TorGuard, simply download the app for your Operating procedure and follow the installation manual. You can choose between TorGuard Lite and Torguard Viscosity. The first one is a more straightforward client software, ideal for first-time VPN users, whereas the latter is a better choice for tech-savvy users.
TorGuard Lite automatically connects the VPN after you’ve entered your Information, meaning that you basically do not need to do anything to browse the net. It is also possible to manually choose protocol and the server. Torguard Viscosity, on the other hand, allows for greater customization.
Both clients are easy to use and provide a user-friendly experience. Nonetheless, if you aren’t knowledgeable about the way VPNs operate, then you should probably stick to the Lite version.
There Is a Great reason why TorGuard is among the most popular and Trusted VPN services — it has their characteristics which make them exceptional. We are not talking anything crazy here, just the simple stuff that each VPN user needs and wants, but which other VPN providers somehow do not look at a given.
For example bandwidth and speed come with all TorGuard Bundles. Some of them contain mail storage. You also get a dedicated, refreshing IP address just for you. There are over 3,000 VPN servers available in more than 55 countries of the world. They are all strategically distributed throughout the world so that you may be certain that you will have one close enough wherever your travels might take you. The business was nice enough to place servers in Australia and New Zealand also, the area that has been so unfairly discounted by lots of VPN suppliers for a long time.
TorGuard has yet another intriguing feature that not many other suppliers Can feature — the stealth server attribute. The”stealth” servers are ideal for countries and regions with internet control, most notably China. As a result of this characteristic, the residents of these areas can now enjoy the specific same content and access the very same websites as anyone else anywhere in the world.
TorGuard not only accepts but promotes P2P sharing. However, there Are a few things to keep in mind here. You will find particular, dedicated servers that should only be used for P2P sharing. This is actually pretty smart as you can do all your P2P sharing on committed and especially configured and maintained servers while the rest of the servers remain free for faster browsing and streaming. There are plenty of dedicated servers so that you do not need to worry about slow speeds on crowded servers. Additionally, TorGuard also supplies a specialized torrent proxy, which supports most of significant torrent clients (BitTorrent, uTorrent, Deluge, Vuse, and many more) and comes with unlimited bandwidth.
TorgGuard uses OpenVPN/SSTP/L2TP/IPsec encryption protocols. You can Choose whatever you prefer, but most experts recommend using OpenVPN for maximum security. It is possible to link up to five distinct apparatus using a single TorGuard account. This should cover all of your devices, from computers to smartphones. TorGuard does not keep any logs so your connections are 100% anonymous. Torguard Setup Viscosity
Customer care is another section where TorGuard does. Their website has a comprehensive service region with FAQ, knowledge base, troubleshooting, tutorials, forum and a support ticket system. You can also access support in the user accounts area. TorGuard offers the chat option . The service team is polite, helpful and friendly. The support ticket system functions very well, with answers coming in a matter of 2 or just a minute.
TorGuard advertises itself as the best VPN service for Torrent users that Want to remain absolutely anonymous and safe in their activity. In fact, their anonymous proxy support is especially optimized for p2p filesharing and for bypassing geo-restrictions, like watching Netflix or Hulu in areas where those services are blocked or unavailable. They have 3,000 servers in over 55 countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Australia is also represented, as this region often gets ignored, which is fine.
They boast speeds and switching bandwidth, as well As webmail support for complete privacy and anonymity, which is remarkable, to say the least. The business sells VPN routers that are pre-flashed.
Speed is just one of the regions where TorGuard prevails. When tested, the Rates were shown to be very fast, which range from good to excellent, very stable and trustworthy. Exceptional results were achieved through the Netherlands and UK servers, which is frequently the case . That you connect to the server, although of course, slower rates were brought by linking to remote servers.
We were pleased to see that there were No WebRTC or DNS flows at all. Torguard Setup Viscosity
There is more than 1 way to create an encrypted tunnel Through VPN. My favorite method uses the protocol, which will be known for being fast and reliable. It, which means you may rest assured that its code has been picked over for vulnerabilities.
TorGuard clearly believes in giving people it, and options Supports many VPN protocols, such as OpenVPN, IKEv2, L2TP, and IPSec. TorGuard also comprises Stealth VPN protocols, which use SSL VPN in order to prevent an entity. These include OpenVPN Stealth, ShadowSocks, Stunnel, and AnyConnect (also Called OpenConnect).
Other companies provide tools to stop VPN Very similar to Stealth VPN, albeit with different names. TunnelBear and Golden Frog VyprVPN offer this feature, to mention two. A TorGuard representative told me that clients can double their Stealth protection by linking via OpenVPN Stealth or OpenConnect then use ShadowSocks or Stunnel to defeat deep packet inspection which could be used to block VPN use. Most people probably won’t make the most of the, but it is good that TorGuard makes these efforts to make sure its customers can protect themselves and their information.
You Have to trust that the VPN you use Behind it could end up in your online activities. That’s why when VPNs are reviewed by me, I speak with all the sellers and read the privacy policy. In the case of TorGuard, this last part was straightforward. The business gets and one of the easiest to read.
More important, this policy’s material is good for consumers. This section says it all:”TorGuard.net doesn’t store or log any traffic or usage from the Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Proxy.” The company acknowledges that it does gather information for billing purposes, but remember that it also allows the usage of anonymous payment procedures.
Better still, TorGuard says that it only enriches revenue From subscription revenue, instead of selling information. The organization’s policy isn’t to sell or transfer. The only exception to this is if the provider believes it is obliged to abide by legal actions.
That last point is something echoed by VPN companies, Which is why it’s important to understand under what jurisdiction they operate and where these companies are located. Some countries have more laws than others. The company behind TorGuard is VPNetworks LLC, which can be located in the United States. That provider is, in turn, owned by parent firm VPNetworks LTD, LLC, located on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Because of its part the US has no laws requiring the retention of data, although I can not talk to this legal framework of Nevis.
Before, some VPN businesses utilized to inject ads into Users’ traffic to be able to market their customers. A representative from TorGuard affirms that the firm doesn’t use this tactic, saying,”It’s not something we’d even contemplate.” Torguard Setup Viscosity
Programs and Server Places
While VPNs are reviewed by me, I look at the Whole number of servers The company has available to be used. The servers you will find available, the more likely you are to find one that isn’t extremely crowded, giving you a larger slice of bandwidth.
TorGuard has expanded its host offering, and it Now boasts more than 3,000 servers. That sets it up there with Private Internet Access$2.91 at Personal Internet accessibility among the most robust VPN services I’ve reviewed. NordVPN leads the bunch in size.
I also look at where those servers are located. The more Geographical selections available, the more choice you have if you want to spoof where you are. A robust geographic distribution also suggests that you’re more likely to find a nearby server when traveling, and a nearby server means lower latency and better performance.
TorGuard now offers VPN servers in over 53 countries. These are distributed across Asia, the Americas, and Europe. I’m pleased to see that TorGuard has servers in India, and several servers across Africa and the Middle East, as these areas tend to be ignored by other VPN services. Notably, TorGuard also has servers in China, Russia, and Turkey, which are known for their internet policies. Hide My Ass dominates among VPN services, however. CyberGhost$2.75 in CyberGhosthas fewer server places, but it does provide physical servers in underserved areas like Africa and South America.
Some customers fear about VPN companies servers. These are software-defined servers, which means that a single hardware server may run many servers . These virtual servers can be configured to appear to be than where they are genuinely found. That is an issue if you want to steer clear of geographic regions, and if you’re concerned about where your data is headed. A TorGuard representative explained that the company does not use virtual servers, which means you’ll have no such trouble here. Torguard Setup Viscosity
In my testing, I installed TorGuard’s applications on A Lenovo ThinkPad T460slaptop operating Windows 10.
The TorGuard client installed readily and quickly, though It’s not just a joy to behold. The app is minimal, looking somewhat more like a app than something I would expect on a desktop computer. There are not one of the cute bears or the donkeys from Hide My Ass. It does not even have a map interface, which will be a staple of several VPN apps. Instead, it seems a great deal more such as the bare-bones online Access that is Private.
Rather than recommending servers for or showing a map Particular actions, TorGuard just includes a list of servers. That is fine, but again, it is not quite friendly to new users. Neither are the options on the primary window of the app. The average user is most likely not going to mess with them, but media pros will undoubtedly enjoy having these options front and center. A link in the bottom of the program opens a window filled with much more byzantine options. This app doesn’t just look like Private online Access, it appears to target exactly the kind of confident user.
While I am willing to Generate a Good Deal of allowances for design, 1 factor of TorGuard’s Windows program (and, in reality, all its other apps, too) bothers me. Every VPN support I have tested will detect that VPN server gets the lowest latency or is nearest. TorGuard does not do this. It’s a little thing, but one I’d like to see changed.
TorGuard Provides a Kill Switch list, much like NordVPN does. TorGuard will automatically stop any applications on this record, if the VPN connection be disrupted. It is a security measure ensuring that none of your data is transmitted through an unencrypted connection. TorGuard’s Kill Change is limited, though. I discovered that you can just add applications that are running to the listing. Additionally, it employs the names you see in the Task Manager, which gives you more control in the cost of usability. NordVPN enables you to specify applications that are not currently running to add to the record, which is handy.
Additional VPN services include servers. NordVPN And ProtonVPN are just two which offer servers particularly. TorGuard has a few: stealth servers meant to be almost impossible to be blocked by firewalls.
Streaming services take a dim view of VPNs. That’s That’s not intended for your geographic region As you can use a VPN to spoof your place and access content. Even if you live in the US but are vacationing in the united kingdom video solutions might block your attempts to VPN back into your house country.
While attached to a New York VPN server that is nearby, I was Unable to see any content on Netflix. Of course, which may change at a moment’s notice, which is accurate for VPNs that functioned with Netflix.
Note that section 4.3 of the Netflix terms of support Mentions that you’re only entitled to articles in the area in which you made your account, and that it uses technologies that are certain to verify your place. It doesn’t expressly forbid the use of a VPN for obtaining articles, but don’t say we did not warn you if your account gets locked.
Past VPN
TorGuard offers a series of services And privacy online. In addition to its fundamental VPN service, TorGuard also sells Anonymous Torrent Proxy for $5.95 per month; Anonymous Email for $6.95 per month; along with the Privacy Bundle, which includes both Proxy and VPN support, for $11.95 a month.
If you are tempted for the Anonymous Proxy support Instead of the VPN support because it is more affordable, know the proxy was made to filter visitors, whereas all you do online is protected by the VPN service. If you are seeding torrents or catching a torrent, the proxy makes sure no one sees your actual IP address. However, your web browsing and other activity is not included. It’s a case of anonymity versus all the time. Torguard Setup Viscosity
Astonishingly, the TorGuard iPhone apphas a striking, Slick appearance. It’s not likely to win any design awards, but it is far, far better than either the Windows or Android apps. That said, we think the iPhone app is actually so easy as to be a bit confusing to use.
When we last reviewed TorGuard, we noticed that it didn’t Include our preferred OpenVPN protocol. Instead, the program uses IKEv2. We’re also happy to see that its VPN performed well on this stage .
We like the TorGuard Android apphas a split Tunneling feature, as well as the majority of the qualities you’ll find in the Windows program. But, TorGuard drops the ball from style. We find the app believe it would be off-putting to new users, and to be confusing. On installation that didn’t inspire optimism, it also generated an warning in our testing. While the core TorGuard support is a great one, it is outshone by Android VPN apps.
Sadly, the macOS TorGuard app doesn’t have the Modicum of panache which found its way to the iPhone app. It’s not bad; it fine. It’s a window to get your VPN started.
TorGuard did not impress me at the time with its rate test Scores on macOS. I look forward to taking another crack. That said, I am very happy to find that it includes OpenVPN. It’s among the very best macOS VPNs.
TorGuard has a lot a Sensible entry-level Price, also a large, geographically diverse assortment of servers, and also a collection of subscription add-ons to personalize your security expertise. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that it aced our speed tests, and also its focus on BitTorrent usage –two points that are likely related. TorGuard also has an excellent privacy policy, one that is sweet, short, and consumer-friendly. The exact same can not be said for its app experience, which has been sacrifice simplicity of use.
This VPN service does a lot right, and it gets a high For doing this, score. However, it is neck-and-neck with Internet Access that is Personal, not just in terms of what it offers but it is offered by it. Both are privacy-focused, both possess many possibilities that are arcane, and neither has a UI. TorGuard, for its part, has the speed but Personal online Access defeats it on endurance, which explains why it takes an Editors’ Choice award along with TunnelBear and NordVPN. Still, TorGuard is an impressive service that’s worth considering, particularly when speed is everything for you. Torguard Setup Viscosity
Pricing Alternatives
TorGuard provides four different subscription programs Dependent on the length of the subscription. You are able to subscribe to six months, three weeks, a month or one year. The more your subscription period, the greater the discount. The monthly program costs $9.99, the Rs subscription costs $19.99, and the semi-annual subscription costs $29.99. If you elect for the annual subscription, that costs $59.99, then you’ll be paying just $4.99 per month (you’ll be billed the entire sum at the same time ). TorGuard also offers a biannual plan for its most hard-core users at a price of $99.99 charged every 2 years.
In addition to all major credit cards, TorGuard also accepts BitCoin, PayPal, UnionPay, and Alipay.
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✾Cover Reveal ✾ Dear Bridget, I Want You by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland✾
We are excited to bring you the next cover from New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Authors Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland.
DEAR BRIDGET, I WANT YOU is the next standalone Contemporary Romance Novel from this sensational duo releasing on September 18, 2017!
Model: Philip Van den Hoogenband – Chadwick Models Melbourne
Photographer: Brian Jamie
Cover designer: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs
Dear Bridget, I’m writing this letter because it’s highly doubtful I’ll ever garner the courage to say this to your face. So, here goes. We’re totally wrong for each other. You’re the proper single mum with a good head on your shoulders. I’m just the carefree British doctor passing through town and temporarily living in your converted garage until I head back to England. But here’s the thing… for some bloody reason, I can’t stop thinking about you in very inappropriate ways. I want you. The only reason I’m even admitting all of this to you right now is because I don’t believe it’s one-sided. I notice your eyes when you look at me, too. And as crass as I appear when we’re joking around about sex, my attraction to you is not a joke. So, what’s the purpose of this note? I guess it’s a reminder that we’re adults, that sex is healthy and natural, and that you can find me just through the door past the kitchen. More specifically, it’s to let you know that I’m leaving said door cracked open from now on in case you’d like to visit me in the middle of the night sometime. No questions asked. Think about it. Or don’t. Whatever you choose. It’s doubtful I’ll even end up sliding this letter under your door anyway. --Simon Add to Goodreads
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Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of thirteen novels. With over a million books sold, her titles have placed on the New York Times Bestseller list fifteen times. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 12-year-old girl with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and a 10-year-old boy. Penelope, her husband, and kids reside in Rhode Island. Connect with Penelope Ward Facebook Fan Group | Facebook | Website |Twitter | Instagram Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author. With more than a million books sold, her titles have appeared in over fifty Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twelve languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six. Website | Facebook Fan Group | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Other books from Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward:
Cocky Bastard
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1LfN3fc
iTunes: http://apple.co/1PffE2J
B&N: http://bit.ly/1EjxNpY
Kobo: http://bit.ly/1UxCSUO
Stuck-Up Suit
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1S3LnpZ
iBooks: http://apple.co/1Qbwy57
B&N: http://bit.ly/29vrQhV
Kobo: http:// bit.ly/1RJdUif
Playboy Pilot
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2d5I5rS
iBooks: http://apple.co/1Wb06Cf
Nook: bit.ly/2caXPEK
Kobo: http://bit.ly/2cJDXO1
Other books from Vi Keeland:
Egomaniac
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/b1gi74
iBooks: http://apple.co/2fIsmvC
B&N: http://smarturl.it/t4ohsv
Kobo: http://smarturl.it/azmhq9
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2a8D5B6
iBooks: http://apple.co/25x2jyX
B&N: http://bit.ly/29sL4H2
Kobo: http://bit.ly/29lW19I
The Baller
Amazon: amzn.to/1PBF2hG
iBooks: http://bit.ly/iBooksBaller
B&N: http:// bit.ly/BarnesBaller
Kobo: http:// bit.ly/KoboBaller
Left Behind (A Young Adult Novel)
Left-Behind-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00OJM92LI/
First Thing I See
http://www.amazon.com/First-Thing-See-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00AWXY3HG
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/first-thing-i-see-ms-vi-keeland/1114703332
Life on Stage series (2 standalone books)
http://www.amazon.com/Beat-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00ZOMUV12/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beat-vi-keeland/1121715501
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/beat/id983959123 https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/beat-5
http://www.amazon.com/Throb-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00SS2RYBU https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/throb/id948747986 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/throb-vi-keeland/1121112695 https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/throb-4
MMA Fighter series (3 standalone books)
Worth the Fight
http://www.amazon.com/Worth-Fight-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00FLG5B9S
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/worth-the-fight/id805540252 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/worth-the-fight-vi-keeland/1117014180 http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/worth-the-fight
Worth the Chance
http://www.amazon.com/Worth-Chance-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00I2UKQOK
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/worth-the-chance/id813714461 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/worth-the-chance-vi-keeland/1118634058
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/worth-the-chance
Worth Forgiving
http://www.amazon.com/Worth-Forgiving-Vi-Keeland-ebook/dp/B00MWL78EG
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/worth-forgiving/id906130022?ls=1&mt=11
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/worth-forgiving-vi-keeland/1120173153
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/worth-forgiving
The Cole Series (2 book serial)
Belong to You
http://www.amazon.com/Belong-You-A-Cole-Novel-ebook/dp/B00BUTCXLE/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/belong-to-you/id639401754 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/belong-to-you-vi-keeland/1114962845
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/belong-to-you
http://www.amazon.com/Made-You-A-Cole-Novel-ebook/dp/B00DPWVKS6
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/made-for-you/id84550637 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/made-for-you-vi-keeland/1115883225
Other books from Penelope Ward:
Mack Daddy:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2kWzE1S
iTunes: http://apple.co/2iNrIPj
B&N: http://hyperurl.co/aiypfj
Kobo: http://hyperurl.co/r3hv19
RoomHate
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1TksrpE
iTunes: http://apple.co/1PgsvE7
B&N: http://bit.ly/1PLGnSL
kobo: http://bit.ly/1POvSnW
Stepbrother Dearest
Amazon http://amzn.to/1mFNMeg
ITunes: http://bit.ly/YER0mT
B&N: http://bit.ly/1taMFjG
kobo: http://bit.ly/1fJaaBs
Neighbor Dearest
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2aS8BPa
iTunes: http://apple.co/29mC6L8
B&N: http://bit.ly/2akQ2aq
Kobo: http://bit.ly/2axt1SY
Sins of Sevin
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1F9tbc3
iTunes: http://apple.co/1K8mzGg
B&N: http://bit.ly/1hTKAKE
kobo: http://bit.ly/1OaGY3D
Jake Undone (Jake #1)
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1dJrHBC
iTunes: http://apple.co/1fJayQ8
B&N: http://bit.ly/1obAwJ6
kobo: http://bit.ly/1SPKl0M
My Skylar
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1obOG2F
iTunes: http://bit.ly/SLNOTR
B&N: http://bit.ly/SLO1qi
kobo: http://bit.ly/1kNrtAB
Jake Understood (Jake #2)
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1GFdves
iTunes: http://apple.co/1DQQwgC
B&N: http://bit.ly/1FwJC0z
kobo: http://bit.ly/1LQ7Fvk
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1vgk1SE
iTunes: http://apple.co/1QTaONj
B&N: http://bit.ly/1KfmLHD
kobo: http://bit.ly/1BGJ2wu
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22 Sep The Night the Lights (Almost) Went Out at the ATC
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They say the show must go on. But it almost didn’t. The Arizona Theater Company, a Tucson performing arts treasure, came close to closing its doors this summer due to a funding crisis. At the last minute, the ATC received an infusion of support from donors, enabling the embattled company to continue into its 50th year. And on September 10th, the ATC kicked off its season with the Broadway hit King Charles III, a compelling drama with comic undertones that explores a provocative future scenario: What happens in the world of the British royals when Queen Elizabeth is gone and Prince Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side?
Over the years, Tucson theater-goers have enjoyed an impressive offering of ATC performances worthy of a world-class fine arts community. The ATC is the sole major theater in the country that serves two cities, producing plays and musicals at the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix and the historic Temple of Music and Art in Tucson. It’s also the state’s only member of the elite League of Resident Theatres. When the company ran into financial trouble, accruing a two-million-dollar debt, artistic director David Ira Goldstein, theatre patrons, staff, board members, and community officials rallied to raise funds in the nick of time.
Tucson has a vibrant, thriving performing arts community – from the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, to the Arizona Opera Company, to an impressive array of innovative independent theater companies like the Rogue Theater, to a number of acclaimed high school drama departments. On a given week you can enjoy Chaka Khan or Itzhak Perlman at a UA Presents event. This year’s Broadway in Tucson season includes The Sound of Music and The Bodyguard – as well as the Farewell Tour of Mama Mia. The Rogue’s line-up includes a spring production of Macbeth.
None of this would be possible, however, without the wholehearted support of the community. We almost lost one of our finest fine arts gems. This season, let’s get out and enjoy the arts in our own Tucson backyard, catching some of the upcoming ATC performances – maybe the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof, the Johnny Cash tribute Ring of Fire, or the Sherlock Holmes mystery Holmes and Watson.
Whatever your taste, live performing arts provide an enriching, one-of-a-kind experience. Somewhere in Tucson tonight, the curtain is going up on a performance. Why not get off the couch and make a night of it?
This blog has been written and edited by Andy Courtney Properties Director of Operations Sherri Courtney and our good friend Norma Roessler.
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Community > World > Asia > Malaysia > Kuala Lumpur
what should a first time visitor see and do
about 10 years ago about Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
we are a couple with 2 teenage children with 6 days in KL
Asked by anthony st john hodge via Travellr.com
You should go to the Batu Caves (1 hour away from Kuala Lumpur). You should enjoy the local fare - heaps of fantastic food! Sunway Lagoon will be great for teenagers as it's a water theme park. about 10 years ago
Answered by Jessie Goh via Travellr.com
Check out the Petronas Twin Towers - heaps of shopping in the mall underneath and you can go up to the observation deck between the two towers. Tickets to that are free, but get there early to get them.
Another thing I loved last time I was there was going to the Selangor Pewter Visitor's Centre (which is between KL and Batu Caves). It was a fascinating look at the country's history, with a tour of the factory and a step by step look at the process of making pewter products. You can also join the 'School of Hard Knocks' and make your own pewter bowl using traditional methods. It might sound odd, but it was a really great experience and I highly recommend it. (website is here: http://visitorcentre.royalselangor.com/vc/) about 10 years ago
Answered by Rebecca Jee via Travellr.com
The Petronas Towers are quite a sight, but if you want a better 360' view of the city go up the KL Tower. The observation desk here is much higher than the Petronas Towers and its unobstructed. about 10 years ago
This probably depends on what your kids and you are into, but I really thought the History Museum in KL was excellent. Really well done. It's by the rail station, and easy to get to with the monorail.
The Petronas Towers is a good visit. Get there in the morning, as you have to get tickets for certain times of the day. They have a limited number, but are free. The towers sit on top of a mall with about every kind of store imaginable.
There is something to cater to everyone's taste in KL IMHO. about 10 years ago
Answered by David Lamb via Travellr.com
Go to Genting Highlands to get out of the big smoke (sort of).
Eat some good hawker food (e.g. on Jalan Alor). about 10 years ago
Answered by Dan via Travellr.com
What are the best destinations to traveling with children in Malaysia?
almost 8 years ago about Malaysia
Palau Lang Tengah or Redang?
about 10 years ago about Malaysia
whats the best family hotel?
Can anyone recommend reputable tour opperators in taman neggara?
over 8 years ago about Malaysia
Does anyone have any good suggestions for places to stay in Malaysia for a week in January?
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Reps. Axne, Smith Lead Bipartisan Effort to Stop EPA's Abuse of Small Refinery Exemptions
Members urge the EPA to reverse expansion of biofuel waivers for large or unqualified refiners
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Cindy Axne (D-IA-03) and Adrian Smith (R-NE-03) led a bipartisan group of 35 Representatives in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop issuing Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs) for large or unqualified refiners under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) program. In a letter sent to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, the Members highlighted that the expansion of biofuel waivers hurts farmers who rely on demand for corn-based ethanol and other biofuels and has increased our dependence on foreign oil.
“Our farmers and rural communities rely on a thriving biofuels market to support their families and create good-paying jobs. Increasing Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS) waivers not only threatens our energy security, but stifles competition in an industry that is an economic driver and job creator across Iowa and the Midwest,” said Rep. Axne. “I’m proud to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to meet our RFS goals and reduce our reliance on foreign oil.”
“Waiving the Renewable Fuels Standard impedes the biofuels market and limits consumers’ options at the pump,” Rep. Smith said. “I look forward to working with the Administration to keep our commitments to the biofuels industry, which in turn will help foster the development of greater American energy independence.”
The EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program requires a specific, set volume of renewable fuel to replace or reduce the quantity of petroleum based fuels. Under the RFS program, a small refinery can be granted a temporary exemption from RFS requirements if compliance would prevent them from being profitable. However, the EPA has recently loosened the requirements for SREs, enabling refineries owned by major oil companies to receive these waivers. Not only have these waivers reduced the United States’ ability to meet our RFS goals, but they decrease the demand for Midwestern corn and bio products and hurt our farmers.
In addition to Rep. Axne and Adrian Smith, David Scott (D-GA-13), Darin LaHood (R-IL-18), Roger Marshall M.D. (R-KS-01), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL), Cheri Bustos (D-IL-17), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-01), Steve King (R-IA-04), David Loebsack (D-IA-02), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09), Abby Finkenauer (D-IA-01), Don Bacon (R-NE-02), Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14), Angie Craig (D-MN-02), Rodney Davis (R-IL-13), Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08), Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO-05), Mark Pocan (D-WI-02), Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-01), Ron Estes (R-KS-04), Collin C. Peterson (D-MN-07), Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10), Steve Watkins (R-KS-02), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ-01), Tim Ryan (D-OH-13), Bob Gibbs (R-OH-07), Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO-03), Mike Bost (R-IL-12), Ron Kind (D-WI-03), Robin Kelly (D-IL-02), Bill Foster (D-IL-11), James R. Baird (R-IN-04).
The full text of the letter is available here.
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BT: SC Global to launch Martin No38
Posted on August 13, 2008 by kwokarthur
SC Global to launch Martin No38
SC GLOBAL will launch Martin No 38 next month at an average price close to $2,000 per square foot.
Sleek beauty: Artist’s impression of the development, designed by award-winning architect Kerry Hill. It will launch at an average price close to $2,000 psf.
The company said in a statement yesterday that the 91-unit development in Martin Road, near Mohammed Sultan Road and Clarke Quay, will mostly comprise one-plus-one bedroom and two-bedroom apartments ranging from 969-1,130 sq ft. There will be a limited number of larger two-plus-one and three-bedroom apartments, ranging from 1,335-1,485 sq ft.
Knight Frank director (research and consultancy) Nicholas Mak said the pricing appears a little ‘bullish’ but the developer may feel the project’s ‘design’ merits this.
A unit in nearby Robertson Blue sold recently for around $1,800 psf, he said.
And in March, it was reported that about 30 units at Martin Place Residences in Kim Yam Road sold for an average price of of about $1,800 psf after discounts.
SC Global is best known for developing high-end niche projects. And according to its chairman and chief executive officer Simon Cheong: ‘There is always room for the right product. Martin No 38, with the SC Global reputation for quality, will be unique and original. We are confident it will be well received.’
The development is designed by award-winning architect Kerry Hill. It is based on warehouse lofts in New York and London and features high ceilings and seamless interior spaces.
SC Global says: ‘An austere and beguiling industrial aestheticism pervades the details of this development, from the blackened tap fittings to the sheet-metal panels in the bathrooms, with their exposed bolt heads, unplastered interior concrete walls, exposed plywood edges of the cabinetry and acres of unvarnished timber.’
SC Global bought the site in 1999 but deferred development until the area had ‘rejuvenated itself and the context for this housing concept became ripe’.
SC Global projects under construction include The Marq on Paterson Hill and Hilltops at Cairnhill. The group has a landbank of more than 1.1 million sq ft of gross floor area in the Orchard Road and at Sentosa Cove.
Source: Business Times
Filed under: Condominium, Developer Launches, Property News | Tagged: Hilltops, Martin No. 38, Martin No38, Martin Place Residences, Robertson Blue, SC Global, The Marq on Paterson Hill | Leave a comment »
ST: SC Global offers NY-warehouse living at Martin Rd
SC Global offers NY-warehouse living at Martin Rd
The warehouse flats will boast a more rugged design. — SC GLOBAL
SC GLOBAL is introducing New York-style warehouse living to Martin Road – a first for Singapore – with prices that will be set above the market average.
Like warehouse lofts in Lower Manhattan, the flats will feature high ceilings and seamless interior spaces that can be separated at will, using walls that slide and hide away.
And unlike traditional high-end developments here, Martin No. 38, as the project is called, will have a more rugged design of raw concrete, base metal finishes and unvarnished timbers.
Australian architect Kerry Hill is designing the project, which is on the site of a former warehouse near the Singapore River.
The freehold development, which will be launched later this year, will be 15 storeys high with 91 units, including four penthouses with pools.
Most of the units will be small – from 969 to 1,130 sq ft each – but there will be some larger ones of 1,335 to 1,495 sq ft each.
SC Global is aiming to sell the units at an average of $2,000 per sq ft (psf).
Prices of projects in the same area are around $1,200 to $1,850 psf, according to Knight Frank. Newer projects like 8 Rodyk cost more – a 721 sq ft apartment sold at $1,800 psf last month.
But market sentiment remains weak, with buyers staying away, especially from the high-end sector, which surged dramatically last year.
Prices have since slipped while activity has slowed considerably. But there is always room for the right product, said SC Global chairman and chief executive Simon Cheong, who is confident Martin No. 38 will be well-received.
SC Global bought the site in 1999 but said it deferred development until the area was rejuvenated and the concept of warehouse lofts became viable.
Source: Straits Times
Filed under: Condominium, Developer Launches, Property News | Tagged: 8 Rodyk, Kerry Hill, Martin No. 38, Martin Rd, SC Global | Leave a comment »
Today: Simon says: Home prices have hit floor
Posted on July 10, 2008 by kwokarthur
Simon says: Home prices have hit floor
Head of property developer SC Global still bullish on the local real estate market
JUDGING from recent transactions, property prices appear to have hit or are near the floor, according to Mr Simon Cheong (picture), the president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (Redas).
As evidence, Mr Cheong, the head of high-end property developer SC Global, points to recent transactions of luxury apartments at Nassim Park and Goodwood Residences, which went for nearly $3,000 psf and $2,800 psf respectively.
“The high-end is the leading indicator. Why? Now you see the sophisticated investor coming in — people who spend $10 million, $20 million, $30 million (on a property) — these guys are no fools you know,” he says noting that during the 1997 financial crisis luxury flats like those at Ardmore Park were selling for just $1,000 psf.
Even mid-class units at developments like those at Dakota, Clover by the Park and Livia are enjoying brisk sales.
“Nett nett, property is still a great performer in the mid to long term. For example, the stock market index in 1998 was 800 and today it is 2900. Property appreciation is actually comparable, if not better, if one factors in rentals received,” Mr Cheong says.
The property market is driven very much by sentiment, and not just by the laws of supply and demand — the “feel good” factor, he says.
According to Mr Cheong developers’ prices have fallen by 30 per cent in all sectors of the market since their peak last year, but are still double those before the sub-prime problem kicked in last August.
“The current situation is timely, as since 2005 the property market has been climbing relentlessly for eight straight quarters according to URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) figures. So, it’s time it took a breather.
“We developers were getting concerned that it was climbing so fast. So the sub-prime crisis, in a way hit at the right time and took some of the steam off the market. In a way it came as a relief to developers who were afraid that the steep climb in prices could tempt the authorities to take measures to curb speculation,” Mr Cheong told Today.
He also pointed out that it was not in the interest of developers to see prices going up too fast: “There is no reason why developers would like to see an exuberant market and see the bubble burst.”
But he claims that his positive outlook for the property market is also driven by fundamentals as interest rates are at present so low and the inflation rate so high it does not make sense to keep your money in the bank.
“What do I do if I have a lot of money in my bank account earning 0.6-per-cent interest while inflation is 6 per cent or more, and my money gets smaller and smaller by the day?” he asked.
One answer is to put your money in property as in the long run it is a better hedge against inflation than equities.
Furthermore, property rentals currently provide yields of 2 to 4 per cent, again better than putting your money in the bank.
And there is plenty of money around for when Standard Chartered Bank, earlier this month offered a promotional deposit rate of 2.28 per cent, it was so swamped that it had to withdraw the offer in just two days.
Mr Cheong expects interest rates to remain low over the next two years or so.
The supply of properties is also not as high as many people think. He pointed to a recent Citibank report which said that the bank sees no oversupply of homes over the next two years.
The report estimated that only 60 per cent of the 30,000 units forecast by the URA, will be completed during this period as by end March there were 6,000 en bloc flats that had yet to be demolished.
For en blocs to return, prices will have to be double what they are now, especially with no plot ratio increase in the recent announcement of the Singapore Master Plan by URA, Mr Cheong said.
High construction costs have also resulted in many projects being delayed. With the many building projects going on — both by the private (including the integrated resort projects) and public sectors — and high material costs caused by worldwide demand, constructions costs will remain for some years, Mr Cheong said.
He pointed out at the same time that construction costs here are currently higher than those of Dubai or Hong Kong.
“It takes three months to tear a building down but three years to put them up. Once you have taken it down, supply is taken off immediately but to put that supply back it will take three years,” he said.
Construction costs are now double what they were a year ago, with high end building costs between $600 and 800 psf and at the low end from $300 to $350 psf.
Sometimes Singaporeans also do not realise that market here being relatively small, it would take less than 1 per cent of the available global funds to see the market run up. So, it is not unreasonable to expect a strong turnaround when the sentiment improves, Mr Cheong said.:
He added that Singapore has also become a global city and price comparisons of property were now benchmarked against cities like London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and New York rather than against historical prices here.
“And contrary to market perception, funding is not an issue, There is no shortage of funding for end purchasers as evidenced by various bank packages (for mortgage loans),” he noted.
“My advice to potential buyers is that if you do not have high exposure to the property market, it is an opportune time to consider property”, he said.
Source: Today Newspaper
Filed under: Condominium, Investment, Market Trend, Property News | Tagged: Clover by the Park, Dakota, Goodwood Residences, Livia, Nassim Park, SC Global | Leave a comment »
The bigger you are, the better you weather the storm
Posted on June 24, 2008 by kwokarthur
WHAT a difference a year makes.
Last year, euphoria ruled asset markets. After a moribund three years which saw Singapore property values dive by some 45 per cent, the market sprang to life in 2007, fuelled by the robust stock market and supported by a slew of new infrastructure initiatives – most notably the integrated resort (IR) development plans. Property prices surged some 28 per cent last year.
But all that is history now.
Latest data shows that prices for some property transactions in the sub-sale market have declined almost 40 per cent from last September’s levels. And although new home prices are still holding up amid only 2,100 new units launched to date, a potential glut of new supply next year could put pressure on new home prices.
Not surprisingly, property stocks have been hit.
And the turbulence facing the industry has sparked the inevitable rumours about who might be impacted most.
One company which is being closely watched is high-end property developer SC Global Developments.
With its properties priced at $4,000 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr) and above, speculation is rife that the company is caught between a rock and a hard place. Not surprisingly, SC Global’s stock price has dived into a seemingly inexorable decline, losing some two-thirds of its value since last October to close at $1.26 yesterday.
Weighing down sentiment on the stock is market talk that the company is struggling under a huge overhang of unsold apartment units and grappling with a huge debt burden.
Indeed, SC Global started the year with almost 1.1 million sq ft of unsold property – primarily at The Marq on Paterson, Hilltops, The Ardmore and The Beachfront Collection @ Sentosa. More critically, the company had debts of some $1.2 billion, almost double the $700 million it had a year earlier.
And its debt/equity ratio was almost three times.
Not exactly comforting numbers.
But looks can be deceiving. And SC Global is not just any developer.
The company, which has over $60 million in cash in its coffers, is a niche player catering to a high-end, globally mobile, jet-setting class which is relatively price-insensitive and discriminating.
Over the past half-year, the company has managed to sell some 200,000 sq ft of its land bank – mainly at The Marq @ Paterson and Hilltops – for over $700 million.
If SC Global exercises its option to prepay its debts from sale proceeds, the company would be left with a net debt of some $500 million against a remaining land bank of 900,000 sq ft. The resulting debt-land bank ratio of some $555 psf ppr is not exactly an insurmountable problem for a company like SC Global.
Seen from another angle, this could be a breakeven price of sorts for the company should it want to be completely debt-free (not that SC Global will ever sell any of its luxury units at such bargain basement prices, though).
In fact, the company has completely recouped its costs at The Marq with the sale of 40 per cent of the units there. So proceeds from every additional unit sold in the future will go straight to its bottom line.
But all this does not change the depressing macro picture for the property sector here, where there is still significant downside risk to valuations.
Still, as Merrill Lynch noted recently, SC Global has only two property assets that are at risk of impairment in the current downcycle: the Sentosa Beachfront Collection and The Ardmore. But the investment house noted that the average book value of these assets would have to dive by two-thirds, from $2,141 psf ppr to $824 psf ppr, ‘to be of any real threat to SC Global’s survival’ – an outcome which is highly unlikely.
Recent evidence suggests that despite the current slowdown, the luxury segment seems to have held up pretty well, with some 50 new apartments in the over $10 million price range being snapped up this year. This number could double by year-end.
Meanwhile, Fitch Ratings believes that residential receivable transactions have not been impacted by the softening of the local residential market. Fitch – which applies market value decline (MVD) assumptions of between 48 per cent and 58 per cent to the transactions depending on the property location – dismisses the possibility that the current stress scenario will develop into anything similar to that which existed during the Asian financial crisis.
The bottom line? Not all property players are equal. Some, like SC Global, have a premium land bank, cater to a niche market, and have the ability to sit on their land bank for a while. These players will ride out the current turbulence better than others.
Filed under: Developer Launches, Investment, Market Trend, Property News | Tagged: high-end property developer, Hilltops, SC Global, The Ardmore, The Beachfront Collection @ Sentosa, The Marq on Paterson | Leave a comment »
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E07: The Dragon and the Wolf
Character arcs through Season 7
By Greywater-Watch, September 1, 2017 in E07: The Dragon and the Wolf
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I have a look at some character arcs after Season 7. Putting aside teleporting, same gloves for everyone, unrealistic story details (as far as that is possible) and all those other annoying things in the show. I would like to be able to judge if in the respect of character arc development, D&D should be allowed to take the Black, or it should be the Black Cells uner the Red Keep with special treatment by Qyburn.
Some characters have been degraded to statist with a character arc comparable to that of un-dead Gregor Clegane:
Davos, Varys, Thormund, Brienne, Melisandre, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros, Qyburn, Jorah Mormont: Just put in place when needed to say a phrase or two. Not worth discussing.
Some others are so incomprehensible to me that I refuse to try to analyze:
Gendry, Littlefinger, Sandor Clegane, Bran Stark, Samwell Tarly, Daenerys, Jon Snow ("Pomade-Jesus"), Arya.
Cersei
Ruthlessness: Apparently she is supposed to appear even more ruthless than before. Which is hardly convincing, as in the previous seasons she already had attained a level practically impossible to surpass.
Cleverness: Unlike in the books, the show has never shown her lack in strategic and political thinking. She appears more clever now than previously, but mainly because she has weaker siblings to compare with (Jaime until the very end uncapable to imagine how Cersei thinks, Tyrion being utterly stupid now).
Madness: This trait appears clearly in the books (especially through her monologues and thoughts), it has never been a topic in the show. I imagine D&D want to make her appear mad through her ruthlessness, which in my opinion does not work.
Inner conflict: Does Cersei have some "normal" human feelings in her (guilt, empathy etc.)? Maybe her pregnancy is meant to show her human side, but I am not sure D&D want to use it in that way. It seems to be that for a moment, when the discussion between her and Tyrion after the dragonpit council (part 1) seemingly has changed once he tells her he knows she was pregnant. Unfortunately the discussion scene breaks off at exactly that moment. And anyway, if she softened her position due to that, it becomes clear at the end of episode 7 that it was just a ruse (which falls then again in the categorie ruthlessness).
Manipulating: She manipulates Jaime just as she has done in the seasons before. No one else to manipulate, as the whole KL court seems to consist of Jaime.
