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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 3
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 3
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Africa's best brands
Anti Counterfeit Act
fake goods
Thoughts on INTA's Gen Z Insights: Brands and Counterfeit Products [Nigeria Country Report]
Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie
Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie Thursday, July 18, 2019 No comments:
In May, the International Trademark Organisation (INTA) published several country reports on the attitudes of Gen Z (for the purposes of the Report, those between the ages of 18 and 23) to buying and selling of counterfeits or fake products. The reports involve results from a survey undertaken in 10 countries: Nigeria, Argentina, Indonesia, China, Japan, Russia, India, United States, Italy and Mexico.
This post presents an overview of and thoughts on the report concerning Nigeria (the Report). The sample size for Nigeria's market is smaller than other markets due to limited sampling feasibility.
Here is an overview of the Report:
The Report acknowledges the significance of Gen Z to the global consumer base. The selection of the 10 countries was based on factors such as population size of Gen Z in those countries, prevalence of counterfeit goods and economic development. See page 4. Further, the Report based the survey on the three characteristics that define Gen Z's generational identity and that influence the purchase behaviour of counterfeit products: individuality, morality and flexibility. See page 6.
In addition to these considerations, the Report also defined "fake products" as "an exact imitation of a brand's product and its packaging". See page 5.
The Report presents the results from "Virtual Qualitative Phase" where respondents from Argentina, India, Russia and the United States were asked to complete 3 days' worth of activities online, and a second Quantitative Phase comprising of respondents from all the selected countries. This second phase was informed by findings from the virtual qualitative phase and required respondents to complete a 25-minute online survey. See page 5.
Here are some of the key findings on Nigeria:
Income is a top determinant of whether a Nigerian Gen Zer will purchase fakes; with morality coming a close second. See page 21.
Almost all the respondents (97%) have purchased fakes in the recent past.
Clothes, shoes and accessories are the top-purchased fake products.
Media personalities, social media influencers and brands' creators or employees, are Gen Z's top three credible sources for learning about fakes.
In terms of knowledge of IPRs such as copyright and trademarks, respondents from all countries are above 75%. For Nigeria, respondents that knew about IPRs are in the bottom 3 countries with 79%. See pages 9 and 19.
Nigerian Gen Zers top the list of those who have purchased fakes in the past year. See page 10.
The global (the 10 countries) and national (Nigeria) average for number of fake food and beverages and personal care products seen by Gen Zers is low compared to other products. Page 11.
The top 3 media for Gen Zers in terms of usage and awareness are Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. See pages 15 and 21.
Only few (29%) are proud to show off a good fake to friends; but majority (95%) believe they deserve to know if the product they are buying is fake or genuine. See page 22.
What to think of all these?
It is said that food, clothing and shelter are the most basic human needs. It therefore makes sense that clothing (apparel and shoes) is the most purchased fake product. Conversely, brands that will do well in Nigeria are likely to be brands that give a "high-end" feel but are reasonably priced.
IP education needs to start early: Knowledge of IPRs at 79% of Gen Zers is low when it is considered that almost all the respondents have purchased fakes in the recent past. As McLean Sibanda suggested in the case of South Africa, IP education needs to start as early as primary school.
The number of Gen Zers who have purchased fakes in the recent past is quite high at 97%. In fact, Nigeria ranked highest for this question. This raises the issue of availability. Are the fakes made within Nigeria or are they imports? What is the ratio of fakes made in Nigeria to imported fakes?
The definition of "fakes" as exact imitation of a brand's product and its packaging when applied to food and beverages may need more context. Food scarcity is a huge problem in Nigeria and Africa generally. Whether fake food and beverages are safe or not may be a better determinant of purchase than the cost of the goods or the personal values of the Gen Zers. The Report bears this out in page 28 as majority rarely think of fakes when it comes to food products. For context, popular breakfast cereal brand, Kellog's started manufacturing some of its breakfast cereals in Nigeria in 2016. The Nigeria-made Kellog's cereals are cheaper and taste differently from the imported ones. Whether it tastes better or not, you will not read this on Afro-IP. Some opinions here.
There is a correlation between the top media in terms of awareness and usage and the kinds of fake products most purchased. Clothes, shoes and accessories are very much available on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Beyond being social media sites, these media are also sales points. This raises the question of what advertising regulations exist and how consumer protection law works for Gen Z consumers (and other consumers).
What do readers make of the Report's findings?
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September 3, 2020 - NEW ENTRY
September 3, 2020 11:08:26
My doctor says I can venture out again with a mask and great caution but since the bookshops are all closed I have nowhere I want to go. Our annual book fair has just been cancelled and all the paper shows and the Sunday Market are also in suspension so there’s only the internet if you want books.
Our shop is now open again and can be visited, although we recommend a call first, 10am to 5pm – Monday to Friday. We hope to start seeing old friends again – we continue to buy books every day.
We continue with our email lists, a new on-line bookfair, which seems to be working, and we continue to quote to our regular clients, so business goes on although different from the old days.
We’re going to be hearing a lot about the “old days” I think, probably forever now. Everybody’s life is changed in some ways and permanently too. Better learn to adjust. Luckily for me at my age I have mostly all I want: books to read, my home collections to play with, and am never bored. It’s the young I feel for, all that energy and life bursting out and nowhere to go.
I just bought the DVD of the great documentary The Booksellers a documentary centred on New York booksellers and the New York City bookfair which provides a great view of many booksellers, and collectors. Fascinating and great nostalgia for me, old friends and fascinating unknowns and newcomers since I stopped doing the circuit. Not to be missed.
A lunch club, of which I’m a member, regularly has the host pose a question which goes around the table where we receive answers, often very witty ones, from the members who include people from every form of book-making in Canada, from writers to booksellers.
I was to be one of the hosts when we were temporarily inconvenienced by the plague and I intended to pose an around the table the question: What book in the last while has most disturbed you?
This question arose with me because of a book I bought at publication in 2017 and still haven’t read, usually getting too depressed to continue somewhere in the first chapter. The book, Edward O. Wilson’s The Origins of Creativity, got a great review from Bob Fulford. I bought it and shortly thereafter went into the hospital taking it along with a dozen other books as emotional sustenance.
It wasn’t a book for hospitals, and I never got past the first page.
Its essential theme was that in a great evolutionary leap, starting some three million years ago we began ruling the world, our magnificent brains allowing us to create our astonishing civilization. But the downside is that we are still ruled by the emotions of our ancient ancestors which is why, as Wilson put it on page one, “We are both supremely advanced and supremely dangerous.”
I was flummoxed. I couldn’t get past that simple but supremely logical explanation of why the world is such a mess – it’s because we’re so dangerous, operating with emotions we barely have a clue about, our brains merely making us even more cunning in misusing our incredible mental gifts.
It has completely changed my view of the world. I now view all events from that perspective and I must say all events, all the evil and stupidity everywhere, fits perfectly in that framework. And my previous consternation at the depths humanity can stoop to, is now clear to me.
I’ve picked up the book 20 times and failed every time to get very far without dropping it in despair. I’ve just started it again and have managed to get to p68, my most successful foray to date. Whether I will manage to finish it remains uncertain.
My world-view now completely altered, I can only see one way out. We must focus our brilliant minds on the real problem and begin to defeat our primitive animal instincts with the only weapon we have that provides any hope: that superlative brain.
It turns out my constant quoting from that great American philosopher, Pogo, isn’t just a joke after all! “We have seen the enemy and it is us.” It’s true.
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Jeff Colburn
How much character development you do really depends on your writing style. Personally, I do little or no character development. My characters, to varying degrees, are living full-blown in my mind. I may make a few quick notes, but not much more than that. However, most of my writing is in the short story and novelette areas. I have not worked on a novel, and all of my books have been nonfiction. If I were to write a “War and Peace” beastie, then I’m sure I would do at least a minor outline on all of my characters.
But why do a character development? To add depth and life to your characters. Most writers flesh out their characters to varying degrees before starting their story. Especially in a novel, this can prevent you from needing to go back and rewrite scenes because a character did something that, earlier in the story, he would never do. Or to make sure the characters are dissimilar. There’s nothing more boring than having two or more characters with similar habits, attitudes or ways of speaking.
One writer I met, Elizabeth George (“Playing For The Ashes”) goes into great detail for her novels. She creates a map of the area where the story is taking place, takes photographs of the area, or an area like the one she envisions, and has pages of information on each character. How they look, dress, comb their hair, their family tree, schools attended, etc. Elizabeth writes long novels, and says, “Why say in one hundred words what you can say in one thousand?” So with long, detailed novels like this, an indepth development of each character would be necessary.
When doing a character development, you will want to know as much about the main characters as you know about your family or best friend. As with your story, you should use all of your senses when describing your characters. Following are some of the things you should know about your characters.
Physical Characteristics: Name (It must fit. Don’t call a 98 pound weakling Thor, unless it’s some kind of nickname), appearance, age, voice (sexy, gravely, lisp), annoying or unusual habits (knuckle cracking, nail biting, pencil chewing. I wrote a fictional piece called “One Per Customer,” and when the main character gets upset, he likes to throw his heavy glass paperweight through the office wall. He’s a cop, and his office looks like it’s made of Swiss Cheese.), wardrobe.
Mental Attributes: Personality, how they relate to their relatives, their intelligence and schooling, fears, wants, goals, dreams, priorities, drives, skeletons in their closets.
Environment: Where they live (house, trailer, apartment, condo), it’s condition (new, old, dirty), how it’s decorated (salvation army, creative on a budget, antique, fashionable), their job (politician, crook (if there’s a difference), manual laborer, computer work), sports, hobbies, friends, enemies, pets (I have a pet wind-up goldfish in a jar of water. Low maintenance and high neglect threshold.), relationships (single, married, divorced, widowed, dating, kids).
As I said earlier, it depends on your personality and your writing style. I often don’t do much of a character development because I like to see how my characters grow, and I like to be surprised by my characters and stories as I write them. Because of this I sometime have to go back and make changes in paragraphs, or chapters, but the surprises are worth it.
So experiment and find out what you feel comfortable with. You can change it whenever you like. Above all, find a way to write that you enjoy. That’s what it’s all about.
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Copyright © 2021 Jeff Colburn
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Sylvie Gauthier est chercheure associée au CEF et chercheure au Centre de foresterie des Laurentides. Elle étudie les effets des feux de forêts sur la dynamique des peuplements en forêt boréale mixte et coniférienne, la succession forestière après feu et la caractérisation des régimes de feux dans l’Est du Canada.
