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__label__cc	0.629703	0.370297	The Curse of Monkey Island Mac, PC Worldwide November 1 1997 by LucasArts Project status: RELEASED. I've sailed the seas from Trinidad to Tortuga and I've never seen anything like it! The engagement ring I gave Elaine has a terrible pirate curse on it. LeChuck is behind it, I'm sure. I should have known that nothing good could come out of the evil zombie's treasures. And if that's not bad enough, the clairvoyant I met in the mangrove swamp told me that if I am to break the curse and save Elaine, I will have to die! -- Excerpted from The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood, the Monkey Island Years 3.5 stars: "A solid adventure that is generally enjoyable, though it lacks enough polish or ambition to recommend without caution." Scoring System - Editorial Policies » Read the full review Readers rating Average based on 64 ratings Log in or Register to post ratings. The Curse of Monkey Island review Is the third Monkey Island game a worthy predecessor of the eagerly-awaited Escape from Monkey Island? Read the review » May 20, 2002 GOG.com unleashes The Curse of Monkey Island First-ever digital release of LucasArts classic also available on Steam for Windows and Mac. Walkthrough for The Curse of Monkey Island Stuck in The Curse of Monkey Island, or looking for the best way to proceed? Click below to view our walkthrough for The Curse of Monkey Island and wonder no more! » View all walkthrough videos Note, these will contain spoilers. Screenshots for The Curse of Monkey Island » View all screenshots (39) Videos for The Curse of Monkey Island » View all videos The Curse of Monkey Island intro cinematic What our readers think of The Curse of Monkey Island Posted by andixoida on Jun 29, 2017 My Childhood in an Adventure Point and Click Game This is the game that introduced me to Adventure Point and Clicks. I played it in 1998 first I think and replayed it many times. It's locations are amazing. I remember loving the Hotel the most, it had something to it that I love and can't put my finger on,... Posted by thorn969 on Apr 5, 2017 One of my introductions to adventure gaming This was the first Monkey Island game I played and one of the first adventure games I played after Myst. It was my introduction to humor in adventure games and cartoony graphics and I absolutely loved it.... Posted by Kelop on May 31, 2014 Good, relaxed and humoristic game I have first finally played through this game when I was 28 years old. I wrote finally, because I remember this game from computer game magazines around the time when I entered the world of computer gaming at age of thirteen and somehow I never got around to... You might also like these adventure games » Full game details » Ankh (series) The Adventures of Willy Beamish » Discover other games Adventure Games by LucasArts The Dig Labyrinth: The Computer Game Sam & Max Hit the Road Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders » Indiana Jones adventures (series) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis » LucasArts Desktop Adventures (series) Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures Star Wars: Yoda Stories » Maniac Mansion (series) Maniac Mansion » Monkey Island (series) The Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - Special Edition » Adventure Games DB Platform Mac, PC Perspective Third-Person Control Point-and-click Gameplay Farce, Quest Genre Comedy, Fantasy Theme - Graphic Style Comic cartoon Presentation - Action (Compulsory) Arcade Red Flags - Media CD 90 MHz processor PCI graphics card 16-bit Win compatible sound card Quad-speed or faster CD-ROM drive 1.2 MB hard drive space The Curse of Monkey Island by - A Point and Click Adventure Game The Curse of Monkey Island is an adventure game, released in 1997 by . The Curse of Monkey Island has a Comic cartoon style and uses a Point-and-click control scheme. Adventure Gamers have published a review of The Curse of Monkey Island and rate it as Good, meanwhile the community rating for The Curse of Monkey Island is Excellent.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line911
__label__wiki	0.516117	0.516117	About AEM Chlortetracycline-Resistant Intestinal Bacteria in Organically Raised and Feral Swine Thad B. Stanton, Samuel B. Humphrey, William C. Stoffregen Thad B. Stanton Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa 50010 For correspondence: Thad.Stanton@ars.usda.gov Samuel B. Humphrey William C. Stoffregen Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa 50010 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00688-11 Organically raised swine had high fecal populations of chlortetracycline (CTC)-resistant (growing at 64 μg CTC/ml) Escherichia coli, Megasphaera elsdenii, and anaerobic bacteria. By comparison, CTC-resistant bacteria in feral swine feces were over 1,000-fold fewer and exhibited lower taxonomic diversity. To examine the tetracycline resistance properties (MIC values and class genotype) of fecal bacteria cultured from swine which had never been exposed to commercially produced antibiotics, organically raised and feral swine were investigated. Ten grower-phase swine (40 to 50 kg, 10 to 12 weeks old), mixed sexes, from two organic farms, were housed and fed as described previously (19). Freshly voided fecal samples (“catch samples”) were obtained weekly from each animal, and two or three samples were processed. Fecal samples from 19 feral swine were collected during two trips to Hobcaw Barony, a 17,000-acre, wildlife/forestry preserve on a peninsula distant from agricultural lands and near Georgetown, SC (20). The pigs were mixed sexes, 13.5 to 41 kg, and were 1 to 4 years old, as estimated from tooth structure. Based on previous studies (24) and our own observations of gut contents, the diet of these animals was primarily acorns but also grass, wild rice, leaves, plant roots, invertebrates, and mushrooms. The swine were killed within 12 h of trapping, and distal colon-rectal contents were obtained. Five-gram samples were deposited into large Hungate-type anaerobic tubes containing 35 ml of anaerobic heart infusion (HI) broth under nitrogen gas (18). The tubes were tightly sealed with rubber stoppers and plastic tape, packed in wet ice, and transported within 36 h to the National Animal Disease Center (NADC). Intestinal bacteria were isolated on chlortetracycline (CTC)-containing culture media so that their tet gene content could be determined and associated with their taxonomic identity. RTC is a clarified rumen fluid-based medium, containing Trypticase-peptone and carbohydrates, and is used for general-purpose isolation of diverse intestinal bacteria (1, 18). Me109M is a simple culture medium designed for the selective isolation of Megasphaera elsdenii (19). In a Coy anaerobic chamber, fecal samples were blended and serially diluted in HI broth, and the dilutions were spread-plated onto RTC and MacConkey agar media containing different concentrations of chlortetracycline (Tables 1 and 2). Serial dilutions were also plated onto Me109M plates without chlortetracycline to obtain Megasphaera elsdenii isolates for use in a patch test for CTC resistance (18a). RTC (total anaerobes) and Me109M plates were incubated anaerobically and MacConkey plates (E. coli) were incubated aerobically, at 39°C. Chlortetracycline-resistant anaerobic bacterial populations in fecal samples from organically raised and feral swinea Chloretracycline-resistant E. coli populations in fecal samples from organically raised and feral swinea Estimated total populations of cultivable fecal anaerobic bacteria from organically raised swine averaged 5.9 × 1010 CFU/g feces (Table 1). These levels are consistent with previously reported cultivable bacterial concentrations in feces and intestinal contents of conventional swine (1, 18). Surprisingly, total anaerobe populations in feral swine were 60-fold lower, 1.1 × 109 CFU/g feces (Table 1). The lower numbers of cultivable bacteria in samples from feral swine were consistent with lower optical turbidities of fecal sample dilutions. There were also fewer microscopically visible bacteria for feral sample dilutions than for those from organic swine. To rule out the possibility that lower viable bacterial counts of feral swine resulted from viability losses during the 36-h transport of the samples at 4°C, cultivable bacterial populations for nine feral swine were determined pretransport, by using an anaerobic roll tube technique (7). The roll tube method gave a pretransport average anaerobe level of 8.1 × 108 CFU/g (standard error of the mean [SEM] = 2.9 × 108). For the same samples, posttransport viable counts averaged 8.6 × 108 CFU/g (SEM = 1.4 × 108). Based on insignificant differences (P > 0.9, confidence interval [CI] = 95%, paired t test) due to transport, the feral swine in these studies had lower numbers of cultivable bacteria in their intestinal tracts than did organically raised swine. A previous report (24) and our own observations of gut contents indicated that the diet of these feral animals was primarily acorns but also grass, wild rice, leaves, plant roots, invertebrates, and mushrooms. A subsistence diet and high parasite load (diverse and abundant helminth species detected in animal tissues and organs at necropsy) likely contribute both to the small body size of the feral swine and to the reduced population levels of their intestinal microbiota. Fecal anaerobic bacteria able to grow on media containing 64 μg and 256 μg CTC/ml were present in organic swine feces at estimated concentrations of 9.5 × 109 and 1.4 × 108 CFU/g, respectively (Table 1). In contrast, feral swine tetracycline-resistant anaerobe populations were significantly lower, 0.3% versus 16% at 64 μg CTC/ml and <0.003% versus 0.3% at 256 μg CTC/ml (Table 1). Escherichia coli populations in feces from organically raised and feral swine were comparable (Table 2). Nevertheless, nearly 30% of E. coli cells cultured from organic swine were resistant to 64 μg CTC/ml. In contrast, feral swine contained undetectable levels of CTC-resistant E. coli (fewer than 5 × 103 CFU/g feces). M. elsdenii fecal populations averaged 2.4 × 108 CFU/g in organically raised swine and were significantly lower, 1.5 × 106 CFU/g, in feral swine samples (Table 3). Of 540 M. elsdenii isolates from organically raised swine, 52% were resistant to 64 μg CTC/ml (Table 3). In contrast, not one of 91 M. elsdenii isolates from feral swine was CTC resistant. Chlortetracycline sensitivities of Megasphaera elsdenii isolates from organically raised and feral swinea To identify tet genes in swine fecal isolates, 110 randomly selected strains (82 from organically raised and 28 from feral swine) resistant to 64 μg CTC/ml were cloned by subculturing isolated colonies twice and analyzed in PCR assays targeting classes tet(A) to tet(E), tet(G), tet(H), tet(K), tet(L), tet(M), tet(O), tet(Q), tet(S), tet(T), tet(W), and tet(36) and recombinant tet(O)-tet(W) genes (2, 3, 18, 19, 23). The sequence of the rrs-V3 region was used to differentiate isolates and to assess taxonomic affiliation (12, 18). Most (75% or 21/28) of the feral CTC-resistant taxa were Lactobacillaceae or Streptococcaceae (Table 4). These were not, however, the predominant taxa among the total feral bacterial isolates (unpublished observations). Resistant isolates from organic swine, by contrast, appeared taxonomically more diverse (Table 4). Tetracycline resistance genotypes of fecal bacteria from organically raised and feral swinea Eight organic and three feral swine isolates did not have detectable tet genes (Table 4), suggesting that their resistance genes have minor sequence differences in regions targeted by the PCR primers (13) or represent a tet class not targeted in this study (5, 10, 21). Most CTC-resistant swine isolates (99/110) were positive in PCR assays for tet genes (Table 4). Their tet gene content was often consistent with that of related or identical taxa as described in the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Database (ARDB) (11). For example, tet(L), tet(M), and tet(O) have been found in Streptococcaceae (11). E. coli tetracycline-resistant strains can carry tet(A) or tet(B) (11), and both genes were detected in CTC-resistant E. coli from organic swine. At least one genus, Lawsonia, assigned to the Desulfovibrionales carries tet(W), and Lawsonia has been detected in feral swine feces (11, 15). CTC resistance genes, to our knowledge, have not been reported for taxa assigned to the Coriobacteriaceae and Fusobacteriaceae (11). Resistant isolates affiliated with those families were isolated from organically raised swine and were positive for tet(W) (Table 4). Mosaic (interclass recombinant) tet(O)-tet(W) genes were present in M. elsdenii isolates but were not detected in other anaerobes from the same organic swine (Table 4). Mosaic tet genes have been detected in fecal DNAs and bacterial strains from humans and swine (14, 21). Each of two Streptococcaceae isolates, from organically raised swine, had two tet genes (Table 4). More recently, the genome of M. elsdenii strain 14-14, from an organic pig, was sequenced, and two genes, tet(40) and mosaic tet(OWO), were found in close proximity (T. B. Stanton and S. B. Humphrey, unpublished observations). Linkage between a mosaic tet gene and a nonmosaic tet gene has been noted for other intestinal bacteria (9, 21). Based on the above findings, other isolates listed in Table 4 could have additional tet genes, either duplicated genes or genes not detected by PCR assays. Chlortetracycline is a common antibiotic used in swine feed both for the treatment and for the prevention of diseases that affect animal productivity (4, 6). Feral swine remote from contact with commercial antibiotic sources had relatively low bacterial populations in their intestinal tracts, and a low proportion of those were CTC resistant. We initially considered that studies of feral swine populations would provide baseline levels of “natural” resistance in swine, that is, levels useful for judging efforts to reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance in farmed swine. However, the unexpectedly low populations of intestinal bacteria in the feral swine (likely attributable to poor diet and parasites) complicate this idea. At the same time, these results suggest that feral swine could prove useful experimentally, i.e., for examining the effects of commercial swine diets (with and without antibiotics) on a unique intestinal ecosystem with initially low antibiotic resistance. In contrast to results for feral swine, a high proportion of total intestinal bacteria and E. coli and M. elsdenii isolates from organically raised swine were CTC resistant. The bacteria were taxonomically diverse and represented substantial numbers of tetracycline-resistant bacteria. In absolute numbers, at this concentration, an organically raised hog would shed an estimated 70 billion viable and tetracycline-resistant bacteria/day. For the sake of information, there are 16 million hogs (predominantly nonorganic) in Iowa. These and other studies (summarized in reference 18a) have revealed that antibiotic-resistant populations and resistance genes persist in mammalian intestinal tracts even in the absence of direct antibiotic selection (8, 22). Although the organic farms had been free of antibiotic use for 4 years, the lineage of these animals had been exposed to more traditional farming practices (i.e., diets containing antibiotics). Baby pigs “inherit” or acquire their gut microbiota from the mother sows and were only several generations removed from their nonorganically raised progenitors. 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__label__cc	0.513271	0.486729	AI in Action Demystifying the Mystery of AI AI Awards E35 Mitch Lieberman, Program Director of Conversational Intelligence at Opus Research by AI Ireland Welcome to episode 35 of AI in Action, the podcast that breaks down the hype and explores the impact that Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are making on our everyday lives. Our goal is to share with you the insights of technologists and data science enthusiasts to showcase the excellent work that is been done within AI in Ireland and abroad. Today’s guest is Mitch Lieberman. Mitch is the Program Director of Conversational Intelligence at Opus Research in Chicago, where they are focused on “Conversational Commerce,” the merging of intelligent assistant technologies, contact centre automation, intelligent authentication, enterprise collaboration and mobile commerce. Mitch’s role is to use his analytical sights on Conversational Commerce, Relationship Intelligence, and Conversational Intelligence to help enterprise executives, who are taking charge of bringing customer care, self-service and increased marketing and advertising into the age of natural language understanding, machine learning, big data and analytics. Over the course of the episode today, Mitch will discuss: His background in sales and Customer Relationship Management The value that AI will bring to conversations His advice to companies looking to apply AI to their business Knowing what you want to improve within your organisation through AI Using Big Data to build AI systems Where he sees the future of Conversational AI heading in the future https://aiinaction.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/mitchleibermannpodcast.mp3 What did you make of Mitch Lieberman’s podcast? Where do you see the future of Artificial Intelligence and Conversational AI heading in the next few years? We would love to hear your thoughts so please leave a comment below. If you would like to hear more from AI in Action then please subscribe and don’t forget to like and share with your friends on social media. Subscribe to the AI in Action Podcast: AI Awards 2018: Tickets on Sale Now! Connecting Ireland’s AI ecosystem for a higher purpose Tickets to attend the inaugural AI Awards are now on sale as we invite you to come along to the Gibson Hotel on Thursday 22 November to see all the great work being done in AI, Data Science and Technology innovation on the island of Ireland. The AI Awards, in conjunction with principal sponsor Microsoft, is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting, advancing and rewarding corporate and academic excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation, research & development and products. It is our mission to support the AI community by recognising the hard work and dedication of those working in the field and to help promote and market Ireland globally as the first-choice home for AI investment and job creation in research and product development. Click here or more details on how to get your hands on tickets for the AI Awards. Posted in PodcastTagged advice, ai, ai awards, ai in action, ai ireland, applications, artificial intelligence, big data, business, Chicago, conversational ai, conversational commerce, conversational intelligence, CRM, customer care, customer relationship management, customer service, data analytics, data science, innovation, interview, itunes, listen, machine learning, mitch leiberman, opus research, Podcast, sales, soundcloud, speech recognition technology, technology, united states Author: AI Ireland AI Ireland is a non-profit, community-led initiative that aims to showcase and share the knowledge in Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. We host monthly meetups, run the AI in Action podcast and will hold the AI Awards this November. Our goal is to bring together players in the field of AI in order to forge and strengthen ties, and to celebrate the development of AI for the greater good. View all posts by AI Ireland Prev E34 Aljosa Smolic, co-founder at Volograms Next E36 Paul Shanahan, Business Group Lead of Intelligent Cloud at Microsoft Subscribe to AI in Action Enter your email address to follow AI in Action and receive notifications of new podcasts straight to your inbox Feedspot’s Top 10 AI Podcasts	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line915
__label__cc	0.663075	0.336925	Hannibal and Me: life lessons from history Reviews & excerpts A conversation about the book The Economist & me Genius through observation: Alexander & Bucephalus The other day, I was reading to my kids from a children’s book about Alexander the Great, which caused much merriment and took much time because, as you would expect, I had to embellish every sentence with the real or the full story. But honestly, what inadequate storytelling! Here is how that book delivered the famous anecdote about Alexander taming his horse Bucephalus: There is a story about a black stallion that one day started running wildly through the courtyard. Five trainers chased it but were unable to mount it. All of a sudden the horse stopped short. Not a soul dared to approach except young Alexander, who moved swiftly, mounting and mastering the steed. Henceforth the proud horse belonged to Alexander and was called Bucephalos, which means “The One with the Head of an Ox.” I had to intervene. So I closed the book and said, “OK, kids, here is what really happened, and it is much more interesting.” (And the next day, I checked my memory against Plutarch, as you can do here.) The real story, and the lesson Alexander was only 12 or 13 at the time, and he had quite a tense relationship with his father, a bit as Hannibal and Hamilcar later did, and as most successful sons and fathers do. In any case, Alexander’s father, Philip, was given a splendid horse. But nobody could tame it, and everybody, including Philip, was making rather a fool of himself. Alexander, meanwhile, was just watching. Really observing. Because that’s what the adults were not doing. They were too busy being brave to observe the horse. And so Alexander noticed that the horse was not angry, and was not even fighting against the Macedonian men. No, the horse was afraid and panicking. It was scared of its own shadow.* So Alexander stepped up and dared his dad to let him try to tame the horse. He looked precocious and arrogant, and the men had a good laugh. Alexander then took the stallion by its bridle (much more gently than the painting above suggests) and turned him to face into the sun, so that their shadows were now behind them. At this, the stallion calmed down a bit. Alexander then (and I quote from Plutarch now), let him go forward a little, still keeping the reins in his hands, and stroking him gently when he found him begin to grow eager and fiery, he let fall his upper garment softly, and with one nimble leap securely mounted him, and when he was seated, by little and little drew in the bridle, and curbed him without either striking or spurring him. Philip and his friends all burst out into acclamations of applause; and his father shedding tears, it is said, for joy, kissed him as he came down from his horse, and in his transport said, ‘O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee.’ So, you see, the story is really about Alexander’s finesse and, more, about his genius of observation. (And kids get that! They can handle the real story.) In this sense, I believe Plutarch chose this anecdote for the same reason he chose the other famous vignette about Alexander: his untying of the Gordian Knot. As I argued in this post, that story, too, was proof of Alexander’s superior powers of observation. In that case, Alexander espied a simple solution to a complex situation. But we can, as Plutarch would urge us to do, extend this much further. What made Alexander so great? In his major battles, Alexander was usually the last to arrive at the battlefield. His enemy was already waiting, and had prepared his army for a particular battleplan. Alexander, by arriving late and keeping his mind supple, could observe that situation and infer his enemy’s plan, thereby devising his own, superior, plan on the fly. In his administration of the conquered lands, from Egypt to Mesopotamia, he again observed the locals and their customs. He observed how they differed from Macedonian and Greek customs. And he observed how the Macedonians and Greeks were reacting to his observation. So Alexander ruled Egypt as a divine Pharaoh, the former Persian Empire as a Persian king, the Greek city states as a Philhellenic “first among equals”, and his own Macedonians as a brother in arms. The man’s greatness — and the lesson in all these anecdotes — is found in his powers of observation. Oh, and Bucephalus became Alexander’s beloved charger. When the stallion died from battle wounds (in what is today Pakistan), Alexander named a city after him, Bucephala, and died three years later. * A famous autistic woman, Temple Grandin, has vividly described how cows and other animals, like autistic people, do sometimes get frightened by such things, whether a colored piece of plastic or a moving shadow. My other posts about Alexander so far: The Alexandrian Solution Alexander meets a Yogi: Who’s the Hero? It was all Greek to them. No, literally The view west from Alexander’s death bed September 29, 2011 Andreas Kluth Alexander the Great, Bucephalus, Plutarch ← Make your charty blog posts chartier The first review (in Publishers Weekly) → 17 thoughts on “Genius through observation: Alexander & Bucephalus” Thomas Stazyk says: A great story and a good lesson! Douglas says: Before I arrived at the mention of the Gordian Knot, I was reading the “real story” of Alexander’s taming of the stallion and thinking, “he does it again with the knot.” The greatest generals, perhaps the greatest thinkers (and most heroes), are very good at observation, adapting to changing conditions, and observation. Perception is not only reality, it is the key to it. Andreas Kluth says: I might start looking for other examples to spin a yarn out of this idea. very good at observation, adapting to changing conditions, and observation. One of those “observation[s]” should have been “innovation” but I don’t recall which one. Paul Costopoulos says: You are quite right, Alexander was an Hellenophile (and Greek educated by his father’s fiat) but not a Greek, despîte all claims to the contrary by my father’s countrymen. sledpress says: A Macedonian Celt, whose red-haired mother reputedly slept with snakes (rather like my own stepmother — I am not kidding around — but that is another story). Alexander seems to have grasped the importance of dealing with people, or animals, in terms they could appreciate. I wonder what he would make of some of today’s nations.. “I wonder what he would make of some of today’s nations.” Sledpress, Alexander was arguably the only one ever to solve the problem of the Middle East, from Egypt to Pakistan. However briefly. “A Macedonian Celt…” Were the Macedonians Celts? I thought we had no idea who they were (as with “Thracians”). Alexander’s mother was verifiably Greek (from Epirus, allegedly descended from Achilles.) Philip’s case was more interesting. Either he or his father had somehow bribed the relevant authorities to allow the family to participate at the Olympic Games. And that was the definition of “Greek”. So technically, Philip’s family was officially Greek, even though the Macedonian people was barbarian. Cyberquill says: Also according to Plutarch, the real reason George Washington chopped down the cherry tree was that he was afraid of its shadow. Plutarch had so much to say about the Founders. Hence his nickname Nostradamutarch. Jim M. says: The story of the taming of Alexander’s horse can be understood psychologically as a story that nurtures a child’s understanding of how to deal with adults, especially parents. From the child’s point of view the horse is a power figure — i.e., a parent — with the child himself in the role of Alexander. Under this interpretation Alexander (child) regards the horse (parent) as a powerful but irrational being. By careful observation, however, Alexander (child) can calm the horse (parent), rein in the horse’s (parent’s) irrational impulses, and thereby gain some control of the horse’s (parent’s) will, a very good outcome from the child’s point of view. The child is all the more likely to achieve this outcome if he first heard this instructive horse-taming story (parent-taming story) directly from an unsuspecting horse’s (parent’s) mouth. I had never thought of it that way, but it works. Even the bit about the shadow: The irrational parent is usually just being irrational because of whatever he or she fears at that moment. dafna says: very clever interpretation jim m., makes me wonder if philipe was inspired by the taming of the horse or by alexander’s genius? also children, in general, are gifted with an ability to perceive wisdom and beauty “out of context”. when joshua bell played incognito in a washington subway, the experiment yielded only one constant – the children always recognized the beauty and tugged on their parents hand to stay and listen. Andreas, if you are looking for another yarn there is the Turkish folk tale “Eat, My Fine Coat!” A good tale, dafna. (I just looked it up.) Man goes to banquet in plain clothes, is ignored. Goes home to change into snazzy suit, goes back to banquet. Suddenly, the center of attention. Seen giving his fancy clothes food and drink. What are you doing?, asks host. ‘When I came before, dressed in my usual clothes, I was ignored. When I came again in this suit, I was popular. I can only conclude that it is the suit, not I, who is the guest. So I am feeding it.’ Dafna, It is interesting to compare the story of Alexander and the horse, with that of Alexander and the Gordian knot. In the first story Alexander’s father is on hand to cheer his son’s accomplishment, but in the second, Alexander’s father makes no such appearance. Is this purely a matter of chance? If the first story is meant to encourage children to feel free to “tame” the father’s/horse’s behavior, then it is logical that it should include an approving father looking on. The second story, which lacks this hidden message, gains nothing from an approving father. In the Bucephalus story, Philip was still alive. In the story of the Gordian Knot, he was already dead, and so could not have been present. So it’s a bit like the stories of other semi-divine heroes: First you need some stories that make the PARENTS realize they have an unusual child (Baby Hercules strangling Hera’s snakes in the crib, say) and later the child keeps reproving its own special destiny. Alexander demonstrates the essence of the scientific method – observation, hypothesis and experiment. Form and verification. The devotion of Alexander to Bucephalus is a living metaphor for the durability of scientific truth. Get this blog via email	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line922
__label__wiki	0.710792	0.710792	Mike’s Spring 2008 Season Prospects By gendomike / April 3, 2008 The spring 2008 season of anime has begun! What will I look at this season? Looking back at my previous history at doing these previews, I notice a few trends: I’ve never been able to follow more than 3 shows regularly. There has always been one show that I badly misjudge initially. (Kimikiss, Lucky Star) There is always one show I don’t put on this preview I end up liking, if not loving. Usually a game adaptation or romance. (ef-a tale of memories, True Tears) There’s at least one show I promise to follow-up on that I often end up dropping anyway. It’s part of trying to judge purely based on previews and plot summaries, I suppose. But when has that ever stopped me? Let’s begin! The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk I’m not just supporting this show because it is the spearhead of the most worthy project the anime industry has come up with in recent years–allowing simultaneous translated streaming on Crunchyroll and other places. It also looks really interesting as it’s an epic anime based loosely on the Enuma Elish and The Epic of Gilgamesh. There was already any anime by the latter title, I know, but that was too Goth for me. The preview at least has a kickin’ soundtrack and it’s been a while since I’ve watched a genuinely epic fantasy anime anyway (the last one was Scrapped Princess–all of you playing drinking games on my preview posts may drink now, as I have never failed to mention that anime in every preview I’ve done for the past three times!). Those of you interested in this show need to support the streaming/downloading efforts of Gonzo on BOSTTV and Crunchyroll and send the industry a message: this is how it should be done. We’ll see, however, if the show is worth it. Real Drive Production I.G. just never stops making shows about the boundary of net and reality, do they? Having mostly missed Ghost Hound last time around, it’s time to reset and go back into Ghost in the Shell territory once more. And if it gives me an excuse to talk philosophy and theology again–hell yes, I’m running with it. A show in a similar vein as Real Drive, but done by Madhouse. We’ll see if the untraditional art style proves a barrier or not. Library War Ever since Read or Die OVA, I have always believed that humanities majors and librarians can save the world. How could I pass up a title like that? The characters are called “book soldiers”! And that is all I have ever wanted to be in life. Let’s just hope it doesn’t end like the Read or Die TV, though. They totally forgot what made the original OVA so charming there. Having already reviewed episode 1, I’ll watch at least a few more episodes to see how it goes. At the very least, I want to hear Yoko Kanno’s orchestral score again. Chiko, Heiress of the Phantom Thief Though I admire her work in Haruhi Suzumiya, and have seen her sing live at Anime Expo, I am not this blog’s huge Hirano Aya addict. This show simply has a somewhat interesting premise and is a role that I think would stretch Aya a bit, which can only be good for her. Plus it’s got French in the trailer. Could this be a spiritual successor to Lupin III? gendomike Michael lives in the Los Angeles area, and has been into anime since he saw Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1999. Some of his favorite shows include Full Metal Alchemist, Honey and Clover, and Welcome to the NHK!. Since 2003 he has gone to at least one anime convention every year. A public radio junkie, which naturally led to podcasting, he now holds a seminary degree and is looking to become Dr. Rev. Otaku Bible Man any day now. Michael can be reached at mike.huang@animediet.net. You can also find his Twitter account at @gendomike. Tags: chiko, druaga, Kaiba, library war, macross, preview, real drive, spring 2008 Who Killed The World? – The Bureau Of Proto Society Delivers By wintermuted / August 29, 2015 Bridging The Gap: Longing For The Lyrical (Galaxy Express 999) By wintermuted / June 7, 2014 Happy Birthday To “Fairy Tail” Mangaka Hiro Mashima (May 3, 2014) By Lindo Korchi / May 3, 2014 Should Anime Characters Get Transformed Into Lego Figures? Happy Birthday to American Voice Actor Steve Blum (April 28, 2014) By Lindo Korchi / April 28, 2014 Bamboo Blade 26 – why is it so good? Kurenai – an odd show that I cannot put my finger on. 2 thoughts on “Mike’s Spring 2008 Season Prospects” smashingtofu says: If Macross can be like the original Macross, I guess I’ll be fine with that, although I’m crossing my fingers that it goes beyond that. The only thing that disappoints me are the funky character designs. Kaiba is directed by Masaaki Yuasa, who directed Mind Game and Kemonozume. What’s not to like? dood says: In the Library Wars video Yotsubato is shown (0:23) does that mean it gets an anime adaptation ?!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line925
__label__cc	0.618851	0.381149	Tag: college June 7, 2016 June 7, 2016 ~ alexnpress ~ Leave a comment In a review for The Baffler, Amber A’Lee Frost takes a recent anthology on college sexual assault as a jumping off point to touch upon some concerning weaknesses in “the conversation” about sexual assault. Frost’s piece addresses a few issues I want to emphasize. First, focusing on campus sexual assault without mentioning, as Frost puts it, the existence of “an outside world that’s even less safe” than campus is a problem. It’s one that stems from the class bias that comes with a focus on college campuses, particularly elite university campuses. Life at these institutions is far from representative of the average college student’s experience, much less the average sexual assault survivor’s. And there’s nothing wrong with that! But if we want to improve women’s conditions in society at large – and I believe we do – feminist movements on campus need to perpetually push back against this distorted focus, as the media, courts, police, etc will always privilege certain voices over others – this much we know. I say ‘we’ because I’m part of these movements – on my campus as both a mentor to undergraduates and someone dealing with a university that’s inadequately addressing sexual harassment and assault (boy could I tell you some horror stories). While we have the most power to force change in our own institutions, we need a more effective strategy of leveraging the spotlight on campuses to agitate for more resources in society at large for addressing sexual assault. That means increasing the options available to those who have been raped or assaulted other than going to the police (who are a source of violence against women in a number of ways), arguing for universal health care, rolling back the attack on women’s reproductive rights, and fighting for affordable housing so people can more easily leave those abusing them. Second, the packaging and delivery of survivors’ stories deserves criticism. I don’t mean criticism of survivors but of the publications profiting off their pain. Frost writes expertly on this and its connection to the economics of the online publishing industry, and her piece made me think of this one from last year. It’s about how some women can only get published by writing about their trauma. As a young woman toying around with writing myself, it’s clear I could get published writing about being sexually assaulted. But that would entail committing myself to a future where anyone can learn intimate details of my life with a quick Google search rather than when I’m ready to tell them. I admire anyone who writes such stories but I can’t help wanting to burn down the outlets that greedily churn that shit out for clicks without concern for the women offering up their trauma. Which brings up a related point: that the debate around sexual assault is overwhelmingly about stories from survivors can be both a) an improvement from when we ignored this problem completely as a society and b) a serious issue when it comes to my dude’s eternal question: what is to be done? As Frost writes “while these acts of public testimony are crucial, and therapeutic, for survivors, readers of We Believe You are curiously left asking much the same question that one of the victims here raises: ‘What am I supposed to do?'” She describes the anthology as leaving its reader directionless, and my years as a feminist in Boston – a college campus-centric city if there ever was one – feel similar. A lot of smart people write about why it is that a focus on the individual rises to the fore in the age of neoliberalism, which can accommodate – and sell! – individuals’ stories but not structural change, so I won’t try my hand at it. Instead, I’ll point out that this focus on the individual is pervasive when it comes to just about any feminist issue: abortion? Shout it! Sex work? Tell us whether you feel empowered! I don’t want to disparage the people who support these strategies – fighting stigmas is good and I support them as people – but I am concerned with the strategic power of a focus on stories. I think it’s a shaky foundation for a movement. If all is predicated on what survivors want, what do we do when survivors disagree? It’s a bizarre parallel to the essentialized view of oppressed groups I wrote about the other day, where differential claims within “the black community” or “the trans community” become impossible to parse. I agree that it’s unproductive to judge the way any particular individual handles their assault; where I disagree is with the idea that this means we can’t discuss the efficacy of movements against sexual assault and the solutions they propose. It’s exactly this sort of critical analysis that Frost is doing in her review. People interpret their experiences differently, be these experiences as a woman, a person of color, a rape survivor, any combination of these identities, or anything else. What we as a movement must do is analyze the problems we’re facing and work out the best way forward. A good friend of mine, one of the hardest working feminist organizers I know, has lately taken to saying that it’s wrong to say there is a feminist movement today, because there isn’t. I think she’s referring to the absence of collective feminist struggle – we have feminists, but not a feminist movement. I don’t think she’s entirely wrong. I don’t know what we do about that – I’m thinking out loud here – but we need to take her provocation, and Frost’s, seriously. re: free speech on college campuses November 20, 2015 November 20, 2015 ~ alexnpress ~ 1 Comment As I’ve noted previously, the absence of campus Zionists from the countless think pieces on campus activism and the right to free speech is glaring. My view on the supposed conflict between the right to free speech and the right to equality across race/gender/sexualities is that it doesn’t exist, and we shouldn’t cede to the conservative framing of this debate as one in which these two aims are intractably opposed. Instead, we can (and should) argue that, in the case of current anti-racist protests, students are advocating for free speech by agitating for the conditions that would allow black students to freely exercise their speech. That rather than the ‘coddled’ enemies of speech they dislike, black students are defending this right which is being denied them. Having said this, the debate will nonetheless continue to operate as it is, what with the majority of media outlets serving fundamentally conservative societal functions. This being the case, we must start analyzing how the tactical censorious being displayed by a small subset of progressive activists is becoming the preferred tactic of a very different sort of campus activist: Zionists. As yet another example of how effectively Zionists are using the censorious discourse of a right to feel safe on campus as a means for shutting down BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions) initiatives, the following is an email UC Santa Cruz students just received: “On college campuses across the country, students are engaged in challenging but necessary conversations with administrators about race, religion, ethnicity, and identity. At their best, challenging incidents can usher in long overdue changes that promote greater understanding and equality. At their worst, they can exacerbate tensions and contribute to what some experience as a hostile environment. Globally, we’re seeing how hatred can lead to unimaginable acts of violence. Nationally, students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement stood in solidarity with their peers at the University of Missouri who are protesting widespread racism on that campus and working toward meaningful change. On our campus, which has a long and proud history of student engagement in critical issues of equity and social justice, I want to be sure we acknowledge differences of opinion and work to maintain civility in the midst of turmoil. In student government, as is their right, the Student Union Assembly this week voted to reinstate a resolution urging the University of California to divest from Israel. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has generated passionate opinions on both sides. I’m concerned this resolution will have a chilling effect on individuals within our campus community. However unintentional, its passage may create an environment in which some of our Jewish students feel alienated and less welcome on our campus. We have a commitment at UC Santa Cruz to engaged, respectful dialogue. The free and open exchange of ideas is a pillar of our Principles of Community. I am convening my Chancellor’s Diversity Advisory Council to discuss the climate for Jewish students on campus. The council has advocated for African American students, LGBT students, and the disabled members of our community, among others, and I want to be sure our campus community welcomes and supports Jewish students, faculty, and staff. I will share my thoughts about that conversation as it unfolds. Universities are microcosms of our complex, diverse global society. With so many differences, the opportunities for division are endless. Instead, let us make the conscious choice to seek common ground, to forge understanding, and to cultivate compassion. By doing so, we will model the way for the world-a laudable and fitting goal for UC Santa Cruz.” This administration has made use of radical organizing in support of black students to stifle a pro-Palestine initiative. These two struggles are deeply connected; to position them as opposed is a political move that needs to be argued against. As for me, I’m gonna keep arguing against whoever wants to censor speech they dislike – but more than nine times out of ten, that means I’m gonna be arguing with Zionists. A Spectre is Haunting College Campuses November 4, 2015 November 6, 2015 ~ alexnpress ~ 2 Comments A recent piece about trigger warnings is making the rounds online. The article, written by Rani Neutill, details the escalating requests for trigger warnings she faced while teaching a college course on sex and film. She starts the semester providing trigger warnings before each film she shows in the classroom, but it isn’t long before two students leave in tears after a screening. They hadn’t done the readings for that day, leaving them unaware of the film’s content. After class, Neutill has a particularly odious encounter with one of the teary-eyed students, a white female African American studies minor. This student is a Good White Ally,™ scolding our author, a woman of color, about the importance of showing diverse representations of African Americans. It’s indisputable: this student is the worst. At this point, we can see where the story is going: Neutill’s students request ever more contrived warnings about the course content, and she complies with their requests. This dynamic stifles the course, with Neutill eventually sending “a meticulous email detailing which scene I was showing, where in the film the scene was, and what the content of the scene included” each night before class. While she began the semester a proponent of trigger warnings, by the end, she’s had enough: these students refuse to engage positions they disagree with, using trigger warnings to foreclose any chance of their grappling with difficult ideas. Instead of developing analytical skills, Neutill’s students opt for coddling. The state of campus political culture continues to spiral downward and the front of the classroom is further lined with eggshells. Now, the most important kernel in the article can go almost unnoticed – Neutill’s job security, or lack thereof. A “wandering postdoc” and “not so young woman of color,” Neutill is presumably under close scrutiny from her department. In her account, she’s challenged more often in the classroom and given more critical teaching evaluations from her students than her white male colleagues. These higher standards matter for her job prospects. While I won’t speculate on Neutill’s reasons for accommodating her students’ increasingly ludicrous requests, I can imagine myself swallowing the urge to abandon trigger warnings if it meant keeping my job. If I wasn’t confident that the university would back me up should these coddled activists file complaints against me, I might cede the ground to them, choosing the course of action that helps me keep food on the table. And that’s the issue: I wouldn’t bet my paycheck on the university’s support. Workplace insecurity makes it hard for non-tenured professors, adjuncts, and graduate students to set boundaries in the classroom or challenge students on contentious subjects. The backdrop of eroding work conditions that disproportionately impact workers of color, women, and queer employees is central to Neutill’s story. Articles like Neutill’s get a lot of play these days, not only from conservatives, but on the left as well. The question of whether there’s an instinct toward censorship among left-leaning campus activists has come up in conversations I’ve had with left-wing political organizers, journalists, progressive faculty, and campus activists themselves — and invariably, these discussions turn upon the spectre of an elite (nearly always female) social justice activist threatening our intellectual and political freedoms. Now look, I’m a twenty-something who’s got a B.A. from one liberal private university and now works and studies at another — I’ve met this figure, she exists, and she does seem to be rolling increasingly deep on campuses. And by god, she’s easy to make fun of – after all, we’ve established that she’s the worst – privileged, too sensitive, always trying to prove herself the Best White Person in the room, even if that means potentially throwing actual people of color under the bus, or in Neutill’s case, out of a job. That being said, she’s only one minor figure on campus. If we’re concerned about the stifling of campus intellectual culture, why leave out the other censorship-happy campus activists? Organized Zionists have been more successful than any other group at leveraging the censoriousness built into the university’s corporate structure — they cost Steven Salaita his job, are compiling a McCarthyite blacklist of Palestine solidarity activists, and continue to shut down SJP organizing across the country through appeals to administrative power. In addition, there are the white supremacists – it surely would be a mistake to leave out the guys who pressured Boston University to fire Saida Grundy for tweeting what amounts to critical race theory 101 (and while BU didn’t fire Grundy, the university definitely didn’t back her up either). To focus on the social justice activist’s political shortcomings is to miss the forest for the trees – after all, the source of much of whatever power she and other campus censors have is the structural condition of the university; nothing silences a professor like the lack of a secure contract. Not even the biggest and baddest of college activists can hope to stifle discussion as pervasively as precarious working conditions do; to direct our ire at the activist but not the university misdiagnoses the problem from the start. If we want the free expression of ideas, it’s legitimate to discuss the first figure, the lefty-liberal campus activist, but framing this conversation around labor conditions allows us to bring in the others who, not surprisingly, often go unmentioned in discussions of campus political culture. Perhaps even more importantly, this view demystifies the institution most responsible for this mess: the neoliberal university. Graduate students and faculty censor themselves for fear of being painted anti-Semites, hysterical man-hating feminists, “reverse racists,” and yes, to avoid being labelled “problematic” too. Yet, fundamentally, much of this censorship happens because we’re terrified of being perceived as too controversial and losing a job, or worse, not getting hired in the first place. Making fun of misguided tactics from progressive campus activists is satisfying, but it isn’t constructive, not when the right already spills so much ink engaging in this flavor of activist-bashing. Instead, to the extent that students are using social justice discourse, intentionally or not, to jeopardize academics’ jobs, we need to identify and challenge this. If censorship and appeals to power are becoming instinctive tactics for college activists, we should advocate for bottom-up collective action instead. But most importantly, if more academics had access to collective bargaining agreements, long-term contracts, and tenure, attempts to censor difficult discussions, whether by social justice activists, Zionists, racists, or anyone else, would be much more likely to meet with just the sort of critical intellectual engagement we all so desperately desire.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line927
__label__wiki	0.54744	0.54744	Cityscapes. Tags: architecture, bear, bears, photography I mostly missed tonight's debate, but who didn't? It's Saturday night, and there was that football game. But supposedly... A relaxed and self-assured Mitt Romney sailed above the fray at a crucial debate on Saturday night as his Republican rivals engaged in a spirited fight to determine which of them would emerge as his most formidable opponent when the party’s nominating contest moves past New Hampshire. Tags: debates, Mitt Romney "Headphones-wearing man walks into side of moving train." Milestones in modern stupidity. Tags: iPod, stupid Charles Addams... born 100 years ago today. I noticed the Google doodle, and then found this. Posted by Ann Althouse at 9:18 PM 3 comments Tags: cartoons, Google At the White Shirt Café... ... you will be a bust in the Hall of Fame. Tags: photography, sculpture "A Long History of Political Brawling for Santorum." The NYT sets out to characterize Santorum as a bully. “He would attack people in a smug way that was harder-edged and more insulting than was necessary, said Mark Salter, the former chief of staff to Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, adding that lawmakers in both parties shared this view. “He was a bully who was not a potent enough force to be a bully.” So they got this McCain guy to call him a bully. Then they set out the hypothesis in a big old generality: From the start of a legislative career that included two terms in the House and two in the Senate, Mr. Santorum earned a reputation for throwing haymakers with no regard for custom, sacred cows or his own newcomer status. If you look past the manipulative words, all you've got is that Santorum fights hard for what he believes. I'm sure the NYT would prefer if the GOP didn't confront President Obama with a tough fighter. By the way, I'm seeing a hardcore effort to portray Santorum as an anti-gay bigot. In that context, the notion that he's a bully resonates with the campaign against bullying kids who are (or seem) gay. But there are really 2 different uses of the word "bully." Being a tough fighter in the political arena is quite different from harassing and assaulting kids. And a traditional-values political position — which includes opposition to same-sex marriage — is quite different from feeling hatred or antagonism toward individuals who have a homosexual orientation. The liberal media conflates things, but fair-minded people think clearly and see the distinctions as well as the similarities. Tags: 2012 campaign, journalism, nyt, same-sex marriage, Santorum "McCain mistakenly refers to Romney as Obama." Oops. Just slur your words and say "Obamney" and maybe people won't notice. Hey, am I the only one who thinks Rick Santorum looks like Jerry Seinfeld... especially when he's brightly lit from above and standing in front of a wall so that his head casts a shadow that makes it look like he's got his hair in a mullet? And was Meade the only one who looked at this picture the NYT chose to illustrate its article about that new book about Barack-and-Michelle and thought the shadows made it look — especially with that black bow tie — like he had an Abe Lincoln hat-and-beard? And remember 3 years ago, when Obama took office and all these commentators were comparing him to Lincoln? What the hell was that about? Before he did anything, he was like Lincoln... and then he won the Nobel Prize. But you know who's not all there? McCain. That old guy must be senile. He said Obama when he meant Romney. Tags: aging, beards, hats, light and shade, McCain, Mitt Romney, Nobel Prize, Obama is like Lincoln, Santorum, things are not what they seem The Walker recall will cost $9 million. More if there needs to be a primary to select the opponent. Maybe we taxpayers will get lucky and there won't be enough signatures. ADDED: $9 million? That's more than it cost to get the tape gunk off the marble. Tags: scott w, Wisconsin recall Other rotundas. We've devoted many hours to the rotunda of the Wisconsin state capitol. Today, we explored another state's capitol — a place of mystery... ... professionalism... ... nonpartisan unicamerality... ... and impressive masculinity.... Tags: architecture, art, masculine beauty, Nebraska, photography "Microsoft has been granted a patent for its 'avoid ghetto' feature for GPS devices." "A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an 'unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.'" Tags: computers, driving, Microsoft Why does Gingrich keep calling Mitt Romney "timid"? He even uses the word "timid" as a noun. It seems like the creators of the ad decided to play around with the name "Mitt," so they flipped it over to get "tiM," flopped it back so it's "Mitt" again, then put them side by side to get "tiM-Mitt," which sounds like "timid." It some kind of palindrome! And then what would happen if Mitt picked Tim Pawlenty as his VP? The brains of poets will explode. But what kind of an ear for poetry do we average Americans have? Perhaps it doesn't matter whether you notice. It's harder to defend against the subliminal effects. The words seep directly into your emotions. You get these uneasy feelings about the candidate, and you don't know why. And then again, we do hear poetry in the language of politics: I like Ike... tricky Dick.... Even when you hear it and you can defend against it, you're hooked. You do like Ike. And Dick Nixon is tricky. Tags: advertising, cowardice, Eisenhower, emotional politics, Gingrich, jaltcoh, John Althouse Cohen, language, names, Nixon, Pawlenty, poetry, subliminality "Michelle Obama is the real politician in the family in the sense she is more effusive, better at connecting instantly with people." "A good source of mine once said to me, 'Here’s what you have to remember: She is Bill Clinton, and he is Hillary.'" Tags: Bill Clinton, Hillary, Michelle O, Obama and manliness "Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few." "If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to [requests for just a few minutes of your time], they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!" ADDED: That quote — from Robert Heinlein (via Instapundit) — contains an atrocious mixed metaphor. First, time is analogized to money — "your total capital" — and then demands for it "snowball" — and here we've got an image not just of snow, but of getting larger and larger by rolling downhill. This increasingly large ball of snow somehow reaches a point where suddenly it's parasites — some sort of bacteria or fungi? — and they're consuming... well, I guess all that money. Having eaten all your money, these parasites "squawk for more" — they have powers of speech. What kind of parasites squawk? Maybe some animation in a TV commercial for an athlete's foot remedy. It's possible! But what happened to all the snow? See, this is why I can't read science fiction. Tags: bacteria, Instapundit, metaphor, psychology, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, time, writing Ludicrous excuse for Chelsea Clinton's failure as a journalist. "Some sources believe Chelsea was 'set up for a fall'..." Our source said NBC “created unrealistic expectations....” If you accept a job that you're not capable of doing, you're setting yourself up. If the expectations were unrealistic, you should have said no. Don't compound your failure as a journalist with a display of character failure. You're a Clinton, and that brings some advantages, but there's also the disadvantage that whatever you do may resonate with the wrong Clinton characteristics. Speaking of bullshit. Here's the NBC response to the rumors that Chelsea's on the outs: “100 percent false. You will see more pieces from Chelsea. She has been warmly welcomed into this news division, and we can’t be more pleased with her work. We hope she will be with us for a long time. There was no over-hyping of her role.” So... they're not even trying to look credible. Great branding, NBC News! Tags: Chelsea, journalism, lying, NBC, things not believed Guess who rakes Obama over the coals for the abuse of executive power? John Yoo. Some think me a zealous advocate of executive power, and often I am when it comes to national security issues. But I think President Obama has exceeded his powers by making a recess appointment for Richard Cordray (whom I respect and have no problems with as a nominee) to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Yoo's key point is that it's up to the Senate to decide whether it's in recess: Even with my broad view of executive power, I’ve always thought that each branch has control over its own functions and has the right — if not the duty — to exclude the others as best it can from its own decisions.... Yoo says that the Senate needs to defend itself from encroachments by the President, and that here it can refuse to support the agency in any way. But, more important, anyone who is affected by the new agency challenge could challenge the constitutionality of all of the agency's work. However the courts would ultimately resolve the issue, the questionable appointment casts a pall over all the agency's work and, in an election year, tells us something about the way Obama understands the role of the President. So a third remedy for this power grasp — in addition to Senate resistance and court challenges — is for the GOP candidates to assail Obama for overreaching. Let's see what those candidates do, because a big question — as the GOP chooses its candidate — is: Who is best at attacking Obama? Tags: 2012 campaign, John Yoo, law, Obama 2012, Senate, separation of powers "Newt Gingrich... cloaked himself in churlishness and accessorized with self-pity." My favorite phrase from Robin Givhan's fashion report on the Iowa Caucuses. I like the literary device that characterizes emotion and facial expression as clothing. I wish I could think of a lot of examples, but what springs to mind is "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile." There's also "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella." Somehow, I'm only thinking of old "smile" songs. Both of those examples put the singer in a position of advising somebody else to smile. Thanks a lot. It's not really too empathetic. You want a big, old phony smile on a man who's hurting? Hurting. Where is the song that acknowledges — maybe even celebrates — the display of churlishness and self-pity by presenting it as a fabulous cloak? And can you picture such a cloak? IN THE COMMENTS: MikeR quotes Psalms 109:18: "He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil." AND: Here's the King James version: As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. Tags: election emotion, fashion, foundation garments, Gingrich, metaphor, MikeR, music, Robin Givhan, smiling, umbrella "Instead of offering a quick answer and moving on to another subject, Mr. Santorum began a Socratic lecture..." "... repeatedly asking the students questions." A Socratic dialogue?! Oh, no. It's like he actually cares about educating students! The very idea! When he could have offered a quick answer and moved on to another subject... Tags: same-sex marriage, Santorum, Socratic method Judge rules in favor of Gov. Walker and requires Government Accountability Board to check for duplicate/fake signatures on recall petitions. The Journal Sentinel reports: Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the board... testified that entering signatures into a database to look for duplicates could take eight extra weeks for his staff, and could cost $94,000 for software and outside help. But the judge said they must make "reasonable" efforts. I think making a searchable database is crucial. You've got to at least check for duplicates. And I think people — like me — who didn't sign should be given the ability to ensure that our names were not appropriated. Tags: law, Scott Walker, Wisconsin recall Abstract Expressionism meets concrete expressionism. "A Colorado woman dropped her pants at a museum and rubbed her rear end all over a painting valued at $30 million..." Clyfford Still's "1957-J no.2"... was spared additional damage when the woman tried to urinate on it but apparently missed. She was drunk, but still... one wonders what it was about that painting that brought out such hostility. Tags: art, crime, urine "Students Laugh When Obama Tells Them 'You Inspire Me.'" Hey, those students inspire me! They know how to detect bullshit. Tags: laughing, Obama the teacher, students, things not believed "A crusty loaf of whole-grain bread is both ferociously lesbian and wildly heterosexual." A quote from Simon Doonan, the author of "Gay Men Don't Get Fat." Interesting to lump lesbians and heterosexuals together and put gay men in the separate category, isn't it? Of course, Doonan is purveying broad stereotypes — for comic effect and, undoubtedly, to make the money that is to be made in books about how to get/stay thin — but it makes some sense. Tags: books, fat, food, homosexuality "High school students who don't feel like walking to school in the cold are causing a spike in car thefts on the north side of Milwaukee..." ... say police. "What we see probably more than anything, generally around this time of year, is around high schools... Kids that have to walk to school, they'll walk through the alleys. They'll find somebody that's got their car running left unattended. It's just a quick, easy way to get to school. They'll leave the car within a block or two of school." It's just a quick, easy way to get to school. Tags: cars, city life, cold, crime, teenagers Florida's “Stand Your Ground” law saves a 15-year-old from prosecution for 2d-degree murder. Jorge Saavedra stabbed 16-year-old Dylan Nuno 12 times with a pocket knife. [Collier County Circuit Judge Lauren] Brodie... stated that by getting off the bus several stops before the location where the fight was to happen, Saavedra “demonstrated that, with or without a knife, (he) had no desire to fight with Dylan Nuno.” Accompanied by several students, Dylan Nuno, a junior, followed Saavedra, a freshman, off the bus. He then punched him in the back of the head... [T]he judge said Saavedra had “no duty to retreat” and was “legally entitled to meet force with force, even deadly force.” “The defendant was in a place where he had a right to be and was not acting unlawfully. He had more than enough reason to believe he was in danger of death or great bodily harm ... (He) was under attack from the first punch to the back of his head until he stabbed Dylan Nuno.” Tags: bullying, law, murder, teenagers "Cleveland Sues Ohio to Keep Its Trans Fat Ban." Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says: "The health and well-being of Cleveland is the responsibility of the City of Cleveland, and we are taking proactive steps to help make everyone in Cleveland healthier... "The state's subsequent amendment to the Ohio Revised Code taking away our ability to enforce this important health regulation is yet another attempt by the state to erode the Home Rule Authority that we have a constitutional right to"... Is this an issue for decentralized decisionmaking or not? Whatever you think of this kind of nanny-state — nanny city? — law, the issue here is what level of government should make the decision. Why can't Cleveland be a laboratory of democracy? Why shouldn't "a single courageous state city... if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country state?" You may think it's a stupid idea, but the effect of the stupidity is visited on the people of the city who have voted for the elected officials who chose it. If you oppose paternalism, shouldn't you oppose the paternalism of Ohio officials telling the locals what stupid ideas they can impose on themselves? And what if we're wrong about the stupidity of the law? We may learn from the experiment Cleveland has chosen to perform on itself. Tags: Cleveland, fat, federalism, law, Ohio "Here are those hairy chested deep sea crabs you were asking about." "We have named them 'Hasselhoff Crabs' after David Hasselhof, because he is also known for his hairy chest." Tags: crabs, masculine beauty Aidan Dwyer, the 13-year-old, celebrated as a genius for discovering something people loved to think was true. But then it turned out he measured the wrong thing, and the genius bubble burst. It all started when "Aidan, then 11, stared at the tree branches denuded of leaves and noticed they looked alike...." Perhaps, Aidan postulated, trees arranged their branches to improve the collection of sunlight. If he used the Fibonacci sequence to imitate that design with solar panels replacing leaves, maybe the structure could fit his family's limited space, look pretty — and power the house.... Wouldn't it be satisfying — in some deep poetic way — if arranging solar panels like leaves instead of all flat produced more power? Maybe. But if you want to measure power, you don't measure voltage. Dr. Kleissl praised Aidan's work, but added that even if Aidan had measured the right variables, "I'm certain that he will not find that his arrangement is better," he said. "I think it's a romantic ideal that nature has many lessons for us, and there are a few cases where this is true, but in the majority of cases we could teach nature, in a way, how to be better, faster." Oh! Dr. Kleissl! You're breaking our hearts! Tags: aesthetics, bad science, trees "An American state senator in Indiana has proposed a new law punishing anybody who changes the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner." "Vaneta Becker wants to impose a fine of $25... on singers who dare to improvise, extemporise or undermine the United States' national anthem." I've never heard of this person before, but congratulations to Vaneta Becker for stepping into the limelight with such a ludicrously misguided attempt at upholding American values, which — hello?! — include free speech. Can you think of any similar cases of American politicians stepping onto the public stage and immediately falling flat on their face? By the way, would you slap a fine on these kids? Clue to Becker: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is itself a re-write of another song. Tags: free speech, law, national anthem Teens who argue with their parents are learning how to stand up to their peers. Thus, parents should value the fighting spirit of their teenagers: "The teens who learned to be calm and confident and persuasive with their parents acted the same way when they were with their peers," [said psychologist Joseph P. Allen.] "They were able to confidently disagree, saying 'no' when offered alcohol or drugs. In fact, they were 40 percent more likely to say 'no' than kids who didn't argue with their parents. For other kids, it was an entirely different story. "They would back down right away," says Allen, saying they felt it pointless to argue with their parents. This kind of passivity was taken directly into peer groups, where these teens were more likely to acquiesce when offered drugs or alcohol. "These were the teens we worried about," he says. Tags: psychology, teenagers "Occupy protesters offered lesson in free speech." Is that headline supposed to mean the protesters are giving a lesson or getting a lesson? Surprisingly, it's the latter: "Many Occupy L.A. protesters arrested during demonstrations in recent months are being offered a unique chance to avoid court trials: pay $355 to a private company for a lesson in free speech...." Naturally, part of my surprise was due to the prospect of citizens being required to fork over money to a private business, which would teach them about the limits to their constitutional rights, in exchange for a reprieve from the legal repercussions of civil disobedience. But I was also surprised to find that, contrary to my breezy reading of the headline in which I'd parsed the phrase Occupy protesters as the subject of the verb offered in the active voice, I should have read offered as being in the passive voice, with the protesters being the recipients of free-speech lessons rather than the purveyors of those lessons. Tags: free speech, grammar, headlines, Language Log, law, Occupy [Your City] "It's personal, it's my privates, it's not necessary. It's a very expensive procedure which I can't afford..." "... and it's got complications. I'm not sexually active. If I was 21 and I could afford it, yeah, but I'm 59." Says Joann Prinzivalli, who has male genitalia but would like to require the state of New York to amend her/his birth certificate to identify her/him as female. New York already complies with requests to amend birth certificates to change a person's sex if there has been "convertive surgery" on the genitals. If you think Prinzivalli's demands sound extreme, you should know that the transgender rights movement has already achieved successes that you may not have factored into the scheme of your traditional/antiquated thinking: The US government and many US states, as well as the UK and Australia, have done away with the requirement for surgery to convert the genitals. That is partly in response to transgender activists who say the requirement was based on an obsolete understanding of sexual identity. In 2011 the Transgender Law Center successfully pushed for passage of legislation ending surgery as a requirement to obtain a new birth certificate in California.... Under the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, the UK does not require genital surgery before allowing individuals to obtain official recognition of their new gender. And in 2010, the US State Department issued new guidelines requiring only "appropriate clinical treatment" to obtain a new passport or a birth certificate for US citizens born outside the country. Tags: gender difference, IDs, law, surgery, transgender Pepsi say Mountain Dew would turn a mouse into a "jelly-like substance." Oh, the things you have to say in order to win a lawsuit! Ronald Ball of Wisconsin claimed that he purchased a can of the bright green, supercaffeinated citrus-flavored soda only to discover mid-sip that there was a dead rodent inside.... Tags: law, mice, soda, torts "It's common for people to fear death, and I’m no exception." "But when I heard that Dr. McKinnon had decided to come back to Vietnam one more time to give me a new life, I became more hopeful." Tags: medicine If you've signed the Walker recall petition, you won't be hired for the work of checking signatures on the petition. Some applicants for this temp job are sad to find out. That might seem like it's stacking the deck in favor of Walker supporters, but [Reid Magney, spokesman for the Government Accountability Board] says the decision makes sense because recall supporters could theoretically spot something that looks improper and simply "let it go," while Walker supporters can do no more harm than finding possible irregularities, which would then be reviewed by GAB staff and the GAB board. What excellent logic! Tags: Scott Walker, Wisconsin recall Did you watch the TV coverage of the Iowa Caucuses all the way to the end? I didn't, but Chris (my son) did. Here's our IM dialogue (with me in italics): i went to bed early was extremely long were some amusing parts though like this http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2012/01/04/bts-iowa-caucus-edith-carolyn-highlights.cnn I heard them say "It's too close to call" about 100 times, then I lost my mind, then I went to bed Tags: 2012 campaign, Anderson Cooper, Chris, CNN, Iowa, text messaging "Everyday Graces: Child's Book Of Good Manners," by Karen Santorum, Foreword by Joe Paterno. I was going to read Santorum's "Letters to Gabriel," which deals with the same subject — the death of a baby — that Alan Colmes crudely mocked the other day. But not only is there no Kindle version, it's only available as a $130 hardcover book or a $192 audiobook. By the way, it has a Foreword by Mother Teresa. Looking on to other works by Karen Santorum, I saw that "Good Manners" book, which sells for a reasonable $16.50, but unfortunately is not available for Kindle. I love the idea of teaching children manners. (Maybe if Rick Santorum wins the presidency, Karen — as First Lady — would make teaching manners her special issue. Michelle Obama gets away with insinuating that our kids are fat, so it would be fine, I'm thinking, for Karen Santorum to insinuate that are kids are rude. Or would that be rude?) But what's with Joe Paterno writing the foreword? I know, Pennsylvania. It just seems so bizarre now. Tags: babies, books, Colmes, etiquette, fat, Michelle O, Mother Teresa, Penn State, Pennsylvania "If your average homeless person spent 30 to 40 dollars a month on a gym membership, they could shave and shower..." "... keep warm for most of the day, maybe stay fit and like they'd have a good opportunity to look at jobs," said a law student, who chose to go homeless to make life more challenging. Turns out it made life better in some ways: "It saves time... You know, all the little ways we waste time in our homes, watching TV or cleaning. I feel like there's a substantial amount of time I'm saving by not having a place." Consider the possibility that a gym membership is more useful than an apartment, and quite a bargain. If you join a 24-hour gym, you could be safe and warm indoors — getting fit and cleaning and grooming — during the dark hours, and you can get your sleep — as this law student did — in libraries during the day or evening. It's interesting to think of strategies for living without a home. It's a predicament that is so bad for many people that it might seem a bit insensitive to imagine doing it in a positive way or to experiment with it as a temporary challenge. But let's overcome our reticence — if any — and talk about it. How would you carry out your own personal adventure in homelessness? Picture yourself doing it well. What would you do? Tags: bathrooms, law school, shaving, survival "Every time we were struggling in kicking, coach tells me to think about girls on a beach or brunette girls." "So that's what we did. Made the kick." Said University of Michigan's Brendan Gibbons, hero of the Sugar Bowl. Tags: feminine beauty, football, masculinity, University of Michigan "Poisoned cat stew 'killed tycoon.'" Strange headline ranks second on the "Most Popular" list at BBC.com. Tags: BBC, cats, food, headlines, meat, murder "And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State... Here we come South Carolina!!!" Perry hangs in. Tags: Rick Perry, South Carolina "Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice, and so I have decided to stand aside." Michele Bachmann. “I will continue to fight to defeat the president’s agenda of socialism,” she said. She made no endorsement of another candidate. Tags: Michele Bachmann "This is not a joke" = the subject line of email from Barack Obama's campaign manager... ... received just after the email from Rick Santorum, blogged in the previous post. Where Santorum addressed me "Patriot," Obama's guy (Jim Messina) addresses me "Friend." (How much does that say about the difference between conservatives and liberals?) Excerpts: The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory [in Iowa]. No matter who the Republicans nominate, we'll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win -- vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman's right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.... Vowing all these things? The Democrats' campaign — or perhaps only its scheme to extract money from those who might yield money — is to scare us about how terribly right-wing the Republican candidate is. [T]he path ahead for Romney -- or whichever of the Republican candidates is going to emerge from this process -- is sadly and starkly very clear: to run even further to the extreme right, and make even more dangerous promises that threaten not only the progress we've made but the fundamental fabric of American society. Extreme! Extreme! Dangerous!!! Watching the circus on TV, it's tempting to think it's almost funny -- but this is not a joke. Funny? Who writes this stuff? I'm picturing clowns — they're familiar with the circus — who really have a lot of ironic distance and have the instinct to laugh at Republicans. Think of Alan Colmes, who thought he could be funny mocking Rick Santorum for "playing" with his dead baby. I imagine that Colmes mostly talks with smart, cheeky guys whose natural habitat is distanced observation and edgy humor, and he just didn't realize that ordinary people are more closely interwoven with what some ironist trying to get serious might call the fundamental fabric of American society. These distanced observers, who see the world in terms of humor and tell ordinary people to get serious... how do they push us to seriousness? Not with rational arguments and accurate information, but by making extreme overstatements about extremism and urging us to feel afraid. And yet they call me "Friend." Friend... before you came, Barack Obama, I was all alone... The full text of the email... Tags: Colmes, comedy, election emotion, emotional politics, Iowa, monsters, Obama 2012, right-wing ideology, scary, tea parties "Dear Patriot: It's Now or Never for Conservative voters." I get email from Rick Santorum, who ran even with Mitt Romney in last night's Iowa Caucuses (or do you want to say he lost, when he "lost" by 8 votes?): It's Now or Never for Conservative voters. We can either unite now behind one candidate and have a conservative standard bearer in 2012, or have the GOP establishment choose another moderate Republican who will have a difficult time defeating Barack Obama in November. I don't think that's what you want. Neither do I. My name is Rick Santorum, and I am the only authentic, passionate conservative who can unite the GOP. Tags: 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney, Santorum Roadside memorials... ... for animals. "There have been numerous incidences of road traffic accidents involving animal fatalities and these innocent victims deserve to be remembered"... Tags: roadside memorials At the Iowa Caucuses. Photo sent in from a reader in Waukee, Iowa. ADDED: My Waukee reader says: "Here is the line to register in Waukee Iowa (point of grace church) at 714pm. That's 14 mins after the doors closed. Rick Perry is here. No way we start before 745." And a few minutes later: "Perry's talking. Says he'll take a 'Sharpie pen' to Obama care. Obviously well received. Romney's wife is talking now. Praising his exec abilities..." Tags: 2012 campaign, Iowa, photography, Rick Perry "The US has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay..." "... in return for the Afghan insurgents' agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations in Qatar, the Guardian has learned." Tags: Afghanistan, detainees, Obama's war on terror, Qatar Althouse Caucuses Open Now. (I stole this idea from Drudge.) Your vote for Republican presidential candidate: Feel free to talk about the Iowa Caucuses in the comments. Also, a lot of us are doing the USA Today "Candidate Match Game" — suggested by Freeman Hunt over in the "Shhh" thread, where quite a few of us — including me and Meade —have revealed our results on the test. Tags: 2012 campaign, Freeman Hunt I'm reading. You can talk all you want but keep it down in there. Tags: iPad, off-blog Althouse, photography The Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman declines to update us on the number of Recall Walker signatures gathered. Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said during a Tuesday conference call that the petitions will be turned in to state election officials on Jan. 17. They need 540,208 for both [Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch] to trigger recall elections. Recall organizers said on Dec. 15 that they had 507,000 signatures for Walker but would not give a number for Kleefisch. Tate is still refusing to say how many signatures they have for her, but he says enough will be turned in to force a recall. Tate says they are on track to get 720,000 signatures for Walker. Why not tell us the numbers? Why did they previously announce the number they had for Walker but clam up about Kleefisch? Could they be reserving the option to say they failed to get enough signatures? Why would they do that? I can think of a few reasons: 1. Their polling might show that Walker (and Kleefisch) would probably win; 2. Their fundraising is (I'm guessing) way behind Walker's, and Walker has already gone ahead with some excellent advertising, putting them at a serious disadvantage; 3. They don't have a candidate to run or they only have multiple candidates who'll have to beat each other up in a primary; and/or 4. They're worried that a recall election will have a negative effect on other elections that will be taking place in 2012. ADDED: Another issue might be the prevalence of bad signatures on the petitions. Let's say they have more than the needed 540,208 signatures, but they know they've got a lot of questionable signatures in there. They don't want signature gatherers to slack off, thinking they've got it made. And the proportion of bad signatures isn't an issue they want to talk about. AND: John Hinderaker says: I was with Walker at a lunch event a few weeks ago, and he observed–correctly, I think–that the recall campaign has repercussions far beyond Wisconsin. If Walker, having carried out the promises on which he campaigned, can be evicted from office by the overwhelming force of left-wing money, reformers everywhere would be given pause. Likewise, if Wisconsin’s voters repudiate the Left’s vindictive campaign, it will give added impetus to reform efforts in other states. So how is Walker doing? He has raised a fair amount of money to defend the recall, although he probably will be outspent two or three to one.... Tags: 2012 elections, Power Line, Wisconsin recall "If you woke up this morning thinking, 'What I need is a clip of Snoop Dogg hanging out on The Price Is Right helping a lady win at Plinko'..." "... then you are in luck." Tags: Snoop Dogg, TV "Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?" The experts can't. In fact, the only statistically obvious trend in the choices was that one of the Stradivarius violins was the least favorite, and one of the modern instruments was slightly favored. "One of the issues that [Thurgood] Marshall enjoyed arguing with his clerks was the question of what was obscene." Write Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong in "The Brethren": He loved to take conservative positions with them, maintaining that anything hard-core could be and should be totally banned. What was so important about it? First Amendment principles are not at stake in this case, he would bellow. Dirty pictures are. What about his liberal opinion for the Court in Stanley? his clerks would ask. He had meant only to protect people’s privacy in their own homes, he would claim with a grin. Publishers, distributors, sellers could be stopped. But, a clerk once pointed out, “You said that the right to privacy must go further than the home.” “No,” Marshall retorted. He had never said that. Yes, the clerk insisted. No, never, Marshall was sure. “Show me.” The clerk brought the bound opinions. Marshall read the relevant section. “That’s not my opinion, that’s the opinion of [a clerk from the prior term],” he declared. Opening the volume flat, he tore the page out. “There. It’s not there now, is it?” Tags: free speech, law, law clerks, pornography, Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall 30 lawyers each pick a book that every lawyer should read, and Dr. Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, picks... ... "The Little Prince"! “The Little Prince connects you with your own being so you’re looking inward rather than outward. When you really get down to trial work there isn’t a mechanism where you learn tricks for convincing people of something you really don’t believe. It all has to come from inside you and requires self-examination. I don’t think it has relevance for lawyers doing transactions or mergers and acquisitions. It does have relevance for those who seek to do what I do, which is trial law.” A somewhat similar perspective comes from Sam Adam Jr. (who represented Governor Blagojevich at trial): “Respect For Acting [by Uta Hagen] taught me how to look inside yourself and bring out those things that other people see, or want to see, to take a look at a character and understand who that character is in order to become that person. That’s what a whole lot of trials are about—preconceived notions about who you are, and who your client is. You can quickly sum up who the audience wants you to be.” There are a lot of different ways to look inside yourself. Interesting to think about the lawyerly ways. Tags: actors, Blagojevich, books, Kevorkian, law, lawyers, suicide, The Little Prince Perhaps you'd like to try the diet of the first celebrity dieter. It's the Lord Byron diet: ... a thin slice of bread and a cup of tea for breakfast and a light vegetable dinner with a bottle or two of seltzer water tinged with Vin de Grave. Other 19th century dieters: Nietzsche tried a traditional restricted calorie diet and [Henry] James went in for Fletcherism, an elaborate system of chewing each morsel of food several hundred times. Fletcherism, eh? Horace Fletcher, "The Great Masticator" said we should only eat when "Good and Hungry" and never while angry or sad. Seeing — at the linked Wikipedia article — that Mark Twain visited Fletcher, I decided to find some searchable text and happened upon this collection of 300+ Mark Twain works in the Kindle format for $1.99. I was hoping to find something about Fletcher. I didn't. But that's a side issue. I'm absolutely delighted to have a single searchable text of 300+ Mark Twain works. For 2 dollars. What a world we live in! What would Mark Twain have thought of it? Anyway, nothing about Fletcher, but what about chewing? Any morbid fascination with chewing? There's this dialogue: "Do you love rats?" "I hate them!" "Well, I do, too--LIVE ones. But I mean dead ones, to swing round your head with a string." "No, I don't care for rats much, anyway. What I like is chewing-gum." "Oh, I should say so! I wish I had some now." "Do you? I've got some. I'll let you chew it awhile, but you must give it back to me." That was agreeable, so they chewed it turn about, and dangled their legs against the bench in excess of contentment. ADDED: The 1919 NYT obituary for Fletcher: The theory is, in brief, that everybody eats too much and that the cure is to be found in thorough mastication of food.... During [WWI] Dr. Fletcher... was given the full opportunity... to demonstrate the worth of "Fletcherism" though which he taught the 8,000,000 starving Belgians to get the full nourishment from their food. Early in 1912 he had himself subsisted on a diet of potatoes for fifty-eight days. AND: There's also the first scene in Tennessee Williams's "Glass Menagerie," where our first glimpse of Tom's problems with his mother play out in the context of her admonitions about chewing: Tags: Byron, chewing, fat, food, gum, Henry James, rats, Tennessee Williams "It felt like I was living in a coffin... It was going to be a coffin for both of us, and I saw him crushed." Sinead O'Connor describes her 16-day marriage. Tags: marriage, metaphor What the Recall Walker effort is up against. Here's Scott Walker's newest ad, which I'm not embedding because it's so good. Styles of the prospective First Ladies. A nice array of the wives of all the GOP candidates who have wives. I'll just say I like the Ann Romney short coat/long jacket look, Mary Kaye Huntsman has a lovely figure, Callista is bizarre in her conservatism, Anita Perry needs a little more coverage, Karen Santorum looks most like the women I see around town in Madison, Wisconsin, and Carol Paul looks like the women you see everywhere in America. Tags: Ann Romney, Callista, fashion, political spouse What if Alan Colmes — calling Santorum crazy for "playing" with his dead baby — secretly intended to boost Santorum? This is a conspiracy theory. I'm not saying I believe it. I'm just going to spin it out for your consideration. Everybody's talking about what Alan Colmes said about Rick Santorum, and... ah! Looking for a link, I see that Allahpundit has already articulated the conspiracy theory: You’d think liberals would want to pull their punches against Santorum until he’s built up enough momentum nationally to complicate life for Romney, yet here’s Colmesy throwing an uppercut straight to the groin. Uppercut to the groin? How short is Colmes? Pure instinctual ideological bloodlust? Or … is this actually a sly bit of jujitsu in which AC, through a calculated display of jerkiness, forces the viewer to sympathize with Santorum, thus giving him another little boost before tomorrow night? It’s good cop/bad cop co-starring Rich Lowry. Fiendishly clever! More here from Allahpundit, demonstrating how effectively Santorum and his wife Karen — the neonatal nurse! — have been able to parlay the Colmes attack into some incredibly positive media that goes straight to the hearts of the Christian conservatives of Iowa. But Allahpundit, at that first link, says "No, I kid. Obviously, it’s bloodlust." Is the conspiracy theory obviously too far-fetched? I think boosting Santorum really is some a devious hardcore liberal would want. Promote somebody who can slow down Romney and keep the Republicans fighting each other. You might think it hurt Colmes too much to appear so callous, but did it? He's got us saying his name and associating it with lively talking-heads TV. Did Colmes secretly intend to help Santorum? Yes. It probably was a devious plot to hurt the Republicans. No. It's too evil and too weird a combination of smart and stupid to be believed. Tags: babies, Colmes, conservatism, conspiracies, death, Santorum High hopes for the new year... ... translated into things you can buy at Amazon. That assumes buying stuff falls within your approach to living better in the new year. Perhaps you've chosen "Don't Buy Anything" as your motto — I did that once — or otherwise to take the path of anti-materialism. But I'm sure there are products even for that. Tags: Amazon, annual nonsense, mottos, shopping "Study of Fish Suggests the Value of Uninformed Voters." Scientists trained some golden shiners to associate a blue target with food and a smaller group of shiners to associate food with a yellow target, yellow being the color shiners "more naturally prefer." When all these trained fish were put together, "most fish pursued yellow targets, suggesting the smaller group’s more intense desire for yellow overwhelmed the larger group’s numerical advantage... But as fish without any training were added, the group increasingly favored the blue target..." said Iain D. Couzin, a Princeton professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. The research team theorized that "A strongly opinionated minority can dictate group choice... But the presence of uninformed individuals spontaneously inhibits this process, returning control to the numerical majority." The behavior of golden shiners demonstrates “the role of uninformed individuals in achieving democratic consensus amid internal group conflict and informational constraints...” And thus: “ignorance can promote democracy.” Or so these biology experts observe. Obviously, fish aren't people, and the color target training isn't much the same as learning about the world and then forming judgments on political issues and candidates. Human civilization, said Larry J. Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, “is better off when more of its members are well informed and think carefully about the choices facing the society.” Sure, we're better off educated and thinking consciously and carefully, but most of our political judgments are made reflexively in response to largely unexamined emotional responses, and it's possible that the uninformed masses are doing something valuable in correcting for the intense opinions of radical individuals. Anyway... the Iowa caucuses take place today. Caucuses — more than primaries — resemble fish tanks. Individuals see what the others are doing and decide which way they want to swim. ADDED: Here's another problem relating that study of fish to human beings. Let's say that among those who've gotten educated about an issue 60% choose X and 40% choose Y, but the informed citizens are themselves only a small minority of the people, only 20%. Why is this 20% getting super-informed about an issue that 80% of the people are ignoring? These are unusual people. We shouldn't assume that the majority within that small percentage would be the majority if everyone were informed. The uninformed 80%, we're told, would tend to go along with the 60% of the 20%, but that doesn't necessarily correspond to what would be the true preference of the majority if all were informed. Of course, it doesn't make sense to posit a true preference for the majority on this hypothetical issue that only 20% of the people were willing to get educated about, since the people are defined by their lack of interest in that issue, and if they were to be transformed into people who are engaged and educated, they'd be different people, with different preferences. Tags: 2012 campaign, democracy, education, fish, Iowa, politics and science, science "It's extremely offensive because it's pretty much saying..." "... the only way you can be a woman is to get your period." Tags: advertising, menstruation, transgender At the Fingerling Café... ... talk about whatever you want. Football... anything. Tags: photography, potatoes "The Many Accidents That Produced Romney's 'Inevitable' Nomination." That's a typical desperate article title by one of the many panicking political reporters who are getting slapped in the face with the reality that the primary season that was supposed to be only just beginning is damned near over. What will they do with their stored up vats of ink and sharpened quills? Here's an idea: Investigative reporting into the massive failures of the Obama administration. Tags: 2012 campaign, journalism "My love of footnotes as art form, as commentary, as the place to embed sneaky and wry asides..." "... that do not belong in the text, only grew and grew through childhood, until I reached college." A woman who loves footnotes so much she had "n.b." tattooed... on her foot. The woman, s.e. smith, links to Wikipedia to help people understand "n.b." — nota bene — and Wikipedia just gives us the literal and semi-literal translation: "note well" or "pay attention"/"take notice." Now, I've listened the the audiobook of David Foster Wallace reading "Consider the Lobster" about a thousand times — n.b. David Foster Wallace gluttonously indulged in footnotes — and he does an aside: n.b. - which means "nota bene," which the audio commandant wants me to tell you means "note well," but actually really means "by the way"... Here's a reddit discussion of that Wallace aside. They seem to think he's joking. But what's the joke? Is it that people use "n.b." when there's no reason to pay any more note to the thing after the "n.b." than to anything else in the text? Or is it not a joke, and Wallace is giving the abbreviation the meaning it has genuinely acquired in use over the years, which is to designate an aside? At this point, you might wonder whether Wallace is a prescriptivist or a descriptivist when it comes to word usage, and the cool thing about that is there's an essay in the "Consider the Lobster" essay collection* — it's not all about lobsters! — that has about a million things to say on that subject, but since it's not one of the essays in the audiobook — which is an abridgment — his resolution of that issue is not lodged in my brain. The essay is "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage." Key passage: Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage is thus both a collection of information and a piece of Democratic rhetoric.49 Its goal is to recast the Prescriptivist's persona: The author presents himself as an authority not in an autocratic sense but in a technocratic sense. And the technocrat is not only a thoroughly modern and palatable image of Authority but also immune to the charges of elitism/classism that have hobbled traditional Prescriptivism. 49(meaning literally Democratic — it Wants Your Vote) Thus, I take it, Wallace wasn't joking. He was seeking votes for assigning the meaning "by the way" to "n.b." *Even though I have the audiobook of "Consider the Lobster" and the paperback of the unabridged text, I bought the Kindle version just now so I could cut and paste text for blogging purposes. But when I made my first attempt at copying, I got a pop-up window — the first I've ever seen in a Kindle book — "Due to publisher restrictions, copy is not allowed for this title." That was pretty annoying. I found a few key words — hypereducated snoot egghead — Googled and found copyable text here. Feel free to read it free. N.b., it has 52 footnotes [at the free link; 124 footnotes in the Kindle text]. Tags: annoyingness, books, comedy, David Foster Wallace, feet, footnotes, Kindle, language, lobster, tattoos "Unless there's some new celebration by transference thing I don't know about..." "... Ndamukong Suh mocking Aaron Rodgers' championship belt move after a sack in Sunday's Detroit Lions-Green Bay Packers game was the dumbest thing that happened during the early games in Week 17...." For, you see, Aaron Rodgers wasn't playing on Sunday. He was resting for the playoffs. His backup, Matt Flynn, started in his place. So Suh celebrated a sack of Flynn by derisively performing Rodgers' signature move. That's like sticking out your tongue while posterizing John Paxson. Tags: football, stupid "We don't know how many people are buried under that mud." Typhoon Washi. Tags: storms "Taxidermist's obituary was too problematic to write." But an article about not writing the obituary was not too much of a problem. Tags: animals, death, journalism "Ron Paul Flips Out Over Accusation That He Believed 9/11 Conspiracy Theories." Says Laura Bassett in HuffPo. I despise that sort of overstatement. Go ahead and listen to the video at the link. Ron Paul got testy and aggressive, but he didn't "flip out," that is, he didn't seem crazy or out of control. Bassett hypocritically indulges in exaggerated speech to describe exaggerated speech. Tags: 9/11, conspiracies, hyperbole, hypocrisy, Ron Paul A New Year's walk in the arb with Althouse and Meade. Tags: Althouse + Meade, birds, ice, video The reason why every not-Romney candidate but Bachmann has had a surge. We're experiencing the Santorum surge now, and it seems that the conservatives looking for a way to stop Romney have simply converged on him after the sequential failure of their efforts to converge on Perry, Cain, and Gingrich. But why not Bachmann? She won the Iowa straw poll back in August. If she was that strong then, why was she denied her turn for a surge? There was her blunder talking about the HPV vaccine causing mental retardation, but that was a single incidence of loose talk, relaying an anecdote, and I doubt if most people even remember that. I think what has held her back is her husband. A candidate's spouse matters. It was recently reported that when Newt Gingrich was divorcing his first wife, he (supposedly) said to a close friend: "You know and I know that she’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a president." Now, Gingrich is on his third wife, and she's relatively young and pretty (though she strikes many people as weird). But Gingrich's decline coincided with some intense focus on Callista. I'm not saying his decline was all about Callista. He had his surge, and that drew all sorts of scrutiny and criticism, and there was plenty to bring him back down. Yet the wife — and the wives — have mattered. My question is: Why did Michele Bachmann get passed over in the sequence of surges? And my answer is that once people saw what her husband Marcus was like, they excluded her from consideration. For a female candidate, the spousal question is quite complicated. We expect the candidate herself to live up to some of the expectations we have — consciously or unconsciously — of the wives of male candidates. But what of the husband? Who will be the first First Gentleman in history? What's he supposed to be like? The role needs to be invented. And it couldn't be invented with the raw material that is Marcus Bachmann. Once people noticed him and tried to imagine him as the first First Gentleman, they ceased to conceive of her as a possible President. If you don't remember how Marcus Bachmann burst into the national consciousness, refresh your recollection: Tags: "The Daily Show", 2012 campaign, Bachmann homophobia, Callista, Gingrich, homosexuality, Jerry Brown, Michele Bachmann, political spouse, Santorum, vaccine Matt Flynn: "He’ll be a very rich man very soon." With Aaron Rodgers resting, Matt Flynn passes for 6 touchdowns and 480 yards, setting 2 records for the Green Bay Packers. Watch his 5th touchdown here. ADDED: I'm thinking that Flynn's performance in that one game will translate into more dollars than any other single-game performance, in any sport, ever. Can you think of a counter-example? Tags: football, Obama and Wisconsin A midday outing on New Year's. Kind of gloomy. But the worst of it was the ice. Hard to walk at all. Tags: Audi TT, landscapes, photography Wikipedia Article of the Day: "Exploding Cigar." "The customary intended purpose of exploding cigars is as a form of hostile practical joke, rather than to cause lasting physical harm to the butt of the joke." Although far rarer than their prank cousins, exploding cigars used as a means to kill or attempt to kill targets in real life has been claimed, and is well represented as a fictional plot device. The most infamous case concerning the intentionally deadly variety was an alleged plot by the CIA of the US in the 1960s to assassinate Fidel Castro. Notable real life incidents involving the non-lethal ilk include an exploding cigar purportedly given by Ulysses S. Grant to an acquaintance and a dust-up between Turkish military officers and Ernest Hemingway after he pranked one of them with an exploding cigar.... A well known use of the exploding cigar in literature, for example, appears in Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel, Gravity's Rainbow.... Other book examples include Robert Coover's 1977 novel, The Public Burning, where a fictionalized Richard Nixon hands an exploding cigar to Uncle Sam... Film examples include... in The Beatles' 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, where an exploding cigar is used to rebuff a psychedelic boxing monster... Appearance of exploding cigars in the Warner Bros. cartoon franchises, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes was fairly common, often coupled with the explosion resulting in the pranked character appearing in blackface. Some examples include: Bacall to Arms (1942), wherein an animated Humphrey Bogart gets zapped by an exploding cigar leaving him in blackface... Let's look that up.... oh, my.... ADDED: I like this scientific demonstration: Tags: assassination, Beatles, blackface, cartoons, Castro, cigar, Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, race and pop culture, Ulysses S. Grant, Wikipedia "It's just a hug. You'll enjoy it."/"You're like some sort of oxytocin drug dealer." Nina and Ed do New Year's Eve in Seville — in Spain. Tags: cartoons, food, Nina, Spain, travel Obama's position on the Guantanamo detainees will forever be to have no position. Obviously, the man is trying to get reelected, but it's so absurd to pose as if standing on principle, when you're not willing to say or do anything at all. Here's the news story about Obama — from his vacation outpost in Hawaii — signing a military spending bill and saying "I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.” The White House had said that the legislation could lead to an improper military role in overseeing detention and court proceedings and could infringe on the president’s authority in dealing with terrorism suspects. But it said that Mr. Obama could interpret the statute in a way that would preserve his authority. The president, for example, said that he would never authorize the indefinite military detention of American citizens, because “doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.” But isn't that what he's been doing with his authority — holding the detainees indefinitely? Or is he somehow not authorizing it. It's just happening, because he's not affirmatively acting to end the indefinite detention. Is passivity and wishy-washiness consistent with "our most important traditions and values as a nation"? Or is emitting pompous blather like "our most important traditions and values as a nation" the really important tradition he's upholding? He also said he would reject a “rigid across-the-board requirement” that suspects be tried in military courts rather than civilian courts. So, you don't seem to have a plan to try the detainees, and you won't reject the notion of military courts or embrace the lofty but impractical idea of civilian courts. You just reject a "rigid across-the-board requirement" of military courts. It's fine to want to preserve the presidential discretion here, but it's another example of Obama's policy of no policy. He does not want to be pinned down about having to do anything at all, which makes it look like he's going to hold the detainees without trial indefinitely — i.e., until the end of his presidency — and he wants to be able to do that without admitting that it's an actual policy of his. Because it's not. It "would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation." So he can't be doing that. But he is, but he's not authorizing doing that. So he won't defend it. In fact, he wants to be in a position to rail against the very policy that he is... not authorizing... just following. You mean "leading from behind," as they say? No, no, that would be too bold. Leading from behind! Oh, no, not me. I'm just biding my time, out here on my island, waiting for my limited term to expire, while you folks over there on your island bide your time, indefinitely.... ADDED: Let's go back to January 27, 2009, one week into the Obama presidency. I'm talking with Slate's Emily Bazelon, and she's certain Obama is about to close Guantanamo, and I feel that I can detect in his statements that he's giving a sop to people like her and he's not going to do anything: Now, it's 3 years later. Obama's first and probably only presidential term is rolling to a close, and he hasn't done anything with the detainees. (And if you're about to slam me in the comments, once again, for voting for Obama, let me say: Imagine if John McCain had become President and Guantanamo were still open, how thoroughly steamed Emily and her ilk would be now.) Tags: detainees, Emily Bazelon, law, McCain, Obama 2012, Obama is bland, Obama's war on terror There now. I've started the new year on the blog with an old potato and its attendant quandaries. Let that be a sign of things to come. Tags: blogging, potatoes "It's a potato. Unless you are dying of malnourishment with zombies at your door and no options for other food don't eat it." The hive mind hovers around a single baked potato, "stupidly left.... in a cold oven for a few days." Tags: Metafilter, potatoes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line929
__label__cc	0.700027	0.299973	Student Housing in Cardiff Zenith, Cardiff Breakfast Included5 Offers Bridge Street Exchange, Cardiff 1 Bed 24 Options Crown Place, Cardiff Glendower House, Cardiff Lumis Student Living, Cardiff 1-7 Bed 1 Bath 12 Options The Fitzalan, Cardiff The West Wing, Cardiff Livin, Cardiff The Neighbourhood, Cardiff City Heights, Cardiff The Welsh capital is a cheap and cheerful place to visit. There are often good alternative music nights and festivals like SÅµn, which has previously hosted Beirut, The Cribs and Alt J among others. Cardiff is small enough that the majority of clubs and bars are within walking distance of each other but big enough to still feel like you’re in a major city. Roath is about a fifteen-minute walk from the centre of town and even has a park with a lake that you can go boating in. Although there are a lot of large family houses on one side of it, the other side, next to Cathays, is full of students and has a variety of pubs, shops and cafes. You can also check out www.amberstudent.com for more student condos/student-housing near your university. Private halls of residence are very common and well maintained which are perfect for students in Cardiff. Bike: One of the fastest and most convenient methods of transport for a lot of students in Cardiff is cycling. There are many cycling lanes across the whole city and places to lock up your bike in both student accommodation and near university buildings Bus: The bus system is great in Cardiff. there are really cheap buses down to Cardiff Bay and Barry Island if you ever want to get out of the city centre for a while. An adult single costs just £1.80 in Cardiff city centre or you can get an all-day pass. Just like the buses, there are great routes across Cardiff to take you from Cathays station in the heart of the student area and university buildings into the town centre and further out towards Barry Island. Or the most hassle-free transportation Walk The Safe Taxi Scheme means that even if you don’t have enough money on you for a taxi, you can still get home safely. It can ensure you are taking a safe route home no matter the time of day or night. Putting aside the standard Oceana and Revs, Cardiff is home to a series of independent clubs and bars. Club for Bach, or the Welsh Club as it is fondly known, holds Aperture Dubstep nights on a Friday, indie music on Saturdays and a variety of gigs throughout the year. Bands that have contend there embrace Pavement, Blood Red Shoes and Foals. The Full Moon Club, Metros. The rock metal club, also known as Sweaters’, stays open until 4am. Another is the Buffalo Bar or Undertone, features the 90s Hip Hop and RnB night, Bump & Grind. Now that Cardiff City Football Club is in the Premiership, sports fans may enjoy going to watch their matches at Ninian Park football ground. There are ample very little arcades within the town with freelance stores and restaurants, such as Restaurant Minuet in Castle Arcade, which used to be owned by the cheery Marcello who sang along to opera CDs while preparing your Penne all’Arrabiata. The Millennium sports stadium within the middle is additionally price a visit, though it can get unbearably crowded when the rugby is on. In Morgan Arcade, you can find Spillers Records, the oldest record shop in the world, where you can purchase tickets for concerts in the city. For searching, check out the Cardiff Fashion Quarter in Womanby Street, home to twenty independent traders of vintage clothes and handmade gifts. In Cathays, Milgi Lounge is that the good place to travel for lunch with friends. It has vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, and cutesy, kitsch indoor decorations. You can additionally hire out the dwelling within the heated garden for personal parties.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line935
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__label__cc	0.714119	0.285881	Krupachhaya – A farmhouse at Paud, Maharashtra, by Anand Kulkarni, Q-design, Pune Project Name: Krupachaya Location: Kurle , Paud, Maharashtra Building Type: Farmhouse Principal Architect: Anand Kulkarni (Q-design) Client: Mr. Prasad Kulkarni Text: Ar. Neelima Soni Photographs: Ar. Atul Kanetkar + Ar. Shantanu Rao Editing: Anupriya Saraswat In today’s world – as we make technological advances – the concept of ‘in coherence with nature’ seems to have gotten lost. The most befitting approach to designing with nature, Vernacular Architecture, teaches the art of perceiving to our immediate environment and responding to it – a concept that does not alienate the community from its context. One such example where an earnest effort to employ these principles have been made is Krupachaya, a recently completed farmhouse by Pune-based firm Q-design Located on the banks of the Walki river, the site spreads over an area of 2.5 acres (10,000 sq.m) in Kurle, Tal Mulshi – around 35 km to the west of Pune. The site is surrounded by fertile farmland with paddy fields, and coconut and mango plantations. The architects were required to maintain the footprint of the existing farmhouse built on 142 sq.m, as registered in the Gram Panchayat records. The evolution of the built form is a result of the interaction between the users and their natural, social as well as economic environment. The client is a resident of Sadashiv Peth in Pune, and inherits a typical ‘Peth’ culture – which has houses on narrow plots, causing a vertical distribution of spaces. Thus, the foremost requirement was of a multidimensional space at one level, where the family can interact – come together, amidst nature. With regards to the ‘natural’ look and experience that the client requested – which was in consonance with the architect’s philosophy of designing with nature – material cues were picked up from Konkan architecture; the Konkan House is typically built in red laterite stone, commonly known as Chira. The resultant design relies heavily on this prescribed material expression, and is highly climate responsive as well. The mango tree adjacent to the old structure (which had been gifted to the client by the King of Nepal) was conceptualised as the epicenter of the house – the complete built form has been planned around the tree in such a way that it becomes an intrinsic part of the design vocabulary, and provides a recreational as well as contemplative space . An open space has been designed around the tree in the form of a kund with stepped seating, and is surrounded by habitable spaces; the living room to the north, the kitchen and dining area to the south, and bedrooms to the west separated by a passage connecting the living room and the kitchen. The living room is buffered on the eastern and western side by large verandahs (padwi) and all the living follow the same scheme of openings to achieve good cross ventilation. The kitchen and the toilets to the south act as heat buffers. The rooms are connected to kund via arched openings, and the fused spaces impart spaciousness and cohesion to the house and make themselves more meaningful in terms of use. The changing shadow patterns owing to the use of glass tiles in the roof create lively spaces, and also negate the need for any artificial lighting inside the house in the day time. Skylights inn the living room and the kitchen have been installed to the same end. The ground floor rooms require no artificial cooling – especially the bedroom and the living room – which reduces the energy load immensely. Furthermore, the interiors stayed five degrees cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, reducing the overall carbon footprint of the house despite the ubiquitously used laterite stone being sourced from Dapoli. In response to the heavy rains in the region, the house was designed with sloping roofs towards the eastern and northern side to reduce direct heat gain from the south and the west. The roofing has been done in double-layered terracotta tiles which aid in insulation, in addition to imparting a decorative character to the spaces. External areas like kund and part of the padwi are covered with black Kadappa stone to create a contrast with the red Laterite on the surrounding walls, which has been either left unplastered or coated with lacquer to increase its durability. The flooring of all rooms has been done in rough yellow Shahabad stone. All the doors and staircases are made out of Mango tree planks, which were salvaged from a tree struck by lightning two years back. To achieve a rustic look for the woodwork, carpenters were brought from the village Umbraj near Karad, Maharashtra. The dining table and chairs are made of a 75 mm thick wooden plank salvaged from an Acacia tree trunk found on the site. All the basins in the toilets are carved out basalt blocks which were 550X500X250 mm in size. The oval washbasin near the dining area was carved out of an irregular stone found on the site. All the switch boards are made of wood with old style Khosla switches, and artificial lighting was done with traditional handis and terracotta lamps. To add an element of enchantment to the interiors, the architect designed double-height spaces and views opening into the kund and out to the river. The roof fascia was designed specially – highlighted by a laser-cut MS sheet panipatti (eaves board) of 1.5 mm thickness, painted in white enamel paint to create a contrast with red laterite and terracotta roofing tiles, with the apex highlighted through a terracotta khomb. Anand KulkarniArchitects in MaharashtraCompleted The Design Village, Noida, by Sourabh Gupta, Archohm Studio Housing DupleXS, Chennai by Biju Kuriakose and Kishore Pannikar, ArchitectureRED	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line940
__label__cc	0.563458	0.436542	About lwucro So far lwucro has created 43 blog entries. Ariix, Company, News lwucro 2017-12-05T08:53:13+00:00 December 5th, 2017\|Ariix, Company, News\| BOUNTIFUL, Utah — Winners of the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business were announced and ARIIX — THE Opportunity Company™ — was honored with six prestigious awards, including: • Female Executive of the Year in Consumer Products — Silver (Deanna Latson) • Female Executive of the Year in Europe, the Middle East and [...] lwucro 2017-11-09T13:47:17+00:00 November 9th, 2017\|Ariix, Company, News\| Bountiful, UTAH — On October 12, 2017, the Business Intelligence Group named the Puritii Water Filtration System a finalist in the 2017 Sustainability Awards program. The Sustainability Awards honor those people, teams and organizations who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice or overall mission. Since its launch date, 17,047 Puritii Water [...] lwucro 2017-03-30T08:58:52+00:00 March 30th, 2017\|Ariix, Company, News\| Winners of the 2016 annual One Planet℠ Best in Business Awards were announced and ARIIX — THE Opportunity Company™ received top honors including Fastest-Growing Company of the Year and Executive Team of the Year. The ARIIX founders, company growth and Jouvé brand were honored with six prestigious awards in total, including three gold and three [...] ARIIX, an international opportunity company that promotes healthy, toxin-free living has been listed on Business For Home’s Top 100 MLM Companies for 2017. To assist their 100 million site visitors, Business For Home compiled a list of 100 companies that provide a stable and legitimate home business to invest in. ARIIX has continued to experience [...] ARIIX — THE Opportunity Company™ is proud to receive this year’s Growth Award from Direct Selling Management Association (DSMA). As an unbiased third-party recognition organization, DSMA annually honors and ranks the top companies in the network marketing industry in categories such as product innovation, technology innovation, vision, and legacy, to name a few. On Wednesday, [...] Christie Egbuchunam announced as new member of Wellness Council HE Opportunity Company™ is pleased to announce the addition of Christie Egbuchunam, MD, MPH, to the ARIIX Wellness Council. The ARIIX Wellness Council is made up of an exclusive group of extraordinary health, wellness, and fitness professionals that help shape the decisions and direction of the ARIIX product line. Dr. Egbuchunam is board certified in [...] CEO AND FOUNDER, FRED COOPER, RECOGNIZED AS A TOP CEO IN THE WORLD Ariix, News, Products lwucro 2016-11-06T22:02:44+00:00 November 6th, 2016\|Ariix, News, Products\| ARIIX—THE Opportunity Company™ proudly announces the recognition of its foremost leader, CEO and Founder, Fred Cooper, as one of the top direct selling CEOs in the world, according to this year’s poll by Business for Home. As part of a string of other recent achievements, such as being named one of the fastest-growing private companies [...] ARIIX broke record sales lwucro 2017-03-29T11:18:28+00:00 October 1st, 2016\|Ariix\| ARIIX broke record sales in not one, not two, but three of our international markets! According to ARIIX CEO and Founder, Fred Cooper, at this rate we’re projected to break over $200 million in sales over the next 12 months. "Never in the time of ARIIX have we had a week of sales as high as we [...] ARIIX RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF AMERICA’S FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES BY INC. MAGAZINE Ariix, Company lwucro 2017-03-29T11:18:28+00:00 August 24th, 2016\|Ariix, Company\| Bountiful, UT—ARIIX—THE Opportunity Company™ is proud to announce its recent recognition as one of the fastest-growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine. In the recently unveiled 35th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, also known as the Inc. 5000, ARIIX placed 1,546 among America’s foremost organizations. For a company as young as ARIIX, it [...] 5 WAYS MINIMALISM IS MORE THAN JUST ABOUT STUFF lwucro 2017-03-29T11:18:28+00:00 July 20th, 2016\|News\| Call it what you want—minimalism, simplifying, downsizing; either way, the message is the same and it’s currently taking the world by storm. This concept that less is more, primarily targeted at the things we own, is more than that, however. But is this just another trend or something beyond that? If history is to be [...]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line942
__label__cc	0.566982	0.433018	HomePosts tagged 'Ronald DeFeo Jr.' Ronald DeFeo Jr. this day in crime history: november 13, 1974 November 13, 2018 John DuMond History, True Crime 1974, Amityville, crime, history, Long Island, mass murder, murder, Ronald DeFeo Jr., The Amityville Horror, true crime On this date in 1974, 23 year old Ronald “Butch” DeFeo, Jr. walked into Henry’s Bar in Amityville, NY and announced that he thought his parents had been shot. Several people left the bar with him and went to his house to check on his parents. As it turns out, they were dead in their bed. The police were called. When they arrived, they searched the house and discovered that DeFeo’s four younger siblings, two brothers and two sisters, were also dead in their respective beds. All six family members had been shot. DeFeo, a known troublemaker and drug abuser, spun a tale for police about a mob hitman killing his parents. As the investigation progressed, details of DeFeo’s story didn’t hold up. He eventually confessed to all six of the murders. At trial, DeFeo and his attorney, William Weber, attempted an insanity defense. The jury didn’t buy it, and Defeo was convicted of six counts of second degree murder. He was given six consecutive twenty-five to life sentences. DeFeo is currently incarcerated at Green Haven Correctional Facility. His next parole hearing is in July 2017. If this story sounds familiar, it’s probably because it was this crime, and DeFeo’s attempt at an insanity defense, that were the inspiration for the story of The Amityville Horror. The Amityville Murders Wikipedia – Rondald DeFeo, Jr. Amityville: Horror or Hoax November 13, 2016 John DuMond History, True Crime 1974, Amityville, crime, history, Long Island, mass murder, murder, New York, Ronald DeFeo Jr., The Amityville Horror, true crime November 13, 2015 November 13, 2015 John DuMond History, True Crime 1974, Amityville, crime, history, Long Island, mass murder, murder, New York, Ronald DeFeo Jr., The Amityville Horror, true crime The Amityville Files – The Murders Crime Library – The Real Life Amityville Horror November 13, 2013 November 13, 2013 John DuMond History, True Crime 1974, Amityville, crime, history, mass murder, murder, Ronald DeFeo Jr., The Amityville Horror, true crime truTV Crime Library – The Real Life Amityville Horror	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line943
__label__cc	0.548849	0.451151	Arseblog home Commercial activity Arsenal betting Reserves, Youth & Academy Arsenal player profiles – 2016-17 Matches and team news Arsenal player stats 2017-18 List of players under Arsene Wenger Arseblog News – the Arsenal news site Home Players Internationals Agent talks up Joel Campbell’s Italian options Agent talks up Joel Campbell’s Italian options Joel Campbell’s impressive World Cup performances are turning heads in Italy, according to the player’s agent. The 22-year-old has led the line for Costa Rica with considerable swagger in their run to the quarter-finals and although he’s expected to report for pre-season training at London Colney there have been no guarantees from Arsene Wenger that the striker has a long-term future at the Emirates. Already with experience playing in France, Spain and Greece over the course of the last three years, there were rumours last week that AC Milan are interested in luring Campbell to the San Siro. Speaking to MilanNews [translated by football-italia.net], representative Roger Lacey took the opportunity to play up his client’s qualities in that weird football agent ‘doublespeak’ we’ve all come to be wary of. “Are Italian teams interested? Yes. There are several clubs who are in the top band that have made enquiries about the boy. “We are talking about a great player here, who has captured everyone’s attention. “Milan? There hasn’t been anything concrete from them. His future at Arsenal is to be assessed after the World Cup.” Having never played for the Gunners it’s hardly surprising that other clubs are viewing Campbell’s promise and potential as attractive. The question facing Wenger is whether he thinks Campbell is first team material or if, like he has done with Vela, he can turn a tidy profit on a player and use the cash elsewhere – a point made in this article on ESPN by @arseblog. joel campbell roger lacey Previous articleArteta’s agent denies move talk Next articleEXCLUSIVE: Brand new picture of Arsenal Kitt http://news.arseblog.com Sporter of spectacles, beard & permanent grimace. Poor grammar and spelling mistakes all my own work. Likes it when Arsenal are good. Report: Martinelli amongst scorers as Arsenal beat Colorado Rapids 3-0 What to expect from Burton, Olayinka and Thompson on tour Macey looks to have won battle to be third choice goalkeeper I like him for his work ethic and quality strike, but you watch him all game and you can notice that his touch isn’t really there (a lot like Sanogo and Lukaku actually). It’s unfortunate, but if think about the way we play, you don’t want a player that you, as a fan, don’t want to see the ball fall to when it comes to the final pass of a mind-blowing one touch passing string. A la Wilshere goal. My two cents. Vote Up00Vote Down But we played Gervinho before. And his first touch is awful. And we got rid of Gervinho. What’s your point? Is he better than Vela? We passed on him. We could bank a few more while value is up and go get what we need. Yes because Jack is such a brilliant striker… you can keep your two cents @Oberon, wut? Think Oberon was pointing to the fact that you gave Jack’s Norwich goal as an example yet Jack is hardly known for his finishing either. The original point was: Where does Campbell fit in that play? Not whether or not Jack is a striker or his quality therein. Original poster (I simply cannot bring myself to write that name..) was positing Campbell’s lack of quality first touch would have led to that play breaking down. From what I have seen Campbell’s style is more open-field run, not tight control, which makes it a valid question. glory hunter Would be shocking if he was sold before playing a single min for Arsenal He’s under contract and aint going anywhere……. i hope 🙂 Formerly known as El Capitano I think the problem lies with us already having Sanogo in the squad, they’re currently both very similar style of players and at similar points in their careers, both of them really raw prospects who seem to have serious potential, the question is whether or not they will get the game time necessary to develop ”if we buy a top quality striker” .. (which in my opinion wont happen) that might be tricky trying to work them both into the squad.. A tricky call for Arsene to make. InTheNorthBank You’re right – as far as I can see, there’s room for one inexperienced and raw striker in the squad. But considering Joel Campbell has already put in the time on loan, I think Wenger should bring him in for his first and final chance at proving he can cut it in the premier league. Sanogo should be the one sent out on loan to a bottom half premier league side this season. If we do sign another decent striker (which we must), Sanogo would be behind both he and Giroud; Campbell can at least play on the wings as well and so will have more opportunities. Yeah, I think that’s definitely true, but to be fair to Sanogo, has still played in some high profile games for us in the FA Cup Final, Champions League and in the Premier League as well, and yeah I acknowledge that Joel is performing really well at the World Cup, but I don’t think its an open shut case as some people think. In Joel’s case we’re either taking him back, or we’re selling him from what I’ve been reading. I for one hope he gets his shot at Arsenal, he deserves it, all I’ve heard from him in interviews is about his desire to come back here and play.. so not give the chance? I’ll assume my last comment got so many thumbs down because I said I don’t believe we’re going to be buying the ”35-40M striker” everyone is dying for. You’re right Sanogo has played in high profile games for us – and failed to deliver more than ‘nuisance value’ He hasn’t scored a goal and was injured for a large chunk of last season. He’s barely played 60 professional games in his entire career. If you look at Joel Campbell’s level of consistency in comparison then I think it has to be Sanogo out on loan and Campbell in the squad. Right now Campbell is streets ahead of Sanogo, scoring and creating assists against world-class defenders, whereas Sanogo is still very raw, even rawer than Akpom, and runs like an uncoordinated pony in a bog. Who would you prefer to see starting? Who would you think might get us a goal against top oppostion? Not Sanogo, I suspect. When we signed Campbell, Tim Vickery, who I’ve never known to be wrong, said he was an incredibly exciting prospect, and his performances for Costa Rica would support that. I think it would be criminal to sell him, especially as – I’m afraid I agree with you – our chances of buying Sanchez, Balotelli and co aren’t looking too good. Nor of Griezmann any longer. I said before before the World Cup that he’d shine and his price would shoot up. Why we didn’t go for him last January, when Walcott was injured and he was still reasonably affordable, only Wenger can say. Sanchez? If the Daily Mail says so then it is the gospel truth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2677843/Alexis-Sanchez-says-prefer-join-Arsenal-not-Liverpool-despite-Barcelona-wanting-use-Luis-Suarez-deal.html Bolarinwa Mayowa Sanogo an Campbell are two incomparable footballers, Sanogo can develope into an Adebayor while Cambell has the potential to grow into an Aguero or a Sanches type of strikers. It’ll be a shame if we don’t keep this guy, plus Sanogo needs a season on loan at a premier league club Sorry, but what Premiership club is going to take Sanogo on loan or, more to the point, give him the playing time that will promote his development? Most of our players, even on loan to lower-league clubs, spend the entire year on the bench. I’m not denying Sanogo’s potential but he hasn’t yet shown any signs of being a striker who’ll bring in three points on a Saturday, which is what the lower-leagues understandly want. Even Afobe, who when he went to Bolton already had a better goals record than Sanogo, barely got any game time. I see the value of the loan thing in theory. In practice, however, only Wilshere flourished at an English club. All the others wasted their time, lost their confidence and/or got injured. If Sanogo is to go on loan, probably better he goes to a foreign club where on the whole things go better. Compare Ryo’s time at Feyernoord with what happened at Wigan and Bolton. Andy Mack Campbell is also a decent winger which isn’t (as I understand) something Sanogo can cover. The other thing is ‘when does Campbells contract expire?’ If it’s next summer and he doesn’t get into the first team squad and get some playing time this season then I can’t see his agent letting him stay beyond then. My money is on him staying with us this season (but I’ve lots money before). Chris O The comparison to Sanogo is not quite right. Sanogo’s a big guy who’s a striker only. Campbell can play on the wing. Campbell’s path into the lineup is probably blocked by Theo and Poldi as much or more than Sanogo. I happen to think that Campbell has higher upside than Sanogo does and if he comes good, I’d be happy if he replaced Poldi who’s soon going to be 30. They are not similar at all. Sanogo is an out and out striker, almost a penalty box player who likes to play right up on the shoulder of the defenders, make runs in behind an get on the end of crosses. Campbell looks to drop deeper at times to get the ball, often from the right side so he can have a run at defenders, play through balls or have in-curling shots at goal on his left foot. Age wise similar but Campbell now has the much greater match experience. Jean-Christian His stock is unexpectedly high, yet he’s unlikely to feature for us as much as he’d want, particularly if we strengthen as necessary. If he’s content as a squad player, I’ll be surprised but happy to keep him. If not, sell him with a favorable buyback clause. We have all the leverage. Master Bates Theo won’t be match fit until October , he’s currently the best right forward we have Arteta's hair Ox? chopra gooner I feel he should be given an opportunity at Arsenal. He’s a versatile player, a good addition to the squad. He can play upfront and wide and he’s young so he’d improve too. We need depth. Hi-brid He strikes me as a better option than Sanogo at this point in time, even if he is not the ultimate solution. Zorro in the box I think much will depend on one of two things: 1) Whether we get a new striker; or 2) Whether AW reckons he will be able to get one. Not a superstar striker, Campbell wouldn’t be taking their spot. But a support and back up. To that end: 1) Would Sanogo be loaned out? 2) Would someone like Remy (if we did go for him) be that option? 3) What about the Anderlecht kid that we’re reportedly looking at (Henen)? Signs indicate that he’s likely to be sold for a profit – I’d love to see him play for us, have been wanting it for a year or so, but got the feeling we may never see it happen. WengersNoseHair We don’t actually need him as a wing, we have Walcott, Chambo, Cazorla, Poldi, Rosicky, and Gnabry (who is probably ahead of Campbell). So if he came back, he would be ading depth at CF, not his preferred position, although he may be ahead of Sanogo. But if we sign a good striker, will we need Campbell, considering that Walcott is also back-up at CF? Maybe bring him back for one season and see how it goes. And by the way Blogs, you need to stop calling Drmic an Arsenal target, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen in March, but most of the incompetent media never picked it up: http://www.bayer04.de/b04-ENG/en/_md_aktuell-dt.aspx?aktuell=aktuell-5023 My apologies, “one time target”. 3 of the 6 you mention aren’t particularly ‘pacey’ and only 2 of them (TW & Poldi) could be used as CFs. Add in a couple of injuries and we could end up with zero pace. AW likes multi-position players so I think he’ll give him a year with us. But the question is this: do we need more players that are not really center forwards who “can” play there but do not do a particularly good job of it when they do? We have Poldi and Theo. we passed on Vela. I can see Campbell as backup winger / 3rd string striker, but needing to continue to develop to be more than that. ChrisGoona Wenger could see him as LW, RW, or CF, nobody will really know until pre-season. I think the boss will & should give him the pre-season to see how we can fit him in. All the trouble to get a work permit and sign the player yet we going to sell him and not even bother find out how good he is for Arsenal?? I can’t say I agree with that. Sammy Nelsons Arse With decent cup runs he can get a good few games under his belt for us next season. He has potential to be something special as does Sanogo. Looking forward to see how he gets on against the Dutch. Anyone else getting wound up by the fact the ITV and BBC seem to think that Van Gaal invented football and is some enigmatic revolutionary thinker ? I dislike Martin O’neill but he had a good point when he pointed out that Brian Clough was using similar systems 30 – 40 years ago. The commentary and punditry is bloody awful and now the BBC have brought Waddle in! There’s a lot I haven’t liked about ESPN’s World Cup coverage in the States, but Roberto Martinez’s studio commentary has been outstanding. rossi88 Sanogo will be a better player next season. A full pre season of building fitness and strength plus playing with his team mates more can only help. Even if he just makes an impact from the bench every now and then. He’s raw but got something. Campbell id like to see around the squad, again even if its just bench and cup games for him. Its another option who has pace and can score. This with a few additions of good quality, or ‘top top quality’ and we wont be far away…again. The only Olivier is Giroud This is pretty frustrating to be honest. I was fine in January with the “there is no genuine option at striker available this time of year” logic. Now we have a striker with bags of potential, already on the books and having a good world cup and according to Twitter (I know, I know) he had a tidy season at Olympiakos, so it’s not a total one-off thing. If we do let him go, who do you go for then? Everyone is then either totally undercooked or not available. Loan Sanogo, sell our stake in Vela, sell Campbell, release Bendtner and then ohhhh fuck Sanchez went to ‘Pool. Oh well. Yeah. Campbell doesn’t convince me. I think he’s lacking some spark. He’s good for team like Olympiacos, maybe he’ll do fine in some mid-table Italian club, but I think he doesn’t possess enough quality. An while the club’s thinking about strengthening the attack – he would be our 3rd-4th choice. I’d rather use option like in case of Vela. You may well end up being right, but he’s certainly earned the chance and I can’t help but notice that he’s made outstanding plays at ever stop since we signed him, steadily improving to make them more often and against better and better competition. It may be a 1 in 100 chance, but he strikes me the sort of guy whose potential could be as a superstar. He’s certainly nowhere near the finished article but he has shown flashes of serious talent. Unfortunately pretty much all young players lack consistency (Like Sanogo). A ‘Vela’ wouldn’t join us to be 3rd or 4th choice. Campbell is in the last year of his contract so we may be forced to sell him rather than gamble on the bumper deal he’ll no doubt think he can command. We don’t need another expensive and unsellable failure lounging about collecting checks. Sell him and buy proven quality, I say. lordgunner he has 2 years left Lots of fans argue that he is better than Sanogo. Remember Sanogo was injured and if he can improve on his finishing he could be better than Giroud. Campbell needs to improve on holding the ball and holding possession. I haven’t made my mind up on him yet. Sanogo couldn’t get much worse at finishing, he hasn’t scored a goal yet! Like a lot of commentators on here I think Sanogo would greatly benefit from a loan spell to continue his development and then we can see where he is this time next year. As for Campbell I can see the Boss cashing in on him, another £15m or so to add to our ‘war chest’. I personally would bring him into the squad for next season. Podolski is not getting any younger, Theo might not be back until Christmas and the Ox also seems to be very injury prone so he will get chances to play out wide and if we don’t secure the stella centre forward we all crave then he’s got to be better back up to Giroud than we had last season. Campbell is a midgit. If he’s cover for anyone it’ll be Theo, not Giroud. He can’t play with his back to goal. Rodrick, you must be a giant if you think 1.78m is midget size. You’re right to point out he’s not big but he’s not tiny either. DöubleDöubleDöuble Sell him, then buy him back. That’ll keep all the people happy who want Wenger to give him a chance, and those who want Wenger to go out and buy a World Cup star. It’s win win. The perfect solution! Haha ‘Attitude’. gar14 I don’t understand why people think we would play him as a striker. Unless Wenger has plans to change our formation, which is very doubtful, I think it is highly unlikely we would use a small striker up front on his own. Wenger likes a big man who can hold up the ball to bring others into play. The same reason he doesn’t use poldi or theo in the central striker position. If Campbell comes back it will be to play on one of the wings I think. One thing counting against him though is going to be his lack of a pre season at the club due to the world cup. Wenger won’t get to run the rule over him as he would have liked (and expected). I’d like to see him given a chance but if a big bid was to come in after what has been an impressive world cup for the guy I could see us being tempted to sell especially considering he may not have long left on his contract given the fact he has been on loan for 3 seasons already. eternalflamini It looked like he was gonna give Walcott a run upfront just before the injury though. I though Feo was excellent against spurs in that game. He doesn’t have the stamina to last 90 mins in the EPL for sure. I’d personally sell him abroad in the Italian or Spanish league. If he’d the pace and the gas to last, I’m pretty sure you can count him in the same mould as ARjen Robben. But sadly even at the age of 22 he can’t last the distance. The Stamina usually comes from ‘Pre-Season’ and that will be an issue with the WC mucking clubs routine but for his first season with us, I doubt he’d be asked to play 90 minutes. Bring him on when the opposition is tiring or … etc The issue about Campbell is his age. At 22 he would need to be registered as one of the 25 men squad thus taking the place of someone. Campbell played well in Greece bu t is he good enough for the Premiership? I can just see two possibilities. Sold or loaned in a Premier League team Al Gilmore I disagree that he can’t play as a lone striker. He may not be tall, but he’s proved strong, agile and hardworking…if people argue Poldi or Theo can play there, then Campbell definitely can because he seems better physically than both. I’d like him back to see how he goes on. Once again I’m reading people already slagging off AFC/AW for selling him or for bringing him back to avoid buying a striker! Ffs people – just wait and see. It’s clear from AW’s comments about him that he rates him highly. If anything can be drawn from that, you’d think his intention would be to keep him…but I guess it could be an attempt to boost his sale value. Once again, the best thing to do is wait and see and not pass judgement in advance. Agreed. The thing that’s most impressed me in the WC has been his physical strength. He’s actually contested space and position against aggressive international defenders successfully. I don’t know if he’ll come good, but I definitely want to see him in the Premier League, at least on loan if not for us. After his performances in the World Cup and his Champions League experience, to not give him a chance would be criminal. Even more so given the fact that Arsenal allowed TGSTEL so many chances and wasted them. COME ON YOU GUNNERS! Agree. I think Wenger will at least give him half a season in the squad before deciding. It does seem as if we have too many wide players, but as we saw last season we lacked pace once a couple injuries hit. We can’t risk that again. Plus side is he can also be used as a CF and could prove to offer a better goal scoring threat than Sanogo. I just hope we go out and get the proven goal scorer this team deserves. heihaci deserve a chance over Yaya Sanogo IMO They have such different styles that I can’t see it as YS or JC. It’s a young CF and a young goal scoring winger. Policeman's Bangers 'N' Mash I reckon sell while interest is high, we’ll have silly money after Vela too; that’s like £20m+ extra on top of what I imagine is about £50m more. That’s £70m and we could do a lot with £70m. Is that u wenger bazza Tricky situation think he proved himself playing in the world cup and last year in the CL. It depends on numerous things will we get in a top striker,he has only one year contract left so would have to negotiate a new deal, sanogo would then have to go on loan to make way which would help him and us.tranfers on or not will probably make or break the options. Would be a nice profit if we sold him and good addition if we keep him Can not believe some fans are saying sell him, are ye not watching the fucking world cup, this man is gifted Springbank 1965 There’s no way he’ll be going anywhere until Wenger’s seen him first in pre-season training. Until then Campbell’s agent can say whatever tosh he likes. Adams9802 I am in the camp of if we can sell for a good amount we should. While his perfoances have been decent there is nothing to suggest he add much more than squad quality. If a 15m bid came in I would take it. m a gunner I wouldn’t say joel is a raw prospect he is having a great world cup , giving world class defenders a nightmare ,scoring goals has played and scored in the champions league , he would be a great option to have in the squad .I think he could play any where in the front 3 . Get him in and extend his contract ! Tony Hall Can’t believe people are saying we should sell him. He is having a great world cup and has earned his place in the squad. He is streets ahead of Sanogo. So we sell him, even more millions to spend on the squad. What striker do you think we will buy and can you say hand on heart that Wenger would spend the money on a world class striker anyway. You can forget about Sanchez. We could have signed him up by now but no as usual we dither about and now he will likely end up part of a Bitey swap deal to Barca. Another great player missed because we fanny about. Unless there is stuff going on behind the scenes we do not about but I doubt it. Arseblood Arsenal isn’t a football charity….sell him for good money and spend it on proven quality. Yes, he may be decent one day….but I want top strikers to bolster what we already have now! We don’t need another ‘player with potential’…. What proven quality would you go for, given the amount Wenger is willing to pay? We’ve allegedly offered 19m for Sanchez (which certainly won’t be enough, especially given the Suarez situation) and we’re not apparently interested in Balotelli. Remy is the only striker I can think of who’s cheap, available and who’s wanting to come to us. Would you call him proven? Would you prefer him to Campbell? Yeah I would like to know who people class as a striker with proven quality. It’s already July 2nd and not even a sniff of a possible striker comubg to us. And I am sorry Remy is not the answer! manamana Like Arsene is ever going to send his baby boy Sanogo out on loan. Unheard of! Goonerestgooner Why does it have to be one or the other? Keep both Sanogo and Campbell. And to the person up there who said “he’ll have to be registered in the 25 man squad thus taking the place of someone else”…well yeah, but that someone would be Bendtner, so it don’t really matter. Forfuckssake Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I hope Joel doesn’t read all this. God only knows what he will think. I say give him a chance in the team to show us what he can do. We have nothing to lose! santori He is a natural replacement for Podolski’s spot with the German likely to leave in a season. We should work him into the first team this coming season where he can provide another option up front in addition to the striker we must add. Conveniently, he also provides threat from wide areas which is very useful. Dick Law, your efforts were not entirely in vain.;) non flying dutchman With 2 years still on his contract it would utterly ridiculous to not see what he can do in an Arsenal station for the first half of the season at least Injured Gooner South Africa This guy has done more at the World Cup than any of the players playing upfront for England, in just one game he had already equaled what it took Rooney to accomplish in 3 games, that being a goal and an assist. Here we are talking about sending that player out on loan, when the Mancs are paying glory fat useless boy 300 000 pounds a week, whilst Cambell’s future is in doubt. Does my fucking head in because the boy is class now, that should see him walk into the 1st team, especially as he has what we need. Proven quality….Sanchez, Higuain, Huntelaar, Martinez, Hernandez…..we don’t need another bench warmer. With the exception of Sanchez, Wenger has rejected all of those already, even when we desperate last summer and January, when the prices weren’t quite so high. As for Sanchez, we’ve allegedly offered 19m which is quite a bit below what Barca think, probably rightly, they can get for him. In any case Liverpool now hold all the aces. If we were serious about acquiring the players we need, Sanchez included, the time to do it was before they strutted their stuff on the world stage and their prices soared beyond what Wenger would ever be willing to pay. But, hey, as he says, no clubs do any business until the World Cup is over, so obviously setting your targets and back-up targets early in an organised way and going about acquiring them before the prices start soaring (like Chelsea, City, Liverpool, etc.) is a completely ridiculous idea. The problem isn’t that Wenger takes a long holiday – he needs and deserves one – or that he uses his holiday to work for somebody else; it’s that he is in complete control of everything that happens at the club, so no decisions can be made or any work done until he is ready to return to his job. I’d take Sanchez, Jackson Martinez, Higuain over Giroud any day a week. Mootilated Martinez is 29 and his price is set at 44m. Higuain is utter tosh and thank God we didn’t sign him last year. Sanchez is top quality and also had a great world cup, and at just 32m could be a steal. Jackson Martinez is 27. Higuain has not been good lately but he’s still a good player ^^. I’d love Sanchez to sign for arsenal, we’ll have to wait and see if it happends ^^ TYWIN Sorry Mr Arseblog i did not know where else to put it, but you are 100% wrong on Suarez and asking why would any team have him. Your suggestion that he is worth more trouble than his goals is purely a personal statement of yours and does not reflect the reality or the way professional football clubs would look at it. This is a once in a lifetime striker/killer/predator whose determination and focus will not allow anyone to mess with him. Whoever has played football at any decent competitive level will know that defenders are no angels. Defenders constantly try tricks to put strikers off. Pulling, pushing elbowing, kicks on ankles, grabbing by neck , shoulder, hits in ribs, trash-talking etc etc…. If you were a defender would you go near suarez knowing he will bite you ? ….. What if its his way of telling to defenders “you better stay the fuck away, the ball is mine”. I have nothing but praise for the footballer Suarez and as for his biting a/or diving thankfully i am not brittish to find it as hysterical when others get away with murderous tackles and hooligan behaviours on the pitch. .. Monkey Nut All strikers should be allowed to bite their cheating defensive opponents unless they haven’t got any teeth in which case they should be allowed to give Chinese burns. To be fair, Campbell performed far better than some England’s experienced Premier League players on the World Cup stage; so stop this nonsense about stamina and so-called fitting in with English PL. Campbell is a perfect replacement for Bendtner, given time to train and adapt to Arsenal’s way of playing and Arsene Wenger’s development skills and guidance, I am confident, Campbell will flourish in Arsenal’s jersey. Arsenal is not paying any transfer money on him, only his weekly wages. Even if Arsenal manages to get Sanchez, Arsenal should still keep Campbell and Sanagogo. The truth of the matter is that Giroud is not capable of playing 90 minutes all the time; and not much of a threat to opposition’s defence as expected most times. Who knows Arsenal may have ‘Baby Henry’ (Joel Campbell) in the making. 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__label__cc	0.684355	0.315645	But Macs don't get viruses! — Microsoft ships antivirus for macOS as Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender Microsoft is expanding the reach of its device management services. Peter Bright - Mar 21, 2019 3:57 pm UTC 133 with 81 posters participating Microsoft is bringing its Windows Defender anti-malware application to macOS—and more platforms in the future—as it expands the reach of its Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) platform. To reflect the new cross-platform nature, the suite is also being renamed to Microsoft Defender ATP, with the individual clients being labelled "for Mac" or "for Windows." Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac will initially focus on traditional signature-based malware scanning. First Mac-targeting ransomware hits Transmission users, researchers say macOS malware is still something of a rarity, but it's not completely unheard of. Ransomware for the platform was found in 2016, and in-the-wild outbreaks of other malicious software continue to be found. Apple has integrated some malware protection into macOS, but we've heard from developers on the platform that Mac users aren't always very good at keeping their systems on the latest point release. This situation is particularly acute in corporate environments; while Windows has a range of tools to ensure that systems are kept up-to-date and alert administrators if they fall behind, a similar ecosystem hasn't been developed for macOS. One would hope that Defender for Mac will also trap Windows malware to prevent Mac users from spreading malware to their Windows colleagues. The initial preview of Defender for Mac will focus on signature-based malware detection. This is just the start, however. Defender ATP for Windows tracks various system behaviors and reports them to the ATP cloud service, which can be used to detect threats even without identifying any specific piece of malware. For example, if a system is iteratively opening and overwriting all its documents, there's a good chance that it's running some kind of ransomware process that's systematically encrypting the user's files. ATP can alert administrators that this is happening. The Mac client should over time grow to include similar reporting capabilities. Microsoft is also integrating it into other cloud services, such as Intune device management. And yes, there is some real macOS malware out there for the software to catch. Those cloud services are growing ever more capable, too. Microsoft's system-management software can already report on systems that are using insecure configurations or running out-of-date software, but Defender ATP's new Threat & Vulnerability Management will expand this. The various risk factors will be prioritized according to the current threat landscape—for example, updating systems running insecure software versions becomes more pressing if there's active exploitation in the wild—so that administrators can focus on the software updates and configuration changes that offer the most bang for their buck in terms of improving their exposure to risks. Further, TVM will integrate with Intune and System Center Configuration Manager to push the recommended fixes to machines that need them. TVM can then track the progress of these remediation activities as they're rolled out. Microsoft hasn't said explicitly which other platforms will be Defender's next targets. However, its video promotion for Defender for Mac sports a surprising number of penguins, making Linux a likely candidate. Chett_Manly Wise, Aged Ars Veteran reply Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:02 am This is amazing. Microsoft cleaning up Macs. Though I have to admit if they made an Android version I'd use it. LieutenantLefse Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor I just asked 1998-me what he thinks of this news, but 1998-me is still shocked from hearing there's more Linux instances in Azure than Windows. Triarius Wise, Aged Ars Veteran I welcome new entries here. Ran Sophos AV for a while, found its always-on live system scans often resulted in CPU spikes (Norton or McAffee, anyone?). Tried to throttle it down to on-demand scanning. No such option, since I couldn’t be trusted to exercise good judgment (even digging around in macos’ daemon internals didn’t help). So deinstalled it. Mac AVs are really unknown quantities, with so little live malware that you have to wonder at the actual preparedness, as opposed to theoretical, of mac AV vendors. Kinda like the Luxembourg SWAT team. Doesn’t mean there’s no risk. MS, on the other hand, has ample experience with malware, so it’s quite possible this will be useful. Last edited by Triarius on Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:14 am Corruption Ars Praetorian This is actually pretty cool. Even though viruses haven't been much of an issue for many years, at least compared to the past, I've switched over to using Windows Defender exclusively on my PC. I used ESET for a while and it was good, but it got to the point where I felt like I was wasting money. Not to mention that Defender is less resource intensive. yor-raik-chuw I’m sure Apple loves that Microsoft of all companies is making a Mac OS antivirus. Would be funny if Microsoft started running advertisements for it. post \| registered Boneman69 Ars Praetorian I wonder what the pricing will be . . . Thoughtful Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor SraCet wrote: Hasn't Windows Defender suffered from a handful of bugs in the past few years that caused it to act as an attack vector? I will not be installing this resource-sucking attack vector on my Mac. Citation? JonathanSmith Ars Scholae Palatinae All AV products increase your attack surface, it's the nature of the beast. But I'd rather one produced by my OS manufacturer, since they're already the guys writing all the privileged code I rely on. A new laptop came with norton, and I swear to god it was more irritating than most malware. PurpleMinion Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor I have had several users of MACs click on dumb stuff in emails causing a variety of problems. Then I had to install MAC AV software, which in general, causes more problems that it usually solves (I have tried at least 4 of them). However, it makes the user feel safer. If this is less intrusive and gives my users peace of mind, I would use it. Xavin Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor Defender is easily the best of the AV software in 2019. Not coincidentally it's also the only one that doesn't have a profit motive to be obtrusive. Defender exists to protect Windows and make it look good, while all the rest exist to sell copies and they have enough false positives and CPU heavy scans that you feel like you are getting your money's worth. 26830 posts \| registered Aug 6, 1999 SraCet Ars Praefectus Thoughtful wrote: Well, here's one, at least: https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... erability/ Took about 4 seconds of googling to find. Russ1642 Ars Centurion Corruption wrote: I wonder why they haven't been an issue. Hmm? Maybe it's because a major OS incorporates AV. DeerSteak Ars Praefectus That would be huge and a great reason to install it on a Mac, assuming the software itself is secure. DCStone Ars Scholae Palatinae Boneman69 wrote: Wondering this too. I've been using a particular product on my Macs for a while, but they recently switched from a paid license to a subscription model, while reducing the number of instances covered by the subscription. While I understand why they would do that, the net result doesn't really fit my budget very well. secretmanofagent Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor With the hit or miss performance that Office has on the Mac, I'm wary of introducing any other Microsoft products, especially if they're using the same code base. Does anyone know if it's the same code, or completely different? 4863 posts \| registered Jan 8, 2010 breze Ars Tribunus Militum PurpleMinion wrote: You're their IT security? Your users' peace of mind is nice, but I'm surprised you're not more concerned with their electronic piece of equipment lol The solution is to not click on dumb stuff. Unless there's an antivirus that hides the mouse cursor, I suspect he's done all he can. ChrisSD Ars Praefectus Will it give Mac users "useful" security alerts complaining you're not using enough Microsoft services? For example: JonathanSmith wrote: Yup. I'm happy to have MacOS's built-in anti-malware software. IamBase Ars Centurion I'm unsure why you have been downvoted so much it is well known that AV's due to getting hooks deep into the OS is a big attack vector and one that even Microsoft has mentioned when talking about Windows AV's. It might be time to stop using antivirus That story says it all. Good idea but no thank you from me! Last edited by IamBase on Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:37 am ZippyPeanut wrote: I don't think it uses much of a PC's resources; but a Mac, on the other hand, usually has just the minimal amount of resources to accomplish their tasks that you're probably wise not to install it. I've been using Windows 10 on my HTPC for the past few years. There have been maybe two times when my streaming video became unwatchable due to MsMpEng.exe using too much CPU and disk. So, in my experience it's rare for Defender to use a lot of resources but it can happen and it's super annoying when it does. I my experience, that used to happen a lot more than it does now. You can also easily exclude folders and executables from scanning if it's something trusted. It's usually a good idea to do that to the Steam folder and any MMOs you play. You should also make sure the scheduled scans are set to sometime when you aren't using the computer. Other than those things there's nothing you need to do to make it behave. Quisquis Ars Praefectus breze wrote: That's the perfect solution, sure... Failing that, I wouldn't want my users to have "peace of mind" about clicking on "dumb stuff" if the software I'm installing doesn't actually protect them from doing that without a care... My OP was mostly a joke, but if we're leaning into arguing about it, your users' "peace of mind" can work against your actual job in IT, and isn't something to maximize... Last edited by Quisquis on Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:42 am Don Reba Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor We shall defend Microsoft on Windows, we shall defend Microsoft on Macs, we shall defend Microsoft on Android and on iOS; we shall never surrender, and if, which I don't for a moment believe, this company or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed, and guarded by Microsoft Defender, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New Windows, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. Xavin wrote: Well, first of all, this is my HTPC and I don't have Steam, MMOs, or any other games on it. I just use it for playing videos and music (streaming and local). Seems like I shouldn't have to do anything special for Defender to handle that scenario nicely. (And it usually does.) Second, I question the wisdom of excluding games and stuff. What's so special about games that they can't be affected by, or include, malware? 50me12 Ars Scholae Palatinae I don't know how well it stacks against other anti virus products. But i always liked Microsoft's if only because it ran pretty dang well, it could run and I didn't even know it. Other anti-virus software is an absolute performance BEAST and I can tell the moment it fires up... eatrains Wise, Aged Ars Veteran Yes, those Media Access Control users are a tricky bunch. ewelch Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor Chett_Manly wrote: Why not? Word and Excel were created for Mac before Windows even existed. caution live frogs Wise, Aged Ars Veteran Mac users not keeping up with latest point release? The Software Update system preference has literally one checkbox: "Automatically keep my Mac up to date" I'm failing to see how installing another bit of software will make it EASIER to keep my system up to latest point release. It's yet another package that has to be kept up to date. Got Nate? Ars Centurion ewelch wrote: And I'm pretty sure that those went extinct in the 1990s. Microsoft eventually redoubled their efforts of porting Word and Excel from windows to mac in 1998 when they formed the Macintosh Business Unit. Also, Undertaker, Mankind and Hell in a Cell. SmileyBarry Smack-Fu Master, in training And that's exactly why Windows Defender switched to running entirely in a sandbox a while back, negating this type of vulnerability. (And remains one of the few AV products out there running entirely in a sandbox, if not the only one, at least in consumer space) mcfury Smack-Fu Master, in training I work for a managed services provider and am the primary engineer assigned to multiple clients that primarily use Mac. The notion that malware for Mac is "rare" is absolutely absurd. I had to sign up for an account to post this comment because I am really shocked to see such an obvious falsehood posted on Ars. Seriously- what are you thinking? Macs get malware ALL THE TIME. 2 posts \| registered Mar 21, 2019 jasonridesabike Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor literally just bought bitdefender for Mac yesterday, haha. Oh well. Next year I'll give it a shot. mcfury wrote: What malware have you had to deal with recently? I've been using Macs almost exclusively for the last 12 years and to my knowledge I haven't been affected by any malware. mcyber Smack-Fu Master, in training While looking forward to use that on Ubuntu I have a question: Is it possible to scan the UEFI Bios with MS Defender on win10? 20 posts \| registered Oct 29, 2018 reply Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:00 pm [quote="jasonridesabike"]literally just bought bitdefender for Mac yesterday, haha. Oh well. Next year I'll give it a shot.[/quote A friend who used to run Amazon Music in its infancy just got a job with them. So I'm gonna try that first.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line946
__label__wiki	0.570077	0.570077	Pradhan Mantri Pik Bima Yojana: Scheme comes under fire from farmers’ leaders, minister Khot Maharashtra’s first consultation on the Pradhan Mantri Pik Bima Yojana saw farmer leaders across party lines coming down heavily about its implementation. In fact, Minister of State for Agriculture Sadashiv Khot himself questioned the manner in which the Crop Cutting Experiments (CCE) are conducted in the state. "The CCEs are done by the company representatives without taking the farmers into confidence. We have unearthed many cases of irregularities in the district," Open to improving Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Promising to create a new breed of “smart farmers by introducing smart farming”, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday told the Lok Sabha that the... The Hindu 2019-07-17 Maharashtra: Medical students challenge constitutional validity of amendments to SEBC Act in HC A group of aspiring medical students have approached the Bombay High Court challenging the constitutional validity of a new amendment to the Socially and Educationally... Indian Express 2019-07-11 Crop Insurance: Time to reboot PM’s flagship scheme; let it be weather-based Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has threatened to shut the shops of insurance companies for not paying farmers’ crop loss claims under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana... Mumbai: Shiv Sena lead farmers protest at Bandra-Kurla Complex; traffic under control Angry about the non-payment of crop insurance to the farmers in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray along with many party workers lead a protest to the office of... Mid Day 2019-07-17 Eye on Maharashtra polls, Shiv Sena to rally around farmers Uddhav Thackeray says schemes not reaching farmers, plans protest outside insurance firm mumbai Updated: Jul 12, 2019 01:04 IST Swapnil Rawal Hindustan Times Ahead of the state Assembly elections, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will lead a protest against a private insurance company in Mumbai against the non-payment of crop insurance claims of farmers in Maharashtra. Stepping... Opposition criticises low priority to agriculture in Budget In a discussion on the demands for grants for the Ministries of Rural Development, and Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, members of Opposition parties criticised the low priority accorded to the sector in the Union Budget, even as BJP MPs praised the many schemes introduced by the government. Advertising The discussion, which began at 2.45 pm, went on for over seven hours. It... Mumbai: CWC member, husband booked in disproportionate assets case A MEMBER of the Mumbai city Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and her husband, superintendent at the Central Goods and Services Tax office, have been named as accused in a case of disproportionate assets (DA) by the CBI. Advertising While the woman, Christine Swaminathan, was granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court last week, her husband, Sharadchandra Swaminathan, has now... Maharashtra: Amid drought, irregularities surface in crop insurance scheme MAJOR IRREGULARITIES have come to light in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in Maharashtra. While the state’s total sown area in the Rabi season of 2018-19 was 33.81 lakh hectare, the total insured area under Rabi for the same year is only 45 lakh hectare. In other words, the cultivated area, for which the government is paying premium from the... Uddhav Warns Insurance Firms of Sena-style Agitation as Party Focuses on Farmers Ahead of Maharashtra Polls Mumbai: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena’s focus is back on farmers in the state and party chief Uddhav Thackeray’s prime target is Prime... Govt Plans To Make Crop Insurance Voluntary For All Farmers NEW DELHI — Making crop insurance voluntary to all farmers, removal of high premium crops, giving flexibility to states to provide customised add on products—are some of the key changes the Centre is planning to make to the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), a senior government official said Monday. The agriculture ministry has also proposed setting up of State Level... Kashmir Observer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line950
__label__cc	0.692289	0.307711	Christ before Caiaphas Simon Beningabout 1525 - 1530 The J. Paul Getty Museum In this miniature the artist Simon Bening emphasized the contrast between the passive and gentle Jesus, in a neutral-colored garment, and the aggressively hostile high priest Caiaphas, clothed in more vivid colors and vigorously confronting him. Following Saint Matthew's Gospel, Caiaphas tears at his robe as he accuses Jesus of blasphemy for identifying himself as the Messiah. In contrast, Jesus, his physical beauty underscoring his divinity, calmly accepts his destiny. The artist heightened the drama of the confrontation by setting the scene in a darkened, monumental interior, illuminated only by eerie torchlight. By depicting a vulnerable and very human Jesus, Bening encouraged the reader to empathize with Jesus' suffering, a response that the Church and much religious art of the later Middle Ages promoted. Bening framed the scene with simulated wood arches, suggesting that the viewer is peering through a window into a real, three-dimensional space. The frame also recalls the frames found on the altarpieces that graced the interiors of contemporary churches and chapels, reinforcing the devotional nature of the image. Title: Christ before Caiaphas Date Created: about 1525 - 1530 Location Created: Bruges, Belgium Physical Dimensions: w11.4 x h16.8 cm Type: Folio Rights: http://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html External Link: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=4311 Medium: "Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment" illuminator: Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561) Terms of Use: http://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html Subject: Soldiers, Christ Before Caiaphas, Caiaphas, Caiaphas The Arrest of Christ The Crowning with Thorns By same artist Arms of Marguerite Crohin Altarpiece of Saint Vincent Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels From related movement The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Angels The Ognissanti Madonna The Raising of Lazarus Simon Bening Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line952
__label__cc	0.599346	0.400654	Tag: sheer Fall/Winter 2015-2016 Fashion trends: The 80s 80s are one of the coolest fashion trends for Fall/Winter 2015-2016 in womenswear. Who says that retro can't be fresh? Oh, yes, it can! Saint Laurent, Blumarine, Christian Dior, Emilio Pucci, Loewe and Missoni are some of the world famous fashion houses, which included the 80s rhythm in their collections for the upcoming cold season. Donna Karan Autumn/Winter 2015 collection New York is the essence of glamour. Strong and seductive, powerful and artistic. Our Fall collection is like the skyline after dark – all geometric planes and glistening lights. Each piece stands alone – and together to take you day into night. Carolina Herrera Fall 2015 Bridal collection Carolina Herrera explores romance and femininity in its purest form for the Fall 2015 bridal collection. Chantilly lace over nude tulle, along with embroidered motifs and laser cut appliqués all embrace the delicate essence and refinement of the fabric for a sensuous and fluid silhouette. GERANIUM POWER by Anteprima Fall/Winter 2015-2016 Be gentle and elegant and womanly this Fall and Winter. Be romantic and seductive and avant-garde all at once. Flow with the power of the seasons. 