=> D&D try to show a development, but fail as Cersei does what she has always done. Wearing black all the time makes her look more dangerous, unfortunately everyone wears black now. Her situation as absolute monarch has (no more small council, Kevin Lannister dead, all children dead) gives her solitary power, but that is more the situation which has changed.
Political and governing skills: Awkwardly introduced by her being Lady of Winterfell after Jon's depparture and her trying to Keep the Northern Lords together, recommending on armory and supply incidents (one example given for each). Her repeatedly contradicting Jon in Episode 1 and 2 in front of all Northmen is a clear sign of lack of social and political skills.
Family thinking: Strange relation towards Arya and Bran after their reunion. Uncomprehensible tension and lack of communication between the two sisters, which does not convince me of Sansa being more mature now than in Season 1.
Relation to Littlefinger and Brienne: uncomprehensible to me. She seeks for Littlefinger when seeking advice and she is cold and distant towards Brienne who saved her life. And I do not believe that from the beginning she was scheming the downfall of Littlefinger together with Arya.
Self-Estimation: The most interesting scene for me when she blurts out (after Arya confronted her with the letter that Sansa wrote in Season 1) how regaining Winterfell was all to her credit.
=> Mostly awkward attempt to show Sansa as a mature woman with acquired skills of a grown up noble woman, but on the other hand substantial lack of social skills. I think the very negative shadow her self-estimation in regaining Winterfell casts on her (in my view) is in fact not really intended by D&D. At least I have the Feeling, D&D tried to develop her character, but unfortunately in a very unconvincing way and inconsistently.
Poltical and governing skills: Show Tyrion was never at the superior Level as book Tyrion from Season 4 on. Now in Season 7 he appears incompetent.
Moral Guidelines: Tyrion was never ruthless as Cersei. But his main guideline for Daenerys (break the wheel and be different from all other rulers before) is never explained in Detail. what does it mean? But he sorts out theses phrases whenever he can. Even Pomade-Jesus' moral guidelines are more convincing to me.
Relation to his family/siblings: On the one hand he claims, he did not want to destroy his family, on the other hand what is left are just Jaime and Cersei. He still shows feelings for Jaime, agreed, but for Cersei? Not convincing to me. And with the battle (Red Field 2) he risked Jaime's life.
=> I cannot see a real effort to develop Tyrion's character. D&D just use bits and pieces they believe would fit to him. The sum of it is incoherent and only explainable with Tyrion having lost a lot of his cleverness he had before.
Relation/Loyalty to Cersei: He had enough elements to realize that his view of situations was unalignable to that of Cersei, but he waited until episode 7 to take the consequences and quit her.
=> the most logical character development, only stretching it over 7 episodes was hardly bearable.
As to me, it is the Black Cells.
21 hours ago, Greywater-Watch said:
Hoo
Jaime is conflicting to me. On one hand he supports Cersei. On the other hand he does the opposite very often. I cannot figure out Jamie.
Cersei is most consistent. She has been the prime villain all along. I wish Ramsey was alive to flay her for a few episodes. That would've been a fitting end. Same goes for Meli. Those two deserve it the most..
LF was a great character, very consistent. Worked for the realm, did good things for the Starks, gave good advice. Self made man. But had no alliances, did not have a name.
I agree to some extent, but what I see D&D are going for with the Lannister siblings is a new form of the Mad King storyline with elements of Tywin thrown in.
Jaime is conflicted about Cersei because he can see she is slowly turning into the mad king (queen).
His whole adult life he's been spat upon for killing the mad king, even though his decision to kill him saved thousands of lives and helped end a war. That's the reason why he's so bitter at the start of the series.
This time around he's headed towards facing the same decision (a realisation he's been struggling with all season) but he's trying hard to choose to stick with Cersei instead (which by Westerosi "rules" is the honourable thing, otherwise you're abandoning your family).
Cersie is headed towards becoming the mad king (queen) but she has too much Tywin in her. Tyrion can anticipate the Tywin aspects of her (which he does by correctly assuming she'll turn the lords against Dany for using Dothraki and Unsullied) however he can't anticipate the mad king parts of her reasoning - the move to abandon Casterly Rock is something that Tywin would NEVER let happen, which is why it doesn't cross Tyrions mind.
I imagine with Jaime gone, Cersei might turn slightly paranoid next season as her whole family are her enemies now.
I agree that the Sansa/Littlefinger plot line was handled very awkwardly during the last few episodes however.
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A history of problems, crises, missteps and growing pains
From The Japan Times archives, taking stock of the bj-league's first nine seasons with a series of articles and columns that chronicle major problems.
Commentary - Player protection rule has negative impact on bj-league
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2010/09/05/basketball/bj-league/player-protection-rule-has-negative-impact-on-bj-league/#.VCqF3ldbvSg
News - Rizing Fukuoka president suspected of embezzlement
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2014/04/15/basketball/bj-league/rizing-fukuoka-president-suspected-of-embezzlement/#.U3SOXHZbvSg
News - Agent rips Evessa after they pay off Cox over lawsuit threat
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/11/03/basketball/bj-league/agent-rips-evessa-after-they-pay-off-cox-over-lawsuit-threat/
Commentary - Murray rips Rawl for reneging on offer to coach Oita
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2009/09/23/basketball/bj-league/murray-rips-rawl-for-reneging-on-offer-to-coach-oita/#.VCqHTldbvSg
News - Oita fires coach Hepp after American players leave
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2011/03/20/sports/oita-fires-coach-hepp-after-american-players-leave/#.U3SQcHZbvSg
News- Oita's money problems examined in a series of stories
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/11/30/basketball/bj-league/oita-defaults-on-player-salaries-asks-league-to-intervene/#.U3SP2XZbvSg
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/12/01/basketball/bj-league/shame-game-in-oita-players-rip-team-allege-fraud/#.U3SQLXZbvSg
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/12/02/basketball/players-give-ultimatum-to-oita-plan-appeal-to-fiba/#.U3SQBXZbvSg
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/12/05/basketball/ex-mvp-white-blasts-bj-league-plans-to-sue-oita/#.U3SPZXZbvSg
News - Gunma's Keller alleges pattern of malfeasance by Miyazaki
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2013/03/01/basketball/bj-league/gunmas-keller-alleges-pattern-of-malfeasance-by-miyazaki/#.U3SNgHZbvSg
Column - two-part expose on Tokyo Apache's refusal to provide money for Dameion Baker's medical needs after he suffered an injury in the championship game. He didn't have medical insurance at the time.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2009/06/21/basketball/bj-league/injured-baker-in-limbo-over-cash-dispute-with-apache/#.VCqIuVdbvSg
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2009/06/22/basketball/bj-league/unions-give-athletes-solidarity-provide-more-protection/
News - League icon Lynn Washington's arrest on drug charges, all of which were dropped, his release from police custody, his forced retirement and related stories. Follow the timeline - stories presented chronologically.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/03/14/basketball/bj-league/evessas-washington-arrested-in-drug-case/#.VCutT2d_uh0
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/03/16/basketball/bj-league/league-to-test-all-players-for-drugs-after-washington-arrest/#.VCusTWd_uh0
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/03/17/basketball/bj-league/drug-use-rampant-in-bj-league-claims-saitamas-flowers/#.VCus92d_uh0
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/03/21/basketball/bj-league/washington-to-fight-charges-in-drug-case/#.VCusFWd_uh0
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/04/01/basketball/bj-league/evessas-washington-exonerated-by-police-in-drug-case/#.VCuqHmd_uh0
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/04/07/basketball/bj-league/washington-in-limbo-week-after-exoneration/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/04/11/basketball/bj-league/evessa-claim-star-washington-has-decided-to-retire/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/05/26/basketball/bj-league/ex-evessa-stars-spouse-released-from-custody/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/09/29/basketball/bj-league/former-evessa-star-washington-claims-he-is-blackballed-despite-exoneration/#.VCuuqmd_uh0
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2012/11/18/basketball/bj-league/story-behind-drug-scandal-that-rocked-bj-league-to-core/
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Performance Picks: Queer Anniversary, Modern Dance, This Alien Nation
May 9, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
(art by Payton Turner, image via This Alien Nation / Facebook)
This Alien Nation
Wednesday, May 9 at Joe’s Pub, 7 pm: $20 advance, $25 doors
It would take a lot of willful ignorance not to see that living as an immigrant in Trump’s America (or even in Obama’s) can be an experience fraught with anxiety, fear, and a sense of disappointment in a large portion of humanity. But for all the cruel, discriminatory people out there, there are others who make a point of giving immigrants a platform to tell their own stories and maybe even get paid for it. Sofija Stefanovic’s This Alien Nation is one such show, providing a monthly space for some of their “favorite outsiders” to show an audience whatever it is they do best. This month, guest hosted by Abeer Hoque, features storyteller Mansoor Basha, poet and drag performer Wo Chan, comedian Ana Fabrega, journalist and author Aatish Taseer, performer and filmmaker Angel Yau, and musician Amalia Watty. More →
Tags: Bizarre Bushwick, Bushwick, dance, drag, East Village, Greenpoint, joe's pub, new york live arts, performance art, queer performance, real estate fine art
Circus of Dreams Ends Its Five-Year Run, and More Performance Picks
December 6, 2017 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
(image via Circus of Dreams / Facebook, photos by Nick McManus)
Circus of Dreams
Wednesday, December 6 at Bizarre Bushwick, 9 pm: $10 suggested donation
This performance art variety show, originally hosted by bearded street performer Matthew Silver, was one of the first shows in New York I saw that wasn’t a formal “theater” show, and it truly bewildered and impressed me. It was strange, daring, messy, stressful, loud, rule-breaking, sometimes all of those things, sometimes none of them. It made me realize that there was this whole community of performance I didn’t know about or thought wasn’t around anymore, and I found myself involved in the show first as friend of performers, then recurring door worker, then occasional performer. Since then, the host and producer has changed to show regular Lindsee Lonesome but the spirit has stayed the same. Tonight, after five years, Circus of Dreams will happen for the final time, and it truly feels like the end of an era. So, if you’re free, pop by Bizarre to see some of the show’s veterans and newbies alike take that scrappy stage for the last time. I’ll be at the door. More →
Tags: abrons arts center, Bizarre Bushwick, Bushwick, east williamsburg, Julie orlick, Legion bar, Lower East Side, new york live arts, trans-pecos
Best Chairs in Comedy, Annoyance’s Last Night, and More Performance Picks
March 29, 2017 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
(flyer via The Annoyance)
Holy Fuck Comedy Hour
Wednesday, March 29 at The Annoyance Theater, 10:30 pm: FREE
As we’ve told you previously and with heavy hearts, strange n’ mighty little basement comedy theater The Annoyance is closing at the end of the month. More specifically, it’s the theater’s last night of shows tonight. What better way to send it off than by attending one of the shows The Annoyance is most lauded for, the late-night extravaganza that is the Holy Fuck Comedy Hour. The show assembles a strong assortment of comedians from different pockets of the NYC scene and asks them to write characters, scenes, songs, and more in only one week and then perform their creations with no rehearsal. And if you’re looking for even more chuckles, there will be three different improv shows happening earlier in the evening.
Tags: Bread Arts Collective, Bushwick, Cloud City, comedy, dance, new york live arts, Starr Bar, the annoyance, The Unicorn, variety show, Williamsburg, Yackez
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This Hip-Hop Dance Production Involves a Mascot, Wrestling, and a Senior Aerobics Class
(photo: Maria Baranova)
It could take something as simple as a step-touch to unite the generations. At least that’s the impression you might get in a room with the company of experimental hip-hop and dance group Yackez. Most contemporary dance projects are rife with young and lithe bodies, but the cast of the latest and largest Yackez production, Give It To You Stage, ranges from ages 25 to 87. More →
Tags: aerobics, Ashley RT Yergens, Claire Fleury, dance, Hip-Hop, Jon Velez-Jackson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, mascot, new york live arts, performance, queer art, senior citizens, theater, tyler ashley, Yackez
A Talking Astor Place Cube, Queer Vloggers, and More Performance Picks
January 11, 2017 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
(flyer via Wild Project)
F*@#d in the East Village
January 11-17 at The Wild Project, 7:30 pm: $20, $16 students/seniors.
The East Village isn’t what it used to be, I think we all know that. Samantha Fontana and Roger Manix especially do, so much that they’ve crafted a comedic play all about it. F*@#d in the East Village is one of those plays where two people play many characters, but in this case the show begins with only two people: a “recently dumped high school senior” who meets “her twentysomething gay man self in 2005.” Now that that pattern of logic has been established, the audience will go on a journey back in time to the East Village of the past, only it’s a little weirder and more surreal. Not in the sense of there being more avant-garde art spaces, but like, in the sense that the Astor Place Cube is granted the ability to speak. You know, just average stuff like that. Fontana is a born-and-bred East Villager, so this isn’t a mediation on “old New York” by people whose first interactions with the city included Duane Reades and Starbucks on every corner already.
Tags: comedy, dance, East Village, new york live arts, Pioneers Go east Collective, the annoyance theater, the exponential festival, the wild project, theater, triskelion arts
Performance Picks: Experimental Fest, Macaulay Prom, Wormhole Party, and More
April 20, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
(image by Federico Ausbury)
Wednesdays With A “W”: Wormholes
At The City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg. 7pm. $7. More info here.
This is the second iteration of a monthly “art party,” sporting a whimsical theme and featuring a slew of performances from artists of all disciplines, including live painting, interactive performance art, a human canvas, a bug petting zoo, and an alien experiment. Naturally eschewing any average theme for an event, this evening is themed for wormholes. You heard that right. Whether it be actual worms digging holes or folks traveling through space and time or something else entirely, expect excitement and unusual sights at every turn.
Tags: big green theater, Bushwick, chelsea, city reliquary, half straddle, new york live arts, non grata, shea stadium, superhero clubhouse, the bushwick starr, the macaulay culkin show, The Paper Box, Wild Torus, Williamsburg
4 Performances Not to Miss This Weekend
February 19, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves
(photo: Patrick Moore)
Continues through February 20 at New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street, Chelsea. 7:30pm; Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here.
Acclaimed dance artist Valda Setterfeld, sporting a shock of white hair, crafts her own version of Shakespeare’s Lear in collaboration with Irish choreographer John Scott. Interestingly, Setterfeld herself plays Lear while the King’s daughters are played by three men. Don’t expect this to be an evening of period dress and Classical language. Setterfeld may be the right age to play Lear, but this unique and movement-driven creation seems anything but typical.
Tags: baby's a, baby's all right, Beyond, Bushwick, chelsea, comedy, dance, here arts center, new york live arts, Panoply Performance Laboratory, performance art, performancy forum, PowrPlnt, the foundry theater, theater, three busy debras, tribeca, Williamsburg
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England vs. India: 4th Test, Day 4 – Victory
Sep 2, 2018 dannycricket
England confirmed victory in this Test and series, and through the day it rarely seemed in doubt. A good day then for the English bowlers, although not entirely without incident.
The day didn’t get off to a great start for the hosts, with Broad edging a wide ball to the keeper. Curran and Anderson eked out a few more overs before Curran was run out by Ishant Sharma. This was England’s second run out of the innings, and may point to something that needs sorting out of the training ground before the next Test. That wicket ended the innings, leaving India with 245 to chase.
That target didn’t sound impossible to reach for the visitors, but a terrible start soon put them on the back foot. Rahul, Pujara and Dhawan fell in quick succession to Broad and Anderson’s opening overs, with swing and variable bounce causing significant issues for the batsmen. Rahul’s wicket was particularly unfortunate. KL Rahul is the only Indian batsman to average less than England two openers and, as is common for players in that kind of form, he got a genuinely unplayable ball which shot low and quickly towards the stumps.
Not long after, Kohli survived a close LBW shout and the following DRS appeal. Whilst Hawkeye clearly showed the ball hitting the pad in line with the stumps and predicting that it would hit the wicket with the full ball, the controversial decision by the third umpire was that the ball hit the bat on its way through. The pictures clearly showed that Kohli’s bat had hit his pad at the same point the ball was close to the edge, but the official seemed to ignore this whilst making his deliberations. Had India managed to claw their way to victory, this would no doubt have been the main talking point for the game.
Kohli and Rahane managed to weather the initial storm through to Lunch, and not long after Root brought Ali and Rashid into the attack. Continuing his great form from the first innings, it was Moeen who looked the most threatening of the two. Bowling offspinners into the footholes left by Ishant Sharma outside the right-handed batsman’s off stump, Moeen was getting balls to shoot up and cause lots of problems for Kohli and Rahane. It was one such delivery which did for the Indian captain just before the Tea break, when he was found to have gloved a delivery to short leg, despite a forlorn DRS appeal. That left India still needing 122 runs, with their somewhat weak tail to come.
Pant was clearly at the crease for a good time rather than a long time, choosing to go for boundaries rather than the safer singles. Perhaps it was the right decision, with variable bounce meaning that an unplayable ball could come at any moment, but it didn’t work and he holed out to deep cover. Rahane, India’s last remaining batsman, didn’t hang around much longer either as he was adjudged LBW off Moeen’s bowling despite a vanity DRS appeal.
The reason I mention the failed DRS appeals by Kohli and Rahane is that they could have ended up being vital. England’s bowlers rounded up the last three wickets fairly cheaply, but two of those wickets were LBWs which would have been overturned had India not wasted their reviews earlier in the innings. It is massively unlikely that Ashwin, Sharma, Shami and Bumrah could have combined to score 90 runs in such bowler-friendly conditions, but you never know in cricket.
And so England ended up winning the game, and the series, quite convincingly. Amazingly so really, considering the performance of many players. England’s top 5 have scored 94 less runs than the bottom six in this series, with a collective batting average over 5 runs lower. England’s top order has been shockingly bad.
Indian fans might also point to the fact that Kohli lost all four tosses, meaning that India typically had to bat and bowl in the more difficult conditions. The visitors certainly seemed to have improved significantly from their tour four years ago, to the point that they were genuinely in with a chance of winning the series.
Which brings us to the next Test, starting on Friday. With little pressure on the England team with the series in the bag, it will be curious to see which direction they go in with their selection. They could see it as an ideal opportunity to blood some replacements for an underperforming opener or two before the winter tours, rest the two senior bowlers from a dead rubber, or mess around some more with the batting order. On the other hand, they could take the entirely reasonable view that they shouldn’t change a winning team, although that didn’t work out so well for India in the end.
Either way, India have perhaps surprised a lot of people with how well they have performed. Kohli laid to rest the idea that he wasn’t the world’s number one batsman because he couldn’t play the swinging ball, whilst India’s fast bowlers showed a great aptitude at bowling the swinging ball. I certainly wouldn’t bet against them winning the final game at the Oval.
As always, please comment below.
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56 thoughts on “England vs. India: 4th Test, Day 4 – Victory”
Gareth Sep 2, 2018 / 5:46 pm
With regards to team selection for the next match, I agree that it’s a chance to give the senior bowlers a rest, however with Anderson only a few wickets away from the all-time record, and Broad being a lovable mard, I doubt either of them would allow it. Shame, as I’d like to see how Woakes and Curran bowl with a new ball.
I’d assume Rashid will be dropped (although I think the Oval would suit him), and that England will give Jennings yet another go to prove how hapless he is. I wonder if they may persist with the Moeen at three experiment and also play Stokes as a specialist batsman.
dannycricket Sep 2, 2018 / 5:51 pm
If Stokes is fit enough to be a full-time bowler again, you could conceivably bring in an opener for Rashid. Rashid probably is the most vulnerable player, although I’d pick him over Moeen for Sri Lanka which might protect him somewhat. Also, Rashid still averages more than Cook in this series…
northernlight71 Sep 2, 2018 / 6:51 pm
How can anyone quibble now? England are clearly the best cricket team on the planet and everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Bow down and genuflect, mortals. The Age of Root has come.
growltiger Sep 2, 2018 / 6:53 pm
Provided the weather holds, I would play both spinners although, not having much faith on Rashid, I fear it may not prove anything. I would change both openers, bringing in Burns and a right handed opener of Smith’s choice (almost any, with some sort of form). I would also seriously consider dropping Bairstow for Pope, as Bairstow seems to have forgotten how to play a straight ball. The quicker bowlers don’t need resting, rotation or change.
Rooto Sep 2, 2018 / 7:25 pm
I, too, would keep Rashid, dropping… er, sorry, I mean ‘resting’ Broad to give Woakes a go. I’d give Anderson the chance to break the seamers’ wickets record in a home test. Weather might intervene, though, seeing as it’s September.
Meanwhile, I have to say that TMS scraped new lows at the end of the match today, when #39 came on and, literally on behalf of Rod Bransgrove, pleaded for more tests at the Toilet Bowl. It would appear purely because England have won a couple and Rod bent his ear. Great analysis, Simon!
They’d have to forgo the £2.5m that Glamorgan have already been paid though. Between Tests and cash, I’m pretty sure I know which Bransgrove would pick.
jomesy Sep 2, 2018 / 7:51 pm
Did you hear No39 at the start of the day?
It included:
– it’s never been harder to open than now
– that’s because of:
– i) better opening bowlers around the world (I kid you not); and
– ii) the Duke ball (when challenged that it’s not a new ball he qualified and said the Duke ball in England now and that, together with the lush green outfields make it *so* hard.
He made then made this conclusion empirically evidence-based by saying Cook averaged over 50 in the 1st six years of his test career and only 39 in his last six years.
I’m seeing the GP tomorrow for damage to the cornea caused by the hardened cutaneous plate overlying the dorsal surface of my digits. (Eye scratching but I wanted to appear all Ed Smith….and yes, that’s pasted from Wiki).
nonoxcol Sep 2, 2018 / 7:57 pm
At least Selvey is quite bright. Hughes is just…… I don’t know where to start with that kind of tripe. Cook’s decline is due to better opening bowlers. Of course it is. Absolutely astonishing.
LordCanisLupus Sep 2, 2018 / 8:15 pm
Not overly convinced by the first statement.
Cook’s decline is due to better opening bowlers. Oh do stop it Aggers!
Also a note to say that Cook’s career average is now down to 44.88, a precipitous drop and now 2.39 below a man who was dumped for being over the hill in a team that needed fresh blood and to develop youngsters.
Good job there is not a Gary Ballance-like opener just waiting for a chance!
Did you know that Cook now averages 43.49 in tests in England. Ian Bell averaged 47.84. Get that man’s eyesight checked! (KP averaged over 50 in the so-called toughest batting conditions in the world, although the opening bowling is so much better now).
Yeah but he was a trapeze artist, given licence to perform by the safety net of Strauss, Cook and Trott.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/dec/20/ashes-kevin-pietersen-england-australia
Obviously hadn’t fallen out with Flower totally at that time given the very conciliatory tone of the report.
Lord give me fucking strength.
I have no words. No anger left to give.
No. I must. How is he stealing a living with the moniker “The Analyst” with that bollocks. Glen McGrath would have the modern day test player on absolute toast. Yet he’s not as good as Mitchell Starc? Wasim Akram isn’t in Mohammed Abbas’s league, and nor is Waqar. Rabada and Steyn, really good. Except Steyn has been a shadow of himself for four years. And yes, it’s easy to confuse Kemar Roach with Malcolm Marshall and his fellow pacemen.
Thief.
Mark Sep 2, 2018 / 9:23 pm
My take is that 39 in a crack handed way, and without intendending to has just confirmed that England are now doctoring the pitches. Unlike they were ten years ago when Cook started his career. The Duke ball is the same, so the pitches have changed.
Ever since the winter that must never be talked about in 2014 England have created a model of seamer friendly pitches where 350 is a big score. This allows their hit and miss all rounders to play a sort of 20/20 Test match. It’s a new form of the game where most matches are done and dusted in between 3 to 4 days. Batsman just blast away all the way down the order knowing they will never have to build a 450 score.
Occasionally they have come unstuck, but they have the players over the series to get the better out of the opposition. Of course this model is completely useless when they go overseas. But nobody cares about away test matches anymore so why bother?
I think batting at 3 is harder now than before, due to the plethora of crappy openers. Particularly for England.
d'Arthez Sep 3, 2018 / 5:32 am
If opening is so hard in England, how come visiting openers regularly outperform the English openers, when they are facing Anderson, Broad and co.? Never mind that Anderson and Broad are supposedly more used to bowling in English conditions, than their international counterparts, be they Ishant Sharma and Bumrah, Hazelwood and Starc, Roach and Gabriel etc.?
And that has basically happened for the last four years now.
It is probably more accurate to say, that English opening has never been as crap in the history of the game. Statistically probably slightly superior to the era 1880-1914, but the quality of the wickets in that era was not exactly high compared to nowadays.
Dream team:
Vince (oh yes)
Woakes
Curran
Dunno about Mitchell, but I’d be happy with Vinc-eh
Mitchell is, like Burns, a player who has produced decent runs for a few years, but is also (like Hildreth) a bit old for a debut in new, exciting England. Nevertheless, I hope he’d be in form and experienced enough to not be overawed, and be a stop-gap while Burns settles in for the longer term. But, it’s just a dream.
Back in reality, will Cook get the winter tour-saving flat deck he has publicly hoped for? Good to see he has realised his current limitations, and know that he needs another MCG dead track.
Newman with some curious stuff…
“Root’s decision to move to four mid-match was bizarre and self-centred and left Moeen on a hiding to nothing after being thrust in at three while there must be concerns over the frame of mind of Jonny Bairstow.
England knew they were juggling a hot potato when they used the excuse of a fractured finger to take the gloves off Bairstow here and they must feel now that his batting and mood were seriously affected by the decision.
Either England will have to dangle a carrot to Bairstow by convincing him it really is in his and the team’s best interests for him to remain in the top order at the Oval and beyond or apply the stick and tell him to simply get on with it.”
This Bairstow thing has come from somewhere. If he has a finger injury he should not play as a keeper (and arguably not as a batsman). If there is some implication that this is a permanent move, then Bairstow rightly should have the hump, because his place will then come under threat. Are they saying he should bat 3, and that Moeen shouldn’t?
They have their favourites, and Josh is the new blue eyed boy. Possible future captain. His batting style is prone to misfiring so giving him the gloves will guarantee a place in the team. That was Bairstows insurance but it seems they want to give it to Butler instead.
England have certain players who must sacrifice….Ali, Curren, Woakes, Bairstow, Rashid, and others who must be indulged, and protected. It’s a very odd dressing room. If the results were to go wrong you could see a mutiny.
Sophie Sep 2, 2018 / 9:58 pm
I think the media types have decided amongst themselves that Bairstow should bat up the order and not keep with the help of selective statistics, and so it’s completely clear to them that this is the ideal time to do this, and they’ve been badgering Bayliss and Root about it who haven’t given clear answers and also Bairstow, who has and is getting shit for it now, but I have no idea what the England camp’s actual opinion on this whole thing is, because you can read anything you like into what Root and Bayliss said.
LordCanisLupus Sep 3, 2018 / 8:00 am
Leach for Rashid at Oval btw.
— mike selvey (@selvecricket) September 3, 2018
He never lets up.
Mark Sep 3, 2018 / 8:52 am
As I said before if Selvey does’t have the courage to name names, and tell us why Rashid’s card has been marked” he is nothing more than a demented troll howling at the moon.
dannycricket Sep 3, 2018 / 8:54 am
With Rashid, the way I see it is that he’s possibly the first bowler on the team sheet for Sri Lanka, which is the next tour. I don’t see the value in dropping him for one game, a dead rubber, with the possible damage to his confidence. More to the point, with the next game being a dead rubber I’d definitely drop any players who currently have injuries. Why risk Bairstow and Stokes’s long term health (or anyone else’s)?
And Cook. I’d definitely drop Cook.
They don’t want Rashid dropped on just cricket reasons alone. He’s not “one of them.” Namely the clique that runs and reports on English cricket. He doesn’t bow and scrape enough. They wanted him dropped after he was the leading wicket taker in India. Funny they haven’t got the guts to say what the real reason is.
It shows why the model is so rigged in England that two spinners are not required on home “green seamer” turf. Laker & Locke……Edmonds & Embury would find no favour in the current England set up.
As to the Oval, anyone with any injury should be dropped. Certainly Bairstow, if his finger hasn’t recovered. But England know they can win without their top five batsman scoring any runs.
thelegglance Sep 3, 2018 / 9:32 am
Emburey twice went on rebel tours to South Africa and got away with it. He’s currently employed by the ECB.
Just as well he didn’t look out the window or whistle…
Mark Sep 3, 2018 / 10:21 am
What I meant was that England wouldn’t play two spinners of their quality in the current set up. They just would not be needed at home.
I wasn’t commenting in any way about whether individual faces fit, and as you say Emburey does fit in with the ECB.
Stats for spinners away from home over the last decade make interesting reading:
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?bowling_pacespin=2;class=1;filter=advanced;home_or_away=2;home_or_away=3;orderby=wickets;spanmax1=03+Sep+2018;spanmin1=03+Sep+2008;spanval1=span;team=1;template=results;type=bowling
You have Graeme Swann, and then you have everyone else. Of those, Rashid has the best strike rate, and one of the best averages. I keep banging on about this with regards to Moeen, but the idea that if they pick Leach, or Crane, or basically anyone else that things are going to magically be better is pie in the sky optimism. Doesn’t mean you don’t try these things, but it does mean that the likelihood is that someone will get tried, found wanting, dropped and round we go again.
There needs to be some serious recognition of our limitations in terms of spin and cutting of cloth accordingly. To some extent the same applies with Moeen. That record isn’t brilliant to say the least, but what is a good record? Average of 40? OK, well…doesn’t win Tests does it?
Panesar got loads of stick for not being good enough. So did Giles. Apart from Swann who in modern history is looking like a freak as far as England are concerned, they’ve been the best we’ve had. Along with Rashid.
oreston Sep 2, 2018 / 10:12 pm
Moeen was brought into the team for this match ostensibly to replace Pope, a top order batsman. Yet instead of slotting into the top six he batted at 7 in the first innings. The captain used him throughout the match as England’s main spinner – in the process marginalising Adil Rashid, a specialist bowler, who had been brought back into the team only a couple of games ago as… England’s main spinner. Then Root decides to put his foot and insist on batting at 4, necessitating a batting line up reshuffle for the second innings and promoting Moeen to number 3.
The whole thing smacks of a blatant attempt by Root (and perhaps other senior figures) to get Adil Rashid dropped again and hints at a behind the scenes conflict between the selectors on the one hand and the coach and captain on the other. It also suggests real panic about the performance of the top order – only exacerbated by the Bairstow situation.
To be clear, I’m not blaming Moeen for any of this. He only did what was asked of him and did it well. (OK some runs batting at number 3 would’ve been nice, but you can’t have everything. Not his fault that the openers don’t stick around long enough to see off the new ball.) I can’t help thinking there may be adverse long term consequences though if Root gets his way (or at least what I assume is his way, based on the evidence of this match) and Moeen returns long term to his role as front line spinner. How’s that going to work out in Sri Lanka? His overseas record is poor and England could find themselves back at square one.
LordCanisLupus Sep 3, 2018 / 10:25 am
I have absolutely no idea why every one of your comments goes to our spam folder. It baffles me. It’s not even pre-mod, it’s spam. There are no pre-mod words (we have a few) and there aren’t multiple links. I will keep un-spamming them, but it might be an idea to try a different e-mail. It has happened to others occasionally, but nothing like this.
Please do keep commenting, though.
oreston Sep 3, 2018 / 11:35 am
Thank you, Sir. The spam folder thing has occurred before but, as you say, never on the scale of recent days – so I trust you can see why I wondered if there was something else going on? I shall try using a different email address as you suggest.
Ok. You were pre-modded, rather than spam this time around, which is understandable as there is a new e-mail link. If the next one goes straight on the blog we’ve cracked it!
…and after that my reply is marked with “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Seriously, guys…
OK… Looks like that one appeared straight away. Charges dropped 🙂
And this one went straight on without any moderation.
It might have worked.
dlpthomas Sep 3, 2018 / 2:10 am
On a different topic, from Cricinfo: http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24553363/culture-review-findings-sealed-ca-director-mark-taylor
“An independent review, set to deliver plenty of harsh truths to Cricket Australia, may yet be closed off from public view, even as the director Mark Taylor admitted that the organisation needed to make substantial changes to win back public trust and prevent the game from stagnating.”
Is any-one really surprised?
Gideon Haigh has a book coming out soon about the ball tampering saga and cultural problems at Cricket Australia. It should be worth a read.
Ah yes, public scrutiny without publicly sharing what is supposed to be scrutinised. Straight from the “trust us” playbook. That always works so well, especially when you want to cover up the extent of the rot.
I’m not so sure Australians will stand for it being kept from public view. Cricket still matters to public and media over there. But it is worth CA trying it just for the enjoyable shitstorm that will follow.
Whilst there won’t even be a ripple of public interest when the independent review into the ECB’s £2.5m Glamorgan payment does or doesn’t come out. There really are some advantages in driving the sport you run into the ground.
The ACB seem to have chosen the ECB model as the preferred way to operate.
The big three of doom…….
India…… number one Test team…….(stop sniggering at the back) Discuss?
There is no stand out side in modern day Test cricket. Just home town Charlie’s.
Big news incoming?
At 12 o’clock I am expecting a major announcement from @ECB_cricket. I will report it at midday on @bbc5live
— Jonathan Agnew (@Aggerscricket) September 3, 2018
Got to be Cook I guess.
nonoxcol Sep 3, 2018 / 10:04 am
I can’t wait. I hope your servers are strong enough to cope if so.
(too much to hope that the Hundred has been abandoned, Tom Harrison is sodding off or Tests are going FTA, I guess)
mdpayne87 Sep 3, 2018 / 10:05 am
All those messages congratulating him on a stellar career, I’m sure!
I think this might be a busy day.
rpoultz Sep 3, 2018 / 10:09 am
If it is then it will be the only thing he has timed right all summer
thebogfather Sep 3, 2018 / 10:43 am
I did have word in his ear yesterday…why else would I go to The Ageas Bowl at my own expense?
mdpayne87 Sep 3, 2018 / 9:57 am
Cook or Bayliss going, I reckon.
Is it the setting up of the Home Defence volunteers? Dads Army?
Or…..
I speak to you now from the cabinet room. If we haven’t heard back from Germany by 12.00 this country will be at war with Germany. I have to tell you now that no such word has been received, and this country is now at war with Germany.
How frigging pompous are the ECB?
Further to a discussion that began under the previous say’s post, re how great a series this has been:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/03/england-india-rose-bowl-thriller-test-cricket-authorities-promotion
“For all their flaws, these two teams have produced a brilliantly entertaining series, one that deserved to be played in front of full houses every day and one that, if the two boards tried a little harder, could and should have captivated the country.”
For my part, the reaction strikes me as OTT. There have been slim pickings in England since 2005, which may explain this. The best long series were Pakistan 2016 and the 2009 Ashes; SA 2008 would have been better if Edgbaston was the decider. The NZ series of 2015 was cracking but over too soon.
Then I look at the 13 years *before* 2005, and we had:
a 2-2 v WI
the 1998 SA series with a 2-1 comeback and 9-wickets-down draw
the Wisden Trophy 2000, which was still alive in the final Test and had one magnificent match and low-scoring thrills throughout
the SA series of 2003 (my personal favourite pre-2005)
I think we were better served.
In conclusion, a starving man will eat anything and declare it delicious.
man in a barrel Sep 3, 2018 / 10:28 am
I didn’t see any of the 4th day but was the pitch playing differently? On day 3 it looked pretty dead and Ashwin was not getting much from it. And then Moeen bowls like a king of spin, Broad and Anderson seem to have seamed it all over the place. Had the pitch broken up?
Expecting this Aggers revelation to be a directive from the ECB once they’d realised I’d promised a ‘customer experience’ post here for tomorrow #FakeNews
northernlight71 Sep 3, 2018 / 11:00 am
Apres nous, le deluge . . .
Glenn on Harder Than You Think, It…
thelegglance on Harder Than You Think, It…
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Major Uber investor tells Benchmark: Drop your lawsuit against ex-CEO Kalanick
VC: Benchmark Capital "is trying to use the courts... to take over this company."
Joe Mullin - Aug 25, 2017 8:10 pm UTC
Enlarge / Shervin Pishevar speaking at the 2016 TechCrunch conference in San Francisco. Pishevar wrote a letter to Uber's board urging Benchmark Capital to drop its lawsuit against ex-CEO Travis Kalanick.
Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Uber's ex-CEO Travis Kalanick is under fire, but he's hardly out of supporters.
Kalanick, who resigned in June under pressure, got sued earlier this month by Benchmark Capital. Benchmark, a VC firm that is a major investor in Uber, accused Kalanick of "gross mismanagement and misconduct" and withholding material information. Lawyers for Benchmark are seeking to block Kalanick from filling the two vacant board seats he still controls.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns after pressure from investors
Uber investors are far from united in that view, however. That became clearer than ever yesterday, when another major Uber investor, Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Capital, sent a letter to the Uber board of directors that was sharply critical of Benchmark's move. The letter was reported by Reuters and published in full by TechCrunch.
Pishevar isn't just venting to the board—he has also filed a motion to intervene (PDF) in the court case against Kalanick, and he accuses Benchmark of using "dirty tactics and strong arming" to push out the former CEO. The motion points out that Benchmark's $27 million investment in Uber has ballooned to be worth $8.4 billion, but "greedily, Benchmark wanted more." Pishevar's lawyers continue the narrative:
Without notice to the Board, in June of this year, just days after Kalanick’s mother was killed in a tragic boating accident, which also critically injured his father, Benchmark capitalized on grieving Kalanick’s vulnerability by ambushing him alone at a hotel room in Chicago and demanding that he resign as CEO and agree to restrictions on his Board seats. Benchmark threatened that if he did not, Benchmark (and other investors whom Benchmark enlisted in its efforts) would begin a public campaign against him, the obvious effect of which would be not only to smear his reputation, but to harm the Company that he founded and built.
"If Benchmark insists on trying to use the courts to try to take over this company, we are committed to doing everything we can to try to stop this abuse,” Pishevar wrote in his letter to the board.
He also accused Benchmark of violating its fiduciary duty, because it would "talk to others inappropriately." Pishevar said he has "tried in every way possible to convince my friends at Benchmark to drop this lawsuit, to end their public campaign against the founder and the company, and to divest their shares under a proposal which would reward them hugely for their investment."
Pishevar's motion to intervene was filed yesterday in Delaware's Chancery Court, where the Benchmark case is being litigated.
Joe Mullin Joe has covered the intersection of law and technology, including the world's biggest copyright and patent battles, since 2007.
Email joe.mullin@arstechnica.com // Twitter @joemullin
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FILED UNDER:antennas
Posted By: Jake Buckler July 5, 2019
As the recognized online TV antenna experts, we get a lot of questions about these devices. It comes with the territory. Most of what we get is fairly basic stuff but every once in a while, we get questions that are a bit… creative. (I won’t say “crazy” because my grandma always used to say that there’s no such thing as a bad question.) So yeah, creative questions… we get them every now and again, and we don’t mind answering them. Here are 10 recent examples of these types of questions and our answers to them:
Q: Will a TV antenna work in an attic?
We get this a lot, especially from people with homeowners associations that have limits as to what can be mounted on the roof. Short answer: Yes it will work, but not without its limitations. When you mount an antenna in the attic, you’ll lose at least half of the signal. This is because the metals and other building materials will block or reflect it. If this is your only option, get an antenna that exceeds your distance to the transmitters by at least 20 miles. This might help you get the reception you’re looking for.
Q: Will a TV antenna work in attic with a radiant barrier?
A radiant barrier is highly reflective aluminum that blocks the transfer of heat by reflecting it away from its surface. If you have this in your attic, you can pretty much kiss attic mounting goodbye. Metals and many other building materials – stucco grid, insulated windows, and siding – block TV reception. If you’re going to go the attic antenna route, you should point it through some place without the radiant barrier. The catch is that the gap has to be placed in the same direction as the TV transmitters. What are the odds of that?
Q: Will a TV antenna work in attic if your house has a metal roof?
A: Probably not. Like we said above, metal has a nasty habit of blocking TV signals. If you put a TV antenna inside a box then surround that box with metal, you essentially have a Farraday cage. (That’s any structure designed to block electromagnetic fields.) So, you can mount your antenna in the attic, but your metal roof will block most or all of the TV signals you’re trying to receive. Fortunately, you have other antenna mounting options.
Q: Will a TV antenna work inside a metal building?
A: Again with the metal? Okay, let’s try this again. Metal blocks TV signals. If you have a metal building and try to mount a TV antenna inside of it, you probably won’t get as many channels as you would if you put the antenna on the roof. If you can’t do that, don’t worry. There are other options to get the channels you want.
Q: Will a TV antenna work for cell phone signal?