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Boothroyd-Roberts, K., Gagnon, D., Truax, B. (2013) Hybrid poplar plantations are suitable habitat for reintroduced forest herbs with conservation status. SpringerPlus, 2(1):1-13. (Scopus )
Plantations of fast-growing tree species may be of use in conservation by accelerating the restoration of forest habitat on abandoned farmland and increasing connectivity in fragmented landscapes. The objective of this study was to determine if hybrid poplar plantations can be suitable habitats for the reintroduction of native forest plant species and, if so, which abiotic factors predict successful reintroduction. Four species of forest herb species (Trillium grandiflorum, Sanguinaria canadensis, Maianthemum racemosum, Asarum canadense), of which three have legal conservation status, were transplanted into experimental plantations of two hybrid poplar clones and nearby second-growth woodlots at six sites in southern Quebec, Canada. The transplanted individuals were protected from deer browsing with exclusion cages. After two years, the plant responses of all four species were stable or increased over two years in both types of hybrid poplar plantations. Sanguinaria showed a better response in the plantations than in the woodlots, preferring the rich post-agricultural soils of the plantations with low C:N ratios. Asarum and Maianthemum showed no significant difference between stand types, while Trillium grew better in the woodlots than in the plantations. Much of the variability in the response of the latter three species was unexplained by the measured environmental variables. These results suggest that certain forest herb species can be reintroduced as juvenile plants into plantations, knowing that their spontaneous recolonization is often limited by dispersal and/ or seedling establishment. Plantations could also contribute to the conservation of biodiversity by providing an environment for the cultivation of forest herb species as an alternative to their destructive harvest from natural populations. © 2013 Boothroyd-Roberts et al.
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ABSTRACT = { Plantations of fast-growing tree species may be of use in conservation by accelerating the restoration of forest habitat on abandoned farmland and increasing connectivity in fragmented landscapes. The objective of this study was to determine if hybrid poplar plantations can be suitable habitats for the reintroduction of native forest plant species and, if so, which abiotic factors predict successful reintroduction. Four species of forest herb species (Trillium grandiflorum, Sanguinaria canadensis, Maianthemum racemosum, Asarum canadense), of which three have legal conservation status, were transplanted into experimental plantations of two hybrid poplar clones and nearby second-growth woodlots at six sites in southern Quebec, Canada. The transplanted individuals were protected from deer browsing with exclusion cages. After two years, the plant responses of all four species were stable or increased over two years in both types of hybrid poplar plantations. Sanguinaria showed a better response in the plantations than in the woodlots, preferring the rich post-agricultural soils of the plantations with low C:N ratios. Asarum and Maianthemum showed no significant difference between stand types, while Trillium grew better in the woodlots than in the plantations. Much of the variability in the response of the latter three species was unexplained by the measured environmental variables. These results suggest that certain forest herb species can be reintroduced as juvenile plants into plantations, knowing that their spontaneous recolonization is often limited by dispersal and/ or seedling establishment. Plantations could also contribute to the conservation of biodiversity by providing an environment for the cultivation of forest herb species as an alternative to their destructive harvest from natural populations. © 2013 Boothroyd-Roberts et al. },
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Distributed tuning of boundary resources: the case of Apple's iOS service system
Eaton, Ben, Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia, Sorensen, Carsten and Yoo, Youngjin (2015) Distributed tuning of boundary resources: the case of Apple's iOS service system. MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 39 (1). 217 - 243. ISSN 0276-7783
Identification Number: 10.25300/MISQ/2015/39.1.10
The digital age has seen the rise of service systems involving highly distributed, heterogeneous, and resource-integrating actors whose relationships are governed by shared institutional logics, standards, and digital technology. The cocreation of service within these service systems takes place in the context of a paradoxical tension between the logic of generative and democratic innovations and the logic of infrastructural control. Boundary resources play a critical role in managing the tension as a firm that owns the infrastructure can secure its control over the service system while independent firms can participate in the service system. In this study, we explore the evolution of boundary resources. Drawing on Pickering’s (1993) and Barrett et al.’s (2012) conceptualizations of tuning, the paper seeks to forward our understanding of how heterogeneous actors engage in the tuning of boundary resources within Apple’s iOS service system. We conduct an embedded case study of Apple’s iOS service system with an in-depth analysis of 4,664 blog articles concerned with 30 boundary resources covering 6 distinct themes. Our analysis reveals that boundary resources of service systems enabled by digital technology are shaped and reshaped through distributed tuning, which involves cascading actions of accommodations and rejections of a network of heterogeneous actors and artifacts. Our study also shows the dualistic role of power in the distributed tuning process.
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Life / Top News
Mountaineering school hits new heights
By Palden Nyima and Da Qiong in Lhasa(China Daily Europe)
Qomolangma, known as Mount Everest in the West, is a holy place for climbers to pay pilgrimage and a challenge to conquer. Xinhua
Tibetan institution is building homegrown expedition expertise and promoting autonomous region as center of Himalayan culture
Surrounded by snow-capped mountains and glaciers, the Tibetan plateau is one of the world's finest destinations for climbers and explorers seeking challenging peaks and rarefied vistas.
Yet for decades, most serious mountaineers looked outside China for the guides, resources and services needed to climb its lofty peaks.
Tibetan alpinist Nyima Tsering sought to change that, step by step, expedition by expedition.
Born in the Tibet autonomous region's eastern Qamdo prefecture, Nyima has spent the past 15 years generating local mountaineering expertise, building Tibet into a center of Himalayan mountaineering culture and promoting the area as a paradise for outdoor sports.
Nyima, 47, has three times climbed to the summit of Qomolangma, known as Mount Everest in the West. He made a 8,500-meter ascent in 2000, and was the third of five torchbearers on the mountain in celebration of China's 2008 Olympic Games.
The founder of Tibet's first mountaineering school, Nyima also was the first to operate a mountaineering expedition company, the Tibet Himalaya Expedition Co.
It is one of only two mountaineering schools in the world, the other being the French National Skiing and Mountain Guide School in Chamonix, France.
The two schools have signed long-term cooperative contracts. "In the past 15 years, the French school has sent their coaches to our school every year, and we have sent our students to their school every year," Nyima says.
The French school shares its climbing techniques and makes a "great contribution to the success of mountaineering in Tibet", he says.
Before the school's founding, mountaineering services in China were mainly provided by foreigners.
"I can say the school filled a gap of mountaineering in China as such services were mainly carried out by Nepalis and Westerners decades ago," Nyima says.
Nyima's two mountaineering expedition companies pay their tuition and all student expenses, including accommodation, with the help of a 700 yuan ($106; 98 euro) monthly subsidy for each student from the regional educational department.
In addition to assuming the school's costs, the two companies manage the school, help graduates gain field experience, and provide them with jobs.
"The two commercial expedition companies Nyima Tsering has founded have helped maintain his mountaineering school as a sustainable project," says Tsering Samdrup, 33, the general manager of Tibet Himalaya Expedition.
The school currently has 40 students, mostly men, from the four Tibetan counties with the five highest mountains.
"Not only does Tibet have its own professional team for climbing, the team has helped many amateurs fulfill their climbing dreams," Tsering says.
Asked about the origins of the school, Nyima says he wanted local people to be skilled at all sorts of mountaineering jobs, not just transportation.
"I was disappointed by the reality of Tibet not having highly skilled professionals to carry out mountaineering work a decade ago," Nyima says.
"Tibet has rich resources for mountaineering, and Tibetans near the mountains are born to adapt to the high-altitude environment," adds Zhang Mingxing, secretary of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association.
Contact the writers through palden_nyima@chinadaily.com.cn
Lofty achievements
The Tibet Mountaineering School, established in 1999, has trained more than 200 professional mountaineering staff, including guides, translators and coaches.
Tibet's trained climbers are mostly from the counties of Dingri, Gyirong, Nyanang and Dingye, which have many tall, snow-packed mountains. The climbers and mountain guides mostly work on Qomolangma and in the central areas of the Himalayas.
Located in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet autonomous region, the school provides cultural courses in the morning - such as languages, history, filming and cooking - and physical classes in the afternoon. It's free to students, who are selected by the school founder, Nyima Tsering.
- Palden Nyima
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Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Genomics
Inference of genome duplications from age distributions revisited.
Whole genome duplications (WGDs), thought to facilitate evolutionary innovations and adaptations, have been uncovered in many phylogenetic lineages. WGDs are frequently inferred from duplicate age distributions, where they manifest themselves as peaks against a small-scale duplication background. However, the interpretation of duplicate age distributions is complicated by the use of KS, the number of synonymous substitutions per synonymous site, as a proxy for the age of paralogs. Two particular concerns are the stochastic nature of synonymous substitutions leading to increasing uncertainty in KS with increasing age since duplication, and KS saturation caused by the inability of evolutionary models to fully correct for the occurrence of multiple substitutions at the same site. KS stochasticity is expected to erode the signal of older WGDs, while KS saturation may lead to artificial peaks in the distribution. Here, we investigate the consequences of these effects on KS-based age distributions and WGD inference by simulating the evolution of duplicated sequences according to predefined real age distributions and re-estimating the corresponding KS distributions. We show that, although KS estimates can be used for WGD inference far beyond the commonly accepted KS threshold of 1, KS saturation effects can cause artificial peaks at higher ages. Moreover, KS stochasticity and saturation may lead to confounded peaks encompassing multiple WGD events and/or saturation artifacts. We argue that KS effects need to be properly accounted for when inferring WGDs from age distributions, and that the failure to do so could lead to false inferences.
Vanneste, K., Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. (2013) Inference of genome duplications from age distributions revisited. Mol. Biol. Evol. 30(1):177-90.
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Rusty the Stargazer deliver surprises and smiles
We just received this pawsome letter about Rusty, an 10 year old yellow lab and Dognition ‘Stargazer,’ from his adoring furparent, Minerva. She first heard about Dognition after taking the Coursera course “Dog Emotion & Cognition” taught by Dognition founder Dr. Brian Hare.
Here’s what Rusty’s human said she learned about him by playing the Dognition games.
“We found the description of Rusty’s report to be quite accurate, and it was assuring to see his traits written out in a comprehensive manner. We were pleasantly surprised during the “Communication” games to see that he understood our intent and is closely attuned to what we’re trying to tell him.
On a daily basis, we sometimes wonder if he’s got his head in the clouds but the games showed that he actually pays close attention to us. This then played into his “Cunning” description that highlighted how he wouldn’t necessarily use our communications against us.
We did laugh a little about his results for the “Memory” games and the description; maybe his present-mindedness is why we thought he had his head in the clouds when we used to play treat-hiding games!
After playing the Dognition games with Rusty, we strengthened our belief that he is very food-motivated; all he needed were treats to get focused. He is also much more attuned to me (I’ve had him since he was 8 weeks old) than to my husband whom he’s only been around for a few years now.
Rusty is also more clever than we anticipated, and sneaky too; he cues in on a lot of my commands but will try to have his way when he thinks he can get away with it. It’s endearing more so because he’s almost 11 years old now and still acts like a mischievous child!
We also enjoyed learning and were surprised to see that he could deduce where treats could be hidden based on how their physical presence was adjusted in the environment around the treats. We hadn’t even considered that he could come to those types of conclusions.
Overall, the Dognition games were quite fun, and I’d say, successful in bringing us closer in relationship to Rusty and understanding his behaviors. He does still have some quirks which we may never understand 🙂 but he is most certainly a “good boy” and undoubtedly a momma’s boy. Thanks for providing the activities and evaluations you do!”
Minerva Thai & Duc Duong
Follow Rusty on Instagram: @rustythelabradorable and his Humans: @minervathai & @duc_duong
Posted in Case Studies, The Dognition Experience. Tagged with labrador, senior-dog, stargazer, yellow-lab.