2015 Prom dresses fashion trends The excitement around the choice of a prom dress has already begun for the young ladies and now we are going you to show you 7 top fashion trends in prom gowns for 2015. Thigh-high boots and winter florals by Temperley London for Fall-Winter 2014/2015 British fashion label Temperley London presented its Fall-Winter 2014/2015 collection yesterday (February 16, 2014) during the London Fashion Week. It's a monumental collection that features every texture, shape, length, cut and layer that you could imagine. There is truly something for everyone. Blumarine for Spring-Summer 2014 Blumarine's Spring-Summer 2014 collection, presented during the Milan Fashion Week (September 2013) is a 'hidden garden on a summer night', like brand's designer Anna Molinari describes it. Creations include butterfly lace, white point d'esprit, and fil coupé weave with splashes of coral and gold, which makes it really fresh and cute. But that's not all... Prom dresses fashion trends for 2014 Today we are presenting you 8 of the top trends in prom dresses for Spring-Summer 2014. If you want to be glamorous, modern and beautiful during your prom night, take a look at our list: Lace - in a small accent, a high neckline or as a complete overlay - is definitely one of the hottest trends for the upcoming prom season. It's a symbol of femininity and elegance. Fashion trends in prom dresses 2013: Glamour and chic Hollywood celebrities on the red carpet have inspired designers of prom dresses 2013 to offer so many beautiful and sophisticated dresses. Among the key fashion trends are ruffles, sparkle of sequins, sheer fabrics, chiffon and lace. Take a look at some of the best designer models for your prom 2013. Bibian Blue collection Spring/Summer 2013 at Valencia Fashion Week The designer BIBIAN BLUE shows in VALENCIA FASHION WEEK her collection “Roses Lullaby”: “A spectacular proposal for the next season Spring/Summer 2013, where we can see for first time in the cat wall a selection of wedding dresses full of femininity and surprising sweetness. Apotheosis of color, with a back to childhood, sweet and pastel shades, vintage prints and collages in corsets. There is a contrast of colors, crochet textures and a great use of lace and sheer fabrics, chiffon and tulles. Lifestyle chronics Katie Holmes with a sheer dress at Mission Impossible 4 premiere The popular actress Katie Holmes, wife of the legendary Tom Cruise proved that she can dress stylish. She wore a sheer polkadot Holmes & Yang dress and impressed everyone at the New York premiere of Tom Cruise's 4th Mission Impossible movie. The 33-year-old actress told Elle magazine: "We (her and Queen Vic Beckham) go to the same events, and we'll call each other to ask, 'What color are you wearing?' I'm always interested in what she's liking for the season." Sheer fabrics and retro-futuristic silhouettes at Paris fashion week Young Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista, who was recently tapped by French sportswear giant Lacoste, featured retro-futuristic silhouettes in his collection, with second-skin leotards with lozenge-shaped cutouts and sheath dresses with scythe-shaped appliqués. The designer provided plenty to mull over by tempering his conceptual leanings to focus on clean separates with a sporty bent. Bridal fashion trends at Cibeles Madrid Novias 2009 For two days in Madrid at more than 20 bridal fashion shows were showcased the latest trends in bridal wear made in Spain. Internationally-acclaimed Spanish designers like Duyos, Isabel Zapardiez, Jorge Terra and Hannibal Laguna revealed the trends in bridal fashion and underwear for 2010, which are inspired by the vintage style and use sheer fabrics.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line958
__label__wiki	0.874174	0.874174	Legislation revives debate on sanctuary cities Bill would require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities by Izabela Zaluska · Oct 30, 2017 Share Tweet Zigfried Hampel A bill in the state legislature has revived the debate on the safety of sanctuary cities. Senate Bill 275 requires law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. If the city fails to do so, it will be fined between $500 to $5,000 for each day. Sanctuary cities can be a county, city or state with policies that obstruct immigration enforcement and protect individuals who have been arrested by local police from U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Center for Immigration Studies. In Wisconsin, only Milwaukee County is listed as a sanctuary city and would see potential impact from the bill. This bill is similar to legislation that was introduced in the last legislative session which passed the state assembly but didn’t reach the state senate. Proponents of the bill have argued this type of legislation and these types of precautions will make the state safer. State Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, has called the legislation a common sense way to protect Wisconsin residents from becoming victims of crime because sanctuary cities shield dangerous convicted felons. Similarly, Rep. John Spiros, R-Marshfield, said in a statement that sanctuary cities put the lives of their citizens at risk. Madison may not be considered a sanctuary city, depending who you askGetting pulled over by the police for a routine traffic stop, for many, is an inconvenience at the least, a possible Read… Spiros said the bill does not target immigrants and it will only impact those who pose a legitimate public safety risk to the state. It’s important individuals still feel safe reporting crimes to local officials, Spiros said. “We want those living in our communities to feel safe, so it is important to note that those who are the victim of a crime or witness to a crime can still feel comfortable reaching out to authorities without fear of being turned over to federal immigration officials,” Spiros said. Rep. Lisa Subeck, D-Madison, however, said this is the kind of bill that breeds fear among immigrant communities and divides people. “Law enforcement has worked so hard to build positive, trusting relationships with immigrant communities, and this is exactly the kind of bill that undermines all of that work,” Subeck said. A number of cities and communities nationwide have said that reports of sexual assault and domestic violence have decreased during the Trump administration, supervising attorney at the Immigrant Justice Clinic Erin Barbato said in an email to The Badger Herald. Barbato has worked with immigrant victims of serious crimes who have assisted the investigation and prosecution of those crimes, leading to the apprehension of career criminals, gang-members and human traffickers. The bill has the ability to destroy this trust and make everyone less safe, she said. “If immigrants without documents fear contacting law enforcement after witnessing criminal activity or being a victim of a crime, not only will those individuals become even more vulnerable, all residents of Wisconsin become more vulnerable,” Barbato said. [Updated]: Thousands gather at Capitol for ‘Day Without Latinos’ protestThousands from all over Wisconsin gathered at the Capitol Thursday to protest two bills they believe would make life difficult Read… What’s also frustrating to Subeck was that during the bill’s Oct. 12 hearing, no arrangements were made to have interpreters, nor did anyone even consider the need for interpreters to be present. This is relevant especially because many individuals who came to testify were not native English speakers. Community members stepped up and translated for one another, but Subeck said it’s the legislature’s responsibility to provide a way for each resident to testify if they want to. She said a similar thing happened during the last session’s hearing. After the hearing, Subeck called for a hearing on a bill she authored that would provide accommodations at hearings for individuals who need an interpreter or need materials in an alternate format. So far, however, she has not gotten a response from committee’s Republican chair. Last year, immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera organized the “Day without Latinos” protest when similar legislation was introduced. If the bill moves forward, Voces de la Frontera is committed to organizing a strike that lasts more than one day, the group’s executive director Christine Neumann-Ortiz said. “Wisconsin should always be moving forward, this [legislation] would be a substantial step backwards in protecting our communities and the pillars of the U.S. Constitution,” Barbato said. This article was published Oct 30, 2017 at 5:58 pm and last updated Oct 31, 2017 at 7:32 pm	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line963
__label__wiki	0.97198	0.97198	Caretaker Brett Ratten casts calm figure in St Kilda audition Business leader ‘fears for future’ as policies push manufacturing offshore “On the back of exorbitant energy price increases caused by a lack of proactive government policy, any additional imposts placed on businesses and consumers will threaten the viability of domestic investment.” Mr Partridge said he feared for the “long-term future” of the Australian manufacturing sector, and hit out at federal government policymakers, who he said were doing nothing to tackle the problem and failing to comprehend the extent of the threat posed to the industry. “Because they don’t see immediate job losses, they think it won’t happen,” he said. The ASX-listed Brickworks last year acquired one of the biggest brick manufacturers in the US, Glen-Gery, in a deal worth $151 million. Mr Partridge said the differences between the US and Australian manufacturing environments were stark. “Gas [costs] over there are less than a third,” he said. “Wages are half.” He said the prospect of Labor winning government the coming federal election risked inflicting further pressure on manufacturing employers, with policies including union-friendly workplace relations reforms such as pattern bargaining – the right for unions to seek common terms in agreements with multiple employers across an industry at once. “We have very peaceful industrial relations at the moment,” Mr Partridge said. “We’d hate to see that interrupted. His comments echo concerns voiced by Mike Kane, the head of Boral, another prominent building materials manufacturer, who last month warned of “industrial mayhem” if union bargaining power was increased to this extent under a government led by Labor leader Bill Shorten. “I’ve seen that and lived it in the United States with the Teamsters Union. It ends in tears,” said Mr Kane, who grew up in New York City. “Don’t ever dismiss the threat of co-ordinated bargaining for industrial mayhem.” Labor employment spokesman Brendan O’Connor said the ALP wanted to restore the balance in the labour market, “and this can only be achieved by employers, unions and workers bargaining under laws that deliver fair outcomes for all”. “Corporate profits have risen five time faster than wages and Australians deserve a pay rise,” he said. Also on Thursday, Mr Partridge criticised the federal Opposition’s negative-gearing policy, which he said would “adversely impact” construction activity, already in decline. Brickworks on Thursday revealed its net profit had risen 18 per cent in the half-year to about $115 million. The company lifted its interim dividend 6 per cent to 19¢ per share, to be paid on April 30. Shares in Brickworks rose 0.8 per cent on Thursday to end the day trading at $18.28. Business reporter for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. ‘Would you put up with that in your workplace?’: Alberti wants action Scotland thrashed by Kazakhstan as Euro 2020 campaign gets under way	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line969
__label__cc	0.652167	0.347833	Convective Instabilities in Plane Couette Flow Ingersoll, Andrew P. (1966) Convective Instabilities in Plane Couette Flow. Physics of Fluids, 9 (4). pp. 682-689. ISSN 1070-6631. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121211-143845536 The stability to infinitesimal disturbances of plane Couette flow is considered in the presence of a negative vertical temperature gradient. The fluid is contained between horizontal planes which are maintained at different temperatures. The flow becomes unstable at the critical Rayleigh number for convection without shear. Below this critical Rayleigh number, the flow is stable in the limit of large and small Reynolds numbers. Numerical solutions at finite Reynolds numbers are given for stationary and traveling disturbances at Prandtl numbers equal to ten and infinity. For these cases, the flow appears stable at subcritical Rayleigh numbers, for all Reynolds numbers. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1761733 DOI Article http://pof.aip.org/resource/1/pfldas/v9/i4/p682_s1 Publisher Article Ingersoll, Andrew P. 0000-0002-2035-9198 © 1966 American Institute of Physics. Received 8 December 1965. Part of this work was included in a doctoral thesis submitted to the department of physics at Harvard University. Professor Richard Goody provided essential guidance during the period of this research, and his help is gratefully acknowledged. Financial support was provided by the National Science Foundation, under Grant G 24903 awarded to Harvard University. NSF G 24903	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line971
__label__cc	0.568467	0.431533	2011 Mazda 2 Touring, an AW Drivers Log Driver's Log Gallery: 2011 Mazda 2 Touring MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: Only a quick stint for me in this car, but I'm impressed, especially with the chassis and suspension and steering. I almost couldn't believe how well-planted this little car feels, how responsive it is to driver commands. It holds the road well, it steers wells, it just feels good. I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct back-to-back drives with this car, the Honda Fit, the Nissan Versa and, of course, the new Ford Fiesta. I'm pretty sure this would get my vote. The engine gets the job done for what this car is and doesn't make as much of an irritating racket as some similar competitors. Is it quick? No, but I never expected that. I was so pleased with the overall dynamics that I didn't feel disappointed in the powertrain. I liked the interior, too, with its sporty cues and simple design. The exterior? Eh, some might call it cute, but that's not an adjective I like to hear about my car. Regardless, I thought the appearance was a bit too subdued, too “economy car” basic, but then again, this isn't a Miata, and it's priced accordingly. My first rather strong impression, though, is that the Mazda 2 definitely exceeds the expectations you might have when you first catch a glimpse of it. EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I've been looking forward to driving this car ever since Mazda announced it was coming here, and I'm impressed as well. I also agree that it blows away the Fit and the Versa; not so sure about the new Fiesta yet as I haven't driven that. What a hoot this thing is to drive. The little four-cylinder doesn't exactly throw you back in the seat when you tromp on the gas but it's easy to rev and sounds good. More impressive is the spot-on steering and chassis setup, which are quick to react to your inputs with a ride that won't beat on you. It's all very entertaining. This car got a lot of notice--people knew they were seeing something new. One woman rushed up to me in a parking lot and said, “I love your car!” MANAGING EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: I can count on zero fingers how many times in the past year I've filled a fuel tank from less than half full for less than $15. This one clicked off at $14.30, requiring just 5.3 gallons to bring the gauge from less than half a tank to brimming full. I thought the pump--or the filler neck--was defective. Not. Measured against 154.2 miles on the trip meter, that puts our AW observed fuel economy at 29.1 mpg--just a touch less than the 30 mpg EPA combined estimate. I'm sure in the hands of less enthusiastic drivers the car would easily achieve the EPA estimate and more. While 30 mpg isn't class-leading, considering the price of admission and the well-sorted chassis and pleasant interior that comes with it, this Mazda 2 should truly open some eyes to the new world of small cars in the United States. Like the Fiesta, with which it shares a floorpan and a few other chassis components, this car deserves a long, hard look from anyone in need of economical, practical, functional and well-equipped transportation. Compared with the crap hatches we suffered through back in the 1970s, this car is a joy to drive. Would most Americans raised on V8s and big SUVs opt for little more legroom and some extra oomph? Sure, but the Mazda 2 offers the driver enough space to operate the car comfortably while carrying passengers and some cargo. And, while the power is positively limiting at highway speed--there's just not much left in the tank at 50-70 mph to make a quick lane change or passing maneuver--the car is reasonably spirited at lower speeds and from launch. In other words, you won't have to wait for a giant gap in traffic to make your move into traffic from a side street. Combined with the car's steady and quiet ride, tied-down suspension and stunningly sharp and responsive steering, there's a lot here to like. For a lot of people, this package and an iPod plug (oh, that's standard) are about all that's needed on a regular basis. 2011 Mazda 2 Touring As-Tested Price: $16,985 Drivetrain: 1.5-liter I4; FWD, four-speed automatic Output: 100 hp @ 6,000 rpm, 98 lb-ft @ 4,000 rpm Curb Weight: 2,359 lb Fuel Economy (EPA/AW): 30/29.1 mpg Options: None	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line972
__label__cc	0.506471	0.493529	Cinema Sewer #23 Jul. 9th, 2010 at 6:25 PM [44 pages, standard comic book size, $4.00, Adults Only, from Robin Bougie >>> mindseye100 (at) hotmail.com +++ www.cinemasewer.com ] Published annually, Cinema Sewer is worth the wait, no doubt about it. Once you've spent several hours admiring the excellent Bob Fingerman cover, you'll find a whole bunch of great stuff in this issue: + A piece on 'film noir' by Robin Bougie (and illustrated by David Paleo), including twenty examples of the best of the genre; + Andy Copp's look back at early '90s compilation videos, in particular the two that started it all - The Amok Assault Video, and Video Macumba (reputedly assembled by Mike Patton). Copp also mentions others, like Dr Randall [Fuck zine] Phillip's Terror Tape; + Classic XXX porn reviews from Belgian porn historian Dries Vermeulen; + 'Cinema Sewer's Top 100 Films of the Decade'; + Josh Simmons's illustrated review of Messiah of Evil, "the greatest early-1970s Southern California fractured stoner magic Lovecraftian blood moon zombie slow nightmare horror movie ever made"; + 'Dying To Be in The Movies : The History of On-Set Film Death' by Robin Bougie (illos by Robin Thompson). Here's one notable for its tragi-comic nature: Boris Sagal, father of Katey Sagal (Peggy Bundy in Married With Children and Leela from Futurama), died while directing a made-for-TV movie (World War III (1983)) when he absent-mindedly walked into the tail rotor blade of a helicopter; + 'Ask The Bougieman!' where Robin answers questions about his stance on Blu-Ray, Canadian censorship laws, erotica vs. porn, historically important cumshots, and prostitution in Canada (legal or not?); + 'Patton Oswalt Presents Gaytham For Statham' in which Oswalt confesses his love for actor Jason Statham then suggests a bunch of movies that would have been improved by the addition of that actor. For example: "Doubt: Jason Statham drop-kicks the Pope through the core of the Earth and the Pope's head goes up Meryl Streep's ass and then Motorhead's 'The Ace of Spades' plays"; (Full disclosure: Patton Oswalt is one of my favourite comedians. About five years ago I made a copy of Oswalt's version of the Black Angus steakhouse ad for a fellow at work and ever since then whenever we cross paths we loudly greet one other "Hey, Peaches!", because, see, according to Patton Oswalt, "At Black Angus, your name is "Peaches""! Haw!) + Plus more! ... Not much more, just a few bits and pieces. Bougieman's also got a bunch of other comix zines that came out at the same time: Sleazy Slice #4, Dear Mr. Bougie Book 2, and Maximum Superexcitement #3. I've said it before - I think Robin has found a way to function without sleeping. [Send your comix or zine for review! >>> Stratu/Blackguard, PO Box 93, Paddington NSW 2021, AUSTRALIA] Current Music:Meat Puppets - Sexy Music cinema sewer, duckfoo Jul. 9th, 2010 03:33 pm (UTC) I ordered all four when they came out and I enjoyed them all. Certainly worth the money. duckfoo : (no subject) [+0]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line983
__label__wiki	0.501064	0.501064	The Tate Chronicles Omnibus K. A. Last Is love really worth the fall? The entire series is now together in one volume, and contains EXCLUSIVE CONTENT. The Tate Chronicles Omnibus includes: Sacrifice – A Fall For Me Prequel (novella) Bound (bonus scene) Fall For Me (full length novel) Suffering (bonus scene – please see the note below) Fight For Me (full length novel) Die For Me (full length novel) Follow Grace as she makes some of the most important decisions of her existence, and finds out if love really is worth the fall. "Because when I'm with her, I want to break every vow I've ever made. And I can't ask her to do the same." When Grace and Seth are sent on a mission to save a young mother and her unborn child, Grace must face the fact that Seth won't be returning home. She doesn't understand Seth's decision and hates him for it. But what neither of them realise is how big a part that single decision will play in shaping their entire future. What would you sacrifice for the one you love? "I hoped what I was about to ask for would fix everything." Seth would do anything to win back Grace's love and trust. Anything. When he makes a deal with Michael, the archangel who banished him to life on earth, he hopes it will fix everything. But can Grace's broken heart be mended that easily, or will Seth's request end up haunting him for eternity? Fall For Me "Angels aren't supposed to fall in love, especially with each other. But for the record, you were worth it." Blood will be shed, lives will be lost and friendships will be tested. It all comes down to one decision, and when Grace tries to save all those dear to her, she realises not everyone can be—or wants to be—saved. Some rules are made to be broken. ONLY AVAILABE WITH THIS OMNIBUS EDITION PLEASE NOTE: while this scene is not erotic, it does contain a sexual situation intended for a mature audience. "Believing you loved me for even a second is better than you never loving me at all." The last thing Grace wanted was for Josh to leave, but she had deserted him when he'd needed her most. Fuelled by passion and regret, can Grace fix the growing rift between them, or will she lose him a second time? Every action has a consequence. Fight For Me "How can I fight for you when I don't know what I'm fighting for?" Torn between the one she gave up everything for, and the one who sacrificed everything for her, Grace has to face Charlotte, and the past, if she wants to fight for her future. But how can she fight for someone who doesn't want to fight for her? Every choice is a battle. "You are my breath. I exist because you are the only one worth existing for." Everything comes to a head in the final instalment of the Tate Chronicles. Will Grace and Seth find the happily-ever-after they so desperately crave, or will their secrets tear them apart forever? Sometimes forever is not enough. More Books by K. A. Last Bound (The Tate Chronicles #0.6) Sacrifice (The Tate Chronicles #0.5) A Novel Idea: Workbook for Writers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line985
__label__cc	0.571272	0.428728	At Last! Facebook Allows Pages to Schedule Posts, Assign Admin Roles Written by Corey Wainwright Big changes are afoot at Facebook. Yesterday, we announced the rollout of Promoted Posts on Facebook that allow marketers to extend the reach of their page content. Today, two new changes that marketers have been requesting for what seems like forever are finally rolled out: the ability to schedule posts, and the ability to assign roles to page admins. First, let's take a look at the different admin roles and what permissions they'll have. Creating Facebook Page Admins Here's a matrix Facebook released in its Help Center that explains the 5 different roles a page admin can have, and what responsibilities those roles entail: So a page manager is the ruler of the Facebook realm, and can do everything from create ads to moderate comments to promote and demote other page administrators. But not everyone should have that level of responsibility (or ability). You can limit some administrators to just content creation, some to just moderators, and some to simply analyzing your page Insights. Why might you do this? Think of it this way -- ever had that boss that wakes up in the middle of the night curious about how your Facebook page is performing, takes a look at your Facebook page Insights, freaks out at some numbers he doesn't quite understand, and then starts posting updates every 15 minutes to "improve engagement?" That's the guy you'll demote to the 'Insight Analyst' role. Hey, that's a pretty sexy name if you ask me! Or perhaps you have a new social media intern who hasn't quite mastered your social media strategy or brand voice, but you want to get her immersed in your social media presence so she can, you know, learn it. Maybe her role as a page administrator is 'Moderator' so she can do some social media monitoring, but doesn't start messing with the page's apps and status updates. Sounds pretty handy, eh? To set these permissions on your own page, go to the top right corner of your screen and hit 'Manage,' then select 'Settings' in the drop-down. That will take you to this screen: Under 'Admin Roles,' simply select the page administrator whose permissions you'd like to change, and select the role for which they're best suited. Voila! You've now edited the roles and permissions of your Facebook page administrators. And, bonus -- there is no limit to the number of admins a page can have! Scheduling Facebook Posts And now, for the other half of this exciting news ... the ability to schedule posts! Until now, you've probably made use of a third-party app (still a viable solution!) to schedule your Facebook posts in advance, or you've simply gotten used to logging in to your Facebook account every couple hours to post your next update. But now, you have options; take a look at how easy it is to schedule your posts right in Facebook: To schedule your post, simply go to your page's sharing tool like you usually do, and select the type of post you want to add to your page. Once you've crafted your update, click the little blue clock icon in the lower left corner of the sharing tool, and select the year, month, day, hour, and minute at which you'd like your post to appear in the future. Then click 'Schedule'! You can schedule a post up to 6 months in advance in 15-minute intervals. If you choose a date in the past, however, the post will appear immediately on your page's timeline. And no time zone calculations are needed, either -- Facebook will automatically correspond to the time zone you're in! Pretty easy, huh? Facebook has made no mention of a timeline for when these two features will be rolled out to all pages, so just be on the lookout. Are you excited for these new Facebook features? Are you promoting or demoting and page administrators? (Don't worry -- we won't tell). Image credit: DafneCholet Originally published May 31, 2012 12:00:00 PM, updated July 28 2017 How We Grew Our Organic Reach 185% on Facebook How to Use Facebook Live: The Ultimate Guide How to Download and Save Facebook Videos	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1000
__label__cc	0.656397	0.343603	University of Minnesota athletes led the nation at Sochi Alex Friedrich February 28, 2014, 12:05 PM Feb 28, 2014 We’re big in Russia. (nerdwallet/nerdwallet) Some Gopher fans may have had their share of frustration in recent years with the state of their football and basketball teams, but the University of Minnesota was on top in the winter Olympic Games in Sochi. As nerdwallet.com points out, the U’s students took home five silver medals, tying Westminster College. You can see the full graphic and read the story here. ‹ Older Notes in the Margins: Shooting a student, classroom democracy and unpaid overtime Newer › Medtronic executive named first female president of Gustavus Adolphus	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1005
__label__wiki	0.50532	0.50532	The future of MDM? By Dylan Jones on The Data Roundtable March 22, 2013 I gave some thought recently about the different types of informaton that hundreds of organisations must possess about me. Credit card bills, health records, mortgage payments, loans and savings, social media profiles, employment history – the list goes on. An entire personal data store is scattered across hundreds of organisations and websites. Bad data quality plagues me on a personal basis, of course, just like every consumer. I still get mail sent to my old address from four years ago, and companies still spell my name wrong. I've had one of my children mistaken with another child in a different part of the country and their medical records mixed up. Organisations try to cope with the complexities of personal data. New innovations in master data management software mean that personal data can be sourced in one location and shared across the organisation via various means. Endless consolidations and migrations try to remove instances of duplicate data domains so that one app performs the same function of the many. In effect we’re trying to bring data one step closer to the truth or a single source of the right information. For personal data, the source is us, the consumers of goods and services. But we’re not just consumers, we’re also producers. Information producers. Common sense dictates that if we can get our information directly from the producer it will be much richer in terms of accuracy and completeness. To get my billing records confirmed requires call centre workers to make ad hoc calls to clarify address and contact details, marriage status and so on. Alternatively, third-party data providers are also required to create a trusted reference point. But what if all data was sourced from the consumer themselves? Imagine how accurate that source would be? Initiatives like Mydex in the UK provide an intriguing view of where master data management could evolve in future years. By mastering our own data, consumers can start to take back control of our information. We can instantly see which organisations have certain access rights and privileges, what data they hold, which services we have purchased - the list is endless. Five years ago the thought of personal master data management would have been laughable, but today we’re comfortable storing personal data in the form of images and documents via services like iCloud, Dropbox and Google Documents. The game has truly changed. But why should we stop at personal data? If you’re a manufacturer of pet food then why shouldn't your brand information be mastered in a company equivalent of an online master data repository that your suppliers, retailers and customers can access? Right now, we’re focused on removing duplicate records and even duplicate systems, desperately trying to push the data further back towards the source and eliminate unwanted information chains. But what if there were no information chains? What if there were no customer names or product descriptions? What if systems were simply direct links to 100% accurate source data? How would applications need to change? What would it take to make this happen? Pipedream or near-reality? Welcome your views. Dylan Jones Founder, Data Quality Pro and Data Migration Pro Dylan Jones is the founder of Data Quality Pro and Data Migration Pro, popular online communities that provide a range of practical resources and support to their respective professions. Dylan has an extensive information management background and is a prolific publisher of expert articles and tutorials on all manner of data related initiatives.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1006
__label__cc	0.680898	0.319102	Award-winning Blowing Rock is a Cool Summertime Town by Amanda Lugenbell \| posted in: Press Release \| 0 Blowing Rock recently added another accolade to its already impressive kudos list, when readers of USA TODAY voted the Town to the newspaper’s Ten Best list of Southern Small Towns. Travel experts picked a list of 20 small towns from which to choose and readers voted Blowing Rock third. Of all the candidates and winners, Blowing Rock is sure to be the coolest of the 20 during the High Season. And the weather will also be mild, with average highs in the low to mid-70s in June, July and August. Blowing Rock is a great place to visit during the summer months, with natural beauty of the High Country surrounding many family-friendly activities and attractions nearby, including hiking, cycling, canoeing, fishing, Tweetsie Railroad, Grandfather Mountain and High Gravity Adventures. Many of these attractions have extended summer hours. In Blowing Rock itself, there are many free festivals, music events and movies throughout the summer, highlighted by the once-monthly Saturday Art in the Park on May 20, June 10, July 15, August 13, September 9 and October 7. For details, visit blowingrock.com/events. Smack-dab in the middle of it all is Showcase Weekend (an unofficial title) July 28-30, a three-day period that epitomizes the diversity and attractiveness of Blowing Rock in mid-summer. The Art & History Museum’s Art & Antique Show, the Blowing Rock Horse Show (Hunter Jumper), The Symphony by the Lake at Chetola and the Tour of Homes all take place on that Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For more information on any of these events, visit blowingrockmusem.org; blowingrockhorses.com; symphonybythelake.com; stmaryofthehills.org. Blowing Rock is accessible from anywhere in the region, less than two hours from Charlotte and Greensboro, three hours from Knoxville and Raleigh and five hours from Atlanta and Charleston. For information: Tracy Brown, Executive Director, Blowing Rock TDA 877.750.4636 tbrown@visitblowingrock.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1007
__label__cc	0.573424	0.426576	What is a hospital bed day worth? A contingent valuation study of hospital Chief Executive Officers Katie Page1Email authorView ORCID ID profile, Adrain G. Barnett1 and Nicholas Graves1 BMC Health Services ResearchBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201717:137 Received: 21 March 2016 Accepted: 8 February 2017 Decreasing hospital length of stay, and so freeing up hospital beds, represents an important cost saving which is often used in economic evaluations. The savings need to be accurately quantified in order to make optimal health care resource allocation decisions. Traditionally the accounting cost of a bed is used. We argue instead that the economic cost of a bed day is the better value for making resource decisions, and we describe our valuation method and estimations for costing this important resource. We performed a contingent valuation using 37 Australian Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) willingness to pay (WTP) to release bed days in their hospitals, both generally and using specific cases. We provide a succinct thematic analysis from qualitative interviews post survey completion, which provide insight into the decision making process. On average CEOs are willing to pay a marginal rate of $216 for a ward bed day and $436 for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed day, with estimates of uncertainty being greater for ICU beds. These estimates are significantly lower (four times for ward beds and seven times for ICU beds) than the traditional accounting costs often used. Key themes to emerge from the interviews include the importance of national funding and targets, and their associated incentive structures, as well as the aversion to discuss bed days as an economic resource. This study highlights the importance for valuing bed days as an economic resource to inform cost effectiveness models and thus improve hospital decision making and resource allocation. Significantly under or over valuing the resource is very likely to result in sub-optimal decision making. We discuss the importance of recognising the opportunity costs of this resource and highlight areas for future research. Bed days Willingness-to-pay An effective and efficient hospital-based program will simultaneously both improve patient outcomes and decrease hospital length of stay. Decreasing length of stay and freeing up, or releasing of hospital beds, represents a cost saving. However, the magnitude of this cost saving is difficult to quantify and is likely to depend on many factors. Hospital beds can have two types of value: (1) how much they cost the hospital to run – the accounting cost (referred to as the hotel cost by the WHO [1]), and (2) the value they have in terms of achieving desired outcomes – the economic (or opportunity) cost. Previous cost-effectiveness analyses most often use the accounting cost of some variant of it [2]. This is predominantly because it is an easier value to calculate and to understand, especially by hospital administrators. The question that arises is to what extent this is the “right” value to be adopting? Arguably, the second value, the economic cost, is the real value we “should” be interested in. This is because the majority of bed costs are fixed and sunk costs, and therefore the “true” value of releasing a hospital bed is better captured by the extent to which it allows one to achieve other outcomes that the hospital desires, such as treat another patient, reduce waiting lists, and ultimately meet economic targets. An accounting value fails to represent economic opportunity costs, rather accounting conventions are used to recover historical expenditures. WTP may be closer to the economic opportunity cost, and that opportunity cost is a basis for decision making, the efficiency of which is the subject of welfare economics. The true economic value of a bed day is probably lower than the full financial accounting cost. The question is, how much lower? Previous cost-effectiveness research [3] has shown that the dollar value placed on a hospital bed, average cost versus just consumables, is important. Sensitivity analysis around the bed day value demonstrated that it had a significant impact on the overall decisions derived from the cost effectiveness model. Bed day values often drive the cost savings for cost-effectiveness outcomes and thus if we overvalue bed days, by using arbitrary accounting conventions, programs can seem more cost-effective than they really are. For example, bed days saved add to the costs savings side of a cost-effectiveness analysis and thus a reduction in bed day values will lower costs savings, and assuming all other values are unchanged, will decrease the likelihood of an intervention being cost effective. Specifically, it we use a hypothetical value of AUD $1000 per bed day, and intervention “X” results in 100 bed days saved, we have a cost saving of AUD $100,000 (in addition to any other costs savings). If, however, the bed day valuation is lower at AUD $200 we have only a cost saving of AUD $20,000. Therefore, an intervention needs to be less costly or more effective, to offset such a difference. In clear cut cases and with low uncertainty around other model parameters this difference in bed day valuations may not be important. However, arguably there are many cases where there is uncertainty in other parameters and such a fluctuation in values will meaningfully impact on the conclusions to be drawn from the cost effectiveness analysis. The extent to which bed days represent the main portion of the cost savings will directly relate to their overall impact on the outcome. Therefore, there is a need to obtain more accurate measurements for this parameter. Bed days are a very important cost element in any analysis involving stays in healthcare facilities, therefore an understanding of their value will be important to decision makers trying to maximise the health of patients within a fixed budget. An economic evaluation of beds days could be useful for decision makers because it would help them to maximise patient outcomes and achieve efficiencies in resource use. Longer term it might also serve an educational purpose in that it could enable a shift in current thinking about the resource away from purely financial fixed accounting costs to one where opportunity costs are highlighted to enable sustainable efficiencies. One can consider two alternative perspectives when thinking about the valuation of hospital beds. First, one could take a broader perspective of the healthcare decision maker who manages waiting lists, and for whom there is a real economic benefit in releasing a bed day for another patient to occupy or for the resource to be used differently. The second perspective is narrower and could be that of a manager working within an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or hospital. Therefore, who we ask and over what period of time is important. Previous estimates which have taken a broad perspective include a detailed costing study of an Australian ICU [4] and an economic evaluation which examined spending patterns for Australian public hospital services [5]. Estimates from these studies gave an ICU bed a value of approximately AUD $2600 and a general ward bed a value of AUD $800. These estimates use the average costs over the length of the hospital stay, in a given 12 month period, and do not represent the marginal cost. They include both fixed and variable costs, hence they are unlikely to accurately represent the opportunity cost of this resource. The alternative perspective considers only the variable cost per bed day. Variable costs are the cash savings that budget holders within the hospital can recover if bed days are not used; they include items such as fluids, dressings and pharmaceuticals. An important issue with the narrow perspective is that costs per bed day decrease over the duration of hospital stay, particularly so for acute beds [6]. We know from previous research that a large proportion (over 80%) of hospital costs are fixed [7] and therefore this variable rate is useful in that it shows what direct savings could be achieved by freeing up a bed. Kahn [8] argues that the cost of an ICU bed is overestimated because of using average costs and not correcting for fixed costs. They estimate that the direct cost savings for the last day of an ICU bed is US$379. In their work they do not measure opportunity costs, which is the value that could be achieved through some alternative use of the resource. Nuti [9] has also demonstrated that some fixed bed costs can actually be considered quasi-fixed on the basis of an alternative use of a bed, the amount of costs recoverable depending on number of beds and the type of intervention. This is exactly the opportunity cost we are interested in measuring. Recent work [10] conducted in Europe using a subset of our methodology has shown also that there is considerable disparity between accounting and economic costs of hospital beds. For this research we were interested in the broader perspective of the healthcare decision maker reasoning that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) could, and often does, choose to use this resource for another use when it is released. Therefore, we are interested in the marginal opportunity cost of a hospital bed day. Specifically, we want to know how much CEOs would be willing to pay to free up a bed day in their hospital so they could use it for another purpose, which more accurately represents the choice they actually make. We are also interested in the extent to which this value is comparable with previous cost estimates. To do this we use a contingent valuation method of willingness to pay (WTP) via a direct survey of experts. Whilst we acknowledge this method has some caveats, we chose this approach for two reasons; first because there is no market for such a resource therefore gauging its value through market mechanisms is unrealistic. Second, contingent valuation is a commonly used method in the health domain to elicit values for health gains [11, 12]. This analysis was conducted in the general context of the Australian public health care system and specifically it was performed as part of an overall evaluation of the Australian National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI). Australia’s public hospital system, which provides the majority of acute-care beds, affords free access to hospital care for public patients. It is jointly funded by the Australian federal Government and state/territory governments. However, the public hospitals are run by state and territory governments, and often the CEO of each hospital has discretionary power over how services are run and what investments are made locally. Australian Government funding to the states and territories for public hospitals is made through the National Healthcare Agreement and the National Health Reform Agreement between the Australian Government and the states and territories. One of the main funding models is Activity Based Funding (ABF) which is a way of funding hospitals such that they get paid for the number and mix of patients they treat. If a hospital treats more patients, it receives more funding. However, there is large heterogeneity in funding models and fragmentation of both funding and delivery is the defining characteristic of Australia’s health system [13]. As a result, there are perverse incentives in the system and often this means that decision makers are not incentivised to opt for value-based solutions. Instead doctors and key decision makers in hospitals are often working to maximise revenue and profit. With such power and incentives the value of resources (i.e. beds) could and should be seen as opportunities in which to achieve greater efficiencies. Within this funding context, the NHHI is a major patient safety programme co-ordinated by Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA) and funded by the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care. This program, which commenced in 2009, was designed to improve hand hygiene compliance in every hospital in Australia. It used the WHOs “five moments” program in order to standardise both the training of healthcare workers, and the measurement of compliance, as well as to use a standard definition of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia infections. We performed a comprehensive evaluation of both the costs [14, 15] and efficacy [16] of the NHHI, along with a full cost effectiveness evaluation [17]. As part of this evaluation we needed to obtain accurate estimates of the cost savings of the program as determined by the number of hospital beds that were able to be released from preventing infections as well as their value [18]. Because most of the costs of running a hospital are fixed in the short term [7], and the incidence of hospital-acquired infections in Australian hospitals is relatively low, only small cash savings will be made from reducing rates of healthcare associated infections with the real cost of healthcare associated infections being the value of the marginal bed day released to some alternative use. It is of paramount importance to get a good estimate of the economic value of releasing a bed, in this case one linked to a reduction in infections. This was the principal aim of the current study. For decision makers, including hospital administrators, the results from this economic evaluation represent whether the program is good value for money and whether they could achieve efficiencies by better investing their resources in another program. This paper will discuss how we measured the economic value (opportunity cost) of a bed in the context of the NHHI and discuss the implications this has for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of any program or treatment whose intended outcome is to release hospital beds. We also consider the extent to which this value is useful for assessing cost savings. There were three stages to this research. First, we conducted three semi-structured interviews with high level decision makers to elicit the important factors likely to drive decision making in this domain. These decision makers included a hospital CEO, a health district level CEO, and a health policy expert in Australia. The interviews were guided by several key questions with the main outputs being (1) a more global understanding of the way in which these types of decision makers think about bed days, and (2) the contextual factors that are likely to influence their decisions concerning how much they value the resource. The factors that emerged from these interviews that were likely to influence decision making are shown in Table 1, along with a summary of the justification/rationale indicated by the decision makers. Factors and their rationale for inclusion Infection rates and demand for services in general are impacted upon by seasonal variations. Bed occupancy Hospitals generally operate at very high levels of occupancy and to the extent to which this is the case will impact on demand/need for further beds. Ward beds and ICU beds have different demand and different value. Operating theatre capacity The extent to which beds can be useful to a hospital at a given point in time is limited by the capacity of the hospital to perform surgery and hence utilise the beds. Fluctuations in the external demand for beds/services affect the need for the resource locally. A paper-and-pencil contingent valuation survey was developed from these interviews. We used a WTP stated-preference direct survey method with expert decision makers [13]. This was sent to 50 CEOs from the largest public hospitals in Australia covering all states and territories, which was the sample used for the main economic evaluation of the NHHI. These CEOs were pre-determined by the hospitals included in the larger project [15] and do not represent private hospitals. We had a response rate of 75% making a total of 37 surveys. The survey had three sections. Section 1 was designed to elicit an overall valuation of the importance of beds days, holding other factors constant, and thus this section asked about a general infection control program that frees up to 730 bed days per annum (two beds per day). This number of beds was chosen after consultation with experts on a realistic amount given hospital size and capacity for release. Section 2 incorporated the different factors shown to be important in the interviews. We designed eight specific scenarios that varied the important factors using a fractional factorial design [19]. This was the most efficient design type for this situation where there were four factors to vary each with two levels (see Additional file 1 for factors and levels). Bed type was valued separately for each scenario. All factors were dichotomous (i.e. high (105%) vs low (85%) bed occupancy). An example scenario is shown in Additional file 2. This design allows one to calculate the main effects without confounding from any 2-way or 3-way interactions between factors. The third section asked the CEOs to rank the factors for their importance on a seven point Likert scale of importance as well as seeking feedback and general comments on the question about bed day valuations. A oneway ANOVA test was conducted to test for statistical significance between the factors. An example of the full survey can be found in the Additional files 1 and 2. A final but very important part of the research was a follow-up telephone call to discuss the rationale and motivations for the decisions. This interview took place in over 80% (N = 30) of the completed surveys. This yielded much useful information and thus informed part of the analysis presented below. The results are presented in two sections. First, the quantitative results will be described and then a qualitative discussion, taken from the CEO comments in the post-questionnaire interview, will be presented. Section 1: Quantitative results On average the CEOs in our sample had 16 years of experience in hospital management, with an average hospital budget of AUD$475 million per annum. There was considerable variation between hospitals because of differences in hospital size and state budgets. Holding all factors constant (Section 1 of survey) we found that on average CEOs were willing to pay AU$193,000 per annum (<1% budget) for a general infection control program that saves 730 beds per annum. This equates to AU$264 to free up a bed day in their hospital. 25% of the sample had a WTP of $0. Reasons for this are explored in the discussion. There were missing data for two hospitals. We stress that these WTP estimates do not represent the actual amounts that hospitals paid for the beds in terms of accounting costs but rather the CEOs judgment about how much they would be willing to pay to release this quantity of beds. We then used the eight scenarios to further explore how this valuation changed, or was predicted by, the various factors. As part of this analysis it became clear that for four scenarios the stated values were very close to zero and this was as a result of the low bed occupancy and hence the unrealistic nature of those scenarios for most hospitals (i.e. the CEOs reported that their hospital was very rarely facing these situations). Therefore, full calculation (as per [19]) of the main effects and interactions for all factors was not deemed appropriate. We therefore selected the four scenarios with high bed occupancy (scenarios 1, 4, 6 and 7) as these were the ones which represented the most common situations facing most hospitals. The four scenarios which were not finally included were similar in all other respects except for the bed occupancy rate (which was low at 85%). We do not believe there is any particular systematic bias introduced by eliminating these four scenarios, however, what it does indicate is that there is probably a threshold value for bed occupancy such that below that threshold CEOs are highly unlikely to be willing to pay anything to free-up beds and over this threshold their WTP increases from zero dependent on others factors as well as the actual bed occupancy rate. The exact threshold is not able to be determined by our study but is a question for further research. The valuations for these scenarios were then taken for both ward and ICU beds and weighted according to the relative amount of time that the CEOs reported their hospital was facing this situation (in weeks). These valuations are shown in Table 2. Missing data were deleted list wise and not imputed. Ward and ICU bed day valuations by scenario Ward (AU$) ICU (AU$) Weight (~weeks) 40% (21 weeks) 15% (8 weeks) Mean weighted average ∑100% S1: winter, long waiting lists, full OT, high bed occupancy; S4: summer, waiting lists meeting targets, full OT, high bed occupancy; S6: summer, long waiting lists, OT some capacity, high bed occupancy; S7: winter, waiting lists meeting targets, OT some capacity, high bed occupancy On average CEOs were willing to pay AUD$216 for a ward bed day and AUD$436 for an ICU bed day. To incorporate uncertainty and variability in these estimates we calculated a range based on three standard deviations from the mean which gives AUD$147- AUD$285 for a ward bed and AUD$178-$AUD694 for an ICU bed. These figures were used in our cost-effectiveness model [16] but they are also useful because they show that there is greater uncertainty about the economic value of an ICU bed. This may be because some hospitals have more ICU beds than others, and/or less flexibility for using this resource for other purposes. The final section asked the CEOs for their ratings of importance of six factors on a seven point Likert scale from 1: Not at all important to 7: Very Important. Table 3 shows the average ratings for the six factors to potentially impact bed day valuations and how important these factors were to the CEOs when making their valuations. The higher the rating the more important the factor. All factors were of moderate importance but “bed occupancy” was the most important factor and “hospital size” the least important factor. A oneway ANOVA showed that mean differences were statistically significant, F (5, 27) = 10.89, p < .001, which means that these two factors (hospital size and bed occupancy) are different from the average of the others. The implication of these differences is that bed valuations are more likely to fluctuate with changes in bed occupancy levels than changes in all of the other factors. Mean self-report ratings of the importance of the factors 5.88 (1.41)* Hospital size * p < .05. (Min 1: Strongly disagree, Max 7: Strongly agree) Section 2: Qualitative results Two main themes emerged from the follow-up interviews with the CEOs. One pertinent factor was the context in which these decisions were being made, specifically the impact of funding and targets on the decision making process. Theme 1: Impact of funding type and targets In jurisdictions where there is ABF (activity based funding) there is a clear disincentive for producing activity that goes beyond the allocated targets and therefore, where the CEOs sit relative to their targets is often a key consideration in the value they will attach to the resource. If they are already above their targets for a given activity type them the resource will be of no or little value, and this explains the zero dollar valuations for some CEOs. This is demonstrated by one CEO who said: “work activity units (WAUs) are a key driving force” Hospitals get an allowance at start of financial year and we have to work within that”. In all states that had activity based funding all CEOs mentioned the need to consider NEAT (National Emergency Access Target) when deciding on the usefulness of the resource. Specifically, many CEOs used NEAT as an example of a target which was impacting on how they managed their patients through the hospital and thus demonstrating that certain beds are critical at certain times. However, some CEOs acknowledged that no matter where they were relative to targets they would be able to use the resource to solve other problems in the hospital, even if that meant closing down the beds. In fact, many CEOs were very happy to pay for the beds and then try to offset that cost by closing down wards (in blocks of four). This was mentioned a total of six times by CEOs and some of them indicated they had done this in the past as a way of saving money. Interestingly it has been shown in a Eurpoean context [9] that if the number of beds to be released is below 12 then only limited variable costs can be saved. In the Australian context four beds was considerable a minimum number such that shifting of personnel was possible and costs avoidable. Overall, it is important to note that the funding structures in different countries and regions will differ considerably and this is likely to have an impact of the final valuations obtained. This research is only generalisable in the Australian public health sector context. In a free market where the CEOs are much less constrained, such as the private hospital sector, then there will likely be more creative use of such a resource, and hence greater variability in the resource value. We were not able to evaluate this difference because the present study only focussed on the public hospital sector. The second key theme to emerge was the desire to focus on patient quality as a primary outcome and not the amount of bed days saved. Theme 2: Desire to focus on patient quality outcomes and not bed days The notion of paying for a bed as a resource was viewed negatively by some CEOs/hospital decision makers. Several indicated that they thought there should be a greater focus on patient outcomes relative to the resource use and found it difficult to detach the valuation from this other aspect. This may have affected their responses. In fact about 25% of the CEOs indicated they would not be willing to pay anything for the bed days because they would increase the costs for them in the short term. This suggests that future work could adapt the survey to make it more ecologically valid to the decision making context. However, in spite of this reluctance most were still able to see that the resource did indeed have a value and were able to start thinking about what this might be. We have demonstrated that CEOs value beds as a resource and are willing to pay for them, but at a rate which is considerably lower than the accounting cost used by hospital administrators. This research represents the first comprehensive attempt to value the opportunity cost of this important resource that informs many cost effectiveness models. However, it was limited in its ability to fully explore the trade-offs that decision makers were making, or indeed were willing to make, (1) because of sample size, and (2) because of constraints associated with the methodology. A more comprehensive analysis could consider using a multi-criteria decision making tool which more explicitly represent the trade-offs between the important factors. This would be useful from a research and hospital management perspective in terms of managing patient flow. Eliciting preferences and decision making thresholds for key decision makers would help people design the system to better utilise the resource. For example, knowing at what exact level of bed occupancy beds become more useful would assist hospitals to manage patient flow. However, the figures we obtain are surprisingly close to those of Kahn [8] who calculated the direct variable costs of the last days in both ward (US$279) and ICU (US$397) beds. If anything our figures are a magnitude lower and could suggest that the opportunity costs of the resource are sometimes negative after accounting for the direct variable costs. Indeed the incentive structure of pay- per-service and per average length of stay is likely reflected in these estimates. Increased turnover might increase opportunity costs making the resource less valuable. The WTP of zero for some CEOs is likely reflective of this. Some CEOs mentioned buying the beds and closing them down to save money, which does suggest that opportunity costs of extra beds are high and not cost saving in all situations. This concurs with the work of Nuti [9] who showed that beds in multiple of 12 allows re-organisation of existing resources resulting in cost savings, and beds in multiples of 30 could lead to more substantial structural interventions in order to cost save. The exact numbers of “meaningful bed units” is likely to vary per hospital and certainly per health system. If this is the case then examining the use of beds days saved as a key indicator of the success of hospital based programs is likely be problematic, particularly in the current pay-for-service context in Australia. Other outcomes measures are likely more reflective of the real savings, either in terms of health, satisfaction, or another quality metric. Further exploration of these alternatives is a matter for future research. Our research demonstrates that WTP for bed days is likely to vary with the healthcare context and even over time depending on current government legislation, specific health care reforms, and the relative position within a funding cycle. This is not acknowledged by using a fixed administrative cost. In our study this variability is somewhat ameliorated by having states which had not yet transitioned to ABF and those who had been using it for several years. A comparison of these states did not yield any major difference in WTP amounts. However, it is prudent not to assume these values are unchanging and fixed. Rather one is advised to either elicit these values in the key decision making group (using a similar process to the one outlined above) or first perform a sensitivity analysis on the rest of the cost effectiveness data to estimate whether this parameter is likely to be of consequence to the overall findings. If so, one can determine the value (or range of values) at which WTP will change the outcome of the decision and then use these to inform decision makers (and they can decide based on their local factors and individual or group preferences). We acknowledge that the contingent valuation method has limitations. One of the criticisms often levelled at the approach is around the lack of budget constraints in more standard public preference WTP tasks. However, in this instance we asked senior experts who were budget constrained and very explicitly aware of this constraint: we asked them to state their annual budget in at the beginning of the task. Therefore, we maintain that these values are not likely to be highly skewed by the lack of a budget constraint. We also do not provide any form of starting point for the valuation so we avoid starting point bias and anchoring and adjustment. This task was quite cognitively demanding for respondents because it is not something they typically value, at least explicitly. We tried to ameliorate this by having an in-depth discussion and allowing them time to complete the survey and ask questions before their final valuations were recorded. However, we accept that this might have biased their valuations if they used financial or accounting heuristics in which to make their valuations. It is impossible to eliminate all biases from these estimations using this methodology but we would like to stress that this is a first attempt to gain some useful estimate of the opportunity costs that key decision makers place on a fundamental hospital resource. Finally, cost effectiveness analysis is all about priority setting – hospital decision makers should choose the most cost effective solutions to maximise the heath of patients within a fixed budget. In order to do so they need to be sure that the inputs into the models around bed day savings are realistic and likely to come to fruition in reality. Using estimates which over represent the cost savings (as is likely currently the case) will result in programs seeming more cost effective than they are, and thus ultimately sub-optimal decision making and priority setting. We have shown one way to calculate the opportunity costs for hospital bed days in a sample of Australian hospital CEOs. We highlight that these figures are significantly lower than the costs savings often attributed to hospital beds in cost effectiveness evaluations and discuss the implications of this over estimation. This research is of general significance because it highlights the importance of exploring the assumptions in cost-effectiveness models, the need to make these explicit, and explore their impact in more detail. Whilst this is a specific case related to the value of hospital beds, the broader ramifications are clear. This research also attests to the importance of quantifying the opportunity costs of a resource and not just the accounting value. Both may be useful so it is important to understand the value needed by decision makers for optimal healthcare decision making. More often than not this is the use of a resource for future problem-solving as opposed to how much has been paid. More studies like this one are needed to accurately assess and understand the value placed on key non-market resources in health care by decision makers under various constraints. We would like to thank all the hospital CEOs and other key decision makers who contributed to this research. The work was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Grant (number 553081) with financial and in kind support from: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Hand Hygiene Australia, and jurisdictional health departments. The data supporting the conclusions of this article (without identifiers) will be made available in the QUT research data set e-repository [https://researchdatafinder.qut.edu.au/dataCollections]. KP, AB and NG contributed to the study design. KP collected and analysed the data and drafted the manuscript. AB and NG contributed to the manuscript draft and reviewed the final manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Informed consent was given by participants who answered all surveys used for the study. This research was undertaken with approved ethical clearance by the University and the Hospitals’ Human Research Ethics Committees. The reference numbers for the ethical clearances are: Queensland Health. HREC/10/QPAH/180 (hospitals) and QUT HREC 1000001240 (University). For New South Wales all 15 sites were covered by this single HRECs approval. Sydney Local Health District (Concord) HREC (Ref: LNR/12/CRGH/44CH62/6/2012-038). For Victoria there were 11 sites in the study covered by 10 different HRECs: Box Hill Hospital: Eastern Health HREC (Ref: LR89/1112); Frankston Hospital: Peninsula Health Quality and Clinical Governance (Ref: HREC/12/PH/39); Geelong Hospital; Monash Medical Centre and Dandenong Hospital: Southern Health Research Directorate–Quality Assurance (Ref: 12114Q); Western Hospital: Western Health Low Risk Human Research Ethics Panel, Office for Research (Ref: QA 2012/77); The Alfred Hospital: The Alfred Ethics Committee (Ref: 217/12); St Vincent’s: Research Governance Office (Ref: LRR071/12); The Austin Hospital: Austin Health HREC, Research Ethics Unit (Ref: H2012/04672); Royal Melbourne: Melbourne Health HREC (Ref: QA 201090); The Northern Hospital: The Northern Hospital HREC Office (Ref: LR 13/12). For Western Australia there were five sites in the study covered by three different HRECs: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, King Edward Memorial Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital: Sir Charles Gairdner HREC (Ref: 2011–108); Fremantle Hospital: Southern Metropolitan Area Health Service HREC (Ref: S/11/289); Royal Perth Hospital: Royal Perth Ethics Committee (Ref: RA-11/024). For Northern Territory there was only one site in the study from Northern Territory, Human Research Ethics Committee of Northern Territory Department of Health and Menzies School of Health Research (Ref: HREC-11-1543). For South Australia there were five sites in the study from South Australia, covered by three different HRECs: Lyell McEwin and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital were covered by SA Human Health Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 2011108); Royal Adelaide Hospital was covered by Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 110712); Flinders Medical Centre and Repatriation General Hospital were covered by Southern Adelaide Health Service Clinical Research Ethics Committee (Ref: EC00188). For Queensland there were nine sites in the study from Queensland, covered by two different HRECs: RBWH, Townsville, Gold Coast, Logan, Prince Charles, Princess Alexandra, Nambour and Cairns Base were all covered by the Metro South Health Service District HREC (Ref: HREC/10/QPAH/180); Ipswich hospital was covered by reference: AU/1/3BO7013/HREC/10/QWMS/40. 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__label__cc	0.655628	0.344372	Swamp not Drained? US Voters Fear Politicians Will Misuse Crypto Funds Mistrust of politicians is nothing new, but the perception that bitcoin and other crypto tokens are unregulated has heightened the suspicions of eligible US voters. According to a survey conducted by blockchain research firm Clovr, 64 percent of respondents across the US political landscape were fearful of politicians coming up with ways to illegally take advantage of campaign donations made in cryptocurrency. The highest level of mistrust was recorded among independents where 70 percent believed politicians would exploit the loopholes. Relatively, Republicans had the lowest level of mistrust at 56 percent while Democrats polled at 66 percent. The survey, which interviewed 1,023 eligible US voters, also found that the mistrust was also extended to political parties, though on a different level. Regardless of political affiliation, 56 percent of eligible US voters indicated that they wouldn’t trust political parties not to take advantage of the loose regulations that exist on campaign donations made in cryptocurrency. Misuse by a Political Party On a party-by-party basis, the perceived likelihood that a politician from a particular end of the political spectrum would misuse crypt funds was lowest for the Green Party at 60 percent. Libertarians polled at 63 percent, Democrats at 83 percent, and Republicans at 90 percent. From the survey, respondents also revealed fears that cryptocurrency campaign donations could be used by foreign governments and other foreign actors to interfere in elections and the wider political system with 60 percent saying this was likely to be the case. More Democrats than Republicans believed this to be the case with the figure being 66 percent for the former and 58 percent for the latter. Independents, on the other hand, polled at 56 percent. Despite the concern among eligible US voters that the loose regulations around cryptocurrency could be exploited by politicians and political parties, 54 percent of the respondents expressed confidence that cryptocurrencies are secure enough for use in the political process. Republicans expressed more confidence at 63 percent than either Democrats (52 percent) or independents (45 percent). Growing Acceptance Given the option of giving to a political campaign in cryptocurrencies, 27 percent of Republicans indicated that they would, compared to 25 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of independents. However, some states are yet to allow cryptocurrency donations to political campaigns citing the anonymous nature of blockchain technology and the general suspicions that exist around cryptocurrencies. “There are several reasons why state governments are hesitant to adopt cryptocurrency donations, but the two major ones are the validity of cryptocurrencies and the anonymity of the donor, one of the hallmarks of blockchain technology,” the report, titled “Crypto & Politics: Voters’ Perceptions of Cryptocurrency and Politics,” said. Related Items:crypto, drained, funds, misuse, politicians, swamp, voters Oyster Protocol Founder Exit Scams, Steals $300,000 from ICO Contract Goldman Sachs is Signing up Clients for its Bitcoin Trading Product	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1010
__label__wiki	0.958085	0.958085	Twitter Crypto Scammers Steal $150K by Posing as Elon Musk Scammers plaguing a popular social media platform have successfully stolen over $150,000 in cryptocurrency. They used the verified accounts of two prominent British businesses by posing as Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk. Two British Brands Targeted in Twitter Scam to Steal Crypto British fashion and home goods retailer Matalan and the United Kingdom arm of French film production company Pathé each had their verified Twitter accounts reports the BBC. Combined the two accounts have over 100,000 followers, who became the targets of a scam aimed at stealing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Hackers gained access to the two highly-valuable, verified Twitter accounts, and promptly changed the account photos and names to appear as if the accounts were owned by Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Elon Musk. The accounts join in on an increasingly growing trend across Twitter, where scammers pose as cryptocurrency industry icons, celebrities, or tech entrepreneurs – even posing as the United States President – and offer a “giveaway” where users receive free cryptocurrency in exchange for sending a smaller denomination or the same cryptocurrency. To further sell the scheme as legitimate, additional Twitter accounts owned by the hackers are then used to respond to the giveaway tweet, thanking the accounts for their generosity. Over 300 of the 100,000 followers between the two accounts fell victim to the scam, and were duped of their crypto assets. The total stolen according to wallet data amounts to over $150,000 in Bitcoin. This particular instance used Musk’s likeness, suggesting the Tesla CEO was stepping down from his post as “director,” and used a fake web domain with Musk’s other company Space X mentioned in the URL. What’s worse, is that the tweets in question were approved by Twitter to be run as paid advertising, even though they were fake, from a hacked account, and were riddled with spelling errors. Why Elon Musk? Twitter Scams Surrounding Entrepreneur Are Relentless Cryptocurrency scammers impersonating Elon Musk refuse to give up, despite the entrepreneur recently enlisting help from Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer and receiving a “script” that was meant to reduce the frequency of such instances. Musk had initially been impressed with the scammers, saying they had “mad skills.” However, that quickly turned into frustration. But why Elon Musk? While other crypto influencers and celebrities have been impersonated as part of this recurring scam, none have been the focal point as prominently or as often as Mr. Musk. The answer is simple: The eccentric and outspoken Tesla CEO uses Twitter as his personal soapbox, and the public figure seemingly has no filter, and says some of the wildest things, sometimes landing him in hot water as a result. Back in August, Musk made a public statement on Twitter talking about a Tesla IPO that resulted in Musk being forced to step down from his post at Telsa, and had to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in court for $40 million. Musk’s tweets now have to be reviewed by a lawyer, which should cause investors to be extra skeptical over any cryptocurrency giveaways coming from Musk. It’s the outlandish comments Musk makes that makes him an easy target for scammers to impersonate. Musk also commonly tweets about cryptocurrencies. Last month, Musk tweeted a bizarre photo accompanied by the question “Wanna buy some Bitcoin?” Related Items:crypto, posing, s150k, scammers, steal, twitter Binance Tops Blockchain Transparency Institute Exchange Rankings What is Initiative Q Really All About? Does it Beat Bitcoin? Don’t Bet on It	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1011
__label__cc	0.661996	0.338004	Camera Viscera For Other Sites Other Junk Pins & Everything Else Articles, halloween 5 Things I Want from the New HALLOWEEN! May 24, 2016 Doc 3 Comments As you’ve probably heard by now, Blumhouse announced yesterday that they’ll be producing the newest Halloween film, the first since Rob Zombie’s 2009 debacle, Halloween II. What makes this particular bit of news so exciting is confirmation that John Carpenter will executive produce, and could also possibly (maybe? hopefully?) score the film. Add to that the involvement of franchise producer Malek Akkad, Miramax Pictures, and bastions-from-the-start Compass International/Trancas International Films, and suddenly the tired and aimless franchise looks to have gotten a much needed shot in the arm. Of course, the recognizable names mean nothing to the final product; a lot of variables could result in a boring, unmemorable film, namely the two most important puzzle pieces – the script and its director – which are, as of this typing, non-existent. But none of that stuff really matters right now because, as with every entry before this one, the announcement of a new Halloween film ushers in waves of excitement and possibilities that will keep me coasting and daydreaming until I see it in the theater. The film has a projected release date of sometime in 2017, which means I’ve got a lot of time on my hands to fantasize about my dream production, so here are 5 things I’d really like to see in the new Halloween. Get original cinematographer Dean Cundey and shoot WIDE (and on film!) I understand that for budgetary reasons the newest Halloween will most likely be shot digitally and lensed by some well-intentioned, adept cinematographer, but look: don’t bother making this thing if it’s just going to look like every other modern horror movie. You wanna do this thing right, you get Dean Cundey on board and let him do his thing. Use most of the film’s budget if you have to (like they did on the first Halloween); it’s okay to splurge on the right things, and this is definitely a right thing. This is the guy who brought the original Michael Myers out of the shadows and into our nightmares. When Myers is running down the stairs and the slats from the bannister casts spooky silhouettes over his mask? When Laurie thinks she’s safe, but we see Michael sit up in the background? What about all the POV work from the first two films? That’s all Cundey, baby. His low-light blue-hued anamorphic wide lens work is key to Halloween‘s overall aesthetic and long-lasting effectiveness. The fact that he worked with John Carpenter on six productions, including three Halloween films, makes his involvement here almost mandatory. (Plus, it’s not like he’s busy making anything worthwhile lately; if you check Cundey’s IMDB, you’ll see his talents being wasted on majorly questionable productions – let’s get him back in the horror game, back to his roots!) Make Haddonfield feel like a real town again – flesh it out, fill it with colorful characters. One of the things I loved about the early Halloween films (and a few of the latter entries) was just how real Haddonfield felt, thanks to the plainspoken characters and allusions to the layout of the town itself. There’s a great scene in Halloween II, where one of the hospital nurses is talking to an orderly: Julie saw him, yesterday. You know the Shop & Bag out by the mall? She stopped at the light and saw him walking in that field behind the Lost River Drive-In. Julie said he was so creepy. Budd, the orderly, immediately refutes the story he just heard – but what a spooky and brilliantly effective visual her story paints. Who’s Julie? We never meet her or hear her name again, but it doesn’t matter. Nor do we ever see the Shop & Bag, nor the mall, nor the field or the Lost River Drive-In. But again, it doesn’t matter. Through this minor-yet-essential bit of dialogue, we learn of relationships and geography. Haddonfield is a small town, and this interaction does a great job of subtly defining that for us, the viewer. It’s like how in the original Halloween, even though we never actually see the premises for The Rabbit in Red Lounge, we know it exists from the matchbook in Nurse Chambers’ car. Same goes for ol’ Charlie Bowles in Russellville. Or the pharmacy in Halloween 4, where Rachel’s boyfriend works – really, where all the town’s teens seem to work or hang out – is also where Jamie buys her doomed clown costume (and where Michael serendipitously finds a replacement Captain Kirk mask.) And the hillbilly bar – let’s not forget the hillbilly bar! A lot of these details that flesh out the people and places of Haddonfield seem to have fallen by the wayside post-Halloween 6. This is a must for the new film. A good mask! Look, this should be the easiest thing to accomplish. It’s a no-brainer. Just make the goddamn thing look like it did in the original – how hard is that? Don’t give me any of this copyright business, it doesn’t hold up. When was the last time the series had a decent mask, Halloween 6? Don’t even get me started on the CGI mask or the eye make-up mask. This shouldn’t be an issue. Keep it simple. Bring back the urban legend campfire tale vibe it once had. The first two Halloween films are, at their core, your basic urban legend story. Well, I should say stories since both films borrow from several familiar neighborhood tales and layer them to create a terrifying narrative: the escaped mental patient, the babysitter in peril, the creepy phone calls, the house at the end of the street you’re supposed to avoid, the serial killer in the back of the car, tainted Halloween candy, The Boogeyman. (Even the Myers home in and of itself could be viewed as a loose extension of the ‘cursed’ [i.e. ‘Indian Burial Ground’] trope.) All the stories we scared each other with growing up, presented visually. Sure, Myers is an unstoppable killer – but he’s The Boogeyman first and foremost. If you want to do the new film justice and make Michael Myers truly scary again, then his penchant for killing should come second to his ability to haunt Haddonfield like a wrathful specter. Fill it with easter eggs and nods! This probably goes without saying, but a little fan service would be really appreciated – lauded, even. Name a character Wade, have one drink only Dr. Pepper, have someone mention the town Russellville, whatever – just have fun with it. Fans love poring over films, especially ones that were clearly crafted with love, respect, and attention to detail. People are still finding hidden things in The Shining almost 40 years later – there’s no reason they can’t/shouldn’t be doing the same for this Halloween remake/reboot/whatever it is. While it may seem unfair, the truth is that this movie already has the deck stacked against it – the series’ previous failures combined with John Carpenter’s new involvement are coalescing to create a movie that fans will be ready to pounce on – good or bad. Something as effortless as a few callbacks to the other films (even if this new Halloween is in no way tangentially tied to the others) would show that the writer and director respect the subject matter – one of the greatest horror films ever made – and make for a fun and enduring watch. Okay, mutants – those are my suggestions of what I’d like to see from the new Halloween flick. If I get maybe one of those, I’ll be happy. What are some things you want to see? Share this shit! blumhousehalloweenjohn carpentermichael myersremake Previous PostMusic Videos Inspired by Horror Movies!Next PostARTISTS BEHIND THE IMAGE: John Alvin 3 thoughts on “5 Things I Want from the New HALLOWEEN!” G. B. Marian says: Holy shit! If John Carpenter’s involved, I might actually have to see this one in the theater! (I skipped the last one; Resurrection and Rob Zombie’s remake burned me too much.) I agree with all of your points. I would only add that I’d like to see them get away from the Michael/Laurie theme. That’s been done to death; what we really need is a totally new set of characters who have no prior connection to Michael. None of that going after his family tree stuff, either. It would be nice to have a new Loomis-type of character, but it would be nice if it were totally different from him – like an old woman who specializes in the history of the town. It would also be nice if they included more lore about the holiday Halloween itself; it wouldn’t be hard to do. Like with the old woman idea I just mentioned, they could have the neighborhood kids think she’s a witch or something that. They could stand to build up the supernatural aspect of Myers more as well; I don’t think they need to bring back the whole Thorn angle, but they could mention something about there once being a cult that worshiped Myers, or the idea that maybe he’s possessed by a demon or something. Nothing too complicated; just bits of dialogue theorizing as to why he’s so formidable. This probably won’t happen, but I’d also appreciate it if they tried moving things away just a little from re-treading the same old slasher formula. At this point, Myers deserves more than just bumping off a few teens at an isolated place; I’d like to see a SWAT team chasing him around the streets of Haddonfield, and maybe a few explosions. Let’s see how tough Michael really is after almost 40 years! Great post, thank you for sharing. I’m really excited about Carpenter’s involvement! drhumpp says: You hit all the most important points. I agree wholeheartedly. I don’t know how involved Carpenter will be creatively, but I’m cool with the fact that he disliked the brother/sister plot device as much as I do. It neutered one of the more unsettling aspects of the original. 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__label__wiki	0.883849	0.883849	Your Association - All the latest BPCA News and Headlines Keep up-to-date with all the latest stories about your Association including BPCA Membership, Training and Events news. xFeaturebox-BPCA View all news BPCA marks World Pest Day 2019 with message to local authorities Today is World Pest Day and to celebrate we’re launching a targeted campaign to local authorities. We’re urging councils across the UK to put pest management firmly on their radar, View all news Sign up for e-alerts Durham business recognised for its community work at trade body awards A national pest management company, which has its headquarters in Durham, has been presented with a prestigious award at a top industry event. Contego Environmental Services, founded in 2004, was named winner of the Community Initiative of the Year accolade at the British Pest Management Awards, organised by UK trade body the British Pest Control Association (BPCA). Held at ExCel London, the award ceremony formed part of the BPCA’s esteemed biennial exhibition and conference PestEx, the UK’s pest management show. For many years Contego - which has a team of 45 people operating across the UK and its headquarters in Chilton Industrial Estate, Ferryhill - has supported small local projects for clients, charities and educational institutions and, given staff time and resources to help Cancer Research UK. To compensate for the unavoidable impact created servicing client needs, Contego has also partnered up with Forest Carbon, planting trees in protected forests across the UK - and Michael Taylor, CEO of Contego, recently spent a night under the stars in near freezing conditions, raising £1,200 for the CEO Sleepout initiative, to help tackle homelessness and poverty across the country. Picking up the award, Michael said: “We try to give back to the community with the work we do, and I think it’s just really important to support them. “We’re really proud to win the award and giving back to the community is something everyone should be doing more of.” As well as charity work, Contego has welcomed its first apprentices to the company and at the end of last year they also became Living Wage accredited. Michael added: “I started the business with the help of the Prince’s Trust, with a £500 grant and a £1,500 loan. “I feel that this set the foundations from the start for a giving and supportive culture within the business. “We always aim to encourage and develop our teams at all times and this includes apprentices. “Bringing the trainees into the team has been great and we are pretty certain they are teaching us as much as we are teaching them. “Pest control is a profession and we are committed to paying our staff a fair pay for a day’s work. Living Wage is the first step and it is a standard we are very proud to achieve.” Contego is one of the leading bird and pest management specialists in the UK, working within hospitality, the food industry, storage and distribution, as well as construction. The company was also shortlisted for the BPMA’s Company of the Year accolade. More about Contego More about the British Pest Management Awards More about PestEx 2019 Highlights View all news Defra release three new general licences for bird control Three new general licences for the killing or taking of wild birds in England will be issued at 00:01 on Friday 14 June, says Defra. The recent call for evidence demonstrated a rang Bee removal and Glis glis added to Find a pest controller tool The ever-popular BPCA Find a pest controller tool now includes options for ethical bee removal and Glis glis treatments. BPCA member companies that offer bee removal (rather Latest View all news UK pest technicians wanted for Australian adventure Want to trade the British winter for an Australian summer? CPS is looking for exceptional pest technicians to join their ranks during their peak season. An Australian company, Competitive P 1env get muddy for Macmillan BPCA member 1env Solutions sent a team along to the Nuclear Mud Race this year, raising just almost £2000 for Macmillan Cancer Support and the British Heart Found Use up your Ficam D, says Bayer Following changes to the Ficam® D label, pest controllers are being reminded by BPCA member Bayer to use up any stocks with old labels, displaying HSE 4829, by 25 July 2019. The PPC Live 2020 Technical excellence in practice. Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1027
__label__cc	0.528639	0.471361	Nonsecessions Secession petitions filed at the White House's "We the People" site have somehow become major news, thus leaving completely unremarked other important petitions like the recently expired petition asking the President to dance the hokey-pokey, or the current one asking him to attend a Fark.com party or else drink a beer with Drew Curtis, or the one demanding that he outlaw offensive comments about prophets of major religions. A few points of note: (1) It is quite obvious that the point of the petitions (from all fifty states by now) is simply to force the White House into the embarrassing position of having to give a public response explaining why states should not secede. This is not a 'secession movement'; it's a prank. (2) Texas leads the pack, by far, on signatures for a secession petition, so it's perhaps worth pointing out for any Yankees in the audience that the obvious reason why it's so far ahead of other secession petitions is that Texans are signing it in order to make sure that Texas comes in first when it comes to secession petitions. This is what Texans do. If, for instance, you were to go to any random place in Texas and start asking people whether they thought Texas should secede, you would have a significant number of people who would say 'Yes' for no other reason than to guarantee that there would be lots of 'Yes' answers to your question. (You would also have a significant number of people who would say 'Yes' because they thought it was a stupid question deserving a stupid answer. That's another thing Texans do: answer questions they regard as stupid with answers they regard as stupid, and then laugh at you when you go away taking them seriously.) There is, of course, no major secession movement in Texas, and hasn't been in ages. Secession in Texas is a vocabulary and game, not a movement, and is a (deliberately) bombastic way of talking about the distinctiveness of the state. Likewise, when you are in Texas and overhear someone saying that someone should be shot, or that they will be beating someone to death shortly, you can generally assume that they are engaging in Texas hyperbole for 'So-and-so is completely wrong and starting to annoy me.' Deliberately bombastic hyperbole is also something Texans do. And, what is more, one reason Texans like talking about secession is that it elicits hilariously funny reactions from non-Texans who aren't in on the game. (3) It should go without saying, but in case it doesn't: (a) No, states do not under the current constitional regime have the right to secede. (b) No, people cannot be stripped of citizenship for asking to secede. I am certain that most of the people signing this petition are just playing the game from the opposite side, but I note it just in case it doesn't go without saying. In fact, no one can actually be stripped of citizenship for anything; in the U.S., you can renounce citizenship, but no government has the authority to take it away from you without your consent; and merely asking to secede is neither a formal nor an implicit renunciation of citizenship -- it's just asking. Likewise, it is not treason to advocate secession. (c) No, if the states could secede, the federal government would not have the authority to give parts of the state the right to secede from the state; the federal government lacks the constitutional authority to do this for states and lacks the jursdiction for doing it to independent countries. (d) Yes, anyone who takes petitions on the White House's We the People site seriously is a little bit of a lunatic. Posted by Brandon at 11:30 PM 6 comments: Links to this post The Money Lenders' Dole by Peter Maurin Uncle Sam does not believe in the unemployed dole, but Uncle Sam does believe in the money lenders’ dole. Uncle Sam doles out every year more than a billion dollars to the money lenders. And it is the money lenders’ dole that put Uncle Sam into a hole. The money lenders are first citizens on Uncle Sam’s payroll. There were no money lenders on the payroll in Palestine and Ireland. in Palestine and Ireland because the Prophets of Israel and the Fathers of the Church forbid lending money at interest. But Uncle Sam does not listen to the Prophets of Israel and the Fathers of the Church. This is one of Peter Maurin's Easy Essays. Maurin died in 1949. Dorothy Day's on Her Way According to current canonization procedures, the relevant bishop has to consult with the regional conference of bishops on whether to advance the cause; this past week Archbishop Dolan consulted with the USCBB on whether to advance the cause for the canonization of Dorothy Day. The bishops voted to endorse this, and so it looks like Dorothy Day's canonization inquiry will be beginning in earnest. Day was born in Brooklyn, although she spent much of her childhood in San Francisco and Chicago; she returned to New York after dropping out of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There she became very active in socialist causes, especially as a journalist for socialist papers; during this period she had a small handful of affairs and an abortion, but she slowly became more interested in Catholic life, in part because many of the working class with whom she interacted were themselves Catholic. When she became pregnant again, she asked a nun what she could do to have the child baptized; the nun had her memorize the Baltimore Catechism. When her relationship with her partner ended, Day joined the Church herself, and began to write for Commonweal and America. In 1932 her life changed when she met a French immigrant named Peter Maurin, who showed her how Catholic theology linked up with work for the poor and working class. Together they started the newspaper The Catholic Worker, which became the heart of what has become known as the Catholic Worker Movement. Day died in 1980. From an editorial in The Catholic Worker, November 1936: As I waited for the traffic light to change on my way to the Seamen's Defense Committee headquarters, I was idly saying my rosary, which was handy in my pocket. The recitation was more or less automatic, when suddenly like a bright light, like a joyful thought, the words Our Father pierced my heart. To all those who were about me, to all the passerby, to the longshoremen idling about the corner, black and white, to the striking seamen I was going to see, I was akin, for we were all children of a common Father, all creatures of One Creator, and Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Christian, Communist or non-Communist, were bound together by this tie. We can not escape the recognition of the fact that we are all brothers. Whether or not a man believes in Jesus Christ, His Incarnation, His Life here with us, His crucifixion and resurrection; whether or not a man believes in God, the fact remains that we are all children of one Father. Meditation of this fact makes hatred and strife between brothers the more to be opposed. The work we must do is strive for peace and concordance rather than hatred and strife. Speaking for myself, I like Dorothy Day very much, and consider this all cheerful news. Actual Humanity and the Ethical Commonwealth The sublime, yet never wholly attainable, idea of an ethical commonwealth dwindles markedly under men’s hands. It becomes an institution which, at best capable of representing only the pure form of such a commonwealth, is, by the conditions of sensuous human nature, greatly circumscribed in its means for establishing such a whole. How indeed can one expect something perfectly straight to be framed out of such crooked wood? To found a moral people of God is therefore a task whose consummation can be looked for not from men but only from God Himself. Yet man is not entitled on this account to be idle in this business and to let Providence rule, as though each could apply himself exclusively to his own private moral affairs and relinquish to a higher wisdom all the affairs of the human race (as regards its moral destiny). Rather must man proceed as though everything depended upon him; only on this condition dare he hope that higher wisdom will grant the completion of his well-intentioned endeavors. The wish of all well-disposed people is, therefore, “that the kingdom of God come, that His will be done on earth.” But what preparations must they now make that it shall come to pass? An ethical commonwealth under divine moral legislation is a church which, so far as it is not an object of possible experience, is called the church invisible (a mere idea of the union of all the righteous under direct and moral divine world-government, and idea serving all as the archetype of what is to be established by men. The visible church is the actual union of men into a whole which harmonizes with that ideal. Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Bounds of Reason Alone. A very Lutheran way of putting it; there's a reason why someone as very different from Kant as Karl Barth insisted that Kant had a good grasp of the Protestantism of the Reformation. But the point it makes is more general than that. To Breathe the Air of Immortality Would I had waked this morn where Florence smiles, A-bloom with beauty, a white rose full-blown, Yet rich in sacred dust, in storied stone, Precious past all the wealth of Indian isles-- From olive-hoary Fiesole to feed On Brunelleschi's dome my hungry eye, And see again the lotus-colored sky, Spring the slim belfry graceful as a reed. To kneel upon the ground where Dante trod, To breathe the air of immortality. From Angelo and Raphael -- to be -- Each sense new-quickened by a demi-god. To hear the liquid Tuscan speech at whiles, From citizen and peasant, to behold The heaven of Leonardo washed with gold-- Would I had waked this morn where Florence smiles! Emma Lazarus, of course, is most famous today for her sonnet, "The New Colossus", which she wrote to help raise money for the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, and which is quoted on that same pedestal. Definitional Mereotopology Let us start with a basic idea: definitions of concepts can have parts. We can think about definitional parts in two ways, depending on whether we take the whole definition to count as a 'part' of the definition. When we count the definition itself as a 'part' of the definition, let's call this a basic definitional part of the concept defined and give it the abbreviation P. Basic definitional parts have the following basic properties: (1) xPx -> definitions are basic definitional parts of themselves (2) xPy & yPz -> xPz -> if x is a basic definitional part of y, and y is a basic definitional part of z, then x is also a basic definitional part of z. (3) xPy & yPx -> x=y -> if x and y are both basic definitional parts of each other, then they are the same definition, at least for any relevant purposes So suppose our definition is that human beings are rational animals. Then we can say that rationality is a basic definitional part of the concept of humanity, and so is animality. It's also true (by (1)), that rational-animality is a basic definitional part (it's the basic definitional part that happens to be the whole thing). If part of the definition of 'rationality' is (just for example) 'capable in principle of grasping abstract universal concepts', this is a basic definitional part of rationality, and it is also (by (2)) a basic definitional part of anything of which rationality is a basic definitional part. And if rational-animality is a basic definitional part of animal-rationality and vice versa, then they can (by (3)) be treated as simply the same thing. But we often use 'part' in a narrower sense, in which wholes are not counted as parts in the relevant sense. Let's call this a strict definitional part of the concept defined, and give it the abbreviation PP. Strict definitional parts are related to basic definitional parts in the following way: (4) xPPy <-> xPy & ~yPx -> that is, x is a strict definitional part of y when it is a basic definitional part of y, but y is not a definitional part of it -> or, in other words: strict definitional parts are basic definitional parts that are not equal to the whole It's also clear that definitions can overlap. Basic definitional overlap, which we can abbrevaite as O, is easily defined: it occurs when there is something that is a basic definitional part of both definitions. (We could also define a strict definitional overlap using strict definitional parts.) Examples of definitional overlap between the definition of humanity and the definition of doghood would include things like animality, mammality, vertebratehood, and so forth. We can also see that things can be relevant to definitions in various ways. Let's say we have basic definitional relevance, given the abbreviation C, whenever something is relevant to a definition in a way that meets the following conditions: (5) xCx -> definitions are definitionally relevant to themselves. (6) xCy -> yCx -> whenever x is definitionally relevant to y, the reverse is also true. It is clear from this that if x definitionally overlaps with y, they are definitionally relevant to each other. Likewise, it is clear from this that all basic definitional parts and all strict definitional parts are definitionally relevant to the concepts for which they are parts. We can get more specific by uniting our two concepts. Let something be internally relevant to the definition, abbreviated IP, if it meets the following condition: (7) xIPy <-> (xPy & (zCx -> zOy)) -> x is internally relevant to the definition of y when x is part of y and when something, call it z,is definitionally relevant to x it is so in such a way that z definitionally overlaps with y. And we can likewise let something be externally relevant to the definition (EC), when it is definitionally relevant to it but not so as to overlap with it: for instance, if definitions are indirectly relevant to each other without actually sharing any parts. (It's actually quite an interesting question whether this is possible, and, if so, the conditions under which it is.) All of these, of course, are just some of the simpler possible mereotopological concepts applied to definitions of concepts; thus mereotopology can provide a rigorous vocabulary for talking about definitions. Theistic Arguments Occasionally comments go astray (usually if people are commenting on a mobile platform); they needed to be rooted out of hiding. Jarvis left a recent comment that hid away but is interesting: In an old post, Rational Compulsion, Reasoned Argument, Positing, and God's Existence, you wrote, "...my own very extreme view [is] -- that there are a lot of excellent arguments for the existence of God, some of which can be considered demonstrative (that last clause is especially rare these days) . . . " I wonder if you still hold this opinion? If so, I am particularly interested in which arguments you consider demonstrative. Best, Jarvis It is indeed still my opinion; in fact I have become more convinced of it as time has gone on. An example of an argument that I think is essentially demonstrative can be found in John Duns Scotus's Treatise on God as First Principle; one can find an older English translation of it here. I do think it needs some updating in light of particular philosophical topics that have arisen since, namely, (1) the external world (2) the nature of causation (3) the nature of explanation But I am increasingly sure that serious consideration of each of these three topics ends up strengthening the argument, in the sense that I think the course of philosophical argument since has shown that in order to reject principles that are at least broadly like those Scotus uses, you have to make much more significant intellectual sacrifices than people usually recognize. (I am most certain of this with (1), which is the one with which I am most familiar; and a surprising number of positions on (2) and (3) that are inconsistent with Scotus's Threefold Primacy argument have very problematic consequences for (1).) But I am not, in fact, mortally committed to such arguments actually being really and truly demonstrative; but they are good arguments that show some evidence of being demonstrative and that on close examination can be seen to withstand the major attempts to argue that they are not. Many objections to theistic arguments are put forward as if they had no serious implications beyond stopping the argument. But theistic arguments deal with fairly fundamental things. If you reject the premise of the First Way that whatever is moved is moved by another, you have, given how it is understood in argument, committed yourself to claiming that what is not actual can become actual without any causal explanation at all, and you've committed yourself to whatever reasons you use to support that conclusion. That's perfectly fine, of course, but if you are going to do this you had definitely better be willing to follow through on all the implications and be willing to address any apparent problems caused by that commitment; as Schopenhauer says somewhere, arguments are not like cabs -- you can't ride them only as far as you want and then get off. I think people have an unusually egregious tendency to treat objections as taxi cabs when arguing against theistic arguments; I'm not sure why this is so, although it could be (since you can find some of the same behavior on the other side) simply because philosophical arguments on this topic reach a massively greater audience than philosophical arguments on almost any other topic, and that this is just a byproduct of that. The more general position here, however, is simply that (1) there are plenty of reasonable arguments that something exists that can reasonably be called divine, whether or not one wishes to consider them demonstrative (or even whether one thinks they are actually right, since arguments can be perfectly reasonable and still not be quite right); and that (2) of these reasonable arguments, at least some of them are quite excellent as arguments, whether or not one wishes to consider them demonstrative: Scotus's Threefold Primacy argument, the First Way, Boethius-style arguments for the Good, the too-often-overlooked family of infinite intelligible arguments, certain cautious arguments from religious experience, and so forth. In other words, it is not actually difficult to be a theist for reasons that stand up to examination pretty well. This is itself a fairly weak position. One can be an atheist and accept it, since it's entirely possible to believe that some arguments for X are reasonable and even quite impressive while believing nonetheless that some arguments for not-X are definitive and conclusive. It was once not very difficult to find atheists who agreed with it, although it seems to be somewhat out of fashion at present. Nonetheless, it needs to be kept distinct from the view that there is good reason to think some of these reasonable, reasonably good arguments to be in fact demonstrative, which is an entirely different position altogether: you can have very good reasons that are not even in the vicinity of being rigorously demonstrative. Links for Noting * The LOTR Project * The Imaginative Conservative has an interesting review of Gene Healy's The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power * "On the Main Line" has a funny story about one of the great Jewish philosophers, Moses Mendelssohn. * D. G. Myers discusses de Rougemont and gay marriage at "The Commonplace Blog". * Jack Thornton on Tolkien's manuscripts. * Colorsystem discusses a large number of color ordering systems. * R. J. Snell discusses John Courtney Murray and the two kinds of barbarism. * Shaun Nichols, The Rise of Compatibilism: A Case Study in the Quantitative History of Philosophy (PDF). The 'quantitative' is less quantitative than Nichols makes it sound; it should really be 'Comparative' rather than 'Quantitative'. * Philosophers' Carnival #145; the posts on the Liar Paradox and on values in scientific reasoning are particularly interesting. * Ancient Commentators on Aristotle * ThonyC corrects some common errors about Tycho Brahe. Dream and Thought and Feeling Interwound The Soul's Expression by Elizabeth Barrett Browning With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound And only answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground. This song of soul I struggle to outbear Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole, And utter all myself into the air: But if I did it,—-as the thunder-roll Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there, Before that dread apocalypse of soul. Self-School'd, Self-Scann'd, Self-Honour'd, Self-Secure Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.—Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. For the fortnightly book, I thought I would re-read J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, as edited by Christopher Tolkien. This consists of two narrative poems written by Tolkien, the New Lay of the Völsungs, and the New Lay of Gudrún. They are not translations, but an attempt to unify various strands in the Norse traditions about the Völsungs; Christopher Tolkien notes that Tolkien had mentioned them in a letter to W. H. Auden, in which he says that he wrote them while "trying to learn the art of writing alliterative poetry" (p. 6). Christopher Tolkien adds to the two poems a portion of a lecture by Tolkien on the Elder Edda, and some extensive commentary on each. I thought the introductory paragraph to Christopher Tolkien's introduction was interesting: Many years ago my father referred to the words of William Morris concernign what he called 'the Great Story of the North', which, he insisted, should be to us 'what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks', and which far in the future 'should be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us.' On this my father observed: 'How far off and remote sound now the words of William Morris! The Tale of Troy has been falling into oblivion since that time wtih surprising rapidity. But the Völsungs have not taken its place.' (p. 13) It is a very Tolkien-esque sentiment. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was actually born in South Africa; his parents were in South Africa more or less because his father was in charge of an international division of a British bank. While on a visit to England with his mother, his father, still in South Africa, died, and thus the Tolkiens did not return. His mother became Catholic when Tolkien was eight; the rest of the family was Baptist, so this did not go down well. She died four years later, but she had arranged for a priest at the Birmingham Oratory to be Tolkien's guardian should anything happen to her. He got a degree from Exeter College in Oxford in English Language and Literature. He fought in World War I, but he deliberately delayed his enlistment so that he could finish his degree. He came down with trench fever in 1916 and was sent home. His recovery took a long time, and it was while he was recovering that he began The Book of Lost Tales. After the War he worked first for the OED, then began to teach at the University of Leeds. He almost served in World War II as a codebreaker, even having taken an initial course, but never actually did so. He moved after WWII to Merton College, Oxford. He retired in 1959 and died in 1973. Some Jottings on Dynamic Mereotopology These are just some loose thoughts, not very developed. A mereology is a theory of part-and-whole relations. A topology is, roughly, a theory of relations that remain constant under continuous changes -- boundaries and connections being the most important, so a topology can be considered a theory of connection-and-limit relations. A mereotopology, of course, joins the two. We tend to regard these as spatial in character, but in principle a mereotopology is capable of covering a great deal more (concepts, abstract structures, and so forth). In any case, it would be worthwhile to have some account of mereotopology that included some conception of change -- a dynamic mereotopology. There are two ways one could include change in a mereotopology. One way would be to develop a mereotopology of changes themselves. It is clear that changes do have mereotopological features. One change can be part of another change; changes can be connected to each other; changes can overlap; changes can be interior to or within the boundaries of other changes. In this sense, parthood, overlap, connection, and boundary would be applied to changes themselves. A second way would be to have one's mereotopology apply to changing things -- changing regions, perhaps, or changing structures. There are perhaps several different ways you could go about doing this. But one way would be take all your mereotopological concepts and modalize them for changes. There are two major modal operators, Box and Diamond. Box in effect tells us that something is the case with no exceptions; Diamond says that something is the case even if there are exceptions, or although there may be exceptions. (Diamond does not say there are exception, only that there may be.) So we could take each mereotopological operator and Box or Diamond it. Take basic parthood (the sense of 'part' in which a thing can be counted as part of itself). We would then get a Box-parthood and a Diamond-parthood. Box-parthood would be invariant parthood; Diamond-parthood would be at least variant parthood. Of course, invariant parthood includes at least variant parthood, in the way that 'always' includes 'at least sometimes'. If x is invariantly a part of y, then x is at least variantly a part of y, although not vice versa. The same thing can be done with proper parthood (the sense of 'part' in which the whole is definitely not counted as a part; you can use either parthood or proper parthood as your basic concept without changing the mereology in any significant way). Of course, one difference is that it's possible to argue that there is always at least one invariant part, even though there may not always be at least one invariant proper part: everything is arguably always an invariant part of itself. We can do the same thing with other mereological notions, like overlap. x overlaps y when there is something (call it z) that is part of both x and y, some z such that z is part of x and z is part of y. Invariant overlap and variant overlap work much the same way as invariant and variant parts, and are definable in terms of them: invariant overlap occurs when z is an invariant part and variant overlap occurs when z is a variant part. In an analogous way, we would have invariant connection (Box) and variant connection (Diamond). An interesting question arises as to how the mereology connects to the topology at this point. In a typical mereotopology using overlap and connection, one would hold that 'x overlaps y' implies 'x is connected to y'. (You can do the same with parthood directly, but it's slightly cleaner to use overlap.) But what happens when we differentiate different kinds of overlap and connection? It seems clear that some general bridge principle still exists: namely, that if x either variantly or invariantly overlaps y, then x is either variantly or invariantly connected to y. But this is quite weak. Is there a stronger principle? Does invariant overlap imply invariant connectiom and variant overlap imply variant connection? This does seem plausible, although I wonder if there are unusual cases where one would be better off sticking to the more general principle. We can, again, do the same with other concepts like 'is an interior part of' or 'is a boundary of'. Tanaver II The following chapters have been done at Tanaver. Chapter I: A Day in the Life Part I, Part II Chapter II: This Darkest Sea Chapter III: Conversation over Lunch New Chapter IV: City in Heaven New The current wordcount is around 13200. One of the things I definitely decided on early was to make ordinary spaceflight to be long and tedious, and I have succeeded. Here we have two transitional chapters with nothing happening; very difficult to write. Chapter II, I think, is particularly weak; it had to be written over a series of very busy days and shows it. I am also behind two days, i.e., one chapter or somewhere between 3000 and 4000 words, because of Election Day: I had no time, having had office hours, logic tests to grade, an election to vote in, and a meeting to attend. That was one exhausting Tuesday. And by Wednesday evening I was exhausted. Normally Mondays and Wednesdays are my long days; I wouldn't have expected a Tuesday to be the first to set me back. And I have been unable since then to catch up. I'm hoping to make up the difference this week at some point. With extraordinary luck I might even make it all the way through Part I this week; but I am not banking on it. This November may be quieter than most, but November really is the busiest month of my year. I had been thinking that for a 'special feature' I would talk a bit about Samar philosophy, but I think I will actually save that for next time, and this time just say something about how much of all this was thought out beforehand. I've had the general storyline for quite some time. The Samar, while background characters, provide key structural elements, and there are certain important characters who ground everything else in the story. But most of what is actually written is as new to me as to anyone else; it's all very, very first draft. This includes most of the background. I had deliberately done very little preparation here; I started throwing together a few Sylven poems about a week before this whole thing began so that I wouldn't get mired in the very first chapter, but doing any serious preparation without actually writing major parts of the story itself wouldn't really have been possible, and I wanted to keep actual writing as much in NaNoWriMo as possible. There are certainly less exhausting ways to write, but it seemed more in keeping with the spirit of things. It really is all thrown together, albeit with some rhyme and reason. The Sylven poetry, of course, is based on Finnish and Estonian models, although here and there I stray west to Scandinavia or the Faroe Islands or south to Hungary. There are reasons for this, but they should come out over time in the story itself. Since it's all supposed to be in translation, anyway, I settled on primarily nonasyllabic formats to give it a distinctive feel. 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__label__cc	0.716114	0.283886	How To Make the Most of Your London Time by BritsInBoots What’s your plan for London in March? Between intimate songwriter sessions and raucous after parties, there’s a high chance that Country 2 Country at the O2 will keep you busy enough. But, in case the huge country music festival leaves you any downtime in the capital, as locals we’re sharing some of our favourite spots; the lesser known treats surrounding London’s landmarks. Near The O2 The O2 Arena: Home to C2C Country 2 Country Festival We know, we know, if it wasn’t the site of Country 2 Country festival, you probably wouldn’t travel this far east. But if you are staying in the area, one stop west on the tube will bring you to Canary Wharf. It’s the towering financial district which also houses a warren of high street shops in underground walkways (and in summer is home to free weekend festival Nashville Meets London). Above ground search for Ole and Steen, a bakery and café with London’s best Danish pastries. After dark, a couple of doors along is the Big Easy, a New Orleans themed restaurant and bar with sinfully sticky food and free live blues every night. Or, try the decidedly British Boisdale, with its well stocked whisky bar and cigar library, offering ticketed live music every night, occasionally with country artists on the bill. Near the Tower of London Perkin Reveller: The most scenic beer garden in London? This imposing castle, hiding gruesome histories and maintaining bizarre traditions, is one tourist attraction which is worth a tour – especially if you can make one of the after dark special events. This is where you’ll find the crown jewels (not Buckingham Palace) and the iconic bridge nearby is Tower Bridge (not London Bridge). If you arrive via Tower Hill tube station, look out for the ancient sundial which, as well as telling you the time if your phone battery dies, also charts the history of “London” since Roman times. For refreshment, the beer garden of the Perkin Reveller boasts inventive cocktails with an atmospheric view, set in the shadow of the tower. Alternatively, ducking down a staircase beside the famous bridge will take you to St Katherine Docks, a little marina haven with a wide choice of mid-price restaurants and one Medieval banquet hall because, why not. The Vault Bar: through the bookcase and into the cellar under Millroy’s of Soho. This central shopping street is mainly avoided by Londoners, especially when it’s rammed with weekend dawdlers. If shopping centrally really appeals, nearby Carnaby Street (famed for it’s Rock and Roll past) has a few more interesting brands and is also home to Kingly Court, a covered yard of bars and eateries. Then, just south of Oxford Street you’ll find buzzing Soho. This edgier area is an historic mix of adult-only shops, legendary music venues behind darkened doorways (try Upstairs @ Ronnie Scott’s) and restaurants which have outlasted countless hipster food trends. A must visit is stalwart whisky shop Millroy’s of Soho. With over 250 varieties in stock, there’s also a bar on the shop floor to help find your favourite before you buy. For more intimate drinks the shop’s cellar is home to a once secret but still excellent cocktail bar, The Vault. The far less clandestine Soho pub The Spice of Life has a long running and respected Open Mic night on Mondays while the first Sunday of every month they showcase unsigned talent in the ‘Country Soul Sessions’. Near Theatreland Rock and Sole Plaice: Possibly a tourist trap but a delicious one. Overseas visitors, please try the fish and chips at Rock and Sole Plaice. Much of England will balk at the London prices and we balked when they added “world famous” to their sign, but it’s a far more authentic version of the traditional British dish than you’ll get in the nearby restaurants and pubs. Musicians should make the pilgrimage to Denmark Street aka Tin Pan Alley for old times sake, even though the record studios which made its name have disappeared. These days all that remains of its melodic past are the musical instrument and instrument repair shops, but even if you’re not buying a banjo, stop for a light lunch or dinner at Flat Iron. There’s only one main on the menu, delectable sliced steak which, for £10, comes with a bit of salad. Near Portobello Road Museum of Brands and Packaging: Relive your childhood through generations of Heinz. The famous west London street market has always attracted hoards, but even more so since its starring role in 1999 romcom Notting Hill. Before you hit the second hand stalls, look out for tiny cowboy boot shop Jessie Western half way up the road. The area’s also home to one of London’s most niche museums, the Museum of Brands and Packaging. Unlike our city’s flagship museums, this small venue does charge for admission (£9) but it takes you on a quirky, nostalgic trip through time via the things which have filled our shelves over the years. Near the London Eye Whether it’s just a drink on the Royal Festival Hall terrace, watching archived films for free in the BFI Mediatheque or catching an artsy festival, there’s always something to amuse you along the Thames’ Southbank. While there, you’re just a couple of moments away from The London Studios where you can sit in the audience of a TV show recording (get free tickets in advance from sites like SRO, The Applause Store or The BBC directly). To escape the main footfall, try the cafes of Gabriel’s Wharf. Near Borough Market Texas Joe’s: Lone Star London This mecca of fine food [cover photograph] has become as much a tourist attraction as a place to pick up artisan produce. It has varied options for ready-to-eat but if you fancy something less fancy, you’re just ten minutes walk from a southern style BBQ joint, Texas Joe’s. Next door is their sister bar and juke joint Flying W Saloon. Back down toward the river there’s a somewhat touristy but charming old school pub Anchor Bankside. London is a sprawling place and these are just a selection of central suggestions, so if you’re curious about any type of venue or area of the city we’ve not covered, just ask below. In the meantime, we’ll leave you with a few essential tips for travelling on the tube. To work out a rough underground journey time, count the number of stops and multiply that by 2.5 minutes to allow plenty of time. (Two minutes should be enough if your journey is only in zone one). Buy and preload an Oyster travel card for much cheaper fares (and also because you can no longer pay cash on buses). Keep your receipt and return it on your last day to reclaim the £5 deposit. Alternatively use a contactless bank card for the same discounted prices. Don’t bother take the tube to get between Covent Garden, Leicester Square or Piccadilly Circus stations, they’re all within 5-15 minutes walk of each other. When waiting on an underground platform, stand opposite one of the tube logos on the walls. These indicate where the carriage doors should be, as long as the driver stops right on the line. Never, ever, EVER stand on the left side of the escalator or you will incur the wrath of eight million Londoners. (Although we promise, this really is a very friendly city.) 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__label__wiki	0.971998	0.971998	Promoting Children's Books Since 1945 What is the Guild? Code of Conduct/Anti-Harassment Policy Readings on Diversity and Inclusion Guild History Nonfiction Award A Retrospective Lunchtime Lectures Phillip Hoose 2018 Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award Winner The Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C., selected Phillip Hoose as its 2018 Nonfiction Award Winner. The award, given annually since 1977, honors authors or illustrators whose total work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children. Hoose was honored at a Children’s Build Guild Award Luncheon on April 7, 2018, at Clyde's Restaurant of Gallery Place, 707 7th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Hoose’s books explore important topics through protagonists whose stories compel readers “to turn to the next page because they want to know what’s going to happen to someone or something they care about,” Hoose told Book Links. His protagonists range from teenagers like Claudette Colvin and Knud Pederson to the tiny red knot bird and the great ivory billed woodpecker. “I like to find stories that have not been told that I think will inspire young readers,” says Hoose. Hoose has won numerous honors for individual books. Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice, the story of an impassioned teenager who refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, won the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Robert F. Sibert Honor Awards. Hoose won another Robert F. Sibert Honor Award for his most recent title, The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and The Churchill Club, the story of teens who challenged the German occupation of Denmark. Nonfiction Award Committee member Brenda Randolph was particularly moved by Hoose’s attention to the role of young people as social activists, the focus of We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History. The companion book, It’s Our World, Too, introduces readers to 14 children working for social causes and includes a handbook for modern-day young activists. “One of the things I most admire in Phillip Hoose’s work is the extent to which he’ll go to leave no stone unturned when conducting the scholarly research that informs his writing,” said Nonfiction Award Committee member Lulu Delacre. Hoose spent six years researching and writing We Were There, Too! After several more years patiently waiting for Claudette Colvin and Knud Pederson to agree, Hoose conducted hours and days of interviews with each one. “Hoose infuses his narrative nonfiction with the imagination and courage of young people making a difference,” says Nonfiction Award Committee chair Karen Leggett. “He transforms challenging issues like extinction and civil rights into stories that engage young readers.” He meets the highest standards in nonfiction literature for children. Our Facebook Page: The Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC Code of Conduct/ Anti-Harassment Policy Anti-Harassment Report Form Mid-Atlantic Book List Committee Positions Guild Leadership Member Contacts Dues & Fees Contact ChildrensbookguildATyahoo.com. © 2019, Children's Book Guild. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1037
__label__cc	0.699691	0.300309	Home » Publications » Recommendations for SBSTA49 agenda item 11(a) as it relates to the guidance for cooperative approaches referred to in article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement Recommendations for SBSTA49 agenda item 11(a) as it relates to the guidance for cooperative approaches referred to in article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement Prepared for the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice 49th meeting, COP24, Katowice As part of the Paris Rulebook discussions at COP24, further elaborations are needed on the rules for article 6. Guidance for cooperative approaches under article 6.2 is an important element of these rules, and will need to be determined in a way that avoids opening doors to lower climate ambition. Currently, there is a risk that engaging in cooperative approaches under article 6.2 will be governed by much weaker rules than the Sustainable Development Mechanism under article 6.4, which would divert most of the trading activity away from the SDM, and could water down the Paris Agreement’s ambition. Article 6.2 should therefore be designed as a set of rules applying to all transfers of credits. It should ensure the avoidance of double counting through the application of corresponding adjustments to all transfers of credits. Further, it should define the nature and scope of ITMOs to ensure that these represent real, permanent, additional and verifiable emission reductions, and are issued from mitigation projects, rather than from sector-based crediting approaches or the linkage of Emissions Trading Systems. This document first outlines the relationship between articles 6.2 and 6.4, and then proposes ways to avoid double counting through article 6.2. Only allow the transfer of ITMOs with high environmental integrity by ensuring that they represent real, permanent, additional, and verifiable emission reductions, and ensure ITMOs can only be generated for emission reductions. Do not issue carbon credits on a sector-based approach, nor from ETS allowances or their net flows between linked ETSs. Only allow ITMOs to take the form of a unit with a unique serial number. Apply corresponding adjustments for all offset credits at the point of first transfer. Prevent the use of ITMOs towards simultaneous achievement of multiple types of objectives, e.g. finance and mitigation objectives. Set up a publicly accessible international transaction log connected to national registries covering UNFCCC and non-UNFCCC mechanisms and which record information on the issuance, transfer(s), use, and cancelation of each unit. Creating a strong set of rules for the transfer of international credits Setting a framework for the transfer of credits under the Sustainable Development Mechanism Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets up, under its paragraph 4, a new mechanism for the issuance and transfer of carbon credits, with several objectives related to the overall mitigation of greenhouse gases and the promotion of sustainable development (see our recommendations on this “Sustainable Development Mechanism” (SDM) here). Article 6.2 should determine a set of guidance and rules to govern cooperative approaches by Parties when transferring ITMOs. These rules should apply to all credits generated under the SDM. In the context of aggregate climate ambition which falls short of the Paris Agreement’s objective of keeping global warming below 1.5C°, and several NDCs even setting national targets above business-as-usual reference levels, issuing units on a sector-based approach carries a significant risk of injecting hot air in the post-2020 carbon markets. Therefore, article 6.2 should not be set up as a sector-based crediting mechanisms, and ITMO’s should only come from project based mitigation activities. Furthermore, linkages of emissions trading systems should not result in the issuance of ITMOs under article 6.2. Emissions trading systems function on a fundamentally different basis from offsetting mechanisms. While the former involves the exchange of allowances, which represent a “right to emit” below a certain cap, the latter involves trades of credits, which represent achieved emission reductions and are issued ex-post. Whether or not cancelling an ETS allowance has an impact on GHG concentrations in the atmosphere therefore depends on the stringency of the cap, and the potential accumulated oversupply in the market. Exchanging an ETS allowance for a carbon credit implies that the ETS cap is sufficiently stringent and that there is no oversupply, so that every allowance would have been used, and therefore the cancellation of the allowance avoids the future emission. However, in ETSs with significant oversupply, and where measures have been adopted to retire and cancel allowances from the market, such as through the Market Stability Reserve in the European Emissions Trading System, allowances do not necessarily translate into real future emissions, and therefore converting allowances into carbon credits can lead to an increase in emissions. In addition, in linked ETSs with high caps and oversupply, the net flow of allowances is not necessarily representative of any extra abatement efforts in a country or the other. Therefore, neither net flows of allowances from linked ETSs, nor the allowances themselves should be recognized as, or exchangeable for, ITMOs. Design article 6.2 as a set of complementary and mandatory rules to govern the trade of ITMOs, including those units generated under the Sustainable Development Mechanism, including by amending Section IV, subsection C., item (a) of paragraph 13 by deleting the word “internationally”. This is necessary to also cover those units which are transferred inside the host country, from a national registry to an airline. Also, select option A1 in Section IX , paragraph 85, and amend it to delete “when transferred internationally and used towards the achievement of an NDC”, to ensure units used for purposes other than NDC achievement are also subject to corresponding adjustments. Only allow the transfer of ITMOs with high environmental integrity by ensuring that they represent real, permanent, additional, and verifiable emission reductions, as listed in Section IV, subsection B, option A of paragraph 12. Also ensure ITMOs can only be generated for emission reductions by selecting option A1 of Section IV, subsection A., item 4, and amending it to read “Emission reductions”. Do not issue carbon credits on a sector-based approach, nor from ETS allowances or their net flows between linked ETSs. Only allow ITMOs to take the form of a unit with a unique serial number (Section IV, subsection A., item 3, option A1 of paragraph 10). Limit international transfers to ITMOs which were generated inside the scope of an NDC, as laid out in option A of Section VIII, subsection F, item 1, paragraph 76). Avoiding double counting in Article 6 A major objective for the rules developed under article 6.2 is to apply robust accounting to ensure the avoidance of double counting. This requires at least two essential and basic elements: the application of corresponding adjustments for all transfers of credits, and the establishment and maintenance of a publicly accessible international transaction log tracking all issuance, transfer, use, and cancellation of credits. The application of corresponding adjustments following the first transfer of any offset credit is an essential prerequisite for accurate accounting of emission reductions. This should apply to all transferred units, including those transferred outside of UNFCCC-mechanisms (e.g. to be used by airlines for compliance under CORSIA) or transferred domestically (for example to an airline based in the country hosting the mitigation activity). Corresponding adjustments should be emissions based, applied to an account based on the emissions inventory of the host Party. In addition, a transparent, complete, and publicly accessible international transaction log should be set up to allow public scrutiny over the transfers of units. It should be connected to national registries covering all units issued and traded under UNFCCC and non-UNFCCC programs, including the voluntary market. National registries should allow to identify each unit separately as well as provide aggregated data, and should document all stages of a unit’s “life”, including issuance, transfer(s), use, and cancellation. Apply corresponding adjustments for all offset credits at the point of first transfer (Option A of Section VIII, subsection D, paragraph 63 and Option B of Section VIII, subsection E, paragraphs 68-71). Apply corresponding adjustments on an emissions base, to the host Party’s account based on its emissions inventory (option B of Section VIII, subsection C, item 2), and apply this method consistently (Option A of Section VIII, subsection C, item 1). Prevent the use of ITMOs towards simultaneous achievement of multiple types of objectives by adopting all items in the potential list under paragraph 83 (Section VIII, subsection I.). Set up a publicly accessible international transaction log covering UNFCCC and non-UNFCCC mechanisms (option A of Section X, subsection B, paragraphs 100 and 101), connected to national registries which record information on the issuance, transfer(s), use, and cancelation of each unit (option A3 of Section X, subsection A, paragraph 96). Recommendations for SBSTA49 agenda item 11(a) Gilles Dufrasne, Policy Officer gilles.dufrasne@carbonmarketwatch.org Mobile: +32 (0) 491 91 60 70 African Workshop – Cameroon Carbon Market Watch Newsletter – June 2019 UN climate negotiators to discuss future carbon markets as calls to end offsetting grow louder Carbon Market Watch’s briefing note for the June 2019 Bonn UNFCCC session Carbon markets 101 – the ultimate guide to global offsetting mechanisms Carbon Market Watch Newsletter – May 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1039
__label__wiki	0.535932	0.535932	Author: Tux Turkel Publication: Portland Press Herald Experts predict slow gains in 2012 in the retail sector and office market, but housing is a mixed bag. By Tux Turkel tturkel@mainetoday.com PORTLAND - Maine's real estate industry is slowly recovering from the recession and showing some bright spots, but will continue to face challenges in 2012, speakers told Maine's largest gathering of real estate professionals Thursday. "I believe the worst is over," said Karen Rich, a commercial broker at Cardente Real Estate in Portland. Rich presented her outlook for southern Maine's retail sector during the Maine Real Estate & Development Association's annual forecast conference. The sold-out event drew a record crowd of 650 to the Holiday Inn by the Bay. Nationally, the economic recovery is making gradual progress, but home prices and real incomes continue to decline. That hurts affordability, said Charles Colgan, an economic forecaster from the University of Southern Maine, and will keep the market from improving significantly before 2013. In an economy driven by consumer spending, the retail sector is an important indicator, and Rich said she sees encouraging trends in Greater Portland. The area's retail vacancy rate, which peaked at nearly 11 percent in 2009, is falling. The rate last year was just above 6 percent, Rich said. Windham has emerged as the region's healthiest retail area, with a 3.7 percent vacancy rate. Some big holes remain, such as the former Shaw's Supermarket space in Falmouth and the former Filene's department store at the Maine Mall. But new franchises have filled some empty spaces, including Books-a-Million, which replaced Borders at the Maine Mall, and Urban Outfitters, which occupies a once-empty building on Middle Street in Portland's Old Port. Several restaurants, including Five Guys and Elevation Burger, have opened. "Mainers love their restaurants," Rich said. Looking ahead, Rich said, more big-box stores could close, as the Lowe's Home Improvement store in Biddeford did last year. But she also expects more expansion by banks and credit unions, Starbucks and thrift stores. Greater Portland's office market also is recovering. Buyers and tenants can still find favorable deals, but the overall vacancy rate has basically stopped climbing. It hung last year at just under 13 percent, said James Harnden of Malone Commercial Brokers. The office market absorbed 90,000 square feet of net space last year, the first positive number since 2008. Conditions will remain essentially flat this year, Harnden indicated. But the mood is more optimistic and a handful of projects are being proposed, including those at Thompson's Point and on West Commercial Street in Portland. On the housing front, the multi-family market is a mixed bag, said John Graham of Sullivan Multi-Family Realty. Short sales and bank-owned properties continue to make up a substantial portion of the market. Condominium conversion is flat. January 4, 2012 in Articles Dunkin Donuts is planning to double they amount of their locations over the next 20 years. To read the full article, please go to: http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/companies/dunkin_donuts_locations/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3 January 3, 2012 in News Cardente Real Estate is pleased to announce that Secret Bridges has leased 1,600 +/- square feet of retail space from Ferret Realty at 605 US Route One, Scarborough, Maine. This transaction was brokered by Karen Rich and Matthew Cardente of Cardente Real Estate. Author: Steve Baumann, David Harrigan, Frank O'Connor, Tony McDonald This article discusses forecasts for 2012 for the different commercial real estate sectors in Maine. December 29, 2011 in Articles Author: Tom Bell Publication: MaineToday A trove of images that offer an unusually detailed glimpse of the city's architecture in the Roaring '20s is finding its way online. Stored in the city tax assessor's office for nearly 90 years, a remarkable collection of historic photographs of more than 10,000 Portland buildings is now being digitized so they can be readily accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Outlook for Maine real estate brighterDunkin Donuts Is Doubling in SizeSecret Bridges has leased space at 605 US Route OneExperts Provide Forecasts for 2012Picturing Portland in the digital age	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1041
__label__cc	0.511031	0.488969	Even Stars Get Stage Fright My husband has discovered Pandora, an online streaming radio station. Being the curious sort, he wondered if he could use the app to build a stand-up comedy station instead of just a traditional music station and it turns out—you can. Every night for about 30 minutes before we go to bed we listen to the greats; Eddie Izzard, Alonzo Bodden and of course, Jerry Seinfeld. Last night I found myself actually LOLing at one of Jerry Seinfeld’s early jokes: According to most studies people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number 2 is death. Death is number 2. Does that sound right? This means to the average person if you go to a funeral you’re better off in the casket than doing fthe eulogy. I love the way he is able to take a truism about life and turn it on its head. But this morning his truism stuck with me. Studies do show that people are afraid of public speaking. A big part of my coaching practice is helping people overcome this exact fear. Many of my clients are comforted to learn that even Stars get stage fright. One technique I’ve found very effective is to challenge people’s assumptions about the notion that successful presenters aren’t nervous. In fact, when it comes to performing, all sorts of accomplished presenters—even celebrities, are more courageous than they are confident. And that is partly what makes them so successful. Courage is the act of feeling the fear and doing the scary thing anyway. Even if it means, quite literally, being pushed onto the stage. One of the greatest actors of the 20th century, Laurence Olivier, wasn’t struck with what he called the terrors until middle age. In his autobiography, Confessions of an Actor, he recounts using a vomit bucket backstage before many a performance. And then, needing his stage manager to shove him on after he’d unloaded himself. In a 2002 CNN interview with Connie Chung the opera singer Andrea Bocelli confessed that he is regularly affected by stage fright: “I don’t want to use drugs or medicine,” he said. “The only way is to just go on stage.” The Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Carly Simon has had such a hard time with the condition that she has, at times, poked herself in the hand with safety pins in order to focus her mind on something else. When the rock star Rod Stewart made his U.S. debut at New York’s Fillmore East Theater he admits to being so nervous that he sang his entire first song from behind a stack of speakers. Which brings us back to Eddie Izzard Even one of my nightly Pandora favorites, Eddie Izzard has struggled. Here’s what he recommends. Force yourself NOT to think about your nerves: You just can’t think about it. My analogy for not thinking about it is car driving: when you get in a car, you never think – what if I kill a kid after two minutes? You just don’t even think about it. You just make that pact with yourself.” By Carol Lempert\|Coaching & Learning, Executive Presence & Presentations\| Better Meeting Facilitation: A Tip Virtual Presence Tip in honor of President’s Day Get Camera Ready for better Virtual Presence Home / Coaching & Learning / Even Stars Get Stage Fright	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1048
__label__wiki	0.548641	0.548641	Rachel Fershleiser The Fiction Just Beyond Us Kathleen Alcott To the Quick Tony Tulathimutte Making It New Sarah Gerard How To \| Notes From Class Reading for an Audience “The closest my chosen literary life comes to the stage.” Notes from Class is a series in which instructors of Catapult’s writing classes chronicle their experiences as writers and teachers. I stood in front of an audience of writers and friends in a darkened painting studio. They held little plastic cups of wine in their hands—I’d finished mine moments before, during the intermission between the evening’s six readers. I was reading an essay I thought of as wry, bringing humor to a troubling topic without verging into irony. I was proud of this essay. I thought it was funny. But no one was laughing. My essay was about the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The earthquake was not funny, but in my job at the time—receptionist for a medical aid organization—I had been hit by my own absurd aftermath: endlessly ringing phones, bizarre offers of help, hierarchies shaken and upended. In an office of aid workers, medical professionals, and bona fide humanitarian heroes, suddenly I, the receptionist facing a bank of blinking phone-line lights, was the first line of defense. My essay about that experience had gone through half a dozen revisions, expanding to include other emergencies, contracting to focus on Haiti again. I added in other weird receptionist experiences—like the angry phone call from a woman who wanted to donate “breast prosthetics” and could not handle my confusion when I didn’t realize she meant the external, chicken-cutlet kind you slip into a bra, not surgical implants —and removed the additions again. Sometimes I’d print out the essay to read on it paper. I workshopped the piece, waded through feedback from readers, and took in what I found useful. I’d wrestled with the tone, learning where I came across as callous or smug, deciding where I wanted to take that risk—I had no desire to present myself as perfect. I wove in the most absurd moments: the repeat caller who thought he had a direct line to the CIA and offered us his assistance, the woman who wanted to donate her stock of healing herbs, the unsolicited donation of a large sack of turkey antibiotics (the label said “solo por pavos”). In those weeks after the earthquake, I worked the hardest I ever had in my life. But it was also completely ridiculous. Aid-workers were telling the receptionist, “I don’t know how you do it.” The receptionist withheld her answer: “I just took a ten-minute nap on the floor of the server closet.” That was the spirit I wanted to convey. But then I stood in front of an audience, ready to perform. I read my humorous essay about my weird experience at the periphery of a tragic event, and deep silence reached up to meet me. It wasn’t that the tragedy blotted out the humor. And it wasn’t that the audience couldn’t appreciate my profound sense of humor. What I realized, as I was reading, was that I didn’t find my essay funny, either. As I read a paragraph about lurching into sudden unemployment in 2009, I felt soft compassion for my younger self, the wayward summer that passed in fear before I knew where I’d land. As I read about the people who called our office, wanting to volunteer, heedless of policy, training, or logistics, I felt the anguished helplessness from which their offers sprang. I saw myself, the receptionist, fighting back the tide. She knew that we couldn’t take them to Haiti. She had to tell them “no” to clear the phone lines as fast as possible. In reading this essay—let’s be honest, this draft—to an audience aloud, I discovered myself as a character and myself as the author. I was able to hear what my essay wanted to be. It took me another year to finish it, but I got there. I’ve always been attracted to live readings for the performance. Whether I’m a reader or an audience member, readings provide a sense of community and connection that’s absent from the solitary act of reading. Books themselves forge a subtler connection—the reader gets an idea of the writer, at most: a voice, a point of view, a story that’s been shaped and framed. In some books, the author is absent from the reading experience, hidden behind vivid characters or richly researched nonfiction, and the reader’s connection is with that creation. But when I’m at a reading, I get to see authors as human beings—people and artists and bodies in space. I get to know the mind at work on the other side of the page. Sometimes, after I’ve heard an author read, their speaking voice becomes the voice of their books. I heard Catherine Lacey read from Nobody Is Ever Missing a couple of times before I read the book. When I came to the silent print on the page, I heard it in Lacey’s rhythm, with her momentum in the long sentences, her Mississippi cadence in the vowels. Mira Jacob is a virtuosic reader, gifting each of her characters with a specific voice and tone—having heard her read aloud, my own reading of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was gifted with those clear voices, too. I grew up loving theatre, and still do. It’s no surprise I love readings, the closest my chosen literary life comes to the stage. I love listening to readings from the audience and I love giving them, too. I get to stand onstage, read into a microphone, and at the end, people clap? I don’t even have to memorize lines? Where do I sign up? But the real discovery has been the other dividends of live readings, aside from attention, applause, and the opportunity to connect with more than one reader at once: The way words sound aloud, so different from their sound in our heads. The physical, physiological realities of rhythm and pacing and breath, what those mean for our language as art: our hearts beat in iambs, after all. Reading aloud gives us—writers—the chance to listen. To live in our own words, to own them in front of others, and to discover what we want to say. Jaime Green is a full-time freelance writer and editor. She received her MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia, and she has taught writing at Columbia, The New School, and the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, BuzzFeed, The Cut, GQ.com, Popular Science, Backstage, American Theatre online, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor for Catapult, the series editor for Best American Science and Nature Writing, and the romance review columnist for The New York Times. Rumpelstiltskin Goes to the Dentist “Would someone take away my firstborn—my first book—after I had seemingly spun straw into gold to produce it?” Reader-Based On Virginia Woolf, making hats, escapism, and how to write a novel that readers will read. Lynn Steger Strong What I Think of the Fact That You Keep Asking Me What My Family Thinks of My Writing When men create characters based on themselves, they are innovative; when women do it, they’re shaming their families. Chloe Caldwell	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1050
__label__wiki	0.919913	0.919913	Home > Volume 82 Issue 6 > THE LATEST FIX FOR NITROGEN Volume 82 Issue 6 \| p. 9 \| News of The Week Issue Date: February 9, 2004 THE LATEST FIX FOR NITROGEN Side-on N2-zirconium complex hints at homogeneous catalytic NH3 synthesis By Stephen K. Ritter In the latest effort to activate and functionalize nitrogen to produce ammonia, assistant chemistry professor Paul J. Chirik and coworkers at Cornell University have found that tweaking the ligand in a soluble zirconium complex provides a valuable clue that may help chemists develop a homogeneous catalytic route for nitrogen fixation [Nature, 427, 527 (2004)]. Side-on coordinated N2 in a zirconium intermediate can be hydrogenated and converted to ammonia under mild conditions. Credit: ADAPTED FROM NATURE © 2004 Dozens of transition-metal N2 complexes have been reported over the years as chemists have tried--with little success--to develop an alternative route to the Haber-Bosch industrial process, which makes NH3 using high temperature and pressure. The Cornell chemists began by reacting a zirconocene dichloride with N2 in an organic solvent using sodium amalgam as the reducing agent. This reaction formed a bridging bimetallic complex where the N2 is coordinated side-on between the metal atoms. When H2 is introduced, hydrogen atoms add to the N2 bridge to form a new complex. Upon heating to 85 °C under H2, this complex dissociates to form zirconocene dihydride and a small amount of NH3. One twist to the chemistry is that NH3 forms when tetramethylated cyclopentadienyl ligands are used. When pentamethylated ligands are used, as shown by other researchers, N2 binds end-on to the zirconium metal centers (Zr–N=N–Zr). Upon further addition of H2, the end-on complex dissociates to zirconocene dihydride and liberates N2--a typical observation for metal-N2 complexes. This finding indicates that the tetramethyl ligands alter the coordination geometry of N2 in such a way to allow NH3 formation. "While our reaction sequence isn't catalytic at this time, it may shed light on how to assemble N–H bonds under mild conditions," Chirik says. Caltech assistant chemistry professor Jonas C. Peters calls the work "extremely fascinating," adding that it "reminds us all how seemingly subtle changes in ligand architecture can dramatically alter the course of a chemical reaction profile."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1056
__label__wiki	0.596379	0.596379	Posted by: ckckred \| April 1, 2014 There is no director today as distinctive as Wes Anderson and I doubt there will be another film in 2014 that is as distinctive as The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes’ eagerly awaited follow-up to Moonrise Kingdom is perhaps the most Andersonian movie the director has made. Part screwball comedy and part murder mystery (a throwback to Anderson’s small-time crime comedy Bottle Rocket), The Grand Budapest Hotel combines every Anderson trait, a large ensemble cast stretching from Harvey Keitel to Léa Seydoux, a color palette full of bright reds and oranges, and doll-house sets and art direction. It’s absurdly funny and incredibly complex, making it the biggest and most ambitious movie Anderson has done to date. No one can exactly do what Wes Anderson does and The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of the filmmaker’s best pieces. Set in the fictional country of the Republic of Zubrowka, located in the European alpines, The Grand Budapest Hotel is built off of multiple timelines and stories. To set up this lengthy plot summary, the narrative is told by an unnamed author (Tom Wilkinson), who recalls when he visited the Grand Budapest Hotel in the late 60s (his younger self is played by Jude Law). Once a glorious establishment, the Grand Budapest Hotel has fallen onto hard times and its previously bright painted walls have turned into dull grays and browns. There, the author meets Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), the owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel. Curious to why Mr. Moustafa would want to keep the hotel, the writer asks him how he came to obtain the establishment. Then Mr. Moustafa recounts his time as a lobby boy in 1932 (played by Tony Revolori) where he worked under Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), the exuberant and womanizing concierge of the Grand Budapest. After Madame D. (Tilda Swinton), one of the hotel’s most frequent guests, passes away, Monsieur Gustave discovers that she has left him in her will the painting “Boy with Apple,” which is worth a fortune. Her son Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis (Adrien Brody) is in disbelief that her mother would give Gustave the picture and thinks that he had something to do with her death. He has J. G. Jopling (Willem Dafoe), a tidy bounty hunter, to capture Gustave and take the painting for himself. The story may be a bit hard to follow, but that doesn’t really matter in The Grand Budapest Hotel. What does is the symbiotic connection between the characters and the mutual trust between them, such as Gustave-Zero’s teacher-student or father-son relationship, recalling Max Fischer’s friendship with Herman Blume in Rushmore. A common criticism of Anderson is that his films are often shallow on emotion and while he most certainly isn’t a director of sentiment, his characters aren’t cartoons. Love, life, and liberty all play roles in The Grand Budapest Hotel from Gustave’s loyalty to the author’s wide-eyed fascination. Anderson’s cinematographer Robert Yeoman, who has worked with the director since Bottle Rocket, photographs The Grand Budapest Hotel with a unique eye for culture, switching from wide to full screen once the picture goes back to the 1930s. Like every Anderson picture, there’s much intricacy in the design and shape of the worlds his characters inhabit that even the little details matter, like the signs plastered on the sides of the hotel walls or the Sovietesque uniforms Zubrowka soldiers wear. It’s impossible to credit a Wes Anderson movie without praising the cast and much like Anderson’s previous ensemble pictures like The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom, the actors are all in top form. Fiennes is charismatic as Gustave, using his charm and endearment to play out comic lines. Adrien Brody is terrific as the picture’s snide villain and Willem Dafoe sends up his past roles as a psychopathic serial killer, proving to be a talented comic actor. Anderson regulars Bill Muuray, Jason Schwartman, and Owen Wilson make brief appearance but steal scenes in their few moments. Newcomer Tony Revolori also is a great find for Anderson, acting as the straight man to Fiennes’ eccentricity. Showing once again that he’s both an expert in comedy and drama, Wes Anderson provides 2014’s first fresh breath of air with The Grand Budapest Hotel, which met my very lofty expectations. I’m eager to see what Wes has planned next. Posted in Movies, Review \| Tags: Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, F. Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Lea Seydoux, Moonrise Kingdom, Owen Wilson, Ralph Fiennes, Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Tony Revolori, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe « Should Movie Theaters Turn Their Sound Down? Noah » Really glad you liked it mate, I thought it was fantastic. A little hard to follow as you say, but it’s just so much fun and never lets up. By: Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop on April 1, 2014 Thanks! It was a lot of fun and it never grew boring. By: ckckred on April 1, 2014 Great review! I respect Wes Anderson a lot and am glad he has another hit on his hands. By: cindybruchman on April 1, 2014 Thanks! Anderson rarely disappoints. My favorite film of 2014 so far. By: le0pard13 on April 1, 2014 I’ve only seen Non-Stop and Noah besides Budapest thus far this year but this is easily the best of three. I wouldn’t be surprised if this made my top 10 of 2014. So much whimsical fun here, that only Anderson himself could deliver. Good review. By: CMrok93 on April 1, 2014 Thanks! Anderson is great at making quirky slapstick comedies. Nice review. Definitely a good movie this was (thought I personally didn’t have a hard time following along :P), and Fiennes was tremendous. 🙂 By: Chris on April 1, 2014 Thanks! Fiennes was particularly great. I hope he has another role in a future Wes Anderson movie. Glad you love this one too! I really enjoyed this one, you’re right it has the right mix of comedy & drama, it was quite emotional to see the scenes w/ the older Zero. Fiennes is fantastic in his rare comedic role, hope he’ll do more like this in the future. I’m curious to see what Wes’ll do next! By: ruth on April 1, 2014 Thanks! I’d love to see another Wes Anderson movie with Fiennes, I’d really like to see him in another role like this. One of 2014’s best films thus far. I would’ve placed it at #1 but then I saw Enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal. By: Mark Hobin on April 2, 2014 I’ve only seen a few 2014 movies thus far but this is easily the best I’ve watched thus far. It did not disappoint. This movie is absolute perfection, and I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. His style is definitely distinctive, and I’ve always appreciated him for that. Going to see this for a second viewing! Absolutely stunning! By: Courtney Young on April 2, 2014 I’m a big Wes fan and I loved this as well. This probably one of his more accessible pictures, which is strange since it has the most Andersonian feel to it. Same here mate. Well done; really enjoyed reading this. Almost as much as watching the movie! By: Three Rows Back on April 2, 2014 Also loved this film and already saw it twice at the cinema. Beautiful to look at and filled with amazing acting, beautiful symmetry and a story which never has a boring moment. By: Nostra on May 2, 2014 […] for film, I haven’t seen many current pictures. The Grand Budapest Hotel though was an absolute treat and like all We Anderson movies will certainly improve during a second […] By: What Are Your Movie/TV Highlights of the Year Thus Far? \| Cinematic on June 8, 2014 Leave a Reply to What Are Your Movie/TV Highlights of the Year Thus Far? \| Cinematic Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1062
__label__cc	0.631119	0.368881	SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) Posted on February 13, 2016 by CineMaven …what does success smell like? Thank goodness for the movies, ey? We can see how the other half lives withOUT literally jumping in the cesspool with them. I would program “SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS” on the same movie marquee with “Ace in the Hole” and “A Face in the Crowd.” They have the same feeling, tone. ( Let me throw in “Network” as a bonus which was my choice for the 2015 version of 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. ) I find these four movies absolutely timeless because their commentary, criticism and cynicism seems ripped from today’s headline. They shine klieg lights on politics and television and journalism. “Sweet Smell of Success” takes the cake. And to paraphrase J.J. Hunsecker, it’s a cake filled with arsenic. What a fantastic movie. Venom never went down so smoothly. I’ll have you know I tried. I searched and wracked my brains for something in a positive vein to write for 31 Days of Oscar – 2016, hosted by Aurora of Once Upon A Screen, Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled and Paula of Paula’s Cinema Club. For all you Oscar-philes…this blogathon is the place to be. I wanted to be more positive this go round and cheer for the choices the Academy DID make. Yet here I am again, singing the praises of a movie that should have won an Academy Award on so many fronts: Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actor (Tony Curtis), Best Supporting Actress (Barbara Nichols ), Best Picture, Best Director (Alexander Mackendrick) and Best Cinematography ( James Wong Howe. ) Here are the actual Academy Award winners for 1957. I know it’s all apples and oranges. And I’m not saying that some of these winners and nominees weren’t deserved. But I could swap out several of these oranges for my apples, which you can see ——> here. Did’ja see what I mean? I’ll take this movie on in its totality. You may know this story already, and if you don’t…there will be spoilers. If you want, see the movie first and then come back to me. I’ll wait for you on the Couch. Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco When we’re introduced to Sidney Falco, we see his name on the office door. Taped on. Straightaway….so tacky and so temporary. It says a lot about Mr. Falco. To see Sidney in action is truly a thing of destructive beauty. He’s like a runaway train careening towards a cliff. Sidney is like a shark searching for prey, ever-moving. I think of the great job Edmond O’Brien did in “The Barefoot Contessa” as the sweaty and jittery agent. But our Sidney is played like one cool cat. I would put Sidney Falco on a double bill with Widmark’s Harry Fabian ( in “Night and the City” ) and call it: “CADS, WEASELS and FAST TALKERS.” Harry Fabian and Sidney Falco are both “ideas” guys; users and manipulators. But if I had to choose one I’d go with Tony Curtis. Sidney is awfullllly good-looking. I like the meta aspect of the film commenting on Sidney’s / Curtis’ good looks. Curtis also imbues Sidney with charm and boyishness. He’s a beautiful shark…a survivor who thinks quick on his feet in any situation. You can see his neurons popping and sparking as he rubs his thumb over his forehead or wrings his hands, or bites a fingernail. Sidney jumps into cabs like disposable limousines and breezes into 21 or Toots Shor like he’s going to the corner bodega for milk, yet he’s too cheap to check his coat. He knows everyone and everyone knows him. He knows the lingo ( he doesn’t say “Daddy-O” though) and it suits him. He lives in a ring-a-ding ding way ( a one-man Rat Pack ) and walks amidst the nightlife like a prince…of fools. He sucks up to whomever. He’s a sycophant. He…will…use…anyone. And does. Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker His aphorisms. His veiled threats. His manufactured molehill so he could create a mountain in his confrontation with Steve Dallas ( Martin Milner ) the musician who likes J.J.’s sister. His veiled and not so veiled reminders to everyone that he has some dirt on ’em. His symbiotic relationship with Sidney…like a marriage gone bad, but he stays in because he likes to torture and dominate. When J.J. says “I love this dirty town,” it hearkens back ( for me ) to Robert Duvall saying “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” in “Apocalypse Now.” New York as a wasteland of war. Lancaster plays Hunsecker very still as opposed to the kinetic energy of Sidney. There’s much power in his stillness. He doesn’t even have to break a sweat to get his cigarette lit. I’m still stuck on Sidney. I want to watch him think; watch him maneuver, connive, flatter and dump. It’s a little tough for me to take my mind off of Tony Curtis’ performance. THE WOMEN OF “SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS”: Edith Atwater as Mary, J.J. Hunsecker’s Secretary Sidney tries to get a sneak peak at J.J.’s next column. But she won’t let him. After she turns down his playfully bribing dinner invitation, he tells her: “Now why should I bribe the woman that holds most of my heart.” Her response to Sidney describes him best. Her delivery as she berates him is in such a pitch perfect, matter-of-fact way. ( Love her. ) “You’re a real rascal Sidney. Amusing boy, but you haven’t got a drop of respect in you for anything alive. You’re so immersed in the theology of making a fast buck. Not that I don’t sometimes feel you yearn for something better. Oh I don’t mind you looking at the column in advance so long as J.J. doesn’t know. But don’t do it like a little boy stealing money from a gum machine.” Look at Sidney’s reaction. He’s not upset. He’s not insulted. ( Hell, you can’t even INSULT the guy ). He just wants what he wants. Are ya gonna be mad at a two-year old for whining? And don’t tell me THAT scene doesn’t remind you of James Bond and Miss Moneypenny. She’s just as confident as J.J. Jeff Donnell as Mary, Sidney’s Secretary A bit of a sad sack, maternal, caring, very efficient. Sweet lay. Why’s she still with him? Oh, because you know…Sidney. ( Check out Donnell’s performance in “In A Lonely Place.” Very different, right? ) She tries to be his conscience but that’s a losing battle. I want better for her. Barbara Nichols as Rita, The Cigarette Girl Your 50’s blonde bombshell. A smart girl just a little dumb around the edges. She’s been used, but she knows the score. She wants Sidney. And that is her misfortune. Barbara Nichols brings a sadness and pathos to the cigarette girl. I think she longs to escape but knows she can’t. The movie treats her with sympathy. She may be that proverbial ‘dumb blonde’ but I don’t think the movie treats her that way. She has feelings. I think Barbara Nichols did a lot with this small role. You’re telling me they couldn’t have swapped out the virginal good girl Diane Varsi for a good-time girl with a heart of gold for a nomination? Tsk! Tsk! Lurene Tuttle as Loretta, The Columnist’s Wife Smart, cynical, astute. She plays the horses and takes a nip or three as compensation for what’s NOT happening at home. She’s a pragmatist. The great character actress Lurene Tuttle takes on this small part. See, she’s so much more than her cute turn in “Psycho.” In “SSS” she turns on a dime. Playing cynical at first, look how she turns on a dime after her character’s husband comes clean and confesses to playing footsie with a cigarette girl. I believe his sincerity… he takes all the power away from the blackmailing Sidney. You should see Sidney’s face. I love the gravitas Tuttle lends the scene when she says to her husband: “That’s the cleanest thing I’ve seen you do in years.” Thrilling to watch. It’s a gift to be able to do drama and comedy convincingly. Lurene nails it. ( Don’t get me started on Thelma Ritter in “Pick-Up On South Street.” Grrr! ) Susan Harrison as Susie Hunsecker J.J.’s SISTER…is Snow White in this monstrous fairy tale. And the big bad wolf is her own brother. What big eyes he has… for her. She walks a tightrope of being the damsel in distress…without being all fey and cloying. She was scared of her big brother. Scared of his feelings towards her. ( Can you say “Scarface”? ) She had to find a way to break away from him. This role and could have gone horribly wrong if played by the wrong actress. I’m not saying Sarah Berhardt should be afraid of Harrison, but she’s fine in this part. You don’t want someone as gentle and breakable as Yvette Mimieux. I don’t see the tremulous Sandy Dennis. Maybe Shirley Knight could have done it though I don’t see a blonde. In any event Harrison does a good job as Susie found her power. Do you remember when Susie finally leaves? She has a raging, impotent raging bull stand in her way; but he couldn’t even hold the door against her as she pulls it slowly open. She could practically brush past J.J. with a feather and he would crumble. DIRECTION & CINEMATOGRAPHY I know. Is it really fair of me to compare these two aspects of “Sweet Smell of Success” when I haven’t seen all of the Best Picture nominees? ( I’ve not seen “Sayonara.” ) Yeah, whaddya gonna do about it? I’m writin’ here! “Witness for the Prosecution” is pretty pedestrian looking. Lumet’s “12 Angry Men” is good and tense, but it’s twelve guys in a room sweating in white shirts. Everything looks matte and flat. The scale of “Bridge on the River Kwai” is massive, epic and they filmed on location. To be honest, I’m not really taking anything away from any of the nominees. All the films took effort and creativity. But the look and the feel of “Sweet Smell…” is just beyond beyond, for me. Alexander MacKendrick puts us in a petri dish with his direction and James Wong Howe lights the dish. How fluidly Mackendrick moves that camera like a modern-day director. Remember the scene with J.J. and the Senator and his mistress? As for location…what better location than New York City. MacKendrick throws his cast right into the heart of the City that never Sleeps. And at night, to boot. And who better to capture the night than the master…the great James Wong Howe. Puhleeze! His fellow nominees that year were: Jack Hildyard …………. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” William C. Mellor ……… “Peyton Place” Ray June ………………. “Funny Face” Milton Krasner ………… “An Affair to Remember” Ellsworth Fredericks … “Sayonara” Really? Was there any contest that year? He uses deep focus, his palette of black and white and fifty shades of grey reads like sterling silver nitrate dripping from the screen like Mercury. Oooh, I want to drown in those black and whites. He paints the pictures the director sees in his head. I think they were an unbeatable team that year. A few years ago I suggested to my friend Lindsey to run, don’t walk, to her local video store and take out “Sweet Smell of Success” to watch with her mother. ( Yeah, this was a while ago when videostores existed! ) She had never seen the movie before. She texted me her reaction: “Yes, I did get ‘Sweet Smell of Success.’ Great movie for sure! Although ‘Network’ to me is STILL cutting edge, the dialogue in ‘Success’ is priceless and irreplaceable. Can’t touch the banter between Lancaster and Curtis with a barbwire pole. Lancaster is absolutely steely and stoic with very little compromise, while Curtis is a pretty oil slick just waiting to happen. Still trying to get the residue off my eyes…” Now folks….if that’s not a ringing, unsolicited endorsement for an Academy Award, then I don’t know WHAT is. Sidney and J.J. are intrinsically locked together. I don’t know which came first the chicken Hunsecker or the egg Falco. The see-saw of loyalties swings like a pendulum do. Definitely J.J. holds out a carrot of success for Sidney who chases it down for all its worth, just out of reach. This movie’s so incisive you can smell the rotting carrot. Hunsecker is willing to put his sister in a mental institution. It’s not that she’s crazy but if he can’t have her NO ONE will. Sidney will continue to feed off J.J.’s scraps, and wheel and deal his way through showbiz like Eve Harrington. Sidney will be there when he falls and Hunsecker is bound to fall. His sister leaving him surely will do him in. He stands on the balcony watching her walk out into the clean cold light of day, as powerless as Andy Griffith screams into the night at the end “A Face in the Crowd.” I can very well understand why the Academy didn’t even NOMINATE “Sweet Smell of Success.” The moral compass of the movie is very skewed and no institution would reward shining that harsh a light on itself if it wasn’t going to come out smelling like roses. There’s more Oscar talk where THIS comes from. Once Upon A Screen handles the Actors, Outspoken and Freckled features the Snubs. And Paula’s Cinema Club will show the Crafts of moviemaking. There will be a big wind up for Motion Pictures and Directors by both Kellee and Aurora. You’re in the thick of it now, folks. Thanks for reading my leg of the journey. Here are three reasons to watch “Sweet Smell of Success.” WHY? Because Criterion says so: [ H O M E ] This entry was posted in 1957, BLOGATHONS, DRAMA and tagged "SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS", Alexander Mackendrick, Barbara Nichols, Burt Lancaster, Edith Atwater, James Wong Howe, Lurene Tuttle, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Susan Harrison, Tony Curtis by CineMaven. Bookmark the permalink. 