A: Technically, it can. Back in the day, an NTSC-tuned TV set with an antenna could pick up AMPS cell phone conversations in the 850MHz band. (At least in the US.) Today, digital cellular companies encrypt data for security and privacy reasons. You might be able to decrypt some GSM signals with some software-defined radio (SDR) programs, but that would probably be illegal. If cell phone reception is a problem, it’s a lot easier to get a cell phone booster for your home or vehicle. These devices come with antennas that receive, boost, and send cellular signals.
Q: Will a TV antenna work with a cell booster?
A: Maybe, but first, you have to make sure the antenna’s frequencies match the frequencies used by your provider’s tower. Then you have to figure out a way to decrypt the encoded cellular signal. (It’s still illegal though.) If you manage to do all that, you still have to rewire your TV antenna so it’s compatible with the cell phone booster’s wiring. That seems like a lot of trouble to go through when you can just use the indoor and outdoor antennas that come with your cell phone booster.
Q: Will an older TV antenna work in HD?
A: Yes, it will. That’s because HDTV signals are broadcast on the same frequencies that all antennas can pick up. So, if you have an antenna on your roof that you’ve used since the 1970s, it can pick up HDTV signals. You might still want to get a new antenna though. These devices are built to last, but 50 years is a long time! Why not get a new antenna to give you many more years of TV viewing?
Q: Will a TV antenna pick up Wi-Fi?
A: Technically speaking, a TV antenna can be altered to receive Wi-Fi signal… with more than a few alterations. Wi-Fi transmits at a slightly higher frequency than TV transmission. The things you’ll have to do to turn your TV antenna into a Wi-Fi antenna are very time consuming. There’s really no reason to go through that hassle of rigging your antenna to receive Wi-Fi signal. There are plenty of affordable Wi-Fi antennas that you can use.
Q: Will a TV antenna work for a scanner?
A: Only one person ever asked us this. Apparently, he moved into a new home that had a VHF/UHF antenna on the roof. He wanted to know if he can plug his scanner into that antenna and get reception on VHF, UHF, fire, and police bands. We told him it might work as long as the antenna uses a 75 Ohm cable. If it has 300 Ohm line, you need a 300-to-75 Ohm transformer and there might be some soldering involved. You could go through all of that, but it’s easier to just get a replacement scanner antenna and hook it up.
Q: Will a TV antenna work for AM radio?
A: We get this a lot because TV antennas pick up FM broadcasts in the 88-108 MC range. (It’s between the old VHF channels 6 and 7.) That said, TV antennas just don’t work on AM bands, and there’s nothing you can do to change that. Do you need to enhance your stereo’s AM reception? There are upgrade AM/FM antennas that can do that for you. You can also get a specialty radio that’s known for high-quality reception.
That’s It… For Now
Those were some unique questions about TV antennas, but it won’t be the last of them? Being the online leader in all things TV antennas means we’ll probably get even more creative inquiries. That’s great because it gives us the opportunity to share information with you. So, if you have some burning question about antennas that you’d like to ask, drop it in the comments section. You can also leave your questions on our Support from Solid Signal Facebook page.
Maybe your only question is “Where can I get the best TV antenna for my home?” We can answer that question, too. I did say that Solid Signal is the online leader in TV antenna retailers, right? Well, our antenna experts can calculate how far you live from the local TV transmitters. They’ll use this and other information to give you the best antenna recommendation for your home. To get started, give us a call at 877-312-4547, or fill out the form below and click “submit.”
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Parakeet Auklet Whiskered Auklet
Least Auklet
Aethia pusilla
Alcidae
Version: 2.0 — Published January 30, 2013
Alexander L. Bond, Ian L. Jones, Sampath Seneviratne, and Sabir Bin Muzaffar
Sampath Seneviratne
Macaulay Library ML132026
Least Auklets (adult, with subadult on lower right), Sirius Point, Kiska Is., AK, 16 June 2007.
Photograph by Ian L. Jones.
English: Least Auklet
French: Starique minuscule ("tiny auklet")
German: Zwergalk ("dwarf auk")
Russian: Конюга-крошка (konyuga kroshka; "little auklet")
Japanese: コウミスズメ(koumisuzume)
Unangan (Aleut): chuuchii (choochkie)
St. Lawrence Island/Central Siberian Yup'ik: Akmaaliighaq (Ok-ma-lee-a-gok)
This tiny alcid is one of the most abundant seabirds in North America, with a global population of more than 20 million birds that concentrate densely for breeding at a few sites. Least Auklets dive for zooplankton, nest in rock crevice breeding sites, lay just one egg each year, and eat almost 90% of their body mass per day-reflecting the high energetic demands of their flight and foraging. In North America, most birds breed at a few remote Aleutian Islands and islands in the Bering Sea, and winter at sea in the North Pacific.
Like the Dovekie (Alle alle), the Least Auklet's ecological counterpart in the North Atlantic, calanoid copepods are the preferred prey during summer. During the breeding season, both Least Auklet sexes possess three kinds of facial ornaments: a colorful bill, a horny bill-knob ornament, and white facial plumes. Adult summer plumage varies from white through spotted intermediates to nearly black on the breast, and plumage color correlates with age and social status. This is a socially monogamous species and mate choice is mutual, but there is relatively low mate fidelity between breeding seasons. Sperm competition may be an important aspect of the breeding system-high frequency copulation is a feature of the pre-laying period and males have by far the largest testis size relative to body size of any alcid. Introduced rats threaten some colonies.
Bond, A. L., I. L. Jones, S. Seneviratne, and S. Bin Muzaffar (2013). Least Auklet (Aethia pusilla), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.69
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Where to stay in Tunis – 2018?
Camille L. 07/26/2018
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ARE YOU PREPARING A STAY OR AN EXPATRIATION IN TUNISIA, NEAR THE OLD “PUNIC CITY” OF CARTHAGE? HERE IS WHERE TO STAY IN TUNIS!
Economic and commercial capital of Tunisia, Tunis is located at the bottom of the Gulf of Tunis, stretched along the lake of the same name. Capital of Tunisia since 1159, the city experienced a meteoric development in the 20th century, to reach 638,845 inhabitants in intramural 2014 and 2,643,695 people in the urban area of Greater Tunis. The Tunisian capital – with a very rich historical heritage, the human presence being attested from the 4th century BC – is classified as the fifth Arab city where life is good. In addition, it enjoys an ideal Mediterranean climate and popular tourist sites such as Carthage, La Marsa or Sidi Bou Saïd. Housing in Tunis will not be difficult, the city attracts many tourists and expats and the supply of accommodation is plentiful.
Carthage, La Marsa, Sidi Bou Said, Mutuelleville, the Belvedere, Notre Dame, El Menzah, Gammarth are pleasant neighborhoods where to sleep in Tunis. Between the souks of the Medina, the Bardo Museum, the Museum of National Movement, the National Military Museum, the Museum of Cinema, the sandy beaches or the Roman ruins of Carthage, you will not be bored! Here is where to stay in Tunis.
THE MEDINA
Photo Credit: Flickr – Christopher Rose
The historic heart of Tunis, this 270-hectare commercial and historical center, home to more than 100,000 people – or 10% of the Tunisian population – has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Founded in 698 around the Zitouna Mosque it is woven from north to south between the suburb Bab Souika and that of Bab El Jazira. Formerly the capital of a powerful kingdom in the Hafsid era, many monuments intertwine and mix the styles of Ifriqiya, Andalusian, Oriental, Roman and Byzantine influences. It is a poor neighborhood in hotels however, but you will really be in touch with local Tunisians. To know where to stay in the Medina, homestay accommodation is the best solution.
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MUTUELLEVILLE AND THE BANKS OF THE LAKE
Photo credit: Wikimedia – Youssefbensaad
Located north of the Jardins du Belévdère, these two districts are popular residential areas and are very popular with expatriates and travelers in search of tranquility. The two districts offer a central position to stay in Tunis: not far from the city center while being a few tram stations from Lake Tunis and its banks, or the picturesque port of La Goulette. Located on a hill, it is an upscale neighborhood however, with many green spaces and embassies (historically, it was a neighborhood inhabited by French settlers, which still attracts many foreign expatriates today).
Find a hotel in Mutuelleville
Find a hotel near the banks of the lake
THE NORTHERN SUBURBS
Here are ancient villages annexed to the metropolis of Greater Tunis, and which have good press among the best places to sleep in Tunis: Gammarth, La Marsa, Carthage and Sidi Bou Saïd. Be careful, these are the most expensive and most touristy areas. Every year, hordes of tourists come to visit the famous Roman ruins of Carthage and the village of Sidi Bou Saïd – high in blue, white and red colors where the bougainvilleas and palm trees flourish – perched on its cornice, overlooking the city of Carthage and the Gulf of Tunis. In a word: splendid. In the municipality of Carthage – which has a population of 17,000 – there are few hotels, but look for homestay accommodation, and sleep in comfortable villas close to the cliffs overlooking the sea and its sublime azure blue.
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Selected writings
Thomas Carlyle, Alan Shelston
Penguin Books, 1971 - Fiction - 392 pages
As a prophet and preacher, Carlyle was an important and controversial figure in nineteenth-century thought. Carlyle is best known for his impressionistic history of the French Revolution and for his essays proclaiming the virtues of strong, heroic leadership. But for his contemporaries Carlyle's was also a prophetic voice. John Stuart Mill, a formidable political adversary, acknowledged that Carlyle 'saw things long before me', while for Charles Dickens he was simply 'the man who knows everything'.
25 pages matching London in this book
Abbot Adamite answer Atheism Bastille beautiful become believe Book Carlyle Carlyle's century Chartism Chepstow Castle Church Clothes dark death divine Downing Street Earth England English essay eternal eyes fact feeling fire France Frederick French Revolution Friedrich Goethe grapeshot Greek mythology heart Heaven Hero History honour hope human infinite intellect Irish kind King Kirtlebridge labour Laissez-faire Latter-Day Pamphlets Launay literary living London look Louis Louis XVI man's manner matter means mechanical mind misery moral Nation Nature never noble once Parliament Patriotism perhaps Peter Klaus Philosophy poor Poor-Law practical present question reader recognised Reform Samson Sartor Resartus seems social society soul speak spiritual St Edmundsbury strange struggling teaching Teufelsdrockh thee things Thomas Carlyle thou thought tion treadwheel true truth universal Voltaire vote whatsoever whole wise wonder word writing written
Thomas Carlyle was a social critic and historian born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, December 4, 1795, the same year as John Keats, but Carlyle is considered an early Victorian rather than a Romantic. After completing his elementary studies, he went to the University of Edinburgh but left in 1814 without a degree. His parents wanted him to become a minister in the Scottish church, but his independence of spirit made such a life program impossible. In 1816 he fell in love with, and was rejected by, a young woman. His love affair was followed by a period of doubt and uncertainty described vividly in Sartor Resartus, a work published in 1833 that attracted much attention. Carlyle's first literary work reveals his admiration for German thought and philosophy, and especially for the two great German poets Schiller and Goethe. The fictional autobiography of a philosopher deeply impressed Ralph Waldo Emerson who brought it back to the United States to be published there. History of the French Revolution (1837), rewritten after parts of it were mistakenly burned as kindling by John Stuart Mill, cemented Carlyle's reputation. The work brought him fame but no great wealth. As a result of his comparative poverty he was induced to give four series of public lectures. Of these the most famous were those On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic of History delivered in 1840 and published in 1841. Past and Present (1843), and Latter Day Pamphlets (1850) present his economic and industrial theories. With The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845), The Life of John Sterling (1851), and History of Frederick II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (1858-1865) he returned to biography. In 1865, Carlyle was made Lord Rector of Edinburgh.
Title Selected writings
Penguin English library
Classics Series
Authors Thomas Carlyle, Alan Shelston
Editor Alan Shelston
Edition reprint, illustrated
Publisher Penguin Books, 1971
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BetteBack March 5, 1977: Bette Tapes The Bing Crosby Special; Accident Occurs
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‘Lucky’ Crosby survives fall
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) – Bing Crosby was described Friday by his old friend, Bob Hope, as “the luckiest man alive” for surviving a 20-foot fall from a stage Thursday night at the climax of a gala celebration of his 50th year in show
The crooner, 72, was reported “still quite sore” from bruises and a head cut but in good condition. He decided to stay at least another day in the hospital to recuperate.
Crosby was acknowledging a standing ovation from a celebrity studded audience at the Ambassador Auditorium when he apparently turned the wrong way to leave the stage and toppled over its front to the floor of a pit used to raise scenery.
Hope, other performers in the show and the crowd of 1,200 were stunned.
“He grabbed a big piece of proscenium arch made of wood with lights on it,” Hope said. “It broke his fall and saved his life. If he hadn’t grabbed the he wouldn’t be around today.
“I couldn’t look at first or go near the pit. I was so shocked out ran down to Bing. I was thrilled that he could talk.”
Hope telephoned Crosby Friday morning and reported Bing was in good spirits.
“He told me, ‘I gotta change the act — get a new finish,’ ” Hope said.
“I told him, ‘I know you pray a lot, Bing, and now it’s really paid off.’ ”
Crosby’s wife, Kathryn, and singer Pearl Bailey were also among the first to reach his side: A doctor from the audience examined him and then reassured the stunned audience that Crosby was not badly hurt. He was removed on a stretcher and a paramedic said he “hummed a few songs” in the ambulance.
A spokesman at Huntington Memorial Hospital said Crosby spent “a very comfortable night.” Mrs. Crosby stayed with him in the room overnight. The spokesman said he had no broken bones and required no stitches.
The crooner had clowned and sung for three hours leading to the finale of his “50th anniversary in show business”
benefit whose proceeds went to WAIF, the child care charity, and a scholarship fund. The show was taped by CBS for
showing Nov. 20.
“I hope it won’t be another 50 years before we can celebrate like this again.” Crosby said just before he took the fall.
“We’ll give it another try tomorrow night,” he joked as he lay waiting for the ambulance.
Guests on the show and those in the formally attired audience included Rosemary Clooney, Paul Anka, Debbie Reynolds, the Mills Brothers and Bette Midler.
Nick Condos, a close personal friend, dashed from the wings to try to assist Crosby but he was hit by the falling
scenery and suffered a two-inch head cut.
Tags: Ambassador Auditorium, Bette Midler, Bing, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Crosby, Mills Brothers, Pearl Bailey, Rosemary Clooney
Broadway’s Spring Preview
BetteBack March 19, 1977: Bette An Usherette On The Bing Crosby Special
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Awkward TV Cameos That Shouldn’t Have Happened
TV cameos are a weird thing. You let someone famous get a few seconds of screen time just so you can make the people at home go “oh, I know that guy”, yet it adds nothing to your show. Heck, most of the time, the cameo seems so very forced and unnatural.
It’s usually an athlete, singer or just a random celebrity that you’ve seen somewhere, and most of the time it’s quite cringeworthy. Behold, awkward cameos!
Ed Sheeran – Game of Thrones
Let’s be glad Arya killed him swiftly.
Stephen Hawking – The Big Bang Theory
Apparently Stephen was cool with it, but most of the jokes just seemed so forced and were sometimes a bit over the top.
Justin Bieber – CSI
And he got shot too. I’m pretty sure his death scene was acted so stiff it might actually kill someone, so beware.
Paris Hilton – Supernatural
Paris Hilton proved that she can’t even act like a demon taking the form of Paris Hilton. That takes some serious skills.
Jean Claude Van Damme – Friends
When I say “Friends” and “karate master”, and who comes to mind? No one? Well, you’ve been spared of one of the most awkward cameos in television history then.
Britney Spears – How I Met Your Mother
This was extremely unnecessary. Neil Patrick Harris even said as much, claiming the show didn’t need stunt acting to succeed.
Boy George – The A-Team
I mean, Boy George always looks a bit awkward, but it’s twice as bad if you put him in an action show. At least at the end of the episode, he performs for the crowd.
Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage – Baywatch
Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage turning up anywhere is pretty much awkward by default, but having them turn up on the same set with David Hasselhoff is just too much testosterone for the nineties to handle.
Movie&tv
March 28, 2018 (Updated: March 28, 2018 )
Vince De Zutter
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Is Dollar creating additional inflation risks?
The strengthening trend of the US Dollar met resistance just above the 92.00 level, during the New York session. This happened after Tier 1 news fell short of investors’ expectations.
02.05.2018 Arthur Idiatulin
China is firing warning shots
The Chinese government will respond “in the same proportion” if the US continues to aggravate the situation in mutual trade.
The US Dollar is on a stand-by
The House of Representatives voted on Monday to begin negotiations with the Senate, which brought the Republicans one step closer to reform.
Is the business sentiments falling in Asia?
The rising inflation in the UK forced consumers into spending more than average. Meanwhile, the Business confidense was declining in the Asian region.
The UK industrial sector thrives due to the Pound’s Weakening
UK manufacturing orders rose to the maximum in almost 30 years, with growth recorded in virtually all sectors, according to the Confederation of British Industrialists (CBI). The indicator rose this month to 16 points from 9 points in May, while analysts on average expected a decrease to 7 points. The index has climbed to the […]
The Ruble is losing ground
The Oil quotas began the week with a decline. The net position of the CFTC data decreased moderately from 382.5K to 359K contracts, and the market remains uncertain. The Bank of Russia reduces the key interest rates.
API reserves bring optimism to the markets
Yesterday’s drop in the Oil price can also be regarded as a speculative manoeuvre, through which market participants are trying to find a stable ground for growth
Will the FED be able to wake up the market?
Traders expect that the FED will leave borrowing rate unchanged, but they might add clarity to the short-term outlook for the monetary policy.
What do we learn from the PMI?
The companies increased output due to the weak Pound, as Brexit looms over the country. Making the Bank of England reconsider the possibility of raising rates at the next meeting.
Fifty shades of Trumps’ promises
Trump has been radically shifting his political stance and started to abandon his election promises. The reaction of the Dollar and the US stock market shows that investors are very sensitive to the president’s words.
Caution is side-lined in the markets
Pound and Dollar upsurge on strong data, making the markets relax. The British currency reacted with growth to the strong statistics, as the publication of the FOMC protocol triggered a small sell-off of the Dollar.
Austrailian Dollar is reching a five-month peak
The EUR and GBP are on a rally, as the Dollar is still in a slump. AUD/USD is rushing to new heights and will likely grow even more, as soon as unemployment is under control.
Will the EU and UK concur?
By this point, it is almost certain that there will be a FED rate hike in March. Traders Are waiting for weak figures, but that is probably in vain, as all the recent data has shown otherwise. The EUR is slowly navigating towards peaks, as GPB can barely keep up.
Investors are questioning the stability of EU, should you?
It is too early for the Dollar to play against the crowd’s demand and even the FED talks have been side-lined. Is ECB reducing the size of the asset-purchase program?
The eclipse of the US Dollar
Strengthening of the Japanese Yen was interrupted because suddenly the USD collected momentum and started the week off on a high.
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Jesse Arm
Why I’m now a former Conservative Jew
A USY decision on dating non-Jews has left him feeling abandoned
Dec 28, 2014, 7:41 AM
My name is Jesse Arm. I am a grandson of a former Conservative rabbi, a former student of a Conservative Jewish day school, a former president of the Detroit chapter of USY, and a former Conservative Jew.
The last of those characteristics is the newest one attached to my identity. In fact, I made the decision to no longer classify myself in this fashion less than 24 hours ago, upon reading of the recent change in standards decided upon at USY’s international convention. Formerly, to take on a leadership position in the USY youth movement, it was considered a requirement that board members commit themselves to refrain from, “relationships which can be construed as interdating.” The language was changed to, “The Officers will strive to model healthy Jewish dating choices. These include recognizing the importance of dating within the Jewish community and treating each person with the recognition that they were created Betzelem Elohim (in the image of God).” The change was made in an attempt to become a more inclusive youth group within a more inclusive movement.
Perhaps the crux of why this change so fundamentally irks me is in its lack of forthcoming language. If my former youth group, and in essence my former movement, is willing to compromise its commitment to the preservation of Jewish nationhood in the name of inclusivity, then why doesn’t it just say so? It is clear that this movement is on a path of setting its commitment to its original, cardinal principles aside in an effort to salvage some of its continually dwindling membership and “changing with the times.” The addition of Hebrew words in the language which adopts the permissibility of interdating is truly laughable. Saying that recognition of all humans being created betzelem elohim serves as a justification for interdating and eventually intermarriage, makes about as much sense as me arguing I should be eating delicious bacon in my Sukkah because the Torah says v’samachta b’chageicha, v’hayita ach sameach (we should rejoice in our holiday and we should feel nothing but toal happiness).
I am attracted to the heart of what the Conservative movement was built upon. I am attracted to the integration of the Jewish tradition into modernity through continual reinterpretation that builds on Halacha paired with an undying spirit of inquisitive learning and practice. This innovative expression of a tradition was established to answer questions of the day that our brilliant sages could have never even imagined, let alone addressed. It was not created in the spirit of perpetually moving to the left and blowing off the tradition, but rather to develop the tradition while keeping its pillars close to our hearts.
This movement should be leading the charge in offering Halachic analysis on the issues of embryonic stem cell research, cloning, homosexual relationships, and other facets of our society left unaddressed by our tradition rather than regressing from what has been previously established. It is offensive to me that this movement allows itself to make yet another revealing, significant pivot away from its core and toward American liberalism. It is particularly upsetting to me that this decision comes from the movement’s youth. The active decision to amend this bylaw is a blatant display of a change that is not rooted in valuable interpretation of Halacha but in readjustment based on modern convenience.
No one ever said Judaism was supposed to be easy. No one ever said it was supposed to be all fun. Judaism is a faith that connotes certain principles and morals. At the core of those values is the preservation of the nation itself through committed relationships to one another as well as to those principles which unite us all. Once the Conservative movement abandoned adherence to that belief, it abandoned me as well.
Jesse Arm is currently a freshman at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate and former student body president of the Frankel Jewish Academy in West Bloomfield, MI.
American Jewry
Happy Birthday, Sarah Schenirer
Sally Berkovic
Call it the Donald Trump Haftorah
Elliot Eisenberg
Trump: Democrat congresswomen ‘love’ al-Qaeda, use ‘anti-Semitic’ language
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FS - Glaciers, Jakob, Jesu, MONO, MOGWAI, Pelican and more.
Welcome. Here is a list of things I have for sale. No trades please. A few prices are negotiable, and all orders of a higher value will get insured for obvious reasons. Shipping is included into the price you see. Multiples won’t cost you more. If we encounter any issues, please contact me and I’ll make it right. If you’d like to haggle, please do. I’m sure we can work something out. __________________________________________________________ Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure - 12" EP — Black (Lo-Fi, Indie) $13 Blueneck - Scars Of The Midwest - 12" LP — Black - 2nd pressing - 180 gram /200 (IMPORT) $17 Chasma - Declarations Of The Grand Artificer - 12" LP — Gold - Band exclusive /100 (Black Metal) $10 Damascus - Heights - 12" LP — Black & White (Side A) Silver Splatter (Side -Hand #'d 323/200 (some were lost/renumbered. Small nick on bottom rec'd that way.) (Post-rock) $19 Destroyalldreamers - Glare / Halo - 12" EP — Black /200 (Post-rock, Shoegazer) $12 Esben And The Witch - Marching Song - 12" EP — Black /300 (Inner sleeve split, slight split outter cover top) (Goth & Indie Rock) $10 Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere - 12" LP — White - Repress /500 (Emo, Indie Rock) $12 Gayngs - Relayted - 2 x LP — Black (Abstract, Electric / Funk Soul) $18 Glaciers - Mirrored Through The Ancients - 12" LP — Red Swirl 27/100 - (Silk screened, hand #'d fold-over cover) (Post-rock) $35 Grails - Deep Politics - 2xLP — Black - (Etching) (split on one of the inner sleeves) (Post/baby Prog rock) $16 Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 4, 5 & 6 - 2xLP — Dark Red & Opaque Yellow /500 - (Etchings in expanded run-out groove area) $19 Jakob - Sines - 2 x LP — Black Test Press #19/50 45rpm - Screen Printed Artwork (Post-rock) $55 Jesu - Christmas - 12" EP — Ice Blue /500 (Reissue from a 2010 digital download) (Done, Experimental, Ambient) $15 Kasan / Kokomo - Split 12" - 12" Split — Blue /300 (IMPORT) (Post-rock) $12 Mono - For My Parents - 2 x LP — White /500 (Post-rock) $25 Mogwai - Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait - 2 x LP — Black (Tracks D11 and D12 are untitled.There is no printing on the D side) Small ding on upper left corner (Post-rock) $45 Panda Bear - Person Pitch - 2 x LP — Black (Abstract, Experimental, Indie) $30 Panda Bear - Tomboy - 12" LP — White (Abstract, Experimental, Indie) $15 Pelican - March Into The Sea - 12" EP — Grey /200 - Reissue (Post-rock) $15 Pelican - March Into The Sea - TP - 12" EP — Black - Test Press 23/32 (Post-rock) $45 Pelican - Forever Becoming - 2 x LP — White w/ Blue and Orange Splatter /500 (Post-rock) $20 Remember The Radio - Alta California - 12" LP — Purple - Slight corner ding (Alternative, Rock, Lo-Fi) $13 Remember The Radio - Sharper Moon Rabbit - 12" LP — Blue Translucent - Slight corner ding (Alternative, Indie, Lo-Fi) $13 Revival Hymns - Feathers - 12" LP — Clear w/ a few black specks (IMPORT) (Shoegazer, Post-rock) $16 Romance Of Young Tigers - I Have Supped Full On Horrors - 12" LP — Black (Post-rock) $10 Sleepingdog - With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields - 12" LP — Clear (Modern Classical, Folk, Ambient) (IMPORT) $15 toe - The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety - 12" LP — Grey /1000 - Reissue (Math-rock) $20 Vasudeva - Life In Cycles - 12" LP — /100 Black (Post-rock) $17 Junius - Days Of The Fallen Sun - 12" LP — Brown & Cream marble 23/100 (Mylene Sheath Exclusive) $19 Junius / Rosetta - 12" Single Sided — Translucent Blue /100 (Etching on side) $16 Moholy-NagyLike - Mirage - 12" LP — Yellow and Red Sunburst /200 (tiny split at the top) Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Ambient (Psychedelic, Ambient, Experimental) $18 This Will Destroy You - Live In Reykjavik, Iceland - 3 x LP— A/B White, C/D Black, E/F Grey Marbled (Post-rock) $15 toe - New Sentimentality - 12" EP — Pink /109 (Math-rock) $40 Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse EP - 12" EP — Black (Psychedelic, Indie Rock) $12 Gates - You Are All You Have Left To Fear - 12" LP — Translucent Purple /229 (Pure Noise exclusive color) (Indie) $15
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eskimosnow27 posted a topic in Sale/Trade/Wants
Time to let more of the collection go! Make offers on anything! Willing to make sweet deals for multiples. Add $4 for shipping within the US - international shipping will vary https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12YFA1zYJoIU3s9h7xVp6KR-NZf1fJR12X9H4Ji9Rl4M/edit#gid=0 Thanks for looking!
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damascus - "When Last We Met" 11/25/14
justin_cole12 posted a topic in Vinyl Collective Message Board
New damascus album titled "When Last We Met" comes out November 25. Track listing is below with the title track streaming on bandcamp. http://damascusnj.bandcamp.com/ Track Listing 1.Everything Was Burning 2. Breathless 3. Ever Since 4. When Last We Met 5. Morning Star 6. Wake I'll update OP if any news is announced of a vinyl release!
when last we met
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Los Angeles beats to its own pulse. You may spot a celebrity while shopping on Rodeo Drive or sipping cocktails at The Ivy. Eclectic restaurants, hip nightclubs, and unexpected boutiques fill the city that’s known for the eponymous Hollywood Sign. Here you can experience live music any night of the week, or catch a glimpse of the imposing spire atop the Capitol Records Building.
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Land Management Support
The best way to source funding for woodland creation is through the Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme (weblink below). The Cairngorms National Park Woodland Challenge Fund is designed to help reduce the costs of preparing an application to FGS.
The Cairngorms National Park Authority with the support of partners – Scottish Forestry, Scottish Natural Heritage and Woodland Trust – is offering grants of up to £3,000 to help reduce the cost barriers to developing woodland creation proposals within the Cairngorms National Park.
This preparatory funding is to encourage planting proposals of native species within target areas identified in the Cairngorms National Park Forest Strategy using one or more of the following woodland creation options in the Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme:
Diverse Conifer (predominantly Scots pine),
Native Scots Pine,
Native Upland Birch,
Native Broadleaves,
Native Low-density Broadleaves.
The grant can be applied for by owners, or tenants, of land in the Cairngorms National Park.
What will it cover?
The grant contributes towards all or some of the costs reasonably incurred in the development of a woodland creation proposal including gathering information, surveys, landscape assessments and discussing proposals as part of due diligence, e.g. forestry agent and other professional fees. This work should provide the information required to develop a proposal suitable for a FGS application.
Proposed woodlands less than 10ha could receive a maximum grant of £1,500 (inclusive of any irrecoverable VAT).
Proposed woodlands greater than 10ha could receive a maximum grant of £3,000 (inclusive of any irrecoverable VAT).
Funding support will be judged according to whether the proposed scheme helps to deliver one or more of the following strategic objectives as set out in the Cairngorms National Park Forest Strategy:
Promotes the creation of new woodlands that complement other land uses
Restore lost or vulnerable forest ecosystems
Encourage the natural regeneration of native forests
Promote the creation of productive woodlands
Promote access and active enjoyment
Promote community involvement
In addition the funding support will be judged against the extent to which the proposed scheme may contribute towards:
Landscape enhancement
Woodland connectivity
Expanding Capercaillie habitat
Natural flood management
Improved water shading and water quality
We will use this scoring sheet to judge applications.
Applicants should fill out the CNP Woodland Challenge fund APPLICATION FORM and provide a map of the area they are considering for woodland creation.
Successful applicants will receive a grant offer specifying the maximum amount awarded.
Applications may be made at any time until 29th February 2020, but funding is limited so it is important to contact us as soon as possible.
Payment will be made on the receipt of invoices for costs incurred as indicated in the application form and approved in the grant offer.
CNPA will pay grant as quickly as possible to minimise any cash flow issues for applicants.
David Hetherington
Woodland Advisor
Relocating to the Cairngorms
Advice & Guidelines
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Lane Pederson, Psy.D, LP
Consultation and Therapy
Lane Pederson Psy.D, LP, has provided Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training and consultation to over 10,000 professionals in the United States, Australia, South Africa, Dubai, Canada, and Mexico through his training and consultation company, Lane Pederson and Associates, LLC (www.DrLanePederson.com). A real world practitioner, Dr. Pederson co-owns Mental Health Systems, PC (MHS), one of the largest DBT-specialized practices in the United States with four clinic locations in Minnesota (www.mhs-dbt.com). At MHS Dr. Pederson has developed DBT programs for adolescents, adults, people with dual disorders, and people with developmental disabilities. He has served as clinical and training directors, has directed practice-based clinical outcome studies, and has overseen the care of thousands of clients in need of intensive outpatient services.
Dr. Pederson’s DBT publications include The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition: DBT for Self-Help and Individual & Group Treatment Settings (PESI, 2017); Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Contemporary Guide for Practitioners (Wiley, 2015); Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings (PESI, 2013) and The DBT Deck for Clients and Therapists: 101 Mindful Practices to Manage Distress, Regulate Emotions & Build Better Relationships (PESI, 2019).
Notable organizations he has trained for include Walter Reed National Military Hospital, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Ontario Psychological Association, the Omid Foundation, and Psychotherapy Networker. He has provided DBT training for community mental health agencies, chemical dependency treatment centers, hospital and residential care settings, and to therapists in forensic settings. Dr. Pederson also co-owns Acacia Therapy and Health Training (www.AcaciaTraining.co.za) in South Africa. Dr. Pederson currently serves on the advisory board for the doctorial counseling program at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and is a peer reviewer for Forensic Scholars Today.
Lane Pederson is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organization.
Financial: Lane Pederson maintains a private practice. He is an author for PESI Publishing & Media and receives royalties. Dr. Pederson receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Lane Pederson has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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Liberals totally losing their shit over the Green Party again
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 12:36pm
It's got to be in the top three ways that Democrats display their hypocrisy.
Danny O’Connor could lose because of a Green Party candidate. Are you fucking kidding me?
If you’re a progressive and you voted for the Green Party candidate in #OH12, you‘re worse than a Trump supporter. pic.twitter.com/UvhVGKmSWy
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) August 8, 2018
Do Democrats get excited about the millions of registered Democrats that vote for Republicans?
Of course not. Democrats voting for Republicans is to be expected, but Independents that want to vote third-party are helping elect Republicans in some sort way that is more effective than actually voting Republican.
(Which makes me wonder why Republicans don't vote Green Party instead, since that appears to be the best way to defeat Democrats.)
You know what sucks?
Because of our unwillingness to pass policy that protects our election integrity, I immediately think the Green Party votes tonight are Russian meddling.
Why else would anyone cast a protest vote in Ohio when there’s so much at stake?#OH12
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 8, 2018
Do Democrats get excited about the millions of registered Democrats that simply don't vote?
Of course not. Democrats not voting is to be expected, but Independents that want to vote third-party are throwing away their vote.
Gonna lose it if the Green Party costs Democrats #OH12. If you want a third party, fine, but the Green Party is never ever gonna happen. The only thing it ever accomplishes is helping to elect Republicans.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) August 8, 2018
People that vote Green can't possibly be voting that way for a serious reason.
Let’s be clear, Green Party, at this point I’m convinced that you’re colluding with Russia just to piss America off. You’re the political equivalent of the guy who comes to basketball practice high and keeps missing free throws, causing the rest of us has to run suicides.
It would be one thing if the Green Party was actually in the game; but at this point, the Green Party is just a drunken, butt-naked streaker who runs onto the field and fucks up the game for everyone.
I’m not saying that the Green Party doesn’t have a place or a voice, but sometimes, especially when the world is on the heels of burning to the ground, maybe the Green Party could just have a seat while grown folks are talking.
Which makes me wonder why the Democrats even tolerate the Green Party to exist? After all, voting Green is not a decision worth respecting, amirite?
the traditional post-election thrashing has already commenced. They’re spoilers (the Daily Mail); they’re the reason we’re in this mess (the Week); their deliberate unreason (Kathy Griffin, seriously) is a threat to us all.
...One solution to the routine panic over tortured lesser-of-two-evils voting options is hoping that, with enough discipline, all third-party voters (not to mention the overwhelming multitude who silently protest their meager choices by staying home) will wise up and vote red or blue. An actual solution is something like ranked-choice voting (also called “instant runoff”) coupled with wider ballot access for third-party candidates — lo and behold, a major plank in the Green platform.
Dear Green Party: Can you PLEASE wait to make your symbolic votes at a time when our government isn’t being overrun by white supremacists??? Come @ me I don’t care.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) August 8, 2018
Those silly, naive Green with their unrealistic ranked-choice voting. It's much more productive to voter shame.
Green Party voters..no one is saying you can't vote for your candidates....but don't tell me you care about the environment if you know your vote will make the difference between a Dem winning over a Rep and you still choose to vote for your candidate who has NO chance of winning
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) August 8, 2018
Here's a question for voter-shaming Dems: If voting is all about winning, then why would I vote for the Democrats? The Republicans obviously have a better ground game, and thus are more likely to win.
So if I should vote based strictly on the chances of winning, I'd be crazy to vote for the Dems.
OTOH
this take confuses the Green Party with angry Democratic voters.
The Green Party is not the left wing of the Democratic Party; it is its own party. People who vote for it in some elections and not in others may be swing voters in the same way that there are swing voters between the Republican and Democratic parties, but they are not just disenchanted Democrats. Mostly, the kind of people who vote for Greens in 2018—especially in an election like Ohio’s—have a fundamental disagreement with the two party system and lesser-of-two-evilism, and relish in the opportunity to express that disagreement.
As long as we have a first-past-the-post system—and we shouldn’t—two things are true about the Green Party: they aren’t going to win, and they are going to get Some Votes. For some reason, liberals have never been able to account for the fact that Green Party candidates are going to get some votes in the same way that Republicans have reckoned with the fact that Libertarian candidates will get some votes. It’s not clear they want to, either. After all, if there’s no Green Party candidate in the race, who are they going to blame for their losses?
Just looking at this gave me brain damage. pic.twitter.com/TbtsEg6CTE
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) July 31, 2018
Submitted by HenryAWallace on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 1:32pm
Dembots have always hated the left, including the left
of their own party, more than they hated Republicans. They were willing to go right, both because they themselves like rightist policies and because they thought they could pick up indy and Republican votes. However, they were not willing to go left. And look at the results! Historic numbers of Republicans elected at local state and federal levels and despite all their concerted efforts, a clown defeating atheir Fair Lady. So, what will they do? Probably double and triple down on neoliberalism. Again.
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 3:28pm
Thanks for making it easy, Democrats!
@gjohnsit @gjohnsit
To protest, I'll just vote Republican.
No Green running for congress in my district. I was just going to skip that race, but I'll satisfy you and vote for the (non-incumbent) Republican,
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 3:41pm
You will be deplorable
@The Voice In the Wilderness
To protest, I'll just vote Republican
But you won't be vote shamed.
Of the two, Dems hate people who vote Green more than people who vote Republican.
It seems that voting Green does more damage to the Democrats than electing Repubs does.
#1 #1
Submitted by lotlizard on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 8:24pm
It’s Democrats’ subconscious internalization of Marketing 101.
The Democrats see Republicans as appealing to a different target demographic entirely, e.g. “normie” whites as opposed to the Dems’ “woke” persons of color.
The Greens, on the other hand, are the Democrats’ direct competitors for the same demographics.
Submitted by lizzyh7 on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 12:44pm
These privileged rich bastards
need to STFU and go the hell away. Alyssa Milano, looking at you here but you surely are not alone. One more B list actor looking to stay relevant. I know I've said it before but I really DO hate these people more than I hate Repugnants and for me, that's one hell of a lot of hate.
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 12:59pm
Griffin is the one that gets me. My
@lizzyh7
political viiews aren’t shaped by failed comedians. Especially those who aren’t very smart.
Submitted by JekyllnHyde on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 1:47pm
Kathy Griffin Should Listen to THIS Guy
@Amanda Matthews
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
Submitted by jim p on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 2:10pm
Anyone using severed heads
@Amanda Matthews as a joke, when this is what Al Qaeda does in real life is just too fucked up to offer political opinions. But then again the Mock Left is fascist at its core, so why basic human decency and intellectual honesty would be expected from them...
Now that is a comment that actually bears repeating 3 times. n/t
@jim p
#2.1 as a joke, when this is what Al Qaeda does in real life is just too fucked up to offer political opinions. But then again the Mock Left is fascist at its core, so why basic human decency and intellectual honesty would be expected from them...
Submitted by PennBrian on Fri, 08/10/2018 - 1:58am
@lizzyh7 Absolutely agree. I'm
@lizzyh7 Absolutely agree. I'm numb to Republicans at this point; they are what they are. The corporate Democrats and their misguided army of smug "not very bright" dead-enders are more acutely annoying.
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 1:07pm
If you stop thinking of it as a party and start thinking of it..
as a cult it makes all sorts of sense. Cults reserve their deepest hatred not for the enemy but for heretics. Greens often are ex-Democrats, therefore heretics, therefore...
Submitted by boriscleto on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 3:33pm
The People's Front of Judea
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 1:35pm
I welcome their hatred.
One of FDR's Best Speeches
@Not Henry Kissinger
Franklin Roosevelt's Address Announcing the Second New Deal - October 31, 1936
We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.
For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.
For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred.
As I recall, it goes on...
@JekyllnHyde
And if you re-elect me, they will not only hate me, they will learn to FEAR me!
FDR's Speech Did NOT Have Any "Work With Both Sides" Nonsense
Fear is how you force persuade your own side and political opponents into falling in line and supporting your policy ideas.
It's ironic that arguably the best-loved Democratic president ever came from a very privileged background, connected with working class people, and absolutely did not need the presidency to complete his life. The same guy who was stuck in a wheelchair for most of his life and successfully guided the country (and the world) through two of the worst crises ever in modern life -- the Great Depression and World War II.
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 4:26pm
History repeats itself
For twelve eight years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away
No rolled up sleeves just an Empty Suit.
It's disgusting to hear people say that Obama was the best president since FDR. He could have if he wanted to. He didn't.
Submitted by MrWebster on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 3:29pm
O'Connor does not look like an inspiring candidate
I didn't know about this race and just now did some searches on his website and watched an interview. It all seemed like he was just another generic democratic establishment candidate running on slogans that were sorta "liberal". Nothing specific.
In an CNN interview, he was asked how he was able to get so close in a vastly red district. He answered that he went to have conversation where people were at. He did once talk about proposed and supported policies. A Bernie-like response would have been, "because I will support single payer, college free tuition, etc." OH, and he would work with all sides, blah blah...a dead give-away of an establishment candidate.