Winnie the therapy dog
July 14th, 2016 by Dognition
When Casaundra played Dognition with her dog Winnie and found out she was a ‘Socialite’ with unusually high empathy scores, Casaundra realized Winnie might have something special to share.
‘Knowing that her empathy scores were off the charts motivated me to pursue our volunteer work as a therapy dog team.’
Winnie was found at a puppy mill that was so horrific that it was shut down by local law enforcement and the North Carolina Humane Society. Winnie was only 10 weeks old, and in such poor health that she almost did not survive.
With extensive medical attention and love from Casaundra, Winnie slowly recovered. Although Winnie still weighs only three pounds, what she lacks in size, she makes up in spirit, which makes her a perfect companion to the children she visits.
‘She knows when it’s time to be engaging or time to be still, and she is always gentle and comforting,’ says Casaundra.
Casaundra also played Dognition with her parent’s dog, and when she compared the results, she found that Winnie relied more on her gestures than her parent’s dog did.
‘Knowing that Winnie looks to me to solve problems helped me realize she wanted guidance from me, especially in the unpredictable environments we encounter in the hospital.’
Over 400 visits and a gold medal from the AKC later, Winnie is dedicated to raising awareness for therapy dogs everywhere. You can follow her adventures using the links below.
Instagram: @winnie_therapydog
Twitter: @TherapyDogWinni
Facebook: Winnie, Therapy Dog
Posted in The Dognition Experience.
Why you make such a great scientist
When Dognition first launched, many people wondered if people at home could collect data of the same quality as researchers in a laboratory. Three years later, the answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’
Dognition is the biggest citizen science project on dog cognition in the world. Over 47,000 people have taken part in Dognition, and on five of the seven tests, citizen science data replicated the results of researchers at Duke University and elsewhere.
“They’re just games,” says Dr. Brian Hare, founder of Dognition. “The owners love playing them and the dogs love playing them.”
For example, in one of the game-like tests, dogs were found to rely more on their memory than their sense of smell to find a hidden treat. The dogs watched as their owner hid food under one of two cups. Then when the dog was not looking, the owner switched the food to the other cup. (Watch the YouTube video of the experiment at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJZMfnc8ig)
If dogs could smell the food, they should have been able to choose the correct cup, but owners found that most dogs went to where they last saw the food.
“The data these dog owners are producing is quality data,” says Dr. Evan MacLean, an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Arizona who is also on the scientific advisory board of Dognition. “It matches the results we see coming out of the top research groups all over the world.”
According to MacLean, the memory-over-smell result has been replicated in seven different research groups and more than a dozen different studies. “Most people think dogs use their sense of smell for everything,” MacLean said. “But actually dogs use a whole range of senses when solving problems.”
Analysis of the unusually large dataset created by Dognition has also found that all dogs have a unique set of cognitive skills that they use to navigate the world around them. Some dogs were found to be good communicators, some had better memories and others were better at taking their owner’s perspective.
“Most people think of intelligence as glass that is more or less full,” Hare said. “But intelligence is more like ice cream. Everybody has different flavors. Being good at one thing doesn’t mean you will be good at everything else.”
Hare said these kinds of findings are only possible with the big data sets that citizen scientists are able to generate.
“‘So much is possible when you have this much data,” Hare said. “I’m looking forward to dog owners answering all the big questions that have puzzled scientists for decades.”
Posted in Citizen Science, The Dognition Experience.
New podcast ‘DogSmarts’ with Dr. Brian Hare
June 10th, 2016 by Dognition
Dr. Brian Hare has a new podcast that launches today! ‘DogSmarts’ is sponsored by Purina Pro Plan BRIGHT MIND, the podcast has six episodes that explore the rich mental lives and cognitive abilities of our canine companions. Like, how do lost dogs find their way home? Why do we love our dogs so much? How do dogs learn words?
Brian interviews the world’s leading canine cognition experts, answers penetrating questions, and has a lot of fun in the process.
‘DogSmarts’ is available on iTunes and Google Play and features two short and four full-length episodes examining various dimensions of canine cognition.
Listen today and tell us what you think!
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dogsmarts/id1115304038?mt=2
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I2hitsjmnxk6y4vcnqo6rnmdtpu?t=DogSmarts
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Adding Security Policies To Azure API Management
28. February 2019 steve Security, Microsoft Azure, Azure, APIM (0)
The Azure API Management service allows you to publish your APIs both internally and externally and to control who and what can access them. Out of the box you will get a standard API key for each of you users who sign up to the API, but this is often not enough meet the security requirements for you or your partners. API Management allows you to add a more fine grained security model you each of your APIs and this can be done using the policy feature. Policies are used for more than just security and there are numerous policies that allow you to change the behaviour of your API through configuration. Documentation for the types of policies can be found here. Sample policy examples can be found here.
Two policies that I am going to discuss here will allow you to restrict access to your API through IP Whitelisting and through validating JWT claims. I will also discuss how you can put different controls onto your API for different partners.
Policies can be set at different levels and the documentation will highlight the areas where they are applicable. For security policies I am going to talk about protecting at the API level and at the product level. Adding a policy at the API level will be applicable to all subscribers to the API whereas adding the policy at the product level will be applicable to all subscribers to the product. A product can contain multiple APIs and and API can be in multiple products. So we can add in protection at either level depending upon what your exact requirements are. The policies are the same but their impact will depend upon where they are applied.
Lets start with API level policies. To add or edit policies then you need to navigate to your API in the Azure Management portal. Then click on the API option, then click on the API you wish to protect
The easiest way to add a policy is to click the Add Policy link in the inbound section.
Click Filter IP Addresses and Add IP Filter
This form allows you to add ranges or single IP addresses to both allow or deny.When you have finished click Save.
You will now see the policy in the policy editor view. If you are happier to add this in manually or want to copy this and version control the config then you can access this via the Code Editor menu on the Inbound processing policies box
Appling this policy on the API means that only IP addresses within this range can access this specific API and can be useful to ensure that this specific API is blocked from being accessed regardless of the product has been subscribed to. Its also useful if you want to block access from specific IP addresses. However, you may have different partners who have different security arrangements or that you want to give different permissions to . To allow for this you will need to add the policy at the product level.
To edit the policy at the product level, click Products, pick the product you want to secure.
In this example I have a new More Secure API that I’ve created and there’s an access control section which allows you to pick the users who have access to this API
So I’ve immediately blocked access to this API to guest users and we can add user authentication to the API if we want, such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID connect.
However, this post is talking about adding security policies and if we want to allow only specific IP addresses to access this API we can edit the policy at the Product level. To access the policy definition click Policies
You’ll notice that this is just the editor view and the easiest way is to add the policy at the API level using the wizard and copy the config to here. Products are a mechanism to allow you to group and protect APIs which means that from a management point of view you could create a product for each of your partners making it easier to maintain the security details for each and make it easier to disable access and remove only the security policies that apply to the specific partner. Managing this at the API level means that you will end up with a large number of security policies relating to a large number of partners making it difficult to manage. Security polices at the Product level are more important when you want to do some specific protection like checking claims in a signed JWT. The Product level policy allows you to have different signing keys for each product meaning that you can have different signing keys for each of your partners (assuming one product per partner).
This policy requires a JWT signed with the key eW91ci0yNTYtYml0LXNlY3JldA== and that also has the claim admin=true. If there is an error then 401 is returned with the message “You have failed the security checks please contact your administrator”
To summarise, we can add policies at both API and product level. Product level polices allow us to create a new product for each of our partners and then add specific security policies to the product tailored to our specific partners needs. The product level policy makes it easier to manage the security policies at a partner level but we can allso add global security policies at the API level such as blocking access from certain IP address ranges. Policies can do a lot more than security so check out the links at the start of the post for further information
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Demjanjuk to Isreal
Description: Story about possible Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk's discovery in the United States and extradition to Israel. Denjanjuk was mistaken as a different Ukrainian concentration camp guard known as "Ivan the terrible," and sentenced to death in Israel in 1988, but returned to the US when the mistaken identity was proven. He was deported to Germany 10 years later to face trials for new allegations, but died before the case was concluded. This story is about Dejanjuk's extradition to Israel in 1986 to face trial for the first time. Footage of Denjanjuk in handcuffs coming off a plane in Israel, historical footage of WWII, interview with Treblinka survivor Eliahu Rosenberg, and still images of concentration camps. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound
Description: Silent footage from a women's roller derby bout, with some sections of wild sound. Footage includes women skating, fighting with each other and referees, and medical staff attending to hurt players. Mix of wild sound and silent.
Volpe at Nixon Rally
Description: Different men speaking at a Richard Nixon rally, including Governor Sargent and John Volpe. B-roll of people in a gymnasium before and during the rally, different politicians mingling with the crowd, Volpe and other politicians talking to people on the street. Edited footage followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
[Ralph Nader ]
Description: Ralph Nader discusses the auto industry, including their record profits and Richard Nixon's price control program,their safety record, car recalls, and the need for politicians to focus on consumer interests. Also discusses the meat industry and consumer prices, the failures of the Nixon Administration to serve the needs of the consumer, and the need for more consumer protections. Silent b-roll of Nader and others sitting on a couch being interviewed, Nader giving a speech at a luncheon, and the audience. Mix of sound and silent.
St. Patrick's Day Parade
Description: This is a reel of cuts or outtakes from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston. Silent footage of the crowd watching the parade includes a young girl with a camera, children with balloons, babies in strollers, a group of people on a roof, children waving, and a woman with an Irish flag. Footage of the parade taken from a roof along the route, from the front of the crowd, and moving from within the parade. Sound footage of people heading towards the parade. People on the side of the road with signs selling "Irish freedom badges." More shots of people in the parade, including Governor Francis Sargent, a groups with an "England out of Ireland" banner, and a woman in a green coat. Reporter standup outtakes. Mx of sound and silent.
Description: Story about the Supreme Court ruling on Eisenstadt v. Baird, that single people had the same right to obtain contraceptives as married people. Massachusetts was one of the states affected by this ruling, as it had given married couple access to birth control, but restricted single people. Interview with a man about the US Supreme Court decision's affect on Massachusetts. Silent b-roll of . Interview with owner or manager of Phillips Drugs about how the ruling will affect their policy on the sale of birth control. Reporter standup wrap-up of story. Followed by cuts, which include silent b-roll of interviews, contraception on the pharmacy shelf, more of the interview with manager of Phillip's Drugs, and reporter standup outtakes. Mix of sound and silent.
Description: Stories #195 - #198. Silent and sound footage of John Kerry press conference, campaigning for the Massachusetts Fifth District seat in the House of Representative. He says that the US government needs to get troops out of Southeast Asia. Kerry's first wife, Julia Thorne, stands beside him. Footage of children playing with toys and watching TV. Exteriors of a house. Additional footage of the press conference. Kerry takes questions from the press. Mix of silent and sound.
Irish Art Exhibit
Description: Story #308. Footage of the galler, shots of paintings, and a couple protesters in the gallery. Edited footage followed by cuts. Silent.