13 thoughts on “SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)” Vienna on February 13, 2016 at 4:14 AM said: Great definitive review though I would have liked more of your thoughts on the J.J. character. Thanks for video clips too. CineMaven on February 13, 2016 at 7:46 AM said: Thanks for reading Vienna. Sooooo, you think I gave J.J. short shrift ey? I’ll do something about that. conewells on February 13, 2016 at 12:46 PM said: “Relax, Lump.” Wow, that Sidney Falco, so vicious, yet strangely charismatic. Seen this film so many times I lost count. The Ultimate Manhattan Movie. As for J.J.- brrrrr. (Ms. Harrison, whose big brown eyes blew me away, did not age very well, imho) Great article, Tex. CineMaven on February 13, 2016 at 9:31 PM said: Tony is the whole movie to me. Even more than Burt. It’s a movie that I haven’t seen as much as you ‘cuz it’s not an easy comfortable watch. But when I DO sit with it…it stays with me. I appreciate the comment, Rob. Thanks for reading! carygrantwonteatyou on February 13, 2016 at 1:24 PM said: Wonderful review. I haven’t seen all of the films nominated, but Peyton Place performances over this one’s? Hard to believe. I can’t stand Curtis, and he’s brilliant here. And Lancaster is a revelation. And that spinning, twirling, dark script and camera work. Phenomenal. I’m actually not surprised by its snubs, though. Look at Ace in the Hole. The Academy–it just doesn’t like satire. BTW, I like your take on spoilers, always something I struggle with: “If you want, see the movie first and then come back to me. I’ll wait for you on the Couch.” Hey Leah…I’m always torn with spoilers…and also trying to be less long-winded.( Just saw “Ace in the Hole” at the Loew’s Jersey…what a cynical sublime script. I just kept shaking my head at what I seeing. ) I agree, the Academy loves klieg lights…not the “spotlight.’ And don’t you like when you have to grudgingly give it to an actor you’re not crazy about…and say they did a good job? Thanks for reading and commenting Pingback: OSCAR SNUBS of the 31 Days Of Oscar Blogathon are here! – Outspoken and Freckled Marvin.Go see Mary Poppins; you won't be sorry, and Victor, Victoria as well! See you at Gee Whiz. on February 13, 2016 at 8:22 PM said: Thanks Marvin. Still wish you’d write for me. kelleepratt on February 15, 2016 at 1:09 PM said: What a splendid and in-depth look at this amazing classic. I love your photos, too. Always thrilled to have you join our blogathons, Theresa- THANK YOU! Thank YOU Kellee. You three gals are a real triple-threat in the blogging world. Inspiring. My only problem has been WHEN to read all the fantastic entries you gals gather up. I’ve got to make time…and I’m a RETIREE!! Thanks again. Michaela on February 18, 2016 at 1:16 PM said: Wow — what a great review. I love so much about this movie, which surprised me because I’m more a sunshine-and-roses kind of filmgoer. But this script is razor sharp, the images are delicious, and the performances are the best. Lancaster was born for J.J., yes, but Tony Curtis knocks me out. He may have been pretty, but he had talent too. I watched this with my film noir class last semester and it pleased me to no end when the film was over and everyone left quoting it. Good stuff. Hi Michaela…I’m so glad you made the time to read my encyclopedic review ( L0L! ) It’s great this film was well-received by your film class. It’s bitter and cynical and a bit twisted. I love that. Oh boy Tony Curtis really fantastic…the driving force of the movie, that’s why I spent more time on him than Burt Lancaster. Snubbed by Oscar. Oh well…we ALL know it was a good movie! Thanks for checking me out!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1063
__label__cc	0.7377	0.2623	Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature A Department of the UndergraduateToggle Section Navigation Studies in Cinema & Media Culture CSCL Student Association Home / Undergraduate Video of Robert (Robin) Brown, Jr. - Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Faculty Together our majors and minors, our graduate students, and our staff and faculty all make up one of the most respected departments of its kind—nationally and internationally. Small in size, we work with one another as we are dedicated to thinking incisively and critically about the world around us. We study the then and now, and often comparatively. We address issues in film and literature, music and philosophy, sounds and images, and more in so many possible variations. For a full sense of the opportunities we offer, discover what it is we do by exploring the exciting careers pursued by our alumni and the research interests of our award-winning faculty. The Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature offers bachelor of arts degrees and undergraduate minors in two areas: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CSCL) and Studies in Cinema and Media Culture (SCMC). CSCL and SCMC majors have the opportunity to graduate with Latin Honors through the University Honors Program (UHP). Declare your major Meet with our advisor, Michelle Livingston, to declare your CSCL or SCMC major or minor. Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Students have the opportunity to pursue either a BA or a minor in CSCL. Whether students major or minor with us, we offer highly flexible coursework options. Such flexibility means we can teach a wide array of courses in literature, cinema, media, and sound, from which students are able to choose those topics most important to their academic and intellectual development. What unites the department and our majors and minors is a commitment to critical inquiry and expression without restriction to a set canon of texts, works, or media. Our majors and minors can study European literature and philosophy, contemporary romance novels and film, experimental art cinema, avant-garde poetry, Bollywood and postcolonial literature, punk rock, reggae and salsa, and even gaming (or ludology, if you prefer the Latin nomenclature). Studies in Cinema and Media Culture Students may pursue either a BA or a minor in SCMC if they would like to examine cinema and its connection to our culture today and throughout history. If you would like to pursue a BA in SCMC, you will take core courses in cinema and art history, as well as several courses exploring the context, practice, difference, and analysis of cinema and media culture. While completing these core courses, you will also select from a vast expanse of electives within the BA. You may choose electives from any relevant topic of interest, including journalism; gender, women's, & sexuality studies; art; and geography. cscl@umn.edu Visit Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature on Facebook Find information on ways to give to Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature 216 Pillsbury Dr SE	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1064
__label__cc	0.737509	0.262491	Search All 124 Records in Our Collections You searched for: Subject Germany. Remove constraint Subject: Germany. Dates 1991-2010 Remove constraint Dates: 1991-2010 Key Cities Dresden Remove constraint Key Cities: Dresden Digitized25 1991-2010[remove]124 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies20 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum12 Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre (Melbourne, Vic.)2 South Carolina Educational Television1 Interviews in Audio or Video42 Memoirs13 Video Recording19 Audio Recording7 Testimony42 Published Materials77 Newspapers and Journals1 Invasion of Poland, Fall 19391 Kristallnacht7 War Crimes Trials4 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg1 Bratislava2 Chernivt︠s︡i1 Cologne2 Dortmund1 Dresden[remove]124 Düsseldorf1 Ebensee1 Frankfurt-am-Main2 Haifa1 Kharkiv2 Leipzig2 Marseilles2 Nuremberg3 Riga1 Stockholm1 Stuttgart1 Terezín2 Wrocław1 Auschwitz19 Bor1 Drancy2 Flossenbürg5 Oranienburg1 Ravensbruck6 Theresienstadt10 Westerbork1 Berehove1 Liepāja1 Litzmannstadt1 Sátoraljaújhely1 Sort by accession number 1. Walter Lubran papers …Walter Heinz Lubran (1912-2000) was born Walter Lubranitzki on 29 July 1912 in Sebnitz, Germany to Benno (b. 1860) and Gertrude (née Posner, b. 1885… … Sebnitz, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his military career during World War II, and his restitution cases against the… 2. Oral history interview with Tom Grossman …Dresden (Germany)… …; the POW camp near an Opel factory; his transfer to camp Milberg, where he worked in an airplane factory near Dresden, Germany; being freed on May 3; his… … activities; surrendering and being taken by train to Lamsdorf; working in an aircraft plant near Dresden, Germany; the arrival of the Russian Army and being… … Germany they were provided with news of the war’s progression. He talks about the time when the Polish underground became stronger. He, his brother Peretz… 5. Oral history interview with Machislav Gurvich …War crime trials--Germany.… 6. Oral history interview with Albert Katz … to Bor, Yugoslavia (now in Serbia) where they worked in copper mines for the Germans; being marched from Bor to Flossenburg, Germany; being taken to… 7. Oral history interview with Gerta Bennett …; leaving the ghetto August 25, 1944 and being deported to Auschwitz with her mother-in-law and husband; going to Stutthof in 1944 then Dresden, Germany… 8. Oral history interview with Juergen Simonson Oral History \| Accession Number: 1998.A.0051 \| RG Number: RG-50.030.0455 … Mischlinge under Nazi law; his father's dismissal from his judgeship in Forst, Germany in 1935; moving with his parents to Dresden, Germany after experiencing… … born and where you lived as a young child and how you got to this country. A: My name is J-Juergen Simonson. I come from Germany. My father was a judge… 9. Hans Maier autobiography …Hans Maier (1889-1937) was born in Frankfurt and became a prominent figure in social reform and welfare in Weimar Germany. He married Anna Margarete… … German Social Democratic Party, the political turmoil in Germany following World War I, his work leading welfare services in Saxony, the economic… 10. Oral history interview with Doris Greenberg Oral History \| Accession Number: 1998.A.0228 \| RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0028 … Neubrandenburg; being assigned to work for an SS guard’s parents; her liberation by the Russians; traveling to Berlin, Germany; getting arrested in Dresden… … work for an SS guard’s parents; her liberation by the Russians; traveling to Berlin, Germany; getting arrested in Dresden, Germany by the Russians…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1068
__label__wiki	0.871904	0.871904	Marvel Knights Returns For Indie-Creator Helmed Spider-Man, Hulk And X-Men Minis Dormant since 2010's Spider-Man: Fever series, as revealed by today's solicitation info the Marvel Knights imprint is coming back in a big way. It's a little bit of a different creature than you might remember, though. The imprint will still feature top-tier Marvel characters, but exclusively in mini-series by creators whose names one might associate with creator-owned work. Marvel announced three such series today: Marvel Knights: Spider-Man by Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and Marco Rudy (Swamp Thing), Marvel Knights: X-Men by Brahm Revel (Guerilla) and Marvel Knights: Hulk by Joe Keatinge (Glory) and Piotr Kowalski (Sex). MK: Hulk will be four issues, while the other two series will be five. MK: Spider-Man, which pits Spidey against 99 different villains is first up in October. MK: X-Men, which focuses on Wolverine, Rogue and Kitty Pryde dealing with angry townsfolk as they try to recruit new students at the Jean Grey School, follows in November. Then in December, MK: Hulk finds Bruce Banner on the run from a mysterious pursuer in Paris. The first-issue covers show the new version of the imprint will have a cover layout Marvel has been fond of in recent years: A window of art at the top, with a big box for text underneath: The Marvel Knights imprint was made famous in the late 1990s and early 2000s by stories like Kevin Smith and Joe Quesada's run on Daredevil and the start of Garth Ennis' monumental Punisher run. Many of MK's most prominent stories have even been adapted into animated motion comic features. [Via Marvel, CBR, Newsarama] Filed Under: Brahm Revel, Hulk, Joe Keatinge, Marco Rudy, Marvel Knights, matt kindt, piotr kowalski, Spider-Man, X-Men Categories: Marvel, News	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1069
__label__cc	0.677418	0.322582	Episode 600: Sixth Anniversary Spectacular! For the 600th episode, join host ADAM CHAPMAN as he welcomes to the show a bevy of co-hosts for special segments of the show. Kelly Chapman appears throughout the episode, with some fun banter. The first segment was recorded July 26 2018, with Paul Skorez, talking about Marvel Legacy, amongst other comic-related things. The second segment was recorded August 7 2018, with Dan Gvozden of the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast coming back on the show for another of his annual visits! The third segment was recorded August 7 2018, with Eric Anthony of the Cave of Solitude podcast making his first appearance on the Comic Shenanigans podcast. The fourth segment was recorded August 8 2018, with Tibor Mate stopping by to discuss recent Star Trek news. The fifth and final segment was recorded August 8 2018, with friend of the show Tim Riley returning to debate the merits of Grant Morrison's New X-Men with Adam. Episode 400: Tangents! For episode 400, Adam Chapman is joined by an array of guests for a super-sized episode clocking in at over 5 hours long! This is going to take some time to get through! First up, listener/guest AJ REECE returns to discuss the recently released Superior Foes of Spider-Man Heroclix set (recorded just prior to its release on August 8th). Next, guest LEON ORELLANA returns to the show to open a case of Superior Foes of Spider-Man Heroclix (recorded on the day of its release on August 10th). The third guest to join the show is Amazing Spider-Talk's DAN GVOZDEN, as he chats about the current state of the Spider-Titles (recorded on August 10th). Fourth up is frequent co-host PAUL SKOREZ, as we talk first about the upcoming slate of new MARVEL NOW books, as we peruse the recent catalog, and then move on to discussing DC REBIRTH a bit. This is the largest chunk of the show, clocking in at nearly 3 hours on its own (recorded on August 15th). Last, but most certainly not least, is TIBOR MATE, returning to the show to make another anniversary-episode appearance. This time around we discuss Star Trek: Discovery, and discuss other various iterations of Star Trek as well (recorded on August 21st). Episode 300: The Three Hundredth Episode!!! For episode 300(!) join Adam Chapman as he is joined by past guests Tibor Mate, Paul Skorez, Chris Lucas & Dan Gvozden (from the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast). First up Adam, Tibor, Paul and Chris talk comic book movies in 2016, the upcoming Star Wars films, upcoming video games, and much more! In the back half of the episode, Adam and Dan talk Amazing Spider-Man anniversary issues and enjoy some good old fashioned Comic Shenanigans and comic tangents. This episode was recorded Sunday August 30th & Monday August 31st 2015. Episode 298: A Conversation with Amazing Spider-Talk’s Dan Gvozden For episode 298 join Adam Chapman as he is joined by Dan Gvozden from the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast. Adam and Dan talk Spider-Man, podcasts and much more, with many tangents on the way! This episode was recorded Wednesday August 5th 2015.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1070
__label__wiki	0.833902	0.833902	Trimble V3 Clear your calendar - It's going down! Trimble V3 kicks off on June 23rd, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic! Splashthat.com Concertpass upstARTs Concertpass invites you to ... a monthly Artistic experience nostalgic for the days when chelsea was a creative mecca and full of inspiration, concertpass brings you a new Monthly artistic experience with live music, live art, real influence and no pretentiousness. April 16th \| 8:00 PM Chelsea Music Hall 407 w. 15th Street #GoOutGetRewarded L I V E M U S I C Baby fuzz Described as “one of the most slept on acts in music” by Hillydilly, Baby FuzZ released a litany of brilliant singles in 2018 and dropped a debut album Plastic Paradise in March. Baby FuzZ has also made a name as an enigmatic video artist, constructing some golden era MTV style music videos. Drawing comparisons to everyone from Billy Corgan to Elton John and Elliot Smith, it's hard to pin down exactly how to classify BF. In the past, Fox, the frontman of Baby FuzZ, produced “Video Games” by Lana Del Rey and has written for the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, and Avicii, so there is a decidedly surreal pop sensibility to the weirdness. But with a charmingly punk ethos and a unique self produced album, Baby FuzZ just might be the strange new arrival the alt rock world needs. Johnny 2 phones Johnny 2 Phones is a versatile artist who calls New York home. With sounds ranging from traditional hip-hop to genre-bending smooth songs and memorable hooks, Johnny is able to maintain a wide and engaged fan base, both online and live. RIZ LA VIE Riz La Vie is an artist based in NYC who transcends genres. He has captivated his audience with his powerful imagery, raw lyricism, and a howling, soulful delivery. Patience, and the pursuance of high art as opposed to just the spotlight, is a theme that is of utmost importance in Riz's career, life and music. Since his debut, "found." in January of 2017, he continues to build an audience with an appetite: deeply analyzing his work and continuously packing out venues to watch a thrilling live performance. Keep a look out for Riz as he continues to build his following around the world. D J C R E W CABREA CASEY DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING Mercury Lounge SOUL HOP SOUL TRAIN MEETS SOCK HOP JONATHAN GRAYNOR - CONCERTPASS NICK VON ZUMWALT - TREBLE.FM ALEXANDER IRISH - POET A R T Blake jamieson Blake Jamieson is a pop artist from San Francisco, California. His vibrant pop art portraits are inspired by street art. Jamieson has painted portraits for over 150 professional athletes and celebrities, including Antonio Brown (Pittsburgh Steelers), Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers), Howie Mandel (America’s Got Talent), Rick Harrison (Pawn Stars), and more. Jamieson’s collectors span the globe, with works in the US, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Dubai, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Jamieson recently moved to Manhattan, NY, and set up a second art studio in Long Island City. In his NY studio, Jamieson hosts a monthly cocktail brunch and open studio. Email blake@blakejamieson.com if you’d like to be invited to the next event. More info coming soon.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1076
__label__wiki	0.783531	0.783531	Clinical Epigenetics DNA methylation at birth within the promoter of ANRIL predicts markers of cardiovascular risk at 9 years Robert Murray1View ORCID ID profile, Jennifer Bryant2, 3, 4, Phil Titcombe3, Sheila J. Barton3, Hazel Inskip1, 3, Nicholas C. Harvey2, 3, Cyrus Cooper3, Karen Lillycrop2, 5Email author, Mark Hanson1, 2 and Keith M. Godfrey1, 2, 3 Clinical EpigeneticsThe official journal of the Clinical Epigenetics Society20168:90 Received: 11 May 2016 Antisense non-coding RNA in the INK4 locus (ANRIL) fixed genetic variants have consistently been linked with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. We investigated relationships between perinatal ANRIL promoter DNA methylation and CHD risk markers in children aged 9 years. Genetic variants in the non-coding RNA ANRIL identify it as an important CHD risk locus. Increasing evidence suggests that the early life environment may act through epigenetic processes to influence later CHD risk markers such as increased arterial pulse wave velocity (PWV, a measure of arterial stiffness) blood pressure or heart rate. Methods and results Using pyrosequencing, ANRIL DNA methylation at nine CpG sites was measured in the umbilical cord from 144 children in a UK mother-offspring cohort and related to the descending aorta PWV measured by velocity-encoded phase contrast MRI at age 9 years. Perinatal methylation was not associated with child’s later blood pressure, but higher methylation at CpG5 was associated with increased childhood PWV (β = 0.066 m/s/10 % methylation increase [95 % CI, 0.004 to 0.128], p = 0.037); 10 % decreases in methylation at CpG1 and CpG2 were associated with increased heart rate (CpG1 β = 1.93 [0.07 to 3.8] beats/min, p = 0.041; CpG2 β = 2.30 [0.18 to 4.41] beats/min, p = 0.033, accounting for potential confounding variables). The associations with perinatal ANRIL promoter methylation were independent of neighbouring fixed genetic variants. Our findings suggest developmental epigenetic regulation of ANRIL promoter methylation as a factor in later CHD risk in children. Non-coding RNA Pulse wave velocity The 9p21 region is the strongest candidate for coronary heart disease (CHD) risk at the population level identified so far from genetic studies [1, 2]. This region contains several protein-coding genes that regulate cell cycle progression (p14ARF, p15INK4b, p16INK4a) as well as the long non-coding RNA antisense non-coding RNA in the INK4 locus (ANRIL). Recent studies have shown that genetic variants associated with CHD map onto the ANRIL gene rather than the protein coding genes and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ANRIL, linked to increased risk of CHD, are associated with decreased expression of ANRIL transcripts. [3–5] The functional role of ANRIL in cardiovascular disease has also been investigated in vascular smooth muscle, where ANRIL knockdown altered the expression of genes involved in the remodelling of the extracellular matrix, suggesting that ANRIL impacts on CHD risk via the modulation of these processes [6], leading to altered vascular structure and function. Experimental and epidemiological studies provide strong evidence that the early life environment influences later cardiovascular disease risk [7], and this has been suggested to involve the altered epigenetic regulation of gene function. Epigenetic processes, which include DNA methylation, can induce stable changes in gene expression without a change in gene sequence [8]. However, to date, there have been no longitudinal studies showing that prenatal epigenetic processes are associated with CHD risk. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between DNA methylation levels at birth in the promoter region of ANRIL with blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) in children aged 9 years. Increased resting HR is a risk factor for CHD in males and is associated with cardiovascular death in both sexes [9–12], while increased PWV, an indicator of arterial stiffness, has been shown to be a strong predictor of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure, and stroke in adulthood [13, 14]. Here, we found that ANRIL promoter methylation at birth was associated with both heart rate and arterial stiffness at 9 years of age, providing further evidence for the importance of the early life environment in influencing health in later life and suggesting that differential methylation of CpG loci within the promoter of ANRIL may provide a marker to identify individuals in early life at increased risk of CHD disease in later life. In a UK mother-offspring study (Southampton Women’s Survey, SWS [15]), maternal characteristics were ascertained before and during pregnancy and offspring measurements obtained after birth. Child adiposity measurement At age 8 years, child adiposity measurements were made by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (Hologic Discovery, paediatric scan mode, Hologic Inc., Bedford, MA) [16]. The instrument was calibrated daily; coefficients of variation were 1.4 to 1.9 %. Follow-up of the children and sample collection/analysis was carried out under Institutional Review Board approval (Southampton and SW Hampshire Research Ethics Committee) with written informed consent. Clinical investigations were conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. Pulse wave velocity measurements At age 9 years, a subset of SWS participants was invited to attend for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assessment of cardiovascular structure and function. PWV was measured in the descending aorta. A phase-contrast flow-mapping sequence was acquired at the level of the pulmonary trunk in the proximal descending aorta and in the distal descending aorta above the bifurcation. A velocity-encoding gradient was applied in the through-plane direction. Right brachial blood pressure was measured immediately following the acquisition. Velocity flow curves were generated using open source software (Osirix). Descending aortic PWV was calculated using Matlab software (Mathworks, Natick, MA) and the transit time method [17] from distance between the flow acquisitions/transit time of the systolic wave front between the two flow acquisition sites. Genomic DNA was extracted from umbilical cord tissue which had been collected at birth and stored at −80 °C. DNA was bisulphite converted using the EZ DNA methylation kit (ZymoResearch, USA) (Primers: Additional file 1: Table S2). Modified DNA was amplified using Hotstart Plus DNA polymerase (QIAGEN). PCR products were immobilised on streptavidin–sepharose beads (GE Healthcare), washed, denatured and released into annealing buffer containing sequencing primer. Pyrosequencing was carried out on a Pyromark MD (Qiagen). %methylation was calculated using the Pyro Q CpG software (QIAGEN). Additional file 2: Table S1 shows CpG genomic co-ordinates. Statistical analysis was performed using Stata (Statacorp, USA) versions 13.1 and 14.0. Descending aorta pulse wave velocity, heart rate, and systolic and diastolic blood pressures at 9 years were used as outcome measures. %methylation of ANRIL CpGs 1-9 were used individually as predictors, together with sex and age at MRI scan. All outcomes measures were approximately normally distributed. Linear regression models were built for each outcome with ANRIL methylation (taking one CpG at a time) as a predictor, adjusting for sex and age at MRI scan. Where regression residuals showed heteroscedasticity (Cook-Weisberg test [18]), robust estimators of standard errors were calculated and used for calculating the test statistic. If CpGs were significant predictors of outcomes (p < 0.05), further adjustments were made for child’s fat mass (or fat %) at age 9 years and maternal smoking during pregnancy. Results are presented as regression coefficients multiplied by 10 (β), representing the change in cardiovascular outcome per 10 % change in methylation, with associated p values and 95 % confidence intervals. DNA Methylation levels of some CpGs were highly correlated (Additional file 3 : Table S3, CpGs 1-3 and 5-7), and it was therefore inappropriate to carry out statistical corrections that assume independence, such as Bonferroni or Benjamini-Hochberg correction. Cohort characteristics We studied 144 children (72 boys) (Table 1); mean heart rate was 80.2 bpm; mean descending aorta PWV was 3.4 m/s (within previously reported childhood ranges [19]); mean % and total fat mass measurements were 24.6 % and 4.8 kg, respectively; 14.7 % of mothers smoked during pregnancy. Umbilical cord ANRIL methylation levels varied greatly; for example, the 5th–95th percentile ranges for CpGs 2, 3 and 5 were 20–30 % (Additional file 2: Table S1). Characteristics of the study population Percent or median (25th, 75th percentile) Pregnancy smoking status Birth weight, kg 3.4 (3.1–3.8) %fat age 8 years 24.6 (20.5–29.6) Total fat mass age 8 years, kg 6.6 (5.0–09.0) Child follow-up Age, year Heart rate, bpm Systolic BP, mm Hg 98.0 (92.0–105.0) Diastolic BP, mm Hg Descending aorta PWV, m/s Heart rate is associated with ANRIL promoter DNA methylation To examine whether DNA methylation levels within the promoter region of ANRIL were associated with heart rate, we analysed the methylation status of nine CpG sites within the promoter of ANRIL at birth in relation to measures of cardiovascular risk at age 9 years. Methylation at CpG1 and CpG2 correlated inversely with heart rate (p = 0.031, p = 0.02, respectively) (Table 2, Fig. 1). These associations remained significant in multivariate models that controlled for child’s total fat mass at 8 years, sex, age and maternal smoking; CpG1 p = 0.041, CpG2 p = 0.033. The total variances in heart rate explained were 7.6 and 8.6 % for CpG1 and CpG2, respectively. Heart rate (bpm) at age 9 years in relation to ANRIL promoter DNA methylation Hg19 coordinates β value Adjusted p chr9: 21993721 −0.669 β values represent a 10 % change in methylation. DNA methylation levels were determined via pyrosequencing. Linear regressions were used to compare methylation and heart rate. Adjusted p values are adjusted for age, sex, total fat mass at 8 years and mother smoking during pregnancy Heart rate (bpm) vs ANRIL DNA methylation at CpG1 and CpG2. DNA methylation levels were determined via pyrosequencing. The x-axis shows quartiles of methylation; values are means + SEM. N = 132 PWV associates with DNA methylation at the ANRIL promoter ANRIL promoter CpG5 methylation was positively associated with PWV (p = 0.037) (Fig. 2, Table 3); the association remained after controlling for child’s total fat at 8 years, sex, age and maternal smoking; adjusted p = 0.026 (total variance explained 3.2 %). Childhood total fat and %fat at 8 years and maternal smoking were not independent predictors of PWV. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) vs methylation of ANRIL promoter CpG5. DNA methylation levels were determined via pyrosequencing. The x-axis shows quartiles of methylation; values are means + SEM. N = 132 Pulse wave velocity (m/s) at age 9 years in relation to ANRIL DNA methylation β values represent a 10 % change in methylation. DNA methylation levels were determined via pyrosequencing. Linear regressions were used to compare methylation and pulse wave velocity. Adjusted p values are adjusted for age, sex, total fat mass at 8 years and mother smoking during pregnancy Blood pressure is not associated with ANRIL DNA methylation ANRIL methylation showed no association with childhood systolic or diastolic blood pressure. MatInspector was used to examine the DNA sequence surrounding CpGs1, 2 and 5 to determine if these CpG dinucleotides aligned with any known transcription factor (TF) binding sites. This identified ten different potential TFs with a core similarity score >0.8, including SMAD, PPAR, ERE, KLF, HIF and GATA (Additional file 4: Figure S1). All the associations with perinatal ANRIL promoter methylation were independent of neighbouring genetic variants (data not shown). Lower DNA methylation at two adjacent CpG dinucleotides within the promoter of ANRIL was associated with faster heart rate, independent of potential confounders. Elevated heart rate is an independent risk factor for CHD [20, 21], a predictor of cardiovascular mortality [22], and is associated with reduced longevity, even in those without pre-existing cardiovascular conditions [22]. Mean resting pulse rate has increased by up to 2 bpm among 9–11-year UK children over nearly 30 years [23]. This has been attributed to an increase in adiposity and decline in physical fitness among children; however, these findings suggest that the prenatal environment may also be an important determinant of later CHD risk and provides support for epigenetic processes in mediating the long-term consequences of the prenatal environment on CHD risk. Higher DNA methylation at CpG5, which lies more distal to the transcriptional start site (TSS) of ANRIL, was associated with higher PWV—a marker for increased arterial stiffness that also indicates greater cardiovascular risk. This difference in the direction of associations observed between the methylation of the individual CpG sites within the ANRIL promoter and CHD risk factors may reflect the fact that gene promoter DNA methylation often influences expression through the modulation of transcription factor binding [24], and while some studies have shown that the methylation status of CpG sites can be closely aligned to that of their neighbours, especially within a CpG island, developmentally induced changes are often CpG site specific [25]. Consistent with this, an in silico analysis predicted that distinct transcription factors may bind across the different CpG loci associated with heart rate and PWV, respectively, suggesting that the CpG sites may be independently regulated. Across CpGs 1 and 2, potential TF binding sites include SMAD and KLF, which are involved in heart development and the proliferation of cardiomyocytes [26–28], as well as PPAR, linked to atherosclerosis [29] and ERE, which is important for angiogenesis and modulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) [30]. CpG 5 is close to a potential TF binding site for HIF—an important regulator of oxygen homeostasis [31], as well as a binding site for GATA, which is critical for heart development [32]. While transcription factor binding will need to be validated experimentally, this does suggest distinct roles for CpG 1 and 2 compared to CpG5 and is compatible with the purported role of ANRIL transcripts in VSMC [6]. The strengths of this study are the relative large number of participants with detailed phenotypic cardiovascular characterisation. There are some limitations; this is only a preliminary study, and the results need to be replicated in other studies to confirm our findings. Secondly, we analysed methylation in umbilical cord samples, and DNA methylation patterns are often tissue-specific; however, the umbilical cord does contain a high proportion of fetal vascular tissue, and so is likely to be relevant to cardiovascular disease risk phenotypes studied here. A third limitation is that although all known SNPs within 45 bp of the CpGs sites studied were excluded by direct sequencing, without genome-wide sequencing, it is not possible to exclude the effect of distant SNPs. Fourth, we did not have longitudinal data, so cannot ascertain whether methylation of ANRIL is a driver of altered heart rate or PWV or a consequence of these changes. It would be interesting to follow the methylation of ANRIL with regard to CHD risk factors during childhood and later life to determine how ANRIL methylation tracks with these factors over time, and it would also be interesting to examine ANRIL expression levels. Nevertheless, the finding that altered methylation of CpGs within the promoter of ANRIL, a long non-coding RNA previously linked to CHD risk through GWAS, is associated with predictors of CHD risk in childhood suggest that differential methylation of this region maybe a marker which could be used to identify those individuals at increased risk of CHD in early life. In summary, our findings suggest that altered epigenetic regulation of ANRIL, a gene strongly linked to CHD by genome-wide association studies, is associated with alterations in both heart rate and arterial stiffness. Cardiovascular disease is often identified late in its pre-clinical phase, necessitating intervention to manage disease progression. Thus, the identification of perinatal epigenetic marks that are predictive of later disease risk represents an opportunity to identify those individuals who are at greater risk of subsequent disease in early life and a means to monitor the effectiveness of preventative interventions. CHD: PWV: TF: Transcription factor TSS: Transcriptional start site VSMC: Vascular smooth muscle cells We thank the EpiGen Operational Management Group for their project management and Dr Irma Silva Zolezzi, Nestlé Research Centre, for the helpful and constructive discussions on the manuscript. This work was supported by funding from the Medical Research Council (MC_U147585827, MC_ST_U12055) , British Heart Foundation (RG/07/009), Arthritis Research UK, National Osteoporosis Society, International Osteoporosis Foundation, Cohen Trust, Nestec, NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. The research leading to these results also received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and the EarlyNutrition project (grant numbers 289346 and 613977). RM carried out the molecular epigenetic studies, participated in the analysis and drafted the manuscript. PT and SJB performed the statistical analysis and prepared the tables/figures. JB and HI participated in the study design and collected the samples/physiological measurements. NH, MH, KL, KMG and CC conceived of the study, its design, and its coordination. All authors helped draft the manuscript, participated in manuscript editing and read/approved the final manuscript. RM, JB, PT, SJB, HI, NH, CC, KL and MH declare that they have no competing interests. KMG has received reimbursement for speaking at conferences sponsored by companies selling nutritional products and is part of an academic consortium that has received research funding from Abbott Nutrition, Nestec and Danone. Follow-up of the children and sample collection/analysis was carried out under Institutional Review Board approval (Southampton and SW Hampshire Research Ethics Committee) with written informed consent. Clinical investigations were conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. Additional file 1: Table S2. Primers used for methylation analysis of ANRIL promoter. (DOCX 13 kb) Additional file 2: Table S1. Observed DNA methylation ranges for CpG dinucleotides quantified by pyrosequencing. CpG coordinates are provided in Hg19. Distance from transcriptional start site (TSS) in base pairs. N = 132. (DOCX 14 kb) Additional file 3: Table S3. Correlation of the methylation levels between CpG sites. Pairwise Spearman correlation. (DOCX 15 kb) Additional file 4: Figure S1. Predicted consensus transcription factor binding sequences. MatInspector was used to examine the DNA sequence around CpGs 1, 2, and 5 to identify potential binding sites for transcription factors using MatInspectors core/vertebrate transcription factor database. Core sim. (core similarities) and Matrix sim. (matrix similarities) are scored out of 1. Results with Core Sim. scores >0.8 are shown. Core sim. Refers to base pair matching for the core consensus sequence (underlined + BOLD in transcription factor sequences) while Matrix sim. Refers to overall matching across the full binding site. 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__label__wiki	0.690956	0.690956	yReceipts: Scaling from small startup to global business About yReceipts Founded in 2009, yReceipts enables retailers from around the world to connect in-store customers with their purchases and online behaviour. Industries: Retail & Consumer Goods Products: App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Datastore, Google Data Studio With a highly dynamic solution built on Google App Engine, yReceipts enables high-street retailers to identify in-store customers, leveraging Google services to scale from a startup to a global business. 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__label__wiki	0.550926	0.550926	Father-of-five sentenced for ‘rough justice’ After a young man he knew took his car, sold it, and cleaned out his child’s savings for drugs purchases, Tumahana John Ponga administered some rough justice. Forty-five-year-old father-of-five Ponga punched the young man at a house, and then “took it outside” where he punched him several more times. The 20-year-old assault victim received soft tissue damage to his face and a broken nose, and Ponga has been held in custody since March. He admitted charges of intentionally injuring the young man, and his own partner in a separate incident. Christchurch District Court Judge Raoul Neave today imposed a sentence which will see him released straight away since he has served the equivalent of an 18-month prison term in custody on remand. He now faces a sentence of 100 hours of community work and two years of intensive supervision. Judge Neave will get regular reports on his progress during that time. Defence counsel April Kelland said Ponga had used his time on remand well to do a Stopping Violence programme, first aid course, and courses to develop other skills. She handed up letters from both victims, who Judge Neave said showed “a significant degree of forgiveness”. The young man acknowledged his own role in the incident, which resulted in him being found injured in the Hororata Domain a year ago. Mrs Kelland told the court the 20-year-old had been well treated by Ponga, but had taken Ponga’s car without permission, drove it into the city to get drugs and had sold the car. He had then used bank cards to clean money out of the family’s account, including money from Ponga’s son’s holiday work and his birthday money. The money was gone. As a father of five, Ponga “did not have a lot to come and go on” anyway, she said. Ponga then assaulted the younger man. Judge Neave said that assault involved Ponga taking the law into his own hands, which was “always treated severely”. In the other incident, Ponga squeezed his partner’s throat for about five seconds at a party when she tried to pull him away from a dispute. As they drove home, he grabbed her by the hair and punched her, breaking her jaw. She needed surgery to insert five plates. He noted Ponga’s history included two aggravated robberies in the 1990s, but little offending since then. He had done considerable work in the community and it was a pity that his latest offending made him utterly unsuitable as a role model for young men. Posted in NewsTagged drugs, injuring with intent, rough justice Published by David Clarkson View all posts by David Clarkson Prev Man jailed for claw hammer robbery Next Discharge for elderly sex offender	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1092
__label__wiki	0.523761	0.523761	When A Killer Strikes #BlogTour #GuestAuthorPost @nholten40 @RCBridgestock @caffeinenights Posted on October 21, 2017 by crimebookjunkie Wooooohoooo! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be taking part in RC Bridgestock’s WHEN A KILLER STRIKES blog tour today! My thanks to the authors and Caffeine Nights for asking me to take part. The D.I. Dylan series of books by RC Bridgestock (Husband and wife writing team, Bob and Carol Bridgestock) comes from a unique perspective of a collective real life experience of high level policing of 47 years. As a career detective Bob Bridgestock worked in the CID at every rank. For over half of his service he was a senior detective, retiring at the rank of Detective Superintendent of the West Yorkshire Police force. As a Senior Investigative Officer (SIO) in charge of homicide cases he took command of some twenty-six murder investigations, twenty-three major incidents including shootings and attempted murders and over fifty suspicious deaths and numerous sexual assaults, some of which were extremely high profile in his last three years alone. Bob brings this unique insight and experience from how real life cases are conducted into page turning gripping fiction, aided by his wife Carol, who has 17 years working within the force. Carol brings her understanding and the experience of a partner of a frontline detective to the D.I. Dylan series. This combination adds authenticity rarely seen in British crime fiction, coupled with warmth, humour and humanity. The books offer an insight into the real world of British policing mixed with cunning plots and human relationships. This adds a dimension to police procedural fiction which is truly genuine in voice and substance. Caffeine Nights Publishing is proud to be associated with this series of books which grip and touch the human heart as well as engage the mind. “Boss, we’ve got a body”. Hardly what Detective Inspector Jack Dylan needs to hear on his day off, especially as he’s in the middle of house-hunting with his wife Jen. Detective Sergeant Vicky Hardacre greets him at the scene, but what awaits them behind the blood red door of Colonial House is undoubtedly a murder. The approach identifies several prime suspects. But who is telling the truth; and who is lying? Before the killer can be caught, another body is discovered, this time in a putrefying mixture of mud and slime, lain amongst the remnants of decaying food within a waste-bin shelter. Now it’s the task of the man in charge to make the call. Are the two murders connected? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s by working long hours, within strict budgets, and the usual pressure from above to obtain quick results. However, Dylan is distracted by personal matters, with Jen being keen to seal the deal on a renovation project. He suggests they delay finalising the purchase; until he discovers the significance of the house, and that it’s about to be demolished. In his absence, Jen’s pleas for help from his estranged siblings are answered, resulting in hidden secrets coming to light, as Dylan continues, through a twisting and turning plot, to ensure justice is done in respect of the murder victims, whose bright hopes for the future were cruelly snatched away. A producer told Bob recently, ‘You do realise you suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, don’t you?’ It appeared to come as a shock to him, but not to me. There was no such thing as counselling for police officers in the day. In fact actually not that long ago. And, as long as someone picked up the next suspicious death; took charge of the murder enquiry, major incident, serious crime no one seemed to care.’ Why then are we readers/viewers surprised that most of our fictional detectives need a crutch? They’re either drinkers, smokers, or womanisers. Is writing cathartic for an ex cop? I think so… See what you think. Bob dealt with hundreds of dead bodies in his 30 year detective led police career; he has been cuffed, sat next to, and interviewed cold blooded murderers who showed no remorse – one thing that appears to be a common factor is that they all appear ‘dead behind the eyes’. Indeed a brain scan of rapist and serial killer Brian Dugan showed a lack of activity in the regions associated with empathy and remorse – and then Bob retired, and became co-author of the Detective Inspector Jack ‘Dylan’ series with his wife Carol. Bob had reached the rank of Detective Superintendent, Senior Investigative Officer, in charge of major incidents for West Yorkshire Police, the fourth largest force in the country. But, at just 51, he knew it was time to go. ‘I’d often see more horrific scenes in a weeks than most people would see in a lifetime,’ he says. So, with his wife Carol, who also worked in the same Force as a support officer, they ‘retired’ to the Isle of Wight, where the plot of their lives took an unlikely turn. They became unintentionally international authors. Actually writing their own book seemed as unlikely a turn of events as many in TV drama. ‘I’ve a lifetime of cases to draw inspiration from, but we didn’t consider ourselves writers. The starting point of our partnership in writing, believe it or not was an off the cuff remark from someone who had asked us to do a talk for charity – ‘You two should write a book!’ A second career perhaps was meant to be as the following day there was an advert for a writing course at the local college, and to Carol’s surprise Bob enrolled himself and her on it. The result was Deadly Focus, a novel which was well received by the public, police and the reviewer from the largest national newspaper at the time – Natasha Harding who credited it as, ‘A cracking story!’ And, a favourite in her weekly column that also continued to say:- ‘The husband-and-wife co-authors, who spent years working within the police force, make this fictional tale believable in every way.’ The couple have gone on to write seven more books, the second, Consequences, third White Lilies, fourth Snow Kills, fifth Reprobates, sixth Killer Smile, the seventh When The Killing Starts and the eighth When A Killer Strikes publication date 19th October 2017. Carol describes how two people can work on one book. ‘Bob writes the skeleton of a story, with his detective ‘mask’ firmly in place. Basically, he (Dylan) is called to the scene of a dead body as the man in charge. The investigation/enquiry takes it’s natural course and results, usually in the apprehension of the perpetrators. I then write the second draft – put the flesh on the bones, build he characters and give the victim a life… I also write, and weave in the sub plot which is the family life storyline. What appears to be unusual in crime fiction is that Dylan is a family man with a home life too. He’s no drinker, smoker, womaniser -he’s just a normal guy… Well, as normal as you can be giving the sights he sees, and man’s inhumanity to fellow man. Third draft is talking to Bob and taking off the mask of the detective to find out how a human being copes with this on a daily basis. How does he actually feel when he attends a horrific scene? What about a post-mortem? When, where and how does he tell the victims loved ones that they have been taken from them in the most brutal way imaginable. Only he can tell me these things because he has been there, bought the T-shirt as they say, on more occasions than he cares to remember. It’s hard to square the circle between Bob’s very talkative avuncular comedian personality and the dogged and hard-faced policeman you see in the newspaper cuttings. For even in the fuzziest little newspaper picture, Bob appears as a human mask, exhausted eyes peering out of fixed pallid face. ‘There were times I was dealing with six murder enquiries at once,’ he says. Bob’s early brushes with the law should have turned him off the idea of policing. ‘When I was six years old my elder brother picked a fog warning detonator off the railway line and told me he’d got me a watch,’ grins Bob. ‘I was given a clip round the ear by the policeman. That didn’t seem fair!’ Bob, born in 1952, was one of five siblings in the small Yorkshire village of Marsden, on the border with Lancashire. Although his father was working there wasn’t much money to feed a large family. ‘We used to hide under the stairs from either the lightening or the rent man,’ he grins. It was a life of hand-me-downs and making do. ‘My dad used to repair all the shoes: for two years I thought I had a club foot, because one foot was higher than the other!’ He had two paper rounds before walking a mile and a half to school. ‘But,’ he says, ‘you just got on with it. Everyone did.’ He made it to grammar school, but Bob didn’t take his GCEs. ‘I was offered a job at the butchers where I’d worked on a Saturday – and decided to take it.’ You can’t avoid assuming the slaughterhouse went some way to preparing him for the blood and gore he was to come across later. It was now that he had a second run-in with the police. ‘I was travelling home by bus, with my blood-stained butcher’s smock under my arm. Suddenly the bus stopped, a policeman gets on and takes me off, and I get another clip round the ear for wasting police time. I had to walk home. I don’t know what they thought I’d done.’ Bob could have become a cynical decrier of the law. Another time he was thrown into a van with an Alsatian snapping at him, for no good reason. But somewhere in Bob’s mind was the idea that policemen should be more like television’s Dixon of Dock Green. ‘I thought somewhere there must be a nice police officer.’ Bob qualified as a butcher, but by now he was married and the money was poor. So he left to work at the local dye works, an unforgiving place where he saw colleagues with terrible burns. ‘I’d blow my nose and give off blue dye, and thought this can’t be healthy.’ He stuck it for two years and then, taking a massive cut in pay, he joined the police force. The training was harsh. ‘In the first fortnight, I had my hair cut six times! We learnt to march, press our own uniform, bull our boots. You used to parade at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning. I used to say to myself ‘what the hell am I doing here?’ Two years and several exams later Bob was working five weeks of night duty, marching out on the streets of Huddersfield in his too-tight helmet and collar which rubbed. His dogged determination and fearlessness led to promotion, and Bob became a detective. He soon learnt that catching criminals had an element of luck – or otherwise. ‘Me and a colleague were watching a timber yard which had had been subject to arson attacks. We were there seven nights. On the eighth, a girl called Helen Rytka was murdered just yards from where we’d been sat: a victim of the Yorkshire Ripper.’ He pauses. ‘Just one more night and he’d have been well and truly caught.’ The Ripper case, then in its latter stages, was just one of very many high profile murders that Bob would see over the years, and it is a prime example of the way a case takes over the lives of those dealing with it. ‘There was so much criticism over the case – that Sutcliffe (eventually convicted) was questioned but let go several times – it destroyed the lives of those in charge.’ But being ‘the man in charge’ was something he aspired to. As a uniformed sergeant in Calderdale he was told: ‘We don’t go into that pub, they don’t like police!’ ‘Well, it was like a red rag to a bull! If you don’t nip behaviour in the bud it just goes on. So of course he went in, and glasses were thrown. It didn’t happen again. Not on his watch.’ Pleased to cast off the uniform yet again, he became a detective working on the infamous Sarah Harper murder, the little girl who went to buy a loaf of bread and never came back. Equally chilling were the Boarded Barn murders in Cheshire, where an ill-conceived attempt at kidnap and extortion led to the utterly callous murders of two young mothers. The team was commended for solving the crime, and Bob was promoted. As Detective Inspector he was given the Denis Hoban Trophy for outstanding detective work. Bob mentions this and his other commendations not with any arrogance but with an air of gratitude that his efforts have been noted. It is Carol who points out that most officers don’t get anything like the 20 certificates of commendation that Bob has accumulated over the years. Bob became Detective Chief Inspector and held the post for seven years. He spent four years at Wakefield Detective School training future senior detectives; he became a hostage negotiator, and trained others in the art: ‘Fortunately, on incidents I went to I never lost anybody.’ His biggest fear was, being in the middle of six death-related cases at once, he’d blather out the name of the wrong victim to a relative. ‘One of them was the Huddersfield fire case (where petrol bombs were thrown through the window and petrol poured through the letter box killed seven in an Asian family). ‘Lovely family, but it was easy to pronounce the Asian names wrongly.’ In that case, the survivors wanted the victims flown home to Pakistan, and Bob, arranged all this. ‘I was the man in charge,’ he says, adding: ‘Don’t get me wrong, you’ve got forensic, you’ve got pathology – but it’s you that makes the decisions that will make or break the enquiry. So you go to the mortuary, you endure the very terrible sights and smells because you need to understand the nature of the injuries.’ Getting a feel for the atmosphere of a crime scene was important, too. One thing he found frustrating was that, as he rose to be DCI he was no longer allowed to interview suspects because the rank of Det Chief Inspector was deemed to be intimidating to suspects. ‘You learn so much from being face to face with people.’ For the Dylan series he resorted to reducing ‘his’ rank, because suspect interviews were an essential tool of the plot. Bob believes two things are essential in policing. The first is common sense. ‘People say ‘you’re breaching criminals’ human rights.’ Hang on a minute! If you steal you’re a thief; you don’t swear because it’s rude. If you cross that line and injure or kill you should forfeit those human rights.’ The second is keeping a sense of humour. He talks about the man in charge of the mortuary who had a pacemaker, who was on the lookout for a free upgrade. Gallows humour maybe, but an essential pressure release. Despite his relentless exposure to callousness he retained his belief in people. He recalls with pleasure people who went out of their way to thank him: the wife of one victim, ‘have-a-go hero’ Kevin Jackson, bought him a pair of slippers so he wouldn’t worry about bringing muddy shoes into people’s homes. A sweet thought in a world of cynicism. Bob, when he became Detective Superintendent, had 26 murders in his last three years alone, as well as 50 suspicious deaths and 23 major incidents. In true Detective hero style, he had a maverick approach to the task. ‘We knew who killed Kevin Jackson because we’d got a DNA match from under his finger nails. So I got photos of the suspects and did the press conference in front of their photos which I’d had blown up into massive posters!’ Legally sensitive, perhaps, but Bob’s argument was ‘we’re looking for murderers here.’ As the face of the news conference, wasn’t he fearful of backlashes? ‘No, providing you’ve been right with them they’re right with you. I’ve always treated people the way I’d want to be treated. I go back to these influences from earlier,’ he says, referring to all those uncalled-for clips round the ear – ‘Police shouldn’t treat people like that.’ When in the midst of a case, members of the public would come up to him when he and Carol were doing the weekly shop with their own suggestions: ‘Here, Bob, had you thought it might be so-and-so that did it?’ Carol laughs: ‘We couldn’t get round a supermarket without someone coming up to us!’ Their lighthearted approach belies the reality that there were no real days off. His catalogue of cases is relentless. He spent days at a time in the mortuary – and TV post-mortems go nowhere to prepare for the real thing – and there were nights when Carol didn’t even know he’d come to bed at all. But he couldn’t rest until that case was finished because if you relaxed you might miss something. In the end his body told him to quit. He found, getting out of the car one night, he was frozen to the spot. His doctor suggested it was time to stop. ‘If you don’t step away you get sucked into a vacuum of sadness,’ says Bob. Thirty years seemed a reasonable innings, and the Isle of Wight has had its fabled relaxing affect on this non-stop policeman and his wife. ‘Being in the Force meant I understood the demands of the job,’ says Carol. ‘And I love him, so of course I supported him.’ Some people say Jen, is too good but we tell it as it was – in a fictional tale. Now, as well as the couple getting their DI Dylan books published by Caffeine Nights Publishers, Kent they also have a super literary agent in David H Headley (DHH Literary Agency, London). They are also active Patrons of three charities and Ambassadors for two others. Why? ‘I thought I worked hard,’ says Bob. ‘But the people who work for charities, they just give everything.’ The DI Jack Dylan series of books is available from all good book shops and on line. Wow! Thanks so much to Bob & Carol Bridgestock for the fabulous post and pictures! The DI Jack Dylan series can now be seen on TV! Woohoo! Make sure you check it out! Written in Blood airs every Sunday at 10pm from 3 September, exclusively on CBS Reality This entry was posted in Author Guest Post, Blog Tours and tagged #CaffeineNights, #Crime #Twists #Murder, #CrimeFiction, #CrimeThriller, #Emotive, #Murder, #PoliceProcedural, #Series, #Thriller by crimebookjunkie. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Replies to “When A Killer Strikes #BlogTour #GuestAuthorPost @nholten40 @RCBridgestock @caffeinenights” crimebookjunkie on October 21, 2017 at 21:24 said: Thanks! I love stuff like this! When someone knows exactly about what they are writing about because they lived it! 😉 Shana on October 21, 2017 at 21:00 said: Great guest post!! 🙂 Abby Fairbrother on October 21, 2017 at 11:09 said: Great post! Fantastic couple, I have met them at an iow signing! Snow Kills is my absolute favourite! It is super creepy! 😱😨 ← Previous Previous post: You’re Next #CoverReveal @ClaireKreads @nholten40 @MichaelFowler1 @caffeinenights @CarolineBookBit Next → Next post: Bad Sister #BlogTour #GuestAuthorPost @nholten40 @sam_carrington1 @AvonBooksUK	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1094
__label__cc	0.725629	0.274371	DINNGO – A Mobile Solution for Cryptocurrencies It is not a secret that every day more and more people are interested in cryptocurrency. They learn something new every day, for example, modern innovative methods of protecting their cryptocurrency assets and forms of secure access to trade in stock exchanges. Now there are a lot of crypto-exchanges in the market, but many of these exchanges have a major problem with payment delays. Sometimes, exchanges try to cheat their clients by inventing new sophisticated and fraudulent schemes to freeze users’ accounts. Sometimes, the exchange can find its illogical actions and block all actions related to the deposit and withdrawal of funds. It is also worth mentioning the problems with the restoration of access to the account in case of loss of password or mobile phone. Of course, these problems complicate conditions for trade and force users to seek more convenient and appropriate options for trade. 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__label__cc	0.634272	0.365728	Introduction, and ALL Of My Threads In One Post hopepunk A response to a conservative, about the wall. Have you lived on the border, Allie? I think probably not. No, your bio says Dallas. You really don’t know, do you? I grew up on the border. During the Reagan/Bush years, when the border was fairly open. My BFF’s fam owned property on both sides, since the 18th century. I was the immigrant; please look up Gadsden Purchase. The US only acquired Southern Arizona in 1854. https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1078477633707491330?s=20 There were no cartels, and very little cross-border violence; no more than any two small towns in the middle of nowhere. Nor did people die of hyperthermia in the desert, back then, nor was human smuggling a thing. It wasn’t rosy, but it was safer for everyone on both sides. Stealing our jobs? Please define our first? Because I don’t see you out in the fields weeding lettuce. Or picking strawberries. Not every day. Nor are they coming for your podcast ad money. You’re totally fine there. Do you even scrub your own shower, sis? Because you don’t look like you do any work. You could say that my BFF’s orthodontist on the south side of the border took business from a US ortho, but my BFF was always going to get her braces from her family dentist (literal family, cousin). Citizenship in my BFF’s family depended more on which doc their mom picked. Some generations were more US-born than Mexican, when US docs were better about pain control/problem pregnancies. When the Catholic line about saving baby & letting mom die was strong, there were a lot more births in the US hospital. The costs were about the same, back then. Seriously, the idea of anchor babies was not even a thing, because almost everyone was a dual citizen anyway, either by place of birth or through their parents. The availability of nitrous or epidurals mattered WAY more. That border? It’s a figment to scare people like you. For those who live on the border? It used to be an annoyance at most; it’s now dangerous because you aren’t coping with your fear. People like you provide weapons to cartels. You do the straw purchase, then private sell the gun, or its parts, to the drug runners. You may even do it at a remove, but that’s what’s always happening. Mexico tries to control weapon flow, specifically because the cartels (which the US helped create) have a tendency to be mass murdering agents of chaos. You have to take ownership for this: US policies have made the cartels incredibly lucrative. Conservative policy created them. My BFF’s family was old money, old land owners. They have water rights to Colorado river water that are older than the state of Indiana. That predate the Louisiana Purchase, much less Gadsden. And they have to fight for that water every single year, because of people like you. If you’re not defending their rights to their land, you don’t respect property rights. You’re not a conservative. You’re stealing. And it’s people like you who are making my BFF’s family into incredibly talented lawyers, because they sue people like you every single day. Thanks! The wall? It’s noise. Again, if you’d ever been on the border, you’d understand that it’s an incredibly stupid idea to build a giant wall – or fence – in a desert. I can explain a flash flood or a dust storm to you, but you’ll never understand how powerful the desert is. Not even in Dallas. Not a city girl like you. It’s not even so much that a wall is immoral as it’s moronic, in the sense of stupid, destructive, and counter to good sense. Let’s just talk about pouring the concrete. You realize that almost all of the concrete will come from... Mexico? That’s were the cement plants are. (And even if the federal spec requires US concrete, which will be more expensive, because it has to travel further, Cemex will be taking up the slack by providing replacement concrete. Cement & concrete are actually sort of fungible, especially when the mix is for deep footings in the desert.) Right there? Thanks for exporting a lot of jobs. All that tax money? Gone. (And yes, the cartels do have interests in legitimate business, like cement... so good on you for enabling MORE crime! I’m impressed at how multi-modal you’re getting here.) Oh, and it’s a desert. Concrete requires a LOT of water for pouring and setting, and even more when you’re pouring in the desert, because it’s hot and dry, even in January. There’s very little municipal water piping on the border. Trucking in all of that water. More expense! The steel? Well, two problems. Back in the late 70s & early 80s, all of the industrial technology built for and after World War II came to the end of its useful life. In the years since it was installed, better tech had been invented, but it was going to be expensive to replace. The Reagan admin refused to subsidize updating the steel industry (because that would have meant acknowledging how dirty and dangerous the industry had been, opening everyone up to deserved suits) so... steel left the United States. We don’t have much steel production anymore. And now we’ve got that little tariff problem. Oops. That’s on your guy, not anyone else. He started that. Of course, it’s pretty clear who benefits from that artificially high steel cost. Mostly Russia. Have you checked on the Birchers recently? Their heads must be exploding. (Seriously, will you go check on your Cold Warriors? How can you do this to them? They know Ivan didn’t quit just because Gorby said they did. Oooh, you really are so very young you don’t know... Please go talk to your elders, honey. You’ve got a lot to learn.) Oh, and one more. Construction jobs. You know, the AZ contractors will probably subcontract out parts of this job, and every subcontract means the job pay rate gets a little lower. You know who does most of the stoop-level construction work for $15/hr? You’re not gonna like it. Basically? All the things you think you want from a wall? You’re not gonna get. The problems you think a wall solves will get worse. When you force criminals, like cartels, to get creative? They do. The coyotes were a creative (if evil) solution to the problem US caused. And I’m pretty sure I can’t explain scale to most people who have not lived in the Sonoran/Mojave Desert, but let me try. My grandparents lived about 30 miles from Indianapolis. Going to Indy was a MAJOR expedition. Like all day, get dressed up, check the tire pressure & oil. When I was in High School? 45 miles? That wasn’t even an away game; that’s still in my high school catchment area. The border is enormous. 2,000 miles. The distance from Miami to Boston. Very few people live there, because there’s no water. You have no idea of the scale. You think you understand because you’re a Texan, but you’re from Dallas. You’re hemmed in, locked in the suburbs. You have no idea what walking out into the night and desert means. Maybe a few people in Kansas & Nebraska will get this, but even the scale of the Great Plains is still small compared to the Mojave/Sonoran desert, and those are just two fractions of the whole desert. You’re imagining walls for action figures. Think Game of Thrones DRAGONS. There are SO many better ways to monitor that desert. Use cameras, and send someone out to intercept ASAP with water, not bullets. Because seriously? The coyotes make money for the cartels by selling the fear. Treat people crossing the border well & you destroy cartel income. Drones & humanitarian aid will do this far better. Because really? What are you scared of? Marijuana? We grow that here now. A LOT OF IT. (And it’s hurting the cartels!) Opiates? See Lilly, Phizer, Roche, et al. Meth? Mostly local manufacture. Look in your backyards, please. If you’re afraid of labor? Oh, wow. Okay, see, here’s the thing: are you raising your kid to think mucking out a dairy barn is a good living? This is only true if you own a dairy. The people who come here willing to take an ag job have to be willing to travel, not own homes. The next step up from working stoop/orchard crops (requiring migration with the harvest) is dairy or eggs. All in the same place, but badly paid and dangerous work. Then slaughterhouse. Badly paid, dangerous, with knives. Then maybe? Cleaning houses & lawn/garden. Are those the aspirations you have for your child? That’s what you want? Those are the jobs you don’t WANT. That’s why immigrant labor fills them. It’s all skilled labor, and it’s incredibly valuable, and you don’t value it. But others do. So what are you afraid of? Are you afraid of another language? Let me assure you, as a Native English speaker and near native Norteño speaker, with mono-lingual parents who have asked me to eavesdrop & translate a lot... They’re not talking about you. I promise. You’re not even on their radar. (Also, never ask me to do that. It’s really gross, and I don’t care about their kids’ sportsball schedule, or their family dramas, or what they watched on TV last night.) I’m sorry you feel you’re not the center of their universe, but that’s on you, not on them. There’s nothing to fear. For far less money, we can hamstring the cartels and provide all of our labor needs. Oh, and one last. If you want your Social Security, and want a comfortable retirement, and for your roads to at least be patched... you want immigrants’ taxes. Because an undocumented worker is still paying into the FICA & SS funds. (Most of the time; it’s safer for the employer to have a fake social than to be paying under the table. The former can be plausibly deniable. The latter makes the state & IRS twitchy.) But they can’t claim those funds, even if they ever manage to get legal. That money goes into the SS/FICA fund and never comes back out. It’s a subsidy for people with legitimate Social Security numbers. You’re hurting your own future self, conservatives. Undocumented workers pay sales tax on everything they buy. They pay property taxes, on their own property or through their landlord. With 1 citizen in the family, that person gets to own the property, do the insurance, keep everyone as under radar as possible. Including taxes. It is deeply conservative to want people in jobs. Nativism is not conservative. It’s fear-driven. So I just ask this: look at your fear, and really sit with it. Think it through. The Swedes & Irish & Italians & Polish were also immigrants, fleeing war & poverty. ~end Well. I write fiction. It does include deserts, though it’s mostly #hopepunk about a civil war. Because we can get through this, and I tell stories to get us there. All my books are on sale right now at Smashwords. 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__label__wiki	0.748079	0.748079	Oregon State's Kyle Nobach (Mandy Sorenson) Oregon State Comes Alive Against UW College World Series Kendall Rogers - June 19, 2018 Want to get in-depth coverage? Subscribe to D1Baseball OMAHA, Neb. — It might’ve taken 13 innings, but the real Oregon State finally showed up at the College World Series. Everything went wrong in the Beavers’ opening game of the CWS against North Carolina. Lefthander Luke Heimlich showed little command against the Tar Heels, while a typically excellent defensive team was sketchy in the field with Cadyn Grenier, Steven Kwan and even rock-solid catcher Adley Rutschman making mistakes. That trend seemed to continue early Monday afternoon as the Beavers trailed rival Washington 3-0 after four innings and 5-4 after five innings. One of the nation’s premier offenses also mustered just one hit through the first four frames. And while they struck for four runs in the fifth, they were still trailing heading to the sixth after UW scored two in the bottom of the fifth. Nothing seemed easy, or right, for this team. But everything changed in the sixth inning, with an assist from Mother Nature. Oregon State loaded the bases with two outs before storms rolled through and we were hit with a four hour, 31 minute rain delay. When play resumed, OSU nine-hole hitter Tyler Malone walked to tie the game. OSU fans roared and the Beavers proceeded to score four runs in the seventh and five more in the ninth to stay alive in the CWS with a dominant 14-5 win over the Huskies. “You know that if you take any club in the country, and you can go through certain times and they don’t score a lot of runs if they don’t hit. Hitting is just so contagious, and earlier this season, we played Hartford and we struggled and struggled and struggled,” Oregon State coach Pat Casey said. “And then we played Stanford, and boom, boom boom. We just needed to get something that would get us going and a little excited. “And I think a couple of those guys in the middle of our lineup were trying to do it all at one time instead of doing what we do,” he continued. “And then we got some baserunners. We got some energy, and then we were off to the races.” Oregon State greets Kyle Nobach after his CWS heroics (Mandy Sorenson) There was a reason for the Beavers’ looseness and energy when played resumed after the lengthy rain delay. Some teams tend to keep the locker room low key during rain delays. Well, not the Beavers. Oregon State’s Tyler Malone, who had that key bases loaded walk in the sixth inning, and Kyle Nobach, who hit a key three-run home run in a four-run seventh inning, offered up the apparent winning formula for the Beavers. It included a 30 bubble gum piece challenge, a game called ‘Mafia’ and a motivating speech from junior second baseman Nick Madrigal, who clearly didn’t want to see his and others’ careers come to an end so abruptly. “Joe Casey did a 30 bubble gum piece challenge and stuffed 30 pieces of bubble gum in his mouth,” Malone said with a laugh. “It was out to here [gesturing with his hands], and he looked like a chipmunk, so we kept it pretty loose.” As for Nobach’s take on things … “Yeah, we just got together. We played a little game called Mafia. It’s a little game we played together. We had a little bit of fun and vibes and listened to some music. Before we went out, Nick got our guys up, too,” Nobach said. “He’s been our leader and he gets us going. He talked to us and we came out ready to play with some energy. So, it was good. “Nick just talked about how there were a lot of guys in our locker room, and how it’s win or go home at this point, and there are a lot of guys that would never put this uniform on again,” he continued. “It means a lot to us, and a lot of people don’t really understand it until you play here and you’re around Case and the program. That’s motivating for us and we don’t want to go home. There are some guys in that locker room that will never play a baseball game again. That’s including myself and Jack and so that’s what motivates us, and that’s what his message was — just to strictly compete.” And compete they did. OSU finally looked like the Beavers we expected to see here in Omaha. When play resumed, Malone headed to the plate with an 0-0 count. Washington’s Alex Hardy got ahead in the count 0-1, but the Oregon State slugger showed good pitch selection and worked four-straight balls to tie the game at 5-5. Though the Huskies worked out of additional damage in the sixth with a strikeout of leadoff hitter Preston Jones, the Beavers dugout and crowd were abuzz and the flood gates had officially opened. In the seventh, Cadyn Grenier grounded out before Nick Madrigal singled and Trevor Larnach struck out. But with two outs, as the Beavers did all-day long after the fourth inning, the wheels were put in motion. Rutschman was intentionally walked before Michael Gretler hit an RBI double. A batter later, Kyle Nobach, who missed last season’s run to the CWS because of an injury, deposited a three-run home run over the wall in right-center field to make it 9-5. The Beavers tacked on five more runs in the eighth, which included singles from Madrigal, Larnach, Rutschman and Gretler before Jack Anderson smacked a double and Tyler Malone hit a home run to cap off the scoring. Just like someone flipped the switch on a breaker, the Beavers were rolling and put the exclamation point on an impressive victory. “Everybody talks about their strength and their power and the balance they have, but really what’s remarkable about what they do is the way they can separate balls from strikes. I mean, they just do not chase pitches out of the strike zone,” Washington coach Lindsay Meggs said. “And I mean that. It’s tough to get kids to be patient and to not chase, and when they have leverage in the count they don’t chase, and when they’re down in the count they don’t chase. Washington’s Kaiser Weiss tries and fails to catch Kyle Nobach’s seventh-inning home run (Mandy Sorenson) “A great example of that is when we come back form the rain delay with bases loaded and we throw strike one and you think we’re in good shape. We end up throwing four balls in a row that are not ideal pitches, but some pitches some would swing at,” Meggs continued. “I give them a lot of credit. People talk about how athletic they are. They talk about the kids that they have that are high draft picks, but those coaches have done a phenomenal job to get those kids to buy into a hitting plan that is second to none.” Oregon State has a new lease on its life here at the CWS, and as a program, it’s familiar with coming out of the loser’s bracket to accomplish big things. In 2006, Casey’s Beavers lost the opening game of the CWS, 11-1, to Miami before storming through the loser’s bracket and ultimately winning their first national title with a series win over North Carolina. Some things will need to be figured out for the Beavers to reach that goal. Usual third starter Kevin Abel likely won’t be available to pitch on Wednesday. Abel worked 17 pitches before the rain delay and went back to the mound after the rain delay. He threw 58 pitches. So, someone will obviously need to step up from a pitching standpoint in the next contest with Abel not starting. There’s also the injury situation with Steven Kwan. The electric OSU outfielder left the game in the early innings because of some discomfort in his hamstring. Casey said after the game he wasn’t sure if Kwan would be able to play in the next game or the rest of the CWS, but given cramps were the issue, you have to like his chances to return. Clearly, not having Kwan in the lineup hurts, though Preston Jones, his replacement, hit a key two-out two-run double in the fifth inning. For four innings Monday afternoon, the Beavers looked like a team destined to head home in disappointment and with an 0-2 record in this CWS. But they scored a few runs in the fifth, the rains came in the sixth and everything else just seemed to fall into place. Maybe the real Beavers finally stood up. If so, watch out. 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__label__cc	0.597351	0.402649	Promoting Ethics in Medicine Support DAFOH Forced Organ Harvesting Forced Organ Harvesting in China Matas & Kilgour Report Bloody Harvest/The Slaughter—An Update Global Organ Trafficking Latest News & Statements News in the Media Statements by DAFOH Articles in Medical Journals About DAFOH Worldwide there are different forms of organ theft reported. These cases have in common that they are scattered in various countries and regions. In some countries reports say that organs were removed from homeless people, in other cases those “donors” were offered a refund of a couple hundred dollars in exchange for a kidney donation. All of these cases are questionable and dubious. If these cases are related to living donors they are limited to donations of a second kidney. However none of these documented reports about organ theft has ever aroused any suspicion that there would exist a nationwide, state sanctioned, systematic organ theft from living people. The extent of organ harvesting in China as described by witnesses, by publicly accessible data about transplantations in China and by the Kilgour & Matas Report is unprecedented. The data collected by Kilgour & Matas depicts a transplantation-on-demand-system. The latter carries the potential to enhance transplant tourism to China. In contrast to the totalitarian regime in China most of the democratic governments of the affected countries that have encountered such forms of organ thefts have taken steps to stop these degenerated forms of organ supply. Israel: The Knesset approved a new organ donation law in March 2008. The law determines, among other things, that brokering sales of organs, whether in Israel or overseas, is a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in jail. The new law followed unethical practices of an organ broker who mediated organs from China. Taiwan: Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the governmental authority in charge of mainland China affairs, announced it will prohibit Chinese transplant surgeons from visiting Taiwan from now on and will review their entry application case by case. This is in response to Chinese doctors soliciting business of organ transplants from Taiwanese patients with assistance of Taiwanese doctors. Israel: “Israel Arrests Men Who Mediated China Organ Transplants” Four men accused of pocketing millions of dollars that patients had paid for organ transplants in Asia were arrested in Israel August 2007. The arrests followed months of investigation after the main suspect admitted to an Israeli newspaper that the organs were coming from Chinese death row inmates and prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners. Israel: After several publications authored and initiated by Dr. Jacob Lavee a special hearing on the organ harvesting issue has been convened which resulted with an official condemnation of the Israeli Parliament of the atrocities in China. In addition the reimbursement of transplantation performed on Israelis in China (and countries which do not observe the ethical rules in organ donation) have been stopped. Australia: “Hospitals ban Chinese surgeon training” Queensland’s two major organ transplant hospitals have banned training Chinese surgeons because of concerns that China takes organs from executed prisoners. Link 1 Link 2 Declaration of Istanbul WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation WMA Statement on Organ and Tissue Donation WMA Council Resolution on Organ Donation in China Declaration of Helsinki WMA International Code of Medical Ethics Copyright © 2019 DAFOH. All Rights Reserved	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1101
__label__wiki	0.588152	0.588152	Volleyball swept for second time this season Cougars could not repeat another upset win, USC won all sets in second match against WSU this year Senior opposite Casey Schoenlein hits in between University of Southern California’s block, put up by senior opposite Brittany Abercrombie and junior middle blocker Brittany Welsh. The Trojans took the match, beating WSU for the second time this season. JORDAN MAXWELL \| The Daily Evergreen SAM HEIKELL, Evergreen reporter Filed under Showcase, Sports, Women's WSU volleyball (14-10, 3-9) was swept on the court for the second time this season. The Cougars fell to No. 19 University of Southern California (16-7, 8-4) in three sets Sunday afternoon. The team pulled off an upset victory over No. 13 University of California, Los Angeles, on Friday, but could not win a second straight Pac-12 game against a ranked opponent. “Our serve-receive and our defense and all-around [knowing] the opponent was a lot sharper [in] Friday’s match than today,” senior opposite Casey Schoenlein said. “We got flustered when we felt that we weren’t doing our jobs, and we let one point lead into the next.” The first set stayed fairly even the entire time. The Trojans got the last couple of points to take it. USC senior opposite Niki Withers delivered an ace to win the set 25-23. Her teammate, junior outside hitter Alyse Ford, led all Trojans with seven kills in the set. Ford finished the match with a total of 14 kills. “I thought we were pretty good in the first set, but had some silly mistakes there,” WSU Head Coach Jen Greeny said. “We passed pretty well in the first set, and then the passing broke down a little bit. Hitting-wise, we struggled a little bit — especially our outside hitters.” Trojan volleyball held a 17-16 lead in the second set, before notching eight consecutive points to secure a 25-16 victory. The Cougars committed eight errors, and 19 total on the day. WSU scored less points in the third set, mustering 13 total. USC finished the match without losing a set. “At this point, we need to learn from this match, and we need to flush it,” Schoenlein said. “If we dwell on the energy of not playing our best today, it’s going to carry over into our Wednesday and Thursday matches. We need to focus on getting better for the short time we have.” The Cougars will travel to Colorado this week to compete against a couple Rocky Mountain schools. The team goes up against University of Colorado, Boulder (17-6, 7-5) on Wednesday and University of Utah (17-6, 8-4) on Thursday. “It’s tough,” Greeny said. “Anytime you have a Sunday match and you have to turn around, and travel and play Wednesday, [it’s tough], especially back-to-back in the mountain schools where we have to fly in between. We’re going to do our best to get back into practice and get some rest as well. It’s a tough place to be in.” Restoring Nez Perce language for future generations Pullman School District addresses mental health Emergency numbers added to student ID cards Moscow Community People, their dogs run for animals on Palouse Becoming Tegan ‘Tomboy’ to Rumble Bee: Story of Growth	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1102
__label__wiki	0.587595	0.587595	Track and field sets more PRs at meet in Seattle Filed under Co Ed, Sports The indoor track and field Mountain Pacific Sports Federation competition on Friday and Saturday made it into the history books for WSU. From day one of racing at Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle, the Cougs were surpassing their own marks. In the women’s 5000-meter race, senior CharLee Linton took third with a time of 16:34.89 and made her seventh-best all-time for WSU bumping out the last time from Anna Blue in 2003. The pentathlon for the women was a double success with junior Liz Harper as runner-up and her teammate junior Alissa Brooks-Johnson coming in third. Harper finished with 4,146 points which also made her the third in WSU all-time records. She already held the second-best place for the 400m hurdles and now Harper also tied for fifth best in WSU’s records with her personal best time in the 60m hurdles with 8.45 seconds. Freshman Lindsey Schauble also moved up the ranks for the pentathlon to make it 10th at the meet with a personal record of 3,533 points and put her eighth in line for the best in WSU records. In the women’s high jump, junior Kiana Davis won with a leap of 5-feet, 10 1/2 inches, a personal best. Harper also placed with that same leap making her third in the competition based on missed attempts. In the eighth place spot, seniors Audrey Ketcham and Lateah Holmes were in a four-way tie with their competitors with 5-feet, 4 1/2 inches. Davis also extended her bests into the triple jump by placing third in a leap of 41-feet, 2 1/4 inches. This puts her 10th-best for WSU. Stepping up, freshmen Jenaya Pynn, Stephanie Cho and Grace Victor and junior Steffie Pavey raced in WSU’s first distance medley this season and placed 11th with a time of 12:05.08. Although freshman Reid Muller missed scoring in the men’s 800-meter race, he made a personal best time of 1:51.64 to push out Bob Hewitt-Gaffney’s time in 2007 and make Muller ninth in WSU’s freshman school record. Muller was also in the men’s distance medley relay which broke the frosh school record from earlier this year by six seconds. Racing third among Chandler Teigen, Ray Littles and Nathan Tadesse, these freshmen made it across the finish line in 9:53.49 to place seventh. Another freshman to impress was Ja’Maun Charles in the men’s 60-meter dash with his top time of 6.80 seconds in the prelims and then took sixth in that event with he finished a second slower in the following day of competition. Charles also scored in the 200-meterdash with 21.86 seconds. Senior high jumper Thane Pierson shared his fifth place height of 6-feet, 10 3/4 inches with two others while junior Cole Smith set a personal best of 6-8 3/4 to finish 12th. The men’s heptathlon has been added to the school records with junior Dino Dodig’s 5,635 points for a personal record and a fourth place finish. The indoor season ends for the Cougs with the NCAA DI Indoor Championships, March 11-12, in Birmingham, Alabama. Reporting by Casie Moe Co Ed Track travels to Arizona for Pac-12 Multi-Events Championship Track and field fights through poor weather conditions at Cougar Invitational WSU track and field competes in two different meets Track posts several top-five finishes Friday WSU heads to Cali for three-meet week Track and field claims five event wins in Cheney WSU track competes in Cheney starting Friday Cougs fall to rival Huskies in dual meet WSU track heads to Seattle for rivalry dual at UW Athlete of the Week: Brock Eager	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1103
__label__wiki	0.712755	0.712755	Home Columns “What, Mr. Todd, What is that Sound?” Arranging The Prog Metal Version... “What, Mr. Todd, What is that Sound?” Arranging The Prog Metal Version of ‘Sweeney Todd’: Part Two: Andrew Lloyd Baughman It has been over a year since Stephen Sondheim gave DC’s Landless Theatre Company unprecedented permission to create a Prog Metal orchestration of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The August 2014 workshop production at Warehouse Theatre garnered 3 Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Director (Melissa Baughman), and Outstanding Music Director (Charles W. Johnson). The Sweeney Todd Prog Metal Version will open at Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Lang Theatre this summer in July! Andrew L. Baughman. The groundbreaking fusion of metal and musical theatre is orchestrated by a seven member group known as The Fleet Street Collective (Andrew Siddle, Alex Vallejo, Ray Shaw, Lance LaRue, Spencer Blevins, LTC Producing Artistic Director Andrew Baughman, and Music Director Charles W. Johnson). Today we sit down with co-arranger Andrew Baughman to discuss his experience with the project. Tell us about yourself and your background. I started working as an actor right out of college. My first job in the DC area was Orin The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors at the former West End Dinner Theatre. Shortly after that I founded Landless Theatre Company with a group of like-minded artists who wanted to bring some fresh material – particularly offbeat musicals – to DC audiences. I have been LTC’s Producing Artistic Director for over 11 years now, and while my creative work is usually as book writer or playwright, I do venture into composition on occasion. I was composer for our murderous mashup GLEEAM in collaboration with lyricist Randy Blair, which went on to a successful run at NY Fringe. I also composed the rock score for our recent Rock Bottom [A Rock Opus], a musical adaptation of Michael Shilling’s dark novel about a dysfunctional band. I once wrote a catchy little holiday ditty for Ningen Manga’s Helena Hussy of Horror web series. You also play the role of Sweeney Todd. What is it like being the only actor-vocalist in the group of arrangers. Andrew L. Baughman as Sweeney Todd. Photo by Photo courtesy of Brandon Penick Photography. It’s pretty incredible to arrange the songs that you get to perform. Musical theatre actors rarely get to collaborate in the musical process that way, which is one major difference between theatre and rock music. Having that sort of input in my own music made it more personal, more connected. I generally took on songs for the team that we felt had to be actor-driven, and needed an actor or dramatist’s touch in arrangement. Tell us about the arrangements you wrote for the show. Which was the most challenging? Which is your favorite? Whether it’s my favorite arrangement or not, “Epiphany” is my favorite song in all of musical theatre, and a song that I felt was essentially already “prog metal” when we took on the project. It practically arranged itself. The metal orchestration just punctuates the intensity and madness. Arranging “The Worst Pies In London” was challenging simply in the temptation to reinvent the song – but at the end of the day, Mrs. Lovett’s acting is the most important part and a metal orchestration can’t get in the way, so it’s a very straightforward arrangement. I was more experimental with “Wait,” which I discovered is really a prelude to “Epiphany.” There’s another character in the room with Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett, and that is Sweeney’s razor… it is always calling out to him. Throughout the score there is a theme that I think of as the voice of the razor (basically the Dies Irae “Swing Your Razor High” motif). We hear it faintly, as though calling in the distance, in “Barber and his Wife;” it grows seductively throughout “My Friends;” and, of course, in “Epiphany” it kicks into machine-like high gear as Sweeney makes his full transformation into psychotic killer. In my “Wait” arrangement, the razor’s theme is trance-like, and Mrs. Lovett’s vocal line is a delicate tug of war to coax Sweeney out of the razor’s spell. The instrumentation draws upon trance industrial music influences, and I toy with some of the barest instrumentation in our whole orchestration. I definitely had the most fun arranging the music for Pirelli. We realize that many people don’t know or understand the semi-classical nuances of “prog metal,” and since Pirelli is all flamboyance and cheese, we decided to use him as vehicle for the stereotypical power metal sound. Those arrangements were greatly inspired by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and King Diamond. I was lucky to be able to tailor the part for a vocalist like Rob Bradley who can tackle that challenging technique and range. Both the Director Melissa Baughman and Music Director Charles Johnson have been nominated for Helen Hayes awards for their work. How did they influence your arrangements? Melissa and Charles have been driving artistic forces for Landless for so many years, I’m overjoyed to see them recognized for their work. Metal theatre is Melissa’s vision, and she is very specific about what she wants in every detail. I suspect a Broadway production would have been under pressure to make the show look and sound like a Metallica or Poison concert, but Melissa wants the metal to enhance and elevate the story, not create a gimmick. Charles is a master musician in any genre with great understanding and respect for Sondheim, particularly this score. That was crucial to our project since most of our arrangers did not come from a musical theatre background. I was surprised to find that more often than not, Charles would push us to be more inventive with the arrangements. What was it like arranging Stephen Sondheim’s music, and knowing that he would hear it? I probably should have been terrified, but we had a massive arranging task and a deadline quickly upon us. The great thing about Steve Sondheim’s feedback is that I never got the impression our hands were tied. He gave some general suggestions that we tried to incorporate, usually plot related, but by and large he gave us a lot of leeway to experiment with his baby. I hope he likes it enough to let the Prog Metal Version live on elsewhere after Landless. I think it’s a good sign that he recently gave the band DeVotchKa the OK to arrange a “Gypsy Punk” adaptation of Sweeney for Denver Center Theatre. He must not have hated this prog metal experiment. Can you reveal what’s next for Landless? Is there another metal musical in the pipeline? Well, we’re bringing Sweeney to Atlas this July for an extended run, and that is our major focus for 2015. With the success of Richard Campbell’s Frankenstein and Sweeney Todd Prog Metal Version, I think it’s clear that Landless needs to continue down the rock theatre rabbit hole. All I can reveal at this moment is that we ARE moving along in positive negotiations to transform another Broadway musical into a metal show. HEAR SAMPLES OF ANDREW BAUGHMAN’S ARRANGEMENTS: https://youtu.be/GARgFybPzvk Sweeney Todd (Prog Metal Version) plays from July 9-August 2, 2015 at Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Lang Theatre-1333 H Street, NE, in Washington, DC. For tickets, which are a bloody cheap $29, purchase them online. For more information, visit Landless Theatre Company’s website. “What, Mr. Todd, What is that Sound?” Arranging The Prog Metal Version of Sweeney Todd, Part One: Andrew Siddle. Exclusive! Attend The Tale of Landless Theatre’s Sondheim Approved Prog Metal Version of ‘Sweeney Todd’: Announcing The Arrangers-THE FLEET STREET COLLECTIVE. Attend The Tale: Cast Announcement for Landless’ Summer of Rock productions of ‘Sweeney Todd – Prog Metal Version’ and ‘Rock Bottom’ [A Rock Opus] by Landless Theatre Company. Bloody Good News! Sondheim Grants Landless Theatre Company Permission to Develop Prog-Metal Version of ‘Sweeney Todd’ by Andrew L. Baughman. Landless Theatre Company’s website. 