This particular election looked more like a "lesser of two evils" and "party tribal vote" election.
Like with Hillary, Jill Stein blamed because she like O'Connor had nothing much to say.
Do not speak her name!
If you think Jill Stein and Rand Paul have the same views on Russia, you’re onto something. Tina Nguyen writes in Vanity Fair:
Perhaps better than anyone else in Congress, Paul’s unusual position on the political spectrum reflects the growing convergence between the far left and the far right, which have found common ground in isolationism, distrust of authorities, and an affinity for Russia — his father Ron, a libertarian icon in his own right, has followed suit, frequently appearing as a guest on RT, a Russian state TV network adopted by both the extreme left and the extreme right as an alternative news source. . . . Whereas Russia is one of the few areas where the vast majority of the G.O.P. breaks with Trump, condemning his slavish devotion to Putin, Paul is — for once — truly aligned with the president, occupying the space where the screwball right and the White House converge: in Moscow.
And there, in their embrace of Putin, they both converge with lefty Kremlin lovers like Jill Stein.
OTOH, remember all that money Jill raised from Dems for the recount?
Former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein raised millions of dollars in 2016 to pay for a recount after the electoral victory of President Donald Trump.
However, Stein’s fundraising for the recount significantly exceeded what was actually needed to pay for it — and she tried to reassure her donors that their money would still be well spent by promising to give them a say in how it got used.
However, the Daily Beast reports that Stein has so far not kept that promise and is instead using money raised from her “recount” campaign to pay for legal bills related to investigations into her possible contacts with Russia.
The money she's using to fight the witchhunt is coming from the same people who are conducting the witchhunt
Submitted by WoodsDweller on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 4:28pm
No great loss ...
from Huffpost
Although he prefers the term “pragmatic,” O’Connor is, by contemporary standards, a moderate. He does not support single-payer health care, emphasizing instead his commitment to protecting the Affordable Care Act. And if elected, he plans to join the business-friendly New Democrat Coalition, whose PAC donated $4,000 to his bid.
One less New Democrat to try to unseat next cycle.
Yesterday is heavy, put it down.
Right wing democrats love the world "pragmatic".
@WoodsDweller
Submitted by Hawkfish on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 4:23pm
Not toeing the party line
I vote green when the candidate is better. But sometimes the candidate is a fluoridation loon and I go elsewhere. You know, like a "grown up"?
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Submitted by Snode on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 4:47pm
So, they need our votes
and the best way to persuade us to tell us what we think sucks, and we should do it because the republicans are terrible. Ought to work.
Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 6:02pm
Now where have I heard this plan before?
@Snode worked really well, as I recal. /s
Submitted by Strife Delivery on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 6:50pm
The whining never really made
The whining never really made much sense to me besides just typical scapegoating.
If I'm a Green member, why should I as a Green care if the Dems win or lose? They aren't my party. They don't support what I want so why do I need to support them?
I'm not a disaffected Dem voting for someone else; I'm a completely different party member.
My vote isn't yours; it is mine.
Apparently Dems can vote for whomever they want, but a 3rd party must vote for the Dems. So strange how the party's own members can be free to do whatever they want but not someone who is even affiliated with said party.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 08/10/2018 - 10:16am
The Democratic Party is the party of entitlement
@Strife Delivery Thus their main pitch, "we are entitled to your votes," is not about winning. That's just who the Democrats are. It explains, for instance, why they all thought Hillary Clinton was their unity candidate two years ago, and it explains why, in turn, Hillary Clinton spent a lot of valuable campaign time at fundraisers in Beverly Hills, Silicon Valley, and the mansion communities north of NYC.
"The degree to which liberals are coming to inhabit an alternate reality, impenetrable by facts or reason, is actually frightening." -- Steve Maher
Submitted by peachcreek on Fri, 08/10/2018 - 1:16am
Did these dumbfucks go to my middle school?
Imagine you have a school of 400 eligible voters for student body pwesident. 85 vote for Biff and 85 for Jody. Most students don't bother to vote. Those that did vote decide to try to beat up the hippie kid for writing in "Nobody".
"We would of won if you didn't waste your vote."
Yes, they would have said "would of"....
No one ever points out the
No one ever points out the obvious to these people:
If 60+ million people hadn't wasted their ballots voting for a doomed failed candidate in 2016 then Jill Stein would be our president today, not Donald Trump.
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Calvin in Books, Reviews September 29, 2017 September 29, 2017 581 Words
Book Review: Love of Country
Read while contemplating, and then completing, my final move to South Uist, I enjoyed this quite wonderful book immensely. Madeleine Bunting has used her journalistic skills of enquiry to weave together threads of geography, history, philosophy, literature and politics, and other familiar themes of spirituality, identity and migration from her years on The Guardian, into a sharply-focused, cohesive analysis of place and home.
Bunting’s journey across the Hebrides was inspired by family holidays as a child in the north of Scotland, and then as an adult with her own family in the north-west with a perspective on the Hebrides. Never having lived here, but always having felt the pull of the north-west (I can describe a similar experience standing in Falkirk one October/November Sunday morning, weekend school delegates hard at work in groups, staring at the heather to the north in full blaze in the morning sun, and wondering just how much further north there actually was), this is, nevertheless, no superficial, dry, desk-based analysis. On her journey, with separate chapters on various stopping-off points on her trip north-west, Bunting is prepared to get her hands fully dirty: camping; staying in hostels; visiting Corryvreckan (the ferocious whirlpool off Jura in which Orwell capsized); yomping across seven miles of moorland to camp at Barnhill, where Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four; and taking spray-soaked, physically uncomfortable trips on small boats to St. Kilda and the Flannan Isles. This hands-on, elemental approach has allowed Bunting to write a warm, introspective, intimate and accurate portrait of the Hebrides in which her own spirit of inquiry and empathy allows her to get into the soul of the place and feel it as home.
There are a few quibbles: the use of ‘Gaelic’, when ‘Gàidhlig’ is surely to be preferred, seems a rather odd choice in a discussion on place, especially when Bunting takes such effort to get other place names, and descriptors, right (for example using Leòdhasaich, for the inhabitants of Lewis) and when she clearly understands the vital importance of the language to convey concepts when English, as rich as it is, is simply insufficient to describing the crucial attachment between people and land. South Uist, my own home, appears rather fleetingly (though not ungenerously) which, given it is the largest community buy-out thus far, seems something of a lacuna in a book with takes a strong look at issues of land ownership. The final chapter, at journey’s end, drifts somewhat unsatisfyingly, repeating some of the themes of the journey thus far but without really drawing them home, like a boat holed up temporarily at a cliff face, the swell echoing and playing with the boat until its engines kick in and drive it on again (perhaps this was inevitable given the circumstances). Oh, and it’s definitely just Buzzcocks (without the definite article). But these are minor issues in a book whose sweep and whose themes and treatment are as important as this.
Part travelogue, part memoir and part historical narrative, this is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to visit the Hebrides or understand the complexities of life lived here which no amount of ‘life on the edge’ toe-dipping could ever convey (or where camera crews go away and construct their own narrative!). Coming out here from 2013, on regular trips that coincided with the timetable for Bunting’s own research visits, this is the book I had started to dream of writing myself. I’m going to have to find another one, now; dammit.
May in Florence
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ahah, been waiting to read this review!! so glad you enjoyed the book… personally I thought maybe it could have used a few more photos…
The problem with photos is that they pigeon-hole the book as a travelogue when I think the author had a broader vision for how she wanted her theme to be treated. Actually, given the reproduction quality of what they did use, I’d almost rather they hadn’t bothered at all!
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MAK’s Prof Mamdani Trashes 1995 Constitution
by David Mujuni
While delivering his speech at a national dialogue on ‘compulsory land acquisition’ in Uganda, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, the Director of the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University attacked the makers of the Uganda 1995 constitution as he revealed that they are to blame for the current land wrangles in Uganda.
According to Mamdani , the makers of the constitution were overtaken by politics as he highlighted that the constitution caters for the interests of the big landowners at the expense of small property owners.
Mamdani added that changes in the land law in 1995 should be understood as counter revolution citing that the current opposition to compulsory land acquisition is more of a political than a development challenge.
Mamdani added that the suggested changes should avoid a situation similar to the 1900 agreement which was used to take away small peasants’ land without any compensation.
While categorizing the three types of land owners in Uganda; the owners of small property, speculators and big property owners, Mamdani however said that the private property must only be taken for public use with a compensation paid for the property.
The government is currently drafting a bill on compulsory land acquisition which was dismissed earlier last year on its first attempt following public outcry.
It should be recalled that the government introduced an amendment to article 26 of the Constitution in 2017 to enable it or local governments to deposit with court compensation awarded by the government for property declared for compulsory acquisition.
The Bill was later withdrawn because there was opposition even with in the government about the intention of amending one of the articles in the bill of rights in the 1995 Constitution. Now the government through the Lands Ministry is suggesting amendments to the Land Acquisition Act 1965 which provides for compulsory acquisition of Land.
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In September Cape Classics celebrated its 25th Anniversary! To commemorate we will be sharing stories over the course of the next year...
Lars Maack
"Cape Classics is really an extension to our Buitenverwachting team in the U.S. market place. They have an amazing team spirit, awesome sense of humour and a passion and commitment to South African wines. What more do you want in life? Cheers to 25 years of Cape Classics!!"
– Lars Maack, Bayten
Madeline Triffon
"Cape Classics is in no small part the reason that South African wines are recognized and appreciated in the United States. I’m personally grateful for their commitment to bringing their growers here, so we can connect memorable personalities with equally stylish wines! Now that the portfolio has expanded, “Cape Classics” will simply and always sing “quality” to me, because of the very fine people behind the name, notably Andre Shearer and Molly Choi. They couldn’t be better ambassadors for a company that brings us great wine through their passion and creative intelligence. What a team, Happy Anniversary to everyone at Cape Classics!"
– Madeline Triffon, First Female Master Sommelier
Debbie Allison
"Reflecting on my trip to South Africa in July 2004 with the Darden Restaurants Team. It’s been 13 years ago and it seems like it was just yesterday.
We tapped on Andres shoulder to help host the trip because of our experience with Indaba Chardonnay at Seasons 52 and the relationship between Cape Classics and George Miliotes. All Andre had to hear was that Darden was interested in coming to South Africa and he became the coordinator of the entire trip and devoted his week to guiding us through the experience.
To this day that trip remains the highlight of all emersion trips I have had in my career. The South African Seafood and Wine Emersion Trip of 2004 ignited a blaze of appreciation for the SA food and wine in me and my team mates. We brought home that appreciation and rekindled the blaze by using the influences we experienced in small ways in our restaurants. (e.g. – Excelsior at Red lobster and later Jam Jar)
The passion for his country that Andre Shearer has is infectious. He was devoted to us learning simply about seafood and wine but also about the spirit of the country of South Africa. We learned of the pride of the people only 13 years post-apartheid, we became aware of the companies that were hanging on to the old ways and why to steer clear, we witnessed first-hand the culture of the townships, we absorbed the history and the burden of shame of Robben Island, we were immersed in the exquisite culture of the wine businesses of Constantia, Stellenbosch, Paarl & Franschhoek, and even had a visitation with some government officials.
I’ll close with just one memory of so many I have. We spent the day with Andre on Robben Island and learned about how Nelson Mandela survived the brutality and harsh conditions and even rose above it to form the “Robben Island University” to educate them all and where he and others furthered the anti-apartheid movement from behind bars. Towards the end of the trip we visited the limestone quarry where they were forced to work long hours every day. We heard about their triumphant return to the quarry as free men years later. I took a small stone from the quarry that day and it sits on my desk still. The stone has come to represent to me the spirit of tolerance and overcoming obstacles.
The week changed me and I left with a deep love for SA people and culture. I can’t wait to return!!"
– Debbie Allison, Earl Enterprises (previously Darden)
Patrick and Dawn Werner
"We were first introduced to South African wine at the 2001 Epcot Food & Wine Festival. Emil den Dulk was pouring their first vintage of De Toren Fusion V. Shortly thereafter, we became Cape Classics “groupies” going to any tasting or dinner to learn more about South African wines. It was through these events and interactions that we learned that Cape Classics stood for “Excellence”. It describes the wine, the employees and customer service that Cape Classics delivers in one word."
– Patrick Werner, Disney
"For our friends and family the legacy Cape Classics will leave is lasting — it is a love of all things South African…not only the wine, but the food, people, community and culture. If it weren’t for the dedicated Cape Classics team we would have never been introduced to De Toren, our gateway to all the region has to offer. It is an understatement to say we have embraced South Africa and are now avid ambassadors for the country. We’ve made the trek to South Africa twice and now hold dear close relationships with so many talented and passionate people including Andre Shearer, Robert Bradshaw, Molly Choi, Emil Den Dulk, Albie Koch and Bruwer Raats…just to name a few."
– Dawn Werner, Disney
Doug Doran
"I first met Andre and Cape Classics in the early days of Seasons 52. Back then George Miliotes (Seasons Master Sommelier) would fly to SA to meet with Andre and his team to blend the coming year of Indaba Chardonnay an our partnership with Indaba afforded me the chance to get to know Andre and all at Cape Classics.
At the very first moment we met; Andre exuded all the wonderful qualities that human beings should aspire to: grace, charm caring and most important to me in the business world, a strong set of ethical values. These traits have carried through in each individual Cape Classics has added to its team as they continue to grow and that just makes Cape Classics a pleasure to partner with.
What is truly outstanding about Cape Classics is their desire to make amazing wines that can be affordable; all the while making wine fun. Wine shouldn’t be intimidating, doesn’t have to be expensive and shouldn’t be taken too seriously; my good friends Andre and Robert get that and bring that to every experience one may have with them. Wine, good laughs and good business.
What makes me respect Cape Classics above all other wines folks I know, is their sense of community and how that plays out to help make a better world. Their commitment to early childhood education through the largess of their Indaba Foundation show me that they are all in business; but the business of helping to make the world a better place to live. To me Cape Classics isn’t a vendor; its a family and I am lucky to feel a part of it."
– Doug Doran
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Single atrial fibrillation ablation procedure achieves high pulmonary vein isolation rates, study shows
A new study demonstrates the high acute and chronic success rates achievable with a single atrial fibrillation ablation procedure using the HeartLight endoscopic ablation system (CardioFocus). The study was conducted by Boris Schmidt and colleagues at Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Frankfurt, Germany, and was published online in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, in January 2012.
In the study, “Visually guided sequential pulmonary vein isolation: Insights into techniques and predictors of acute success,” Schmidt and colleagues performed ablation with a single HeartLight endoscopic ablation system (CardioFocus) and single transseptal puncture on 35 patients with drug-refractory paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation. Pulmonary vein isolation was achieved in 70% (96/137) of veins with an initial ablation. After assessment with a circular mapping catheter, continued ablation with the same HeartLight device resulted in an overall 98% single procedure pulmonary vein isolation rate.
“Pulmonary vein isolation is a critical indicator of success in catheter ablation procedures for atrial fibrillation; however, this has traditionally been a very challenging and complex endeavor requiring an experienced operator, multiple ablation devices to account for varied patient anatomy, and even multiple transseptal punctures for access,” said Schmidt. “In this study we set out to examine the feasibility of performing a streamlined, visually-guided ablation procedure and record best practices to achieve endpoints of acute and chronic success. Our findings demonstrate that this unique approach to ablation may prove highly effective in treating atrial fibrillation patients.”
Procedures were performed in a mean time of 154± 38 min, with the ablation stage lasting an average of 89± 16 min and mean fluoroscopy time of 16 ± 6 min. Notably, between the first and last 12 cases a reduction in procedure time was observed (175 ± 48 min vs. 138 ± 26 min). The primary efficacy endpoint of the study was acute pulmonary vein isolation, with a secondary endpoint of freedom from atrial fibrillation between 90 and 365 days post-ablation and off antiarrythmic drugs. During a median follow-up of 266 days, 77% (27/35) of patients remained free of any tachyarrhythmia recurrence and off drugs.
“With the increasing use of catheter ablation as a treatment option for atrial fibrillation patients, the short learning curve and simplified approach enabled by the HeartLight EAS makes this a very promising system, especially as the technique continues to be adopted outside specialised ablation centres,” said Schmidt. “In the paper we documented our approach to performing ablation on our centre’s first series of patients to undergo treatment with the HeartLight EAS, and we believe that as the procedure continues to be standardised, additional centres will experience these impressive, reproducible results.”
About the HeartLight endoscopic ablation system
The HeartLight EAS is a catheter ablation system that incorporates, for the first time, an endoscope for direct visualisation of a beating heart, in real-time and without radiation. It also includes a compliant, dynamically adjustable balloon catheter designed for improved contact with the pulmonary vein ostium (opening) irrespective of the individual patient anatomy, and utilises laser energy for more efficient, durable and precise ablation treatment.
HearhLight is commercially available in Europe. The device is investigational in the USA, with a pivotal study expected to commence in 2012.
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After the Company Leaves: The Long Term Impact of Job Creation Economics
McNary Arizona is a community marooned by the changing tides of economic growth and shares many attributes with other company towns abandoned by extraction industries after the wealth has been removed. Located on the White Mountain Apache Reservation and split between Apache and Navajo counties, McNary is the second highest community in Arizona at 7,316 feet. Elk and Bear mix with cattle in the fields and forest surrounding the community. In some places, the wilderness is over taking the collapsing infrastructure of past enterprise. Here, community renovation projects dim beneath angst-ridden graffiti, an all-too-common characteristic of old company towns from Appalachia to the North-West.
Community members fondly remember a period of postwar prosperity when McNary was a booming lumber town with a movie theater, roller rink, and a state champion basketball team. The boom was not to last. A major factor in the collapse of the local economy was the advent of plastic and cardboard. The local mill serviced the pine wood packaging industry, and when a fire damaged the mill in 1979, the owners shifted remaining operations to Flagstaff, to take advantage of its more technologically advanced operations and its access to national rail and highway systems.
Today, the estimated per capita income hovers around $13,000 with 84% of the population living below the poverty line, including 96.6% of those under the age of 18 and 100% of those age 65 or over. In 2104, economic reports indicate that the unemployment rate was 15.9% compared to a national average of 6.9%. McNary has experienced negative job growth in the last decade with a 2.65% decrease in the last year.
The town of McNary has gone through several names in the last 200 years. The Apache name for the region is Chaabito. In the late 1800’s the town was named Cluff Cienega for a mormon Bishop, it was changed in 1919 to Cooley who had been a famed army scout and then again in 1923 when it was renamed at the behest of the Cadey Lumber company relocating from McNary Louisiana. The company moved west after depleting the yellow pine forest of the South East. The company relocated its largely African American workforce to Arizona town after leaving behind the virtual ghost town they created of McNary down south in Louisiana.
The Cadey Lumber company leased the land from the Bureau of Indian Affairs as well as obtained the logging rights for National Forest land extending almost to Flagstaff. The company made an initial 3.5 million dollar investment in the construction of an electrical plant, sawmill and railroad service.
McNary grew as a typical company town, with Cadey owning and operating the town infrastructure as well as most of the commercial and public services. The workforce was divided between African American, Native American, Anglo and Hispanic groups which remained segregated through much of McNary’s history as a company town.
James McNary, one of two partners that brought the lumber business West, planned to accumulate vast wealth and retire a “man of leisure.” He was a contributor to Republican politicians and friends with Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. In 1956, he published his memoirs entitled, This is My Life.
Since the 1970s, the milling industry has become increasingly mechanized with industry consolidation into a few capital intensive production facilities.
McNary shares many of the same quality of life indicators with mill towns across the country that have suffered the impact of economic dislocation resulting from consolidation.
A national, as well a global, map littered with economically devastated towns demonstrates that the promise of economic growth from the job creation associated with the extraction industry is an illusion. Rather than fostering sustained improvement in the regions, these industries have a visible impact of arresting local development and fostering conditions of dependency.
The underlying economic and political relationships are based on unequal economic and political power, with corporations operating to maximize the profits of actors that have no investment or stake in the sustainability of the region.
In many company towns, a political as well as economic dependency develops in which the majority of questions concerning education, food distribution, infrastructure maintenance and civic organization are managed by distant corporate managers, and not people with roots in the region. While the physical infrastructure may grow, the organizational infrastructure and social capital decline. The skills, networks and experience are diminished and the development of other economic activities and skills essentially comes to a halt.
When the company leaves and the wage jobs that create no wealth disappear, communities are often left in an organizational and economic vacuum.
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Friday, October 25, 2019 | Six o'clock in the eveningREED ARENA | TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
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The Distinguished Alumnus Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University. The award, jointly sponsored by The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M, recognizes those former students who have made significant contributions to society and whose accomplishments and careers have brought honor and distinction to Texas A&M and The Association of Former Students.
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Beginning in 2004, The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University have annually honored all of the Distinguished Alumni during the Distinguished Alumni Gala. This prestigious black-tie dinner and celebration has become one of the most anticipated events on our campus, bringing together former students, current students, and friends of Texas A&M.
This premier event will feature entertainment, an exquisite menu, Aggie camaraderie, and most importantly, the honoring of the current year's recipients of the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Premier table for ten (10) at the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Professional photography session with your family on the Haynes Ring Plaza, located on the grounds of the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center, on a mutually agreed-upon date and time. Photographer and digital images are included.
Private tour of Balfour on a mutually agreed-upon date for up to twelve (12) Aggies to see how the cherished Aggie Ring is made –OR– a one (1) hour behind-the-scenes tour of Kyle Field for up to twelve (12) Aggies with two (2) dates being available from which the sponsor may select one.***
Two (2) pre-game sideline passes to a Texas A&M home football game of your choice at Kyle Field (excluding the Auburn and Alabama game).
Use of The Association’s suite in Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park for one (1) mutually agreed-upon conference game during the 2020 baseball season. Three (3) dates will be available for the sponsor to select from and a decision must be made by December 20, 2019. Twelve (12) seats and two (2) reserved parking spaces available.
Two (2) reserved parking spaces for each home game at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center during the 2019 football season. Names of guests utilizing the parking spaces must be provided no later than the Wednesday prior to each game.
Six (6) tickets to The Association’s private pregame reception on October 26, 2019.
Four (4) VIP Midnight Yell Field Pass tickets on October 26, 2019, immediately following the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Two (2) premier parking spaces available the night of the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Full-page logo/name recognition in Texas Aggie magazine with same special message from the sponsor that is also included in the Gala program.
Logo/name recognition in AggieNews and on AggieNetwork.com.
Logo/name screen presence and verbal recognition during the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Logo/name recognition and special message in the printed Gala program.
‘Distinguished Alumni Gala Sponsor’ bar for the sponsor’s Century Club plaque.
One (1) hour behind-the-scenes tour of Kyle Field for up to six (6) Aggies. Two (2) dates will be available from which the sponsor may select one.***
Use of The Association’s suite in Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park for one (1) mutually agreed-upon non-conference game during the 2020 baseball season. Three (3) dates will be available for the sponsor to select from and a decision must be made by December 20, 2019. Twelve (12) seats and two (2) reserved parking spaces available.
One (1) reserved parking space for each home game at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center during the 2019 football season. Names of guests utilizing the parking spaces must be provided no later than the Wednesday prior to each game.
Four (4) tickets to The Association’s private pregame reception on October 26, 2019.
Two (2) VIP Midnight Yell Field Pass tickets on October 26, 2019, immediately following the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Logo/name recognition in Texas Aggie magazine with same special message from the sponsor that is also included in the Gala program.
Premier placement of table for eight (8) at the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Professional photography session with your family on the Haynes Ring Plaza, located on the grounds of the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center, on a mutually agreed-upon date and time. Photographer and digital images included.
Two (2) tickets to The Association’s private pregame reception on October 26, 2019.
One (1) premier parking space available the night of the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Logo/name recognition in Texas Aggie magazine.
Reserved placement of table for eight (8) at the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Name recognition in Texas Aggie magazine.
Name recognition in AggieNews and on AggieNetwork.com.
Name recognition and special message in the printed Gala program.
Verbal recognition during the Distinguished Alumni Gala.
Name recognition in the printed Gala program.
Individual Tickets
Please note we are unable to guarantee seating together for groups with individual tickets.
Gala Program Tributes
Purchase a half, full, or two-page tribute in the printed Gala program.
Before August 12 - 100% refund.
August 12 until August 26 - 50% refund.
After August 27 - We are unable to provide a refund as event numbers have already been confirmed.
Purchase Tables & Tickets
We hope you will join us as we honor this year's recipients of the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University, the Distinguished Alumnus Award. If you have any questions regarding the event, please read through our Frequently Asked Questions.
If you need further assistance, please contact Hannah Johnston '11 at Gala@AggieNetwork.com or call (979) 845-7514.
Program Tributes
Information on honoring DAs in this year's Gala program.
DA Gala Photos
View photos from past Distinguished Alumni Galas.
Read bios on all of Texas A&M's Distinguished Alumni.
DA Nominations
Learn how you can nominate a former student for this honor.
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A metal Galaxy S5? A plastic Galaxy S5? Samsung might release both
Zach Epstein @zacharye
Look at the image above. On the left, you have a gorgeous aluminum smartphone with a premium look and feel. On the right, you have slim plastic smartphone with a removable back cover and a swappable battery. Wouldn’t it be nice to choose from both of these great options when purchasing your next handset? It looks like Samsung’s “gadget spam” strategy might finally bring us the best of both worlds next year when the hotly anticipated Galaxy S5 finally becomes a reality.
We have seen countless Galaxy S5 rumors in recent months and reports seem to be bouncing back and forth. Some say Samsung’s next flagship smartphone will sport a plastic case. Others insist that the S5 will finally be metal and that unibody casings have already been ordered.
As it turns out, both sets of rumors might be accurate.
According to a listing discovered on import shipping manifest tracker Zauba by SamMobile, Samsung has just had an unreleased smartphone delivered from South Korea to India for testing purposes. The handset carries the model number “SM-G900F,” which brings about a very interesting theory.
First, that model number is clearly linked to the SM-G900S smartphone that appeared on a benchmark score tracker earlier this week. That phone, believed by many to be Samsung’s Galaxy S5, features specs that include an ultra HD 2K resolution display that apparently measures about 5.25 inches diagonally.
Now, we know how much Samsung loves gadget spam. In fact, it launched eight different versions of the Galaxy S4 alone in 2013, as we noted in a recent review. The “900F” variation on this new smartphone being imported into India for testing certainly seems like a variation on the “900S” phone.
And about that “F”…
Several earlier reports have suggested that Samsung is working on a premium “Galaxy F” smartphone line that will feature metal housings. Instead, it may be that this “F” refers to a premium variant of the Galaxy S5. If Samsung launches even half as many Galaxy S5 models as it did Galaxy S4 models, there would still be more than enough room for an ultra high-end metal version. Then the “standard” version of the Galaxy S5 might still be plastic — or pleather/plastic, as the case may be — as we have seen in several reports.
Metal, plastic or both, the Galaxy S5 is shaping up to be a beast of a smartphone. Beyond the 2K display, rumored specs include Samsung’s new 64-bit eight-core Exynos processor or a quad-core Snapdragon processor depending on the device model, a 16-megapixel camera that touts intriguing new technology, 3GB of RAM, a 4,000 mAh battery and Android 4.4 KitKat.
Several reports have also suggested that the Galaxy S5 will launch a bit earlier than expected. A recent claim says the phone will debut sometime in the first quarter next year while another report suggested the new flagship phone will be unveiled as soon as next month.
Tags: Galaxy S5, Samsung
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विकिपीडिया:चौपाल/पुरालेख 5
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1 New way to edit wikitext
2 विकिपीडिया पर शॉर्टकट के स्थापना खातिर प्रस्ताव
2.1 समर्थन
2.2 टिप्पणी
2.3 रिजल्ट
3 Invitation for Office Hours with WMF's Global Reach team
4 Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate
5 MediaWiki Training 2017: Invitation to participate
6 Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
7 विकिपीडिया के डिफॉल्ट अंक सिस्टम में बदलाव
8 Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
9 We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
10 प्रूवइट (ProveIt) गैजेट के इंटरफेस के अनुवाद
11 Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
12 Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May
13 Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app
14 New Page previews feature
15 WikiProject Turkey 2017
16 New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
17 Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
18 Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
19 Editing News #1—2017
19.1 Recent changes
19.2 Future changes
20 RevisionSlider
21 Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)
22 New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata
23 Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia
24 m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government
25 मुख्य पन्ना के नया रूपरंग खातिर प्रस्ताव - 21 मई 2017
26 Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections
27 Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes
28 CIS-A2K Technical Wishes 2017 Announcement
29 Accessible editing buttons
30 Page Previews (Hovercards) update
31 CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2017
32 CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2017
33 Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 in India
34 Wikidata Workshops in India in September 2017
35 Featured Wikimedian [September 2017]
36 RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"
37 Discussion on synced reading lists
37.1 Background
37.2 Why not watchlists
38 Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon 2017
39 CIS-A2K Newsletter August September 2017
40 Featured Wikimedian [November 2017]
41 New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
42 Featured Wikimedian [December 2017]
43 Train-the-Trainer 2018
44 CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2017
45 भोजपुरी विकिपीडिया पर कई गो जरूरी चीज नइखे लउकत
46 Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program: Needs Assessment Survey
47 Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships
48 User group for Military Historians
New way to edit wikitext[संपादन]
Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.
We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.
Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.
All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Automatically enable all new beta features".
The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.
This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.
James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:31, 14 दिसंबर 2016 (UTC)
विकिपीडिया पर शॉर्टकट के स्थापना खातिर प्रस्ताव[संपादन]
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
सफल--SM7--बातचीत-- 05:49, 18 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
नीचे दिहल गइल शॉर्टकट के स्थापना खातिर आपन समर्थन ब्यक्त कइल जाय:
NS == en == bh shortcut (wanted)
-1 == Special: == बिसेस:
2 == User: == सदस्य:
2 == User: == स:
2 == User: == U:
4 == Wikipedia: == वि:
4 == Wikipedia: == WP:
After Five Days, this proposal will be carried to Phabricator. Regards! --SM7--बातचीत-- 16:35, 8 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
समर्थन[संपादन]
समर्थन ☆★संजीव कुमार (✉✉) 18:12, 12 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
समर्थन --स (बात करीं) 03:06, 14 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
टिप्पणी[संपादन]
रिजल्ट[संपादन]
Y सफल भइल। --SM7--बातचीत-- 05:49, 18 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
The above discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
Invitation for Office Hours with WMF's Global Reach team[संपादन]
On behalf of Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Reach Team, we would like to invite all the South Asian Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss our work in the region.
Date: Thursday, 19th January 2017
Time: 16:00 UTC/21:30 IST
Google Hangout Location:
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/w5sE6IZTXERWH0VvKtDRiAm9WE1eZ5mYcnQm0h7dHok=?hl=en_US&authuser=0
If you are not able to join the hangout, you can watch the live stream with a few seconds lag at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-VCpQkVSk
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Global_Reach_South_Asia_Office_Hours
Introduction of Global Reach Team and office hours
Research around New Readers and our partnership themes
Feedback for next office hours
We plan to hold these office hours at regular intervals. FYI, office hours for South East Asia and Central Asia/Eastern Europe will be held separately; given the size of communities, we needed to break down the regions.
Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in the Etherpad document shared above. You can also reach out to sgupta@wikimedia.org and rayyakkannu@wikimedia.org for any clarification. Please help us translate and share this invitation in community social media channels to spread the word.
Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Wikimedia Foundation --16:23, 17 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
We thank everyone for participating in the Office hours with WMF's Global Reach team. Meeting notes can be found here. You can also watch the YouTube recording here.
--Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Wikimedia Foundation. 10:10, 1 फरवरी 2017 (UTC)
Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate[संपादन]
Sorry for writing in English, please translate this message to your language, if possible
It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2017 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 20-22 February 2017.
What is TTT?
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Who should join?
Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project is eligible to apply.
An editor must have 500+ edits.
Anyone who have already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not apply.
Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so: CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2017
If you have any question, please let us know.
Regards. Tito Dutta (CIS-A2K) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 05:35, 18 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
MediaWiki Training 2017: Invitation to participate[संपादन]
We are glad to inform that MediaWiki Training or MWT 2017 is going to be conducted between 24-26 February 2017 at Bangalore.
MWT is a residential training workshop that attempts to groom technical leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. We invite active Indian Wikimedia community members to participate in this workshop.
Please find details about this event here.
Let us know if you have any question.
Regards. -- Tito Dutta (CIS-A2K) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 03:25, 21 जनवरी 2017 (UTC)
Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[संपादन]
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
Introduction of williamsworks
Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks
More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:30, 15 फरवरी 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help
विकिपीडिया के डिफॉल्ट अंक सिस्टम में बदलाव[संपादन]
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
(Proposed change in Default Numerals for BHojpuri Wikipedia)
नमस्ते ! वर्तमान में विकिपीडिया के डिफॉल्ट अंक सिस्टम देवनागरी बाटे (1, 2, 3 ...) जेवना कारण कई तरह के समस्या होखत बाड़ी जिनहन के समाधान के रूप में ई प्रस्ताव कइल जात बा की एकरा के बदल के इंटरनेशनल (International numerals) में (1, 2, 3 ...) कर दिहल जाय।
पार्सर फंक्शन (parser functions) द्वारा देवनागरी अंक के इनपुट न स्वीकार कइल। अन्य कई जगह पर देवनागरी अंक के अंक या संख्या के रूप में पहिचान न होखल इत्यादि प्रमुख समस्या बाटे। एकरा खातिर बहुत पहिले Phabricator पर T36193 टास्क ले आइल गइल रहल जे अन्य अंक सभ के सपोर्ट करे खातिर सुबिधा देवे बदे रहल, बाकी अभिन ले ई समस्या के उपाय ना भइल।
एही से ई प्रस्ताव ले आइल जात बा जवना से भोजपुरी विकिपीडिया पर डिफौल्ट अंक इंटरनेशनल सिस्टम में कर दिहल जाय। आप सभे के राय के बाद अगर कौनों बिरोध न होखे तब कुछ दिन बाद एकरा के Phabricator पर ले जाइल जाई। आपन राय दिहल जाय। --SM7--बातचीत-- 08:17, 28 फरवरी 2017 (UTC)
समर्थन प्रस्तावक के रूप में। --SM7--बातचीत-- 18:30, 9 मार्च 2017 (UTC)
समर्थन, मुझे ये प्रस्ताव ठीक लग रहा है।--हिंदुस्थान वासी वार्ता 16:39, 9 मार्च 2017 (UTC)
समर्थन--स (बात करीं)
10 दिन के इंतजार के बाद Phabricator task T160098 के रूप में बग लिखल गइल। --SM7--बातचीत-- 18:33, 9 मार्च 2017 (UTC)
Y Done काम पूरा भइल। --SM7--बातचीत-- 15:36, 10 अप्रैल 2017 (UTC)
पन्ना सभ के टाइटिल में अंक बदले के काम भी Sanjeev bot द्वारा (आ कुछ मैनुअली) लगभग पूरा भइल। कुछ पन्ना बचल हो सके लें जिनहन के टाइटिल में देवनागरी अंक के इस्तमाल हो रहल होखे, उनहन के धीरे-धीरे ठीक क दिहल जाई।--SM7--बातचीत-- 11:41, 10 मई 2017 (UTC)
Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[संपादन]
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 मार्च 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help
We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)[संपादन]
This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Find out more about the movement strategy process
Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams
05:09, 18 मार्च 2017 (UTC)
प्रूवइट (ProveIt) गैजेट के इंटरफेस के अनुवाद[संपादन]
प्रूवइट (ProveIt) गैजेट के इंटरफेस के अनुवाद एकरा बातचीत पन्ना पर सुझाव के रूप रखल गइल बा। इहाँ जाके आपन सुझाव/सुधार बतावल जाय। --SM7--बातचीत-- 04:56, 30 मार्च 2017 (UTC)
Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections[संपादन]
Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.
The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.
The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
May 15–19 – Board vote checking
May 20 – Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections
wikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:37, 7 अप्रैल 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help
Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May[संपादन]
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 17:34, 11 अप्रैल 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app[संपादन]
Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.
We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.
We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!
-DBrant (WMF) 08:41, 14 अप्रैल 2017 (UTC)
New Page previews feature[संपादन]
New Page previews feature
The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.
A quick note on the implementation:
For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.
You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.
Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 16:52, 19 अप्रैल 2017 (UTC)
WikiProject Turkey 2017[संपादन]
In an unfortunate turn of events, Wikipedia is currently blocked in Turkey, as can be seen from en: 2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey
In order to express solidarity with the Turkish Wikipedia editors and readers, it is proposed that Indian Wikipedians write articles related to Turkey in their respective languages. Our message is clear — we are not motivated by any politics; we just want the Wikipedia to be unblocked in Turkey.
Participating members can create new articles on Turkish language, culture, political structure, religion, sports, etc. But the essential condition is that the articles should be related to Turkey.
Note: The normal Wikipedia rules also apply to all new articles. Wikipedia admins can facilitate other member contributions by creating project pages where users can list their newly written articles. --Hindustanilanguage (बात करीं) 19:08, 30 अप्रैल 2017 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)[संपादन]
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine
Gale – Biography In Context database added
Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 मई 2017 (UTC)
You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections[संपादन]
This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
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19:15, 3 मई 2017 (UTC)
Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View[संपादन]
From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:29, 8 मई 2017 (UTC)
Editing News #1—2017[संपादन]
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Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes[संपादन]
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the New wikitext mode.
A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [1]
The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [2]
You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [3]
The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [4]
The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [5] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [6]
You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [7]
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [8]
The इस्पेशल चीन्हा menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [9]
A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [10]
There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [11]
Future changes[संपादन]
The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [12]
The kind of button used to झलक देखीं, बदलाव देखीं, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13]
The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!
—Elitre (WMF)
18:05, 12 मई 2017 (UTC)
RevisionSlider[संपादन]
RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.
Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:39, 16 मई 2017 (UTC)
Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)[संपादन]
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
Healthy, Inclusive Communities
The Augmented Age
A Truly Global Movement
The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem
On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Please help translate to your language • Get help
New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata[संपादन]
(Please help translate to your language)
The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.
You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.
This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.
This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.
If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.
Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!
Thank you! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)
Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia[संपादन]
I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.
One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.
The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.
We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.
We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.
You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.
Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government[संपादन]
Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.
If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 17:53, 18 मई 2017 (UTC)
मुख्य पन्ना के नया रूपरंग खातिर प्रस्ताव - 21 मई 2017[संपादन]
धियान देईं, मुख्य पन्ना की बारे में एगो नया चर्चा शुरू भइल बा। कृपया आपन राय देवे खातिर वार्तालाप:मुख्य पन्ना पर जाईं।
--SM7--बातचीत-- 08:30, 21 मई 2017 (UTC)
Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections[संपादन]
Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
June 12–14 – Vote checking
June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results
More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections wikimedia.org.
Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes[संपादन]
Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.
Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.
Read and translate the full message
Thank you! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33, 29 जून 2017 (UTC)
(wrong target page? you can fix it here)
CIS-A2K Technical Wishes 2017 Announcement[संपादन]
Sorry for posting this message in English, please feel free to translate the message
Greetings from CIS-A2K!
CIS-A2K is happy to announce the Technical Wishes Project beginning July 2017. We now welcome requests from Indic language communities on our Technical Request page. This project, inspired by WMDE, is an effort to document and hopefully resolve the technical issues that have long plagued Indian Wikimedians. For more details, please check our Technical Requests page. Please feel free to ask questions or contact us at tito@cis-india.org and manasa@cis-india.org. Regards. --MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 18:05, 1 जुलाई 2017 (UTC)
Accessible editing buttons[संपादन]
The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
Comparison of old and new styles
Buttons before the change
Buttons after the change
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 10 जुलाई 2017 (UTC)
Page Previews (Hovercards) update[संपादन]
A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.
Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language.
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:32, 20 जुलाई 2017 (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2017[संपादन]
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of June 2017. The edition includes details about these topics:
Wikidata Workshop: South India
Tallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
Thematic Edit-a-thon at Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara
Asian Athletics Championships 2017 Edit-a-thon
Please read the complete newsletter here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. --MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 04:01, 5 अगस्त 2017 (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2017[संपादन]
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of July 2017. The edition includes details about these topics:
Telugu Wikisource Workshop
Marathi Wikipedia Workshop in Sangli, Maharashtra
Wikipedia Workshop on Template Creation and Modification Conducted in Bengaluru
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. --MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 03:58, 17 अगस्त 2017 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 in India[संपादन]
Greetings from Wikimedia India! Wiki Loves Monuments in India is an upcoming photo competition, part of the bigger Wiki Loves Monuments 2017. We welcome you all to be part of it, as participants and as volunteers. The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and users of Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of cultural heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and its sister projects. This in turn would lead to creation of new articles along with development of new articles in Indian languages.