Upton Bell
Description: Interview with Football League executive Upton Bell. Mix of sound and silent.
McGovern in Lowell
Description: Presidential hopeful Senator George McGovern campaigning in a shoe factory in Lowell. Footage includes McGovern entering the factory, talking with workers, reporter standup, and the camera crew goofing around in the parking lot. Mix of sound and wild sound.
Minority Job Placement
Description: Silent footage of Mike Taibbi interviewing an African American man, Mr. Davis, who is the head of the job placement program at Selective Executives Incorporated. Two women at a registration desk hand out material. Two African American men sitting in chairs, a white man interviewing an African American woman, another shot of Taibbi and Mr. Davis. Sound footage of Davis discussing this special job placement program at the minority group placement center, which is connecting 260 minority group candidates to 30 participating companies. Image is unstable in some sections. Reporter standup wrapping up of the story. Begin outtakes which include more silent b-roll footage of the interview with Davis, women at the registration tables, people being interviewed for job placement, and more sound footage of the interview with Davis and outtakes of the reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Prison Art
Description: Exhibit of artwork created by prisoners from Norfolk prison and interviews with the artists/prisoners. Interviews with a man who painted one of the pictures in exhibit and a man who constructed a model church out of wood. Footage includes b-roll of the exhibit, exterior shots of Norfolk prison, interview cut aways, and interviews with the artists about their inspiration, their time in prison, how this experience has effected them. Mix of sound and silent.
Colleges Announce Vietnam Strike
Description: Student from the Harvard Crimson reads a statement about student strike. Silent b-roll of people at the press conference and the students running it. More b-roll of the press conference and a shot of the exterior of the Harvard Crimson building. Blank film followed by cuts. Outtakes include more footage of the students reading their statement and answering questions. The footage of the students speaking at the press conference is very unstable. This instability is printed into the film and most likely caused by a loose film gate during the initial processing of the film. Mix of sound and silent. B-roll and outtakes.
[Red Sox vs. Indians]
Description: Silent footage of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland wins 3-1.
Yaz comes home
Description: Silent footage of plane and Carl Yastrzemski walking off the plane. Followed by Yastrzemski in the airport answering questions about a recent injury and whether he was considering retirement. Mix of silent and sound.
Baseball - Red Sox
Description: Story #931. Silent footage of Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Red Sox vs. the Chicago White Sox. Final score 4-5, White Sox Win.
[Logan Airport Pilot Strike]
Description: Story #929. Story about the 24 hour pilot strike threatened by the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations (IFALPA) for June 19th 1972 and how this will affect air traffic at Logan Airport. Pilots concerned about hijacking and want governments around the world to do more about the issue. Footage includes b-roll of Logan airport, people waiting for planes, planes on the runway, and interview cutaways. Interview with a man from Massport about how the airport will handle the upcoming pilot strike, his feelings about the strike and the safety concerns behind it, and suggestions for passengers who have flights scheduled that day. Edited story followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
Logan Airport Pilots Strike
Description: Story #943. Story about the international 24 hour pilot strike over hijacking concerns, and how this strike has affected travel at Logan Airport. Footage includes interviews with pilots, reporter voice over, b-roll of flight attendants updating cancellation boards, empty seating areas, closed check-in counters, parked planes, people boarding planes and checking into flights with carriers that are still operating. Interviews with pilots from Eastern airline (who joined the strike) about the issue behind the strike, personal hijacking stories, public perception, and why pilots from all of the airlines did not join the strike. Edited story followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
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per person for the Sweepstakes.
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$500 Amazon.com gift card (awarded as a $500 Amazon.com gift card)
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Except where prohibited, by participating in the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to release and hold harmless The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola bottlers, Sodexo, Entegra Procurement Services, LLC, Launchfire
Interactive Inc., and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, promotional partners, Prize partners,
agents and agencies, and their officers, directors and employees (the “Sweepstakes Parties”) from and
against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or the Site or receipt
or use of any Prize, including, but not limited to: (a) unauthorized human intervention in the Sweepstakes or the Site; (b) technical errors related to computers, servers, providers, printers or telephone or
network lines; (c) printing errors; (d) errors in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the Site or the
processing of entries; (e) late, lost, or undeliverable mail; (f) any defect in a Prize or inability to participate in the Sweepstakes or use the Site or use a Prize, or (g) injury or damage to persons or property
which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the
Sweepstakes receipt, acceptance, delivery, possession, use or misuse of any Prize. Entrant further agrees
that in any cause of action, the Sweepstakes Parties’ liability will be limited to the cost of entering and
participating in the Sweepstakes and in no event shall the Sweepstakes Parties be liable for attorneys’
fees. Entrant waives the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive,
consequential, direct, or indirect damages. If, for any reason, an entrant’s entry is confirmed to have
been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another
Sweepstakes entry, if it is possible in the Sponsor’s or the Administrator’s sole discretion.
Entrant agrees that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with
this Sweepstakes or any Prize(s) awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of
class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York or
the appropriate New York State Court located in New York County, New York; and (b) any and all claims,
judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated
with entering the Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys’ fees. All issues and questions concerning the
construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obliga-
tions of the entrant and Sponsor or Administrator in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any
choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction), which
would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York.
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Information collected from any Entrant is subject to Sodexo’s Privacy Policy (https://us.sodexo.com/legalprivacy/privacy-policy.html) and Launchfire’s Privacy Policy (https://www.launchfire.com/privacy).
15. Winners List
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than November 1, 2021. For a Winners list, email your request to support@launchfire.com with the following subject line “Winners List – smartwater® Summertime Blitz Sweepstakes”.
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Odisha Assembly Monsoon Session: Speaker Bears Opposition Brunt for Rejecting Adjournment Notice
Opposition BJP and Congress stalled the proceedings of the Odisha Assembly and virtually confined the Speaker in his chamber for rejecting an adjournment notice on the “mining scam” in the state.
The Congress had moved the notice for a discussion on the “mining scam”, but Speaker S.N. Patro has rejected it.
As soon as the House assembled for the day at 10.30 am, Congress members rushed towards the Speaker’s podium to protest. BJP members also stood up on their seats and created ruckus, forcing the Speaker to adjourn the proceedings till 11.30 a.m.
The opposition party members then surrounded the chamber of the Speaker and did not allow him to come to the House to conduct the business. At this, Deputy Speaker R.K. Singh adjourned the House till 4 p.m.
The situation remained the same in the post-lunch session too. The Opposition members continued their protest and did not allow the Speaker to come to his chair in the House, and the Deputy Speaker conducted the businesses. Amid uproar, several reports were tabled and four Bills passed.
BJP chief whip Mohan Majhi alleged that the state government has a nexus with the owners of mines and is equally involved in the scam. Therefore, the Speaker rejected the notice citing it doesn’t have any relevance at present, he said.
Joining Majhi, Congress legislator S.S. Saluja alleged that the government is so neck-deep in the mining scam that it is scared to even discuss the issue. Therefore, the government is avoiding discussion on mining irregularities in the State, he said.
The Speaker said the Congress members led by party leader Narasingha Mishra and BJP members had come to his chamber to inquire about the reason for rejecting the adjournment notice. Patro said he informed them about the reason for rejecting the notice and had told them to raise the issue during the zero hour.
Odisha Govt Rewards Tokyo Paralympics Gold-Winning Shuttler Pramod Bhagat with Rs 6 Crore, Group-A Post
Odisha Gives Hero’s Welcome to Tokyo Paralympics Gold Medallist Pramod Bhagat
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Tim Miller / Birmingham Sunday: In an earlier life, Tim Miller was communications director for Jeb Bush.
In recent years, he became a never-Trump Republican. He's a regular guest on Deadline White House, and also on The Eleventh Hour, where we saw him last night.
He appeared with Caroline Randall Williams, a fairly standard liberal voice. At one point, Miller discussed some of the things we the people don't know.
In the passage below, he starts by discussing what the Republican rank and file knows and doesn't know about the January 6 Capitol riot. After that, he made a surprising statement about something he himself hadn't known.
He said his admission was embarrassing. We're going to call it instructive:
MILLER (5/31/21): You know, half of those Republican voters right now don't know what happened on 1/6. So they've convinced themselves that something completely separate has happened. And this is where education and raising awareness about this matters, to Caroline's point.
I'm about to admit something embarrassing. I think Caroline will look over at me and like, "Oh, my goodness, how could you not know about this?" But I think it's an important anecdote.
David French, who's a conservative, wrote in The Dispatch today about "When Our Forefathers Fail." And he said in that article, in the lead, he said, I'm embarrassed to admit I learned about Tulsa in my forties.
I learned about the Tulsa massacre relatively recently. And it was just at lunch, a few months ago, I learned about the Birmingham church bombing by four members of the KKK.
I'm a fairly educated person. This was something that was completely new to me. We cannot raise awareness—we cannot get white America comfortable with the history of black America, the pain, and the reality of how we got here if people don't know what happened.
Tim Miller is perfectly bright. Also, he decided to take a hike when Donald J. Trump came along.
That said, Miller was born in in the early 1980s. He went to high school in Colorado. He wasn't alive when the bombing in question occurred. It's even imaginable that his parents were too young to know about that bombing in real time.
He said he'd never heard about that incident until fairly recently. We were quite surprised to hear that, but we found his statement instructive.
We come at that incident from a different point of view. We were just starting our junior year in high school, in the San Francisco Bay Area, when the bombing occurred.
We grew up on Birmingham Sunday, Joan Baez's song about the iconic incident. Our public school teachers encouraged us to be aware of what was happening in the South.
(The song was written by Richard Farina, Baez's brother-in-law.)
It's surprising to think that Miller wasn't aware of this iconic incident. But no one knows about anything about anything until such time as he learns it.
In the current environment, elaborate systems of tribal propaganda control the things that various people are encouraged to hear and to know. Depending on which cable channels we watch, we're also spared the need to learn about various things which may be embarrassing to those who live in Our Town.
Miller hadn't heard about Birmingham Sunday until some recent time. Especially over here in Our Town, our upper-end news orgs are currently pushing Tulsa very hard.
They're doing do to show the world how truly and deeply they care. Also, to make up for all the years when they said nothing about such matters. To take the place of all the things they still don't talk about now.
Our Town is highly performative. As he continued, Miller offered some fairly standard views on the need for education:
MILLER (continuing directly): And there's a big debate happening right now about how to discuss our history in schools. And I think that this is absolutely critical and it's a critical fight that in our schools, that young Americans are taught about the great things about America, the sacrifices—we're here on Memorial Day—that people have put forth for this country, but also our sins.
And until people are fully aware of that, then, hopefully, we can move to this next step.
We need to teach the children well. In our view, that may sound good, but it just isn't that simple.
What should young Americans be taught about Tulsa and Birmingham in our public schools? Also, at what age should they be taught it?
At what age, and by whom? Those are not simple questions. Depending on who's doing the teaching, various kids are going to hear all kinds of crazy things, and there's no known way to avoid that.