We seek your support to make this event a grand success ! Please sign up here -- Suyash Dwivedi, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 11:50, 25 अगस्त 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata Workshops in India in September 2017[संपादन]
Apologies for writing the message in English. Please feel free to translate the message to your language.
We are glad to inform you that Asaf Bartov will visit India in the month of September, and will be conducting local workshops on Wikidata and other recent technologies and tools. You might be aware that Asaf is a promoter and trainer of Wikidata, and before and during this year's Wikimania, Indic Wikimedians from two communities requested Asaf to visit India to conduct more Wikidata workshops.
The workshop would include extensive Wikidata training, from absolute beginner level through querying and embedding Wikidata in Wikipedia (incl. infoboxes), as well as a general tools demonstration, including Quarry. Additionally, time would be made for general Q&A ("ask me anything") to let people use the opportunity to directly ask a WMF representative anything that they have on their mind.
Asaf would come to India on 29 August. Please see the detailed plan here. Please contact here or write to Asaf if you have any question. Regards. -- Titodutta, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 13:37, 25 अगस्त 2017 (UTC)
Featured Wikimedian [September 2017][संपादन]
Greeting, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga from the Executive Committee, introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for September 2017, Swapnil Karambelkar.
Swapnil Karambelkar is one of the most active Wikimedians from the Hindi community. Swapnil hails from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and by profession a Mechanical Engineering, who runs his own firm based on factory automation and education. Swapnil joined Wikipedia in August 2016, through "Wiki Loves Monuments". He initially started off with uploading images to Commons and then moved onto Hindi Wikipedia, contributing to culture and military topics. He also contributes to Hindi Wikibooks and Wikiversity. Soon after, he got extensively involved in various outreach activities. He co-organized "Hindi Wiki Conference" in January 2017, at Bhopal. He delivered various lectures on Wikimedia movement in various institutions like Atal Bihari Hindi University, Sanskrit Sansthanam and NIT Bhopal. Along with Suyash Dwivedi, Swapnil co-organized the first ever regular GLAM project in India at National Museum of Natural Heritage, Bhopal. Swapnil is an account creator on Hindi Wikipedia and is an admin on the beta version on Wikiversity. Swapnil has been instrumental in establishing the first Indic language version of Wikiversity, the Hindi Wikiversity. As asked regarding his motivation to contribute to the Wikimedia movement, Swapnil says, "It is the realization that though there is abundance of knowledge around us, but it is yet untapped and not documented".
RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"[संपादन]
There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."
Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.
Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.
MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 21:07, 17 सितंबर 2017 (UTC)
Discussion on synced reading lists[संपादन]
Discussion on synced reading lists
The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.
To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.
Background[संपादन]
In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.
The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.
Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.
Why not watchlists[संपादन]
Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:
Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.
More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 सितंबर 2017 (UTC)
Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon 2017[संपादन]
The Odia Wikimedia Community and CIS-A2K are happy to announce the "Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon" between 12 October and 10 November 2017
This Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon aims to create, expand, and improve articles related to monuments in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
Please see the event page here.
We invite you to participate in this edit-a-thon, please add your name to this list here.
You can find more details about the edit-a-thon and the list of articles to be improved here: here.
Please feel free to ask questions. -- User:Titodutta (sent using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 09:20, 4 अक्टूबर 2017 (UTC))
CIS-A2K Newsletter August September 2017[संपादन]
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of August and September 2017. Please find below details of our August and September newsletters:
August was a busy month with events across our Marathi and Kannada Focus Language Areas.
Workshop on Wikimedia Projects at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara
Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal
Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aurangabad
Orientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi
Please read our Meta newsletter here.
September consisted of Marathi language workshop as well as an online policy discussion on Telugu Wikipedia.
Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University
Discussion on Creation of Social Media Guidelines & Strategy for Telugu Wikimedia
Please read our Meta newsletter here: here
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here.
Sent using --MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 04:23, 6 नवंबर 2017 (UTC)
Featured Wikimedian [November 2017][संपादन]
On behalf of Wikimedia India, I hereby announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017.
Balaji Jagadesh is one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though he started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions count to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary.
After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan (User:Info-farmer), Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate science articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was a collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through Tamil Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded".
As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of Wikimedia movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can make it, "Imagine a world in which every single human being and every single machine can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Apart from regular contributions, he also created templates to Tamil Wikimedia projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's official Twitter handle.
Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
Any editor can propose a fellow to be a Featured Wikimedia at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 09:59, 10 नवंबर 2017 (UTC)
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers[संपादन]
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.
Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 नवंबर 2017 (UTC)
Featured Wikimedian [December 2017][संपादन]
Greetings, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for December 2017, Hrishikes Sen.
Hrishikes Sen is one of the most active contributors from the Bengali community. Though he started editing English and Bengali Wikipedia in 2007, he had to take a long break due to professional constraints. Later he started working on Bengali Wikisource from 2012, and ever since, he has been an active contributor, and expanded to English Wikisource as well. With more than 45,000 global edits, he is an admin on English Wikisource.
As a child, Hrishikes always found reading books as a fascinating task. He says that he finds reference books as interesting as mystery novels. That interest, over years motivated him to contribute to Wikisource. The journey and motivation behind his contributions to Wikisource can be read from a post on WMF's blog, Why I contribute to Wikisource?. He says that till date he's been only active online, but he plans to do outreach in the coming future. He hopes that attending the 10th Anniversary Celebratory Workshop of Bengali Wikisource in Kolkata on 10 December may be a harbinger to his future offline activities.
Hrishikes believes that Wikisource will one day emerge as of the top digital libraries in the world, and says that as a store-house for primary and secondary source materials for Wikipedia, the importance of Wikisource is steadily becoming invaluable. Much of his time, Hrishikes spends working around Indian works, with a special focus on the works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from being a proofreader, he uploaded more than 750 books spreading over five languages to Wikimedia Commons.
Hrishikes hails from Kolkata, but is presently based in Lucknow. By profession, he is a doctor serving in paramilitary forces. To his Bengali friends, he welcomes them to contribute to Bengali Wikisource which has more than 676,000 that have completed Optical Character Recognition and are waiting to be proofread.
Nomination can be made at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 13:09, 1 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
Train-the-Trainer 2018[संपादन]
Apologies for writing in English, please consider translating the message
We are delighted to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme organised by CIS-A2K will be held from 26-28 January 2018, in Mysore, Karnataka, India.
What is TTT? Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including English) members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.
The editor must have 500+ global edits before 1 November 2017
Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not apply.
Please learn more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so. -- Titodutta using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 17:03, 1 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2017[संपादन]
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of October 2017. The edition includes details about these topics:
Marathi Wikipedia - Vishwakosh Workshop for Science writers in IUCAA, Pune
Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon
Odia Wikisource anniversary
CIS-A2K signs MoU with Telangana Government
Indian Women Bureaucrats: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Interview with Asaf Bartov
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. Sent using --MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 05:43, 4 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
भोजपुरी विकिपीडिया पर कई गो जरूरी चीज नइखे लउकत[संपादन]
एह चौपाल पर जे केहू संगी साथी घूमत घामत आवते होखे, ओ सभे के नमस्कार बा। देखला में त इहवा सदस्य लोगन के संख्या ठीके ठाक बा बाकी कौनो काम क चर्चा इहवा लउकत नइखे। लागत बा सदस्य संपादक लोग इहवा बहुत कम आवेंले। बाकी User:SM7 जी त अकेलही इहवां झंडा गाड़ि देले बाड़न। हमनी के आभारी होखे के चाही SM7 जी के। अपना भासा के लेके हमनी चिंता फिकिर त बहुत करींला जा बाकी कौनो ठोस कदम बहुत कमे लउकेला। इहवा सवाल केकरा से पूछल जाव बुझाते नइखे। एही से User:SM7 जी से ही पूछल चाहत बाड़ी:
इहवा रखरखाव आ लेखवन के जांचे वाला लोग काहे नइखन लउकत.
एह जगह अधिकार वाला पन्नो नइखे.
ट्विंकल आ अउरी दोसर औजारन क भी कौनो अता पता नइखे.
तबो कवनो बात नइखे अब इहवा लिखे पढ़े क काम शुरू कइल जाई। एमें आप के मार्गदर्शन जरूर चाही। आदर क साथे--कलमकार (बात करीं) 16:18, 4 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
नमस्कार कलमकार जी, राउर स्वागत बा। राउर सवालन के जबाब नीचे लिखत बानी:
सदस्य संख्या आ संपादन संख्या कम होखे के वजह से इहाँ लेखवन के जाँच आ रखरखाव करे के ब्यवस्था कुछ अलग किसिम के बा, इहाँ हर एक संपादन के जाँच ना होला बलुक खाली नया पन्ना बनावे पर ओकर जाँच जरूरी बूझल जाला। एही से इहाँ हिंदी विकिपीडिया नियर कई सारा सदस्य अधिकार मौजूद नइखे। इहाँ ओह तरीका से पुनरीक्षण (रिव्यू) के जरूरत भी ना बा, काहें कि अतना संपादने ना होला। एही से पुनरीक्षक के अधिकार इहाँ स्थापित नइखे (एही से स्वतः परीक्षित सदस्य नियर अधिकार भी जरूरी नइखे)।
अधिकार वाला पन्ना विकिपीडिया:विशेषाधिकार निवेदन पर बा जहाँ प्रबंधक, प्रबंधक लोग के मदद खाती रोलबैकर आ बॉट खाती अनुरोध कइल जा सके ला।
गैजेट के जहाँ ले बात बा, सगरी जरूरी गैजेट इहाँ मौजूद बा। ट्विंकल के इहाँ ख़ास जरूरत ना पड़े ला, ई स्थापित बा, गैजेट के लिस्ट में सभसे नीचे Beta खंड में आपके मिल जाई। हो सके ला एकर कुछ फंक्शन काम न करे बाकी एकरा मदद से टैग आ रिवर्ट करे के काम कइल जा सके ला। बाकी चीज खाती नीति के जरूरत बा जे सदस्य लोग के कम संख्या के कारन अभी लटकल बाटे।
रउरा के कौनों गैजेट चाहत होखे, भा कवनों दूसर मदद चाहत होखे त बतावल जाय।
सभसे जरूरी बा इहाँ लेख सभ के बिस्तार कइल। एह काम में राउर स्वागत बा। वि:जरूरी लेख पर लिस्ट देख के आप सभसे जरूरी बिसय सभ पर बनल पन्ना सभ के बिस्तार कऽ सकत बानी आ एह लिस्ट में जवन लेख मौजूद ना बा ओकरा के बना सकत बानी। --SM7--बातचीत-- 10:03, 6 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program: Needs Assessment Survey[संपादन]
Please translate this message if possible
We are extremely delighted to inform that the Wikimedia Foundation and CIS-A2K have come together in a partnership with Google to launch a pilot project Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program to address local online knowledge content gaps in India. In order to engage and support active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in local Indian languages, we are conducting a needs assessment survey. The aim of this survey is to understand the needs of the Indic Wikimedia community and ascertaining their infrastructure requirements that we can fulfill during the course of this project.
Please help us by participating in the survey here.
Your opinion will help to make the program better. Kindly share this survey across your communities, user groups and network of fellow Indic Wikimedians. -- m:User:Titodutta, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 08:51, 8 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships[संपादन]
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!
Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24, 20 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
User group for Military Historians[संपादन]
"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.
MediaWiki message delivery (बात करीं) 10:46, 21 दिसंबर 2017 (UTC)
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Seperated At Birth : Twin Saga, Dragomon Hunter
What I need is another MMO to play, right? Or how about a couple? I mean, according to my own account, I'm only playing five right now, with another dozen lined up, waiting to go. That can't be enough, right?
I didn't even mention Dragomon Hunter when I was counting down the possibles although last year I was playing it and enjoying it. I even blogged about it a few times. I took a break and the main reason I didn't go back was I lost my log in details, something I only found out when I tried to play another MMO in the Aeria Games stable, Twin Saga.
Quite a while ago someone - it might have been Kaozz at ECTMMO - wrote something about Twin Saga that made me think it might be worth a look. Then Syp at Bio Break wrote it up for one of his Try-Out Tuesday pieces and almost everything he said reminded me very strongly of Dragomon Hunter, which I took as a recommendation.
Wait a minute...I'm Level 2 and I haven't logged in yet.
So I downloaded it and installed the inevitable Aeria Games front end, which for some reason I'd never needed for DH. It was at that point that I realized I could use my existing Aeria Games account to play both games. Only, not having hunted any dragomons for quite a while, I couldn't remember the password. Or even which email account I'd used.
I searched around but I couldn't find the details. At that point I could have made a new account - they're free after all - but then I'd have had to start Dragomon Hunter over from scratch, which I really didn't want to do.
So I shelved the project and mostly forgot about it, except the Twin Saga icon stayed right there on my desktop, eying me balefully, which meant I could never completely forget about it after all. Then yesterday, when I was trying to find my Dragon Nest log in information (successfully, I might add, although my installed client is now so far behind the current version it won't even patch, so I have to download the whole thing again before I can play), what should I stumble across but the missing Aeria Games details!
Gatefold album sleeve c. 1973
A little window into the chaos and serendipity that I call a life, there. Anyway, with that incentive I opened up the Aeria patcher and patched both games. I tried to log into Dragomon Hunter but the servers were down for maintenance (at EU prime-time on a Saturday night on a holiday weekend if you can believe it!).
Which is how I come to be playing Twin Saga. And guess what? Enjoying it, too. Probably more than I should.
Follow the yellow mud road
Couple of things to say about it up front. Twin Saga is hands down one of the most visually attractive MMOs I've ever played. The screenshots, for once, do it justice. It does look that good in game.
I realize you have to like the particular style, which won't be to everyone's taste, but as an example of that style I have never seen better. The colors are extraordinarily rich and the environments deliriously lush. I get the profound feeling this is a game that's been art designed to within an inch of its life and that's always a positive in my book.
And it wasn't even the most disturbing encounter I had that day...
Secondly, it's lubricious to a disturbing degree. No, perhaps "lubricious" doesn't quite catch the flavor. It's fleshy. There's a disturbing delight in sexual imagery that seems all the more inappropriate given the doll-like characters but the game doesn't rest at bawdy. Appetites in general are the focus here: from a delight in violence to an orgy of gluttony, character after character indulges in a frenzy of lust - for weapons, for pies, for defenceless elf girls.
It could be unpleasant. It often is unsettling. Twin Saga is saved, just about, from outright creepiness by two things: the sheer gusto of the writing and the relatively demure visuals. The quest text isn't merely extensive and verbose, it's baroque and bizarre, while everyone dresses as though they're about to take a walk-on part in a restoration drama.
Okay, that's not at all inappropriate...
I haven't taken the trouble to determine whether Dragomon Hunter and Twin Saga share a developer but I'm all but certain they share a translator. TS's quest text is nowhere near as batshit insane as DH's, which may speak to an underlying difference in authorship, but tonally they're identical.
Syp was taken aback by the vocabulary, saying "listen, I write professionally, and this game is throwing words at me that I’ve never heard of before". He wondered whether Google translate might have had a hand but I think the explanation is much more likely to be one particular translator having the time of their life and getting away with it - possibly because they're the only one in the office who speaks both languages.
Flocculent? Flocculent?! "Bushy" wouldn't have done?
Whoever it is knows their way around both a thesaurus and a dictionary. Almost every arcane word that appears - and there are many - is used correctly. On the other hand someone did decide to render "curlicue" as "curly-Q" so who knows? Either way I love it. I read every word, which is why it took me nearly three hours to get to level 12. Syp estimated he spent 60% of his game-time talking to NPCs but I'd guess my tally came in closer to 75%.
What I certainly didn't spend much time doing was fighting. I think almost every single quest was either a fetch or kill, usually four, sometimes six, one time eight. The universal MMO gathering action is faster here than the average and combat at these levels consists literally of drumming your fingers as fast as you like on keys 1 and 2.
That's if you're in a hurry. Autoattack works just as well. It just takes a few seconds longer. Combine that with auto-find on the quest locations and auto-complete on the hand-ins and you have one very relaxing MMO.
I've seen a capybara. Trust me, they do not look like this.
And it very definitely is an MMO. You could assume that a game such as I'm describing would be indistinguishable from a solo RPG but these are precisely the kind of mechanics that attract what is probably the real global MMO audience.
The starting areas are heaving with players. I got two friend invites in a few minutes when I was hanging around the starting village - one in a pop-up and one in a whisper. All around you can see player characters standing in pairs or clusters talking to each other. It's like these are people who've come to an MMO because there are other people there to play with not in spite of it.
If I had unlimited time I would happily play Twin Saga for an hour or two every day. It's a bit of a sugar rush but it's bright and zippy and there seems to be plenty to do. What's more, the progression mechanics don't appear to be as abstruse as they often can be. I almost understood them right off the bat.
If I can fit a few sessions in I'm going to try to get at least as far in the main quest line as it takes to unlock the housing option - The Terracottage. One of these stomped past me while I was out adventuring and it was quite something.
That means completing the main quest sequence as far as level 21, which sounds entirely doable. I think I got further than that in Dragomon Hunter. Speaking of which, I guess I should do some more there, too.
So many games...
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Mahmoud Baghaeian was born into an Iranian family of artists. He studied carpet and tile design as well as painting and sculpture. In 1978, he moved to Canada. After studying engineering, he discovered clay and enrolled in a ceramic program. With his first major exhibition in 1990 he made a dramatic debut on the Montreal art scene. His work is characterized by fluid, Persian-inspired designs and refined, classical forms: each piece is a painting as much as a sculpture, an ancient relic as much as a contemporary art object. Baghaeian is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. He has exhibited widely, and his work is in public, private and corporate collections all over the world. In 1999, he was elected to the International Academy of Ceramics. (IAC)
CERAMICS EDUCATION
1989-90 Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta)
1987 Raku Workshop with Russel Kagan (Montreal, Quebec)
1985-87 Ceramic studies at John Abbott College (Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
1984 Ceramic course with Jim Thompson (Ottawa, Ontario)
1979-84 Carlton University School of Engineering (Ottawa, Ontario)
1983 Introduction to ceramics with Mimi Cabri (Ottawa, Ontario)
1975-77 Painting & sculpture workshops at the Caspian Sea Art Camps (summer sessions)
1974 Persian Carpet & Tileworks Design at the Isphahan Academy of Arts (Isphahan, Iran)
2017 Tucker’s prize for Ceramics, Toronto Outdoor Arts Exhibition (Toronto, Ont).
2006 Tehran Ceramic Biennial – First Award in Craftsmanship and Design Categories
1999, 2000, 2002-2004 Canada Council for the Arts – Travel Grant
2000-2003 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Travel Grant
1997 First Prize for Decorative Ceramics 1001 Pots Exhibition (Val-David, Quebec)
1995 Honorable Mention & Public’s Choice Award Japanese Tea Bowl Competition (Montreal, Quebec)
1977 Scholarship to Norway Norwegian International Art Competition (Tehran, Iran)
1975 Third Prize, First Decade of White Revolution Painting Competition (Tehran, Iran)
1999 International Academy of Ceramics (Geneva, Switzerland)
1999 Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec (Montréal, Quebec)
1996 RAAV (Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (Montreal, Quebec)
TEACHING AND LECTURING
2006 Guest Speaker : Slide lecture on Ceramics:
Yazd City Hall, Yazd, Iran
2006 Guest Speaker : Slide lecture on Ceramics
Kargahe Honar (Art Institute) Tehran,Iran
2002 Slide lecture and demonstrations:
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2002 Guest Artist in Residence:
2002 Guest speaker:
Slide lecture(Int’l slide forum) NCECA 2001 Kansas City, MO, USA
2001 Slide lecture and discussion on personal work at NCECA 2001 Charlotte, NC, USA
2000 Slide lecture and discussion on personal work at NCECA 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA
1994 Guest speaker: slide lecture on ceramics Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran, Iran)
1992 Workshop, Community Centre (Town of Mount Royal, Quebec)
1992 Workshop, Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts (Kingston Jamaica)
1989 Assistant teacher, Community Course Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta)
2018 IAC-Member’s exhibition New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
2017 IAC-Member’s exhibition, Museum of Design, Barcelona SPAIN
2016, 2017 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, CANADA
2012 IAC- Member’s exhibition New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
2010 IAC – Membrus exhibition MUSÉE NATIONAL DE CÉRAMIQUE DE SÈVRE2010 IAC, Member’s exhibition Musée national de céramique de Sèvres: Sèvres – Cité de la céramique Paris, France
2008 International contemporary ceramic exhibition, Jingdezhen, China
2008 IAC, Member’s exhibition, Xi`an, China
2008 Collection d’été, Studio Georgeville, Georgeville Qc. Canada
2007 31st Annual Philadelphia museum of art Craft Show, (Philadelphia, PA)
2007 Palm Beach 3 Contempary Photography Art & Design Art Fair(Palm Beach Fl.)
2006 Teheran Ceramic Biennale, (Teheran, Iran)
2006 The Third International Ceramic Tile Triennial (Elite-tile 2006) Museum of modern art (mam), Santo Domingo, Dominican republic
2006 IAC-Member`s exhibition, (Traveling show) Riga, Latvia-Tallinn, Estonia & Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Under the azure dome (Persian-Canadian visual arts exhibition) Harbour Front Cultural Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2005 BOWL, Centre de Céramique Bonsecours, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2004 IAC Member’s Exhibition, World Ceramics Exposition Foundation, Korea
2004 Ariana Museum, (Museum of Clay and Glass), Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Douzième biennale de céramique contemporaine de Châteauroux – Musée des Cordeliers, Chateauroux, France
2003 Collection d’été, Centre de Céramique Bonsecours, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2003 Made at the CLay Studio: The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2002 Winter Fest 2002, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD, USA
2002 Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2002 Collection d’été Centre de Céramique Bonsecours, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2002 IAC – Member’s 50th Anniversary exhibition, Athens, Greece
2002 Kansas City meets Quebec, Hyatt Regency Crown Center, Kansas City, MO. (Part of NCECA Conference 2002) Traveling exhibition presented at the Galerie des métiers d’art du Québec in Montreal (May 9 – June 9) and Musée Haut-Richelieu, St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Quebec. (June 26 – Aug. 26)
2001 IAC – Member’s exhibition, World Ceramics Exposition, Ichon, Korea.
2001 Les Grands Buffets, The Clay studio, Philadelphia, USA
2001 Au Présent-Contemporary Quebec ceramics, Musée Haut-Richelieu, St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Quebec.
2001 A Moment in Time, a Place in Space – Contemporary Quebec Ceramics, Queens Gallery and Art Center, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
2001 Dinner Works 2001, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, Kentuky
2000 IAC – Members’ exhibition, Keramion (Museum of Contemporary Ceramics) Frechen, Germany
2000 ‘Plural Readings’ – Contemporary Quebec Ceramics, Musée régional de St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, work by members of the Quebec Craft Council
2000 ‘Plural Readings’ – Contemporary Quebec Ceramics, Art History Gallery, University of Colorado – organized by The Quebec Cratfs Council as part of NCECA 2000, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
1999 Ovaisy Gallery (Emeryvile, California)
1998 A Sampling of Contemporary Quebec Ceramics, Stewart Hall Gallery (Pointe-Claire, Québec)
1995-& 1997 Prime Gallery (Toronto, Ontario)
1989-1999 1001 Pots (Annual event) La Galerie Kinya Ishikawa (Val-David, Quebec)
1994 Clay and Glass Gallery (Waterloo, Ontario)
1994 Jean Carsley Interiors (Montreal, Quebec)
1992 Saidye Bronfman Centre ( Montreal, Quebec)
1992 & 1994 Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran, Iran)
1991-1992 The Flames & Fire Event (Blainville, Quebec)
1992 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (San Angelo, Texas, U.S.A.)
1991 Farfelu, Visual Arts Centre (Montreal, Quebec)
1988 & 1991 Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Contemporary Ceramics (Montreal, Quebec)
1991 RAKU, Lynda Greenberg Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario)
1991 Persian Colours, Strathearn Cultural Centre (Montreal, Quebec)
1987-1990 Annual May Art Exhibition (Vankleek Hill, Ontario)
1989 The Canadian Guild of Crafts (Montreal, Quebec)
1988 45 Canadian artists, Lee Scalar Gallery (Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
1988 Dimension in Art, International Design Centre (Old Montreal, Quebec)
1987 Centre de céramique Bonsecours (Montreal, Quebec)
1986 Senior Show, John Abbott College (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec)
1986 Ufundi Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario)
1986 Galerie Les Artisans du Meuble québécois (Montreal, Quebec)
1977 Series of Reliefs (marble carving), Yazd City Hall (Yazd, Iran)
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Marlik art gallery (Yazd, Iran)
1991 Galerie L’empreinte (Old Montreal, Quebec)
1990 Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre (Pointe-Claire, Quebec)
1990 Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta)
1989 Visual Arts Centre (Montreal, Quebec)
1987 Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Contemporary Ceramics (Montreal, Quebec)
2008 MEKIC Gallery, Montreal Qc. Canada
2006 Bounty Gallery (Harbour Front Cultural Center ,Toronto Ontario, Canada
1998 Hourian Fine Arts Gallery (San Francisco, California)
1994 BARG Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
1993 Calixa Lavallée Centre (Montreal, Quebec)
1992 Classic Gallery (Isphahan, Iran)
1991 Gallery 89, John Abbott College (Ste. Anne-de Bellevue, Quebec)
Radio & Television interviews
2018 Ava TV, Montreal,CANADA
2007 BBC Persian Radio, Montreal, CANADA
2007 &2008 Radio Chacavac (Montreal’s Iranian community radio, Montreal CANADA
2006 Yazd Television (On my courier in the west), Yazd, IRAN
2003 CBC radio, (on state of fine craft in Montreal) Montreal, CANADA
1997 (RFI) Radio France International (on wining the 1st prize at 1001 pots exhibition, Val David, Qc. ), Montreal CANADA
1992 Radio Isphahan (jonge honar program), Isphahan, IRAN
1992 Jamaican national television, Kingston, Jamaica
1989 Radio free Banff, Banff center, Banff Alberta, CANADA
1977 Radio Yazd ( on low relief sculpture) Yazd, IRAN
(RECENT BOOKS AND MAGAZINES)
Revista International Ceramica, Madrid, Spain, No.139, 2015
Reveista internacional Ceramica, Number 114, 2009
Making Marks By Robin Hopper Krause publication, USA, 2004
Contemporary Studio Porcelain (second edition) By Peter Lane
A&C Black . London /University of Pennsylvania Press. Pennsylvania, 2003
The Craft and Art of Clay (Forth Edition) By Susan Peterson-Jan Peterson
The Overlook Press, Woodstock & New York, 2003
The Ceramic Spectrum (Second Edition) By Robin Hopper Krause publication,USA,2001
La revue de la céramique et du verre Number 131 July/augest 2003 and Number 132 September/October 2003 (French magazine)
Plaisirs de vivre (living with style) Volume 14 No 1 Montreal, March/April 2003
SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
2018 New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
2018 Racine Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
2016 Argentona Museum of Ceramics, Catalonia, Spain
2012 San Angelo Museum of fine Arts, Texas, U.S.A.
2010 Musée National de céramique de Sèvres: Sèvres – Cité de la céramique Paris, France
2008 Sanbao ceramic art institute, Jingdezhen, China
2008 Fule international ceramic art museum, Fuping, China
2006 Museum of Contemporary ceramics, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2006 Museum of applied arts, Riga, Latvia
2001-2006 Loto-Quebec Corporate Collection, Montreal, Canada
2002 Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2002 The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2001 World Ceramic Exposition foundation , Ichon, Korea
2000 & 2004 Ariana Museum, (Museum of Clay and Glass), Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Keramion (Museum of Contemporary Ceramics) Frechen, Germany
1999 City of Pointe-Claire, Stewart Hall (Pointe-Claire, Quebec)
1999 Placerdome Gold Company (Toronto, Ontario)
1996-1999 Canadian External Affairs Collection: Work in Canadian embassies in Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Jamaica
1994 Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran, Iran)
1992 The Oswald Harding Collection (Kingston, Jamaica)
1991 John Abbott College (Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec)
1990 The General Consulate of Japan (Montreal, Quebec)
1988 Burlington Cultural Centre (Burlington, Ontario)
1988 Future Electronics (Montreal, Quebec)
1988 The Royal Bank of Canada (Montreal, Quebec)
1987 Seagram Limited (Montreal, Quebec)
Works in private collections in Asia,
Europe, and the Americas
5333, Avenue Casgrain Suite 804 Montréal, Québec Canada H2T 1X3
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Soy Dios
Cardinal Fuzz and Sky Lantern Records have come together to bring the world Soy Dios, an extraordinary offering from Manchester's Dead Sea Apes. Ringing out like wind across the Atacama, Soy Dios could easily function as the soundtrack to some lost Jodorowsky movie that only exists in our collective imagination. Sun-baked electric guitar twangs cut across a monolithic rhythm section on the first part of this four-song suite, while the second and third segments dissipate into ghostly drones, with dubbed-out echoes of what has come before occasionally blowing to the surface. As one might hope and expect, it's the last quarter of the record that begins to bring everything back into focus - until the finale swallows you up like a sandstorm.It is clear that these musicians not only know their craft, but have the sight and vision to use it to sublime effect.
From the very first listen it is clear that Soy Dios is a colossal opening statement of intent from this key UK underground group, and one that is sure to become a critical point of reference for years to come. The record will be released in a run of 350 copies on black vinyl, as well as in limited-edition CD and cassette versions.
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‘The songs [...] are willed into being by Dead Sea Apes and defined by the slow-build and the careful, nearly telepathic manner in which the band determines when to preserve their power while setting forth with a shimmering, reptilian slither, and when the exact moment arrives to replicate total consciousness-exploding, multi-dimensional rocketry, fuelled by the twin engines of distortion and riff.’ - Ryan Muldoon, Revolt of the Apes
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Church Life Journal
A Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life
The Integralist Mirroring of Liberal Ideals
by Timothy Troutner March 08, 2019
A quarter century after Francis Fukuyama proclaimed liberalism “the end of history,” it is nearly impossible to avoid stumbling across rumors of its demise. With increasing populist dissent from the post-war global order, liberalism—not American left-wing politics but a combination of economic, legal, and social arrangements and their philosophical underpinnings—has received new scrutiny, especially among Catholics. Often attributed to John Locke, this system of free markets, free speech, and freedom of religion seeks to accommodate pluralism and avoid violence by focusing on procedures for getting along, rather than by legislating a vision of the good life. Although strains of liberalism differ, liberalisms typically claim to provide a neutral space for the exercise of freedom, which is construed as the highly individual project of self-creation.
Among the most outspoken of liberalism’s critics are “Catholic integralists.” Although the term “integralist” has a complex history, this essay focuses on the contemporary, predominantly American variety, which alleges that liberalism’s maintenance of neutrality inevitably clashes with Catholic efforts to shape society according to Christian notions of the common good. Submission to the Church’s teaching authority, they say, requires a return to the premodern integration of temporal and spiritual authorities within a Catholic order. Must committed Catholics accept integralism as liberalism’s antidote and, as the price of faithfulness, jettison religious pluralism in favor of premodern forms of coercive religious authority? No, there are grave objections to integralism which are internal to the Catholic faith.
Yet criticizing integralism need not imply a defense of liberalism. Integralism flourishes by posing this false dichotomy, by defining itself as the theologically orthodox antithesis to a heretical liberalism. (Framed this way, is it surprising that many Catholics flock to integralism?) Yet, despite its own claims, integralism is no true alternative to liberalism. It is reactionary—wedded to the liberalism it rejects—and as blind to Christendom’s errors as to the Christian truths liberalism distorts. Moreover, at the very moment when it promises a truly theological politics, integralism turns out not to be theological enough, smuggling in worldly notions of power under the cover of ostensibly theological formulas.
The alternative is a more radical theological politics which is neither liberal nor integralist, a politics which takes the Christological shape of Christian power, the spiritual character of salvation, and the nature of the Church more seriously. This politics must ground its dedication to freedom, its rejection of violence, and its commitment to the marginalized in the logic of the Christian faith rather than formal procedure.
In recent years, this small cadre of Catholics have coalesced around a distinctive interpretation of what, allegedly, “the Church has always taught” about the subordination of temporal power to spiritual power. Proof-texting from the encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius IX, integralists retrieve ideas relegated to obscurity following Vatican II: the ideal of a confessional polity, the juridical and even coercive authority of the Church as a perfect community (communitas perfecta), and the dangers of liberal notions of freedom. Integralism, according to the integralist website The Josias,
Rejects the liberal separation of politics from concern with the end of human life, holding that political rule must order man to his final goal. Since, however, man has both a temporal and an eternal end, integralism holds that there are two powers that rule him: a temporal power and a spiritual power. And since man’s temporal end is subordinated to his eternal end the temporal power must be subordinated to the spiritual power.
This definition places the rejection of liberalism front and center. Fearful that enforcing a single vision of the good life will lead to horrors like the Inquisition, liberal politics exalts means divorced from ends. Striving for neutrality, it seeks procedures which allow people who disagree to get along peacefully and relegates debate about ends to the private sphere.
Integralists correctly note that liberalism’s neutrality conceals a bias. The maintenance of a neutral public square forbids the dominance of any thick conception of the good not shared by all. This quickly leads to the privatization of religion and the secularization of society, manifesting liberalism’s hostility to any religion which sees itself as more than a private concern. Liberalism decrees that the good life consists in the freedom of private, self-chosen ends. Since this vision is inscribed in the procedures of political debate itself, it is placed beyond dispute. Rather than a neutral umpire, liberalism is, according to historian and post-liberal theorist Andrew Willard Jones, “the Confessional State par excellence,” dictating terms to all other faiths by stipulating which ends and means are legitimate.
As integralists tell the story, 20th century Catholics, especially in America, welcomed liberalism with open arms, renouncing dreams of a confessional state for the promise of a free market of ideas within which Catholicism could flourish. Having failed to heed the prophetic warnings of the 19th century popes, faithful Catholics are now realizing that their birthright has been sold for a mess of pottage. Liberalism’s neutrality is not only feigned but also conceals the spirit of Antichrist. Integralists argue that if Catholics do not dictate terms, others will dictate to them. They believe Catholics have no other choice but to renounce liberalism and advocate a Catholic regime, a societal order which promotes both temporal and eternal ends, integrating them by subordinating the lesser (temporal) power to the greater (spiritual) power. Some envision a throne and altar monarchy, others a confessional state, and still others the harmonious integrated social order of an era “before Church and state,” exemplified by the 13th century kingdom of Louis IX. Regardless, integralism announces the return of a politics of ends, declaring war on secularism in the name of theological faithfulness.
This critique, though powerful, tells only half of the story. Integralists, by labeling liberalism as the “Antichrist,” pass up an opportunity to capitalize on its key vulnerability: its dependence on Christianity. Liberalism is reluctant to recognize its debts to the religious traditions from which it claims to liberate humanity. Integralists actually play into liberalism’s hands by treating it like an autonomous rival rather than, as Jones writes, a tradition “parasitic on Christian orthodoxy.” If liberalism really is, as integralists are inclined to claim, a heresy, then as with all heresies, its ecclesial origin must be recognized and the distorted Christian truths which lend it its power identified. Its pretensions to independence must be unmasked and its truths purified from admixture of error and reclaimed as parts of the Catholic whole. Rather than undertake this task, integralists prefer to critique liberalism as something satanic or alien. In doing so, they neglect the Christian provenance of liberal ideas and the Christian pathos which fuels liberal critiques of Christendom. In the words of Jones, “Modernity was something that the Church did. It was the work of the baptized.”
As David Bentley Hart has written, modern notions of human dignity and universal personhood are dependent on Christianity. Liberalism’s commitment to freedom is a secularized version of the messianic promise “to set the oppressed free” (Luke 4:18) and its preoccupation with peace a vestige of the eschatological anticipation of an age when the nations “shall beat their swords into plowshares” (Isa 2:4). Liberals follow medieval precedent in placing conscience and consent at the center of philosophical reflection, just as their emphases on “subjectivity” and “interiority” follow Christian explorations of the soul from Augustine’s Confessions to the Ignatian exercises.
Early liberals did not criticize Christendom without good reason: many proto-integralist regimes abused their power. They executed heretics. They persecuted Jews, expelling them from their territory or massacring entire communities. They waged bloody wars which were exacerbated by confessional differences. Rightly scandalized by the horrific means authorized in the name of Christian ends, early liberals, with consciences still shaped by Christianity, noted the dissonance between these means and the Christian message. Of course, in secularizing Christian ideals, liberalism distorted them, turning freedom for the good into arbitrary liberty (freedom from) and separating subjectivity and conscience from their divine source. Eventually, liberalism ended up erecting a totalizing system which removed God from public life.
Yet salvaging the truth upon which liberalism is parasitic demands that Catholics take these ideals and critiques seriously. Jones recommends that Catholics reframe the liberal “lexicon” in explicitly theological terms and re-narrate the liberal epoch as “a diverting subplot . . . in a larger narrative” which centers on the People of God, history’s true protagonist. The liberal backlash that followed Christendom’s transgressions need not be narrated as the beginning of a liberal salvation history (as liberals would have it) nor as an interruption of Christian history, requiring that we turn back the clock (as integralists see it). Instead, Christians can narrate this backlash as an episode within Christian history, an opportunity to repent of these bloody episodes, recognizing that even “Catholic” power is subject to the distortions of the fallen libido dominandi (desire to dominate), a distortion manifest in the burning of heretics, the possession of slaves, the persecution of Jews, and the conquest of the Americas. At times, the Church has yielded to the temptation Christ faced in the desert, accepting the offer of the kingdoms of this world on the devil’s terms and exchanging the path that leads to the Cross for one that leads to worldly glory.
This theological re-narration is a fundamentally hopeful one. Although the Church may have been unfaithful and the errors of the ensuing liberalism may seem unredeemable, her indefectibility depends not on her merits but on God’s faithfulness. Even at the worst of times, the Spirit preserves what human beings squander, blessing the Church with the charisms of saints who shine amidst even the most profound darkness.
Despite her stumbles, the Church has an opportunity to take up anew the task of redeeming all truth. As Hans Urs von Balthasar explains, “the Catholic Church can see herself as the embodiment of wholeness and totality,” that is, as catholic, “only when she has done all in her power actively to incorporate the riches of all partial points of view.” If she is faithful, she can emerge from her passage through modernity more truly herself, containing, as Jones puts it, modernity’s “strengths and even its pathos, but without its exaggerated errors.” This means detaching modernity’s “achievements from the interpretation given them in liberalism,” in the words of theologian David Schindler. The Church may have to oppose liberalism, but it does not have to oppose modernity. Put another way, she must show the world a different way of being modern, a counter-modernity.
Rather than take this opportunity, integralists, content to play the contrarian who tells modern people that their cherished ideals are a lie, cede to liberalism its desired role as defender of freedom and conscience. Liberalism’s emancipatory politics draw their appeal from saving the world from those, including integralists, it sees as “theocratic fanatics.” Liberals catechize the young by feeding them a steady diet of horror stories about the Inquisition or the Galileo affair. They inculcate veneration for freedom, conscience, and peace by threatening a return of the Dark Ages if secularism and liberal progress are left behind.
Integralists play right into liberalism’s hands. Since they define themselves as liberalism’s enemies, they feel that they cannot concede that Christendom erred or learn from modernity; any concession would be a sign of weakness. Yet, by attacking freedom and autonomy, refusing to condemn the burning of heretics, or defending Pius IX’s handling of the Mortara case (the kidnapping of a Jewish child baptized without his parents’ knowledge) they simply confirm liberalism’s worst fears, living up to the caricature it has sketched for centuries. As Jones suggests, “in the liberal march to freedom,” Christians are meant to be “the ever-retreating but necessary tyrants”:
We are never more recognizable within the [liberal] storyline than when we find ourselves defending the alliance of crown and altar against individual liberty and freedom of conscience . . . the liberals have, of course, suspected us of being secretly integralists all along.
As an apologetic strategy, this is disastrous. Rather than show that liberal caricatures are faulty and the ideals modern people cherish are best served by something other than liberalism, integralists play a role that modern people have been trained to recognize and fear. Having dismissed the ideas of autonomy, freedom, and equality which constitute the moral vocabulary by which modern people make judgments, integralists eliminate any shared values by which they might persuade their opponents. As a result, integralists, if they engage liberalism’s questions at all, tend to give the answer it expects from its “tyrants”: Is the death penalty a legitimate punishment for heresy? Should the Church condemn the way it treated Jews under proto-integralist regimes? Are there any internal constraints preventing the return of these horrors if integralists succeed in replacing the external, formal constraints set by liberal proceduralism?
Thus, modern integralism reveals itself to be fundamentally reactionary, determined by the negation of its opposite. Integralism defends the abuses liberalism expects it to defend and opposes the ideals liberalism expects it to oppose. Liberalism and integralism are not alternatives. They represent opposing characters in a script written in advance by liberalism. Integralism cannot take us beyond liberalism—it can only more deeply entrench itself in its pre-drawn battle lines.
Liberalism cannot be bested by frontal assault. Catholics in search of a post-liberal politics will have to outflank it, choosing battles based on theological criteria rather than adopting a strategy of total opposition. Instead of blindly defending what liberals reject, they must recognize liberalism’s merits as well as its flaws, re-narrating any vigor in liberal critiques as a faint echo of Christianity’s subversion of fallen politics. By repenting of Christendom’s missteps, Catholics do not capitulate. By repenting, they work out the logic of the faith upon which liberal critiques were covertly parasitic. There are reasons internal to the Catholic faith for protecting a type of religious liberty and renouncing the persecution of Jews and heretics. These reasons, drawn from the sacrificial logic of the Cross, the spiritual nature of Christian salvation, and the character of the Church as Christ’s mystical body, are more theologically coherent than those offered by liberalism and provide greater protection than its external, formal constraints.
Catholics cannot be content to just criticize liberal ideals. A more compelling apologetics must demonstrate that longings for freedom, conscience, peace, and human dignity find their true home in the politics of the Body of Christ, provided one is willing to have these ideals purified and given a Christocentric focus. According to Gaudium et Spes, “only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light.” Liberalism’s articulation of these ideals and its proposed solution are dim, distorted reflections of the Christological light shed by the incarnation and the presence of the Church in history. If this perspective on the human person is the only ultimately valid one, the path toward the clarification and realization of liberal ideals lies in deeper theological commitment. Unfortunately, the liberal’s proceduralist fix, eschewing theology and renouncing thick conceptions of the good, bars this Christological corrective a priori.
Here integralism’s secret complicity with liberalism is revealed: integralists have little interest in a Christological corrective. It is no accident that the regimes integralists idealize stooped to coercive and violent forms of worldly power. This violence is a direct result of the non-Christological treatment of key terms like “power” and “subordination.” Integralism claims to be theologically robust, but it does not allow thick accounts of the Cross of Christ, salvation, or the nature of the Church, to determine the shape of Christian power. Thus it produces a model which, although nominally Christian, reflects the fallen libido dominandi. Integralists believe that “subordination” protects the distinction between nature and supernature. However, the way they construe this “subordination” actually models supernature on (fallen) nature, emptying the supernatural of its content and obscuring the distinction.
The Josias’s definition of integralism is illustrative here. There is no indication that the “eternal end” is participation in the life of the Trinity nor that the “spiritual power” is the Church, let alone any exploration of their meanings in the wider Christian story. Eternal salvation and earthly happiness are lumped together as “ends.” Similarly, the Church and political authority are simply “powers.” As for Christ, he is nowhere to be found. This bracketing of Christology and dramatic abridgment of soteriology and ecclesiology is not simply shorthand confined to this succinct definition. The obsession with final causality divorced from formal causality pervades integralism. Integralism’s pursuit of the final end—the salvation of souls—has lost all connection to the “form” of this salvation and the one who accomplishes it.
Most troubling is the absence of Christ in integralist treatments of “power” and “subordination.” An essential part of the gospel is a Christological subversion of worldly notions of power. After the Fall, human instantiations of power are more likely to reflect the sinful libido dominandi than the created order as God intended it. Since fallen human beings are prideful and envious, they are addicted, like the devil, to the methods of worldly violence and coercion which satisfy this desire to dominate. Human beings mistake these methods for power in its proper sense. In order to free human beings from this perverse fascination, in the words of St. Augustine, “it pleased God to deliver man from the devil’s authority by beating him at the justice game, not the power game, so that humans too might imitate Christ by seeking to beat the devil at the justice game, not the power game.” God, although supremely powerful, chose not to use overt displays of might to save humanity. This is part of divine pedagogy, which teaches by example in order to free human beings from their obsession with (worldly) power.
Properly speaking, this does not entail the rejection of power, but, instead, its Christological redefinition. Only by looking to “Christ crucified . . . Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:23-24) do we know the shape of true power, modeled on the one who took “the form of a slave” (Phil 2:7), for although “the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them . . . it will not be so among you . . . whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave” (Matt 20:25-27). Rather than summon legions of angels, Christ told Peter to put away his sword (Matt 26:52-53), choosing “what is weak in the world to shame the strong” (1 Cor 1:27) and defeating the devil first by the humility of the Cross and through the centuries by the blood of the martyrs. When we take Christ as our model, true power shows itself in worldly powerlessness, not in glory or hegemony. God is found at the lowest point of humility and self-emptying: in the Virgin’s womb, in Bethlehem’s stable, and in Golgotha.
Integralists, however, continue to defend the methods of Christendom and use terms like “power” and “subordination” without qualification as if this Christological redefinition had never taken place. For in this cruciform perspective, their model would become incomprehensible. The Church is indeed a “power” and the “highest” one of all, but in cruciform logic this implies the most radical form of servanthood. In the words of Lumen Gentium, “Just as Christ carried out the work of redemption in poverty and persecution, so the Church is called to follow the same route that it might communicate the fruits of salvation to [humanity].” Nothing could be further from cruciform power than using “higher” status to enforce “subordination” or wielding the temporal sword to “beat the devil at the power game.” Integralists may be eager to crown “Christ the King,” but the crown they forge for him is not the crown of thorns he has chosen.
In the absence of this Christological redefinition, the specific content of Christian salvation is also lost. The abstract reference to an “eternal end” exemplifies integralism’s tendency to treat salvation as if it were just like a “temporal end,” only higher. Without theological specification, “subordination” to the “eternal end”—could, and, for integralists, often does—license the crudest worldly means. What temporal good, including the life of a heretic, cannot be sacrificed for souls? Similarly, will not public support by a confessional regime do wonders in advancing this “eternal end,” just as temporal authority plays an indispensable role in securing temporal ends? Yet taking the content of salvation seriously complicates these straightforward solutions. As David Schindler argues, “truth is not a juridical thing which can be imposed . . . It is first the person of Jesus Christ.” Conversion requires “the path of discipleship.” One enters into the life of the Trinity only through conformity with the one who gave his life so that others might live. A thick description of salvation makes some of Christendom’s methods appear deeply incongruous; executing a person to promote union with a crucified victim involves severe cognitive dissonance. Moreover, the fact that salvation involves discipleship places clear limits on the efficacy of state support of Christianity. The conversion of the emperor may facilitate the functioning of the Church’s external structures or make lives of virtue easier, but it cannot eliminate the scandal of the Cross. Even under the best of conditions, conversion demands choosing to leave everything behind and to take up that Cross. In fact, state support of Christianity can obscure the radicality of the gospel beneath the veneer of civic respectability.
Integralist ecclesiology is similarly theologically thin. During the medieval period, caught up in battles with secular authorities who tried to dominate her, the Church primarily defined herself using juridical terminology borrowed from political theory to articulate this idea of “subordination.” This was an understandable strategy as she attempted to carve out space for herself amidst hostile powers. However, these analogies are barely theological, and, when not used with sufficient care, allow the Christian imagination to fall captive to worldly notions of power. Thus, a theological corrective was necessary lest the Church mistake these external definitions for her true essence. As Francesca Murphy notes, beginning with the German theologian Johann Möhler and culminating with Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis Christi, popes and theologians indebted to the Church Fathers reemphasized the identity of the Church as the mystical body of Christ. Vatican II supplemented this image with an ecclesiology focused on the People of God and theologians have rounded out the portrait by pointing to the Church as the Bride of Christ and the image of Trinitarian communion. In all of them, the Church is an organic and personal reality, not another earthly polity. Of course, the Church is visible, and so thus has visible, even juridical, structures. Yet, even these must be shaped by the identity of the Church they serve. Integralists would have the Church revert to the medieval pattern, ignoring these theological correctives and reducing the Church to a temporal power. As Henri de Lubac argues, positing “a temporal subordination” of temporal power to the Church “under the pretext of exalting spiritual power and giving it the superior position” is “in fact, to ‘temporalize’” the Church. Integralists “expose [the Church] . . . to the loss of sacred authority,” lowering “her . . . to the rank of the powers of the world.” Integralists attempt to exalt the Church, but by modeling her power on worldly patterns, they diminish her and identify her with her external structures alone. Inevitably, coercion creeps into the Christian imagination. According to David Schindler, “If the Church, however unconsciously, is conceived first as a juridical body, and thus in terms of something like political power, any direct influence it has in the world cannot but tend to be coercive.” Whether integralists grant the Church coercive powers directly or delegate punishment to a docile temporal power makes little difference. In neither case does the Church reflect the Christological “form” which animates her and gives even her external structures their proper integrity. Not only do integralists rob the Church of her resemblance to Christ, who renounced worldly weapons, their theology demonstrates a lack of faith, fearing that, in de Lubac’s words, “without certain measures taken in the temporal order, the Church might fail before reaching her destiny.” Integralists “do not notice that they are tempting the Church, just as Satan tempted Christ in the desert.”
Integralism only works if you “squint”—ignoring the Cross of Christ and obscuring the content of salvation and the spiritual character of the Church until they are fuzzy enough that their profound differences from temporal “ends” and the political community disappear and all that is left is a clear-cut subordination of the higher to the lower without the theological “form.” Rather than replacing liberalism’s empty center with theological substance, integralism brackets Christology and abridges soteriology and ecclesiology.
Having failed to specify its terms theologically, integralism always fills in the gaps left by its formal derivation of a vague “subordination” by means of a crude analogy with worldly power, adopting whatever notions of power and subordination are ready at hand. These notions of power are inevitably fallen ones enslaved to the libido dominandi. If heresy threatens souls, the subordination of the temporal power is read to imply that heretics can be burned to advance “salvation,” just as worldly power takes lives to protect the community. If the Church is a “perfect community,” and earthly “perfect communities” possess coercive powers, a fortiori the Church must as well. Integralists demean, even betray, the spiritual realities under consideration with these unbaptized notions of power and subordination
Integralism is not a true alternative to liberalism. Defining itself against its negation, it fails either to see the Christian origin of the ideals liberalism distorts or repent of Christendom’s sins and thus plays the part of “tyrant” in liberalism’s drama. Nor can it provide theological substance to replace liberalism’s empty center: its bracketing of Christology and abridgment of soteriology and ecclesiology enslave it to worldly notions of power.
Integralism claimed to present an ideal, however remote, for which to strive. Like liberalism, it offered, in Patrick Deneen’s words, a vision of “how the Church can be at home in the world.” Without this fixed star, how can Catholics navigate politically?
Perhaps there is something idolatrous about this question, for “here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come” (Heb 13:14). Until the eschaton, as Augustine taught, the city of God and the city of Man dwell alongside one another, and none of us are free enough from the libido dominandi to imagine, let alone establish, a regime that is fully and finally just. Rather than usurping the place of God, as Deneen says, our “birthright is to be the pilgrim Church on earth,” resisting “the notion that our project is to make ourselves at home in the world.”
Lest this imply despair or withdrawal from the world, recall the politics the Church herself is: a foretaste of the eschatological New Jerusalem. She needs no blueprint of an ideal regime or dream of “subordination” to be political for her very existence is a politics. She is a sign of the unity of the whole human race and, in her rites and sacraments, invites all of creation to participate in an economy of gift and thanksgiving. This remains the case even when, as in her first centuries, she has no worldly power. Amidst the politics of death, the Church is the light of the nations (lumen gentium). Faithfully being the Church, first and foremost, is Christian politics, and for this there are no predetermined models, only a prudential and imaginative task which faces each generation anew.
Integralism’s failure cannot be allowed to obscure the fact that the liberal state and the capitalist market are hopelessly incompatible with any genuinely political life, let alone faithful Catholic politics. We must begin not with grandiose integralist dreams about a revived Habsburg Empire or schemes for a “long march through the institutions,” but with something far humbler: local communities organized around the works of mercy. Through the Catholic Worker movement, Servant of God Dorothy Day created spaces where the politics that the Church is could be lived, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and proclaiming good news to the poor. As Michael Baxter has noted, the work of these local communities does not obviate the need for what one might call “plain politics.” In fact, carving out room for such endeavors within a hostile order requires savvy negotiation with liberal institutions. Yet, local communities and their practices and virtues furnish the context and material conditions for both the discernment of what sort of “plain politics” follow from the gospel and the “clarification of thought” necessary for tackling larger “structures of sin.” They are workshops for imagining, along with non-Catholics of good will, an end to capitalism and the replacement of liberal democracy with something that preserves its achievements. Nothing could be further from integralism’s nostalgia for coercive authority than Day’s non-violence and commitment to the marginalized—yet nothing better reflects the Christological corrective Christendom so desperately needs.
Integralists are right to recognize that regimes that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as Lord can quickly transform into the apocalyptic beasts of Revelation, making war against the saints. Liberalism is not exempt—it too has its claws, despite its pretensions to peace. However, regimes which appear in sheep’s clothing, confessing Christ’s lordship, can still turn out to be ravenous wolves (Matt 7:15). If integralists aspire to a truly Christian politics, rather than one which takes its cues from the methods of Antichrist, they must remember that the one who has defeated and will defeat these beasts is portrayed in Revelation as a “Lamb, looking as it had been slain” (Rev 5:6). His reign, as Michael Baxter argues, “makes folly of the rulers of this age even while his head is adorned with a crown of thorns.” If Christians hesitate to revive coercive religious authority, perhaps it is not because they are enthralled by liberalism’s empty center. Perhaps it is because their imaginations, like Day’s, have been captured by the One who has redefined forever the shape of true power.
Editorial Note: The author wishes to acknowledge the significant editorial and conceptual contributions made to this essay by Hogan Herritage, who read through this piece numerous times at various stages in its development and suggested crucial lines of development.
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Timothy Troutner
Timothy Troutner is a doctoral candidate in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Drawing upon 20th-century German theology and French phenomenology, his research explores the doctrine of creation as it intersects with language.
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Bandari FC prepared for congested campaign
By Robbie Chome For Citizen Digital
Bandari FC captain Felly Mulumba believes the club is ready for a packed season with the demands of challenging on three fronts, saying it’s a good challenge for the team to play the Confederation of Africa (CAF) matches.
After booking the ticket for the continental showcase, Kenya Ports Authority Managing Director Daniel Manduku pledged to take the boys to South Africa for their pre-season ahead of the new campaign.
Mulumba and his team must prepare for fixture congestion, especially with the Dockers required to travel long distances to honour league fixtures every week. The captain is confident his side has what it takes to challenge for the busy 2019-2020 season.
Speaking to Citizen Digital, the Congolese was quick to acknowledge the team’s success in recent years will be a catalyst as they look forward to the new campaign.
“It’s a good opportunity for us and a step forward for the team, we have finished second in the league for two seasons now but we are happier this season we delivered a trophy(Shield Cup). It’s a great achievement,” said Mulumba.
On the CAF assignment, he added, “we are ready as a team. We know we have a busy schedule but I can say that comes hand in hand with our success because without winning the Shield we would not be in that competition. We are going to try our best.”
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The boys’ performance in recent years has seen them earn lots of goodies from the management and Mulumba, who has been linked with a move away from the club, has his sights on the tour.
“Last season we were in Zanzibar and now we have a South Africa token,” said Mulumba.
The Mwalala coached side will have to strengthen their side if they want to pose a serious challenge on the continental stage. Despite the acquisition of Zoo Kericho’s Danson Chetambe, Bandari will have to add two or three more signings to help them fight on all fronts with both physical and mental fatigue likely to catch up with the players.
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Sanchez strikes as Copa holders Chile thrash Japan
By Reuters For Citizen Digital
Chile began their Copa America defence in emphatic fashion with a thumping 4-0 win over tournament guests Japan on Monday with Manchester United misfit Alexis Sanchez scoring for the first time in five months.
The 2015 and 2016 Copa champions took the lead late in the first half with a towering header from midfielder Erick Pulgar.
Journeyman striker Eduardo Vargas then continued his remarkable consistency for his country by scoring at a fourth consecutive major tournament and doubling Chile’s lead in the 54th minute with the help of a deflection.
Sanchez made it 3-0 with a diving header from close range in the 82nd minute, Chile’s all-time top scorer punching the air in delight after enduring a frustrating season with United compounded by a knee injury suffered in March.
A minute later Sanchez laid on a pass for Vargas to score again, a classy chip which saw him become Chile’s top scorer in the Copa America (12) and replace Marcelo Salas as the country’s second all-time leading scorer behind Sanchez.
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“For six weeks I felt worse than I ever have before,” he told reporters. “I struggled in the first half as I felt stifled but in the second half I was more relaxed and played with more freedom and excitement.”
The win put Chile joint top of Group C with Uruguay, who hammered Ecuador 4-0 on Sunday.
Japan, one of two guests in the South American championship alongside Qatar, were fielding a largely young and inexperienced side which suggests they are using the tournament as a testing ground for players ahead of next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Striker Ayase Ueda missed a great chance to equalise in the first half while new Real Madrid signing Takefusa Kubo missed the target late in the game when the goal was gaping.
Chile are considered outsiders to win the tournament after a downturn in form and results which led to them failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
But Sanchez said they were now on the right track.
“I think we have improved as a team since 2015 in defending and getting on the attack quickly,” he added.
“We’ve won a very difficult game and now we have to think about our next one.”
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Irma Update: September 8, Friday
After claiming Hurricane Irma was a liberal hoax, Rush Limbaugh evacuates South Florida pic.twitter.com/NVvceqZWwx
— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 8, 2017
2 Atlantic hurricanes currently have winds of 150 mph (#Irma and #Jose) – 1st time on record Atlantic has had 2 150+ mph storms at same time pic.twitter.com/SZm1VMTCOs
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 8, 2017
Fingerprint of #climatechange is visible in increasing # of extreme weather catastrophes while # of geophysical disaster stays flat. #Irma pic.twitter.com/f5I1im9uXQ
— Climate Signals (@ClimateSignals) September 8, 2017
From left-to-right: Katia, Irma, and Jose.
Collectively, this is the most active (strength + size) the Atlantic has been in recorded history pic.twitter.com/J6IDyoycon
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 8, 2017
Colorado State University:
Hurricane Irma Meteorological Records/Notable Facts Recap (through September 8 at 11am EDT)
Note: Lifetime refers to storm lifetime to date
Intensity Measures
– 185 mph lifetime max winds – tied with Florida Keys (1935), Gilbert (1988) and Wilma (2005) for second strongest max winds of all time in Atlantic hurricane. Allen had max winds of 190 mph in 1980
– 185 mph lifetime max winds – the strongest storm to exist in the Atlantic Ocean outside of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on record
– 185 mph max winds for 37 hours – the longest any cyclone around the globe has maintained that intensity on record. The previous record was Haiyan in the NW Pacific at 24 hours
– 914 mb lifetime minimum central pressure – lowest since Dean (2007) and 10th lowest in satellite era (since 1966)
– 914 mb lifetime minimum central pressure – lowest pressure by an Atlantic hurricane outside of the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on record
– First Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Matthew (2016) and first Category 5 hurricane in the tropical Atlantic (7.5-20°N, 60-20°W) since Hugo (1989)
– 3 day lifetime as a Category 5 hurricane – tied with Allen for 2nd longest lifetime spent at Cat. 5 strength – trailing only Cuba (1932) which was 3.25 days
– 3 consecutive days as a Category 5 hurricane – the longest in the satellite era (since 1966)
Integrated Measures
– Generated the most Accumulated Cyclone Energy by a tropical cyclone on
record in the tropical Atlantic (7.5-20°N, 60-20°W)
– Generated more Accumulated Cyclone Energy than the first eight named storms of the Atlantic hurricane season (Arlene-Harvey) combined
– Generated the most Accumulated Cyclone Energy in a 24-hour period on record, breaking old record set by Allen (1980)
– 52.4 Accumulated Cyclone Energy units so far – the 5th most by an Atlantic hurricane in the satellite era (since 1966)
– Generated more Accumulated Cyclone Energy than 14 entire Atlantic hurricane seasons in the satellite era (since 1966)
– Generated 3.75 major hurricane days in the tropical Atlantic (7.5-20°N, 60- 20°W) – trailing only Luis (1995) for major hurricane days in the tropical Atlantic
Landfall Records
– Leeward Islands: Strongest storm on record to impact the Leeward Islands defined as 15-19°N, 65-60°W for this calculation, with max winds of 185 mph. Okeechobee Hurricane (1928) and David (1979) were previous strongest at 160 mph
– Turks and Caicos: Closest approach of a Category 5 hurricane on record
– The Bahamas: First Category 5 hurricane to make landfall since Andrew (1992)
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grindupbaker Says:
Well liberal hoaxes can be quite frightening I would think. I’d definitely run away.
In case people didn’t listen to the Media Matters clip above, here’s what Limbaugh said:
“I’m not going to get into details, because of the security nature of things, but, ah, it turns out that we will not be able to do the program here tomorrow. That will be, ah, in the hands of Mark Steyn tomorrow. We’ll be on the air next week folks, from parts unknown. So we’ll be back on Monday, it’s just that tomorrow is going to be problematic.”
Note, not a single word about the reason for his departure. All week, apparently, this bag of hot air tells his ignorant listeners that the media focus on Irma was due to a left wing bias, to scare people, etc (yeah right, the weather models have a left wing bias; *rolls eyes*). Note that he has claimed to be right 99.8% of the time (or some such ridiculous number). So the dumbest of his listeners may have chosen to stay. I repeat, he doesn’t say why his broadcasting the show “is going to be problematic”. This is criminal, and he should be held responsible.
And I’m reminded of something that Russell Cook wrote here back on June 9:
“How many of you shun any words from Limbaugh or Morano on the topic and would run, not walk, away from an invite to attend one of Heartland’s climate conferences?”
link to quote: https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/08/al-gore-defending-paris-on-fox-news/#comment-93388
Tell us Russell, if you’re reading this, what you think of Limbaugh’s behavior, and whether you think we have cause to shun any words from your man.
I should add, as reported by The Hill:
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/349794-limbaugh-evacuates-after-calling-irma-liberal-plot
After heavy criticism from the Washington Post and NBC weatherman Al Roker, among others, Limbaugh devoted considerable time on his radio show to insist that he had also said Hurricane Irma, a deadly category 4 storm with winds of up to 185 mph that has been tracking to likely hit South Florida for days , was “dire” and “mammoth”.
“It’s gonna affect Florida no matter where it goes. And the effects in Florida, depending on where, are gonna be damaging,” Limbaugh said on his radio show on Thursday.
Limbaugh also said it would be “legally impossible” to do his program on Friday, which CNN security analyst Juliette Kayyem noted means his area of Palm Beach County is under mandatory evacuation.
So he suggests it is for legal reasons, rather than because he wants to save his skin, that he’s outta there…
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From ABC to HBO to Netflix and beyond
TV Review: Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger and Luke Cage Pack a Compelling One-Two Punch
Both series promise a summer full of engaging, thoughtful superhero drama
by Kate Kulzick
on June 21, 2018, 5:35pm
Olivia Holt, Aubrey Joseph (Freeform) / Simone Missick, Mike Colter (David Lee/Netflix)
The TV arm of the Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t have the best track record of late. Despite being one of the Netflix series’ stronger second outings, Jessica Jones season two failed to recapture the magic of season one’s landmark discussion of surviving sexual trauma. Neither Iron Fist nor The Defenders could overcome their poor pacing, forgettable villains, and Marvel’s first big protagonist misstep, the insufferable Danny Rand, and the less said about Inhumans the better. Fortunately, with Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger and the second season of Netflix’s Luke Cage, Marvel TV continues the turnaround it started with Hulu’s Runaways, prioritizing compelling, nuanced character drama over spectacle and CGI.
Cloak & Dagger reimagines its comic book inspirations as teenagers, strangers drawn together by their shared history of trauma and loss and the fateful explosion that granted two unknowing children strange and usual superpowers. The pilot opens with their joint origin stories: Tandy (Olivia Holt), picked up late from ballet by her loving, but overworked scientist father, and Tyrone (Aubrey Joseph), running from trigger-happy police officers with his kind and honorable big brother, reach out and clasp hands underwater as they’re enveloped by dark and light energies, Tandy surviving the car crash that traps her father underwater and Tyrone escaping the police officers who killed his brother. When the two meet again, years later, the dormant powers they somehow acquired that night burst forth, complicating their already troubled lives. There’s more to discover about the explosion and experiments that gave them their powers, but the pilot and subsequent episodes stay focused on what matters: Tandy and Ty’s journeys from the beach where they washed up together to where the series picks up, when their powers begin to manifest.
Opening with the characters’ origin stories, immediately giving audiences not only a glimpse of their lives before the events that would change everything, but also answering the base question of how they got their powers, is the series’ first of several canny storytelling choices. It’s immediately compelling, perhaps the most memorable and effective comic book adaptation opening since The Watchmen’s amazing pre-credits montage. The contrast between who these characters were and who they’ve become is immediately apparent, and it’s not hard for audiences to begin filling in gaps. More importantly, it makes viewers want to start imagining Tyrone and Tandy’s lives. It’s efficient, thoughtful storytelling that gets the pesky question of “How?” out of the way so that the series can focus on “What now?”
Olivia Holt, Aubrey Joseph (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)
That second question is the more important and the more interesting of the two, and another of Cloak & Dagger’s strengths is how it chooses to engage with it. Rather than dropping into standard teenage existences for both characters, introducing friends and confidants to act as audience surrogates, the series shows rather than tells. Tandy lives on her own, holing up in an abandoned church and returning home to her mother’s only when she needs to. We follow her as she honey pots rich, young men and steals from them, seeing her in action and learning who she’s become through her choices rather than monologues. Tyrone is living a much more traditional TV teen life, but his anger over his brother’s murder comes roaring back to the surface when he discovers the police department covered for the officer who killed his brother, an officer they claimed did not exist and that Tyrone had misremembered and misidentified. His alienation from his schoolmates and parents is all the more powerful for how relatable it is, and like so many teens, Ty pulls inward as he struggles to deal with his rage. It would have been easy to pair the two up immediately or introduce them with a superhero meet-cute. Instead, the series takes its time setting them up individually and diving into their psyches before having them interact meaningfully in the present.
This patient approach immediately starts paying dividends thanks to the strong performances of both Holt and Joseph. They’re curious and emotive, without overplaying the intense material they’re given, and they have terrific chemistry together. The early episodes of the season focus almost entirely on the central duo, but there are also strong supporting performances from Andrea Roth and Gloria Reuben as Tandy and Tyrone’s mothers. With only a handful of episodes having aired so far, it’s too early to place Cloak & Dagger next to Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, and season one of Luke Cage as one of the MCU’s best TV series, however it’s off to a terrific start and well worth catching up with for any comic book fans leery of the characters’ teenage reboot or the show’s home at teen-centered Freeform.
While audiences will need to wait week-to-week to explore the world of Cloak & Dagger, they can dive right in with season two of Netflix’s Luke Cage. The first season of the series has been hailed by some as one of Marvel’s best, a specific and visceral adaptation with excellent performances and powerful storytelling. Unfortunately, the Marvel Netflix series have a habit of delivering strong freshman outings only to follow them up with disappointing sophomore seasons. That trend ends with Luke Cage. While the season starts shakily, bogged down by a large cast of disparate characters and some underwhelming performance beats, the season finds its legs by episode three and steadies itself before standing tall and delivering consistent, entertaining, and thoughtful television. Most Netflix series, particularly the Marvel adaptations, struggle with overly long seasons. They start strong, build momentum, then stall out as they hold back plot points and character developments for the final stretch of episodes. Not so with Luke Cage, which wisely puts Luke on the back foot early in the season, allowing him to organically gain ground and then falter several times. There’s no sense of false jeopardy, unnecessary dithering, or the narrative demanding foolish, out-of-character mistakes, which makes for a much more satisfying season, particularly in a binge-viewing model.
Mike Colter (David Lee/Netflix)
Season two learns from the mistakes of the end of season one and centers its conflict and drama on Black Mariah’s (Alfre Woodard) family history, rather than Luke’s. Instead of surprising Luke (Mike Colter) with another specter from his past, it’s Mariah who has ghosts to contend with, and the battle between Mariah and her rival, Bushmaster (Mustafa Shakir), for Harlem inevitably pulls Luke into its crosshairs. Luke, in the meanwhile, is still processing the events of the end of season one and The Defenders. He’s holding on to lots of anger towards his father (the great Reg E. Cathey, in his final role) and that bitterness is poisoning him, pushing him more easily towards violence when previously, his cool head and intellect would have prevailed. This prompts tension in Luke and Claire’s (Rosario Dawson) relationship and thread of familial sin and the power of forgiveness versus fury runs through the season.
Like Cloak & Dagger, the second season of Luke Cage is full of smart writing choices. The strength of Luke and Claire’s bond is never questioned, nor is Luke’s connection to Harlem. Luke and Misty Knight (Simone Missick) pick right back up as bantering comrades against Harlem’s criminal underbelly, and Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick) pops up at just the right time, for just the right length. Bushmaster is intriguing and well-motivated, with a sense of history and a fierce drive, and each featured supporting character displays depth, a specific and valuable perspective, and then exists, stage left, as soon as they’re no longer needed. The visual style and kinetic, music-driven fight scenes from season one return, and while there may be a few more scraps than the show necessarily needs, the writers make sure to bring some creativity to Luke’s predicaments. The show is particularly successful with Bushmaster, Luke’s primary super-powered opponent. The fight coordinator, stunt coordinators, and stunt doubles give Bushmaster a distinct physicality and fighting style that makes both him and the Luke/Bushmaster fights stand out, which makes these fights easier to follow.
As in season one, the performances are terrific. Colter once again grounds the show and brings complexity to even the most straightforward beats. Luke takes a while to get to realizations Claire (and the audience) can see miles away, but Colter makes that journey relatable and satisfying, rather than frustrating. Misty is promoted to almost co-protagonist in season two, and Missick makes the most of her extra screen time. After certain season two episodes, fans of Misty will be clamoring for a Daughters of the Dragon spin-off starring Misty and Colleen, and based on their time together in season two, Missick and Henwick are more than up to the task. Dawson remains one of the highlights of the entire MCU, elevating every scene she’s in and bringing out the best in her scene partners, and new addition Shakir makes an instant impression as Bushmaster. Woodard is reliably excellent, and as mentioned earlier, the increased focus on Mariah works very well. Unfortunately, her relationship with Shades (Theo Rossi) lacks the sizzle one would hope for — Woodard and Rossi have excellent chemistry as co-conspirators, but despite their individual charisma, they’re surprisingly unconvincing as a romantic pair. Despite that, the villainous side of the ensemble remains well cast and well-drawn, an essential part of the success of season two.
Alfre Woodard, Mustafa Shakir (David Lee/Netflix)
As Marvel continues to expand its slate of superhero TV, it’s encouraging to see its most recent additions, Cloak & Dagger and Luke Cage season two, learn from the mistakes of their predecessors and deliver consistently engaging, thoughtful television. It remains to be seen if this trend will continue and Marvel TV is finally moving past its focus on drawn-out, self-serious, origin-story-heavy narratives. However, if future Marvel offerings can build on the successes and careful recalibrations shown in both of these series, there’s a lot for fans of comic-to-TV adaptations to be excited about.
Grade: Cloak & Dagger, B+ / Luke Cage season two, A-
Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger, new episodes airing Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST. Showrunner: Joe Pokaski. Aubrey Joseph, Olivia Holt, Gloria Reuben, Andrea Roth, Emma Lahana, J. D. Evermore. Three episodes screened for review.
Marvel’s Luke Cage, Netflix. Full season begins streaming June 22nd. Showrunner: Cheo Hodari Coker. Mike Colter, Simone Missick, Alfre Woodard, Theo Rossi, Ron Cephas Jones, Mustafa Shakir, Rosario Dawson, Reg E. Cathey. Six episodes screened for review.
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The State of the Gulf of Mexico
Posted 9:00 PM, March 25, 2014, by C. Sandridge, Updated at 06:23PM, March 25, 2014
GALVESTON, TX – The wildlife in Galveston Bay isn’t too happy living under the sea right now. However, folks are trying to get their water-world oil-free and back to normal.
Executive Director of Harte Research Institute, Larry McKinney says, “The Gulf is resilient as ever and it can really absorb a lot, but as with anything if you stretch that rubber band out eventually it could break and it’s a whole series of these kinds of incidents we have to be concerned with…” but as of right now he says Texas is the best equipped state to deal with this kind of oil spill.
Besides working to cleanup the mess, it’s also important to think about protecting our wildlife, including the marshes and wetlands.
The President of the Galveston Bay Foundation, Bob Stokes, says it’s just as important to put protect our marshes as it is our wildlife.
Taking a look back we should’ve already learned these lessons.
A study looking at the effects of the BP spill in the Gulf back in 2010 has shown that spill is still causing heart problems in commercial fish, like tuna and amber-jack.
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found fish exposed to low concentrations of oil had abnormal heartbeats, but fish with high exposure levels had “severely malformed hearts” that don’t function quite right. Heart Breaking!
Even scarier? Scientists say it could lead to the losses of these popular deep-sea fish. You don’t have to be a scientist to know that in this giant Eco-system we call Earth, the loss of even the smallest species can throw off a very delicate balance.
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Home » Focus Areas » Intermediary Liability
World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap)
Whether and when communications platforms like Google, Twitter and Facebook are liable for their users’ online activities is one of the key factors that affects innovation and free speech. Most creative expression today takes place over communications networks owned by private companies. Governments around the world increasingly press intermediaries to block their users’ undesirable online content in order to suppress dissent, hate speech, privacy violations and the like. One form of pressure is to make communications intermediaries legally responsible for what their users do and say. Liability regimes that put platform companies at legal risk for users’ online activity are a form of censorship-by-proxy, and thereby imperil both free expression and innovation, even as governments seek to resolve very real policy problems.
In the United States, the core doctrines of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have allowed these online intermediary platforms user generated content to flourish. But, immunities and safe harbors for intermediaries are under threat in the U.S. and globally as governments seek to deputize intermediaries to assist in law enforcement.
To contribute to this important policy debate, CIS studies international approaches to intermediary obligations concerning users’ copyright infringement, defamation, hate speech or other vicarious liabilities, immunities, or safe harbors; publishes a repository of information on international liability regimes and works with global platforms and free expression groups to advocate for policies that will protect innovation, freedom of expression, privacy and other user rights.
Daphne Keller
Director of Intermediary Liability
Daphne Keller is the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. Her work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights.
Joan Barata
Consulting Intermediary Liability Fellow
Joan Barata is an international expert in freedom of expression, freedom of information and media regulation. As a scholar, he has spoken and done extensive research in these areas, working and collaborating with various universities and academic centers, from Asia to Africa and America, authoring papers, articles and books, and addressing specialized Parliament committees.
Giancarlo F. Frosio is a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Previously he was the Intermediary Liabilty fellow with Stanford CIS. He is also a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at Strasbourg University. Giancarlo also serves as Affiliate Faculty at Harvard CopyrightX and Faculty Associate of the Nexa Research Center for Internet and Society in Turin.
Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau
Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau is a Non-Residential Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. He was previously the Intermediary Liability Fellow at Stanford CIS. He was also head of the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) at the law school of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro (FGV DIREITO RIO), where he coordinated and conducted research on freedom of expression, intellectual property, Internet regulation, consumer rights and telecommunications regulation.
Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems
By Daphne Keller on May 6, 2019 at 9:41 am
Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models for doing that in my recent paper, Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech. This blog post excerpts that discussion, and sketches out potential legal regimes to address major platforms’ function as de facto gatekeepers of online speech and information.
New EU rules on video-sharing platforms: will they really work?
By Joan Barata on February 18, 2019 at 12:30 am
The new EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) has been officially adopted and published. it is now time for member States to start the process of incorporating its provisions into their respective legal and institutional frameworks.
You've Been Sued In The E.U. For Copying A "Short Extract"!
By Ryan E. Long on February 16, 2019 at 3:38 pm
You are CEO of Google. When you wake up tomorrow morning, your general counsel calls you: "we've been sued in the E.U. for copyright infringement! The claim: our search results for Le Parisien and dozens of other newspapers used more than one word and/or beyond a 'short extract.'" Your response: "is this April Fools’ day?"
Submission Regarding the Draft IT Intermediaries Guidelines Proposed in India
By Joan Barata on January 31, 2019 at 12:17 pm
The present submission has the object of providing comments and recommendations regarding a very specific provision included in the document mentioned in the title, that is the specific proposed duty for intermediaries to:
“deploy technology based automated tools or appropriate mechanisms, with appropriate controls, for proactively identifying and removing or disabling public access to unlawful information or content.”
People are freaking out about the Trans Pacific Partnership’s investor dispute settlement system. Why should you care?
The recent leak of a secret chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Investor-State Dispute Settlement system (ISDS) is getting many people on both the left and the right upset. Left-wingers don’t like a system in which corporations can push back against government regulations. Right-wingers don’t like a system where U.N.-affiliated tribunals can overturn U.S. law.
Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review
Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the current trends, advantages, disadvantages, problems and solutions, opportunities and barriers in Open Access Publishing (OAP), and in particular Open Access (OA) academic publishing. This study is intended to scope and evaluate current theory and practice concerning models for OAP and engage with intellectual, legal and economic perspectives on OAP.
Urban Guerrilla & Piracy Surveillance: Accidental Casualties in Fighting Piracy in P2P Networks in Europe
Copyright law is facing its biggest challenge yet as it copes with technological development and an increasingly global information market. The advent of peer-to-peer networks has multiplied the threat to the peaceful enjoyment of copyrights and made any user a potential infringer. Nonetheless, copyright holders, in targeting those users, have greatly impinged on the users' fundamental rights, in particular the right to privacy.
Google Books Rejected: Taking the Orphans to the Digital Public Library of Alexandria
The idea of the Library of Alexandria has powerfully expanded over the centuries, embodying the dream of universal wisdom and knowledge centralized in one single place. Digitization projects, such as the Google books project, are reviving the hope that this dream may come true. Moreover, the ubiquity of the networked environment promises to open access to this uber-library to everybody with an Internet connection. Today the entire collection of human knowledge may be only one click away.
Austria’s bid to end online anonymity triggers crackdown fears
"People would be allowed to use pseudonyms when posting online, but platforms could be forced to hand out the users’ private information to third parties, including private persons, seeking prosecution for defamation or other crimes.
“The chilling effect for freedom of speech is real,” said Thomas Lohninger."
The Week in Tech: Disinformation’s Huge Inaction Problem
"“What’s not so clear yet is whether G.D.P.R. has had an effect on privacy and on corporate data practices,” said Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. “Has the underlying business model of the internet changed? Is consumer privacy better? I think those questions are very much still open.”"
Facebook, Google and Twitter in data regulators' sights
""In the first year, we've seen tens of thousands of complaints and data breaches," says Omer Tene, the IAPP's vice president and chief knowledge officer.
"But we've yet to see much evidence that the GDPR has led to an improvement in organisations' data practices.""
It’s Been One Year Since GDPR Scared the Crap Out of Silicon Valley, What’s Next?
"“If you want to be more skeptical, the question is does all this activity actually deliver more privacy?” said Omer Tene, Vice President at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, an industry trade body. “Ostensibly the goal isn’t just to mobilize compliance and regulatory efforts, complaints, and notifications but to actually result in better privacy for individuals on the ground. I think the jury is still out on that. It’s not clear at year end that corporate data practices are different or have changed.”"
Free Speech and the Internet (Past Event)
Register here: http://web.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/conlawmay2019.fb
How Should Free Speech Principles Apply to the Content Policy of Internet Platforms?
• Danielle Citron, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
• Niall Ferguson, Stanford University
• Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami Law School
• Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School
Moderator: Nate Persily, Stanford Law School
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Lunch: 1:00 pm
Program: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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For more information and the full conference agenda, visit: https://www.medialaw.org/component/k2/item/4456
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Will India trade privacy for protection?
In this episode, The Stream speaks with tech industry experts and policy analysts to explore whether the Indian government’s plan will ensure public safety or set a dangerous precedent.
Techdirt Podcast Episode 195: The EU Endangers Free Speech Online... Again
The latest in the EU's string of internet regulatory efforts has a new target: terrorist propaganda. Just as with past regulations, the proposed rules seem onerous and insane, creating huge liability for internet platforms that fail to do the impossible.
Deep Dive: Cybersecurity and the Broad Geopolitical Risk of Digital Life
Cybersecurity is increasingly a major concern of modern life, coloring everything from the way we vote to the way we drive to the way our health care records are stored. Yet online security is beset by threats from nation-states and terrorists and organized crime, and our favorite social media sites are drowning in conspiracy theories and disinformation. How do we reset the internet and reestablish control over our own information and digital society?