Miller continued as shown. Brian then went to a break
MILLER (continuing directly) You know, you`re always going to have this portion of people that want to believe what they want to believe. You`re always going to have people that are bigoted. But to get a critical mass, as Caroline said, aware and comfortable, we need to educate folks about it. And so I think what Biden's doing tomorrow is a good step in that regard.
WILLIAMS: I can't thank our guests enough. Tough topic and an honest conversation. Caroline Randall Williams, Tim Miller, I greatly appreciate you spending part of your holiday Monday evening with us.
(It's always been a great discussion, if you let Brian tell it.)
"You know, you`re always going to have this portion of people that want to believe what they want to believe," Miller said—and that is plainly true, especially at times like these.
That's true Over There, but it's also true Over Here in Our Town. Here in Our Town, we have a very hard time understanding this fact about ourselves and about our brilliant thought leaders--about our cheerful cable news stars, about our highly principled academics.
The news gets sifted for us in Our Town too. We'll be offering examples all week.
According to an array of experts, this is helping to drive the demise of our failing nation. According to these credentialed scholars, it isn't just Them Over There, clueless though They may be.
Coming tomorrow: Recent examples of TownThink
Posted by bob somerby on Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Mao Cheng Ji June 1, 2021 at 1:19 PM
Oh dear. With all due respect, dear Bob, one really has to be insane to listen to any scumbag political consultant. Let alone finding deeeep meaning in his gum-flapping on teevee.
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"Especially over here in Our Town, our upper-end news orgs are currently pushing Tulsa very hard."
It only seems like our news orgs are pushing Tulsa because the news orgs on the right are suppressing all mention of it. The mainstream media are "pushing" the story because it is the 100th anniversary of the massacre.
Somerby displays his oversensitivity to mentions of news affecting African Americans, as though focusing on such stories were propaganda instead of inclusion of all of our people in what gets covered.
Yes, it is embarrassing that such a massacre took place. We have a racist past and we should all be working to have a less racist present. Pretending such events never happened isn't going to solve our racial issues.
As mh pointed out, Miller is talking about what adults know, but Somerby shifts the focus to what kids should be told. When Somerby asks who should tell it, he implies that teachers should defer to parents about what is told to kids, but if the parents don't know (as Miller didn't), then that will be ineffective. This pandemic experiment with homeschooling among parents ill-equipped to do it should show the problems with leaving education on sensitive topics up to parents. Sex education by parents has also been a failure in most cases. So, leaving this up to the parents largely means not telling the kids what they need to know to function in a diverse community and vote intelligently.
I find myself wondering why Somerby thinks we need a Johnny-come-lately Republican to lecture us liberals about the need to educate our kids about racial events.
In 2000, the news media pushed very hard the story of the Galveston hurricane, the 100th anniversary of the nation's largest natural disaster. What are we to take from that?
"They're doing do [sic] to show the world how truly and deeply they care."
How about, they're doing it because it was an important event in our national history?
When Somerby suggests that this is nothing more than virtue signaling by the liberal press, he implies that atrocities in which African American culture was demolished in Tulsa are insufficiently important to merit coverage in their own right, because it is the anniversary of an event that had a major impact on black lives.
This is an example of Somerby's bigotry. He cannot conceive that this event has any significance to others because it means nothing to him.
mh June 1, 2021 at 5:44 PM
I’d like to know what Somerby thinks the 100 year silence about the Tulsa massacre meant. Did that mean the media cared or didn’t care?
He won’t entertain the possibility that it is being mentioned now because there are reporters, many of them younger, who do care about this event. Not to mention black folks who would like their story told after years of neglect.
His view is that if the media starts talking about it after years of not talking about it, then that must mean it’s all virtue signaling.
Somerby is grievance signaling.
"What should young Americans be taught about Tulsa and Birmingham in our public schools? Also, at what age should they be taught it?"
Again, this meme seen on Facebook applies: If black kids are old enough to experience racism, white kids are old enough to learn about it.
As with any subject, you adjust the information provided to meet the ability of the kids to absorb it, but you don't avoid subjects (sex, religion, war, conservation, health, death) because they are touchy to adults.
When Somerby implies that such subjects should be avoided or left to parents (he asks who should teach it), he is catering to right wing sensibilities about content. It is the right who want to limit, edit, suppress, distort, and otherwise mangle information to make education more like indoctrination or propaganda. Of course, the right accuses the left of doing this very thing, when the left tries to teach facts and a truthful perspective.
Yes, this is part of the culture wars, but Somerby appears afraid to say that one side is more right than the other when it comes to such wars over educational content. As evidence of this, there are schools in California run by religious organizations (or homeschooling) whose graduates cannot be admitted to the University of California or Cal State system because they have not learned the basic facts necessary to succeed in college level courses. The editing of curriculum at such schools (or by parents) prevents their graduates from participating in higher education because topics such as evolution are prerequisite to study in the sciences and social sciences. Courts have upheld the right of universities to exclude students whose knowledge base is deficient. But Somerby pretends that deferring to parental judgment is a possibility when it comes to history. He is pandering to the right wing with such suggestions.
"That's true Over There, but it's also true Over Here in Our Town."
Today Somerby raises the example of news media discussions of the Tulsa massacre. What exactly is untrue about press coverage of that event? Somerby never says. He just posits an equivalence between the factual ignorance on the right and the left's discussion of Tulsa. But unless he tells us which facts about that event are made up, it is an unsubstantiated claim that the left enjoys believing untrue things, just as the right does. There is demonstrably less lying on the left compared to the right. Somerby assertion of equivalence is wrong. The Tulsa massacre is not made up and there is no equivalent major historical event that the right knows about but the left does not.
skeptonomist June 1, 2021 at 2:59 PM
Somerby keeps complaining that our nation is in demise. In demise from what? The time when an event like Tulsa occurred and was immediately covered up? From when it was taken for granted that non-whites had fewer rights than whites? Was news coverage much better in those times?
Centrist June 1, 2021 at 5:21 PM
'Somerby keeps complaining that our nation is in demise. In demise from what?'
Since Somerby is a Trumptard, he considers our nation to be in demise because of Trump's loss.
I graduated from high school in the 1980’s in the South. I never heard about the Birmingham church bombing. I took a couple of American History courses in college-also never mentioned. If Tim Miller, who is significantly younger than me and thought of himself as educated , also hadn’t heard about it, that is troubling, but not surprising.
I first heard about it from watching Eyes on the Prize on PBS.
I believe Somerby is giving support to the Republican attempts around the country to enforce a particular view of history by mandating what can and can’t be taught in history classes in school. “America is the greatest country on earth. It is God’s shining city on a hill.” etc. It’s similar to their attempts to mandate the Biblical creation story in science classes. He stands with those who wish to whitewash history.
Perhaps second graders ought to be shielded from the full horrors of racism or Native American genocide, and the Holocaust for that matter.
But by high school, kids are able to process a fair amount of truth. Certainly high schoolers are capable of reading on their own to learn about the atrocities committed by the US, and would probably wonder why their parents and teachers tried to cover up the truth.
But Somerby says:
“At what age, and by whom? Those are not simple questions.”
By which he intends to avoid actually discussing it himself, and as an added bonus, he implies that liberals in “Our Town” think these are simple questions, which is far from the truth.
I also think the argument about “school choice” is part of this discussion. Parents (and our society in general) want to view school as another item of consumer choice, where everyone but the teachers (of course!) gets to dictate what children learn and who they learn it with. Schools become factories of indoctrination rather than places where children learn to think for themselves.
'In recent years, he became a never-Trump Republican.'
That explains Somerby's bashing him. Since Somerby is a hardcore Trumptard, he cannot conceive that a Republican and not devote his life to the worship of Trump and the defense of Roy Moore, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz and Devin Nunes the way Somerby himself has.
Is Somerby saying that most adults know about the Birmingham church bombing, or the Tulsa massacre? If so, that is hooey.
Is he saying, yeah, we all know this bad stuff, but it should never be reported? That is unconscionable.
Is he saying that the 100 year silence from the media about the Tulsa massacre was desirable, and the current reporting on it and commemoration of it in the media shows virtue signaling by the media and is reprehensible? That is pernicious.
Is he saying there is never a reason to report on atrocities like Tulsa because it makes people feel bad? That is too damn bad.
Digby talks about Republican ignorance and their ignorance about their own ignorance:
https://digbysblog.net/2021/06/individuals-who-are-least-equipped-to-identify-false-news-content-are-also-the-least-aware-of-their-own-limitations/
Unamused June 2, 2021 at 3:31 AM
“What should children be taught about Tulsa and Birmingham in our schools?” Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. I’m sure you can come up with something.
I first knew about Tulsa at least 10 years ago when PBS did a documentary on it. I kept wondering why they never repeated it since they rerun everything else to death.
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TCPAT3
Tropical Storm Hanna Intermediate Advisory Number 14A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL082020
700 AM CDT Sun Jul 26 2020
...HANNA PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING OVER FAR
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST MEXICO...
SUMMARY OF 700 AM CDT...1200 UTC...INFORMATION
LOCATION...26.2N 99.1W
ABOUT 55 MI...85 KM W OF MCALLEN TEXAS
ABOUT 110 MI...175 KM ENE OF MONTERREY MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH...85 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...WSW OR 250 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...992 MB...29.29 INCHES
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Barra el Mezquital Mexico to Baffin Bay Texas
Interests in northeastern Mexico should monitor the progress of
Hanna.
For storm information specific to your area, including possible
inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your
local National Weather Service forecast office.
DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
At 700 AM CDT (1200 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Hanna was
located near latitude 26.2 North, longitude 99.1 West. Hanna is
moving toward the west-southwest near 9 mph (15 km/h) and this
motion is expected to continue through Monday. On the forecast
track, the center of Hanna should continue to move farther inland
over northeastern Mexico through tonight.
Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher
gusts. Rapid weakening is expected as the center of Hanna moves
farther inland, and the cyclone is expected to weaken to a tropical
depression later today and dissipate Monday or Monday night.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115 miles (185 km)
mainly over water to the east of the center. A wind gust of 49 mph
(80 km/h) was reported within the past couple of hours at Port
Isabel-Cameron County Airport.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 992 mb (29.29 inches).
HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
Key messages for Hanna can be found in the Tropical Cyclone
Discussion under AWIPS header MIATCDAT3, WMO header WTNT43 KNHC and
on the web at www.hurricanes.gov/text/MIATCDAT3.shtml.
STORM SURGE: Water levels along the Texas coast will gradually
subside through this morning. Consult products issued by your
local National Weather Service forecast office for additional
WIND: Tropical storm conditions will continue near the center of
Hanna for the next several hours, and along the Texas and
northeastern Mexican coast in the warning area for a few more hours.
RAINFALL: Hanna is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 6
to 12 inches, with isolated maximum amounts of 18 inches through
Monday in south Texas and into the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo
Leon, and northern Tamaulipas. This rain will produce
life-threatening flash flooding, rapid rises on small streams, and
isolated minor to moderate river flooding.
Hanna is also expected to produce 2 to 4 inches of rain along the
upper Texas and Louisiana coasts.