Overhauling Digital Privacy In The EU
"The European Union is getting ready to enact sweeping new digital privacy laws. Facebook says it’s going comply. Is what’s good for Europe good for the U.S.?
On the legal challenges of the right to be forgotten
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Virginia Medicaid Expansion Back On The Table: McAuliffe Rejects Ban With Questionable Veto
Sarah Hurtubise Reporter
Democratic Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed portions of a state budget Friday that would have prevented him from accepting and using federal funding to expand Medicaid under Obamacare — but the state GOP is questioning whether his veto is lawful.
Republicans in the state General Assembly passed a budget for the upcoming year including an amendment stating that the executive branch cannot expand Medicaid unless the legislature appropriates the money for it. But Friday McAuliffe used a line-item veto power to rid the budget of language that blocked the expansion, prolonging the Medicaid battle even further, the Washington Post reports. (RELATED: After Messy Battle, Virginia Legislature Rejects Obamacare Medicaid Expansion)
“Secretary Hazel will have a plan on my desk by no later than September, first detailing how we can move Virginia health care forward even in the face of the demagoguery, lies, fear and cowardice that have gripped this debate for too long,” McAuliffe said Friday, promising an expansion plan from Health and Human Resources secretary William Hazel.
The Democratic governor hit state Republicans for “refusing any and all compromise” and said he would have vetoed the whole budget if it wouldn’t have led to a government shutdown. The state’s fiscal year ends July 1, and the budget agreement is coming in just in time.
But Republicans may mount a legal challenge against McAuliffe’s veto, according to the Washington Post. McAuliffe’s veto targeted just one line of the state’s entire Medicaid budget. According to state Republicans, courts have ruled that the governor’s line-item veto can apply to entire budget items — but not one part of one budget. That would force McAuliffe to veto funding for the state’s existing Medicaid program in order to bypass the ban on the Obamacare expansion.
Virginia’s heavily Republican House will likely have enough votes to overrule McAuliffe’s veto in any case, but the GOP controls the state Senate by just one vote. The governor’s move means the state’s bitter struggle over the expansion will likely carry on for months.
Twenty-two states, mostly Republican-controlled, have rejected Obamacare’s costly Medicaid expansion so far.
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Japan’s Crackdown on Crypto Exchanges Sends a Ripple Tide Across the Industry
David Drake March 21, 2018
Japan has cracked down on two crypto exchanges and issued a warning to five others after Coincheck lost over $500 million to hackers in late January. During the heist, hackers accessed hot wallets and made a series of transfers before they were eventually stopped.
Japan was the first country to institute regulatory measures to govern cryptocurrencies in October of 2017 and has now threatened punitive measures in an attempt to bolster consumer security. Should exchanges fail to comply with the requirement to improve security by the March 22, 2018, deadline, the regulator could force them to suspend business.
Japanese crypto exchanges, BitStation and FSHO were ordered to halt business for the next 30 days, starting March 8, 2018. This is because the authorities discovered that a business executive from BitStation used consumer funds for personal benefits while FSHO failed, in general, to offer consumer protection. Coincheck, already ordered in January to tighten security protocols, was once again asked to improve its business operations.
These activities have increased tension in an already vulnerable marketplace that is struggling to gain mainstream acceptance. Japan’s Financial Services Administration (FSA) has reported that unregistered exchanges will be shut down if investigations reveal security gaps. FSA also expects all exchanges to file reports relating to their system management and storage of cryptocurrencies. Because of regulations in place, the FSA is able to protect the interests of consumers by reimbursing affected investors.
Ripple Effects
Most players in the cryptocurrency industry feel more countries will begin to crackdown on exchanges.
“I feel we are going to continue to see more crackdown on exchanges in other countries because we are in an arena that is unregulated and until some type of regulation is in place it is going to have all eyes on them at all times,” Andrew Stanford, Partner at AssetToken says.
Japan isn’t the only country that has its eyes on the cryptocurrency industry. China and South Korea already took steps to tighten regulations governing cryptocurrencies. In India, two crypto exchanges have halted trading in a move intended to preempt government intervention. Though the Indian government has not suggested a crackdown, innovators have moved to disburse funds and halt operations for fear they might not be able to recover lost funds to return to investors.
There was also threat to Binance, a crypto exchange in Hong Kong, after it was alleged that a “well-organized” plot existed to hack the network. Further, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sent out a notice requiring all exchange sites on the cryptocurrency network be registered as they meet the definition of “security” under US federal laws.
Gourish Singla of SHIVOM says, “Indeed, the times we live in, maintaining a general skepticism about transactions is a great quality to have. ATS or Alternative Trading Systems must comply and register them with SEC which is the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC also ensures that these platforms provide a mechanism for trading assets that meet the definition of a ‘security’ under the federal securities laws.”
Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), suggests a crackdown on Bitcoin using the same technology that propels it. According to her, failure to do so would perpetuate an uncontrolled vehicle that would increase money laundering.
The FSA sanctions meted out on March 8, 2018, also affected Bitcoin prices negatively. In the same week, the price of Bitcoin plunged from over $10,000 to approximately $9,000. In an already volatile market, continued government regulation is making investors even more nervous, despite the positive moves happening elsewhere in the industry.
Market Reaction
Increased government regulation is being received positively by players in the industry. According to Jeffrey Lin, CEO of GCOX, clear regulations will enhance transparency and accountability in the cryptocurrency industry.
He says, “Having clear and stated regulations is a good thing for the industry and we hope that it will happen sooner rather than later. Reporting obligations are necessary to hold all people conducting cryptocurrency activities accountable to the public by means of transparency. These obligations will provide greater transparency and safeguard the public from scams and fraudulent behavior amongst exchanges. Furthermore, the enhanced security of the cryptocurrency landscape will also help attract international investment funds and encourage the safer trading of digital assets.”
Large institutional players are more likely to get involved in cryptocurrency trading if they believe they will suffer fewer risks by participating. On his part, Stanford says, “it’s a good thing because it demonstrates that proper steps are being ensured to have a safe and sound ecosystem.”
Though not all traditional players would approve regulation of crypto exchanges, majority welcome the move considering the numerous hackings and the increased potential for loss.
Disclaimer: David Drake is on the advisory board for most of the firms mentioned or quoted in this article.
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Defining DeRuse
Humble Beginnings (feat. Ruslan)
First Name is Cole
See Some Change (feat. A. Ward)
Reminiscin' 2.0
Committed (feat. Alyssa Marie)
Tension (feat. Jordan Marcotte)
Turbulence (feat. J. Paul)
I'm Not Alone (feat. Kyl Means & Da' T.R.U.T.H.)
I don't know why, I feel this tension inside/
I just wanna live, please just let me live, yeah/
This tension inside/
But I don't wanna live a life of pretend, no/
This tension inside of me/
Look this tension... I feel it. during my ascension/
What I deal with on the daily is crazy life ain't no field trip/
The contention for my attention is realest when I nearest/
To my goals, my dreams when they're close within' my reach/
But man this life is hard. Sometimes it's hard to write with an open heart/
Hard to think there'll be open arms, it's hard to wrestle with the truth up in the dark/
When I can't see what's up ahead. One more step and I'm at the ledge/
If I pledge allegiance to these demons tell me, what happens next?/
Will there be fame, money, power, lots of sex?/
CD sales, Holy Grails, lots of broken necks?/
From all these people that I stepped on to get where I'm at/
Like I really don't care how I get there as long as I get respect/
You think I'll go there, by steppin' on my friends like I don't care?/
I'm not about makin' any bit of music if there is no hope there but still/
The tensions that I mentioned are real/
All these ambitious decisions are vicious they kill, for real/
Yo, I... really wish I'd try... To fight it, my God/
All this writin's excitin', but I tend to wonder if they're gonna like it/
Why, does it matter when all this chatter's been battered so badly?/
All I imagine is rappin' then people laughin' at me/
These struggles are troublin', rubble's muddled it /
Puddles of blood in it, tunnels are crumblin' humblin' everyone who hopes/
In a man that's prolly gonna close they hand/
They don't really know what I'm sayin', they just prayin' that we don't land, yeah/
I know there's more to this distortion, money's blown out of proportion/
A portion of their extortion prolly funds abortions/
I may be cynical, I just feel like a sentinel/
Who's out there with a fishin' pole, tryin' to remain missional, yeah/
But still the struggle remains, I really just wanna get fame/
Yet remain true in my faith, maybe I should throw this away/
I really just wanna get paid, cuz there's no dough in the bank/
But they tell me God over money and I don't really wanna be fake/
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Airport plan is plane crazy - Martin Harper's blog - Our work - The RSPB Community
Martin Harper's blog Airport plan is plane crazy
Airport plan is plane crazy
MartinHarper
It's all beginning to feel a bit familiar. Yesterday I woke up with another cold to hear reports that the Government is set to include the option of a new airport in the Thames Estuary as part of a consultation on the future of aviation in the UK.
Although deeply depressing, this isn't really a surprise. The Chancellor's Autumn economic statement said that the Government intended to look into all the options for airport expansion, ruling out nothing other than a third runway at Heathrow.
This, remember, was the Autumn statement in which the Chancellor pledged to, "make sure that gold plating of EU rules on things like Habitats aren’t placing ridiculous costs on British businesses". I didn't like this comment at the time. It was an ill-conceived and wholly inaccurate piece of empty rhetoric.
In view of the airport plans, I like this comment even less.
But haven't we been here somewhere before? At around this time last year, the Government launched its consultation into the proposed sell-off of England's public forests. The resulting public outcry resulted in an embarrassing u-turn. The public forests remain in state ownership. Then there was the fuss over the planning reforms. Another consultation, another public fuss - this time accompanied by the unedifying spectacle of Government ministers resorting to childish name-calling. Their ire was directed at the likes of the National Trust, who had dared to oppose them. The result? The Prime Minister was wheeled out to soothe the furrowed brows of, amongst others, his own rural backbenchers.
This is the big one. An airport in the Thames Estuary would involve the large-scale destruction of a vast area of our natural environment and would be entirely inconsistent with any plans that this Government has for meeting its greenhouse gas reduction targets.
I don't hear the public clamouring for more airports - the "need" is being driven entirely by business interests. This loose alliance of developers and big business may provide the Government with money, but I am really not convinced that they provide it with votes. The Prime Minister would do well to remember this when he listens to Boris Johnson or George Osborne's latest cunning plan to generate short-term, unsustainable growth at any cost.
"Any cost" may mean an environmental cost, a quality of life cost, and a long-term growth cost, but I would argue that it could also mean a political cost to the governing parties in the coalition. It's not as if this option has not been discussed before. The last Government (which did have some daft ideas about a third runway at Heathrow) produced a White Paper which looked at the airport idea and concluded that it would be bad for business, bad for wildlife and bad for air safety. This Government now risks wasting public money in order to reach the same conclusion.
Be in no doubt: if the option of an airport in the Thames Estuary is included in the draft aviation white paper in March, we will fight this one. Not just because we value the landscape and wildife of the Thames Estuary. Not just because we are opposed to increases in airport capacity which would exacerbate climate change . It's because the economic model on which this is based is fundamentally flawed. We are in favour of smart growth, not dumb, destructive growth.
Over the next few days, I will try to share some of the detailed arguments that will need to inform the debate about the Government's stated ambition to retain its status an international aviation hub. If you care about this agenda and wondering what to do, the first thing you could do is register your view on this online poll. I have a feeling that things may heat up a bit in the run up to the expected March publication of the draft aviation White Paper.
And one final thought - which of you conspiracy theorists out there would make the link between this harebrained airport plan and the Government's anti-enironment rhetoric? Think about it: apart from economics and air strikes, what stands in the way of the airport plan? The habitats regulations, for one thing - it is difficult to see that an airport in the Thames (with so much protected under European law) would pass the test of whether there are no alternative more environmentally benign ways of meeting what I assume will be their stated objective of increasing aviation capacity. Some may say that it was strange that the Government should start vilifying these environmental safeguards in the exact same speech that put airports back on the agenda. Whatever theory you hold, I firmly believe that the coalition Government, if it goes ahead with this plan, will be guilty, once again, of underestimating the public.
It would be great to hear your views.
MartinHarper over 7 years ago
Thank you Gill - we are together on this which is just great. I remain sceptical that they really want to push this through. Seems like crude electioneering for Boris, but we cannot relax for a moment.
gill over 7 years ago
Hi Martin
"I don't hear the public clamouring for more airports - the "need" is being driven entirely by business interests. This loose alliance of developers and big business may provide the Government with money, but I am really not convinced that they provide it with votes. The Prime Minister would do well to remember this when he listens to Boris Johnson or George Osborne's latest cunning plan to generate short-term, unsustainable growth at any cost."
Totally agree. Do you remember during the No Airport at Cliffe campaign when Alistair Darling stood up in the House of Commons and said that he was well aware of the power of the RSPB and their million members, more members than all the political parties put together. When you take into account the added support against these crazy proposals from the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition that means that 11 million people from all over the country care about the environment and protecting it for future generations - that's a huge amount of the voting public. The Prime Minister should not be under the illusion that this is just a local issue affecting a few constituencies in Kent - it is in fact a national issue and affects the whole of the UK. If the government goes ahead with one of these crazy estuary airport ideas they would still be fighting to get it through the courts at the time of the next general election and those 11 million people would still be fighting against them too.
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You are all speaking sense today.
Hello and thanks for the note of the petition, Birdie Wild, will have a look.
Peter - it is not easy for us to assess our members' footprint and am not sure it is even appropriate for us to ask. But we have, on a number of occasions, encouraged our members to reduce their carbon footrpint eg through green energy schemes, solar schemes, changing their behaviour and campaigning with us. I am proud that over 100,000 of our brilliant members have taken a campaign action to tackle climate change over the past few years.
Sooty - you are right. Managing demand must be key. We must move away from predicting growth and then catering for it, irrespective of the consequences.
Sooty over 7 years ago
Cannot say I am in favour,surely there are airfields being closed that could be used but also think I doubt your comment about the public are not clamouring for it as if everyone flew half as much surely it would not even have been considered.Personally think the public want things all ways which is unobtainable.
petercrispin over 7 years ago
I agree with much of this; it was the public and not the career driven conservation NGO's that defeated the Forest and NNR Sell Off. RSPB Mark Avery was talking of "state forest farms", National, Woodland and Wildlife Trusts were negotiating the financial terms of forest and NNR handovers before the scale of outcry forced these "charities" to act.
Jonathan Porrit Labour's Baroness Royall and HOOF of the Forest of Dean deserve great credit here NB Speech House meeting 4 Jan 2011.
I know the Medway area quite well having sailed on Thames Sailing Barge Ironsides which regularly refitted at Hoo marina, Medway. I sailed past the SSSI in question and its sunken wartime ammo ship on many occasion. Its a beautiful derelict sort of a place; resonant of the salt marshes of Great Expectations etc; full of waders and once with a particularly strong hangover; I saw here two flamingoes of different species ! Surreal hallucination !
An airport is a nonsense.
The question I have is with regard to sea level rise and how given the tidal surges that affect the North Sea from time to time will London be defended from the sea ? Now my view remains that a new and bigger barrage is the only option and this must be commenced soon; it should be generating electricity which as I have previously stated (I'm not sure where this fact came from) that CO2 "write off" on the Severn Barrage is 9 months; equivalent to a wind turbine.
I have checked the times of high tides at Weston (0300 and 1500 hrs) and the Medway/ Sheerness is 0900/2100 . This means that the central question with regard to continuity of supply re tidal would be overcome by two barrages Thames and Severn and would move us to over 10% of current demand; providing a steady baseline of supply.
As I have said before I consider that until the RSPB can come up with serious figures re the carbon consumption of its membership, which I believe to be at the high middle class end, its posturing on these matters lacks weight. I regret that. We are now well past the 360ppm CO2 tipping point; sea level rise will be inexorable and once our oil reserves are wasted we will be energy poor with colossal debts from the post 1980 property boom and linked industrial decline. Energy independance is core and these flats will be largely lost to sea level rise anyway. The future is bleak ecologically.
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MSB at Ringwood
The Ringwood Corps in the east of Melbourne hosted the Melbourne Staff Band (Bandmaster Ken Waterworth) on Sunday, 9 September 2012. The Staff Band participated in the morning service and gave an afternoon concert in which they joined with Maroondah Brass (Bandmaster Ron Moore).
The morning service began with a prelude from the Staff Band which included the soprano cornet solo From the Heart of Jesus Flowing (Howard Davies), played by Dean Rusling, and Soli Deo Gloria (William Himes). Jamie Smith led the congregation in worship before Ron Prussing soared through the trombone solo Let the Beauty of Jesus (Broughton).
The Staff Band was joined in worship by the Territorial leaders, Commissioners Raymond and Aylene Finger and special guests Commissioners Alistair and Astrid Herring, who are the International Secretary and Zonal Secretary for Women’s Ministries for the South Pacific East Asia (SPEA) zone. This zone is the most diverse zone of cultures in the Salvation Army and consist of about 15 countries stretching from Australia to Cambodia. Commissioners Herring shared with the congregation some of the Army’s work in countries such as Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It was interesting and encouraging to hear what is happening in other places.
Dean Rusling shared the Scripture reading before the Staff Band played Softly and Tenderly (Broughton) and Rebecca Raymond blessed the congregation with her singing. Commissioner Alistair Herring then brought the message, highlighting the importance of deepening our spiritual life so that we can do the Salvation Army’s work wherever we may be. The congregational song “Be Thou My Vision” brought the meeting to a close.
The Staff Band shared lunch with the members of the local Maroondah Brass Band before joining with them for an afternoon concert. Maroondah Brass kicked off the afternoon with a variety of well-known music, including What a Wonderful World, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, All Through the Night and the flügelhorn/trumpet solo Blessed Assurance.
The Staff Band flew into their half of the concert with Ruslan and Ludmilla (Glinka, arr. Michael Kenyon) and Since Jesus (Leonard Ballantine). Soloists Ron Prussing (trombone) and Jamie Smith (euphonium) were featured with Nessun Dorma (arr. Jones) and A Joy Untold (Terry Camsey) respectively. Rebecca Raymond then came to the stage and sang New Jerusalem and Now I Belong to Jesus, which many enjoyed during the ISB120 celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. The band then played Roger Trigg’s new composition Strong to Save, which was premiered during the Staff Band’s recent trip to Canberra. The Staff Band’s portion of the program concluded with Leslie Condon’s timeless classic The Present Age.
The finish the afternoon, the Melbourne Staff Band and Maroondah Brass joined together for William Himes’ arrangement of Amazing Grace and the well-known march Praise (Wilfred Heaton).
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Lockerbie–Looking Up
Lockerbie, Scotland was innocent of all wrongdoing concerning the crash of Pan Am 103, December 1988. Yet they’ve paid a huge price simply for being the site of that airliner tragedy. History was rewritten for the small town beginning that day. When we were told we were going to Lockerbie, it was with the identification statement, “You know, the place where Pan Am flight 103 went down.”
It happened on December 21, 1988, just before Christmas. Families in the U.S. eagerly awaited their college students home from their “studies abroad.” There were also many other Americans, more than 100, I believe, of the 258 on board, and folks from 21 countries in all. The flight had left from Germany and was flying at 31,000 feet preparing to begin its trans Atlantic voyage toward New York when the explosion, caused by a bomb planted in a cassette player in cargo, went off. Scraps of the plane were scattered for miles, but the cockpit and largest piece of the cabin came down in and near Lockerbie. Instantly, 270 people on the plane (passengers and crew) and 11 on the ground, were killed.
Jeff Rushton, a distributor of Christian literature with Opal Trust, as well as our guide to Lockerbie and surrounding areas, drove us to the site where the plane’s cockpit came to rest. He was very somber as he told us what it was like the day of the tragedy. We could relate now better than we could have then in 1988. It was like 9/11 in our country. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. He took us to where the main fuselage came down and incinerated several houses killing eleven folks on the ground. Jeff spoke respectfully and kindly of those eleven, one lady in particular whom he knew.
We visited the cemetery where many of the victims are buried. It is carefully tended with clipped sward and roses blooming. It is obvious that family members visit and place flowers on the graves, though they have to travel great distances. Jeff said some go there every year. What struck me so forcefully was the dates on so many of those stones: 1968-1988. My son’s birthday is November, 1968. He, too, at about that age, went on a studies abroad trip. But he came home. My heart aches for those parents whose children never came home.
But there’s more to Lockerbie.
Lockerbie is a small town of about 4,000. Located in Southwest Scotland, near the Annan River, it was once a center for production of lamb’s wool and still one may see thousands of sheep on green hillsides in the area. Our reason for visiting Lockerbie was that our travel leader, Harley Rollins, is on the board of Opal Trust and he needed to meet with their leaders and familiarize himself with the headquarters of this literature distribution concern.
We were guests at Somerton House, a very interesting old hotel, first built as a private home. When we asked Brian, the manager, why the large lions flanking the front door were named Livingstone and Stanley, he told us the lady who had the house built was a cousin of Livingstone, the famous British missionary to Africa. Stanley was the journalist sent by the New York Herald in 1871 to find Dr. Livingstone from whom little had been heard in six years.
Here we are with Jeff (left back) in front of Somerton House with the lions
Brian also told us that much of Somerton’s inside woodwork is built of a rare wood called kauri from a tree in New Zealand. At the time of its building a shipwreck washed up. The ship had been loaded with kauri lumber so, suddenly, this beautiful honey-colored wood became available. It is said that the ship itself was built of kauri wood. Brian pointed out door frames in the house that exhibit an interesting curve, supposedly from first being part of a ship. Soon after the building of Somerton House, arborists discovered that the kauri tree, growing only in New Zealand, is so slow growing, it isn’t feasible to use it for lumber. Hence, the Somerton House is the only building in Scotland made of kauri wood. We enjoyed the comfort, dignity, and hospitality of Somerton House, especially the Scottish breakfast cooked to order and served with big smiles in their lovely dining room.
Lockerbie is, as I mentioned, home to Opal Trust as well as Langston Publishing. We were delighted to be able to get to know both establishments, even if for a short time. Both are busy distributing books that the lost may hear of our awesome God. Naturally, we saw many, many books which always brings me great pleasure. And we met great folks in editing staff as well as managing and operating. But I think the unit that grabbed my attention the most was the Tell-It tract publisher, towards Glasgow. In a tiny building where doors hardly have room to open and shelving is stacked with a wide variety of leaflets and small books, Robert and Ann Smith are working diligently to get “the Word” out. Their publishing equipment is topnotch and they create colorful, clear pieces that speak to all ages and all walks. There are tracts for pet owners, for parents, for the grieving and the empty nesters. There are leaflets sharing the gospel using the life stories of famous people, like John Livingstone. We were excited about all the different titles and came away with a few samples, though I think we’ve given them all away. We enjoyed meeting, too, the Smiths’ beautiful dog Mattie who roams amongst the stacks happily swishing her tail.
Charles and Jeff talking about books
Taking a walk around Somerton House the night before we left, we were amazed that, at 10:00, the sun was still bright. No wonder the hollyhocks and peonies, the roses and hydrangeas are so vibrant.
Folks of Lockerbie are not locked into sorrowing, even though they seem so ready to offer compassion. They want to look up, to look forward, to look past that terrible day in 1988. They want the name Lockerbie to be linked with laughter and celebrations and beauty. Because of the graciousness of our hosts at Somerton House and our friendship with John Lewis and Jeff and Janet Rushton, as well as Robert and Ann Smith, we will remember Lockerbie with much affection. In fact, my picture in my mind right now is of Jeff and Janet in their bungalow den with their black lab Jessie as we enjoyed midmorning tea. Their garden just outside was beautiful, and birds were singing. Below is a picture of Jessie at the warehouse faithfully “keeping” the books. Should be the smartest dog in the kingdom!
Lockerbie is looking up!
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Thousands of visitors enjoy the Royal Pavilion every year. But preserving the building and keeping it accessible is the result of decades of ongoing work by skilled conservators.
A major programme to restore the structure of the building and the elaborate carved exterior stonework began in the early 1980s.
The Royal Pavilion had started to leak soon after it was completed. The complex structure of the roofs encouraged a build up of rainwater which cascaded through inadequate internal pipes and seeped into the fabric of the building.
This resulted in wet and dry rot, beetle infestation in timbers, and corrosion of the iron framework. At one point, the decay in the roofs of both the Music Room and the Banqueting Room, if left untreated, could have led to the collapse of some parts of the structure.
Rainwater downpipes were renewed and enlarged and much of the timber on the roof replaced. Monitoring of environmental conditions continues to make sure that known locations of rot are not reactivated.
The structural use of iron within stone had enabled the architect John Nash to create the magnificent exterior as we see it today. However moisture penetration led the iron cores to rust and expand. This cracked the stone and allowed more water to penetrate. Over the years further damage was caused by salty sea air and traffic pollution.
In the late 1960s ten of the minarets were replaced with fibreglass replicas. All of these have now been replaced with Bath stone, and the original minarets at the north of the building have been sensitively restored.
Disaster strikes but renovations continue
Storm damage in the Music Room, 1987
Restoration work suffered setbacks both in 1975 with an arson attack on the Music Room and again during the great storm of 1987 when a ball of stone was dislodged from a minaret and fell through the ceiling of the Music Room.
However, work continued and today the major structural restoration is virtually complete.
The building has been painted in a stone colour (as it was in 1827) to recreate as true a likeness as possible to the appearance of Bath stone blocks.
By the time Queen Victoria sold the Royal Pavilion to the town of Brighton in 1850 she had completely stripped its magnificent rooms of all their furniture and fittings.
Restoration begins
When the town took over, a committee was established to oversee the restoration. They were helped in 1864 by the return of original wall paintings and fittings by Queen Victoria.
The magnificent ceilings in the Music Room, Saloon and Banqueting Room had remained intact which encouraged sensitive restoration of these major rooms.
Music Room ceiling
Other rooms, which retained no original elements, were completely redecorated. Some historians feel these Victorian redecoration works were inappropriate, but they ensured a sense of civic pride and admiration in the palace which helped to create enthusiasm for its future preservation.
Indian Soldiers in the Music Room, c 1915
During World War I the Royal Pavilion was used as a hospital for Indian soldiers and the interiors were altered, damaged and neglected. Restoration began again in 1920, funded by a settlement made by the government for the damage done to the building during its use as a hospital. The brilliant colours of the original Regency interiors started to be revealed as layers of Victorian over-painting were removed.
World War II interrupted work again. It recommenced in 1945, with a revival of interest in the Regency period. Many of the original interiors were re-created using information from original archives and accounts.
In the mid 1950s Queen Elizabeth II returned on loan a further substantial collection of furniture and other objects.
After the arson attack in 1975 (and funded by an insurance settlement) it took a trained conservation team four months to re-gild the 26,000 cockleshells on the domed Music Room ceiling, and 11 years to complete the entire restoration of this room. The chandeliers, coving, replica curtains and an Axminster carpet (based on original fragments) were all installed.
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The Music Room suffered once more in 1987 when one of the balls of stone from a minaret crashed through the newly restored ceiling lodging itself into the floor and carpet. Restoration work had to start all over again.
Since then, restoration of Queen Victoria’s Apartments, the South Galleries and the Yellow Bow Rooms has been completed.
Conservator recreating the Saloon wallpaper
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The Royal Pavilion’s conservation team continue to clean and repair original items, recreate missing decorations and soft furnishings, and maintain the fabric of the palace.
Currently, there is a major project to restore the whole of the Saloon.
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Channel 4 bolsters its specialist factual slate by announcing a range of new programmes that tackle big questions of identity, memory and what makes us human. What Makes a Murderer? (w/t) looks at whether advances in neuroscience can help us to piece together the hidden factors that may have led murderers to commit their crime. In The Unremembered (w/t) David Lammy MP travels to Africa to uncover a shocking story from World War 1 that’s remained untold for a century: how Britain overlooked the Black Africans who died fighting for the Empire. History, and how we choose to mark it, is also at the fore in My Grandparents War (w/t) a series that sees leading British stars take deeply personal and immersive journeys to uncover what happened to their grandparents during World War 2. Pushing the boundaries of the possible, Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Flight (w/t) sees the five-time Olympic gold medallist embark on his most daring cycle yet- across the English Channel.
What Makes A Murderer? (w/t) 3 x 60’
In this three-part series pioneering neuro-criminologist Professor Adrian Raine teams up with leading forensic psychologist Dr. Vicky Thakordas-Desai, to take three convicted murderers on a documentary journey of self-discovery. Made by Dragonfly and Underworld, a production company that brings together programme makers and convicted ex-criminals, the series will see each perpetrator explore their life and crimes in unprecedented detail, while experts will help them to uncover the previously hidden sociological, biological and psychological factors that may have influenced their behavioural traits, their actions and ultimately, their path to criminality.
Production Company: Dragonfly Film TV and Underworld TV
Series Director: James W Newton
Executive Producer: Tom Pullen (Dragonfly), Adam Boome (UWTV)
Commissioning Editor: Jonah Weston
The Unremembered (w/t): 1 x 60’
To mark Remembrance Day 2019, David Lammy MP explores the decisions taken to deny individual memorials for thousands of Black Africans who died in their own continent fighting for the British in World War I. The war graves commission is widely respected for its inclusive approach to the graves of soldiers, who died fighting in Europe. All were given the same gravestone regardless of rank, background or creed. But this programme reveals how a conscious decision was taken not to grant the same dignity to untold numbers of black African soldiers and porters who were categorised as not needing to be individually memorialised. David Lammy travels to Africa and sees the sites of mass burials and considers what ought to be done for those who gave their life for Britain’s First World War effort and who are now still unremembered.
Production Company: Uplands Television
Producer/ Director: John Deol
Executive Producer: Mike Smith
Commissioning Editor: Shaminder Nahal
My Grandparents’ War (w/t) 4 x 60’
To mark the 80th anniversary of the start of World War 2, some of country’s most high-profile actors will re-trace their grandparents’ footsteps. At historic locations from the beaches of Dunkirk to the PoW camps in Asia, each will learn about the life and death decisions their grandparents faced. The actors all have unanswered questions about the scars war left on their grandparents and will explore how six years changed their family’s lives and Britain forever. At the heart of this series will be extraordinary human stories of ordinary people caught up in one of the greatest man-made catastrophes of all time. Filming has been completed with Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Rylance, and episodes featuring two other award-winning actors is scheduled to film next month.
Production Company: Wild Pictures
Series Director: Leo Burley
Executive Producer: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann
Commissioning Editor: Fatima Salaria
Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Flight (w/t) 1 x 90’
In this extraordinary feat of engineering and human stamina, British cycling legend Bradley Wiggins is attempting to smash a world record in a bid to pedal across the English Channel in a human-powered aircraft in the fastest time possible. His cycling skills will be pushed to its limits – he now has to learn from scratch how to cycle lying flat – and he will embark on a gruelling training scheme to shed the pounds he’s gained since winning the Tour De France – he needs to lose almost 20 kilos to be anywhere near light enough to make the crossing . Bradley’s challenge will push him to his mental and physical limits in this incredible technical feat – can he pedal the hardest 22 miles of his life to reach the shores of the nation that gave him his yellow jersey?
Production Company: BBC Studios Science
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Executive Producer: Paul Overton
Development Executive: Claudia Lewis
Fatima Salaria, Head of Specialist Factual at Channel 4, said: “These are programmes with impact at their core- the power to challenge and provoke, shock and inspire. From using cutting edge science to radically re-think criminality to campaigning for an overhaul of a hallowed institution, these are films that aim to the set the agenda. It’s especially exciting to draw on the multi-talents of David Lammy, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Bradley Wiggins and many more- all with unique and audacious stories to tell.”
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Venezuela: Natural Oil Geyser Erupts And Threatens Damage To Surrounding Area. 1976
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While the rest of the world suffers anxiety over the prospects of an oil shortage, a farm in rural Venezuela is literally flooded with the stuff - without intervention from mankind.
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Background: While the rest of the world suffers anxiety over the prospects of an oil shortage, a farm in rural Venezuela is literally flooded with the stuff - without intervention from mankind.
At first the residents of Anaco farm, in the state of Anzoategui about 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Caracas, thought that a pipeline had burst when one of their grazing pastures turned into an oilfield - complete with a 40 metre (yard)-high gusher.
But investigation revealed that the crude oil was spouting from the ground of its own accord. Experts brought in to assess the situation estimated that about 100,000 barrels had flooded out into the countryside and emergency measures were taken to contain it, so that further damage to agricultural land could be prevented. Earth banks were also built to protect a nearby road.
The oil lake at Anaco is now nearly three metres (yards) deep and natural has is also leaking from the geyser, which continues to spout to a height of about 2 metres (yards) above the surface of the lake. The residents of Anaco say that unless the Venezuelan authorities can do something to stop the flow they will have to evacuate their homes and move to higher ground.
Venezuela's oil industry was nationalised in January this year after over 50 years of foreign control. At present exports are at the level of 2,220,000 barrels per day, with a further 10,000 barrels held for domestic use. The industry employs over 30,000 workers and is responsible for around 85 per cent of the country's foreign exchange.
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Study: Lack of support reason pastors leave pastorate
January 13 2016 by Lisa Cannon Green, LifeWay Research
No sabbatical. No help with counseling. No clear picture of what’s expected. In a new study, hundreds of former senior pastors say these were the crucial elements missing from the final churches they led before quitting the pastorate.
The study by LifeWay Research points to ways churches can encourage pastors to stay in the ministry, said Ed Stetzer, executive director of the research organization.
“Almost half of those who left the pastorate said their church wasn’t doing any of the kinds of things that would help,” Stetzer said. “Having clear documents, offering a sabbatical rest, and having people help with weighty counseling cases are key things experts tell us ought to be in place.”
LifeWay Research surveyed 734 former senior pastors who left the pastorate before retirement age in four Protestant denominations.
Trouble begins early, the survey indicates, with 48 percent of the former pastors saying the search team didn’t accurately describe the church before their arrival.
Their churches were unlikely to have a list of counselors for referrals (27 percent), clear documentation of the church’s expectations of its pastor (22 percent), a sabbatical plan for the pastor (12 percent), a lay counseling ministry (9 percent), or a support group for the pastor’s family (8 percent). Forty-eight percent say their church had none of these.
Most expected conflict to arise, and it did – 56 percent clashed over changes they proposed, and 54 percent say they experienced a significant personal attack. Yet nearly half (48 percent) say their training didn’t prepare them to handle the people side of ministry.
“Many seminary programs don’t even require courses on the people side –they’re focused on theology, biblical languages and preaching, which are important, but almost half of the pastors felt unprepared for dealing with the people they were preparing in seminary to lead and serve,” Stetzer said.
Though nearly two-thirds (63 percent) spent more than a decade as a senior pastor, they eventually moved on – most to another ministry role other than senior pastor (52 percent) but 29 percent to non-ministry work.
Forty percent say they left the pastorate because of a change in calling. They also cite such issues as church conflict (25 percent), burnout (19 percent), personal finances (12 percent) and family issues (12 percent).
“These things are interrelated,” Stetzer said. “If you’re burning out, chances are when conflict arises you’re not going to respond well, and that will make the conflict worse.”
Those who leave vs. those who stay
Almost across the board, the former pastors report more negative views than current pastors who answered the same questions several months earlier.
LifeWay Research surveyed 1,500 senior pastors at evangelical and historically black churches in March 2015 and found about 1 percent leave the pastorate each year for reasons other than death or retirement.
Stetzer noted the two studies are not directly comparable. The initial study involved all evangelical and black Protestant churches, but only four denominations provided lists of former pastors for the follow-up survey. In addition, the earlier survey was conducted by phone, while the former pastors were surveyed online.
“Though the populations aren’t identical, we do notice the responses from people who have left the pastorate are worse,” Stetzer said. “Either current pastors are painting a rosy picture that doesn’t fully describe reality, or those leaving the pastorate are in a less healthy position. Probably there’s truth to both of those.”
Current and former pastors agree the job is demanding: 84 percent of current pastors and 83 percent of former pastors say they feel on call 24 hours a day, while 48 percent of each group say the demands of ministry often feel like more than they can handle.
On other measures, however, the differences can be stark:
21 percent of current pastors vs. 49 percent of former pastors believe their church has unrealistic expectations.
35 percent of current pastors vs. 62 percent of former pastors report feeling isolated.
89 percent of current pastors vs. 68 percent of former pastors feel free to say no to unrealistic expectations.
92 percent of current pastors vs. 61 percent of former pastors believe their congregation provides genuine encouragement to their family.
94 percent of current pastors vs. 74 percent of former pastors say they consistently protect family time.
Former pastors are also less likely than current pastors to report an enthusiastic spouse, to take a weekly day of rest, and to work at preventing conflict. They are more likely to worry about their family’s financial security and to frequently get irritated with people at church.
The churches in which they serve look markedly different, according to the surveys. Current pastors report their churches are more than twice as likely as those of former pastors to offer a sabbatical plan and a list of counselors for referrals, more than three times as likely to have a lay counseling ministry and a document listing expectations of the pastor, and more than four times as likely to have a pastor support group.
“When we see a number of items all looking a little less healthy, they can add up,” Stetzer said. “But many of the gaps are preventable. It’s going to take a combination of the seminaries, academia, denominational folks and even outside ministries putting their heads together and seeking God on how best to support pastors.”
Methodology: The online survey of former senior pastors was conducted Aug. 11-Oct. 2, 2015. The sample lists were provided by four Protestant denominations: Assemblies of God, Church of the Nazarene, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and Southern Baptist Convention. Each survey was completed by an individual who has served as a senior (or sole) pastor but stopped serving as senior pastor prior to age 65. The completed sample is 734 former pastors. The study was sponsored by the North American Mission Board and Richard Dockins, M.D.
LifeWay Research, based in Nashville, is an evangelical research firm that specializes in surveys about faith in culture and matters that affect the church.
(EDITOR’S NOTE – Lisa Cannon Green is senior writer for Facts & Trends magazine.)
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Bucky on Parade was a public art event that brought 85 life-size Bucky Badger statues to the streets of Madison and Dane County. Local and regional artists brought these Bucky statues to life by transforming them into unique pieces of art.
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Bucky on Parade ran from May 7, 2018–September 12, 2018.
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After Bucky on Parade ended on September 12, 2018, the Buckys were removed from their Parade locations and either returned to their sponsors or auctioned off at the Bucky on Parade Finale Party. You can learn more about their current locations here.
Who did this event benefit?
In addition to being a community event for all to enjoy, Bucky on Parade also raised funds to support two primary organizations—Garding Against Cancer and the Madison Area Sports Commission. Garding Against Cancer was founded by Greg Gard, Wisconsin men’s basketball coach, and his wife Michelle, in partnership with the Wisconsin Foundation & Alumni Association, to raise funds and awareness for cancer research and care in the state of Wisconsin. The Madison Area Sports Commission was founded in 2010 by the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau, with the mission of bringing sporting events to the Greater Madison area that increase economic impact for our community and enhance the quality of life for the residents of Dane County.
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BMI Redland and BMI Icopal combine to deliver a thief-proof roof
Sympathetic locally-sourced materials, technical expertise and market-leading guarantees led Vale of Glamorgan Council to choose BMI Redland and BMI Icopal materials when re-roofing an early 20th century primary school. “We chose BMI because it could offer us 15-year guarantees on the products; the roof slate was made from locally-sourced materials and because the pitched and flat products could work in conjunction on the details,” says Paul Hynam, Consultant Building Surveyor to the project.
Built in 1905, Cogan Primary School suffered from a roof that continually leaked despite being patched with various types of slate over the years. The roof’s deterioration was accelerated by thieves stripping lead flashings and it had the complexity of there being a 100m2 flat roof right in the centre of the school.
“The interface between pitched and flat roof can sometimes cause an issue, so it was a concern. If you have two companies responsible for each, then one can blame the other for any faults,” Paul explains.
“We’d worked with BMI before using its SpecMaster service for pitched roofs and knew that it would oversee the job closely. However, as BMI supply both pitched and flat roofing solutions, we also knew that we could rely on them for all parts of the roof and they would make sure that the detailing between the two roofing systems was sufficiently robust.”
Acting for Vale of Glamorgan Council, Paul set several challenges for the new roof: it should look like the existing roof, not require any maintenance, and should be sourced locally to reduce the carbon footprint and its environmental impact. It also needed to be installed quickly to reduced health and safety issues and completed during the school holidays, avoiding risk to the school’s pupils.
To reduce the risk of theft, the council also wanted to use a lead alternative and needed a secure interface between the flat and pitched roofs.
For the pitched roof the solution was BMI Redland Cambrian Slate, an interlocking slate manufactured from recycled waste slate in nearby Merthyr Tydfil, a dry-fix system to cut down maintenance, and fixings on the ridge and hip system to mimic the previous roof.