SURF: Swells generated by Hanna will continue to affect much
of the Texas and Louisiana coasts for another day or so. These
swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current
conditions. Please consult products from your local weather
TORNADOES: A few tornadoes are possible today into this evening
across parts of south Texas.
NEXT ADVISORY
Next complete advisory at 1000 AM CDT.
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Culture, Reviews //
Full of Colour and Movement: Intercol’s Little Shop of Horrors
Ian Ferrington enjoys a root canal and a route for the talented
by Ian Ferrington
I enjoyed the Intercol Musical production of Little Shop of Horrors. It’s a good show, full of catchy tunes, and a solid enough book to carry it between songs. The young cast, most of whom haven’t been seen on the stages of Sydney University before, were full of energy, and the show displayed an impressive polish.
This production was strongest during the musical numbers, which Little Shop fortunately relies upon for much of its story-telling. The leads were supported well by the trio of street urchins, who were snappy with both dialogue and choreography. Their opening number showed promise, but was unfortunately overpowered by the orchestra; unbalanced percussion marred the intelligibility of a number of songs, including the opener and closer. Fortunately this wasn’t an issue during the slower numbers – both ‘Somewhere That’s Green’ and ‘Suddenly Seymour’ allowed the cast’s singing abilities to shine, especially Justine Landis-Hanley’s as Audrey.
Charlie Yeates as Seymour was also fine in song, but less so during the book portions – he played the role with an irritating jitteriness that didn’t really lead anywhere comedically. Fortunately this waned somewhat in the second act, as the play shifts towards the horror end of the comedy-horror spectrum. The show as a whole didn’t quite pull off this shift: we didn’t see Seymour’s sinister complicity played to the fullest, and as is often the case with musicals, it needed more blood. Given the silliness and spectacle of a show with a six-foot carnivorous plant, the violence failed to match the scale of the production.
As brutal dentist Orin Scrivello, Hugh Jameson was powerfully creepy, giving a slow, leering performance. As sexually threatening as it was sadistic, it definitely succeeded in provoking laughter and discomfort, but didn’t really build. The most impressive performer was Nick Jackman as Mushnik, who played the character’s subtler traits of selfishness and weary irritability in a grand, engaging manner.
The show kept its pace up, handled the comedy solidly and the music well. It did a good job of filling the Reginald Theatre’s space with colour and movement, although the occasional placement of cast on the balcony added little. It was a fun show, and hopefully a route for some promising talent to get more involved in the theatre scene.
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Wind Energy Feasibility Study of Seven Potential Locations in Indonesia
- Ismail, Asrul Harun Ismail, Gama Harta Nugraha Nur Rahayu
This study evaluated seven potential locations for wind energy in Indonesia. This study applied economic analysis using static analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation. The later was used to measure the financial indicators and then to analyze the sensitivity of economic uncertainties. The result findings show that in term of annual energy production volume among the seven selected locations, Jeneponto location has the highest value of 4,339,003.2 MWh with a capacity factor of 25.22% and Bantul location has the lowest value of 526,476 MWh with a capacity factor of 16.51%. According to economic uncertainty analysis, the highest NPV and attractive IRR values with high deviation standard values will be interesting to the risk-taking investors. Otherwise, the lowest NPV and IRR values fit the risk of avoiding-type investors due to its low deviation standard values. Based on sensitivity analysis, the increase of average NPV and IRR values of all seven locations are influenced positively by first 5-year of the selling price, which contributes approximately 30% and 50% of NPV and IRR’s percentage change. By contrast, the decrease in average NPV values of all seven locations is influenced by the discount rate, which contributes approximately 15% of NPV’s percentage change. Meanwhile, the decrease in average IRR is influenced by capital investment cost, which contributes approximately 20% of IRR’s percentage change. Policymakers can further consider the parameters mentioned above.
annual energy production; capacity factor; Monte Carlo simulation; economic uncertainties; wind energy
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Search for 'Marvel' returned 12 results.
Halo 3 ActionClix Preview
game: Halo 3 ActionClix
preview | 08/27/07 | Chris Martin
Halo 3 is just a month away and dammit if we\'re not shaking in our trousers for it. This year at the Penny-Arcade Expo we sat down with the kids over at Wizk!ds, creators of such table top games as Marvel and DC HeroClix. We got to sit down and play the Halo 3 Actionclix table top game and see what all the hubbub was about. And believe us: there was hubbub aplenty.
Avengers Assemble!: Marvel Ultimate Alliance Review
game: Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Listen up, X-Men Legends fans, Matt\'s about to do you one better: Marvel Ultimate Alliance. With a roster that includes many of Marvel\'s top tier characters and improved gameplay, RPG elements, and graphics, this is a title you have to try. Captain America, Invisible Woman, Spider-man, Blade, Wolverine...can I say it? \"Avengers Assemble!\" Oh yeah.
Halo Graphic Novel and Monthly Comic Announced
news | 07/24/06 | Monica Hafer
Last week saw the 2006 San Diego Comic Con, the biggest event for comic book fans in the USA, and an annual mecca for comic freaks and comic geeks from all over the world. In other words, it\'s our kind of place, and don\'t think for a minute that there\'s a big distance between comics and videogames. We sent our representative comics and games geek, Monica, to cover the show floor, and the first thing she brought back was first-hand coverage of the Bungie and Marvel meeting to discuss the forthcoming Halo comic series, illustrated by different artists, including more Halo from legendy illustrator, Moebius. Get the full story here.
Perfect Dark Zero Review
game: Perfect Dark Zero
review | 11/23/05 | Jeremy Kauffman
Joanna Dark finally makes her return on the Xbox 360 in the long awaited prequel, Perfect Dark Zero. Joanna is younger, hipper and has a few new tricks up her sleeve, but she also has a serious sophomore hill to climb: Perfect Dark was one of the genre-defining console FPS games on the N64 and gained a dedicated following. And in the new generation, comparisons to Halo are inevitable. Can PDZ manage to satisfy both the old school N64 fans and those expecting a next-generation marvel? Read and see.
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
game: X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
review | 11/11/05 | Shawn Rider
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse is the sequel to last year\'s breakout hit, and the return of the franchise is triumphant. The PSP version of Rise of Apocalypse features all the goodness of the home console versions, including a robust online multiplayer mode that lets you team up with players from all over the world. With a great X-Men story, super satisfying action-RPG gameplay, and loads of extras and unlockables, Rise of Apocalypse is one of the best things out for PSP right now.
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction Review
game: Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
When done right, the synergy of comic book and videogame can fulfill the deepest desires of many a fanboy and fangirl. The latest comic game to get it right, Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, is a must-play for any fan of the Hulk comics, and is tight enough to reward anyone with even a passing interest. Utilizing an open gameplay and mission scheme, Ultimate Destruction satisfies with an engrossing Hulk storyline and a living-world Hulk experience. And it\'s amazing how satisfying it is to just break sh*t.
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects - Hands on Multiplayer Preview
game: Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Come get your super powers! We go hands-on with the multiplayer aspects of Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, EA\'s comic-based fighter. Find out how the coalition of super heroes is coming along.
New Screens for X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse on PSP
game: X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse
Due in October, Vicarious Visions\' PSP version of X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse looks to be a game well worth watching. The PSP has been in a serious drought lately, with lackluster titles and very few of them. It\'s a Nintendo-like wasteland of early development for PSP owners. But X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse could be a breakout hit this Fall, especially of it features a robust (and infrastructure) WiFi mode.
game: Spider-Man 2
review | 05/21/05 | Jason Frank
Spider-Man 2 for PSP is a decent game, but after the success of its bigger cousin versions, this one might seem a bit restricted. The graphics are great, and there's some good fun to have here, but don't expect this one to be a deciding factor in your decision to buy a PSP.
Editorial: So You Want a PSP...
Articles Archive | 03/22/05 | Jason Frank
So you want a PSP, but your wife says, "No." Such is the predicament for many grown men eagerly waiting for Thursday's launch of the PSP. "But wait," you say, "isn't the PSP an all-in-one marvel of modern technology that pretty much does it all? That huge feature set MUST help us convince our significant others how much the unit will benefit by having a PSP..." Check out Jason Frank's valiant attempt in this editorial.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
game: Marvel vs. Capcom 2
review | 12/22/02 | Eric Qualls
Capcom is known for releasing their games all over the place, and sometimes we give them a hard time for it. Other times, like right now while we\'re playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on the PS2 and Xbox, we\'re very happy that they keep their titles alive. MvC2 is still a great game that any fan of the fighter should check out. Click here.
Spider-Man: The Movie Review (PC)
game: Spider-Man: The Movie
review | 05/29/02 | GF! Back Catalogue 10/2004 => 1995
And we didn\'t forget about our job as game reviewers. Eric just got done playing Spider-Man: The Movie (the game) and has his write up. On the plus side, you\'ve never felt so much like a newly irradiated, web-slinging crime fighter. On the downside, it isn\'t real. Click here.
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Backyard Football 2006 Review (review) (12/19/05)
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No Torches, No Pitchforks
Sarah Moss, The Fell
Picador, 192pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781529083224
reviewed by Gary Kaill
There is a scene quite early in Sarah Moss’s 2009 debut novel Cold Earth that works as a telling moment — as a clue to the motivations of the narrator at that point, Ruth, but also, perhaps more importantly, as to the emerging and eventual moral design of Moss’s work. Ruth, along with a group of five other archaeologists, is excavating a remote Viking settlement. A parallel narrative, which gradually reveals the horrors that caused those original inhabitants to leave their homes, unseats the reader from the off, but the thrum of dread is fed not so much by the convergence of past and present, but by the weight of the troubles borne by the characters themselves.
As the group’s internet connection begins to fail, and snatched reports of a growing global pandemic fuels their anxiety, Moss, offering the reader each character’s perspective in turn, unpicks their fractured histories. They might well, by necessity, have travelled light to this frosty outpost but between them, as they will find to their cost, they’ve brought enough baggage to sink a ship. The violence that enters the camp is seeded in those initial, nervy interactions; this is a bonding exercise with the adhesive qualities of rainwater. Ruth in particular is riven by a profound form of grief: the loss of her boyfriend James in the most harrowing of circumstances. She addresses her anger internally, and to him: ‘I thought I might look at the ice and somehow feel better, be free of my widow’s hood, but the healing power of natural beauty turns out to be one of those popular myths.’ She goes on: ‘The pursuit of happiness is a right, not a responsibility.’
The expectation that one shouldn’t have to fight to find a sense of comfort and well-being in the world finds voice once again in The Fell, forcefully opined by its central character, Kate. Made miserable by months of lockdown, shortly before she sets off on a hill walk that will lead to near-tragic consequences, she deliberates at length. Her decision, in the end, is influenced primarily by her frustration with a government pointedly short on empathy: ‘if the people in charge had any sense they’d be setting limits on how many hours you can spend inside’.
The Fell was written as the Coronavirus spiralled out of control in 2020. ‘Contagion is one of the oldest stories,’ Moss said when the book was announced earlier this year, ‘but our fears of each other and for each other have been remade in the last year.’ Once again, fear of the world being pulled apart by an untameable catastrophe is her plot’s motor. Set in a small village in the Peak District during the UK lockdown of November 2020, the book’s narrative is condensed to a single day, as Kate, a furloughed cafe worker, sets off for respite in the surrounding hills. In an intimate third-person, we see her testing her resolve and the limits of official guidance (‘She wishes sometimes you could just sign a disclaimer, like a Do Not Resuscitate order, promising that if you get sick you won’t go to hospital. . .’) before being lulled by the promise of the land.
There’ll be wind through the sleeping winter heather, and the bracken bright brown and the streams running cold and clear, the grass in the bogs grey now and lying long in the pools and no scent on the wind, just winter, everything biding its time, gathering strength underground, sleeping and waiting for the darkest days, the hinge of the year and then the return of the light.
Kate, like Ruth before her, is all too aware of the inherent cruelty that accompanies most accepted notions of responsibility. In just a few weeks of sticking to the rules, her own sense of isolation has pushed her to breaking point. Her teenage son Matt has adopted a more, well, teenage view of the whole thing, more bored than truly troubled. Thoughtful and modest (the prospect of university is casually dismissed: ‘he’s probably not clever enough anyway’) he is vaguely irritated by his mother’s aversion to his video-gaming, but that doesn’t affect his dedication to household chores, his concern with the subtle change in Kate’s tidiness, the relatively few clothes piled up ‘not clean enough to put away and not dirty enough to wash’. He is not to know, until it is too late, what his mother’s unexpected absence means.
It is their elderly, widowed neighbour Alice who sees Kate begin her fateful expedition. ‘I should stop her, Alice thinks, she’s breaking the law, but Kate’s moving fast and Alice just stands there, cheek to cheek with her window, watching.’ Moss is especially good at capturing the ludicrous inadequacy of the protocols and the messaging that defined those 2020 lockdowns — how the communication of those guidelines began and continued in the most cavalier and disrespectful fashion. This is a story of unremarkable lives, placed under strain by both bad luck, and ineffective and corrupt politics, and the quite remarkable things those circumstances cause the people involved to have to do.
In that sense, The Fell operates in concert with its predecessor, Summerwater, which gave voice with similar intimacy to the viewpoints of a larger cast of characters. Yet this interiority operates here within a different narrative framework. With Summerwater, and the quietly simmering confrontations on a Scottish caravan park that formed the basis of its plot, its explosive outcome remained satisfyingly out of sight, almost impossible to predict. The Fell’s (extremely, by default) limited number of outcomes are fixed from the start. Still, while the book might be light on story, it demonstrates once again Moss’s natural gift for storytelling. Her subject matter could so easily limit the imaginative impulse, but Moss swerves delivering her story as documentary by fashioning a unique and compelling form of jeopardy.
In effect, with a mere three characters on stage, she places the characters in conflict with themselves: a delicate tactic that works exceptionally well. Alice, Kate and Matt occupy their — often lengthy — scenes entirely alone; their internal arguments, and counter-arguments, as they mull over their own desperate circumstances, are rarely less than compelling. Even a chapter in which Alice has a difficult Zoom call with her daughter and her grandchildren serves to turn our understanding of isolation on its head — the foundations of their estrangement were clearly laid long before COVID-19 got in the way.
And so The Fell is a ‘political’ novel only in so much as Moss displays concern with symptom rather than cause. How we got here, how Kate became quite so desperate to re-shape the unremitting sameness of the days and weeks, is for you to ponder, she seems to be saying. She is too subtle and generous a writer to bog her characters down with limp rhetoric: no torches here, no pitchforks. No one is drawn so crudely as let slip a ‘Fuck Boris’ under their breath. But, yes, the characters have their say (there is a raft of Conservative negligence and ill-informed policymaking referenced here — a hotline for reporting your transgressing neighbours, anyone?) and their frustration is handled lightly. Still, feel free to punch the air as Kate, surveying the four walls that have become little less than a prison muses on the predictable enough call for the UK to demonstrate its Blitz spirit: ‘It’s a stupid comparison, this isn’t aerial bombardment and you have to resist the English passion for imagining ourselves always in World War Two’. Um, bravo.
Even though it operates, to some degree, as an ersatz thriller, The Fell is not quite as wholly involving as its pandemic-concerned predecessor or 2011’s The Tidal Zone: a more fully realised work of fiction and, arguably, Moss’s best work to date. Perhaps The Fell’s overwhelming subject matter and its most sobering concern, serves as both creative impulse and thematic counterweight; kudos, certainly, to any writer who dares so quickly to begin to query the impact of COVID-19 on their world.
Fittingly, the book’s deeply moving ending serves to frame it as a lament rather than a rallying call. This eloquent and humanist discourse is no less potent for that. But its real strength lies in how seamlessly it grants the unspeakably mundane a sense of grandeur, is gracious enough to lend poetry to the innately ugly. When Kate dismisses ‘out of town shopping centres but they’re not centres of anything, sores festering in the skin folds of roundabouts and motorway junctions’, or Alice mocks the juvenile jargon of the day (‘Shielding, they call it, silly military metaphors’), The Fell confirms itself as a work in possession of a robust and admirable moral certainty.
Gary Kaill writes about literature and music, as well as co-editing the online literary journal Lunate Fiction. He lives in Manchester.
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Kelly Osbourne talks of drug hell
Jack and Kelly Osbourne have both been treated for addictions
Kelly Osbourne, daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, has spoken of her slide into drug and alcohol abuse days after her release from a rehabilitation clinic.
The 19-year-old said she turned to drink and drugs after finding it difficult to adjust to life in the US.
She was interviewed for ITV1's Tonight programme by her brother Jack.
She said she tried alcohol at 12 before using harder drugs and was constantly under the influence. "I was completely and utterly miserable," she said.
"Painkillers weren't the only drugs I did... towards the end, there wasn't a second in a 24-hour day that I wasn't high on something," she said in the interview.
My drug-taking made me so miserable that just months after this footage was recorded I tried to kill myself
Jack Osbourne
Kelly and Jack Osbourne got a reputation for wild living following the success of their reality TV show The Osbournes.
Jack, 18, has also had treatment for drug addiction and was admitted to a clinic in Malibu, California.
Speaking about his own addictions, he said: "What no-one knew as I was filming the second series of The Osbournes was that aged just 16 I was struggling with a serious addiction to a painkiller called Oxycontin or 'Hillbilly heroin'.
Kelly duetted with her father Ozzy on the number one single Changes
"My drug-taking made me so miserable that just months after this footage was recorded I tried to kill myself."
He said he had now been clean and sober since being released from the rehabilitation centre.
During the interview, Kelly said she felt driven to drink to escape her "chubby English girl" image after finding it hard to make friends in Los Angeles.
"In the beginning, you do it because it makes you feel good and then it gets to the point were it stops making you feel good and you do it because you don't know what else to do," she said.
During the Tonight programme, to be screened at 2000 BST on Monday, parents Sharon and Ozzy talk about their guilt about their children's problems.
Ozzy said: "We were in denial. You always want to think it's somebody else's kids, not your own."
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1.1 "Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism"From mourning to building –- Rallying for the future of news and communitiesA two-day gathering for journalists, librarians, technologists, educators, students, and engaged citizensApril 3-4, 2013 / Estlow Center / Univ. of Denver
2 Special Registration For Members of Rocky Mountain PBS
2.1 Be among the first 10 members of Rocky Mountain PBS to register for "Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism," April 3-4 at the University of Denver and obtain the rate of $95 for both days - a 50% discount. Registration includes lunch and hor d'oeuvres dinner on Wednesday, and continental breakfast and lunch on Thursday. When you register, the rate will show if it is still available Go to the REGISTRATION INFORMATION PAGE for details (scroll to the bottom to see the rate). Then click on the tiny "REGISTER" button to begin registration. Go to the CONFERENCE HOME PAGE for program details. ...
2.2 EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION IS OPEN. / CONFERENCE HOME PAGE / WIKI PAGE DIRECTORY / VIEW/PRINT FLYER / READ INVITATION /WHO'S COMING?
3 REGISTER NOW -- $95 -- rate may rise after March 16
4 COMBO RATE OF $275.00 WHEN ALSO REGISTERING FOR FREE PRESS/NCMR.
4.1 Key themes
4.2 Consensus on five fresh ideas – will one of them be yours?
4.3 So what’s your idea?
4.4 Our convening partners
4.5 The new ecosystem -– a snapshot
4.6 Seven focus areas
4.7 Venue, transit
4.8 How you can help
http://thenewjournalism.org
"Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism"
From mourning to building –- Rallying for the future of news and communities
A two-day gathering for journalists, librarians, technologists, educators, students, and engaged citizens
April 3-4, 2013 / Estlow Center / Univ. of Denver
Special Registration For Members of Rocky Mountain PBS
iNews at Rocky Mountain PBS
Be among the first 10 members of Rocky Mountain PBS to register for "Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism," April 3-4 at the University of Denver and obtain the rate of $95 for both days - a 50% discount. Registration includes lunch and hor d'oeuvres dinner on Wednesday, and continental breakfast and lunch on Thursday.
When you register, the rate will show if it is still available
Go to the REGISTRATION INFORMATION PAGE for details (scroll to the bottom to see the rate). Then click on the tiny "REGISTER" button to begin registration.
Go to the CONFERENCE HOME PAGE for program details.
[Morgridge Hall / Univ. of Denver VIEW MORE PHOTOS
EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION IS OPEN. / CONFERENCE HOME PAGE / WIKI PAGE DIRECTORY / VIEW/PRINT FLYER / READ INVITATION /WHO'S COMING?
"Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism,” will be a fast-paced, results-focused summit from 10 a.m. on Wed., April 3 through 5:30 p.m. on Thurs., April 4, 2013 in Denver. Conducted in JTM’s signature "Open Space" style, the event starts by acknowledging that journalism as we’ve known it may not be sustainable, but that a fast-emerging new ecosystem presents opportunities to renew and extend journalism’s values, principles and purposes.
The body of journalism as we’ve known it is dead. But its values, principles and purposes – a respect for truth, fierce independence – are as cherished, vital and needed as ever. The news was paid for by mass-market advertising – print and broadcast – and through print subscriptions. Those supports are shrinking – fast. Can philanthropy and donations alone pick up the slack? What core elements of the news as we’ve known it are really critical to sustaining and nurturing communities and participatory democracy?
At JTM Denver, we’ll work together to answer those questions. The answers may not be comprehensive, or best, or even fully satisfactory. They'll be embodied in stories from the front lines about research, experiments or projects already underway. They may describe new forms of collaboration. One thing is certain: Journalists, librarians, media educators, technologists, students and citizens know the time for answers is now. The status quo won’t hold.
"I just wanted to change the world and look out for the little guy," former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor and New York Times Public Editor Barney Calame told Missouri School of Journalism students in September about why he became a reporter. "I really believe that it's a cause."
REGISTER NOW -- $95 -- rate may rise after March 16
COMBO RATE OF $275.00 WHEN ALSO REGISTERING FOR FREE PRESS/NCMR.