Some of the details on the side abutments were leaking because there was only a secret gutter rather than a cover flashing, so cover flashings made from a lead alternative were installed under the coping, a difficult task because the coping stones were very large.
In addition, standard eaves vents could not be used because there was lath, plaster, and tar between the rafters at eaves level. Installing eaves vents would have damaged the vaulted ceiling, so vent tiles were used for venting instead.
For the flat roof, BMI’s Area Technical Manager specified BMI Icopal’s Firesmart® SBS modified reinforced bitumen membranes, accredited by the Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB).
Where robust details were needed, the BMI specified specific installation methods, particularly where the pitched roof met the flat roof. BMI’s solution was to carry the waterproofing under the Cambrian Slate and up to the top of the eaves batten. This detail and others were monitored by the Area Technical Manager during installation.
The school’s roof now provides the Vale of Glamorgan Council and school the security and reliability it needs – with guarantees it can rely on of up to 20 years, quality products specified and installed, a pitched and flat roof that collaborate on the details and locally-sourced materials. Sounds like a winning combination!
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World Architecture Festival announces shortlist for inaugural Wood Excellence Prize
A spa in Vietnam, a power station in France and an airport terminal in New Zealand are among the eight projects shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for its inaugural Wood Excellence Prize.
Sponsored by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the Wood Excellence Prize is the first of its kind to feature on the festival’s awards programme, the only criterion is that wood is an integral part of the project.
The shortlisted projects are:
The Tent a21studio Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Pittwater House Andrew Burges Architects Sydney, Australia
Earth Wind and Fire Atelier Arcau Vannes, France
School ‘t Hofke UArchitects Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport BVN Donovan Hill Christchurch, New Zealand
Salvaged Ring a21studio Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Alex Monroe Studio DSDHA London, UK
The Pinch Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong Zhaotong, China
The architects responsible will now be invited to present their project to the prize judges live at the festival this October. The prize winner will be announced at the WAF awards ceremony on Friday 3 October.
Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival said:
“This was a great way to appreciate how a ‘traditional’ material can be used to transform exteriors and interiors in new and unexpected ways.”
David Venables, European Director, AHEC said:
“We were delighted to see so many entries for the Wood Excellence Prize; the response to this new initiative has been great and from a long list of over 40 we have chosen eight great timber projects to go forward for the final judging in Singapore led by renowned architect, Matteo Thun. The Festival is going to provide a new platform for showcasing wood in architecture around the world and we can’t wait to be part of it.”
The American Hardwood Export Council will be exhibiting at WAF and plans to highlight the results of ‘The Wish List’ – an ambitious design project featuring a stellar list of architects and designers, including Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, Alison Brooks and Amanda Levete. The project showcases how life cycle assessment tools can be used to create an environmental profile for product design. AHEC recently commissioned Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research for 19 American hardwood species. Life Cycle Assessment is a scientific tool that helps industry to establish environmental frameworks that have real meaning and assess true sustainability.
The WAF awards sit at the heart of the festival, and will see practices from around the world compete across 28 individual award categories for global recognition. Competing across three category groups of completed buildings, landscape projects and future projects, previous WAF award entrants have ranged from renowned global architectural firms to small local practices. Architects of every shortlisted project are invited to attend the festival to give a live presentation to a panel of judges, asserting their case for why their project should win. The winners of each category are put forward to compete for the coveted World Building of the Year award, presided over by the festival’s ‘super-jury’, with the presentation of the award being the culmination of WAF 2014.
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Is there a name for “physical things out of which one can build a Turing machine”?
One of the amazing things about computer science is that the physical implementation is in some sense "irrelevant". People have successfully built computers out of several different substrates -- relays, vacuum tubes, discrete transistors, etc. People may soon succeed in building Turing-complete computers out of non-linear optical materials, various biomolecules, and a few other substrates. In principle, it seems possible to build a billiard-ball computer.
However, the physical substrate is not completely irrelevant. People have found that certain sets of components -- in particular, diode-resistor logic -- are "incomplete": no matter how many of them you connect to a power supply and to each other, there are certain very simple things that it cannot do. (The diode-resistor logic can implement AND, OR, but fails to implement NOT). Also, certain ways of connecting components -- in particular, single-layer perceptrons -- are "incomplete": there are certain very simple things that they cannot do. (A single-layer perceptron can implement AND, OR, NOT, but fails to implement XOR).
Is there a less-awkward phrase for "physical things out of which one can build a Turing machine"? Or for the opposite, "physical things that, no matter how many of them one has, cannot form a Turing machine"?
For a while I used the phrase "functionally complete set" or "universal set of gates" -- or, when speaking to mathematicians, "physical things that can implement a functionally complete set" -- but I've been told that isn't quite correct. Some sets of components can implement a functionally complete set; and yet it is not possible to build a Turing-complete machine entirely out of these components. For example, light bulbs and manually-operated 4-way light switches can implement a functionally complete set (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, etc.); and yet it is not possible to build a Turing-complete machine entirely out of light switches and light bulbs, since the (electrical or optical) output of one cannot be fed into the (mechanically rotating) input of the next.
related: Is there an official name for a notion of "reusably universal"? and Is there a name for “chips out of which one can build a CPU”?
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$\begingroup$ This is not an answer but I can't post comments and I felt the need to give the link to this incredible xkcd comic: [A Bunch of Rocks][1] which is related to this question :). [1]: xkcd.com/505 $\endgroup$ – Zenon Mar 28 '11 at 3:18
I believe an appropriate term is "a Turing Machine physical implementation".
The main problem with any implementation is how to provide "infinite tape" or in a more abstract level, infinite memory. An easy solution to this problem is to use a special symbol to indicate the last tape square. When a Turing Machine reaches it, it enters a special state which requires user intervention, who is supplying extra tape. Then, the TM can continue its operation. Unfortunately, such implementations being "physical" involve physics. If the universe is finite and due to the Planck scale, there is a finite amount of tape available. This is where problems arise that perhaps cannot be answered by computer scientists but by physicists. Note that physicists have not reached a conclusion on those matters, which are considered major open problems of the magnitude of $P \neq NP$, so it would be unlikely that a computer scientist would resolve them.
You can read more in Scott Aaronson's paper NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality , especially in the Analog and Relativity computing section.
You can also find a lego implementation (with finite tape) in the following page: http://legoofdoom.blogspot.com/
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$\begingroup$ +1 for the Legos -- whee! I hoped to find a phrase a little easier to roll off the my tongue than "A Turing Machine physical implementation can be composed out of this set of parts" -- but this is still vastly better than the alternatives I've seen so far. $\endgroup$ – David Cary Mar 29 '11 at 17:04
Physics models reality with theories that define a concept of time-dependent state associated to a system and a time-evolution operator that describes how this state evolves. As soon as you find a physical system that (after some state-space discretization) implements the state space of your Turing machine, and that features interaction terms that implement (maybe after some time discretization) the time evolution according to the state transition table of your Turing machine on its state space, you have found a Turing-complete physical model of your system. Thus you can arguable say, your system "is" Turing-complete.
When looking at quantum computing, you will find discussions of implications physical theories have on the Turing model of computation. For example, physical theories have to be reversible. A property, which is not shared by ordinary Turing machines. Yet there is no loss in generality, as any Turing machine can be simulated by a reversible one, with some overhead that can trade-off time vs. space, etc.
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$\begingroup$ This text is packed with interesting concepts and terminology. Alas, I don't see any phrase here which I can use as "This is a <phrase> set of components, while those are a <not-phrase> set of components". $\endgroup$ – David Cary Mar 29 '11 at 18:25
Just thought I'd point out that completeness of a physical medium to simulate the logic required to make a Turing complete computing machine can be established solely in it's ability to embody a NAND gate, as all other gates can be derived from NAND gates (one might ask what then comprises the NAND gates, and that's a very clever question, but it's NAND gates all the way down!).
You should look at the work of Charles Babbage, and the people he inspired. Babbage made a physical computer to tabulate polynomial functions into printed tables for Math indexes (back in the day you'd have stacks of books that had nothing but function names followed by sheets of f(x) values) He latter started work on what would have become a Turing complete computer using cogs cams and such. His son I believe it was continued his work and the only physical manifestation of their combined efforts was a fully functioning mechanical ALU which is the basis of those mechanical calculators you may or may not know about. However the funding for these projects dropped off as a mechanical computer in the size and manner that they could be made in that time was very impractical. However since then, and especially in recent events, people have gone through and are furthering Charles Babbage's research. This approach may have it's last laugh, as there are those who think the only way to make serial CPUs any faster than they are now would be to implement some of these mechanical approaches within a CPU averting the issues spurring from electromagnetics at a scale smaller than the one we use now. Mechanics work on any scale seemingly.
Similarly, work has gone into what is called the Quantum computer which seeks to facilitate large computations through quantum theory, I'm not entirely sure how it all works. But it physically appeals to particle physics experiments that rely on quantum theory.
There are I'm sure many more different mediums of computing being explored, even rocks in the desert, but of them I have no experience.
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$\begingroup$ Light bulbs and light switches can implement NAND. There is a configuration of 2 ordinary light switches and an output light bulb (and a second hidden light bulb) where the output light bulb stays BRIGHT except when a human turns both switches to ON, then the output bulb goes DARK. Alas, it is apparently(?) not possible to build a Turing-complete machine entirely out of light switches and light bulbs. Is there some term I can use that includes the 74HC132 NAND but excludes the light-switches-and-lightbulbs NAND? $\endgroup$ – David Cary Mar 29 '11 at 17:44
$\begingroup$ Well the problem is that the input is mechanical and the output is electrical, so switches are like a conversion nand gate between two domains (kinetics to electronics). Assuming it functions just like a nandgate you COULD make a Turing complete computer out of them, it's just that you'd have to facilitate converting between these two mediums to make output from one gate be input to another, possibly a motorized switch flipper, but yeah impractical. A term you could use that I'll just makeup now is same-medium nandgate, which stipulates the input and output be in the same medium. $\endgroup$ – acp10bda Mar 30 '11 at 7:20
$\begingroup$ +1 good idea -- just make up a term and define it to be exactly the term for which I am looking. The set { (a box with 2 input lightswitches and a output lighbulb that implements AND), (a light-activated motorized switch flipper that implements NOT) } is a d-universal cascading set. But the set { lightbulbs, lightswitches } alone is not a d-universal cascading set. $\endgroup$ – David Cary Mar 31 '11 at 19:20
$\begingroup$ Is it possible to build a Turing machine out of things that are not same-medium nandgates? $\endgroup$ – David Cary Mar 31 '11 at 19:23
$\begingroup$ Sorry for the lateness of this reply, but yes. A Turing machine could be made out of any assembly of components using any variety of input and output mediums so long as the components are arranged in such a way that the result is a Turing complete mechanism. However, Given that the medium of computation would become so wildly variant and potentially very interesting to watch work, I'd like to refer to such a mechanism as a Rube-Goldberg-Turing complete mechanism. :) $\endgroup$ – acp10bda Aug 23 '13 at 13:27
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Partnership TG on ICT for the SDGs
19 Mar 2018 16:30 to 18:15
Session ID: 344
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The objective of the session was to share information on the draft framework to measure digital skills, created by the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML).
Moderator Mr Alexandre Barbosa, head of the Centre of Excellence in Information and Communications Technologies (CETIC) initiated the discussion by highlighting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education, especially section 4.4 which focuses on skills for work, and the thematic indicator 4.4.2 which is, ‘the percentage of youth/adults who have achieved at least a minimum level of proficiency in digital literacy skills.’ Pointing to existing links between task force and WSIS action lines C11, C12 and C14, and also with the SDGs, Barbosa highlighted the complexity of learning, and the challenges of data and indicators to monitor SDG 4 targets.
He said that for finding a proper framework to measure and manage digital skills in different countries, GAML, coordinated by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), was assigned the responsibility for reaching consensus on all indicators under SDG 4 that focus on learning outcomes. With that aim GAML, with the support of the University of Hong Kong Centre for Information Technology in Education, has worked towards creating a framework for digital skills that would be applicable around the world. This framework is based on the European Commission’s Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp 2.1).
Mr Manos Antoninis, director of the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR) / chair of Task Force 4.4, Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML), shared his thoughts on the objective behind GAML in developing a global framework of reference on digital literacy, and then mapping the different instruments with the framework and the inception. He further elaborated on the three steps taken by the University of Hong Kong Centre for Information Technology in Education to date, which includes collecting digital literacy frameworks and use cases; in-depth consultation; and initiating an online consultation which is currently open. Antoninis also shared findings on seven competencies: hardware and software operations, information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety, problem solving, and the career-related competencies of the framework. He also elaborated on how the competencies can be mapped with immediate relevance and aspirations.
Ms Tatiana Jereissati, coordinator of UNESCO projects at the Centre of Excellence in Information and Communications Technologies (CETIC) shared how ICT skills in Brazilian schools are being measured using different research methodologies, and that her organisation has published National ICT indicators in different services. Jereissati further elaborated on the ICT in Education survey, which was conducted in Brazil, with work currently underway on the eighth edition, having a sample size of 3000 schools. The objective of this survey is to identify issues regarding access to, and pedagogical uses of, ICT in Brazilian schools. She also said that the survey measures digital skills based on access, use, and perceived benefits – to students, teachers and principals, so that based on those perceptions they can work towards creating tangible outcomes in future.
Ms Diana Parra Silva, head of Digital Agenda / Chief International Officer, Agency for e-Government and Information and the Knowledge Society, Office of the President of Uruguay, shared her observations on the Uruguay Digital Agenda, which aims to ‘transform the country with equity’. Uruguay, she said, is working to close the digital divide through evidence-based policy making. Parra Silva said that they have conducted a kids’ online survey to understand the skill levels of children. In light of the results the children have been clustered based on their skills and usage.
In concluding the session, Barbosa elucidated that various Latin American countries were measuring ICT skills based on self-declaration. Chile for example has developed a curriculum guideline on how to measure ICT skills based on a matrix, while Mexico has initiated a pilot programme in this regard. He also reiterated that while more work needs to be carried out in terms of SDG 4, the challenge today is to define the proper indicators.
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Ab-Soul 'Do What Thou Wilt.' 1 Listen Album Review
Ab-Soul's new album has more layers than a wedding cake, but his raps are sharper than ever.
Yoh Phillips
When I was young and impressionable, Cartoon Network introduced me to a little boy with a big laboratory—he was considered a genius. His mind worked differently, it was more advanced; while other kids played with toys he was building robots. Dexter’s Laboratory taught me early that the title of "genius" wasn’t bestowed to just anyone, but only to those with an exceptional intellect. So when I was introduced to Ab-Soul, the genius of TDE, exceptional is what I expected. It didn’t have to listen to him string words together for very long before I saw the light, how he was a bright wordsmith that cared about lyricism. If he wasn’t a genius, he had the kind of talent that made him appear as one.
It’s been about six years since the first time I heard Ab-Soul. He was broke and almost famous back then, but all of TDE were young, starving caterpillars with the potential to become much more. One by one their potential evolved into true artistry. The biggest leap of progress for Soulo was showcased in 2012 with the release of Control System. It was an incredible album from start to finish, a true display of one of TDE’s most potent pens. I’ll never forget how he begins the second verse of "ILLuminate," confidently declaring a feeling of being able to rhyme circles around Jay Z—it was an outrageous boast, but one that he would have to back up. It was an exciting time, a feeling that all the momentum he was building would lead to something major.
After These Days..., I didn’t know what would happen to Ab. He dropped the ball during a crucial possession; a fumble when the masses expected a touchdown. Part of why I’m anticipating Do What Thou Wilt. is seeing him as an artist with something to prove. He is truly in an underdog position, his back against the metaphorical wall, but what will he deliver? He’s a gifted writer with a perspective that’s unlike any other artist in TDE—unlike most artists in rap. Going into Do What Thou Wilt., I’m hoping to hear the exceptional writer, the lyricist who will prove why he should be able to wear the crown of a rap genius. Not everyone can rule the tops of Billboard charts, but only the mightiest pens are able to be heralded in the underground. If Ab is truly one of the best rappers alive, this is his chance to prove it. Considering TDE’s outrageous release schedule, who knows when he’ll get another chance like this.
The cover of Do What Thou Wilt. is already special: a picture of Ab-Soul without any glasses. This is the first time in his career that he has been photographed staring into the lens, staring into the eyes of his listeners. I hope that it’s a metaphor for him dropping his guard, the last time he truly opened up was “The Book Of Soul”—one of the most beautifully tragic songs I’ve ever heard. With speculation comes excitement, and I’m anxious to hear what Soul will deliver.
In usual 1 Listen fashion I’m not allowed to pause, rewind or fast-forward any songs on the album. I must listen to each one and write only my gut reaction. Let’s catch these bars.
1. "Raw (backwards)" (ft. Zacari)
Shoutout to Red Bull, my drink of choice for this review. We've got some stuttering vocals. Ab is declaring raw backwards on all the rappers. I love the title, and I love the aggression. He’s rather calm, but he’s hyped. The locksmith is a quote. An O(verly) D(edicated) nod, word to "P&P." Bars are being delivered, every line is potent enough to be on a glass table in The Weeknd’s balloon house. Zacari is letting it be known no more wack shit all 2017. The beat is cool, nothing too astounding, but if he’s rapping like this he could rap over 5th graders doing the "Grindin’" beat on their desks. Couple of flow switches. I love that Ab-Soul is Kendrick’s lyrical goon. The Jay Electronica jab makes me wonder if we will see the two lyricists really spar. Jay Elect versus Ab-Soul is like Obi Wan vs Anakin, far more interesting than Drake and Kendrick. Quote me. The electric guitar is a nice touch. The outro beat switch with the choir in the background is like being lifted toward the light. Ab labeling his subject matters sounds like courses I should’ve taken in college. “I’m not talented, I’m skilled.” A line.
2. "Braille" (ft. Bas)
We’re off to a good start. Red Bull got my eyes open. I won’t use this opportunity to shade These Days..., but that intro made me feel better than half that album. Kind of a strange follow-up, the aggression has been replaced by a bit of bounce. Ab is like a thief the way he’s hitting the pocket. With all his genius, Ab’s hooks aren’t the craziest. It’s like an attempt to make something catchy, but you’re more likely to cringe than repeat. Bas' album has grown on me, but out of all the Dreamville artists I would expect Omen to team up with Soulo. Well, the verse didn’t make me leap out my seat and wake the neighbors… Beat just slowed down, took us to Castlevania. Pitched-down vocals, chanting, this feels like walking blindfolded into an Illuminati meeting. I wonder how many times have rappers mentioned Helen Keller… “Are you niggas dope or just doing dope,” oh we know the answer.
3. "Huey Knew THEN" (ft. Da$h)
The first single that I barely remember. One of those songs you like, but you never go back to. Loving these ominous keys. Flava Flav soundbites are always accepted. This is exactly what I expected from a Soulo single, a snow flurry of bars and a simplistic hook that doesn’t try too hard. I wonder what song Obama would play by Ab-Soul—probably "Druggys Wit Hoes." I can’t remember the last time I had to do a 1 Listen when I had to listen so hard. Some of these bars are light jabs, but it sounds like he’s sneaking some heavy hitters in there. Da$h has one of those voices that tells you he carries a razor underneath his tongue. Would love to hear homie link up with Mobb Deep—random, I know—but someone make that happen. His verse was rather short. This one is solid.
4. "Threatening Nature"
Has Ab-Soul’s production always been charcoal black? I guess you have to make a song that begins with “The Devil’s after me” more twilight than sunrise. The album so far has less light than a vampire's coffin. No complaints, just an observation. Wonder how Ras Kass feels about this album? Still immature enough to chuckle at the Adam and Eve line. Is Ab-Soul insinuating there’s a connection between praying to God and bending down to purpose? The American Flag line was out of line, Kaepernick isn’t taking knees for this. Won’t lie, even after the Red Bull I’m not high enough to understand all the points Ab is trying to make… But God could’ve given a woman a feature in the Bible, lowkey. My third eye might need glasses.
5. "Womanogamy"
All the singles are out of the way, let’s see how the album opens. Eardrummers drop, is this Mike WiLL? (Editor's Note: It's not.) Doesn’t really sound like him but it’s knocking. A little storytelling, interesting. Making a song about girls liking girls feels so 2009. "Womanogamy" sounds like something Young Dro should’ve made, or a really bad trending Twitter topic. Has anyone ever fallen asleep during a 1 Listen review? It’s not all bad, his flow is sharp. Just a song that doesn’t really hold your attention. Ab claims that if anyone learned to be a bad bitch from Amber Rose, this should be their favorite track and he clearly just stated why I don’t like it.
6. "INvocation" (ft. Kokane)
Kokane is a rapper? Singer? Or… “Say Hip-Hop!” Little bit of OG flavor. Can’t remember the last time I heard a rapper spell out their rhyme. I’m loving this beat, strangely. The horns and keys sound like post-apocalyptic jazz. Off-kilter, eccentric, but also lively—perfect for his style. "Bohemian Grove" homage. This is already sounding like an early favorite. Yeah, Ab brought a pen that is mighty enough to shatter a weaker emcee's sword. Loving the horns blaring in the background. This would make a perfect track to start a show with, especially with the Soulo chanting. Easily the best beat thus far. So many styles. “Baby I’m going on no vacation,” no days off in the life of Soulo. More jazz please. Makes you wonder how much Kendrick rubs off on the TDE camp. Five minutes is long—real long—but this is a good standout.
7. "Wifey Vs. WiFi /// "P.M.S." (ft. BR3)
“I hate quoting Jay Z,” he says respectfully. Production is the brightest it's been the entire album. WHOA THAT CHOP. This sounds like a possible single, it’s strangely interesting. “Tweet me right now if you’re using your third eye phone.” I can’t help but think "Hotline Bling" encouraged this influx of phone songs. Storytelling Ab, him and his homie, I have no idea what he’s talking about. This is building up to…. wait, did he just say… beat switch, someone is rapping to the knuckle beat made on a classroom desk. Whoever this kid is, he’s going. A strange interlude, but I’m here for the raps. A complete polar opposite than the previous record. “I’m feeling like Biggie when he lost faith.”
8. "Beat the Case" (ft. ScHoolboy Q) / / / "Straight Crooked"
Production just drop-kicked me in the spine. This is NASTY. Q and Ab-Soul back together, I’m here for it. Soul's first verse was cool. Q!!! This flow, it kind of feels like Q is doing the Uzi Vert and it’s molten lava hot. Q is effortless charisma. Q claiming best hip-hop album. Slave lyrics will always make me cringe. This beat is HARD, police sirens just came in as I was thinking about how perfect this song is for GTA. Kind of surprised more rappers haven’t made songs about beating cases, funny how Ab-Soul, the least likely member of TDE to get in any legal trouble, is bragging about beating cases and avoiding jail. This is a better theme for the GRAMMY-nominated Blank Face. Beat switch, Obama puppet lyrics. “A criminal's best asset is his liability.” I’m pissed that he made this one long song instead of splitting them into two separate records. This would've been a better back-to-back than Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in the second Rush Hour.
9. "Portishead in the Morning" /// "HER World"
These songs are long! Okay, so it sounds like Ab is adjusting an old T.V. There’s a news report. I really need to get into Portishead for 2017. Loving these drums, loving this flow—this is sounding hopeful—but Ab is unpredictable, things can switch up. “The philosopher is getting stoned.” There might be enough quotables on this one to fill up the timeline. I can’t keep up. Good song, but the album has such a bizarre feeling. Ab’s always been unpredictable but this album is a pretzel the way he bends in strange ways. If Post Malone was easy listening, than Ab-Soul is a maze. “God has to be a thot”… “Confused emoji.”
10. "God's A Girl?"
Charles Hamilton's album is out now, Ab talking about God being a woman is the perfect time to give CH free promo. Okay…this is kinda cool…heroin… wait, did the song just stop to talk about how Jesus never got laid!? Is this what goes on in Soulo studio sessions? I’m so puzzled. Now I feel bad about Jesus. Wait, did Top tell Ab-Soul to attend rehab? He’s admitting serious addiction issues. Man, this entire song is a Rubik's Cube of twists but so is this album. Is this a Mick Jenkins flow? Has the feelings. But this is good. The first half of the song is one big pump fake, and the second half is damn near excellent. My third eye looks like a fainted Pokémon.
11. "Now You Know"
I’m not high enough for this album. A singing intro about relaxing. I wish I could relax but I’m on my toes. Train… Okay we got something happening. Loving this mellow vibe, minimal fits Ab. Wondering what this sample could be playing in the background. Ab raps like he does not care if we understand what the hell he’s talking about but he pulls you in. You want to get IT. A lot of women references, I have to connect those dots. A lot of biblical references. I feel like that’s pretty normal for Soul but they’re coming in an abundance. This is a good song. Goodie Mobb "Git Up" rephrase. This is by far one of the strangest albums that I’ve heard all year. Ab-Soul just went full Lil Rascals, no Alfalfa.
12. "D.R.U.G.S."
Mac Miller has peeked in with a small word. I wonder if this was recorded before or after his sobriety. Personal Soulo singing about his mother and family. Loving the emotion in his voice. Okay, this sounds GOOD. These sad piano keys. Real dynamic kicks. This is the kind of beat that Zaytoven would make if he was an emo kid in Hot Topic and not in the trap with 1017. Even though Ab sounds sober, I can’t help but think about Lil Wayne’s “Me And My Drank”— now that was a love song about drugs. Background vocals or sample? The newspaper flip is so real. Soul’s drug indulgence has been heavy, but this sounds like he’s been going through some tough times. The abortion/third son line sent a chill down my fingertips. An easy favorite. Does Mac Miller have a verse? Mac’s bridge/cry for help took the record all the way there. OHHHH the message to the kids at the end. Five-star record right here.
13. "Evil Genius" (ft. Teedra Moses & JaVonte)
Evil genius, I guess Soul is more Mandark than Dexter. A woman’s voice, need to see the album credits. I like this kind of subtle darkness, like walking through the darkest sectors of someone's soul. Ab-Soul voice effect sounds like he was beamed up by alien Kendrick. Is that an Alori mention about not doing coke again? “Just a Romeo mourning his Juliet” OHHHH WE GETTING DEEP. This song actually sounds like the album cover! He vomited a bunch of words in that verse but boy did it spill out of him like a punctured vein. Some ghastly voice is singing a duet with an angel, it’s strangely... nope just strange. Some futuristic percussion just kicked in from the year 3005, really sounds like traveling through deep space on the Death Star. Nominating Ab-Soul for the role of a black Jedi in the next installment of Star Wars. He’s pretty much Yoda on psychedelics. The beat is riding out, but it's a rather smooth ride.
14. "Lonely Soul" (ft. Punch) / / / "The Law (Prelude)" (ft. SZA)
Long 1 Listen reviews are to writers what marathons are to runners. This album is longer than rush hour traffic in Atlanta during a snowstorm. But I've been enjoying the last few songs immensely. Get the bars off! Another Alori mention, reflective Soul, he tends to get introspective on any song with Punch. Haha, the Control System line is gold. THIS IS THE AB-SOUL THAT MADE ME A FAN. When he’s pencil-sharp he’s a dangerous MF. I don’t think I want a Punch album, but I’ll always enjoy his features. He’s like TDE’s sixth man—always can be counted on to come off the bench with the heat rock. Ab is on a run, the last three records have all been keepers. Not really sure if I get this interlude. The man is talking too fast. Sounds like he has an accent and there’s another voice. Is that SZA? That is SZA. That was sadly brief.
15. "The Law" (ft. Mac Miller & Rapsody)
Soul got him some SOUL. This is pleasant on the ears. The beat just dropped and my shoulders did their best Diddy shimmy impression. Who did this one? This is one of those beats that’s so good Soulo could mumble the alphabet backward and I’ll type up 140 fire emojis. This is very different than the last song Mac Miller dropped called "The Law." Mac Miller and Ab-Soul both dropped albums with heavy themes around women, cannot be a coincidence. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was made during Mac’s The Divine Feminine sessions, he could’ve easily taken this record. Rapsody! This is a great time to announce Crown is an incredible EP. She’s on her spoken word flow.
16. "YMF"
He’s been saying “YMF” throughout the album, what does it mean? This is already sounding nasty. This loop is going to turn into something tremendous. Still no idea what YMF means. Impossible to decipher all the symbolism, but it’s much easier to digest when the production is hitting with the strength of Chun-Li’s kicks. “I could even be lying about being a liar” is frustrating me. Loving the background vocals. A little different than a lot of the other songs on the album but a cool closing. Kind of anticlimactic when on the last album Ab battle rapped at the end. Wait, a woman's voice saying she created the earth? “Let there be light.”
The 1 Listen Review was not made for Ab-Soul albums. My head is spinning, my mind is numb, but my ears are fairly pleased.
This is one album I’ll suggest you put some time aside and give it full concentration. As a wizard of words, Ab-Soul hasn’t lost the magic touch. He actually might have leveled up to a mage that can challenge some of rap's most championed Merlins. He gives so much in these songs that, at times, it feels overwhelming, but that could simply be a result of trying to digest everything in one listen. Genius will have to put in overtime for this one.
Do What Thou Wilt. is a lot to take in. Each song feels as if it’s overflowing with depth, and it will take several plunges into the project’s essence before understanding all its secrets. Instead of making multiple albums, it’s crammed with views on sexism, religion, addiction, hedonism, and, because it’s Soul, none of these topics are tackled in the traditional way.
He is truly TDE's Yoda meets Rick and Morty. You can feel that this is a focused effort, nothing is done by accident. With more layers than a wedding cake, Do What Thou Wilt. is still a rap album at its heart, and Ab-Soul is still a rapper that is working to rival those claiming to be the best.
By Yoh, aka Yohlo Ho, aka @Yoh31.
Photo Credit: TDE
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WAMSIT: What Actor/Movie/Show Is It
Have you ever seen a great image from a movie but not been able to find out which it was? Our site fixes that!
Have you had a picture you've found on the internet of a movie or TV show that you don't know the name of? Our website allows you to plug in a link to that image and then recognize the faces of all the actors in that picture and return you a list of everything they've appeared in together, hopefully giving you the . This is of course, in theory, in practice we can't recognize any actor you give us but instead have a small (but easily expandable) database of actors that we used as a Proof of Concept.
To use our website, simply paste an image URL to the link above and the website will use Azure's facial recognition to match any faces in the image with any of the people stored in its database, and then cross reference that data with our database to find their The Movie Database IDs, and finally use the TMDB API to retrieve the actors' filmographies and cross-referenced them to find a list of every film all the recognized actors have participated in together.
Our MongoDB server keeps track of the ID's for TMDB and Azure's Face Database that we have manually added beforehand. The node.js backend communicates with our site's API in order to retrieve that information and then bridge the gap between the Azure Database (which handles all the facial recognition) and the TMDB API (which contains all the information regarding the actors, movies and tv shows we display).
The Azure API calls were definitely tricky to puzzle out, as were some really head-scratching errors when trying to submit http posts using jquery vs. straight XML http request.
Scraping IMDB.com for actor images and filmography, our initial idea, was a bit of a dead end, as they didn't have nearly as accessible of an API.
Trying to figure out the many cross-browser quirks of the HTML5 drag and drop specification, which we eventually decided to leave out.
Getting it to recognize every actor in a promo picture for Anchorman and then correctly identifying that the common element between each actor was that they had all in fact starred in Anchorman!
How powerful of a technology Azure's Facial Recognition is, and how good looking Kit Harington is!
What's next for WAMSIT: What Actor/Movie/Show Is It
Scaling: Currently our database only holds actors that we've manually added into it, although the process is somewhat streamlined by the javascript that uses The Movie Database's API to retrieve images of the actors and actresses. We don't really know how easily Azure would scale from having to recognize from a database of dozens of faces to the ideal database of thousands that the full scope of this project requires. One possible avenue to helping ease those literal growing pains would be to sort the Azure Database into multiple Person Groups based on the similar features that Azure's facial recognition already handles: ie. hair colour, facial hair/symmetry, male/female face structure. Then having grouped all the actors on TMDB by common facial features that Azure recognizes, you would only have to traverse the database of pertinent actors based on the faces recognized in the picture given.
There is also sufficient optimization that could be done on the movie cross-referencing, especially sorting to reduce the complexity of the search operations required and truncating the range of searches into subsequent actor filmographies.
UI: Giving the results a little flair would be a nice addition, such as:
including a small thumbnail of the face recognized in the image by Azure beside the actor
including a small thumbnail of the poster of the movie as provided by TMDB
Interfacing: Having an interface for instagram posts, or common sites such as reddit or imgur could improve usability.
azure-face
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Hack the North 2017
I worked mostly on the Azure API calls and on the logic for cross-referencing actors with their filmography.
This was my first deep dive into using APIs and I thoroughly enjoyed learning about how powerful they can be to web development.
Sam Codrington
I had some experience with servers, routing, and node, and a lot of experience with JavaScript and CSS, so I did a big chunk of the styling, business logic, and interfacing with the various APIs we used.
It was tricky encorporating the various systems for face recognition and actor details, but I'm really happy with the result!
Ben Codrington
Sam Codrington started this project — Sep 17, 2017 06:24 AM EDT
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Crystal Fighters gear up for NYC shows by sharing their favorite city grub
2 years ago by Steph Evans
After releasing their third album at the end of 2016, Everything Is My Family, indie electronic band Crystal Fighters have continued pushing themselves creatively. The London quintet has no shortage of fans, with millions following them on any social media of choice. And after releasing 2013's Cave Rave and 2010's Star of Love, let's just say they've been in the game for a while now, watching the landscape of music change, and the interplay between the groovy and the indie ebb and flow.
The band is currently on tour, and while they'll hit up LA, Chicago, and Cambridge, Massachusetts over the weekend, they've just announced their "biggest show ever" to take place at London's Alexandra Palace. The show is a first for the group, with all proceeds going to one of three charities: OXFAM, The Cool Earth and The Eternal Beat. But for now, Crystal Fighters is looking forward to returning to one of their favorite cities to play in; New York City. Gearing up for two performances at the iconic Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 5th and 6th, the band members have enlightened us with details in one of their favorite activities to do when they come to NYC. Of course, to no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the city, they love to eat, so they've shared their favorite spots with us. You'll notice that their most favorite choices fall in the "muy danky" category.
Sun in Bloom
"Muy danky* vegan spot that Bast and I have been to many times in Park Slope"
460 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11217
165 Church Street, New York, New York 10007
Cocoron
"Favorite soba restaurant in NYC hands down on Bowery & Delancey"
16 Delancey St, New York, NY 10002
Cholulita
"Favorite Mexican joint now that El Portal is closed, located on Broadway in Bushwick"
888 Broadway Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11206
Ramen Lab
"Favorite Ramen restaurant in NYC on Kenmare & Mulberry."
70 Kenmare St, New York, NY 10012
"Legit muy danky NY slice window on Dekalb and Hall in Ft. Greene"
326 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Prince Street Pizza
"Square slice is unlike anything else in the world, just off the Bowery."
27 Prince St, New York NY, 10012
Connect with Crystal Fighters: SoundCloud | Facebook | Twitter
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Crystal Fighters singer Kyiki releases "We Are The Ocean" [Premiere]
by Clark McCaskill
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Fear and Loathing, Sports and Culture
It’s time to stop worshipping powerful men
Following the news that Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed and abused women for decades, waves of women in Hollywood are coming forward with allegations that describe a culture that permits widespread harassment and assault. This culture disproportionately affects women—but it does not affect women alone.
Actors Terry Crews, James Van Der Beck and Rob Schneider have all said that they have had executives or other powerful figures in Hollywood grope them or make sexual advances. Sexual harassment is not only about sexism. It’s the result of the patriarchy—and the way it works to give powerful men carte blanche to diminish others’ humanity.
Women are all too often singled out for sexual harassment in the workplace. A 2015 study of workplace harassment in Australia found that women filed nine out of 10 workplace harassment complaints, as just one example. Because of sexism, women are seen as sexual objects; as Andrea Dworkin wrote, women “are treated as if we are subhuman, and that is a precondition for violence against us.”
Sexual harassment is also the direct result of patriarchy—a system in which men hold the majority of the power, and in which masculinity is glorified. In patriarchy, masculinity and power are bound together. This means that power is inherently sexualized. The ultimate expression of power and authority in patriarchy is the ability to act with sexual impunity. And sexual impunity in patriarchy becomes an expected perk of power.
This is why many men in powerful positions wind up mistreating others. When Weinstein or Steven Seagal allegedly held meetings in a state of undress—or when Lyndon Johnson held meetings on the toilet— they were actively asserting their absolute power as patriarchs by showing they could violate bounds of sexual decorum. Donald Trump made this quite clear when he boasted about sexually harassing women. “When you’re a star they let you do it,” he said. Fame and power enable sexual abuse, and men act as if sexual abuse demonstrates fame and power. Read more via Quartz
Tagged: sexual assault, gender, celebrity, USA
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Fear and Loathing, HIV Health and Wellness, Sports and Culture, Winds of Change
What To Expect When You're A Trans Dad Expecting
"I thought I would be fearless. Who cares that I’m a pregnant man? Fuck it! But I was actually really scared of being hurt or attacked. All my radical, queer, devil-may-care attitude dissipated because every part of my body was dedicated to keeping this baby safe and keeping me safe."
For the past four years, Trystan Reese has lived in Portland, Oregon, with his husband, Biff Chaplow and their two adopted children (Chaplow's biological niece and nephew). Their day-to-day lives are, for the most part, textbook ordinary — school, work, playdates, grocery-store run, repeat. The kids call Trystan “Daddy” and Reese “Dada.”
Recently, Trystan and Biff began to discuss the idea of expanding their family. Trystan, a 34-year-old trans man, would carry the couple's first biological child. After Trystan got pregnant, the couple made the decision to share part of their journey online, but they did not plan on having their story go viral. While a trans man carrying a child is by no means a medical miracle, and Trystan is certainly not the first to do so in the public eye — think Thomas Beatie on Oprah in 2008 — their story has still attracted attention, both negative and positive.
We visited Trystan and Biff at their home in Portland when Trystan was nine months pregnant — on his due date, in fact — to hear more about why they chose to share their story online, what it means to be a trans parent, and what the future holds for queer families like theirs. The following account has been collected from various in-person and phone interviews leading up to the birth of Trystan and Biff’s son Leo. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
Read more via Buzzfeed
Tagged: transgender, transphobia, culture, family, transition, USA
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Older PostNepal: Did Nepal Really Just Recognize Its First “Same-Sex Marriage”?
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Mathematics Education 3
Secondary School Mathematics 2
College Mathematics 1
Computation 1
Computer Oriented Programs 1
Equations (Mathematics) 1
Mathematical Applications 1
Mathematical Formulas 1
Microcomputers 1
Sensory Experience 1
Australian Mathematics Teacher 3
Mathematics Teacher 2
Kimberling, Clark 1
MacFarlane, J. D. 1
Marshall, Daniel 1
Morgan, Frank W. 1
Morgan, Larry A. 1
Newell, G. J. 1
Scott, Paul 1
Squire, Barry 1
Numerical/Quantitative Data X
Sum Fun with Gnomons! Or Take the Gausswork out of it!
Squire, Barry – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2005
This document shows a different way of adding lists of numbers to find a way of getting general formulae for figurate numbers and use Gauss?s method to check it.
Descriptors: Mathematical Formulas, Computation, Mathematics, Numbers
A Brief History of Non-Euclidean Geometry
Marshall, Daniel; Scott, Paul – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2004
Around 300 BC, Euclid wrote "The Elements", a major treatise on the geometry of the time, and what would be considered "geometry" for many years after. Arguably "The Elements" is the second most read book of the western world, falling short only to The Bible. In his book, Euclid states five postulates of geometry which he uses as the foundation…
Descriptors: Geometry, History
Personal Computers, p-Values, and Hypothesis Testing.
Morgan, Larry A.; Morgan, Frank W. – Mathematics Teacher, 1984
Presents a set of classroom activities and a computer program that have been used to help students intuitively grasp, in a minimum of instructional time, such fundamental concepts as hypothesis testing, random sampling, statistical inference and p-values. The lesson shows students how statistical thinking and microcomputers can be used in…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, High Schools, Learning Activities
Microcomputer-Assisted Discoveries: Lines.
Kimberling, Clark – Mathematics Teacher, 1984
Presents an Applesoft computer program to help students translate abstract sentences into concrete visible lines and thereby discover and confirm facts about slopes, intercepts, angles, and intersections. The program graphs and analyzes lines, given as equations of the form Y equals M times X plus B. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Equations (Mathematics), Geometry, High Schools
An Interesting Application of the Binomial Distribution.
Newell, G. J.; MacFarlane, J. D. – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1984
Presents an application of the binomial distribution in which the distribution is used to detect differences between the sensory properties of food products. Included is a BASIC computer program listing used to generate triangle and duo-trio test results. (JN)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Computer Software, Food, Higher Education
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