During the two days we'll share the projects you're working on that sustain the values, principles and purposes of journalism. And we'll re-new and forge new connections with colleagues in technology, librarianship, media education, and community information gathering. We'll have a chance to make connections and start sharing ideas before we get together. And we'll continue our collaborations long after we've left Denver.
Here are some things we'll consider, on site in Denver -- and in pre-convening materials shared and created by participants:
[Why journalism matters / (VIEW SOURCE)
Why journalism as we knew it is dead
What key elements comprise the new journalism ecosystem -- in Colorado and elsewhere?
How do these elements foster the values, principles and purposes of “old” journalism?
What has become of "the story"? How do we tell stories in the new ecosystem?
How are youth and youth adults perceiving, and creating, the news?
What’s the role of news in sustaining communities?
What’s do we mean by "a new ethic of public engagement?"
How does ownership matter, and play out?
Big data -- Are personalization, and user-centric databases journalism's new support system?
What is "slow media" and why could it important?
How might atomized, deinstitutionalized news still speak truth to power?
What might "solutions journalism"look light and how can we support it?
Could climate change now be the most important 'frame' for journalism?
Are network neutrality and community broadband the "free press" issues of our century?
Consensus on five fresh ideas – will one of them be yours?
At JTM-Denver, we’ll not only spotlight what’s working -- we'll seek to nurture at least five new ideas to brighten the future of news and communities.
So what’s your idea?
Bring it to JTM-Denver. Come tell us: Where do you see journalism that matters emerging – off press and off broadcast -- in new forms and partnerships? How does it involve citizens, students, librarians, reporters, editors and technologists working together to foster truth, transparency, civic, engagement and participation?
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Our convening partners
“Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism” is presented by Journalism That Matters (JTM), a decade-old "do-tank" whose more than 1,600 alumni of a dozen regional and national convenings are focused on connecting journalists with technologists, librarians, educators, public-policy leaders, diverse communities and engaged citizens.
Our convening partners for JTM-Denver include the Estlow Center at the University of Denver, the [http://www.inewsnetwork.org I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, at the Missouri School of Journalism, FreePress.net, the University of Colorado’s Digital Media Test Kitchen and its Center for Environmental Journalism.
JTM-Denver will include the annual Estlow Lecture, a keynote address on Wed., April 3, at 7:00 p.m. We convene immediately before the fifth National Conference for Media Reform, also in Denver, a project of FreePress.net. Through a partnership with FreePress.net, participants in JTM-Denver may register once for both events at a combination rate. To do so, register for JTM-Denver (CLICK HERE), and select the Free Press Joint Option.
The new ecosystem -– a snapshot
Throughout most of the 20th century, the printed story served communities well at a time when access to information was limited. Large newsrooms capable of observing, distilling, writing and telling the news from chicken dinners to meetings to major world events. As advertising has decoupled from the news, story-form journalism is starting to break down. There are fewer people to write the stories, fewer eyes and ears in the community on news-organization payrolls. At the same time, network technology allows the public to create and comment on the news directly in forms radically different from the story -- 140-word "tweets" Facebook posts, YouTube videos or Pinterest "pins".
Institutions who were formerly sources to news rooms now may go direct via corporation, retail, municipal, public-advocacy and individual websites. They are deploying the new art of content marketing -- "creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire and engage a defined and understood target audience -- with the objective of driving profitable customer action."
In places like Seattle, Denver, Ann Arbor, Mich., and New Orleans, large communities have lost a major daily news voice. This is not just a big-city phenomenon. Waves of consolidations have left smaller communities without their own weekly news voice, or a daily replaced by a weekly. Community radio stations have gone dark. Yet hundreds of local online news sites have sprung up; cable public-access centers are think more like news organizations; and community foundations are beginning to see news reporting as an important part of a healthy community.
Most of this change in what we began in 2006 to call the "news ecosystem" has occurred in the last decade, as Internet information technologies matured. The pace of change has been fast. Many cities, towns and interest groups affected have not had the time or inclination for collective reflection about the impact on participatory democracy and community.
Seven focus areas
To illuminate stories and definie our five transformative ideas, we’ll feature practitioners in at least seven areas:
ROCKIES ECOSYSTEM -- A special day-long workshop: “Life after death: Colorado’s news ecosystem three years after the Rocky Mountain News closure.” From 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Wed., April 3. Charting the ways journalism that matters is emerging from the both the sustaining portions of legacy media and the emerging innovation of the new news ecosystem. Curator: I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS. (Breakout: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wed., April 3)
LIBRARIANS AND JOURNALISTS -- The growing potential for collaboration between librarians and journalists, who share a passion for facts, openness and public literacy at a time when both of their worlds are relying less on buildings, books and presses and more on public engagement -- online and in new venues -- "third spaces."
YOUTH AND MEDIA -- The new forms and methods that youth and young adults are using to create and engage with news and civic media, whether games, social networks or video. Example: The Denver South High School experiment (special breakout: 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., Wed., April 3)
OWNERSHIP AND COMMUNITIES – Throughout our economic system, experts are examining new forms of business ownership to see if they might foster a deeper – sometimes overlapping – connection between the interests of owners, users and customers. We’ll look at experiments testing the idea of co-operatively owns news organizations, and efforts to expand coverage of ethnic and underserved communities. (Curator: Tom Stites)
SUSTAINABILITY AND REVENUE -- Through the 20th century, mass markets and advertising were the lifeblood of traditional journalism. Mass markets are splintered by the efficiency of topical and social networks and advertising is moving to one-to-one personalization. Our participants will includes experts in the trenches discovering new methods for sustaining new forms of of journalism -- from cross-platform, user-centric database, microaccounting and subscriptions . . . to crowdfunding, philanthropy and targeted advertising. Curator: Reynolds Journalism Institute.
CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING -- Beyond objectivity, beyond independence, all journalists share a common goal of species survival. With the debate about the reality of climate change over, JTM is partnering with FreePress to make climate-change reporting a key focus of both our gathering at the University of Denver as well as the larger National Conference for Media Reform. Our consideration will be guided by experts from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and elsewhere.
NEWSTOOLS 2012 -- For decades, the vessels for journalism were unchanged -- presses and broadcast transmitters. Forms are now a free-for-all -- blogs, mobile, social networks, tablets, "webinars," Skype, Google Hangouts, Vimeo, YouTube, you name it. The new journalism is embedded in new technologies -- including wireless and community broadband. Four years after a ground-breaking gathering at Yahoo, JTM updates news and technology. Bring your cool tool.
Venue, transit
JTM-Denver, "Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism," will take place in Morgridge Hall at the University of Denver, (1999 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208-1700) (MAP) on Wednesday and Thursday, April 3-4, 2013. It is scheduled as a "pre-conference" gathering immediately before the National Conference for Media Reform. Participants can cross-register for BOTH events at a discounted rate, and JTM participants are eligible to request the "FreePress" rate at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel for any days from April 3-7, 2012. For details, begin registration now. Morgridge Hall is a three-block walk from the Denver metropolitan light rail stop (red, purple or blue lines), which run directly downtown to the convention center, three blocks from the Sheraton Hotel. The ride is about 17 minutes; cash fare is $2.25 and trains run approximately every half hour until at least midnight (every 15 minutes during the day).
Think about how you can contribute examples, ideas and expertise in our focus areas
When you register, answer our question about the expertise and ideas you'll be bringing.
Email us now: jtm@journalismthatmatters.org to be added to our mailing list for summit updates.
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Hirosato Ito, Yuichi Hayashi ‘Have you met Ms. Jones?’
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Hironori Goda Trio ‘Tribute to “Israel”‘
Rutile ‘Matilda’
QUIN’ KRANTZ ‘Leiden’
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Hirosato Ito (Gt)
Kazuto Miwa (Ts)
Yuichi Hayashi (Pf)
Hiroyuki Demiya (Ba)
Hiro Omori (Dr)
Hirosato Ito
Guitarist/ Composer
He was born in Aichi, Japan 1990. In 2013, he got Berklee international scholarship and Berklee Asia scholarship, and entered the Berkee college of music. He has taken a private lesson from Jon Damian, Jon Willkins, and Bret Willmot. In 2014, he moved to Amsterdam in Netherlands to study with Martijn Van Iterson and Jesse Van Ruller.Currently, He performs mainly in Nagoya. On September, 2016 He started his own group Hirosato Ito Quintet.
http://hirosato.ciao.jp/
Kazuto Miwa
Saxophonist
Miwa was born in Nagoya. In 2008. he graduated from Nagoya University of Arts and performed at graduation concert of the NUA, and YAMAHA debut concert. In 2010, he hold his first recital “Jszzsic”, and after this recital, he studied jazz session in Manhattan, New York. 2011, he released 1st album as a member of THE ONE.
He has been received many award. Gold-award for solo competition Tokai round when he was a high school student, Good performance-award for YAMAHA KANKRA national competition, The best soloist-award for Tokai Big Band Jazz Contest when he was a University student.
He studied saxophone with Takashi Mikazuki, Masato Kumoi, jazz saxophone with Manteru Nonoda, Kenny Garrett.
Today,he is working as a saxophonist, composer/arranger, wind ensemble trainer, judge in competitions.
Yuichi Hayashi
Pianist / Composer
Hayashi started playing at the age of five. After studying classical music, he started making his own composition at fifteen. While at the University, he attended a jazz big band and start playing jazz music. After graduating the University he started his professional musical activity, joining various lives and recordings.
In 2008, he formed his own piano trio ‘TRISPACE’, playing his compositions. The trio released three albums. The newest album ‘Nightfall’ is recorded and mixed in Sweden. In 2014, Hayashi have done a live tour in Italy with his own band.
Hayashi currently performs nationwide with TRISPACE and also provides musical support in many band such as Sei Takahashi sextet, Hiroshi Sugano’s ‘Inter Paul Connection’, Kazuyoshi Kuroda Quintet etc. He also provides his composition for jazz singer junko.
http://yuichihayashi.com
Hiroyuki Demiya
Born 1985,Kobe City. Demiya started playing electric bass at the age of 13. He attended the Osaka College of Music, where he majored in jazz bass and studied under Tomoyuki Kimura.
Demiya began his musical career as a jazz bassist in 2005. He won the 2012 Kanazawa Jazz Competition. He now performs all over Japan and also in Korea and Spain. Hiroyuki Demiya released a CD as a member of ‘Links Jazz Trio’ with Jun Miyakawa.
https://ameblo.jp/jazzdemi/
Hiro Omori
Born in Nissin, Aichi, Japan in 1983, Hiro Omori started to play drums at the age of ten. His first performance was with his father’s big band. After playing with various rock bands, Hiro decided to learn jazz music and entered the Nagoya school of the Koyo Conservatory of Music. In 2006 he received a scholarship to enter the Berklee College of Music in Boston. During his time there, Hiro kept searching for his own style of drumming.
After graduating from Berklee, he moved to New York where he studied under the great jazz drummer, Ari Hoenig. At the same time, Hiro led his own band, performing at various venues.
Returning to Japan in 2010, Hiro now actively performs in the Tokai area. He is also a drum instructor.
https://ameblo.jp/hiro-omori
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