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__label__wiki	0.876495	0.876495	Latest in Michael Moore in TrumpLand ‘Moonlight’ & ‘Michael Moore In TrumpLand’ Top 2016 Theater Averages – Specialty B.O. What a weekend. Barry Jenkins' Moonlight full-on smashed the Specialty box office with the year's best opening per theater average, grossing $414,740 in four theaters. Michael Moore in TrumpLand came out of nowhere and opened Wednesday in two theaters, grabbing the year's best PTA for a non-fiction title with $25K… By Brian Brooks ‘Michael Moore In TrumpLand’ Lands On ITunes & Sets Global Airdates – Update UPDATE, Friday 4:02 PM: Michael Moore In TrumpLand is now available on iTunes, and the surprise self-distributed documentary has also lined up presentations around the globe. The film will air on October 30 in the UK (Channel 4), Australia (Ten Network), Netherlands (VPRO), New Zealand (TVNZ), Denmark (TV2), Sweden… Michael Moore Trumps Weekend Buzz; Leonardo DiCaprio Floats ‘Before the Flood’ – Specialty B.O. Preview Michael Moore tapped the media zeitgeist with his surprise announcement earlier this week of a new film that would have a sneak screening at IFC Center in New York just a day later. Michael Moore in TrumpLand, a one-man show shot in Ohio, began runs in Manhattan and Encino ahead of a planned internet release. It is… Michael Moore Working Down To Wire On Surprise ‘TrumpLand’ Movie Michael Moore has his own October Surprise: He made a movie about Donald Trump, which the filmmaker is self-distributing this weekend, and everyone is learning about it now. Moore is currently in the editing/mixing room, putting the final touches on Michael Moore in TrumpLand in time for tonight’s premiere at New York…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1112
__label__cc	0.705496	0.294504	MANGA REVIEW: Jiu Jiu volume 2 by Touya Tobina JiaC- ReviewsManga / shoujo / supernatural / vampires / Viz / werewolves6 Comments Story & Art: Touya Tobina Publisher: Hakusensha/Viz Rated: T+ for older teen Volumes: 2/5 A few weeks ago, I read the first volume of Jiu Jiu, a shoujo manga series about Takamichi, the heir of a demon hunting family, and her two shapeshifting bodyguard-familiars, Night and Snow. Although the pacing was uneven, I liked Takamichi’s internal conflict and continue on to the second volume to see if the writing improved. Turns out: not so much. Random is the adjective I’d used to describe volume 2. After the events of volume 1, Takamichi has thawed and started to form emotional attachments again. Night and Snow are thrilled at this development because they adore their mistress. Unfortunately, this leads to some complications. First, Takamichi encounters a vampire prince who must drink the blood of a virgin in order to obtain his full power and heritage. Night and Snow are predictably horrified by this development but because the vampire initially takes the form of a little boy, Takamichi buys his fabricated story and wants to help him find his way home. But when he’s not in human form, the vampire takes the form of a pig. Yes. You read that correctly. I like crack as much as the next person. I did use to read the Black Dagger Brotherhood once upon a time before I broke that habit, but some things just don’t work for me. Apparently, flying vampire pigs are one of them. Other readers may feel differently. Even as I write this, I’m fully aware other people eat this up in manga. Secondly, Takamichi, her bodyguards, and her friends take a trip to the beach. But while there, they stay at a supposedly haunted house. Except the supernatural creature in residence is not a ghost. It’s a selkie. A lesbian selkie who forms an immediate attachment to Takamichi. By this point, I was struggling to figure out what was going on and what kind of manga this was meant to be. Was it meant to be an episodic supernatural slice of life, in which Takamichi encounters various supernatural creatures and helps them? Is this further set-up, in which Takamichi gathers more supernatural beasties around her, before we go on to the bigger plot? I had no clue. And while I loved the Takamichi of volume 1, I found myself less enamored with her in volume 2. I suppose I found her rapid turnaround in which anything cute and helpless merits her help, no matter that the circumstances may say otherwise. I can’t say I found it believable that someone who hunted monsters would buy a vampire’s story that he was lost and needed to find his way home. Surely she’s dealt with child monsters before? On the other hand, I found her brusque handling of the selkie to be more in-character. I definitely see the vampire as trouble. He wants Takamichi and messes with Night and Snow to get her. I can’t say I’m keen on this sort of thing. It only reinforces the impression that Night and Snow are mentally children, no matter their physical appearance. I could be misreading the foreshadowing, but there are definite hints that Night and Snow’s feelings for Takamichi go beyond the familial and platonic, or will in the future. If anything, the developments in this volume made me more uncomfortable about any future romantic prospects for Takamichi. At this point, I have no idea what this manga is aiming to be. There wasn’t enough meaty supernatural conflict to sustain an interesting external plot. The romantic aspects, such as they were, are clumsy at best and uncomfortable at worst. The comedic bits don’t work for me, but humor is tough to pull off since it’s so individual. I’m not sure I want to continue this series but other readers might feel differently. There’s potential buried under all the randomness. C- HQN Jia is an avid reader who loves fantasy and young adult novels. She's also currently dipping her toes in the new adult genre but remains unconvinced by the prevalent need for traumatic pasts. Her favorite authors are Michelle West and Jacqueline Carey. YA authors whose works she's enjoyed include Holly Black, Laini Taylor, Ally Carter, and Megan Miranda. Jia's on a neverending quest for novels with diverse casts and multicultural settings. Feel free to email her with recommendations at jia@dearauthor.com! → Jia Previous article: Tuesday News: Bella Andre inks print only deal with Harlequin; New digital first imprint launches; Legal Geeks teach contract law via FireFly Next Post: REVIEW: One Wrong Move by Shannon McKenna October 2, 2012 @ 10:20 am Great review Jia! I’ve been wanting to try manga for a while now – anyone have some suggestions of the best that I should start with? Estara I really can’t help but think that cover is not the best way to advertise a SHOUJO heroine either. I think I’ll stay with Natsume’s Book of Friends for youkai meeting shoujo manga. @Angela: What sort of story would interest you in a graphic format? Have you read comics before and what did you like? By now there is so much manga released in English that having an idea of what you like would really help narrow the recommendations down ^^ October 2, 2012 @ 12:00 pm I’ve read many comics and graphic novels and I enjoy a wide variety. A couple of favorites were Witchblade and Spawn, for what it’s worth. It’s kind of like asking what I enjoy in books – nearly everything! :) I guess in general I lean towards fantasy (incl. urban) and paranormal for pretty much all my reading. As long as it has a good storyline and is told well in the visual format I’ll probably love it. I’ve just been kind of overwhelmed and keep putting off trying something. @Estara: I have no idea why Takamichi is even portrayed that way. She doesn’t dress that way at all in the manga. They do break the fourth wall at some point and make a reference to the misleading cover but even so. Not quite sure what the intent was there. @Angela: Hmm. Since you mentioned Witchblade and Spawn, my gut tells me to recommend Claymore and Blue Exorcist to you. Claymore is set in a faux-medieval setting and is about half-demon female warriors (called Claymores for the weapons they bear) who hunt down monsters called yoma. The catch, however, is that the Claymores are the result of experiments in which the flesh of yoma were implanted into young human girls, transforming them into living weapons. This allows them to fight the yoma effectively. Unfortunately, the longer they live (and they can live a very long time), the more likely they’ll one day slip and turn into a monster themselves, thus needing to be hunted down by their former comrades. The first couple volumes can be a little hard to get into for some people but volume 3 will pretty much confirm whether this title is for you. Blue Exorcist is about a teenager who discovers he’s the son of Satan and, after the priest who raised him is killed, decides to become an exorcist in order to destroy his father. @Angela: I second Blue Exorcist – even though it’s a shonen manga, because like Kekkaishi (which is finished but does have 33 volumes) both are drawn by women, which means apart from the great supernatural action that the girls are not just window-dressing. A friend of mine is a huge Claymore fan but I haven’t read it, it seemed to grim-dark for my taste. Natsume’s Book of Friends is a very slice-of-life with Japanese supernatural creatures story. The volumes are also episodic a lot, so you can read as much or little as you want. A boy who has the ability to see and interact with youkai starts dealing with this proactively after finding out where the ability came from in the first place – in the course of that he finally finds humans he can trust not to ridicule him either. The conflict parts come from both his worlds colliding and the fact that he is now old enough to see that shades of grey exist everywhere and he wants to stand up for both human and yokai friends. For something completely different with a romance paranormal vibe there’s Rasetsu about a girl who knows that a demon is coming for her at a certain date in the future and tries to find ways to stop this threat and also help other fellow sufferers from demon curses. Thank you both for the recommendations!! Janine on DAILY DEALS: Second chancesROTFLMAO!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1113
__label__wiki	0.878571	0.878571	Judge Cuts Suspect's Bail For Attempted Murder Of Cops After Lawyer Blames Cops Oct 10, 2018 -edited Jamal Campbell has been charged with attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. Chicago, IL – A man accused of attempting to murder an Alsip police officer by ramming a vehicle into him during a traffic stop had his bond reduced by a Cook County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday. Jamal Campbell, 25, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder of a police officer in connection to the Oct. 3 attack, the Chicago Sun Times reported. The court originally ordered Campbell to be held without bail. Then, at Campbell's hearing, his defense attorney, Michael Oppenheimer, noted that the officer opened fire on Campbell during the incident, and alleged that he had done so “probably for racial reasons,” the Chicago Sun Times reported. “This police officer was trigger-happy,” Oppenheimer said. Judge John F. Lyke Jr. then dropped his bond to just $20,000 during a bail review hearing on Tuesday, according to the Chicago Sun Times. He will need just $2,000 to bond out. The incident began just after 2 a.m. on Oct. 3, when the Alsip police officer spotted a Cadillac and a Dodge Charger drag racing in the residential neighborhood of David Estates. In his attempt to locate the suspect vehicles, the officer pulled into an apartment parking lot in the 4000-block of 115th Street, where he located Campbell and an unnamed passenger inside the Cadillac. The location sits just over the border between Alsip and Chicago, the Alsip Patch reported. According to prosecutors, the officer activated his patrol car’s lights and blocked the Cadillac’s escape route with the marked cruiser, the Chicago Sun Times reported. He and his partner exited the patrol car and ordered the occupants in the suspect vehicle to raise their hands, but the suspects initially refused. At least one officer then drew his duty weapon and again commanded that the suspects show their hands, at which point the passenger complied. “[Campbell] crouched down and would not show his hands,” court documents said, according to the Chicago Sun Times. Campbell shifted the car into reverse and backed up briefly before he accelerated forward, towards the officer, prosecutors said. As the officer backed away and opened fire on Campbell, the Cadillac slammed into the patrol vehicle, pushing the cruiser several feet. Campbell then continued to stomp on the gas, “causing the vehicle to spin its tires and swerve back and forth,” according to court documents. The Cadillac began “pinballing” off of other vehicles in the lot, and came within inches of hitting one of the Alsip officers, prosecutors said, according to the Chicago Sun Times. When the suspect “began making multiple movements within the vehicle,” the officer fired a second round, incapacitating him. The officers provided medical attention to Campbell, who had been hit in his shoulder and jaw, according to the Alsip Patch. He was transported to Christ Medical Center in serious condition, and remained hospitalized on Tuesday, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Both Alsip officers were treated for minor injuries. The incident was captured by dashcam and parking lot security cameras, and prosecutors said the footage corroborated the officers’ accounts of what transpired. Oppenheimer alleged that the allegations against his client “make no sense,” and claimed that Campbell only crouched down in the vehicle because the officers “pulled their guns immediately,” the Chicago Sun Times reported. “The attempted first-degree murder [charge] is absolutely ridiculous,” Oppenheimer told WBBM. “These police officers jumped out of their car with their guns drawn. They didn’t give Jamal a chance to react to anything, and they began firing numerous shots at that car.” He said that Campbell was never charged in connection to the alleged drag racing incident, and that officers had no reason to believe he was armed or in possession of drugs when they conducted the stop, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Oppenheimer then accused police of a “cover-up,” according to the Alsip Patch. "There is a history of police cover-ups in Chicago," Oppenheimer said after the hearing on Tuesday. "Justice was served last week with a guilty verdict [in the Jason Van Dyke murder trial]. Based on what we heard today, we think police are covering up." According to Oppenheimer, Campbell’s only previous conviction was due to a misdemeanor offense, the Chicago Sun Times reported. That misdemeanor conviction, which occurred in Kentucky, was originally charged as felony gun possession, according to the Alsip Patch. Campbell was ultimately convicted of misdemeanor possession of stolen property. Police said Campbell is also being held without bail due to an arrest warrant out of Indiana for a felony narcotics charge, but Oppenheimer downplayed that offense, as well, the Chicago Sun Times reported. “We expected to address [the narcotics] charge as soon as possible so [Campbell] can go home,” Oppenheimer told the Chicago Sun Times. “My understanding is it’s related to weed or a pill, or something like that. It’s small.” The defense attorney also noted that Campbell attended college in Kentucky for three years on an academic scholarship. The Chicago Police Department is investigating the officer-involved shooting, and the Alsip Police Department requested that the officers’ use of force be investigated by the Illinois State Police. Both Alsip officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, as per protocol, pending the outcome of the investigation, the Alsip Patch reported. Campbell’s next court hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 16. Burgers Allday Judge is sending a message to the police officers, "don't get out of the safety of your airbag equipped vehicle and put your exposed bodies in front of, or behind, running vehicles." really, they shouldn't need to be told because Blue Lives Matter. Roll dashcam and bodycam videos -- wouldn't be surprised if no officers were even in the path of the car. @Burgers Allday Not sure why you put that one sentence in quotes. Who exactly are you quoting, Booger? Again, I hope you're not engaging in internet chat while being paid by your employer. I'm assuming, of course, that you're actually employed. Although that might be a stretch with a less than stellar degree from Berkeley. rover77 Chiraq's murder rate explained NTPD935Ret Shakespeare was correct, first thing we should do is get rid of all the lawyers nightangel00 Smh. Unbelievable.....	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1115
__label__cc	0.506835	0.493165	Friday Five: Donna Benjamin Every Friday we’ll profile a prominent figure from Australia’s IT, telecommunications or video gaming industries in the Friday Five. Donna Benjamin always wears more than one hat. She’s president of the Linux Users of Victoria, and self-employed at Creative Contingencies, a Melbourne-based business which helps with both events and technology services — especially using open source software. But she also has a strong background as a theatre director. 1. What was your first job ever? Probably babysitting. But I did office support stuff for my Dad’s business, and a stint in retail selling women’s clothes. Not very exciting. But computing was a hobby and a passion since an Apple IIe showed up in Dad’s home office. 2. What do most like about working in the IT industry? The variety. I run a small business, so I’m my own master as much as my own slave. But IT is always changing, and usually improving. It’s hard to keep up, but that just keeps things interesting. But for me, it’s also the community. Because Creative Contingencies is focused on open source solutions we’re also involved in the free and open source software community — which makes it possible for a small business like ours to do more, be more, and deliver more for our clients. 3. What’s your hobby? Hmmm, a surprisingly tough question. I guess community participation counts as a hobby. Organising open source events. That’s where my volunteer time goes anyway. But as for pure leisure and downtime … food and travel are my fascinations … I would also like to say swimming and walking, but that hasn’t been true for 18 months or so. But I’d like to do more of that again. 4. Where do you think the Australian IT industry will be in five years? I hope it lives up to its potential by embracing more open source software. I hope government recognises its role in developing our innovative local industry by removing the barriers that prevent small business providing world-class solutions backed by the power of the global open source community. I also hope more geek women stick with the industry, and the industry recognises the brilliance and diversity they bring with them when they stay. We do have top talent here, but sometimes I think our IT culture has become too reliant on an ‘off the shelf’ consumer attitude. Where is the inventive spirit of innovation we’re famous for? You don’t get that buying shrink-wrapped boxes off shelves in stationery stores. I see business information technology infrastructure more as a process than a product. Businesses that fully utilise their IT resources tend to acknowledge that it’s never finished and never perfect. It needs constant monitoring, maintenance and development, but it also means it can constantly adapt to meet the real ongoing needs of a dynamic business. So I see a range of possible futures for the Australian IT industry. A range that is variously utopian and dystopian. The glass contains 50 percent of its capacity. Half full, or half empty, there’s huge potential ahead. 5. What/who has been the biggest inspiration in your career? Freedom. More than anything, it’s the sense of freedom that keeps me focussed on running a small business. Because being my own boss is ultimately about freedom. So I guess that also explains why I became so excited by and committed to free and open source software. I’ve grown up surrounded by a network of small business people, so I guess that seemed a natural pathway for me. I am inspired by the spirit of Gandhi, by the efforts of teachers and scientists, and by the unstoppable, insatiable curiosity of learners. Image credit: Donna Benjamin Friday Five: Microsoft’s Phil Goldie Friday Five: Jeremy Hulse Friday Five: Red Hat’s Max McLaren Friday Five: Bang the Table’s Karthik Reddy Friday Five: Upstream’s Neil Tilley creative contingencies donna benjamin Steven 19/02/2010 at 9:10 pm Hi AllDay, Can I make an interview request please? How about you do one with that telco journeyman, Shane Williamson? Raena Jackson Armita 19/02/2010 at 10:37 pm Donna is the bomb, and I'm thrilled to see this interview. :D Loquacity 22/02/2010 at 6:53 am Awesome! Great to see some of Australia’s amazing female tech specialists getting some recognition. Keep up the good work. Oh, by the way – “shelves in stationary stores”? Stores that aren’t going anywhere? ;) Renai LeMay 22/02/2010 at 8:10 am @Loquacity cheers! I plan to keep on profiling women working in ICT and gaming — they’re often unsung heroes. Have fixed that typo also, thanks for pointing it out! @Steven I’ll see what I can do :)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1116
__label__cc	0.670703	0.329297	Policy + Politics “Criminal”: MyRepublic CEO mourns loss of Australia’s “marvellous” NBN vision feature The chief executive officer of upstart telco MyRepublic has described the Coalition’s move to significantly water down Labor’s National Broadband Network vision as “criminal”, mourning the loss of the “marvellous” universal fibre dream promoted by the previous Labor Government. MyRepublic was formed in 2011 as a new broadband provider in Singapore by telco and network specialists Malcolm Rodrigues and KC Lai. The company quickly shot to prominence in the island state through providing unlimited broadband plans at 100Mbps speeds over Singapore’s Next-Gen National Broadband Network, which is based on the Fibre to the Premises network rollout model. The company has also launched in New Zealand and is planning to launch in Australia in the second quarter of 2016. Rodrigues — the company’s chief executive — generated a large amount of headlines last week with controversial comments made to the Financial Review newspaper, in which he alleged the Coalition’s Multi-Technology Mix approach to the NBN was “shit”, and that the Coalition Government had “completely stuffed” the project. The comments were quickly denounced by the NBN company and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Asked about the instant reaction in an interview with Delimiter later in the week, the good-natured Rodrigues chuckles and notes that he suspected his comments had “struck a nerve”. The executive says he has some experience of dealing with Minister Turnbull. When the Liberal MP was in Opposition, he notes, the pair spent half a day together in Singapore, during a broadband fact-finding mission which the then-Shadow Minister had engaged in throughout Asia. Rodrigues says he has “a lot of respect” for the Minister, who he describes as a “smart guy”. He notes that Minister Turnbull may not always be able to pursue the path he would like to — in his Cabinet role he has a lot of “handcuffs” on him. However, the executive notes that even at that stage, in Opposition, the Member for Wentworth didn’t see the need for universal fibre as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy did. “He said, ‘I don’t know what anyone will do with 100Mbps, I think 20Mbps is fine’,” says Rodrigues. The executive says that he understands where Minister Turnbull would be coming from with such comments. However, throughout some parts of Asia, he notes, even 100Mbps speeds are obsolete. In Singapore, gigabit speeds have become common following the country’s own NBN rollout. If customers really didn’t want those speeds they could buy 500Mbps plans instead, Rodrigues notes. In Australia, there is sharp disagreement between the major political parties on the topic of the National Broadband Network. Since 2009, Labor’s policy has focused on near-universal Fibre to the Premises throughout Australia. The Coalition has had a number of alternative policies, before settling to the Multi-Technology Mix of HFC cable, Fibre to the Node and Fibre to the Premises. Rodrigues notes that the political dynamic in his company’s two main countries of focus, Singapore and New Zealand, has been dramatically different around broadband to that in Australia. “In New Zealand … everybody supports it, they know this is critical to the future of the country,” he says. “There is no debate on copper or alternate technologies.” For its part, Singapore developed an ‘Intelligent Nation 2015’ masterplan. Rodrigues notes that back in 2005 the country realised it needed to move away from its past and reskill its workforce, develop broadband infrastructure, datacentres, invest in the high-value banking sector, to create a high-level economy. “They have this huge plan, which is all underpinned by having this connectivity,” he says. “Not only have they built the NBN, but they have a very strong approach on how to leverage the digital economy. Venture capitalists are coming here. Startups are coming a mile a minute.” A whole environment was created in Singapore that sustains the intent to develop its digital economy, Rodrigues says. “In some other countries, the intent was there — but it somehow has been lost,” he says. The executive describes building a fibre NBN as like constructing a beautiful house overlooking a lake. “Then,” he says, referring to the Coalition’s new model, “someone came in and said ‘it’s too expensive, we can do it cheaper’. The mandate is not to fulfil the dream of the vision, it’s to build it cheaper. Now you don’t get a brick house overlooking the lake — now it’s made of bamboo in the forest.” From a foreign perspective, Rodrigues says the previous Government’s plan to build an all-fibre NBN was “marvellous”, with Australia waving the flag for NBN infrastructure across the entire region. Now, he said, the Government has “lost their way”. “They started off building a superhighway, now they’re building a cobblestone street,” he said. “Because they didn’t know why they were building the superhighway in the first place, the cobblestone street looks OK.” According to Rodrigues, the reality of the NBN is that the current Government is looking to spend $30 billion or so on a platform that he described as “useless”. “It’s criminal,” he said. “They would have been better off to spend $90 billion and build it [fibre] everywhere.” Rodrigues said he accepted that some countries would see themselves as being focused on different sectors — countries of “farmers and miners” rather than technology specialists. “If you make that decision, then that’s fine,” he says. However, ultimately the executive believes the global nature of the economy is accelerating beyond this kind of paradigm. “Because of the global nature of where the economy is going, all your consumption will happen online,” he says. “Chinese retailers or American retailers — online. People will be forced to leave the country to get meaningful jobs and a meaningful education. You may think you’re a mining resources country, but the reality is the world is changing.” Not everyone has the same overwhelmingly positive view of Fibre to the Premises that Rodrigues has. Globally, it is true that a mix of technologies are being used for broadband networks. Fibre to the Node is particularly popular throughout Europe, and is the dominant technology being used to upgrade BT’s copper network in the UK, for example, while HFC cable is very popular throughout the United States. However, Rodrigues has a message for Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has regularly talked up the potential to get high speeds over Fibre to the Node. “If he gets 90Mbps to everybody then I will come down and apologise in person,” says Rodrigues. “If you’re getting 90Mbps you’re probably sitting in the office next to the equipment and there’s no external conditions. If you’re one metre away from the node, it all looks good.” “You go a kilometre away from the exchange, you could get 40Mbps, 2km away — you’ll get 15Mbps. The Chorus guys [in New Zealand] — they’re building the same technology — the most they’ll promise is 17Mbps per second. if you get 3km away, you’ll get nowhere near that speed.” “If he believes — if his technology guys think they can get 90 megabits per second on FTTN, then they’ve never built networks. What he’s doing is building a grass hut to meet commitments in the election.” And in the long-term, Rodrigues believes, Australia will turn back to the universal fibre path. “I don’t think anybody’s mean or not smart — they’ve started and have done down a path and it’s the wrong path. At some point they’ll realise they’re in the wrong place and they’ll back up,” he says. “At that point, East Timor will have 1Gbps to the home, New Zealand will have 1Gbps to the home.” “I think the reality is Australia will find their way. People will complain about FTTN, [saying] ‘You told me 90Mbps but I’m getting 4Mbps’. At some point they’ll kind of realise — as businesses start leaving the country and moving to NZ — and there’ll be a gradual policy change.” Image credit: MyRepublic Turnbull rejects MyRepublic’s “confounding” NBN critique “They’ve completely stuffed it”: MyRepublic slams Turnbull’s “shit” NBN MyRepublic full of “bullshit”, says CommsDay publisher The Senate NBN Committee should interview MyRepublic NBN company defends “excellent” FTTN network fibre to the node fibre to the premises fttn Malcolm Rodrigues myrepublic Hubert Cumberdale 21/08/2015 at 12:04 pm Rodrigues is once again spot on, all his comments regarding GimpCo are quite accurate. Especially the “shit” one. However he should pay more attention to what the coalition clowns promised, we weren’t promised 90mbps to everyone, we were only promised “super fast” 25mbps in 2016. That is the limit of their vision and they cant even achieve that… 497 Days to go! Tommy 23/08/2015 at 4:31 pm Even with your angle, you’re drinking the Coalition’s Koolaide. They were very clear on their #fraudband policy. “The Coalition’s plan to transform the NBN will see: · Download speeds of between 25 and 100 megabits per second by the end of 2016 and 50 to 100 megabits per second by 2019. · The rollout of the NBN under the Coalition will be complete by the end of 2019. · Regions with substandard internet services will receive priority… Under the Coalition’s NBN all premises will have access to download speeds 25mbps to 100mbps by the end of 2016. The minimum speed will rise to 50mbps by the end of 2019 for 90 per cent of fixed line users.” Just fraud. How can there be no legal process for convicting such fraud in government? How long until these tricksters delete this inconvenient promise from their website? Tinman_au 23/08/2015 at 9:35 pm Indeed Hubert, and what a great comment from him: “Because they didn’t know why they were building the superhighway in the first place, the cobblestone street looks OK.” I wonder if MyRepublic will be the new iiNet? JT 21/08/2015 at 12:06 pm Criminal? No, we don’t see MyRepublic funding infrastructure in any market because it doesn’t make economic sense for it to do so. Instead, it has a sense of entitlement that governments should pay for it and it reaps all the benefits by operating a second-rate low-cost service – just look at the feedback from their users in markets where it already exists. Makes the whole point about performance quite moot when your congestion remains at the ISP, not within the wholesale last-mile. Telstra shouldn’t be worried. GH 21/08/2015 at 12:39 pm It has nothing to do with a “sense of entitlement”. It’s simply not economically viable for them to build the infrastructure required. If the whole nation, including business, are going to benefit from it, the government SHOULD be building the infrastructure, not private enterprise who will then charge exorbitantly to access it. Darren 21/08/2015 at 1:47 pm Mr Shark 21/08/2015 at 3:55 pm Are you a communist, because they believe the government should to everything and own everything? That has worked out well hasn’t it. I doubt you’re old enough to remember what it was like waiting until after 8pm to make cheaper long distance phone calls was like, and there was no choice but to use the government monopoly known then asTelecom (and now known as Telstra). You’re both disillusional and ignoring history if you believe government monopolies result in the best possible prices for services. Hubert Cumberdale 21/08/2015 at 4:01 pm I think you’ll find logical fallacies wont work too well here Mr Shark. Rizz 24/08/2015 at 7:52 pm Indeed +1 HC. But yet again we see the old naysayer’s each way bet… One naysayer arguing that… “…we don’t see MyRepublic funding infrastructure in any market because it doesn’t make economic sense for it to do so”… And another arguing… “Are you a communist, because they believe the government should to everything and own everything?” So one admits the mystical private enterprise will save us, is exactly that, mystical, because it’s not just MyRepublic who haven’t or won’t invest. Then the other arguing the government shouldn’t invest either… So what? Australia just misses out entirely because of dumb contradictions relating to even dumber ideology? Derek Osborn 21/08/2015 at 4:07 pm Natural monopolies (which fixed line comms is, same as power gas and water) should never be given to corporations to own and run. 1stly, if left to corporations they’d have never existed in the 1st place (too much risk) 2ndly, as the privatisation of electricity has proven, prices go up not down – here in victoria prices had fallen every year for decades and we had world class sparkies trained and maintaining the networks. Now we have the reverse. http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-shocking-truth-about-the-privatisation-of-power-20131108-2x76f.html Richard 22/08/2015 at 7:17 am “It found NSW has the highest “electricity bill for the typical residential customer” of $1,925, followed by Queensland at $1,547, Victoria at $1,495 and AER or the AEMC, examining South Australia from 1998-99 to 2010-11 and the other three states from 1996-97 to 2012-13. It found that since privatisation, electricity bills have increased less in the privatised states of Victoria (99 per cent) and South Australia (80 per cent) than over the same period in the non-privatised states of NSW (158 per cent) and Queensland (152 per cent).” http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-25/fact-check-does-privatisation-increase-electricity-prices3f/6329316 Derek Osborn 22/08/2015 at 12:42 pm @Richard, strawman argument If I ever heard one: in NSW and Queensland, it is state-owned bodies that have been accused of ramping up prices because of over-investment in poles and wires – or ”gold plating”. Those 2 states have only themselves to blame, here in Victoria until privatisation our Power prices went down every year in real terms until privatisation in 1995, after that they shot up 170% over 15 years or four times higher than the rise in the consumer price index. It’s not surprising that infrastructure competition in natural monopolies doesnt work, it’s pointless duplication and very inefficient. Here in Victoria the rise of the manager class is an example – the number of managers in the sector grew from 6000 to 19,000 in the five years to 2012. But all that is very inconvenient for a right-winger like you who thinks the market is god and fails to realise markets are supposed to serve society, not the other way around! Richard 22/08/2015 at 4:19 pm @derek recent price increases in Victoria have the same basis; legislated network infrastructure, renewable energy targets, carbon tax. Pre-1994 historical data is difficult to find, however ABS data presented by UnitingCare Australia in their “Network tariffs applicable to households in Australia: empirical evidence” shows Melbourne electricity real prices increasing 1980 to 1994, then failing after privatisation. After 2008 prices increased dramatically directly a result of regulator intervention. However the smaller increases in private than public own infrastructure so their efficiency. Number of managers an odd metric, care to explain? Markets exist to efficiently facilitate goods and services exchange between buyer and seller. They serve no master. Markets exist to efficiently facilitate goods and services exchange between buyer and seller. Which woks so we’ll that wee need things like the ACCC, ASIC, APRA, NBN Co, etc, etc, etc… “Free Market” pfft… GH 21/08/2015 at 4:20 pm lol way to take something I said and turn it into an extreme absolute. No where did I say the govt should own “everything”. I said if everyone is going to benefit from a large piece of infrastructure then the govt should build it. That way you can have private enterprise come in and access the infrastructure to provide value-add services and to compete with one another to create opportunities they wouldn’t be able to create on their own if they had to build the infrastructure themselves. drone 21/08/2015 at 7:00 pm I remember those times, and want to forget it. I want to have a beautiful crystal glass cable entering my home. BTW, what’s wrong if the Gov. builds it, makes some money and again huge money if they decide to sell it? Ask your Master to re-write the manual, not many is woundable to that version anymore. Woolfe 24/08/2015 at 12:48 pm Did you really just call communist on someone. Nexus 21/08/2015 at 12:52 pm Spot on JT. Although I don’t agree with liberals FTTN plan. The ONLY reason why this guy is kicking up “shit” is because he lost potential $$$$$. Malcolm Rodrigues = Whiny Bitch. lol he can’t have an opinion because he owns a business with a vested interest? Yet big mining companies can use the PM as a mouthpiece to espouse the “benefits” of their business model and access huge financial subsidies without anyone questioning their motives? Nexus 21/08/2015 at 1:28 pm Oh he can have an opinion but he’s still a whiny Bitch. Nice try with going off subject about comparing the mining industry that employed thousands of Australians to a random foreign ISP who have given nothing back to the community. Good job 10/10. RocK_M 21/08/2015 at 1:54 pm He didn’t disagree w/ him being a “whiny bitch” as you say. He was countering the fact you said he shouldn’t be allowed an “opinion” as a “business” when we have another business with even bigger vested interests that is allowed their own “opinion”. Oh and good job on the brilliant personal attacks and overuse of profanity instead of putting forward a reasoned argumentl! 10/10! @RocK_M 21/08/2015 at 1:54 pm (for some reason I can’t reply to him) Okay at no point did I ever say he couldn’t have opinion. NOT ONCE. So instead of making stuff up and pretending to be a “white knight” about it, maybe you should READ what I said and then hit that Reply Button. I look forward to your surely well planned counter argument soon enough. Tinman_au 23/08/2015 at 10:02 pm That the same mining industry that employs less people in Australia than ICT? (and that only includes Information Media and Telecoms, not Scientific and Technical). https://gelptest.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/slide1.jpg Seems the billions heading to the mining industry in taxpayers support would be better used elsewhere IMHO…. AL 21/08/2015 at 5:34 pm How is he going to lose $$$$$$ He can still use spaghetti network to make some? You lost me. Te.eM 21/08/2015 at 12:36 pm Another self opinionated overseas “expert” who fails to grasp the essential difference between supplying an heavily populated urban island with broadband as compared to a huge continent with population densities less than one tenth of that in his “home” market. Sure we would all like “Rolls Royce” broadband connections but the problem is that somebody has to pay for them. To make matters worse there is a substantial proportion of the population who use their internet connection for little more than email and occasional browsing – do they really need 100MBPS or greater for that activity? I think not. The coalition solution makes sense in the current economic client. If some customers want superfast broadband then it is available – for a price. This is the user pays principle that has been the backbone of most good economic outcomes – not pie in the sky dreams that can’t be delivered on time or on budget! The “current economic environment” is not what building infrastructure is about. Imagine if last century the govt had said “does everyone really need a phone in their home?” and not built the copper network because it “cost too much”? Building a FTTP network will attract and generate business. It will open opportunities for Australia in the digital economy that it will otherwise miss out on. It’s an investment, which means you have to front up money (which btw the govt can access at near 0% interest rates right now) in order to get returns later. But because the govt can’t quantify it in a current year spreadsheet, they instead worry how it will get them back into surplus in time for the next election. Short-sighted and severely lacking in vision. Do you even pay tax, or pay enough to care about how well it is spent or whether it is spent on the right thing? Asserting that “FTTP network will attract and generate business” is true doesn’t make it guaranteed to be true. Nobody is going to develop high bandwidth applications for fixed line networks because they’ll miss more than 50% of the potential market – as more than 50% of people are now using tablets and smartphones to access the Internet. Born and bred in Australia and been paying tax for 20 years mate. What the hell does people accessing the Internet via tablets and smartphones have to do with high bandwidth applications? What do you think Wi-Fi is attached to? lol Lol, you didn’t read my post properly! Here it is again. “Nobody is going to develop high bandwidth applications for fixed line networks because they’ll miss more than 50% of the potential market …” Murdoch 21/08/2015 at 4:11 pm Errrrr … you are aware that wireless (not 3 or 4G) when connected to a broadband connection can make that sort of speed at home. Kind of makes your point somewhat irrelevant when applications can easily be developed for that sort of speed as long as your wireless device is using your home broadband. How’s your percentage now? Alexii 21/08/2015 at 4:46 pm The issue is not how much it costs, but the return on investment. Even if assuming all fiber would have cost 90bn (which is false) the fact is the immensely strong digital economy it would have facilitated could have been a a potential multi billion dollar a year industry. Not only that but all reports suggest that the cost of the network will be paid off by the consumers within a decade after the rollout, after which the government would be making money off of it regardless of the technology used. Consumers alone would pay it off, the thing is though the cost to the consumer is no different now than it was when the consumer was going to get fiber. The many different industries that would have benefited from the all fiber network, the industries it would have created here would have been just a bonus. Ultimately with our major industries like coal steadily dropping in revenue, losing business with our largest buyers like china the best thing we could be doing is investing in new industries, fiber is just one way we could be doing that. I mean for fucks sake, our country has so much god damned sand.. why aren’t we taking advantage of that and manufacturing things like fiber cables, and solar panels for the rest of the world? The other thing is, this isn’t taxpayer money.. yet. It is being paid with government bonds. Learn the difference. JCL 21/08/2015 at 1:31 pm “more than 50% of people are now using tablets and smartphones to access the Internet.” The telcos must love you if you haven’t worked out how to use wifi on your tablet or smartphone yet… Justin 21/08/2015 at 2:21 pm Currently we are asserting that no one needs more than 25Mbps. That we won’t have to respend the money we ‘invest’ in FTTN/HFC/etc. We voted in a government that asserted a CBA would be done BEFORE anything was done, and then it would be done right. Those against assert that it is just too expensive. The problem with all the above is that it doesn’t really stack up. Before netflix, 25 Mbps would have been fine for most Aussies. Not so now, as they have shown a large hole in the plan of such slow speeds. FTTN is going to require constant maintenance ($1B /year or so Telstra spend), constant upgrading (advances in copper tech bring the node closer to the home, adding more fibre….how many times do you want workmen digging up 100 foot of road every year?). HFC is a mixed bag everywhere. I don’t have anything more than what I have read to go off, but it can work upto a point depending on the investments made on that shared bandwidth, which do not look to have been done. CBA front. Want to show me one that was done for this MTM NBN? Or should I say an unbiased one that didn’t ignore facts and make so many wrong assumptions (proven time and again). We have to face it. The coalition won’t spend money on putting things into the ground for long term profit when they can spend it to get short term profit digging it up. We have to spend the money at some point. Fibre has been shown to have no real upper limit (43 Terrabits per second was last record. What is next? Changes each year.) so really, it makes sense to invest in a PROVEN technology with PROVEN capacity. Copper has gotten what…. 10GB/s under 1km length runs on quality lines. Netflix issues are backhaul contention related, affecting even iiNet NBN fibre users. @Richard Which would also effect Foxtel, yes? I’ve had both, Netflix is way better… MrShark: Nothing in this world is guarantied, apart from that everyone will pass away at some stage. The point is, if you don’t risk you want get anywhere. GT: don’t get involved and answer personal questions. This is old propaganda method. Same as “Rolls Royce” or communist comments. They are here to distract. Oh dear, elections are getting closer… Chas 21/08/2015 at 7:55 pm “Asserting that “FTTP network will attract and generate business” is true doesn’t make it guaranteed to be true” Sharky, Since it has been shown to be true by every study there is (like the 3 year long Chalmers University study), then it probably is true… As to “missing 50% of the market”, that’s just really bad business acumen. Fixed and wireless have very little competition with each other as they are for entirely separate circumstances. So what you are doing is comparing two DIFFERENT markets… “It’s an investment, which means you have to front up money (which btw the govt can access at near 0% interest rates right now) in order to get returns later. But because the govt can’t quantify it in a current year spreadsheet, they instead worry how it will get them back into surplus in time for the next election. Short-sighted and severely lacking in vision.” So spend a lot of money now and worry about it later. Fingers cross that turns out alright. Totally not short-sighted and severely lacking in vision at all. – Greece 2007 (satire Obviously) I like your guts kid but there is good reason why maintaining a balance surplus is important to a country’s future especially in these dark times. And isn’t that going well. Not only has the deficit increased substantially but we’re now blowing $30bn on something that will provide a small improvement at best and do little to provide for an economy that will be needed in the future. Why do you think we are experiencing such uncertain economic times? Because the govt has sold off all the assets that were generating revenue, killed the taxes that the rich would have had to pay and instead lumped everyone else with the cost. “Spend a lot of money now and worry about it later”? Yeah or to put it another way, assess the financial risk, INVEST a lot of money now into a project that will make returns because literally everyone will benefit from it and then REAP the rewards later. You know, like what every single infrastructure project that has ever occurred has done? All a surplus means is that the govt is hoarding all the money, meaning there is less money in the economy. Not a smart thing to do when there is such economic uncertainty. It just means less jobs, less spending, less prosperity. Building assets generates revenue. Basic business 101. “Why do you think we are experiencing such uncertain economic times” He doesn’t think so. He is here to make everyone else to think about this irrelevance, reverting from real issue. Another attempt to get away from exposing failure of the spaghetti network. +1 again drone. @GH “Building a FTTP network will attract and generate business.” What business specifically will be attracted with FTTP rather than the MTM? “It will open opportunities for Australia in the digital economy that it will otherwise miss out on.” What opportunity specifically will be missed out on with FTTP rather than the MTM? “…which btw the govt can access at near 0% interest rates right now..” Govt bond rates are demonstratively not near zero. “But because the govt can’t quantify it in a current year spreadsheet, they instead worry how it will get them back into surplus in time for the next election.” Govt borrowing treated as equity in a GBE like NBNCo is off-budget. Has no affect on budget deficit. There have been exhaustive studies on the benefits of increasing bandwidth. Doubling the bandwidth increases a country’s GDP by .3 percent on average, and doubling again increases it again. http://www.chalmers.se/en/news/Pages/New-study-quantifies-the-impact-of-broadband-speed-on-GDP.aspx The biggest difference between MTM and FTTP is that FTTP has no real ceiling, and the MTM certainly does… BTW, .3% of our GDP is currently $5 Billion/year… chas being old fashioned I need the study not a press release. Article appears paywalled, from the abstract: “The study found that the estimated coefficient of broadband speed is statistically significant. The hypothetical result of this study shows that doubling the broadband speed will contribute 0.3% growth compared with the growth rate for the base year. The results convey that the impact of increasing broadband speed on GDP growth will largely depend on two aspects: 1) the size of the coefficient of the broadband speed (ß); 2) the existing economic growth in each country” So we don’t know the magnitude of the doubling modelled nor the increase has “no ceiling” (sound preposterous). Other research also shows the rate of return for increasing speed is lower than for increasing penetration (Kenny & Kenny, 2011) and marginal effect diminishes as the speed increases (Copenhagen Economics 2010, Meek et al. 2010) I don’t think anyone is denying internet has a positive affect on GDP, nor that it has a dollar cost. However can most of those benefits be captured with incremental upgrades (publicly or privately financed and / or operated)? Claims that we’re missing out should at least be able provide a single example. Incorrect statement of facts should be challenged. Since we are at the end of replies Richard, I will only say that the documents can be found many places. It is now considered a main reference by the UN, World Bank, and most nations… Here is the pdf… http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/local_159056.pdf On the other hand, the Kenny study was bought and paid for by the LNP to produce a specific result. It was done in a vacuum in a few months by a group that had previously done the same sort of hatchet job for the same group. The Chalmers study was 3 years in the making and the study was done over 33 OECD countries. It is quite comprehensive and was not bought and paid for by either party. The important part is that the Chalmers study actually has a quantitative result rather than saying “it helps the GDP”. @chas thanks for the link (author “Arthur D. Little” different to your press release link, but is referenced). Your link supports GDP increase from penetration rates. Their “theoretical model” uses econometric techniques to estimate speed impacts on GDP. They found strong positive correlation between GDP and square broadband speed but note: “If the speed level is doubled, the impact on GDP growth is 1000.003= 0.3% (relative to the growth in 2008)….Note, however, that the doubling of speed is a hypothetical and simulated (‘what-if’) impact based on an elasticity interpretation of the significant broadband speed variable. The hypothetical impact will depend on the size of the coefficient of speed and the actual economic growth in each country, counting from the base year that is used.” concluding: “hypothetical impact is based on an elasticity measurement and any forward-looking simulation should be applied with care.” And why we don’t use the result as fact, preferring “helps GDP” (ie positive correlation, magnitude unknown). Chas 23/08/2015 at 9:01 am I agree that the the study is quite forthright with the usual disclaimer that all such studies make (e.g. “your mileage may vary…”). That said, it appears to be the best estimate with the most data points by any group to date. All properly done economic modeling will have the very same caveats, so this is the very best “guess” to date. Since all planning is guess work with the very same restrictions, why not follow the advise of the best model we have and go back to FTTP? At the end of the day, this does indeed fulfill your request for a study that shows how business will increase more so with FTTP than with MTM… @chas they aren’t disclaimers, stating the context for the analysis. The study itself is a useful contribution to the debate, but itself warns against the conclusions you’re jumping to. It doesn’t model FTTH vs MTM. Again can the majority of economic benefits be gained more cheaply using MTM with fibre-on-demand (doubling speed, 100% penetration) in the next 7-10yrs? Importantly we’re only now talking the 30% FTTN. Multimix already accepted for the remainder. They actually are disclaimers… A disclaimer is a way to state the context of a study, and list any possible deviations. While it doesn’t model FTTH vs MTM specifically, it does model the results of those 2 proposals. For example, you speak of FoD, but no model I have seen yet shows how that will be engineered and what it will cost…it seems more like “wish it were so” solution. In fact the UK has shown that the costs for FoD are outrageous and hence limit economic growth dramatically. As to a 7-10 year time frame, since conversion of the network to FTTP (which is the end game as admitted by all parties) would take a minimum of 3-4 years, that means that any MTM build would necessarily last for less time than it takes to build…i.e., we will have to replace it before it’s finished being built. I can’t concieve of this being a cost savings in any way, and it plays Russian Roulette with our economy by risking a huge limitation to our ability to grow. It’s fine for the LNP to speak of cutting expenditures, but they are doing so at the cost of revenue and growth…very penny wise/pound foolish. Basically, the people who wave flies from their eyes should just wear cork brim hats instead. The look is not very good for you, Richard. Stop yourself from asking people for data that you will just wave off. It looks pathetic and we know it. Rizz 26/08/2015 at 6:45 am What does your business use the Internet for Richard? Asking a question like that, I suspect it just email? Maybe a website? Simon 24/08/2015 at 11:52 am The old adage “if you build it they will come” applies! It annoys me when people say 25mb will do for today (it doesn’t people merely make do and put up with less because there’s no alternative). It might suit for an individual but try sharing said connection … its still a do one thing well at a time and the rest will have to suffer! I know several families where it doesn’t cut it. There are curfew’s and fights over bandwidth constantly and they’re talking high teens and one lucky bugger with 23Mb connections (that are stable). Lets see … what will swamp a said bandwidth now. Online gaming, Youtube (those cat vids), Netflix (and the rest of them), Skype/FaceTime, Web/email/facebooks, Anything related to 4k content, Over IP TV stations (imagine AFL running their own station etc) Operating a remote support/training dept across Australia. Current Business applications going from desktop into cloud/web etc. These are a mere few quick products off the top in the here and now that are running out of bandwidth. If your building something for the future, building of off today’s assumed needs is guaranteed to fail. Who knows when the next NetFlix/FB/Youtube will appear. (without the infrastructure you can guarantee it won’t appear in Australia first though). Any business that wants surety about an end users connection. Being able to guarantee that a bandwidth requirement can be met anywhere. Copper is variable based on distance and quality (both things Australia isn’t in good stead for either). If you want to offer an over IP service under MTM you’ll need to account for FTTP, MTM FTTN, HFC, Fixed Wireless, Satelitte and even privatised and wholesaled FttB rollouts. At least 4 different ‘networks’ with all their own foibles and issues and more importantly different speeds! right now we’re getting a Fibre-glass shell over a lada that looks like a Rolls Royce and paying the exact same (or close enough) amount for it. Fact it’ll need a new ‘shell’ in the future just means we’re going to be paying for the Rolls Royce twice over! This is coming from a South Australian that let their govt of the day build a one way major freeway to save a minor (and somewhat similar %) of the budget on hand. Mathew 24/08/2015 at 11:15 pm Have you seen the latest take up figures that NBNCo published today? 35% on fibre opted for 12Mbps and a further 42% opted for 25Mbps. The reality is for 80% of Australians, FTTN, HFC & FTTP will deliver equivalent speeds. As predicted the average speed dropped by 1Mbps because the ‘late adopters’ are opting for the slower speeds. So in the real world, it’s not 50% on 12Mbps as you have been repeating ad nauseum every day for the last 5 years, after all? How about that! Yes but you are paying the same price for the MTM as you were for the FTTP. So you pay the same amount (more now isn’t it) for a piecemeal service that suits 80%(your number) NOW, but has no room to grow, or the same amount for a “Standardised” service that provides several baselines for business to target and has 50 years worth of growth built in? @Richard Most of the answers to your….questions? Troll? are here: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2014/nov/30/fiber-figh-broadening-broadband-gig-city-touted-as/275567/ Jon 01/09/2015 at 5:39 pm >What business specifically will be attracted with FTTP rather than the MTM? Back to base security HD monitoring R0ninX3ph 21/08/2015 at 12:59 pm Well, I guess it is a good thing then that we weren’t going to build FTTP to the entirety of the country, and that Australian cities are actually quite dense. People claim things like “Japan is more densely populated, and that’s why they can all have FTTP!” the population density of Japan is actually lower than the greater Sydney area. Australia’s population is largely centered around dense pockets, hence why 93% FTTP was going to work just fine…. But, lets not let the facts get in the way of your narrative now shall we? “People claim things like “Japan is more densely populated, and that’s why they can all have FTTP!” the population density of Japan is actually lower than the greater Sydney area.” Your Probably right…..But there’s a just a tiny bit more to Australia than the greater Sydney area. So your figures may be skewed. They weren’t rolling out FTTP outside major cities, so his figures are pretty good. R0ninX3ph 21/08/2015 at 2:10 pm I am glad someone understood the implication… I get that but all I was saying was that by adding all the population density of each major Australian cities (not included town and regional cities that were gonna to receive fiber FTTP as well). The average density would be less than that of japans population density. The bulk of the 93% footprint is however very comparable to Verizon’s mostly suburban US FiOS rollout – passing 18 million premises has been enormously profitable for them and they have recently floated plans to abandon their US PSTN and HFC networks entirely (which btw they have largely overbuilt with FiOS … that alone says a lot). @derek Verizon abandoned the FiOS network plans back in 2011. Verizon recently announced it’s redirecting future capex from wired to wireless networks. @Richard still behind the times i see! http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/20/verizon_fibre_is_so_much_cheaper_than_copper_were_going_allfttp/ Verizon has put the latest numbers on its fibre-versus-copper experience, and found that glass beats metal on all counts. </q< Without giving a timeframe, the company has told a conference in Orlando that its experience across seven central offices (CO, or for Australians, telephone exchanges) areas is so compelling it’s going to roll fibre to the premises in the remainder of its 2,000 COs. Reality strikes again eh Richard, how about joining the 21st century along with the rest of us? Oh and just for fun Verizon have finished initial trials of NG-PON2 http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/verizon-test-10gbps-fios-says-new-fiber-tech-can-go-up-to-80gbps/ Pretty much destroys your silly argument that fibre isn’t future proof and might get replaced by another technology! @derek http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/verizon-nears-the-end-of-fios-builds/ I’ve never denied opex of FTTN less than FTTP, just not enough to offset capex. No technology is future proof, as your very link demonstrates. @Richard as usual you are out of date, the article I linked to is 6 months newer than yours! Fibre is future proof, in that it has a minimum of 60 years useful service life with known usefulness into the terabits per second range. And once again the naysayers having the old each way bet… Richard here is telling us (and apparently with a straight face/he’s serious) MTM speeds will be fine for Australia’s foreseeable future and in the same breath saying fibre isn’t future proof… (because something faster than the already substantially faster than the 25Mbps we don’t need any better than) may come along. You guys really are special. But can you please start to offer a rational (or something that can possibly even be considered minimally rational) argument, which doesn’t simply automatically contradict yourself or each other? Which was why 7% of Australia would be serviced by satellite. If you want to build an NBN to Australa, you mostly need to stick to the East Coast (or at least the coastal areas). http://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/population.html Nope he is correct. The other areas outside the 93% were to be serviced by other methods (wireless and Satellite, both of which have now been reduced in numbers). Which leaves only the pipes between cities as the difference. Which whilst significant, is not insurmountable, and of course is going to have to be paid whether we got FTTP or MTM. Population density of Sydney (327), Australia’s largest and most densely populated city, is greater than Japan (303). Therefore roll out FTTH to all of Australia (3). Japan’s debt of over 200% of GDP and printing money is clearly of no concern given the massive productivity improvement sure to flow. Singapore worried about the competition from NBN FTTH area like Brunswick. This discussion is comical. The article’s line of build it even if it costs $90b sums up the fibre crowd perfectly : irresponsible. Jason 21/08/2015 at 8:01 pm Considering that MTM will cost the same to keep it running by 2027 and after it will cost more than FTTP already shows FTTP to be a better investment. @Jason you continue to ignore revenue. Derek Osborn 22/08/2015 at 9:25 am No, the person ignoring revenue is you, FTTP has a range of speeds from 100-1000 mbps that FTTN can’t offer, factor in the huge amount of wasted money on opex and FTTN is the platform with the revenue problem! Jason 22/08/2015 at 10:53 am You are ignoring revenue as any revune MTM makes is off set by the opex of keeping it running when FTTP is complete 3 years after MTM would be make at least the same if not more revune with a lot less opex to keep it running. Your arguments are falling apart. Or why does our CBA only say $2b to the economy and NZ CBA say $50b to the economy. Richard 22/08/2015 at 12:33 pm @jason you fail to comprehend financial projections in the strategic review. Faster deployment of MTM results in earlier revenues (cumulative $18b vs $9b to FY21), revenue is not the same. Combined with lower costs (total, even though opex is more $27b vs $23b) NBNCo cashflow positive in FY22 (vs FTTH 25-27), peaking funding of MTM $39b vs radically redesign FTTH $54b. A CBA for NZ’s Ultra-Fast Broadband upgrade was never performed. @derek usage numbers are in, few demand 100-1000gbps services. Revenue for these users much less than the cost to provide. We should see the updated corporate plan in the next few weeks. I expect costs to continue to blow out (govt project after all). However MTM remains the more financially responsible option of a number of financially irresponsible policy follies. @richard, your numbers are not credible, nice try tho! 100mbps plus services arent being offer because hardly any businesses have been passed, that’s why the demand is low. There’d be greater demand if TurnBULL hadnt stalled the brownfields FTTP rollout! It nice you miss out the $15b FTTP makes between 2021 – 2024. So a completed MTM only make $9B while a completed FTTP makes $24B. But we don’t want to compare apples with apples do we. MTM peak funding $39b revenue $9b FTTP peak funding $24b revenue $24b Again show FTTP the better option. Sorry NZ case study gives it economy a $33b for FTTP still better than $17b from our CBA. But can you explain why Ergas uses his own review in the CBA which has already proven to be flawed. Sorry peak funding $54b revenue $24b @derek they’re not my figure, we’re talking the strategic revenue p104. @jason I took the figures to FY21, if we go to FY24 indeed the numbers change. The revenue identifies the additional revenue expected during this build FTTH ($15b). However you incorrectly assume MTM doesn’t generate anything during this time. The item you’re looking for is titled “Steady state financial performance (FY28)”: FTTH ($6.6-7.5bn) vs MTM ($6.3-7.2bn). This is the projected annual performance after network completion. Revenue for FTTH thru FY24 is again less than MTM, EBITDA (due to lower interest charge) is devastatingly in favour of MTM. Please provide a link to your imaginary CBA performed for NZ. UninvitedGuest 23/08/2015 at 2:24 pm Oh wow, the professional astro turfing is in full swing I see. It’s a little unfair, don’t you think, that you’re getting paid to spruik your nonsense when those you are arguing against have to waste time invalidating your FUD seeding in their free time. Richard your figures may sound convincing to the lay person, but they kind of lose their believability when the reader becomes aware that you’re referencing a document that has been roundly criticised by the entire professional industry as biassed and factually inaccurate. For example, a significant argument for the NBN, a factor that was routinely included in the business plans released prior to the LNP Government takeover, is ARPU, and how that was affected by high revenue plans (high performance). That argument runs counter to your claims that the high performance plans are more expensive to operate than the revenue they generate – the inverse is in fact the case, because revenue is pegged to performance category while costs vary based on usage. Analysis of Internet usage patterns demonstrate that very significant proportions of total bandwidth used is caused by a small percentage of users. This is the business model behind low cost ISPs like iPrimus & TPG – they may not have the same investment cost without fibre to every building, but they still provision their services in the same way. Companies like Dodo take this a bit too far, as has Telstra with HFC, as contention ratios are too high and performance slows to a crawl for everyone on those networks routinely. But that doesn’t invalidate the technique of utilising as much available capacity as possible by providing customers ‘slices’ of shared bandwidth rather than provisioning a network where every connection is provided with a dedicated ‘pipe’ that will remain 90+% unutilised for the vast majority of users. So high performance products provide the highest revenue and profit, yet simply aren’t available on a FTTN network. The easiest way to deal with this disparity is to simply ignore it – the FTTN justification tries to overinflate the cost of FTTP while claiming that there is no demand for high speed, high revenue products. But the reality was we saw faster uptake of high performance products than the conservative business plans predicted, and we have no idea what the real demand for the highest revenue generating products (between 200mbps and 1gbps) because they were never made available. But likewise, the released business plans demonstrating affordability and positive 7% ROI from the project didn’t include anything greater than 100mbps products either, so adding those into the mix would only make FTTP more affordable and capable of paying off the capital costs faster (making the MTM argument significantly weaker). And then there’s your argument about EIBTDA, which ignores the multi-year delays to the whole FTTN network and the much slower FTTP rollout. It also rests on assumptions about the costs of FTTN based on node density far, far lower than what people are actually reporting (even in this comments thread). So yes, based on the document you’re referencing, your argument seems to have some validity, but that document is flawed, biased, inaccurate and badly outdated, just like your argument. That was a classic Richard… Your entire bean counter nonsense argument here (while again ignoring the benefits of FTTP entirely or desperately trying to refute them) is based on “the faster roll out of MTM…” Oh, please my sides are splitting… 2 years for SFA (even with all the from scratch foundation work in place from Quigley & Co). Now projecting to have the same FTTN in 2020 that was promised in 2016… Faster… ROFL @Jason Potential future speeds are pretty irrelevant for all but a very small minority. Labor predicted less than 1% on 1Gbps speed tier in 2026 while close to 50% remained on the 12Mbps speed tier. If you are in the 1% able to justify and pay for 1Gbps then a fibre on demand install is probably also within your budget. @ Mathew… Wow after 5 years of daily spruiking 50% on 12Mbps you just told us (above) that you were wrong as it is actually only 35% on 12Mbps not 50%… d’oh! Yet here you are again repeating the old chestnut of 50/12 nonetheless… old habits eh? Instead of harping on about one small projection you (and no one else) bothered to handpick and rave about every fucking day, as if pertinent and factual (not a projection), why not tell us each day, what the government actually promised pre-election… “25-50Mbps for all Aussies by 2016″…? Using the population density for the whole of Australia here is utterly ridiculous. FTTH wouldn’t have been to ALL Australia. It was 93%, did you forget about the other 7% covered by satellite and fixed wireless IN LESS DENSELY POPULATED areas??? But anyway, if you want to play the density game let’s have a look at a somewhat more relevant example: New Zealand 16.8/km² (80% FTTH) Victoria 25.79/km² New South Wales 9.12/km² So yes, we shouldn’t be using Japan as an example but going by density logic alone VIC and NSW combined should get 80% FTTH at the very least. @HC not just ridiculous, comical (as posted). Clearly the only population density of any relevance is the footprint to be covered. Even then it would be one of the silliest arguments for FTTH. Of course it’s comical, because R0ninX3ph wasn’t suggesting rolling FttH to 100% of Australia like you were alluding. And again HC, the old each way bet from the naysayers… Remember when they were all telling us previously, how great FTTN is and how quick it is to roll out, well, look how fast it was done in the “UK”, they said… I bet the irony of this comment still eludes them. But from memory the naysayer (and to clarify, it wasn’t Richard) was saying something along the lines of, the UK had rolled out to 18m residences in 3 years. Look how great FTTN is… But… the truth was that the UK had rolled out to (iirc) about “1/2 of the UK in 5 years” and the “UK is about the size of Vic..” Again I bet the irony here eludes them too. They are priceless though. Japan’s debt of over 200% of GDP and printing money is clearly of no concern Just goes to show what a conservative government can do in 60 years ;) No the Argument is if you are going to pay the same amount to build something, (and currently that is what we are looking at, in fact the MTM is now more expensive) then why not build the better option that is technically superior and will last for an extended period of time. Australia has an urban population of 89% of our total population. Japan has 93%. United Kingdom has 82%, USA 81%, South Korea 61% etc etc. We ARE a highly urbanised nation. The population density argument IS valid. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?order=wbapi_data_value_2014+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc there is a substantial proportion of the population who use their internet connection for little more than email and occasional browsing The population of your household is not a substantial proportion. Simon 21/08/2015 at 1:39 pm Here here HC, I’ve seen retirement homes with PC’s and facilities setup for more than just the above! People have moved well past ‘just email’! If it was even true of today and today was only what we cared about then why even build MTM! Very accurate insight Hubert. My household could best be described as “50+”, and the Internet has replaced out TV, our phone (heck, even the mobile), our mailbox, the video store, our tax agent…the list goes on. I’m going to guess it’s even more so for the GenX, GenY crew. “pie in the sky dreams that can’t be delivered on time” Here, on time goes the spaghetti: http://blog.jxeeno.com/analysis-164k-nbn-fibre-to-the-node-premises-delayed/ In November 2013, the FTTP works suppose to start in my area. So by now I should be close to, or have it. Now after 2 years I got still my slow ADSL and been scheduled to spaghetti network in another…. hmm not sure, 1 maybe 3 years? But, but, I was told by present Telco Minister I will get it sooner. How come? Indeed me too, so we are clear proof that MTM isn’t faster to roll out all Australians at all. Period. Of course, as no one else has FTTN… all of the other Australians are also proof… Woolfe 24/08/2015 at 1:12 pm You are aware, that the Rolls Royce solution was the same price as the General Motors option we are getting now. Also that it was a leased vehicle that we paid for whilst using it? In fact it was a leased fleet vehicle where everyone paying for the use was covering the entire fleet? As to need. If someone offers you a Rolls Royce that you can drive at the speed limit, but can go faster if you choose to go on the highway, or for the same price they offer you an older model Holden, that works fine up to the speed limit you want now, but can’t get to highway speeds. Bearing in mind, the cost is the same. Oh sure you’ll pay a little more in fuel usage at highway speeds, but other than that the base cost is the same. Are YOU going to pick the Holden? Stupid car analogies are stupid. Go and look at the facts. And start doing a little bit of critical thinking. The FTTP NBN was not being paid for by tax, it was being covered by government investment. Our urban population density is around the 90% of our total population. As for usage, average bandwidth usage increase by 50% EACH YEAR. The User pays principle is EXACTLY what was driving the FTTP NBN, with the High end user’s paying a larger proportion of the cost. With the FTTP NBN, Return On Investment would have allowed to both pay off the cost of the build, as well as continued growth in the system. However with the MTM NBN it is appearing increasingly likely that that ROI will not be met, at which point Taxpayer dollars will need to be spent to repay the investment loans. boyo 27/08/2015 at 2:07 pm Actually I believe Australia is more urbanised than the US. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2212.html Australia 89% UK 80% US 82% NZ 86% Canada 81% Germany 74% Japan 91% South Korea 83% Interesting stats. Just goes to show that our urbanisation and population density is perfectly high enough to affordably roll out fibre to 90+% of the nation (like the experts said), and anyone saying otherwise is just making poor excuses. So journalists should at least try to use the right adjectives. It seems “universal” still means 93% here, where as everywhere else it means 100%. The only time when Renai actually referenced Labor’s plan himself, he referred to it as “near-universal” the other times universal was used, was in reference to the idea of having a universal fibre rollout, or quoting other people discussing universal fibre. Defending the indefensible. http://delimiter.com.au/2015/08/17/new-greens-leader-holds-firm-on-fttp-nbn-policy/ “New Greens Leader Richard Di Natale has confirmed he will stand firm behind the original universal Fibre to the Premises version of the National Broadband Network, rejecting what he said was the “half-measures” being implemented by the Coalition Federal Government.” Renai knows the clickbait formula for page views – appeal to fanboi FTTP biases, even to the point of making up things about what was actually going to be built. I actually agree with a 100% FTTP build out. But the moment it isn’t 100% FTTP because of economic reasons, then proper economic analysis needs to be done – and Labor didn’t do it. To be fair to Renai he was accurately quoting a Green (leader). Perhaps a few articles about his time in policy meetings with such intellectual giants. So Mr Shark, you’re a FTTP fanboi…? In fact a 100% FTTP fanboi, no less? Really (Frank)? What, you support a “premium solid gold, Rolls Royce network, paid by my taxes”? sarcasm Unlike us who aren’t going to get FTTP either, we continue to support “NEAR” universal roll out of FTTP as per the previous plan (as a commonsense approach) for as many Aussies as possible. But because you aren’t going to get FTTP, you’d prefer no one gets it? And even as a 100% FTTP fanboi, you as a consequence (clearly appear to) support MTM instead? MTM which is even less universal in supplying world class comms to Aussies? Ooookkk. Renai LeMay 21/08/2015 at 7:56 pm You’re right, I should be using “near-universal”, rather than universal. I have meant to do this, but I occasionally slip regarding such things. I’ll try to make sure to use “near-universal” in future. Thanks for highlighting this! I think everyone else but you have problem with it. Maybe, back to subject? Err, that was already explained last time you pedantically brought it up…! “Criminal” is how I’d describe how much this guy wants to sponge off of tax-payer funded telecommunications infrastructure. “Criminal” is using outright fraud to build yesterday’s comms infrastructure, tomorrow! Laughing stock is planning to build a FTTP network and predicting that 50% would connect at 12Mbps and in 2026 less than 1% would connect at 1Gbps. Alternatively you could take the view that Labor planned a FTTN network in 2007 and when Telstra refused to co-operate they didn’t comprehend the implications of changing to a FTTP network. But you just told us it is 35% on 12Mbps, not 50% as you kept saying and err, keep saying! Speaking of laughing stock… In all the years of the great NBN debate this is probably the most ridiculous comment I have ever read. I must say I had forgotten about the wonderful quality of debate from these folks since Delimeter went away.. Refreshing to see denial at work again. I’d be interested in the means used to call out the LNP forum hit squad, or is it one person using multiple names? They are prolly all members of the IPA’s Astroturfing unit. I don’t know mate…..there have been so many “Dial up should be good enough for anybody” posts, maybe your just in denial ;) You’re probably right, maybe what I should have said is “this is the most ridiculous comment I have ever read THIS WEEK” :-) Now that, I’d grant you :) So, somehow Telstra paying for access to the NBN is different to someone else paying for the same access. How is that? “Criminal” is how I’d describe how much you want to sponge off of tax-payer funded public roads. Mr Shark how about try again considering that he would have the NBN to use its network which would then go towards paying the loan back so the Taxpayer would be sponging off him. We need competition , the more the merrier, oh except those terrible foreigners, who criticise our beloved leaders? Apparently a foreign RSP utilising our infrastructure (to err, help repay the cost of our err, infrastructure) is criminal. Whilst, large overseas mine owners shipping Australian resources abroad, profiting handsomely and not paying a fair share of tax (with the tax burden falling upon, umm, us) isn’t criminal? Or instead of big polluters being fined for over polluting, they receive a juicy cheque and told (wink, wink) pull your socks up. Sorry to veer somewhat off topic here, but it seems some people’s ideas of criminal are pretty well, fucked up IMO. How would they be sponging? They would be paying the exact same amount as everyone else who used it, and more importantly they would be bringing competition to the market. Criminal is how I describe the fraudulent SR, CBA and other reviews created by TurnBULL’s cronies – I hope the ALP holds a Royal Commission into the destruction of the NBN and then we’ll see real corruption exposed on a multi-billion dollar scale! Criminal is how I’d describe Labor’s lack of CBA. where was the CBA for the PSTN? Fast reliable Comms is required for any advanced economy to continue competing globally, why is it you conservatives want to keep the country back in the 60’s? If not doing something is criminal, how much worse if concocting a fraudulent one? Mr Shark a CBA wasn’t required are it showed it would make a return. “Criminal ” is promising an upgrade and actually providing more of the same (but spending 30b+ to fake it). Telsta was already rolling out FttN (they called it Top Hat) https://exchange.telstra.com.au/2011/10/25/telstra-will-start-rolling-out-top-hats-in-november/ That was 4-5 years ago. Ask anyone on Telstra ADSL what they think of it. You can see the results here too:https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/isp/r2126-Telstra%20Bigpond Keep in mind that the Telstra results include Cable(HFC) which will be the results above ~20-25Mbps Ah yes, as usual the true colours show. Rod 21/08/2015 at 3:54 pm In Newcastle (where they are rolling out FTTN like mad) the nodes are spaced between 100m and 400m apart. So the most people will be away from a node is maybe 250m of copper. This is the case for the inner city and inner suburbs. I haven’t checked the outer suburbs yet. There is absolutely no way anyone is over 700m from a node from what I can see happening here. That does mean its going take probably 3-400k cabinets to service everyone then … that is a lot. We could speculate that the FttN speed results from Newcastle will come just in time for the next election so Turnbull can fool enough people and just long enough to say “yay! look at the “sooper dooper fast” FttN speeds everyone is getting, vote us again, yay megabites”. Then if they do win the election the node spacing in other areas will be wider because they’ll then be trying not to go over the apparent $70 billion. MikeK 22/08/2015 at 12:06 am Yep and by the time the last one is rolled out they will start dumping them on the scrap heap. You could work it out (roughly) by using this map ( http://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/population.html ) and putting 7Km circles on all the areas marked 1.1-10 (or higher). You’d have to use the same scale as the map of course. If you do, I’d love to hear your results :) AFAIU, that does not mean that you will be connected to the closest node. In fact, it goes from the node to the pillar (sometime to another pillar)and then to you. So, you can have node at your doorstep but if your pillar is 300m away, the copper length will be 2x300m plus about 30m to your telephone socket. So here you go, 630m. What if your pillar is 400m away? Sounds like we need someone to go out there and photograph all those nodes going in and measure them… I’d like to see the figures on the build cost Vs number of connections at that kind of density. That is going to have a very, very significant impact on the overall construction cost. Remember Turnbull and Abbott talking about 50,000 nodes total for the whole country? There is an upside – if Labor trounce them next year, demonstrating that MTM / FTTN is going to cost substantially more than FTTP would have is a good argument for re-evaluating it. The five stages of Mourning, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. Malcolm appears to be in the Anger phase. I’m permanently stuck in the ACCEPTANCE phase, I can’t accept this Coalition shit Malcolm. It’s not just Malcolm, the whole government have the same problem in every portfolio/aspect, Malcolm is just a lot more competent that the rest of the idiots in “Team Australia”, so his changes have stuck. @Tinman, are we talking about the same Malcolm, my is Malcolm Ridrigues CEO of MyRepublic not the other Malcolm (who I wouldn’t fart in his face if he was gasping for breath) Turnbull. Jason 23/08/2015 at 10:48 pm And now the 200,000 node trial that’s been reduce to 165000 now has even more delays as they where estimated of getting 37,200 ready for service but now only expect 2100 for sept, and again for OCT was 35,200 now 9,600. WOW a blistering fast rollout lucky they didn’t promised to be done by 2016 oh wait. Jason B 24/08/2015 at 10:28 am He makes some good points, especially Australia being known as a “Farming & Mining” country, it’s something we should be leverage to progress into other markets such as technology/medical research where we could be extremely successful given the education system in this country. Politicians should be held accountable for their decisions, you only need to look at the millions if not billions wasted on the change of direction at NBNCo, we’ve essentially pissed away three years of the roll out. As far as FTTN goes, good luck with it, having spent seventeen years in this industry I can safely say that people are going to be disappointed with the results, or substantial amounts of money will be spent in overbuilding the network to meet the target speeds. 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__label__wiki	0.791391	0.791391	Bursa Announcements EcoWorld International EcoWorld Foundation EcoWorld China Code of Conduct & Business Ethics Board Diversity Policy Directors' Remuneration Policy EcoWorld Gallery EcoWorld Residence Club © 2019 - EcoWorld Development Group Berhad. (17777-V) All Rights Reserved. Eco World Foundation Donates RM80,000 Worth Of Dialysis Equipment To Pertubuhan MediFund Kuala Lumpur KUALA LUMPUR: Over the past 10 years, Malaysia has seen a 100% increase in the number of new dialysis patients suffering from chronic kidney disease with an estimated 7,400 new patients each year requiring regular treatment. In its latest effort to assist the needy, Eco World Foundation responded to a call by Pertubuhan Medifund Kuala Lumpur (PMKL) to help the charitable organisation with the replacement of dialysis equipment. The Foundation’s RM80,000 contribution for dialysis equipment comprises of a dialysis machine worth RM45,000 and a reprocessor worth RM35,000. The equipment will be for the Pusat Hemodialis Dato Lee Kok Chee – PMKL situated in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. At the handing over ceremony today, Eco World Foundation Chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said the Foundation was delighted to help the centre by providing new equipment. “We are honoured to be given the opportunity to contribute towards a noble cause which we hope will help towards reducing the financial burden of kidney failure patients,” said Lee. Lee also added that the donation was in line with the Foundation’s aim of easing the suffering of ill stricken members of the society. “We are committed to use our resources productively to create healthy and happy citizens and we will continue to do so as long as we can,” said Lee. At the end of 2017, the number of kidney patients needing dialysis has risen to 42,503. Currently, there are approximately 20,000 people on the kidney transplant waiting list. Lee expressed his concerns at this alarming rate and advised Malaysians to adopt a healthy lifestyle and conduct regular medical check-ups for early detection of the disease. “This is not the first time we have donated dialysis machines and it will not be the last. We have spent a total of approximately RM340,000 on dialysis machines. I would also like to urge more corporations and individuals to reach out and bring hope to unfortunate victims of kidney disease,” said Lee. An average lifespan for a dialysis machines runs from seven to eight years. The cost of the new dialysis machine ranges from approximately RM40,000 to RM45,000. Also present at the handing over ceremony was Eco World Foundation CEO Dato’ Captain (Retired) Liew Siong Sing and PMKL Chairman Dato’ Eric Ong.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1137
__label__cc	0.509333	0.490667	Sun, March 17, 2019 Disney Parks Blog Weekly Recap – TRON Attraction Construction Milestone at Magic Kingdom Park, Jabari the Giraffe Calf Joins Herd at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and More… by Thomas Smith, Editorial Content Director, Disney Parks This week, cast members and others working to bring the new TRON attraction to life at Magic Kingdom Park celebrated a major milestone — signing their names on one of the first steel support columns. The TRON attraction, which is currently being constructed in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom Park, is based on the guest-favorite attraction TRON Lightcycle Power Run at Shanghai Disneyland. The TRON attraction is set to open at Magic Kingdom Park in time for Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary. Keep checking the Disney Parks Blog for future updates. Also, our ongoing Wildlife Wednesday series featured a special look at the latest addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdom – Jabari the giraffe calf. Now standing at seven-feet-tall, Jabari has spent the past few months bonding with his mom Mara in a backstage habitat. This week, he returned to the Kilimanjaro Safari savanna to officially join the rest of the giraffe herd. Visit Scott’s original Jabari the Giraffe Calf Joins The Herd story for details and more great images. Here are some of the other stories we worked on this week. New Behind-the-Scenes Experience at Rivers of Light Coming to Backstage Magic Tour – There is so much to see and do at Walt Disney World Resort, from exhilarating rides and attractions to spectacular shows and parades and more. But have you ever wondered what goes on behind-the-scenes to bring all that magic to life? VIDEO: Encounter Captain Marvel in Disney California Adventure Park – The one and only Captain Marvel makes a triumphant arrival in Disney California Adventure park! As her jet fighter is being readied for a special mission at Hangar 12 in the northeast corner of Hollywood Land, Captain Marvel lines up a gathering of recruits for a Heroic Encounter and inspires them to go Higher, Further, Faster. John Ratzenberger Joins the Voice Cast for Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy – At Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy, the high-octane show debuting later this month as part of the overall transformation of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you’ll come face-to-face with racing legend Lightning McQueen and also see and hear from his friends Cruz Ramirez, Tow Mater and more. Disney PhotoPass Service Celebrates 100,000 Followers on Instagram – It’s been a little more than a year since Disney PhotoPass Service made its Instagram debut, and we’ve just celebrated 100,000 followers. Yep, that’s right – one hundred thousand! Skillets and Shenanigans – A New Menu Gallops Into Whispering Canyon Café – Howdy folks! If yer lookin’ for some good eatin’ and fine fixin’s, then I’ve got some news for you! Whispering Canyon Café at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge has a rootin’ tootin’ new menu starting TODAY with skillets galore! Special Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Panel Unveiled for Star Wars Celebration Chicago – Star Wars fans– Walt Disney Imagineering and members of Lucasfilm will be sharing new details and stories about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge during a special panel announced for the upcoming Star Wars Celebration Chicago event. Director Tim Burton Surprises Disneyland Park Guests During a Sneak Peek of ‘Dumbo’ – Over the weekend, Disneyland park guests were in for an awesome surprise when Tim Burton stopped by the Main Street Opera House during a sneak peek of Disney’s all-new grand live-action adventure “Dumbo,” in theaters March 29. First Look at This Year’s Disney Youth Programs Girl Scout Patches In Honor of National Girl Scout Day – Girl Scouts from around the country can embrace the power of fearlessness and courage at both Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort in celebration of National Girl Scout Day. Share Disney Parks Blog Weekly Recap – TRON Attraction Construction Milestone at Magic Kingdom Park, Jabari the Giraffe Calf Joins Herd at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and More… Would love to be able to visit I’m raising grandkids on a budget so will have to save. linda on March 17, 2019 at 10:54 am Celebrate the Fall and Holiday Seasons at Walt Disney World Resort with Special Offers Just Announced! Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Plans for D23 Expo 2019 Celebrate Play Disney Parks Achievements from Star Tours – The Adventures Continue, Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean with New Commemorative Pins	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1143
__label__cc	0.717931	0.282069	PRINT \| TV \| MOBILE documobiFUSE VideeCards Most brands have not been able to integrate print, packaging and TV into their multi channel approach, we exist to change this by delivering personalised mobile experiences to consumers, in real time, through the scanning of visual media. This makes print work harder, TV advertising addressable and packaging more interactive. The documobi technology is a simple API, which integrates seamlessly into a brand’s existing mobile app (or a new one!) and allows a consumer to scan any type of printed collateral: brochures, billboards, packaging, photo merchandise, gift cards and even moving image (video/TV). By using the documobi API, packaging, physical gift cards, print, and TV can be linked to digital content from inside a brand’s app. Through our system, consumers can send P2P messages by embedding user-generated content (video, audio, social) INTO digital and printed media, allowing consumers to scan and discover the content in a brand-controlled environment. In October 2014, Documobi was granted its US Patent. This covers the embedding and linking of user generated content (UGC) into printed media using smartphones, tablets and wearable devices. Use cases include allowing a user to embed a video into a Gift box or Gift Card for a specific recipient and, for packaging, enabling the user to upload video reviews of the product. Use cases include allowing a user to embed a video into a Gift box Gift Card for a specific recipient and, for packaging, enabling the user to upload video reviews of the product. Traditional printed media is too impersonal, too static and has no direct response mechanism. Documobi exists to turn gift cards, photos, greeting cards, packaging and TV into dynamic, hyper-personalised digital P2P communicaton channels. ABOUT US / MISSION Our mission is to make all print truly interactive within the $600bn print and packaging industry for B2P2P and B2B2C communications. Having launched in 2012 and secured funding in 2015, our vision is to be recognised as the world’s leading enabler for this by 2020. This is underpinned by a US Patent, which was granted in October 2014. We already have clients in the UK and US. to make brand visual media, such as packaging and TV, work harder in the mobile world to allow brands to track the success of their campaign tactics to elegantly solve business problems with our technology FUSE allows a brand to track and amend campaign output such as TV advertisements, direct mails, POS, digital out of home and allows to deliver a cohesive and consistent messaging in real time to their target audience, all through the brand’s app. VideeCards enables printed greeting/gift cards, packaging and photo merchandise to carry personal messages from one person to another without the need to reprint or redesign ANY of the existing range of products. PEOPLE WE WORK WITH ©DOCUMOBI LTD 2019 We use cookies for analytics, by continuing to use this site you agree to our privacy policy. Hide	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1147
__label__wiki	0.570856	0.570856	Follow Donn Donn's Bets Horses To Follow Things We Learned Donn’s Articles Book Donn HTF Private members Horses To Follow » Edeymi Edeymi Edeymi put up a nice performance to finish fourth in the Pertemps Qualifier at Musselburgh on Sunday. Held up at the back of the field by Donagh Meyler through the early stages of the race, Tony Martin’s horse travelled well into the home straight, but he was further back than ideal in a race in which the front-runners didn’t come back. It was a race in which it was an advantage to race handily. The winner Dawalan raced just behind the leaders from early, while the runner-up Kruzhlinin led from the start to the run-in. Even so, Edeymi made good progress up the home straight among horses, and he stayed on well all the way to the line to take fourth place, doing best of the horses who were held up. This was just Edeymi’s second run back after a break of 17 months. He finished well down the field on his return in the Leopardstown Pertemps Qualifier at the Christmas Festival, but this was much more encouraging. This performance, allied to the fact that Gigginstown House have held onto him, suggests that he retains a lot of his old ability. And he is a horse of ability. He was a progressive handicap hurdler during the 2012/13 season, it escaped many people’s notice that he was travelling really well in rear in a fast-run Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at the 2013 Cheltenham Festival when he was brought down at the third last. It was a long way out and he was a long way back, but they had gone so hard from early in that race, he could easily have been involved in the finish without that mis-hap. Later than year he won the big qualified riders’ handicap on the flat at the Galway Festival, beating Domination by a head, and he rounded off 2013 by finishing second to the same Domination – winner of the Ascot Stakes at Royal Ascot last year – in a three-mile hurdle at Cork. Rated 127 in Ireland before Sunday’s run and raised to a mark of 130 now, he was racing off a British mark of 135 on Sunday, and that type of mark could be enough to see him sneak into the Pertemps Final at Cheltenham at the bottom of the weights. He is still only seven and, given that he ran in the Martin Pipe race two years ago off a mark of 139, that is a mark that should be well within his range. He seems to stay three miles okay, and he will be of interest wherever he runs next. Email info@donnmcclean.com Registered in Ireland Number 412909 Registered Address 12 Northbrook Road · Ranelagh · Dublin 6 © copyright 2008 Donn McClean development Built At 80	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1149
__label__wiki	0.689813	0.689813	Apostle of Union : a political biography of Edward Everett by:Mason, Matthew, "Known today as 'the other speaker at Gettysburg, ' Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new biography, Matthew Mason argues that Everett's extraordinarily well-documented career reveals a complex man whose shifting political opinions, especially on the topic of slavery, illuminate the nuances of Northern Unionism. In the case of Everett--who once pledged to march south to aid slaveholders in putting down slave insurrections--Mason explores just how complex the question of slavery was for most Northerners, who considered slavery within a larger context of competing priorities that alternately furthered or hindered antislavery actions. By charting Everett's changing stance toward slavery over time, Mason sheds new light on antebellum conservative politics, the complexities of slavery and its related issues for reform-minded Americans, and the ways in which secession turned into civil war. As Mason demonstrates, Everett's political and cultural efforts to preserve the Union, and the response to his work from citizens and politicians, help us see the coming of the Civil War as a three-sided, not just two-sided, contest."--Inside jacket flap. Benjamin Franklin : an American life by Isaacson, Walter. New York :Simon & Schuster, ©2003. ISBN: 0684807610, 9780684807614, 9780743258074, 0965042634, 074325807X, 9780965042635 The Kennedys : an American drama by Collier, Peter, New York :Summit Books, ©1984. ISBN: 0671447939, 9780671447939, 9780436105517, 0436105519 American Civil War. by Hillstrom, Kevin, Detroit :UXL, ©2000. ISBN: 9780787638207, 0787638226, 0787638218, 9780787638214, 078763820X, 9780787638221 A man for the time : an oral history interview with Lieutenant General James T. Stewart. by USAF History Office. by United States. [Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio] :History Office, Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, [1990?] by Cheney, Richard B. New York :Threshold Editions, 2011. ISBN: 1439176191, 143917623X, 9781439176221, 1439176221, 9781439176238, 9781439176191 Mr. Kaiser goes to Washington : the rise of a government entrepreneur by Adams, Stephen B., Chapel Hill, N.C. :University of North Carolina Press, ©1997. ISBN: 0807837881, 9780807837887, 0807860026, 9780807860021 History of the American Negro by Caldwell, A. B., Morgantown :West Virginia University Press, 2012. The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges by White, G. Edward. New York :Oxford University Press, 1976. The lives, loves, and art of Arthur B. Davies by Perlman, Bennard B. Albany, NY :State University of New York Press, ©1998. His truth is marching on: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of freedom. Edith Wharton : a biography by Lewis, R. W. B. The Mexican War diary and correspondence of George B. McClellan by McClellan, George B. Baton Rouge :Louisiana State University Press, ©2009. Buckskin Joe : being the unique and vivid memoirs of Edward Jonathan Hoyt, hunter-trapper, scout, soldier, showman, frontiersman, and friend of the Indians, 1840-1918 by Hoyt, Edward Jonathan, Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press, 1988 printing, ©1966. Daughters of the covenant : portraits of six Jewish women by Wagenknecht, Edward, Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. Daddy's war : [Greek American stories] by Kacandes, Irene, Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press, ©2009. Values from the heartland : stories of an American farmgirl by Youngs, Bettie B. Deerfield Beach, Fla. :Health Communications, ©1995. Latin American science fiction writers : an A-to-Z guide by Lockhart, Darrell B. Westport, Conn. :Greenwood Press, 2004. Cornwallis: the American adventure by Wickwire, Franklin B. Boston,Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Taught to kill : an American boy's war from the Ardennes to Berlin by Babcock, John B., Washingtin, D.C. :Potomac Books, ©2005. When this cruel war is over : the Civil War letters of Charles Harvey Brewster by Brewster, Charles Harvey, Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press, ©1992.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1156
__label__cc	0.720177	0.279823	Has low childcare provision caused a low female employment rate? Posted on 8 August 2016 16 July 2019 by FactCheckNI CLAIM: Low childcare provision contributes to low levels of female employment in Northern Ireland. CONCLUSION: INACCURATE. While childcare provision is more limited in Northern Ireland than in Great Britain, and female employment rates are lower in Northern Ireland than the UK average, there is insufficient evidence of a causal link between childcare provision and female (versus maternal) employment in this case. According to the most recently available data, Northern Ireland actually has higher maternal employment rates than the UK average. The Belfast Telegraph published an article on 23 April 2016, quoting the Family and Childcare Trust chief executive Julia Margo on the state of childcare in Northern Ireland in comparison to the rest of the UK. She claimed that “childcare provision levels had contributed to low levels of female employment”, with 63.1% of working age women employed, compared to the UK average of 69.1%. The impact of universal childcare Two years ago, NICVA commissioned a report from PriceWatehouseCoopers (PwC) that presented a cost/benefit analysis of universal childcare in OECD countries. They found that on a purely monetary basis, universal childcare costs the government more money than it brings in through increased tax revenue. However, as the report itself stipulates, this ignores the social benefits, such as a decline in childhood poverty. Numerous studies have shown a clear relationship between access to childcare and maternal employment. While a study from 2014 has found that this is not a cost effective way to raise labour force participation among mothers, there are many other benefits to improved childcare access. Increased maternal employment is only one of the positive outcomes. Can childcare accessibility be blamed for the lower female rate of employment? The correlation between better access to childcare and higher maternal employment has been presented in scientific studies. Julia Margo’s claim is accurate in stating that female employment is lower in Northern Ireland than the UK average, and in stating that childcare provision is not as extensive as in Great Britain. Furthermore, when adjusted for wages, childcare costs in Northern Ireland are higher than in Great Britain. On the surface it may seem obvious that these factors are related. However, there is no evidence that this difference in female employment rates is caused by less affordable childcare, or a lack of access to it. The aforementioned PwC report found that Northern Ireland had a higher maternal employment rate than the UK and OECD average in 2011. In that year, maternal employment in Northern Ireland (with higher childcare costs and more limited entitlement to early childhood education) stood at 69.6%, compared to the UK average of 64.3%. It is possible that increased childcare subsidies would lead to even higher maternalemployment rate, consequently pushing up the overall female employment rate. Poor access to childcare does not explain the discrepancy in the female employment rate between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Image: “Footprint Women’s Centre” by Northern Ireland Executive licensed by CC BY-ND 2.0 Posted in Economy, FactsTagged childcare, economy, facts, Northern Ireland ← Do half of freed criminals reoffend within a year? Is there a high level of support for restorative justice? →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1179
__label__cc	0.50962	0.49038	Home › Looking For Guild [VZ] Valor Zeal - PvE - Stormbluff Isle (NA) Rising Dusk.2408 Member ✭✭✭ September 12, 2017 edited November 23, 2018 in Looking For Guild [VZ] is a relatively medium-sized PvE guild on the Stormbluff Isle server. A core tenet of the guild is to be a super casual group with the freedom to play the game how you want to and to be great players with great attitudes while we do it. The following part is emphasized because it's an important part of who we are. We are not a guild that chews people up and spits them out, nor are we looking for people who treat a guild strictly as a tool. We want players who are self-motivated, fun-loving, relaxed, and enjoyable to be around. We want you to be our friend, not just another member of a guild. We're quite accomplished players with tons of experience and a casual attitude, and we're looking to grow by meeting like-minded individuals. The guild has no website and no mandatory voice chat, though we do have an optional Discord / TS server for WvW and events. The guild is small enough that we'd like to get to know you as people, and we want to make friends. We're extremely willing to mentor and help out newer players, and are happy to show you some of the rigs of the game. In addition to this, a number of people in our guild suffer from severe social anxiety, so while we're friendly and sometimes chatty, sometimes we do our own things quietly. Being OK with that is important to fitting into the culture of the group! If you're interested in the guild, contact one of the officers (myself included) in the list below. We don't do a trial or anything like that, and all we'll ask of you is to chat with you for a bit to get a feel for the type of person you are. Remember, you get out of a guild what you put into it. The more talkative and friendly you are, the more talkative and friendly we'll be back. Stormbluff Isle Server, NA Gilded Hollow Guild Hall L60+ Repping not Required (Though heavily encouraged) Primary weekday play times are evenings EST (also support PST; we stay up late) Primary weekend play times are all day 70 to 80members, 10 to 15 active at once during our primetime Weekly Guild Missions PvE / Fractals / Raids Guild chat is light (Many of us have anxiety disorders, but we're friendly!) Discord Strongly Encouraged (We're very active there!) Guild Event Schedule Guild Raids: Mondays + Fridays 9PM EST, Saturdays 5PM EST Guild Events: Tuesdays 9PM EST (Includes Hero Point Trains, Farming Events, Hide and Seek, and more!) Rising Dusk.2408 Ricochet Jones.2537 Azizrian.6490 xZimnii.1943 Cheers, and we're all looking forward to meeting you! Valor Zeal [VZ] - Stormbluff Isle Poverty.2675 Member ✭ Been in this guild since shortly after release, everyone seems to know what they are doing and are really easy to get along with Bloodmerit.4920 Member ✭ VZ are great people to communicate with. They're very laid back and some very fun times have been had. Above all, I feel comfortable with them whenever I log in. I've been in the guild going on 3 years (I think? Time glides with these people!) now and I wouldn't go anywhere else. Ever. As you can see, our guildies enjoy being a part of the guild, and we hope anyone interested in tagging along for the PoF adventure will too! Don't hesitate to reach out to an officer if you are interested or if you have questions! We're always happy to chat. We are still recruiting! We're actually running weekly map-clear bounty events now too, which has been a resounding success among guild members. Happy halloween, everyone! We are still recruiting, and map-clear bounty events, hide-and-seek events, and other halloween fun-times will be afoot in the near future. If these things sound fun, reach out to an officer about giving the guild a try. As before, we are actively recruiting! Everyone had a grand ole' time at our annual Halloween hide-and-seek event, and otherwise we've been keeping the fire alive by continuing with guild raids, guild missions, guild PoF bounty runs, and other guild events! Let us know if any of that stuff sounds fun; we'd be happy to chat. We're still recruiting, and we have some fun events planned for the holiday season! Additionally, we're still progressing through the new raid wing, and that's been a source of a lot of fun for the members of our guild into that sort of content. If the kinds of things (and more importantly, our family of friends) resonates with you, please let one of our officers know; they'd love to chat with you about it! I know I haven't updated this in a while, but we've been recruiting all the while nonetheless! We're still pushing to try and get our first Dhuum kill because he's tough and he forces us to be on our toes, but we're reliably killing every other boss and we're doing lots of fun extra events, including WvW nights! If the sorts of things we do together sound interesting, please reach out to one of our officers; they're more than happy to talk to you about whether it'd be a good fit or not. Mandalore.3510 Member ✭ Hey, I'd like to join your guild @Rising Dusk.2408 I have a group of 8 friends with me as well. We're causal for the most part but take the game seriously whenever we're involved in questing or pvp. We're looking for a nice big guild to settle into! Looking to PvX and run guild missions. My user is: Mandalore.3510 July 20, 2018 edited July 20, 2018 Just a bump-up to note that we're still around and recruiting! Activity has still been pretty reasonable and we reliably get our raid groups and guild missions groups going successfully, so if these things sound interesting to you then definitely reach out to me (or another officer) in-game! We're always looking for fresh blood that's really interested in the game and learning stuff; we offer to train guild members in raids and other in-game content regularly! P.S. @Mandalore.3510 , I just noticed your post and will reach out to you in-game. Jeez it has been a while since I've updated this, but we are still playing the game and still recruiting! Raids are our most active content right now with us doing them twice a week, and things have been a little slow in other areas due to the lack of content. That said, our Discord is still active and we're still playing the game, so let one of the officers know if you're interested!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1187
__label__wiki	0.6435	0.6435	Quercus suber Cork oak Cork oak in Tuscany, showing the natural habit Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Family: Fagaceae Genus: Quercus Subgenus: Quercus subg. Quercus Section: Quercus sect. Cerris Q. suber Synonyms[1] Quercus cintrana Welw. ex Nyman Quercus corticosa Raf. Quercus mitis Banks ex Lowe Quercus occidentalis Gay Quercus sardoa Gand. Quercus subera St.-Lag. Quercus suberosa Salisb. Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls. It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. In the Mediterranean basin the tree is an ancient species with fossil remnants dating back to the Tertiary period.[2] It grows to up to 20 m (66 ft), although it is typically more stunted in its native environment. The leaves are 4 to 7 cm (1.6 to 2.8 in) long, weakly lobed or coarsely toothed, dark green above, paler beneath, with the leaf margins often downcurved. The acorns are 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) long, in a deep cup fringed with elongated scales. In the Portuguese town of Águas de Moura is located near the Sobreiro Monumental (Monumental Cork Oak), a tree 234 years old, 16 metres (52 ft) tall and with a trunk that requires at least five people to embrace it. It has been considered a National Monument since 1988, and the Guinness Book of Records states it as the largest and oldest in the world.[citation needed] 1 Ecology 2 Cultivation and use 3 Pathogens Ecology[edit] The cork oak forest is one of the major plant communities of the Mediterranean woodlands and forests ecoregion.[3] Natural stands of cork oak can support diverse ecosystems. For example, in parts of northwestern North Africa, some cork oak forests are habitat to the endangered Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus, a species whose habitat is fragmented and whose range was prehistorically much wider.[4] In Western Europe, particularly in Portugal and Spain, the cork oak forests are home to endangered species such as the Iberian lynx, the most critically threatened feline in the world.[5] As a pyrophyte, this tree has a thick, insulating bark that makes it well adapted to forest fires. After a fire, many tree species regenerate from seeds (as, for example, the maritime pine) or resprout from the base of the tree (as, for example, the holm oak). The bark of the cork oak allows it to survive fires and then simply regrow branches to fill out the canopy. The quick regeneration of this oak makes it successful in the fire-adapted ecosystems of the Mediterranean biome.[5] Cultivation and use[edit] Find sources: "Quercus suber" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Well-formed cork on the trunk of a mature cork oak A cross section of the trunk of a cork oak Ripe cork oak acorns with the characteristic shaggy cups and residual green tinge on acorn tips. The tree forms a thick, rugged bark containing high levels of suberin. Over time the cork cambium layer of bark can develop considerable thickness and can be harvested every 7 to 10 years to produce cork. The harvesting of cork does not harm the tree (though such activity tends to reduce its life expectancy), in fact, no trees are cut down during the harvesting process. Only the bark is extracted, and a new layer of cork regrows, making it a renewable resource. The tree is cultivated in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco, France, Italy and Tunisia. Cork oaks are considered to be soil builders and their fruits have been shown to have useful insecticidal properties. Cork oak forests cover approximately 25,000 square kilometres in those countries (equivalent to 2,500,000 hectares (6,200,000 acres)). Portugal accounts for around 50% of the world cork harvest. Cork oaks cannot legally be cut down in Portugal, except for forest management felling of old, unproductive trees, and, even in those cases, farmers need special permission from the Ministry of Agriculture.[citation needed] Q. suber is commonly grown in agroforestry systems, known as montado in Portugal and dehesa in Spain. These are open woods with low tree density (50–300 trees/ha). In these systems, forage species are commonly grown under the trees and grazed by cattle during the summer.[6] Cork oaks commonly live more than 200 years[5]. Virgin cork (or 'male' cork) is the first cork cut from generally 25-year-old trees. Another 9 to 12 years is required for the second harvest, and a tree can be harvested about twelve times in its lifetime. Cork harvesting is done entirely without machinery, being dependent solely on human labor. Usually five people are required to harvest the tree's bark, using a small axe. The process requires training due to the skill required to harvest bark without inflicting too much damage to the tree. The European cork industry produces 300,000 tonnes of cork a year, with a value of €1.5 billion and employing 30,000 people. Wine corks represent 15% of cork usage by weight but 66% of revenues. The cork left after stoppers have been made is used to make a wide range of products, including insulation panels, floor and wall tiles and sound-proofing in the car industry, as well as for handicrafts and artistic uses. This include cork paper, used in printing, book covering, clothing manufacture, cork maroquinerie and other products. Cork is also used in making cricket balls, Hurling Ball (Sliothars), badminton shuttlecocks, handles of fishing rods and special devices for the space industry.[6] Cork oaks are sometimes planted as individual trees, providing a minor income to their owners. The tree is also sometimes cultivated for ornament. Hybrids with turkey oak (Quercus cerris) are regular, both in the wild in southwest Europe and in cultivation; the hybrid is known as Lucombe oak Quercus × hispanica. Some cork is also produced in eastern Asia from the related Chinese cork oak (Quercus variabilis) Harvested cork trees south of Ubrique in Andalusia, southern Spain, May 2008 Cork harvesting in Aracena, Huelva, Spain Cork oaks in Sardinia, Tempio Pausania Weathered trunk of a cork oak. The cork aged light gray, the trunk aged dark Pathogens[edit] Cork oak is relatively resistant to pathogens, but some diseases occur in the species. Leaf spot can be caused by the fungus Apiognomonia errabunda. Other fungi can cause leaf scorching, powdery mildew, rust, and cankers.[7] The most virulent cork oak pathogen may be Diplodia corticola, a sac fungus which causes sap-bleeding sunken canker wounds in the wood, withering of the leaves, and lesions on the acorns. The fungus Biscogniauxia mediterranea is becoming more common in cork oak forests. Its fruiting bodies appear as charcoal-black cankers. Both of these fungi are transmitted by the oak pinhole borer (Platypus cylindrus), a species of weevil.[7] The common water mould Phytophthora cinnamomi grows in the roots of the tree and has been known to devastate cork oak woodlands.[7] ^ "Quercus suber L.". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – via The Plant List. ^ Eriksson, E.; Varela, M.C.; Lumaret, R. & Gil, L. (2017). "Genetic conservation of Quercus suber" (PDF). European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN), Bioversity International. ^ Mediterranean Woodland and Forest Ecoregion: Northern Africa: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. World Wildlife Fund. 2017. ^ Hogan, C. M. Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus. GlobalTwitcher.com, Ed. N. Stromberg. ^ a b c Santos Pereira, J., Bugalho, M.N., and Caldeira, M.D. (2008). From the Cork Oak to Cork: A Sustainable Ecosystem. APCOR: Portuguese Cork Association. ^ a b Gil, L. & Varela, M. (2008), Cork oak - Quercus suber: Technical guidelines for genetic conservation and use (PDF), European Forest Genetic Resources Programme, p. 6 ^ a b c Moricca, Salvatore; Linaldeddu, Benedetto T.; Ginetti, Beatrice; Scanu, Bruno; Franceschini, Antonio; Ragazzi, Alessandro (2016). "Endemic and Emerging Pathogens Threatening Cork Oak Trees: Management Options for Conserving a Unique Forest Ecosystem". Plant Disease. 100 (11): 2184–2193. doi:10.1094/PDIS-03-16-0408-FE. Aronson J., Pereira J. S., Pausas J. G. (eds.). (2009). Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge: Conservation, Adaptive Management, and Restoration. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 315 pp. Wikisource has the text of an 1879 American Cyclopædia article about Quercus suber. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quercus suber. Quercus suber. Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Cork Oak. World Wildlife Foundation Priority Species. Cork Industry Federation. 2014. PlanetCork.org. Educating primary school children in sustainable development. Cork Industry Federation. 2009. Cork Oak (Quercus suber). European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN). Wikispecies: Quercus suber APNI: 220652 Calflora: 9403 Ecocrop: 9143 EPPO: QUESU EUNIS: 172470 GRIN: 30755 IPNI: 296785-1 IUCN: 194237 MoBotPF: 280726 NBN: NBNSYS0000042189 NZOR: 966cb607-1a1b-41ce-8372-75e9fb9d798f PfaF: Quercus suber Plant List: kew-175312 PLANTS: QUSU5 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296785-1 VicFlora: d81c3bf7-07b2-41da-92a3-ffe924157221 WCSP: 175312 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quercus_suber&oldid=902810956" Flora of North Africa Trees of Morocco Trees of Europe Trees of Mediterranean climate Garden plants of Europe Drought-tolerant trees Plants described in 1753 Non-timber forest products Plant morphology Articles needing additional references from September 2011 Taxonbars with 25–29 taxon IDs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1189
__label__wiki	0.729749	0.729749	By BroadstairsR, June 10 in Main Discussion - Norwich City BroadstairsR 181 Premiership fixture: Norwich City v.Sheffield Wednesday H 0-0 13,530 Staggering and, of course, ammunition for those against any stadium expansion. In fairness gates overall were much, much lower at that time and even both derby games that season attracted gates @ c.17, 000. (and both sides were relegation fodder to boot.) What has happened since? Has the much maligned Sky TV with it's high out put of live games ie. exposure, caused this? Has the PL (Premiership) with it's highly paid superstars on show been good for the game in the end? After all the forecast at the time was that attendances at games would continue to decline because there was an increasing amount of alternative entertainment available for the average Joe and his other half. The trend has not just been reversed it has been totally eliminated. Does the "never had it so good society" actually revel in all the hype? Does this reflect the normal highs and lows nature of the way that trends and fortunes fluctuate? Will the bubble burst? Will we ever see gates of barely more than 13,000 watching top level football at Carrow Road ever again? Who will end up dead? Eve or Villanelle? It's the hype we love innit? Edited June 10 by BroadstairsR shefcanary 43 I think its a lot of Londoners relocating to Norfolk who want some football action and have taken to supporting the local club. Most "normal for Norfolk" still moaning about the cost of season tickets and fact the sausage rolls are never warm enough. GenerationA47 73 Nonsense...did these supposed Londoners suddenly appear in their hordes at the end of the 90s/early 00s, when our attendances were steadily rising to hit (& expand) capacity? Or was it rather a reflection of Broadstairs’ national trends, plus our special local blend? In Norwich, the post-Taylor Report (and then ‘kids for a quid’) generation was growing up with a new understanding of football spectating, and flocked to the Carra. With those youthful Prem-topping and Uefa cup experiences fuelling our dreams, just as City entered an era of hope and increasing attainment, so we outstayed the false dawn of Worthy’s promotion year . The new South Stand came just at the right time to accommodate the new waves of youth coming through the ranks . That is my slightly egocentric interpretation anyway I've no idea how it came about but to my mind it's clear, get the new City stand built, take us up to 30/32,000 and take this opportunity to grow the Club. With the paupers down the road struggling to attract anything, we're primed to dominate the region there's so much potential between here and London. Alex Moss 230 22 minutes ago, splendidrush said: Totally agree, Splendid - would love to see the City Stand brought into line with the rest of the ground, just a shame there’s not much scope because of Carrow Rd itself. Branston Pickle 106 7 minutes ago, Alex Moss said: There’s plenty of scope - the road behind the City Stand is not much more than a service road nowadays, you could build over it or do away with part of it. Ultimately though, unless and until we’ve been up for c5 years it’s not something we should be thinking about. 16 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said: I agree we should build over it, turn it into a tunnel which is closed to traffic on match days. Disagree that we shouldn't be thinking about it. I believe that it should always be 'on the table' for discussion. Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 146 I remember saying in another thread recently that it's something that needs to be done sooner rather than later. The population is growing all the time, demand for tickets is increasing and other clubs of our size are investing in their grounds. We need to expand in order to not be left behind and to take advantage of the position we're in, so while we've got the Premier League money then we should think about capitalising. While I'm talking nonsense, I think it should mirror the Jarrold so we can put a roof on so we're not blinded by the sun in the Barclay. dylanisabaddog 100 There were many reasons crowds were low then. Robert Chase had a very negative effect on attendances which weren't as strong nationally as now and people who wanted to stand had been driven away. The recovery was driven by Kids For A Quid which created a whole new generation of supporters. Increasing population has obviously helped but there were 35,000 attendances in the mid 1970''s with a much lower population. The economics of expansion are challenging. Even if a financial institution could be found to lend the money, the club would have to sell 90% of the extra seats for 20 years to repay the loan. The other funding option is one or two very big player sales which would make relegation more likely. The matter of ground expansion has been thrashed out many times on this forum and the general conclusion has been that, although made necessary by increased demand and the need to upgrade the Main Stand, it is not a viable proposition for the club at this moment in time. If, and it's a somewhat big 'if,' we maintain Premier League status for a number of seasons then the need for doing something about the problem will become more pressing by the year. Neither do I quite wear the view that emphasises the long-term financial lack of viability of expansion the way dylan and his dog have put it and feel that you have contradicted yourself in a way Mr. D. for by mentioning the 'kids for a quid' scheme as having long-term benefits that are being felt today but then ignoring the long-term benefits of increasing the fan base now (or sooner rather than later.) The many who will miss out next season could be youngsters unable to cement that particular long-term loyalty to the club that comes about from regular attendance. Whatever, it always comes back to the need for a longish spell at the top, something we have been unable to achieve since the days of Robert Chase. It would be nice to get 5, 000 more in. It would be nice to improve that L.1. looking Main Stand (although I would miss views of the cathedral on my television screen.) It would nice to cement our East Anglian superiority (without bankrupting us.) It would be nice to create a bigger fan-base for the future, but it would not make sense to embark upon niceties just now. In respect of the general picture the continuing appeal of football in the country seems seems never ending, ditto at Carrow Road. Is it cyclical? Will it end? Doesn't look like it for the foreseeable. CanaryChris 111 Does seem a bit of a catch-22. Likely that if we are relegated, but many of our "starlets" perform, City may be decimated in the change room, while the bank struggles to hold the piles of cash being brought in - ripe situation financially that allows for an expansion. But, of course, we will be relegated, meaning that we would need to plan for life in the championship. This would make such moves to expand the stadium seem imprudent. So we save it and make our next charge up to the premier league. If we can establish ourselves in the prem, at what point do we decide this? Three seasons, four, five? I think we need to be looking at expansion much earlier than that, otherwise it seems a case of you can expand the stadium tomorrow; a day that never arrives. 55 minutes ago, BroadstairsR said: I wasn't actually drawing any conclusions about expansion but merely stating the facts. I agree that we need to do it for the sake of the next generation but I can't see how we can make it happen unless I win Euromillions. If I do I'll gladly hand it over. I am strongly against huge borrowing. Just look what happened down the road. The one thing that would help a little is safe standing but in the current political climate that's unlikely to happen for years. We are fortunate at the moment to have people running the club who can be trusted to look to the future. They know they can sell 40,000 tickets for half the games in the Premier League but how long will we be there? It looked like Stoke had become an established Premier League club but all of a sudden they are now a very ordinary Championship club. Hairy Canary 51 It would be a huge long term financial risk, which, in all likelihood, would only pay for itself while we maintain Premiership status. With attendance revenue becoming a smaller and smaller part of overall income and the possibility of relegation always on the horizon for a club of our size it just isn't worth the gamble for me. Badger 152 1 hour ago, dylanisabaddog said: Even if a financial institution could be found to lend the money, the club would have to sell 90% of the extra seats for 20 years to repay the loan. This would depend upon 1. The cost of the ground development and 2. The number of seats and other facilities created. The source of finance would also depend upon the cost - anybody venture a guess at what it might be to expand the City stand? Tumbleweed 13 There had been talk before of it costing around £30m I seem to remember. It does need doing, that stand it is a bit toytown. The cost of a ground expansion is probably similar to the value of Max Aarons, or possibly Ben Godfrey, after a good Premier League season. I may be in a minority here but I'd be happy to lose a star player and risk relegation in exchange for something we'll benefit from for generations. Old Shuck 2 This may be apocryphal but more than one person has said to me that we 'own' Carrow Road (ie) it isn't the preserve of the Highways Dept but a private road that belongs to the football club? A matching stand would be great-not only a statement of intent and ambition but a commitment to the current ground and location. But do wonder how the cost of a new stand compares with the cost of a new stadium altogether? I read that the final cost of Sunderland's Stadium of Light, upon the expansion of the North Stand there was £24 million. Now that's back in 2000 -a comparable price to around £28-£30 million now? This isn't even back of cigarette packet economics but might there be a school of thought somewhere that IF we move (and please, let this not be an invitation for that chap and his Royal Norfolk Showground theory) then the clubs might yet think about moving on completely, especially as they'd get a good wedge for the current land to use as a deposit on the new land and build. Tottenham's new stadium is going to give people a false impression of how much a new ground is going to cost. They are very much an exception and not really something that should be factored in. I'd prefer to stay where we are 100 times out of 100. But does the current infrastructure deal with 30,000 plus as well as it does 25,000 plus, is there a tipping point where Carrow Road and its confines struggles to cope with bigger crowds? 22 minutes ago, Old Shuck said: I don't think so... Cardiff and Brighton spent north of £50m on their new grounds I believe and they're both only around 30,000. Building a second tier on the City Stand to take our capacity to 32-33,000 would definitely be the best option. Building over the top of an existing stand is far more expensive than building on bare land. And there is the problem of the road behind it. I've no idea who owns it but double yellow lines were painted not long ago suggesting it doesn't belong to the club. I seem to remember the figure of £35m being quoted at a shareholders meeting for around 5,000 extra seats. They would bring in about £3m a year. It's possible we could do it in a year's time and rename it the Buendia Stand. Those of a certain vintage will remember Kevin Reeves paying for the River End. If the sale of a young star enabled us to buy a new stand with 5000 new seats and extra facilities from which to obtain non-match-day revenue, it might be a sensible investment - certainly preferable to taking on long-term debt imo. On 10/06/2019 at 23:04, Branston Pickle said: the road behind the City Stand is not much more than a service road nowadays, you could build over it or do away with part of it. The road is a public highway not owned by NCFC and is maintained by Norfolk County Council so we cannot ' do away with part of it '. Edited June 14 by TIL 1010 Yes we can - roads can be redirected etc etc but in any case you are misunderstanding what I meant; can’t be bothered to go into it though so c’est la vie. How I Wrote Elastic Man 43 Could if it was purchased from them, obviously they would need to be agreeable, I don´t know if there are any restrictions on them selling?....I´m not saying that´s a great idea at this stage I think if that were ever to come to pass, I guess the club would want to keep the City Stand "live" during construction, which would be a challenge, but not impossible Edited June 14 by How I Wrote Elastic Man	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1210
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__label__cc	0.74527	0.25473	InSite/Out RichardBeason GescheBlume-Werry RobMills StaceyTrevathan-Tackett Community+Ecology FE.org Journal Updates Functional Ecologists - A blog for the people behind the research Official blog of Functional Ecology, a British Ecological Society journal AE Profile: Oscar Godoy Date: 5 Nov 2018Author: functionalecologist 3 Comments Oscar is community ecologist focused on answering two fundamental questions in ecology. 1) Which are the determinants of species coexistence and exclusion within ecological communities, and 2) Which are the consequences of these coexistence dynamics for ecosystem functioning? Approaches to tackle these questions include the combination of ecological theory with observational studies, manipulative experiments and a strong component of statistical modelling. He has just started MESSY lab (Mediterranean Ecological Studies and SYnthesis lab) at the University of Cádiz (Spain), which aims to investigate mechanisms of species coexistence across multiple trophic levels in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Oscar es un ecólogo de comunidades centrado en contestar dos preguntas fundamentales en Ecología. 1) ¿Cuáles son los determinantes de coexistencia y exclusión de especies en las comunidades ecológicas?, y 2) ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias de estas dinámicas de coexistencia para el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas? Las aproximaciones para manejar estas preguntas incluyen la combinación de teoría ecológica con estudios observacionales, experimentos manipulativos y un fuerte componente de modelización estadística. Oscar acaba de empezar MESSY lab (Laboratorio de Estudios Ecológicos Mediterráneos y Síntesis) en la Universidad de Cádiz (España), el cual tiene por intención investigar los mecanismos de coexistencia de especies contenidas en múltiples niveles tróficos tanto para ecosistemas terrestres como marinos. Oscar between an annual prairie in Sierra Norte (Spain) and an algae community in Mull Island (UK) searching for generalities across ecosystems. Multitrophic networks and species coexistence Most of my current research efforts are focused on understanding how the structure of species interactions modulates biodiversity. We have recently shown that niche and network studies devoted to understand biodiversity maintenance have clear parallelisms in their theoretical concepts and associated methodological tools (Godoy et al. 2018). This effort of integrating different ecological domains is exciting because it is opening novel paths for future research. Specifically, we have now the opportunity to study the joint effect of competitive/facilitative interactions occurring within trophic levels and the antagonistic/mutualistic interactions between trophic levels on determining the maintenance of species diversity in multitrophic networks. In other words, we have now to possibility to understand in an integrative way how several guilds of species such as plant, herbivores, and pollinators coexist all together. With the theoretical framework solved, the challenge we face now is obtaining empirical information of the strength and structure of all these type of interactions. We have done some progress under heterogeneous environments (see Lanuza, Bartomeus and Godoy (2018)) but definitely more efforts are needed in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Annual grasslands in Doñana National Park (Spain). These ecosystems harbour an outstanding diversity of plants, insects (e.g. bees, beetles, ants, grasshoppers), and gastropods species with disparate trophic roles within communities. Phylogeny and plant functional traits Starting my research career as an ecophysiologist gave me the perspective from the very beginning of the importance of functional strategies and evolutionary histories on plant performance. Plant invasions and coexistence can be considered two sides of the same coin, and under such framework, I have explored the role of trait phenotypic plasticity in determining species invasiveness (Godoy, Valladares & Castro-Díez 2011), and the effect of phylogenetic relatedness on species coexistence (Godoy, Kraft & Levine 2014). The lab is committed to keep doing research in three key lines. These are i) the role of functional traits and species relatedness in mediating the structure of competitive and trophic networks, ii) the influence of intraspecific trait variation in the population dynamics of competing species, and iii) the effect of trait evolution on eco-evolutionary dynamics and community assembly. Although it is true that each aspect can be studied in isolation, their combination has the intention to relate processes scaling from genes to communities. Ecosystem functioning The study of the mechanisms underlying community assembly through tools associated with population models is a powerful way to describe species’ abundance and their changes across years. But more importantly, it provides a direct link to combine diversity maintenance mechanisms with those related to the functioning of ecological communities. Despite being this combination clear from a theoretical point of view, few have been the attempts to rigorously obtain such experimental linkages and none yet have done so under multispecies and multitrophic communities. We believe accomplishing this task is critical to predict reasonable well the amount and stability of several ecosystem functions critical to human welfare such as biomass production, nutrient cycling, food production, or carbon storage under current global change scenarios. Mediterranean cork oak (Quercus suber) forests located in Spain and Portugal provide multiple ecological and socio-economical services, many of which are at risk by the combined effect of land use intensification, fire, climate change, and invasive species. In sum, as the reader will have noticed, the spectrum of research aims is wide but interrelated. It is an exciting time to be an ecologist and here at MESSY lab we are open to discuss research possibilities for PhD students and Postdocs. Functional Ecology has published several papers central to my research. A classic one that I always recommend a close reading is Ghalambor et al. (2007) “Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments” The authors in this paper highlight the importance of understanding that phenotypic plasticity (strictly understood as the ability of one genotype to produce several phenotypes when exposed to different environments) encompasses diverse adaptive and non-adaptive responses. This fact has important implications to explore limits to phenotypic expression as the degree of adaptation to new environments broadly depends on how close the species’ trait profiles match environmental constrains. Beyond the focus on phenotypic plasticity, the paper is a great reading to think about genetic and environmental limits/constrains to species interactions. For the particular case of the paper, the emphasis of such limits are put with respect to abiotic stressors, but it can be easily extrapolated to adaptive/non-adaptive responses to competition or to trophic interactions. More recently, I enjoyed reading Wagg et al. (2017) “Functional trait dissimilarity drives both species complementarity and competitive disparity” The authors perform a detailed experiment to understand how trait differences between species drive both complementarity effects related to community functioning (i.e. biomass production) and competitive asymmetries related to competitive dominance and exclusion. The authors document that there is not a unique set of trait differences driving both types of mechanisms and these mismatches are indirectly influenced by the overall trait composition of the community assembled. For me, this is an important result because suggests that we should be much more careful with the use of functional trait information to infer competition processes and/or community productivity. Even more importantly, the relevance of this paper comes from the fact that is among the first to connect experimentally the fields of species coexistence and ecosystem functioning. Finally, I found particularly interesting Hertäg and Vorburger (2018) “Defensive symbionts mediate species coexistence in phytophagous insects”. I have never worked with phytophagous insects but I could understand this paper easily as the authors did a great job in using general principles from ecology and species interactions to study underlying coexistence mechanisms. This fact shows the importance of using common concepts across study systems to build a solid ecological theory. The paper is also exciting because it shows the importance of the joint effect of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions on mediating competitive interactions between insects. This paper is a clear example of the necessity to include information of species interactions from different sources to acquire a more holistic view of how species coexist in multitrophic networks. I am greatly enjoying being an associated editor at Functional Ecology. It is a unique opportunity to keep learning and I do hope to contribute to the continued success of this outstanding journal. Ghalambor, C.K., McKay, J.K., Carroll, S.P. & Reznick, D.N. (2007) Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments. Functional Ecology, 21, 394-407. Godoy, O., Bartomeus, I., Rohr, R.P. & Saavedra, S. (2018) Towards the integration of niche and network theories. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33, 287-300. Godoy, O., Kraft, N.J. & Levine, J.M. (2014) Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes. Ecology letters, 17, 836-844. Godoy, O., Valladares, F. & Castro‐Díez, P. (2011) Multispecies comparison reveals that invasive and native plants differ in their traits but not in their plasticity. Functional Ecology, 25, 1248-1259. Hertäg, C. & Vorburger, C. (2018) Defensive symbionts mediate species coexistence in phytophagous insects. Functional Ecology, 32, 1057-1064. Lanuza, J.B., Bartomeus, I. & Godoy, O. (2018) Opposing effects of floral visitors and soil conditions on the determinants of competitive outcomes maintain species diversity in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecology letters, 21, 865-874. Wagg, C., Ebeling, A., Roscher, C., Ravenek, J., Bachmann, D., Eisenhauer, N., Mommer, L., Buchmann, N., Hillebrand, H. & Schmid, B. (2017) Functional trait dissimilarity drives both species complementarity and competitive disparity. Functional Ecology, 31, 2320-2329. Previous Previous post: Hindsight: Tackling pattern, scale, and independence to ensure ecosystem models are predictive Next Next post: AE Profile: Antonio José Manzaneda 3 thoughts on “AE Profile: Oscar Godoy” nigel64 says: 5 Nov 2018 at 7:11 pm A very useful train of thinking Oscar. Great that you’re working on whole life systems. I’ve long seen niches (theoretical, real and hoped for – as in land repair projects) as a network of fitness surfaces that vary in their degree of overlap. Oscar Godoy (@Eco_Godoy) says: The network of fitness surfaces is suggestive. I agree with the idea that a species’ niche involves an associated fitness. Moreover, not all the niches have the same consequences for species to grow and reproduce, so the key point for the stability of whole-systems is to know how all these different fitness surfaces change over time and combine. 4 Jun 2019 at 9:43 pm Yes, It’s another reason to interdigitate planting as it helps confirm where you think the patches are located or how far a gradient go into another patch, e.g. with a wet area next to a dry area Methods.blog Journal of Ecology Blog The Applied Ecologists Blog Animal Ecology In Focus Follow Functional Ecologists – A blog for the people behind the research on WordPress.com Liisa Hämäläinen: A bad taste in the mouth – worth watching others? Peer review and publishing workshops from the BES The 27th International Ornithological Congress (August 19-26, 2018) Nadescha Zwerschke - a new angle on oyster competition Introducing your new Functional Ecologists blog editors! 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__label__wiki	0.614612	0.614612	Select Hotel/Location Fusion Maia Da NangFusion Resort Cam RanhFusion Resort Phu QuocFusion Suites Da NangFusion Suites Saigon FUSION APPOINTS NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS Samir Wildemann joins the growing Vietnam-based hotel brand HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Mar. 19, 2018) – After more than three decades in the hospitality industry, including 20 years managing hotels in Thailand, Samir Wildemann has moved east to Vietnam where he’s joined the Fusion hospitality group as vice president of operations. Fusion is planning to open several new properties in the next two years including two hotels in Saigon, one in Vung Tau, and a new resort in Quang Binh. They recently completed two major expansion projects at existing resorts in Phu Quoc and Cam Ranh. Wildemann will help refine and enhance Fusion’s luxury experience at all Fusion properties. The German-native’s most recent role was as general manager and senior vice president for Southeast Asia at Siam Kempinski Hotel, a position he held for three years from 2015 – 2018. He has held the position of Corporate Executive Officer at Okura Hotels & Resorts and opened The Okura Prestige Bangkok (2010 – 2015) and with Carlson Rezidor Bangkok (2008 – 2010). Wildemann spent the first 17 years of his career with Le Méridien, entering the industry in Le Méridien Paris’s front office. He assumed his first senior hotel management role with Le Méridien in Singapore more than 24 years ago. “I have always worked for mid-sized international chains and wanted to join a smaller but growing organisation, like Fusion,” explained Wildemann. “At Fusion my background can contribute to growth and development and further strengthen the reputation and strong positioning Fusion already has in Vietnam and eventually will one day have abroad.” Wildemann has lived and worked in more than 10 countries, starting kindergarten in Bangkok, spending his early school years in New Delhi and the remainder of his childhood through to high school in Tokyo. His first work experience took him to Hong Kong before he made his way back to the continent of his birth for his hospitality studies. With his international upbringing Samir speaks German, English and French fluently and conversational Japanese. “Samir’s wealth of international experience, brand knowledge, and opening know-how will prove invaluable to Fusion as we continue to expand,” said Atilla Erda, Fusion’s chief operating officer. WHERE OTHERS FOLLOW, FUSION LEADS Since its launch in 2008, Fusion has become a leading innovator of wellness-inspired hotels and resorts and is now the only fully vertically integrated hospitality company in Southeast Asia. Under one roof, Fusion conceptualizes, designs, builds and manages beachside resorts and city hotels through its uniquely branded hospitality concepts. Fusion has opened six resorts and hotels in Vietnam so far, with a team now boasting more than 1,800 employees, including 300 spa specialists. At present, guests can experience Fusion’s original “all-spa inclusive” concept, and “breakfast anytime, anywhere” service, along with their inventive approach to the hospitality sector, in Da Nang, Cam Ranh, Ho Chi Minh City, Hue, and Phu Quoc. The Fusion catalog of brands currently includes: Fusion Resorts: Where original contemporary design meets traditional Vietnamese charm. Home to Fusion’s unique “all-spa inclusive” service, Fusion Resorts fully embrace the combination of ultimate wellness with a rejuvenating and down-to-earth lifestyle, all in natural, picturesque surroundings. Fusion Suites: As well-located city hotels in key business and tourism hubs, Fusion Suites redefines holistic living and brings a wellness-inspired vacation experience to today’s urban adventurers. As 21st-century city life continues to accelerate, Fusion Suites aim to bring balance and harmony to the urban jungle through healthy and nutritious food and drink options, daily spa journeys included in the room rate, and original and rejuvenating interior design. Fusion Originals: The individually branded Originals do not share a consistent style. Instead, Fusion tailors each hotel to evoke the life and times of a pioneering artist, inventor, scientist, or social leader. Originals aim to provide fun, fresh, and 100% unique hotel concept each and every time. Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion: Located 30km from the city of Hue, this expansive project is located at the source of the Thanh Tan geothermal spring and comprises two accommodation options: the five-star Alba Wellness Resort by Fusion and the three-star Thanh Tan Hot Springs by Fusion. With a series of thermal baths at its heart, the valley also offers various outdoor facilities including a water park, a family-friendly craft village and organic farm, and a thrilling highwire course and zip line. Ms Minh Thu Lam – Group Marketing Director: thu.lam@fusionresorts.com Ms Nguyen Hong Phuong – Communication Manager: phuong.nguyen@fusionresorts.com info@fusionresorts.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1219
__label__cc	0.674633	0.325367	Home Eat & Drink Reviews The Icing on Top The Icing on Top This November will be significant for business partners Amanda Garrison and Matt Mobley, owners of Sweet Tooth Bake Shop and Bistro in North Richland Hills. They are getting married! by FWTX staff The dynamic duo that owns Sweet Tooth Bake Shop and Bistro met while studying at Le Cordon Bleu in Dallas and went into business together last spring, reworking the former Garden Cottage Tea Room inside Golightly's Antiques and creating a pristine little French Bistro to showcase their talent. Amanda Garrison loves the place because the Tea Room was where she found her first job in the business and fell in love with baking. The red brick building sits serenely on the west side of busy Davis Boulevard on your way to Southlake. Upon entering Golightly's, you notice a cohesive charm, full of decorative items mixed with shabby chic finds and rooms to explore in every direction. If you follow your sweet tooth toward the back, you will land in a snug little lunch spot with mismatched tables and chairs and items that seem to have been curated from a Paris flea market. The black and white theme is set off by a bold robin's egg blue paint on the walls. Fresh floral arrangements on each table paired nicely with soft accordion music in the background. The revolving seasonal menu has a definite feminine touch. Although we all know that real men actually do eat quiche (it's a proven fact). There are also several sandwiches for the confident few fellas who come to dine here. The Turkey Panini has smoked turkey, Swiss cheese, artichoke hearts and sun-dried tomatoes and is finished with spinach and an avocado mayonnaise. The Club Sandwich has bolder flavors of peppered bacon, sharp cheddar, red onion and a pesto mayonnaise. The salads looked tempting as well. A classic Spinach combines fresh strawberries, Applewood smoked bacon, mushrooms, candied pecans and a white balsamic vinaigrette. There was also a BLT Salad, with everything but the bread, and a Field Green Salad, which I loved. Now back to the quiche. This version is unlike any I have ever tasted. Hard to imagine I know - quiche, blah, blah, blah. But trust me on this, because I don't rave about many things. It was not the typical dense, overly cheesy variety that you are used to. This one was more like a soufflé that melts in your mouth. It is what I imagine a cloud might taste like if it were savory and came with a delicate piecrust lining. The friend who joined me agreed saying, "It was perfectly satisfying." I ordered the Sampler ($10.95), which arrived on a white square plate broken up neatly into four quadrants. The quiche was great and worth the trip all on its own. But there was also a scoop of homemade chicken salad, with its smooth, almost pureed consistency and red grape halves, the field green salad I mentioned earlier, and a cup of tomato bisque soup. The soup was rich but not due to cream, just a wonderful acidic tomato flavor. It was garnished with a spoon of fresh basil pesto and a crouton. The salad was simple with cherub tomatoes, pickled red onion and a goat cheese crostini on top. The Champagne-Citrus Vinaigrette was light and didn't overpower the ingredients. There is a glass case in the dining room displaying the daily dessert choices. I have to admit that as the room began to fill up, I started feeling a little predatorial about the one I had my eye on, so we were not ashamed to pre-order our dessert. In this case, the early bird did get the worm. Our server was happy to oblige. She was channeling Audrey Hepburn's quirky elegance, (not Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's, more like Princess Ann in Roman Holiday), with her sleek bangs and black ankle pants. There is a banana caramel tart that pays homage to one of the favorite pies from the former Garden Tea Room. The cupcakes are delicious and range in flavors from the expected like Red Velvet, with a cream cheese icing to die for, to the very imaginative like the flavor du jour - Margarita. This one sports a fluorescent green color that gives way to a mouthwatering citrus punch. The flavor is so authentic that I am surprised they don't offer them with salt on the rim. Cupcakes run $1.25 for minis and $2.75 for standard sizes. Call ahead to place your bakery orders for the holidays. I also tried a creamy cheesecake draped in silken ganache. The sheen on the chocolate was just tantalizing. So, from Fort Worth, Texas magazine, we'd like to say cheers to Mr. and Mrs. Mobley. Here's hoping married life is just as sweet! fwDish Reviews Food and Drink	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1220
__label__cc	0.625363	0.374637	Could This Be The Redesigned 2011 MacBook Air? July 19, 2011 / Nir Schneider What looks like a totally new redesigned MacBook Air graphic has been recentely leaked in between the cracks of all the rumors that have been circling around in these recent weeks. M.I.C Gadget reports that it got a tip from a source at Foxconn, the manufacturing plant in China that produces Apple's desired gadgets, and they believe that it is the real deal. From the pic, it looks like Apple has redesigned the hinge and the external enclosure quite a bit from the current 2010 unibody MacBook Air. Further more, who ever leaked the image has also said the new 2011 MacBook Air is thinner and much lighter. It would be typical of Apple making the MacBook Air even thinner. The pic only reveals one side which shows an SD card slot and nothing else. Apple is expected to release an updated MacBook Air very soon, but a total redesign wasn't really anticipated. July 19, 2011 / Nir Schneider/ 2011 MacBook Air, Leaks, Rumors 2011, 2011 MacBook Air, M.I.C Gadget, Mac, New, Rumor, apple, leak, macbook air, redesign, unibody Nir Schneider Apple To Offer $100 iTunes Gift Cards In This Week's Back To School Promo Apple is said to be launching its Back to School promotion this week with a big surprised to those who came accustomed to this yearly promotion. Instead of giving away free iPods to students who purchase a qualifying Mac under the educational discount program, this year Apple will swap out the free iPod for a free $100 iTunes gift card. Typically Apple has initiated the Back to School promotion and offered a free iPod with a Mac purchase for students in a strategic move to clear out inventory of iPods and make room for new models which Apple later on announces. If Apple does indeed switch to offering $100 iTunes gift cards to its student in this years Back to School promotion, it will certainly be a letdown for those who planned on scoring a free 8GB iPod Touch 4G which retails for $229. Well, at least you can download $100 worth of music, movies and TV shows on your brand new Mac. Update on 2011-06-16 01:59 by Sean Donohoo Looks like it will be a $100 Apple Gift Card that you will be able to use on the App Store, Mac App Store, iTunes Music and Movies store and will be starting Tomorrow, June 16th 2011 and will be going on till September. Apple, Macs, iTunes 2011, Back to School, Back to School promotion, Mac purchase, apple, education discount, free, free $100 iTunes gift card, iPod, iPod Touch, student discount, students Icon for iCloud June 03, 2011 / Sean Donohoo Apple is hard at work in San Francisco's Moscone Center preparing for the Worldwide Developer Conference 2011 that will be held there next week. Apple Insider snapped some pics of them setting up the convention hall. Inside there is a huge banner that has Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud icons hung up. They usually do not show any of the banners till the day of the Keynote, but this one is public and easily seen. WWDC 2011 Starts on Monday. Let's see what Apple brings to us. June 03, 2011 / Sean Donohoo/ Apple, Lion, Mac, iOS, iOS 5 2011, WWDC, apple, iCloud, iOS, iOS5, icon, osx, osx lion Sean Donohoo Apple Releases OS X 10.6.7 Update, 2011 MacBook Pro Fixes March 21, 2011 / Nir Schneider Apple just released a new OS X 10.6.7 update for early 2011 MacBook Pro with fixes targeting graphics and external display compatibility. This should fix the freezing and display flickering issues some users reported since getting the early 2011 MacBook Pros. March 21, 2011 / Nir Schneider/ 10.6.7, 2011, OS X, apple, display, early, fix, freezing, graphics, macbook pro, stability, update OWC Now Offering 16GB Memory Upgrade Kit OWC recently announced new 16GB memory upgarde kit for Apple latest 2011 MacBooks consisting of two 8GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM. This of course, will cost you a whopping $1,600, yes you can buy a second MacBook for that kind of money. The maximum memory upgrade offered by Apple is 8GB of RAM and OWC also offers a 12GB upgrade kit consisting of one 8GB module and one 4GB module for $880. The kits are available now. Macbooks, Upgrades 12GB, 16GB DDR3, 2011, OWC, RAM, kit, macbook pro, memory upgrade, model Starbucks Revamps Their Logo For 2011 January 05, 2011 / Nir Schneider Coffee is a wonderful thing. I wouldn't consider myself as a Starbucks fan but coffee is coffee and Starbucks has announced it's changing their worldwide known logo to a more modern one and loses the writings to mark 40 years of success. You will start to see the new logo hitting your neighborhood stores and white cups this spring. Source Starbucks January 05, 2011 / Nir Schneider/ 2011, Coffee, New, Starbucks, logo iPad 2 Rumours/Predictions December 28, 2010 / James Shaw In this video from Gadgetmac we give you all the rumours and our predictions for the next generation iPad which is due to be released in April 2011. In the video we talk about specifications of cameras, FaceTime, Screen Resolution, USB Slots and SD Card Slots as well as much more! Enjoy the video and post below with your predictions for the next generation iPad. December 28, 2010 / James Shaw/ 2011, Rumors, iPad 2, predictions James Shaw	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1221
__label__wiki	0.811256	0.811256	Home A&E Author finds ‘Sanctuary’ among rescued animals in A&E, Books, Featured Jody Sims, shown in her at-home art studio in Knoxville, lived in San Diego for 38 years. (Courtesy Jody Sims) By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Book lovers often try to find the authors hidden in fictional works, guessing which characters most resemble their creators. Other books lay their authors bare, their raw experiences revealed with hope — for understanding, compassion, shared enlightenment. It is the latter that motived author, artist and former San Diego LGBT community member Jody Sims to write and illustrate “Sanctuary.” Her new book is a sequel to “Soul Provider,” a 2014 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in the grieving category. Sims has had much to grieve. After her life partner sustained a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident, Sims was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. Together, they struggled to heal, but recovery can be elusive and economically disastrous. “Soul Provider” reflects Sims’ emotional trauma during that period. Her paintings reproduced in the book are dark and sorrowful, a tone balanced by Sims’ text, which seeks insight and renewal. While both Sims and her partner progressed toward health, the economics of their situation required them to relocate. They settled in Knoxville, Tennessee, near Sims’ parents. But the sanctuary they sought was still out of reach. Sims parents died within five months of each other — and Tennessee is not generally known for its progressive culture. “You go to the grocery store and you see Confederate flags everywhere and it’s unsettling,” Sims said. “It’s like how it was maybe 30 years ago in California. So many people are still in the closet. It’s shocking.” One of the paintings featured in “Sanctuary,” inspired by rescued animals at The Gentle Barn in Tennessee (Courtesy Jody Sims) As challenging as their new situation was, Sims discovered a neighbor of sorts that posed an additional challenge: The Gentle Barn, a large and small animal rescue program that she and her partner became involved with. Through providing treatment and love to abused and unwanted animals, The Gentle Barn forced Sims to focus on the positive. The program helped everything from cows to chickens to pigs, including Dudley, a steer that lost a foot, and through the program, received a prosthesis. Sims discovered and painted messages she gleaned from the animals’eown will to survive and they became the nexus for “Sanctuary.” Another of the paintings featured in “Sanctuary” (Courtesy Jody Sims) In one illustration and accompanying text in “Sanctuary,” Sims urges the reader to have courage, like the rescued pig: “Be the light that helps others see.” In another, an elderly goat bears the message, “If you can be anything, be kind.” In yet another, “Love is the language all animals understand,” Sims represents her own family in a painting of two hens: “I want people to know that they are two females in love. This is my message about equality, diversity, acceptance.” Despite never having really taken to animals, the creatures in Sims’ artwork provided the inspiration she needed to continue her journey. “I was never an animal person, really. Now I think more than anything, I empathize with them,” she said. “It’s all about empathy. It’s about suffering. And this horrible way we treat each other in the world, animals are a way for us to awaken to what we’re doing and not doing, and how we could heal the world.” Sims’ paintings in “Sanctuary” illustrate the healing she has experienced. The images have a decidedly lighter tone than those in her first book. Some are playful — even joyful — and the text reflects the animals’ stories and contentment they find in the nurturing environment of the rescue program. The book also reflects Sims’ new state of mind, some resolution found in a perfectly imperfect life. “Looking back, I can see that I’ve come far. I have!” she said. “The biggest thing is I’ve gotten in touch with my art. I think of myself as an artist now. I really speak through my art in these books. But I kid that I have to have some angst in my life in order to be an artist. I have many moments of happiness though, like when I’m painting, I’m happy. But I’m not the same person I was five years ago. Being a cancer survivor, sometimes it’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop. So there’s this little bit of a cloud, at least for me.” While there might always be a cloud or two, Sims’ story is one of self-healing and compassion, inspired by the rescued animals found in her paintings. The book’s message is simple and clear: Sims hopes that her readers will understand these creatures represent all sentient beings, how we treat one another, and ideally what we could become. “I see myself in these animals — in all animals — our vulnerability,” Sims said. “These animals are me. We are all seeking love, compassion and sanctuary.” From the dark stages of grief for what Sims and her partner lost, emerges a lighter-hearted quest for the future in “Sanctuary.” After all, if a three-footed steer can survive, find love, and thrive, why not the rest of us? Learn more about Sims and her books jodysims.com or follow her on facebook.com by searching for Jody Sims: Artist, Author, Survivor. To learn more about Dudley and The Gentle Barn, visit bit.ly/2hNB6U5. The author with Dudley, one of her inspirations for the book. (Courtesy Jody Sims) To read Gay San Diego’s 2014 story about Jody’s first book, “Soul Survivor: Conversations with my cat,” visit bit.ly/2hldMQF. — Kit-Bacon Gressitt formerly wrote for the North County Times. She currently writes commentary and essays on her blog ExcuseMeImWriting.com and is a founding editor of WritersResist.com. She also hosts Fallbrook’s monthly Writers Read authors series and open mic. Reach her at kbgressitt@gmail.com. Gay News Briefs: Nov. 24 – Dec. 7, 2017	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1223
__label__cc	0.579688	0.420312	Anti-opencast campaigners speak out at abuse by police and bailiffs News, May 1st Today, members of the now evicted ‘Pont Valley Protection Camp’, have reported ‘sexist’ and ‘abusive’ behaviour, threats of violence and a ‘dangerous lack of safety awareness’ on the part of police and enforcement officers (‘bailiffs’) charged with conducting the eviction of the camp on Thursday and Friday last week. The camp was a protest against Banks Groups’ proposed opencast mine between Dipton and Leadgate. During the eviction 7 protectors were arrested and members of the public were ordered to leave the area. The eviction was conducted by enforcement officers, supported by the police, in order to allow Banks Group to extract coal from the Pont Valley. One of the authors of the report claims to have been dragged out of the site by a digger which was attached to a chain that enforcement officers wrapped around the ‘lock on tube’ that was around her arm, while watched over by police officers. They said: “This was really scary and dangerous. My arm was in a lot of pain and I was just hoping that the metal tube wouldn’t move too quickly as it would break my arm. They wrapped a chain around the tube on my arm and attached the end of the chain to a digger. They then proceeded to pull on the chain to lift the lock on with my arm inside. At this point, the officers had acknowledged that the chain could possibly slip off from the tube and cut through my shoulder with the metal tube falling back and breaking my arm. But they didn’t seem to care enough to stop.” “As they lifted the tube I also had to slowly move with it in order not to break my arm. The officers had then planned to pull up the tube with my arm in it and drag the whole thing on the digger to the police station and then to the hospital to cut open the tube and free my arm. This whole experience was accompanied by the mocking, bullying and cruelty of the officers watching me cry in pain. They used unnecessary violence and they seemed to want to get their work done as early as possible regardless of whether or not what they were doing was dangerous.” The report also details that women were referred to as “butch dykes” and that enforcement officers discussed them in an overtly sexual manner. Another person reported that enforcement officers threatened to “jump on top of me and break my arm in the lock-on and drag me out”. Others in tunnels report that they were threatened with the use of diggers to remove them. A local resident said “Although the campaigners understood the positions they put themselves in, we were all shocked by the lack of safety concerns and the abusive behaviour on the part of police and enforcement officers. All events over the course of the eviction were watched over by the police with little to no reaction or intervention. It is Banks Group who is ultimately responsible for unsafe and abusive behaviour since it was the party who stood to gain from a swift end to the camp in order to uphold its 3rd June deadline for starting soil stripping work.” Now campaigners are calling for further actions to be taken to disrupt the plans of Banks Group and stop open cast mining in the Pont Valley, which includes campaigning for the protection of great crested newts, and starting a new camp in a nearby location. Photo: Pont Valley Protection Camp twitter Activismenvironmentalismpolice repressionPont Valley	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1225
__label__wiki	0.619144	0.619144	Twitter tools on the rise Chafing from Twitter's user interface? A veritable galaxy of tools can help better manage your tweets. As we pointed out in a recent blog entry, using Twitter from the Twitter Web site itself is quite easy. But Twitter power-users soon chafe at this simplicity — there are loads more features that could be added to make this form of communication even easier. Fortunately, Twitter publishes the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the service, which allows third-party developers to write applications that feed data to and extract data from Twitter. At the very least, using one of these clients will eliminate the need to keep a browser window open to keep track of your Twitter feeds. Plus, many of these clients download Tweets automatically, so you don't even have to hit the refresh button on the browser. While the number of ways that users interact with Twitter are many and varied, here are a few of the most popular clients: TweetDeck seems to be one of the most popular third-party tools for following Twitter. It is a free, downloadable application, based on Adobe's AIR platform, that can work on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh and even, with some twiddling, Linux systems. TweetDeck offers the ability to view messages, replies and direct messages all on a single screen. It has a Web address-shortening service (to overlay a shorter address on top of those humongous URLs you wish to share). It's a sleek interface, though it is a bit of a memory hog, at least in its beta form — our copy takes up more than 100 megabytes in memory. Twhirl is another AIR-based client, one that allows you to watch feeds from multiple social networks, including Twitter, identi.ca, private instantiations of Laconi.ca, and FriendFeed. Each feed gets its own box, which you can expand or minimize. It also offers pop-alerts for new updates. The software also makes retweeting (or posting someone else's Tweet verbatim) pretty easy. Seesmic Desktop is yet another Adobe AIR-based client (the popularity of Twitter has really helped Adobe's efforts of building an AIR user base). With this client, you can pull in feeds from multiple accounts under one view. Offered by the same company that built Twhirl, this client also allows you to separate the peers you follow into different interest groups. You can have multiple feed columns running on the client and move them around in the way that makes most sense. This software still in the prerelease stage, but you can get a free copy, for either Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows, if you provide an e-mail address. Nambu offers a free native Macintosh client for Twitter (as well as for another social-networking services). It features the brushed-metal look-and-feel of Apple software, comes with extras such as the ability to see the full target Web address of a shortened URL, and the ability to separate followers into groups. You can also save a list of persistent searches and use the live keyword filter if you only want to see Tweets with selected keywords. Splittweet is actually a Web page interface for managing multiple accounts. The service could also be good for getting Twitter updates more quickly: The Twitter service itself limits the number of calls an external desktop client can make each hour to get the latest messages (to about 70 an hour when the traffic load is not stressing the system). The Splittweet service has no quota, Splittweet's operators claim. HootSuite is another Web interface, though one specifically for posting updates, rather than viewing the updates of others. You can post a single message to multiple accounts. You can stage Tweets to be posted at a particular time. The site also offers a browser toolbar icon for most browsers that can send to your Twitter account the link to the current page on the browser. It can also reveal how many times a Tweet has been ReTweeted. Digsby moves the Twitter into a familiar realm of Instant Messaging (IM). This client looks very much like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), or similar IM clients. Users can get their Twitter feeds along side those from their AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber accounts, as well as from other social-networking sites such as Facebook. Twittering can also be done on-the-go, through your mobile phone. Twitter itself offers the ability to post messages from your cellular phone, via the Short Messaging Service (SMS). Keep in mind that the normal cell phone fees for messaging apply. In addition to this basic service, a number of Twitter clients are also available for smart phones, and they possess most of the features offered by desktop clients. For the iPhone, there is PocketTweets and Twitterific. BlackBerry users should check out TwitterBerry, as well as the TinyTwitter client, which can work on BlackBerry or any other Java-enabled phone. Please keep in mind that, because of Twitter's open API, many other Web 2.0 styled social-networking tools can either display Twitter updates and/or feed to Twitter updates. Microblogging sites that feature crossposting include Identica, FriendFinder and Ping.fm. Google offers a Twitter gadget that can be added onto a user's customized Google search page. Twitter offers an application that allows Facebook users to post their Twitter updates on their Facebook pages. MySpace has a similar client for its own site. The Web address shortening service Bit.Ly offers the option of posting a newly shortened address directly to Twitter. And believe it or not, there are even more clients and extenders for Twitter. For a full list, go to the Twitter App page. NIST outlines principles of federated community clouds Is banning surveillance tech worth it? Getting from cloud first to cloud smart 5G: Cheers and cautions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1232
__label__cc	0.734922	0.265078	Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland’ Trailer Released Online 10/10/2014 · by Geek Eclectic Productions · in Articles. · At New York City Comic Con, Disney released the first teaser trailer for Tomorrowland. The film stars George Clooney and Britt Robertson, and is directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles) from screenplay he co-wrote with Damon Lindelof (Lost). From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird’s “Tomorrowland,” a riveting mystery adventure starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever. I like what i’m seeing from the trailer so far. I like that there is a little mystery and wonder. I’m sure there will be another trailer which will further explain Tomorrowland in detail, just like every other trailer that gives away the plot of a movie. Fun Fact: Walt Disney Pictures originally announced the film under the working title 1952 until it was renamed, sharing its name with the futuristic themed land found at various Disney theme parks. The film is scheduled to be released on May 22, 2015 in theatres and IMAX, Tags: 2015, Britt Robertson, Disney, George Clooney, movies, New York Comic-Con, NYCC, sizzle, Tomorrowland, trailer ← Google Maps Adds Liwa Oasis and Desert to Street View by Using Camels to Capture Photos NYCC ’14: New Trailer For BIG HERO 6 →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1233
__label__wiki	0.740537	0.740537	How selfies could help diagnose the rare genetic disease DiGeorge syndrome Obesity can be triggered by more than 70 ‘rare’ genetic syndromes Are we ready, without professional help, to decide what to do when our genes tell us we have a potential disorder? Gene identified for disease resistance in bananas, may stave off ‘bananapocalypse’ Viewpoint: GlaxoSmithKline abandonment of rare disease gene-therapy drug program because it’s not a money generator hurts children Maria Kefalis \| STAT \| March 14, 2018 When GlaxoSmithKline, long a global leader in the effort to pioneer gene replacement therapies, announced it would halt its drug development program for rare diseases, I understood that the decision made practical sense for the company. But as the mother of a child with a rare disease — one for which GSK was developing a highly effective treatment — I was devastated. My daughter, Cal, was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) at age 2. Experts in the field called the results from GSK’s clinical trials of gene therapy for MLD “stunning.” Children who should have been unable to talk or walk, who needed feeding tubes and hospice care, were instead attending school and riding bicycles and living remarkably normal lives. [CEO Emma] Walmsley wants the company to focus on “real winners” — medicines that generate substantial returns. She’s correct in her assessment that GSK would have had trouble making money on gene therapy for MLD. I wish that Walmsley had the chance to meet children with MLD whose lives were saved and forever changed by the gene therapy her company developed. Had that happened, I suspect she would have felt differently about research she did not believe was a “winner.” She would have realized that GSK had something that was far better: a miracle. Read full, original post: Rare disease treatment may not be a ‘real winner.’ But it’s definitely a miracle maker	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1235
__label__cc	0.536238	0.463762	When a DNA test says you aren’t exactly who you think you are When a DNA test uncovers an ugly family secret DNA spit test for prostate cancer risk? Can a DNA test prove you are black? This man is suing the government to find out DNA test for your dog? Here’s what your vet thinks about it Sarah Zhang \| Atlantic \| November 27, 2018 Image credit: Embark [T]he direct-to-dog-owner market has become bigger and more crowded: Embark, DNA My Dog, and Paw Print Genetics are just a few of [the] companies eager to ship a cheek swab straight to your door. If the story sounds familiar, it’s because dog-DNA companies are following in the footsteps of 23andMe. The various dog tests offer breed mixes and, in some cases, risk estimates for more than 150 health conditions. And now, to bring it full circle, dog owners are going to vets with DNA reports in hand. “Veterinarians, we’re not really educated in clinical genetics, because it’s a brand-new field,” says Lisa Moses, a veterinarian in Boston. Moses was especially concerned about the health-risk information. Doctors can refer human patients to genetic counselors, she points out, but veterinarians don’t have genetic counselors on call for dogs. Related article: DNA testing uncovers fertility doctor’s decades-old dark secret A typical vet isn’t likely to be familiar with the details of hundreds of mutations. And in fact, [Kari] Ekenstedt admitted that even she, a trained canine geneticist, isn’t. When I asked about a specific trait called alanine-aminotransferase activity, sometimes tested for in dog DNA, she said she wasn’t so familiar with it. “Even an expert like me can’t keep up,” she says. “No regular veterinarian has time to keep up with it. Ultimately, I think we need to have more specialists who are more visible for regular vets to reach out to.” Read full, original post: What Vets Think of ‘23andMe for Dogs’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1236
__label__wiki	0.668928	0.668928	Mission to the Cities Urban Centers of Influence A Pioneer Life for Me Reaching the Unreached Taking Church Planting to the Cities Meet a Global Mission Pioneer Reaching India’s New Middle Class Frontline and Picture Story Many prayers have been offered in planes landing in some of the remote mountain airstrips in PNG, which test the most seasoned of pilots. How inspiring it was earlier this year to help celebrate 50 years of Adventist aviation in Papua New Guinea (PNG). As a child in New Zealand and Australia, I would pray with my family every day for the missionaries in the islands of the south pacific. At camp meetings I would sit on the edge of my seat listening to amazing stories from “real-life” missionaries Len Barnard and Colin Winch. These men pioneered Adventist aviation in PNG, and with their small planes, they were able to quickly take the gospel to villages it would have taken weeks to reach on foot. Now, many years later, I was privileged once again to meet these men of God in the very country where their dedicated service has brought help and healing to thousands. In 1962, Pastor Barnard, his friend and filmmaker Eric Were, and 35 other men carrying equipment, medicine, and other supplies, took a 40-day trek into Karimui—the site of tree-dwelling cannibals. “The filth, degradation and their dejected stare of hopelessness defied description,” he later wrote. In his book Banish the Night, he describes the visit: “Besides the ever-present mud and rotting rubbish we smelled the sickly sweet odor of human flesh of the dead drying in the sun.” Talk about unentered areas! Today mission planes make the trip in 30 minutes and thousands of believers find hope and joy in their Christian faith. Of course, aviation is not without its risks. Many prayers have been offered in planes landing in some of the remote mountain airstrips in PNG, which test the most seasoned of pilots. Unexpected equipment failures, bad weather—any number of variables add to the risks of flying. It was a pleasure to meet Mary Lane Anderson at the celebrations. She and her husband, Les, served as American missionaries in PNG, and Les headed up Adventist Aviation Services. Tragically, on May 3, 2002, his plane crashed about 20 miles south of Goroka on a routine flight from Karimui—the place that Pastor Barnard trekked to so many years before. Despite this catastrophe and other bitter experiences, Mrs. Anderson returned for the 50th year commemorations, during which she sang a beautiful song of praise. When I encounter people such as Mrs. Anderson and Pastors Barnard and Winch, I am humbled—humbled by their sacrifice, humbled by their rich spiritual walk with God, and humbled by the impact of their lives in mission service. Thank you for your continuing prayerful support of Global Mission around the world. At times the challenge looks too great, the obstacles too tall, and our resources too little. But we serve a great God who longs to see the good news of salvation spread to all corners of the globe. Gary Krause Director, Office of Adventist Mission P.S. Every dollar given to Global Mission goes directly to the front lines of mission. Donate Online Sign Up for Mission Stories Reaching India’s New Middle Class India has become one of the global leaders in technology. With their new wealth, many of these young people are asking questions about life’s purpose and meaning. A Pioneer Life for Me A Global Mission pioneer in Botswana tells his story. Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Contact AdventistMission.org is an official website of the Seventh-day Adventist world church Sitemap Trademark and Logo Usage Legal Notice Copyright © 2019, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists \| All Rights Reserved. • +1-301-680-6005	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1242
__label__cc	0.671874	0.328126	Gmail Adds Folders by Improving Label Management For those who wondered "when do we get folders in Gmail?", there's a good news: even though Gmail still uses labels, you can treat them like folders starting from today. Gmail added a "move to" drop-down that combines two actions that were difficult to find or difficult to understand: labeling and archiving. Instead of clicking on "More actions", selecting a label and then archiving the message, you can now click on "Move to" and select a label. Those who like keyboard shortcuts will be happy to know that the "Move to" drop-down can be selected by typing "v" and you can type the first letters of a label to select it. A similar functionality is available for the new "Labels" drop-down, but you can select multiple labels. So what's the difference between the two drop-downs? "Move to" applies the label selected from the list and removes the label of the current view. Keyboard shortcut: v. "Labels" lets you add or remove labels from the list in a single action. You no longer have to repeatedly click on "More actions" to add multiple labels. Keyboard shortcut: l. "One of the features that makes Gmail different is its use of labels instead of folders. Sure, labels can serve pretty much the same purpose -- they can help organize mail or flag messages for follow up. And unlike with folders, messages can have several labels, so if I get an email from a friend about a trip we're taking together, I can add both a "Friends" and a "Travel" label to it. But it's not always obvious how to use labels, especially for people who are new to Gmail and used to using folders, and it hasn't helped that some common tasks have been more complicated than they should be," mentions Gmail's blog. If you don't see the new features in your Gmail account, they'll be enabled in the next few hours. While the new functionality is a huge improvement, the design refresh is a step backwards. "Gmail just changed its archive, report, move icons from their fun bubbly shape to rectangular attached uglies," commented Garry S., a reader of this blog. { Thanks, gxg and Garry. } Worth view February 3, 2009 at 2:49 PM Excellent!! very excited to see this Dan Neal February 3, 2009 at 3:08 PM I like the new look buttons. Much cleaner, I think it's a step forward. (They only looked 'bubbly' on a Mac) mayvelous February 3, 2009 at 3:18 PM Alright!! I've been waiting for this folder feature, labels are good but still prefer folders. Thanking the team. :) Juliana Peña February 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM That's great, but I still want nested labels ala Folders4Gmail. It's great when I'm on Firefox, but as soon as I change browsers or use another computer, my nested labels are gone. Please, Google, add this! With over two dozen labels, the only way to organize them neatly is nesting them. I'm not saying just turn them into folders. I love labels, and their ability to label a message with more than one, unlike folders. All I want are labels that can be organized in a hierarchy. Zatlite February 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM I think it is a step backwards and would unnecessarily create confusion with people who don't read the manual. Hate the fact that you're likely to lose the multiple labels you applied to a conversation if you use 'Move to'. If 'Move To' option acted like a top folder and the labels stay, that would have been better IMHO. My whole beef is not being able to nest. That's why I like folders. I don't need 500 different labels in my face to sort out all my subcategories. The change in button look & feel is the result of using css attributes for buttons instead of just showing whatever the default UI from the OS. It provides a consistent look & feel across platforms, and as far as I can tell cleans up the UI a bit. Labels are awsome and I prefer them to folder but I am glad gmail incorporates both features for its users. Daniel February 3, 2009 at 3:59 PM @Juliana Peña You mean just like Google Docs is now, even though they look like folders, they're really Labels. There's always been a demand for folders simply because of the language Google choose to use. Had they simply called these Folders instead of Labels in the first place people would have seen the versatility of being able put one email in several folders. Now, we have a cluttered toolbar. I would have preferred a setting or perhaps a Lab which allowed us to exclude other tags when changing labels. Now we have a cluttered toolbar. I'm sure Google has it's reasons. The buttons look like an Apple design. I preferred the old button looks. These don't quite fit the Gmail look. Edu February 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM Clearly the next Labs feature should be: Don't show the "Move to" button. Amau96 February 3, 2009 at 5:18 PM These don't quite fit the Gmail look. +1 Federico Cáceres February 3, 2009 at 5:32 PM "Clearly the next Labs feature should be: Don't show the "Move to" button." +1 (; But I do like the new buttons. Hey, isn't there a Windows XP theme that resembles Google's simplistic GUIs like the ones in Talk and Chrome? That would be great! Vincent Volaju February 3, 2009 at 5:56 PM Some people might not see this feature until they disable the Offline mode. BTW, i would like to have a 'categories' feature... so, under the 'Work' category, i can put mails labeled as whatever i want. Labels don't quite let me organize everything, because (for example) if i receive lot of mails whit Ecological-related contents, i have to labeled them as just one thing (like 'ecological'), i mean, i can't have 300 labels, it's not organized... so, if there would be CATEGORIES, i could say that all this mails correspond to ecological related contents, and there is no mess in my labels list. So, it ¡s like a 'Sub Labels' thing, not folders. That, as an OFFICIAL feature, at least from Labs, would be perfect!! Michael Leggett February 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM Using "Move to" does not "remove all labels." It removes the label for the current view. If I am in the Inbox, it will remove it from the inbox. If I am in the label "Tips" it will only remove that label. popein February 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM I think the new buttons are missing some small icon or color to make it easy to differentiate them. Doesn't have to be a big thing, but they are now so uniform you have to stop and think which one... a touch of color or an icon would make them much easier to spot! Siddy February 3, 2009 at 6:35 PM I see it only in my Googpe Apps A/c but not in the gmail a/c. Chris S. February 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM Anybody notice the "Create an Event" in the More actions button? Seems to work only in messages... @Michael Leggett I dunno, this feature is not available to me yet but commenting on the original report's text. >> "Move to" applies the label selected from the list and removes all the other labels, >> including the "inbox" label. Keyboard shortcut: v. If you're correct, then great! Schultzter February 3, 2009 at 7:33 PM I seem to remember when GMail rolled out IMAP support they didn't do labels properly there (i.e.: they implemented them as folders). So is this just Google's way of avoiding to fix the IMAP implementation issue: call 'labels' a 'folder' and then say "see, we did IMAP properly!" I love labels when I first used them in Opera M3 and then when I came to GMail. They're the right way to go and I wish Google would improve on labels rather try to accommodate people who still print out e-mails and file them in a drawer. StareClips.com February 3, 2009 at 8:14 PM Like others have said, I think the next step to complete the cycle is to make it so that labels can be nested. I know this is counter-intuitive to the purpose of labels, but it wouldn't be too far off from the way "labels" work in Google Docs (they use label icons, and are nested like folders, but are technically labels... the confusing part is that you can have two different sub-folders called the same thing in different parts of the hierarchy, and when you view the doc, you see two labels with the same name and cannot differentiate between the two.) Honestly, though, I prefer labels... I'm just thinking outside of the box to accommodate those who just can't wrap their heads around labels or cannot unwrap their heads from around folders. With the shortcut to go to a label using auto-complete, one wouldn't technically need to use the label list anymore. And if you really do want to have some labels available for a quick click, you can just use the Quick Link option to create your favorites. Now if only the Quick Link add-on would let you sort your links or modify existing ones. zkarj February 3, 2009 at 11:17 PM I have mixed feelings about this. It ultimately adds no new functionality to GMail. Just some shortcuts. To you folder fans who are welcoming this "change", all I can say is we (label-fans) told you you could do it anyway! And I still say I have never met anybody at work who files their mail in more than one folder who can reliably find them again - a problem labels fixes (ok, ok, technically multiple folder copies could as well, but that's really labels anyway). Norman February 4, 2009 at 12:42 AM Why? What good is that for? Labels were a great improvement. IMHO there should be a labeled file system on my computer, too. I already got confused and killed all but one label from a conversation by accident. Many of my mails get labeled by a filter before they arrive in my inbox. What's the sense of "moving" them? I never got the point why anyone would miss folders. Labels are just more flexibel: If you tag every message with precisely one label, that's just the same as folders, isnt it? I wish I could at least hide this MOVE button.... This is so frustrating, especially since I loved Gmail for its clean workspace. Sass February 4, 2009 at 2:06 AM That's all well and good, I don't mind the new drop downs, it streamlines some standard functionality, but where has the search the web button gone?!?!? I use that all the time... Alex Chitu February 4, 2009 at 2:21 AM I edited the post to correct a mistake related to "moving" messages. If you select "move to" only the label of the current view is removed. E.g.: Let's say you open your Gmail's inbox. If a message from your inbox is labeled as Friends and you move it to Party, only the "inbox" label will be removed. The message will have the labels "Friends" and "Party". Robert February 4, 2009 at 3:08 AM For some reason, Gmail always tries to hide the fact that "Inbox" is just another label. For example, if a message has the label "Inbox", you cannot see that label next to that message in the Inbox view. (In contrast, a label "Friends" is also visible in the "Friends" view.) Unfortunately, they continue this approach with the new "labels" menu: you cannot simply select or deselect the label "Inbox", but you still have to use the actions "Archive" and "Move to Inbox". The last one has become even more confusing: "Move to Inbox" actually keeps the label of the current view (as before), while the new "Move to [label]" removes it. They change the way labels are show!!?? If I am in label "Friends" all messages will have name "Friends" before subject! This was not the case before, only other labels were show(not the one I am viewing. There is no since to show this label, because is it obvious that all mail in label "Friends" (or any other) have that label. Anyone know is this only bug introduced with this change, or it's new and annoying feature!?!! Matt Hill February 4, 2009 at 5:01 AM I love these new additions, they make using labels much more efficient. There's a couple of usability issues though which I've detailed on my own blog entry: selecting any checkbox removes the "Create" and "Manage" buttons and puts "Apply" in it's place -- a bit confusing if you need to add a new label. And clicking a label has a different effect from clicking a checkbox. Not cool. More here: http://www.friskdesign.com/2009/02/04/gmail-improved-label-functions/ The only thing missing in gmail is an alarm function to do follow ups on specific emails What is the point in there being a 'move to' menu? It's just clutter. Adding one label to a conversation was exactly the same as 'moving' it into an imaginary folder - this change to me is very silly and just clutters the toolbar. And why is there a 'Move to Spam' and 'Trash/Bin' option? We already have 'Report Spam' and 'Delete' buttons! Where has the 'Search the web' button? Why were these features not tested as labs before they were put into place? I do like being able to 'tick' multiple labels at the same time form the 'Labels' menu, but why do I then need to tick 'Apply' to make it happen? As I tick a label, it should be labelled. If I'd ticked it my accident, it would be trivial to click it again to untick it, rather than forcing us to go to the bottom and tick apply unnecessarily. The 'Move to' menu should be hidden by default, available only as labs. I couldnt care less about the folders or what they do to them but where is my search the web button...grrrrrrrrrr I work from within my gmail and losing that feature willreally make life difficult is there a way to permently set your gmail on old version instead of having tochange it each time?? cause i can't stand thenew version. So its been a day with the new buttons/menus, and I really don't like. Question for google can we have a setting to put it back the way it was. Or maybe better yet make the buttons configurable. heck I'm just going to spend the weekend coding my own fix. Having both buttons is pointless. Labelers will label & archive and folder folks will much prefer this move functionality. No this does not mean that Gmail now has folders!! I'm sick to death of people claiming that labels are folders. NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! Only people who just dick around with email (i.e., use facebook and texting as their primary mode of communication) think that they are equivalent. Folder nesting (i.e., hierarchical folders/tags), as pointed out above, is one VERY important aspect missing from this system. Equally missing is drag and drop moving, something that makes it far easier to keep an inbox clean. But perhaps the most important difference is that you automatically get "tagged" by the entire hierarchy of folders. Dragging something into /Work/Clients/AT&T/ProjectPoop automatically makes this message "searchable" from any point within the hierarchy. ALSO, it allows a distinction between /Work/Clients/AT&T and /Home/Bills/AT&T (with simple tags, "AT&T" would be applied to both and really they mean two different things). Don't reply about the ways you CAN use tags to achieve the same thing. Yes, you probably can. With 27 effing clicks. Folders allow this to be accomplished with one drag and drop. I honestly don't understand why having this as an option is so damned evil sounding to Google that they can't give it a shot. Give us a labs interface with real nested tags and drag and drop. Waldir February 5, 2009 at 2:34 AM I don't care, really, the change doesn't bother me much, but OMG THEY REMOVED THE "SEARCH THE WEB" BUTTON!!! (I realise other people have pointed this out, I'm adding my voice to the protest) I bet that your browser already has a search box, so the web search box from Gmail wasn't necessary. Yes, but I use Chrome, being a bit of a google fanboy, and the only search box I have is the omnibox. So I have to add a new tab and then search. It was so much easier to use the gmail search box and have the option of searching for the term within your mail and also then on the web, opening a new tab, in one easy click. It's one of the things that I used most. BRING BACK THE "SEARCH THE WEB"!!!! 'Give us a labs interface with real nested tags and drag and drop' +1 This has got to be the number one request of power gmail users for the last few years. Surely it can't be that hard to make it an optional, if not the default, behavior. gxg February 7, 2009 at 2:52 AM @ Anonymous said on February 4, 2009 4:46 AM PDT: They change the way labels are show!!?? [...] You're right, now all label views show also the 'primary' label for each message, and this happened only after this change. I hope they change it back, because it takes up a lot of unnecessary space. I have discovered another annoyance with the "Label" menu: when you receive new messages in a conversation you already labelled, you cannot apply the existing labels again, as they show up as checked in the menu. You must first deselect the label, apply, and select it again. This is much more time-consuming than before. Beside this, I generally like what they changed, especially the "Move to" feature, that makes relocating messages much quicker than before. @gxg: "I have discovered another annoyance with the "Label" menu: when you receive new messages in a conversation you already labeled, you cannot apply the existing labels again, as they show up as checked in the menu." Labels are applied for each thread, not for each message. Why would you apply a label that is already associated with a thread? I'm afraid I don't understand. MAMBOLERO February 7, 2009 at 7:24 AM It is no small irony that by adding "Move" (and a semblance of folders for newbies who don't quite grasp the modus operandi of Gmail), Google is remodelling Gmail to resemble more strongly the old-school traditional webmail destinations like Yahoo, et al., which they have been eclipsing with their once-fresh design, yet in the same motion, they subtracted the "Search the Web" option which is a function other webmail sites emulate because of its brilliant and expedient usefulness. You can let Google know just how important the "Search the Web" option is to you, how you used it, and how unhappy you are about its removal via the threads below. Remember, BE SPECIFIC, the more details, the better: http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topics/bring_back_the_gmail_search_the_web_option (GetSatisfaction.com) http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Settings-en/t/5d0a9b43c47ff225?hl=en (Vanished Search Button) http://www.google.com/url?url=http://groups.google.com/g/80f7faa1/t/5424b4fa7bfee7e9/d/242a5601aaa3ddf%3Fq%3DGMAIL%2BSEARCH%2BOPTIONS%230242a5601aaa3ddf&ei=pKqJSZiQFYbg-gGL9eSuDA&sa=t&ct=res&cd=5&source=groups&usg=AFQjCNGD9uWVb6z8QAdqLjubUq8jBnkD0A (Search Web Option Missing) http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature/browse_thread/thread/6a665783cd040dc6 (Please Bring Back the Search the Web Button!) Also, you can file a suggestion with Google via this link: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs (Suggestions > I have another idea > Other > Bring Back the "Search the Web" option!) {When you arrive at the Suggestions page, scroll to the bottom of the page where it says "I have another idea," choose "Other" from the drop-down list, and on the first line of your entry entitle it "Bring back the "Search the Web" option!" Some IE users may receive a Security Certificate error when confirming their suggestion; if so, click continue to web page, and Google will thank you for your suggestion via an HTTPS page.} Also worth noting on this topic: Google Gone Bonkers, Scott Wilson CIO blog @ http://www.cio-weblog.com/50226711/google_gone_bonkers.php Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web, Steve Rubel blog @ www.micropersuasion.com/2008/11/making-gmail-yo.html At the rate Google is adding "improvements" to Gmail, I won't be at all surprised if the "Search the Web" option is restored as a new-&-improved Lab. :-O @Alex Chitu: "Labels are applied for each thread, not for each message." Well, it's more complicated than that... When you label a thread in Gmail, all his messages are labelled simultaneously. But if you send/receive new messages after labelling, they don't have the old label, even though visually they appear in that label view (because of the older labelled messages). This can be clearly seen when you access Gmail through IMAP. The new messages do not appear in the IMAP-folder corresponding to the Gmail label. Another way to notice this (in the web interface) is the date/time the thread has in the label view vs. inbox/sent. The latest messages update the time in inbox, but not in the label view, where the time shown is equal to the time of the latest labelled massage. Call me a little obsessed, but I like all my messages classified in labels. :) Mike February 8, 2009 at 8:39 AM I think this "move to" function is a good start, even though it's not something I'm inclined to use personally. (I work with labels now, though I hope to see nested labels.) The reason I think "move to" is useful is that it broadens the number of ways to harness Gmail. Certainly some Gmail Faithful might be appalled by the blasephemous stain on Gmail's pure label functionality with the inclusion of folder-like "move to," but it's rarely a good thing to restrict functionality and tell users (in so many words) "go away if you don't Believe in the Old Ways." "Move to" is a good start, a baby step, for new users to come to terms with Gmail's Labels. The old diehards are not obligated to use it but folder addicts have an aid to adapting to Gmail. Wedding Joe February 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM No search the web button?!? Ahhhhh!!! Please, make it come back! kim-yoong February 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM Can we have a "Go to" in addition to "Move to" and "Label", It should have the auto complete just like "Move to" and "Label". This will help to go to the specific label to look for old archived email. @kim: Go to Gmail Labs and enable "Go to label". You guys really need to stop being stubborn and implement folders, at least on the appearance level. I don't care how you store things behind the scenes, if saving space is really one of your chief concerns. I am a neat freak, and labels do not provide me with proper hierarchical support. Nested labels will not achieve this, as I do not care to see multiple labels on any message, EVER. For the elitists that think labels can perfectly replicate anything a folder can, you are flat out wrong and you would greatly benefit from a basic course on logic. Thank you sirs. a DBA (whose butt hurts from using labels when he wishes he could have the niceness of folders) Barry February 27, 2009 at 9:07 AM I think all this complaining about folders vs. labels is ridiculous. Just think of labels as folders, then add the magical ability for an email to be in two or more folders at the same time. Call them 'categories' if you want, as some other posted did above. It's not what you have, it's how you think about it. jeffrey April 9, 2009 at 10:55 AM I like to filter my messages as they come in so i can keep my inbox clean and decide if i want to read them... so i would usually filter alerts/updates.etc... but with this label functionality i can just create a filter to label... can we allow moving as part of the filter? Alex Chitu April 9, 2009 at 11:06 AM @Jeffrey: The first option you can select when you create a filter is "Skip the Inbox (Archive it)". move to doesn't "move" by deleting the old label... it just adds the new label and archives the mail. check your archive and you'll find both labels attached to the mail Iam still trying to get labels but i cant understand them yet. I still think that folders are the best solution. Here is what i can't do: I just want to see the unlabeled mails of my inbox without the labelled emails, and i dont want to archive them manually, i want to use a filter or something to delete them from my main screen, but not from my mail. Labels really suck, if it doesn't, why did Goggle make folders for Goggle docs?, the answer is because is more intuitive. Alex Chitu May 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM Not true. Google Docs has always used labels, even if they now look like folders. Drag a document to two or more "folders" to see that they're actually labels. Instead of all these steps (I can't imagine the code behind this) why don't you just create folders and shut everyone up? +1 for the "folders4gmail" type nesting. It's brilliant and it satisfies both sides of the folders vs. labels debate. People could either use it or not. I think the ability to apply two labels to a thread is an excellent and important feature. Let's face it, some emails fall under two categories. However, the long list of labels, even with the labels hidden, can become unruly. For example, I have projects that repeat yearly. I keep the previous year's emails and files for reference. My label system is: Year\Client\Month\Project Without nesting, I (and I know many others)have the prior year's labels junking up the labels column. It's like having all of the prior year's papers and folders spread across your desk. It's just a very cluttered way of working. We know that a folders4gmail system is technically possible, so why not bake it right in to Gmail and make both "Folders" and "Labels" people happy? That's all very fine if it would work! I click on the drop down arrow on either the email I selected immediately jumps into my 1st folder with no chance of even typing in a letter. Thank goodness they have an undo button. I'm getting a very large build up emails that I can't put into a folder! I'm a folder fan. However...I think labels are the way to go. I've often put the same mail in more than one folder in Outlook because it either didn't quite belong to either one or it absolutely belonged to more than one..if you follow... I think the issue with labels is the lack of ability to quickly filter your mails by more than one label type to get the relevant mail(s) you require. Think about it this way - folders are a means of logical storage that facilitate easy retrieval. When extracting information from any data bank most systems should allow you to refine your search criteria based upon a number of parameters. I feel this is what's required here (imho). Alex Chitu November 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM "I think the issue with labels is the lack of ability to quickly filter your mails by more than one label." It's quite easy. Search for: label:work OR label:friends OR label:skydiving I wouldn't accept that it's quiet easy. True I can type l:new clients l:2009 l:europe l:medical l:professional l:benchmark etc etc but in this day and age it's a bit mundane to be constantly having to type this - we have after all moved on from DOS. If you take photoshop elements as an example in tagging pictures, as you check a tag box your search is being refined for all occurrences of tags selected - it's intuitive and easy to use. Apple's new mail system seems to have this licked..... Its time we all say it outloud. GMAIL LABELS SUCK!!! WE NEED FOLDERS PEOPLE! kung December 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM Okay, I have lots of nice labels and I use them, BUT I still have hundreds of messages clogging my inbox. Labels do not offer the filtered view that folders do. A challenge to all of you who love labels: Please tell me how to display ONLY unlabeled items in my inbox. Then, when I "move" an item to a label it will appear to have "moved" out of my inbox. David Lamhauge December 15, 2009 at 7:08 AM The 100% label idea is a failure. It is a I-am-wise-and-I-know-best attitude. Some people have 30 or 40 short-cuts on their Desktop - I have two. Some people like labels in GMail - I prefer folders. When I make a Google-search for "folders in GMail" I get 3.5 million hits! How many millions do you think want folders? Instead of or alongside labels. PS: Please don't tell me that labels are folders. They are not! Labels are labels and folders are folders. Jason December 22, 2009 at 8:33 AM I'm with David & Kung, I use gmail but constantly delete my entire inbox because Labels clutter it up. Directories/Folders FTW. I might just stick with the new windows live mail, clean interface and easy to set up folders. Ktomasso January 2, 2010 at 12:32 PM I also agree with the above. Simply adding a feature to the labels exactly as kung said will solve every issue I have with labels. This seems like a no-brainer, and should be implemented ASAP. If anyone has info as to whether or not this is in the works, please let me know. Thanks. Great. Now , will you please give us real folders ! I second that. Or rather, 3 millionth that. Gmail is so stupid without folders. What boneheads are running things there? The answer always seems to be someone who knows what's better for me than I do and patiently explains that labels are the "new thing" and so much better than folders. They're not! I like an empty inbox, all I have with gmail is clutter and a state of semi-organization. What stops you from having a clean inbox? Use the "Archive" button or the "Move to" button and you'll clean your inbox. Labels are more flexible than folders: you can actually use them as folders, if that's what you want. Janna August 25, 2010 at 5:34 PM I love organizing my stuff with Gmail Labels. If you're trying to find something you can always just use the search functions, so I don't think there's any need for folders - it would just be doubling up. I want things associated the way I want them associated, not the way Google thinks they should be. I want to be able to copy my emails where I want them, not label them. I want to make my desktop look how I want it to. In short, labels suck. wow, a lot of angry people who don't get how to use labels. If you only want unlabeled items in your inbox, then archive things as you label them. It's not that hard. There's an ARCHIVE button that exists in both the main view and when you're looking at a message. Label, archive, DONE. Labels are one of the defining features of gmail, if you don't want labels: don't use gmail. You're like people who buy a cat and go "but I want it to act like a dog" Not happening. I love labels they make finding everything a breeze. Sorry, the system isn't broken just because you don't know how to use it. And labels aren't "the new thing" it's been a feature of gmail for several years now. wow, another person that doesn't have the slightest clue as to what they're talking about. this has been covered here, yet you seem to suffer from inept reading comprehension. even with proper usage, labels cannot produce the same behavior as folders, which many users would simply prefer. I also agree with what Kung said above. Labels are not the same as folders, and in some ways are worse (and make it harder to keep organised). PLEASE can someone at Gmail make this simple change? Nerja Sol December 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM I think that google need to sort out how labels work as it is really confusing. Much as I like them putting snow on the search page at christmas and adding new features for this and new features for that every other day, they really need to fix the basics first. We get hotel booking enquiries via our site and I use labels to filter which booking is for which hotel - it does work (if it didn't I would be using a different email client) but it is not intuitive how to set it up and I still occassionally have to google what to do (which is how I found this thread). Prudviraj S April 12, 2012 at 7:29 AM Labels are not satisfied. because we add the mail to label...after sometime if we forward the mail ..that mail will be in sent items..and if we delete the mails it will also going from label also... it is irritating. Manjit Singh January 5, 2013 at 10:34 PM I can't find Inbox, Sent or any of my folders in my Gmail account when I use Google Chrome. Only Compose and More with an Arrow appears. The arrow doesn't work. It's disgusting. Is there a fix? cloud-computing-service March 31, 2013 at 2:56 AM Labels are not the same as folders! However would you pay for an app that gives you the app functionality? 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__label__wiki	0.500579	0.500579	Tag Archives: motors Band of Brothers: LAPD Officers’ Shootout against Four Bank Robbers in 1920s Los Angeles Posted on August 5, 2014 by policehistoryjamesbultema@gmail.com Aug. 22, 1925: Oscar Bayer (sitting on right) next to Bertrand M. Steventon. Standing left to right are Claude R. Weaver, Charles Meyers and Jack A. Stambler. All photographs courtesy of the Los Angeles Times. As a photographic historian, I am naturally drawn to old photographs. I marvel how a moment in time is frozen for eternity allowing later generations a peek back into a split second of history. When I first saw the portrait taken by a newspaper photographer of five Los Angeles police officers posing in a hospital, I was captivated and had to know: Why this picture? My first observations were the differing facial expressions and how the officers are affectionately touching one another, like they are all part of the same family—brothers. It suggests what any LAPD cop comes to experience—that you are all brothers and sisters—which translates that you will do whatever humanely possible to ensure the safety for your partner as you all share that same bond of danger that penetrates each day you pin on your badge and take to the streets. So I wonder, why this photo, this moment in time? I would come to learn that the story begins and ends with the man sitting on the right, a sling tied around his shoulder, his uniform in disarray, as he gazes into the lens of the camera—Motorcycle Officer Oscar Bayer. Motorcycle Officer Oscar Bayer A veteran of the Great World War, Bayer understood combat, having been wounded by an exploding bomb. He was a man who thrived by pushing the envelope. At the age of 23, Bayer joined the LAPD and two years later was in motors. The likable Bayer made headlines several times, including after a shooting with a burglary suspect he was attempting to take into custody. But it was the summer of 1925 that a young Bayer nearly lost his life while in pursuit of bank robbers in which one suspect and an LAPD police officer were killed. Four others were wounded after several hundred bullets were fired. The LA Times called it the “city’s most spectacular gun battle” ever.It was 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 22, 1925, when four hardcore criminals led by an ex-con bank hold-up man from Chicago, robbed the Hellman Bank in downtown Los Angeles at Ninth and Santa Fe Avenue. The suspects, all heavily armed with shotguns, revolvers and semi-automatic pistols entered the bank and ordered everyone to the floor before jumping on the counters and riffling through all the tellers’ drawers, taking more than $19,000. While the robbery was occurring, a few blocks away, Motorcycle Officer Bayer was at Eighth and Santa Fe Avenue when his attention was suddenly drawn to a racing vehicle being chased by another car. As the two autos roared by, Bayer heard the driver from the second car scream, “Hold-up—stop them.” In the next few moments, Officer Oscar Bayer would display heroism seldom repeated in the annals of LAPD history.Gunning his motorcycle, Bayer was immediately in pursuit. At this time there were no radios, no help on the way—only phone calls from panicked citizens as the pursuit dangerously tore through downtown. As Bayer pursued the suspects, two of the robbers smashed out the rear window of their stolen car and immediately opened fire on Bayer, who heard the bullets as they whizzed by his head. Unfazed, he sped-up after the gangsters—“I was mad clean through.…I wanted those birds.” The suspects were struggling to lose the LAPD motor officer while making several sharp turns. They turned north on Alameda to Seventh Street heading west to Central. At the intersection of Traffic Officer Wylie E. Smith. Killed in the shootout. Alameda and Seventh, Traffic Officer Wylie E. Smith was just taking over traffic duties from Officer George P. Moore when they heard the gunfire and saw Bayer in pursuit. The bank robbers had to slow down due to traffic and, as consequence, Smith and Moore opened fire at the occupants of the vehicle. Seeing this, the suspects directed their fire on the two exposed traffic officers. Officer Moore had his hat shot off just as Officer Smith was shot in the chest. Smith would die from his wound the next day. Traffic Officer Jack A. Stambler As the suspect’s vehicle continued, other LAPD traffic officers became involved. Traffic Officer Jack A. Stambler observing the trouble Bayer was in, quickly commandeered a small auto and ordered the disbelieving driver to follow the pursuit. Standing on the running board, Stambler joined in the gun battle firing at the fleeing suspects. But Stambler soon came to realize, the car he seized was no match for the fast touring car of the bank robbers. So he ordered the civilian driver to stop and springing from the auto, Stambler spotted a faster car and once again took a position on the running board of the frightened driver who was ordered to join the pursuit. Traffic Officer Bertrand M. Steventon Traffic Officer Bertrand M. Steventon noticing Officer Stambler commandeer another car took over the small vehicle and once again the driver was ordered to pursue the bandits. As the three officers thundered through the streets, bullets were flying. People on the streets were diving for cover, store windows were being shot out, other cars were being struck, but the determined LAPD officers would not give up.The unwavering Bayer, leading the chase, would not be deterred. As he pursed the suspects down Seventh Street, a bullet struck him in his right breast nearly knocking him from his motor. Fortunately, much of the impact was stopped by his traffic citation book. Dazed, Bayer shook his head to keep conscious. In quick succession Bayer was again struck by a fuselage of bullets, one going through his sleeve and another round hit just below his hip. He would later comment just how much the wounds “stung.” Bayer did not dwell on his injuries, he just became more enraged. With his gun empty, Bayer did the unbelievable. While still receiving fire he somehow managed to reload his revolver while speeding after the criminals. Squealing to a halt at Seventh and San Pedro due to traffic, two of the bank robbers jumped from the touring car, while two others ran from the scene. Traffic Officer Claude R. Weaver hearing Traffic Officer Claude R. Weaver the deafening gun fire at his intersection, opened fire on the suspects. Meanwhile, Motor Officer Bayer observed that each suspect was armed with guns in each hand as they were determined to rid themselves of this troublesome motor cop. With bullets flying, Bayer took careful aim and killed the leader of the gang. With only one bullet left in his gun, Bayer took cover behind another vehicle and fired at the second suspect striking him in the arm. Bayer’s gun was empty but the suspect was preparing to fire again.Taking a calculated risk, Bayer pointed his empty revolver at the wounded suspect and yelled, “If you don’t surrender, I will kill you.” The ruthless suspect looking into the determined face of a man who refused to quit, his uniform covered in blood, gave up and surrendered.A block away Officer Steventon was in foot pursuit of one of the two suspects who had fled the scene as their getaway car was stuck in traffic. As Steventon ran after him, the fleeing suspect turned and fired several rounds at Steventon, who returned fire until he ran out of ammo. The suspect managed to get away after he carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint. Sometime later both suspects were apprehended in different parts of the country. Motor Officer Bayer would quickly recover from his wounds and eventually was promoted to Detective-Lieutenant. Officer’s Oscar Bayer and Wylie Smith were awarded the Medal of Valor for their involvement in the Hillman Bank robbery incident. Sadly, in his eighth year on the department, Oscar Bayer was killed off-duty, piloting a civilian aircraft, as he was preparing himself to become part of the rumored LAPD aero-bureau. He left behind a wife and four young children. So it was from a single photograph, taken just after the shooting, that this story was discovered chronicling the type of individuals who wore the badge of a Los Angeles Police Officer during the 1920s. Today, their brother and sister officers are faced with new challenges and yes, some of the old ones. But one can take comfort knowing the sacrifices that were suffered in Bayer’s era help shape the officers of today and make LAPD a leader in law enforcement across the Nation. As this chronicle attests, the men and women of LAPD are all brothers and sisters—insuperable in protecting one another and the citizens of Los Angeles. Posted in General \| Tagged criminals, Guardians of Angels, Historical Photograph, History of the Los Angeles Police Department, LAPD history, Los Angeles Police Department, motorcycle officer, motors, Oscar Bayer, Police, Shootout \| 6 Replies	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1249
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__label__wiki	0.571792	0.571792	You are here: Home / ACCC Misleading consumers costs Harvey Norman $52,000 19/01/2016 /in News /by GRC Solutions A Harvey Norman franchisee has been fined AUD$52,000 for making false or misleading representations about consumer guarantee rights. Bunavit Pty Ltd, which operates the Harvey Norman Superstore Bundall in Queensland, is the latest of ten Harvey Norman franchisees around the country to be penalised by the Federal Court for breaching consumer protection laws. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought the action against Bunavit for ten false or misleading statements made by store employees to customers about their statutory rights. One salesperson told a customer whose new computer was malfunctioning, “There’s nothing we can do.” Another customer who had complained about receiving a faulty laptop was informed, “We can’t help you.” A store employee told her to contact the laptop manufacturer for help instead and that retailer would not pay for a refund or a replacement. The same employee later advised her that they would pay half of the repair costs if she sent it to a third party computer shop. ACCC Acting Chair Dr Michael Shaper said, “Products sold in Australia come with a consumer guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law that they will be of acceptable quality. Faulty products must be repaired, replaced or a refund must be provided by the retailer.” Consumer guarantees cannot be limited by the manufacturer’s warranty and any replacement or repair must be provided at no cost to the consumer. “Business are expected to take appropriate and effective steps to ensure that their staff understand the rights of consumers and the obligations of businesses under the consumer guarantees provided by the Australian Consumer Law,” Dr Shaper said. The total amount of penalties levied against Harvey Norman franchisees for false and misleading representations about consumer rights to $286,000. Are you up to date with consumer rights and guarantees? Contact us today for more information about our off-the-shelf and bespoke online training on Competition and Consumer Protection and other topics. Sources: ACCC, TimeBase, Sydney Morning Herald https://grcsolutions.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grc-logo-white-300x138.png 0 0 GRC Solutions https://grcsolutions.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grc-logo-white-300x138.png GRC Solutions2016-01-19 00:36:252016-01-19 00:36:25Misleading consumers costs Harvey Norman $52,000 ACCC cracks down on misleading ‘drip pricing’ practices Misleading and deceptive conduct is often thought of in relation to giving false information about prices or processes. But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) recent pursuits of drip pricing practices demonstrates that this conduct can also involve omitting information. In November, the Federal Court found that Jetstar Airways and Virgin Australian Airlines had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and about the price of advertised airfares. The Court will determine penalties against the airlines at a later date. The ACCC, which successfully brought the case, argued that the two airline companies had misled consumers about the true price of the plane tickets by failing to adequately disclose additional booking and services fees until late into the payment process. This process – known as ‘drip pricing’ – gives consumers the impression that a product costs lower than it really does. It does so by excluding administrative charges from the product’s nominal sale price. The cost of additional service and handling fees are then revealed after the online transaction process has already commenced. ACCC Chairman Rod Sims contends that ‘drip pricing’ distorts information and misleads consumers: “[It] can result in consumers paying a higher price than the advertised price, spending more than they realise and making it more difficult to compare offers.” “The ACCC’s concern with drip pricing has always been to ensure that consumers are not misled and that businesses are not unfairly disadvantaged by misleading practices,” he said. Earlier this year, the ACCC accepted enforceable undertakings from emerging online companies Airnbnb and Vacaciones eDreams. In these cases, the companies admitted that they had failed to adequately disclose mandatory service and cleaning fees on their online booking platforms. Airnbnb agreed to establish and maintain a consumer law compliance program within the company, while eDreams submitted that it would ensure its staff received appropriate compliance training on key aspects of Australian consumer law. Drip pricing was a priority area for the ACCC in 2014 and, as these cases demonstrate, remains a focus for the competition and consumer watchdog. If your company engages in online sales or multi-stage payment practices it is essential to adequately disclose all relevant pricing information to potential customers. Contact GRC Solutions today for more information about our competition and consumer law training courses. Source: ACCC https://grcsolutions.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grc-logo-white-300x138.png 0 0 GRC Solutions https://grcsolutions.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grc-logo-white-300x138.png GRC Solutions2015-11-24 23:35:142015-12-01 01:02:14ACCC cracks down on misleading ‘drip pricing’ practices Homeopathy Plus! vaccine claims were misleading and deceptive: Federal Court A homeopathy company has been found by the Federal Court of Australia to contain statements amounting to misleading and deceptive conduct. Homeopathy Plus! stated on its website that the whooping cough vaccine was “unreliable at best” and “largely ineffective”. This, the Court found, was misleading and deceptive conduct. This case shows that false claims made about a competitor’s products can be in breach of Australian consumer law. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) takes action on exaggerated claims made by retailers or producers about their own products. That wasn’t the only thing the Court found misleading and deceptive. It also took issue with the company’s claim that was an adequate foundation of medical science to indicate that homeopathy was an effective alternative to whooping cough vaccination. The Court found that no such foundation existed, and that vaccination was the only disease prevention treatment approved and accepted by medical practitioners. Financial penalties and other remedies will be determined by the Court on 4 February 2015. Misleading and deceptive conduct comes in a variety of practices and affects all firms big and small. Make sure you don’t misrepresent your products and services, or your competitors’. Check out our competition and consumer protection law training courses to ensure your business is complying with the law. https://grcsolutions.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grc-logo-white-300x138.png 0 0 GRC Solutions https://grcsolutions.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grc-logo-white-300x138.png GRC Solutions2015-01-07 00:03:292015-01-07 00:04:10Homeopathy Plus! vaccine claims were misleading and deceptive: Federal Court ACCC updates Australian competition policy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has provided a reinvigorated submission of Australia’s competition policy to the Harper Review. The submission argues that an effective competition policy is about the following three things: Microeconomic reforms that open up as many sectors as possible to competition. This allows price mechanisms to play their crucial role in signalling to businesses how to meet consumer’ needs at the lowest cost. Balanced competition laws, to avoid large efficiency and welfare losses from systematically poor conduct. Governments that establish and promote the processes and institutions that continually foster competition and sustain the commitment to reform. 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__label__wiki	0.941663	0.941663	12-06-18 – News – Harriers make their first signing of the new season Published: 12-06-18 The Harriers, and Neil MacFarlane, made the first signing in readiness for the coming season today when Ashley Chambers arrived at Aggborough from near neighbours Nuneaton Borough. Ashley Chambers New striker for the Harriers The tall striker impressed when he played against us last season in both of the games between the two clubs and with his twenty goals for Boro he’ll hopefully be doing the same for us. After starting his career with his home town in 2005, and playing nine times for them, he moved on to York City in 2011 after going out to a few teams on loan. His next port of call was Dagenham & Redbridge for two years before signing for Grimsby Town in 2016. He signed a two year contract with Nuneaton last May following an earlier loan spell but with the financial problems at the Liberty that contract appears to have been ripped up. Ashley has signed a two year contract with us and hopefully he’ll be playing alongside Joe Ironside in a two man strike force. Something we rarely saw under John Eustace and Matt Gardiner. There are also rumours of a defender coming in on loan from Stevenage hopefully to play at left back and allow Sam Austin to play in his normal position out wide. 25-05-18 – News – Eustace leaves for QPR and MacFarlane takes over hours later 13-06-18 – News – Snoopy heads for Stevenage Matt Gardiner (2)Dagenham & Redbridge (2)Leicester City (5)Sam Austin (73)Ashley Chambers (60)Grimsby Town (4)Nuneaton Borough (15)York City (44)Neil MacFarlane (21)Joe Ironside (144)John Eustace (30)Stevenage (3)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1268
__label__cc	0.646416	0.353584	Cut calories, lengthen life span? Middle-aged adults who reduce their intake show slower biological aging. By: Robert Preidt, HealthDay More articles by Robert Preidt, HealthDay Make healthy choices for longevity. An average orange contains 45 calories, whereas a doughnut contains approximately 195 calories. (For Spectrum Health Beat) Limiting calorie intake may slow aging, a new study suggests. Previous research has shown that calorie restrictions slow aging in worms, flies and mice, so Duke University researchers wanted to see if it could slow biological aging in people. “Biological aging is the gradual and progressive deterioration of systems in the body that occurs with advancing chronological age,” said study author Daniel Belsky, an assistant professor of medicine at Duke, in Durham, N.C. “If we can intervene to slow the rate of biological aging, it may be possible to prevent or at least delay onset for many age-related diseases and disabilities,” he explained in a university news release. The researchers looked at 145 people who achieved a 12 percent reduction in calorie intake over two years and a control group of 75 people who did not restrict calories. At the start of the study, the average biological age of participants in both groups was 37, and their chronological age was close to that at 38. Biological age was calculated by readings that included total cholesterol, blood pressure and hemoglobin levels. During two years of follow-up, biological age increased an average of 0.11 years each 12 months in the calorie restriction group and an average of 0.71 years each 12 months in the control group. This was a statistically significant difference, according to the researchers. “Ours is the first study to test if caloric restriction can slow measured biological aging in humans in a randomized setting,” Belsky said. “Our findings suggest a template for developing and evaluating therapies designed to mimic the effects of caloric restriction to ultimately prevent chronic diseases,” he added. The study was published online in the Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. SOURCE: Duke University, news release, May 22, 2017. Did you enjoy this story? Comment on this story Cancel Reply Do some people age faster than others? Stop aging declines Does human life span really have a limit? A surgeon’s 1-pound patient Surviving the unsurvivable ‘This is an epidemic’ The comeback kid 'Never, ever thought I would have a stroke' 'We're carrying on Eric's legacy' 'A pacemaker for the brain' A quest for quality 'She’s come a long way' biological age low calorie diet sugar intake	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1271
__label__cc	0.59916	0.40084	Tag Archives: Eric Van Boekel Food Scientist Claims “Liquid Poured On Pigs” A Biosecurity Risk #PIGTRIAL Posted on October 5, 2016 by heatherclemenceau “…. the actions of these activists simply aren’t safe – not only not for themselves, the truck drivers and their pigs. But also for the consumers,” writes Keith Warriner, Professor of Food Science at the University of Guelph. “The seemingly humane gesture of feeding water to pigs can actually jeopardize the system and impact the food you serve to your family.The trial taking place in Toronto has touched upon various angles of this incident. But the key issue is the interference with food safety. For anyone who eats pork, this is a product of a food processing system. And it’s absolutely essential that it’s produced in a closed system that hasn’t been tampered with.” Dr Warriner recently chose to write a guest column that appeared in the Toronto and Winnipeg Sun papers. Instead of providing an evidence-based opinion on any one of the prevalent food-related pathways to disease and sickness in Canada, he chose to write about the “unknown liquid” that Anita Krajnc and other Toronto Pig Save activists had given to pigs on the day Dr. Krajnc was charged. It doesn’t appear that anyone believes that there were contaminants in the water the activists have given to the pigs before or since Anita’s arrest – apparently neither Fearman’s Pork nor Van Boekel Hog Farms believes this, otherwise, the animals would not have been slaughtered for food. Neither does the CFIA apparently believe the pigs were contaminated, since they issued no recall that I could find. If there was the slightest belief that the water was poisoned, the bottles would have been confiscated and the water tested. To the best of my knowledge, there was no economic loss resultant to the watering of the pigs and NO CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED. The CFIA classifies recalls based on the level of health risk associated with the food product being recalled. High risk triggers include illness outbreaks, food test results, inspection findings, and consumer complaints. In 2014 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued 714 recalls, following 467 recalls in 2013 and 595 in 2012, Undeclared allergens (unlisted ingredients or product mislabeling) and microbial contaminations make up the majority of recalls, according to Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, a professor at the University of Guelph’s Food Institute. The Red Meat Condemnation report from Agriculture Canada provides a testament to the true brutality of both the transport and slaughter operations. In 2015, 20,244,822 pigs were slaughtered, and 7.02 pigs per thousand slaughtered were found dead on arrival at the slaughterhouse. That amounts to 14,221 pigs. Almost as many pigs were condemned on ante-mortem inspection for abscesses, peritonitis, arthritis, pneumonia, septicemia, emaciation, hepatitis, bruising, hernia, fracture, and many other conditions, suggesting that perhaps more were in very poor condition upon arrival at the slaugherhouse. According to CFIA prosecution notices for that same year, no one was convicted of anything as a result. I hope our food scientists will continue to bring attention to serious risks in the food supply, rather than trying to pick off the “low-hanging fruit” that are the protests at slaughterhouses. I would like to propose that Dr. Warriner write an article condemning the abuse of transport and the risks of veterinary drug contamination with horse slaughter in Canada. Certainly horse slaughter is not a closed system – non-farmers are dealing in drugged meat with false and incomplete EIDs, concealing incompetence and deceit, often at the highest levels. In fact, I plan to send him an email asking him to do exactly that. Those activists who wish to expose inhumane farming practices and give water to animals enroute to slaughter are not terrorists. Dr. Warriner, I cannot respect your attempts to try and criminalize activism. Please respect the right of thoughtful citizens to express what they see as a moral outrage. Videos of activists providing water to pigs have mobilized a movement towards improving the quality of life of pigs, chickens, and cows. In the absence of the animal welfare movement, there is an obvious race to the bottom. When the news first broke that an outbreak of Listeriosis had resulted in the deaths of several Canadians, you might expect the minister responsible for food safety, to immediately step in, or at least take the matter seriously. Instead, former Ag. Minister Gerry Ritz actually thought the whole matter rather funny, so much so that he immediately joked about the demise of the victims. Forget that it was under his watch – his funny bone was tickled and he wanted to share the feeling. A look back at recent outbreaks and recalls in Canada, courtesy of @Barfblog’s contributors, including Drs. Powell, Chapman, Hubbell and assorted food safety lecturers at Barfblog.com – the unofficial internet gatekeepers on food-related illness and terrible reality cooking shows… From toxic mothballs to blister beetles in food, there are no cautionary mentions of illness caused by the “tampering” of food by animal activists. Going Public: London, Ontario Salmonella Spike Five Star Shellfish Inc. Brand Oysters Recalled In Canada Due to Salmonella People Are Sick From Histamine In Blue Marlin in Canada Raw Is Risky: Canada Reports 1st Case This Year of Illness Linked To Eating Raw Oysters Health Canada Proposes Rules for Veterinary Drugs In Livestock Salmonella In Fresh Chili Peppers Frozen Berry Mix From Costco Linked To Hepatitis A Exposure Raw Is Risky: 4 Sick With Salmonella Linked to Raw Pet Food People Are Sick, But Canada Won’t Say How Many: Frozen Fruit Strikes Again 29 Sick, 2 Dead in Canada And US: Listeria In Dole Packaged Salads 18 Sickened: Court OKs $4 Million Settlement Over E.Coli Beef Recall in Canada Seven Ill with Listeriosis in Canada: Prepackaged Leafy Greens Investigated 50% of Chicken Breast Campy Positive, Irrigation Water Source of Dangerous E.Coli: FoodNet Canada 2014 Short Report 91 Sick With Salmonella in Canada, “Poultry Products Are Food Items of Interest” Quinoa Salad Source of Illness in Canada People Are Sick: Snap Peas Recalled in Canada Due To Cyclospora Salmonella Infantis; 8 Hospitalized Food Poisoning Sickens 80-100 Child Protection Employees in Brantford 31 Now Sick: Update On E.Coli 0157 Outbreak In Canada 81 Sick: Vibrio Outbreak Linked To Raw Oysters E.Coli 0157 Outbreak Sickens At Least 24 People in Canada 476 Sick With Cyclosporiasis in US, 87 in Canada Mycobacterium Marinum Cluster Linked to Handling Shrimp in Canada Staph Toxin in French Roquefort Cheeses Leads To Recall Iron Cross Blister Beetles In Imported Pre-Packaged Leafy Vegetables in Canada Toxic Mothballs Mixed In With Candy In 1,100 Food Bank Hampers Handed Out in Canada Leaked Documents Contradict CFIA Claims, As Lilydale Recall Grows Costco Canada’s Fish Import License Suspended By CFIA Herring Recalled Because of Clostridium in Canada Filed under "Farmer's Markets", Uncategorized and tagged "animal cruelty", "animal welfare", "Canadian Food Inspection Agency", "Gerry Ritz", Anita Krajnc, biosecurity, CFIA, Eric Van Boekel, Keith Warriner, pigtrial \| 2 Comments Pig Farmer Van Boekel Files Charges Against “Thirsty Pigs” Animal Activist (But Pleaded Guilty to Breaching Water Resources Act Himself) Posted on November 9, 2015 by heatherclemenceau Illustration courtesy of Katharina Rot Torontonians in particular are by now very familiar with the “Thirsty Pigs” court case whereby Van Boekel Farms pressed charges against Anita Krajnc. Dr. Krajnc, who is a principal activist behind the peaceful “Save“ vigils (Toronto Pig Save,Toronto Cow Save, Toronto Chicken Save), was charged under the Criminal Code with mischief under $5,000 for providing water to pigs in a truck en route to their slaughter at Fearman’s pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario. On a hot day in June, a Van Boekel Hog Farms trailer full of pigs was stopped at an intersection. Krajnc and other activists gave water to them in squirt bottles, an action that the court disclosure describes as: “spraying an unknown liquid into the trailer where the hogs were situated.” The concern is that, even though there seems to be no question that water was the liquid given to the pigs, the action is potentially “tampering with the food supply,” although not in the same way many farmers themselves tamper with the food supply by keeping animals in filthy confined pens during lives which are nasty, brutish, and short. “In-transit loss” is a term used to describe pigs that die after leaving the farm but before being killed at the abattoir Photo by Twyla Francois Big Meat certainly does not want anyone exposing the fact that the pigs often arrive at the slaughterhouse panting and foaming at the mouth (pigs cannot sweat). One might say that the charging of Anita Krajnc has backfired since it generated phenomenal support at the courthouse, in the media, and via petitions that have now been signed by more than 100,000 people. More people have been touched by the suffering of pigs and will consider a plant-based diet. Additionally, it sent people (like me) on little internet fact-finding missions that revealed that Van Boekel’s own farm operations were hardly above reproach. Van Boekel Hogs Farms Inc. of Woodstock, Van Boekel Holdings Inc. and Eric Van Boekel were originally fined a total of $345,000 for a manure spill in the spring of 2007. Van Boekel must have felt as though he was bleeding-out himself when he was hit with an additional 25% victim surcharge that elevated the total to $431,250. He also faced a possible 30 days in jail. He was convicted of breaking three different acts – the Ontario Water Resources Act, the Environmental Protection Act and the Nutrient Management Act – and was sentenced in Woodstock. Van Boekel (who claimed he was the victim of a “witch hunt”) immediately appealed the decision and was granted a new trial, where he was found not guilty of charges under the Environmental Protection Act and Nutrient Management Act, but pled guilty to offences under the Ontario Water Resources Act. There’s really no shortage of video evidence compiled by Toronto Pig Save showing that in summer the pigs are often desperately overheated – all farm animals can and do suffer from heat stress – signs are panting, increased salivation, drooling or foaming, increased respiration or laboured breathing, lethargy, or even unconsciousness. Even when outside temperatures are not extreme, temperatures inside a trailer can rise dramatically if it is slowed by construction, stuck in traffic or otherwise forced to sit stationary, such as during unloading or at border crossings. Consider also that: The Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs (the absolute bare minimum standard) recommends travelling in off-hours and providing protection for pigs in the trailer, including watering and misting. The group Canadians For the Ethical Treatment of Farm Animals says: “To minimize risks of heat stress, farm animals should only be transported during the cooler hours of the day. Space per animal inside transport trucks should be increased by reducing stocking densities to ensure proper air flow between animals and, in the case of pigs, to allow them to lie down. Trucks should be tarped and well ventilated. Water should be provided regularly on long journeys.” Canadian transport regulations, the Health of Animals Act, Part XII, Sections 143, (1)(d) and (e) state that “No person shall transport or cause to be transported any animal in a railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel, crate or container if injury or undue suffering is likely to be caused to the animal by reason of undue exposure to the weather or inadequate ventilation.” An observational study has shown that, not surprisingly, the number of in-transit pig losses was greater at higher internal trailer temperatures, in some cases being as high as 12.5% of the total number of pigs transported. Photos below by L. Jorgensen and Twyla Francois. The pig with the leg trapped in the trailer was eventually helped by activists at a Fearman’s Pig slaughterhouse protest. We wonder how long the pig travelled like this and why no one exercised greater care in loading and inspecting the trailer. The dead pigs on the grass were photographed in Texas, delivered to that state by a Manitoba hauler who evidently did not have the proper paperwork, and so claimed he could not unseal the trailer. The pigs were left on board in the sweltering heat for days. We are gradually moving to a police state that demands criminal charges for inconsequential matters. It strikes me as odd that a court can convict someone of “spraying an unknown liquid” when it is known or should be known by now that the liquid was water and that this was a prosocial act to relieve thirst and heatstroke. I’m sure that this alleged concern by Van Boekel and Fearman’s did not deter them from slaughtering this trailer of pigs (or any other load to whom water was provided in the past). Call to Action – Please sign the petitions Care2.com (This petition has surpassed 100,000 signatures!) The Petition Site (also over 100,000 signatures!) Filed under "Farmer's Markets", Uncategorized and tagged Anita Krajnc, CETFA, Eric Van Boekel, Fearman's Pork, Heath of Animals Act, Toronto Pig Save, Van Boekel Farms, Van Boekel Hog Farms, Van Boekel Holdings \| 13 Comments	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1274
__label__wiki	0.945292	0.945292	Women Working To Do Good The Snapple Lady (remember her?) recently got real about her struggle with addiction Karen Belz OWN / www.youtube.com Back in the day, Snapple was the choice beverage to drink, and The Snapple Lady — the perky mascot that Snapple chose to represent the brand — was one of our favorite people. Just like Progressive’s Flo, The Snapple Lady —also known offscreen as Wendy Kaufman — had her own set personality and helped give her product a lot of hype. Snapple commercials were something we didn’t want to miss. So, it’s a shame that Kaufman, who was an actual Snapple employee before being upgraded to mascot, had some troubling times before we got to know her. On Oprah: Where Are They Now? Kaufman got real about what her life was like before and during her moment in the spotlight. "I started to do cocaine in 1980," Kaufman shared during the episode. "By 1989, I could press my cheek and blood would come out of my nose." It turns out that Kaufman turned to drugs since she was unhappy with her weight, later to realize that her health was rapidly declining. "I was so sick that it really did bring me to my knees," Kaufman noted. "I said to God on my knees, hysterical and crying, 'Either kill me or please help me get well. I cannot live like this for one second longer.' Kaufman says that to her, Snapple was way more than a job — it was truly a lifeline. "I remember crying, literally, like.. what did I do to myself? What did I do to myself for all these years?" she said, a bit choked up. The good news? Well, getting the gig as The Snapple Lady really helped her out. She vowed to be clean during her time in front of the camera, and became a brand new person thanks to the company. It’s amazing to realize that while we watched her commercials in the ’90s, we were truly watching her grow and progress day by day. Even though Kaufman is no longer with the company, we always think of her whenever we pick up a Snapple. And we’re so happy to hear her inspirational recovery story! By Karen Belz The problem with hologram tours, and why a Whitney Houston hologram only makes her death feel worse We already found your Halloween costume: Stranger Things "Scoops Ahoy" uniforms Maisie Williams got real about fixating on "all the things I hate about myself," and we're listening The Little Mermaid fans want Gordon Ramsay to play angry Chef Louis in live-action adaptation, and we're totally on board Sophie Turner blamed one of her fellow Northmen for the notorious Game of Thrones coffee cup I talked to Mindy Kaling about the horrors of shaving, and it was the best 10 minutes of my life Why Do The Right Thing is still relevant 30 years later	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1278
__label__cc	0.597227	0.402773	Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/empeco/v34y2008i3p525-536.html My bibliography Save this article Wealth effects on money demand in the euro area Author & abstract Related works & more Laurence Boone Paul Noord Paul Joseph Van den Noord No abstract is available for this item. Laurence Boone & Paul Noord, 2008. "Wealth effects on money demand in the euro area," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 34(3), pages 525-536, June. Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:34:y:2008:i:3:p:525-536 HTML HTML with abstract plain text plain text with abstract BibTeX RIS (EndNote, RefMan, ProCite) ReDIF JSON Download full text from publisher File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s00181-007-0134-5 Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it. References listed on IDEAS Friedman, Milton, 1988. 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__label__wiki	0.530911	0.530911	Virginia’s Roanoke Valley Broadband Authority Recounts Progress Made in 2018 by Lisa Gonzalez \| Date: 11 Dec 2018 \| posted in: MuniNetworks \| 0 As they look back over their accomplishments, the Roanoke Valley Broadband Authority (RVBA) has more than the holidays to celebrate at the close of 2018. In addition to stimulating competition in the region, the RVBA network is attracting more investment and helping local nonprofits operate more efficiently. For Feeding America Southwest Virginia in Salem, connectivity from RVBA is critical. “Without that Internet connection reliability, it would be very difficult for us to achieve our mission,” says IT Director Eric Geist. The food bank is one of the enterprise customers that the RVBA serves in the region, providing affordable access to organizations and institutions such as nonprofits, businesses, and institutions. By providing affordable connectivity and services focused on the needs of businesses, the RVBA network has helped drive competition in the region. According to CEO Frank Smith’s research, prices have dropped 25 – 30 percent. The change squares with the RVBA mission to enhance and promote economic development by improving connectivity services and prices in Salem, Roanoke, and the counties of Roanoke and Botetourt. They’ve seen results in the past three years with greater expectations ahead. Before the network, the valley was caught in a connectivity “donut hole.” The populations in Salem and Roanoke had access to some cable Internet access and were large enough to prevent the region from obtaining grants to entice providers to upgrade. In 2013, local governments decided to work together to improve connectivity and funded a feasibility study, which recommended an open access network. Botetourt and Roanoke Counties were indecisive about their commitment to the project, but the cities of Salem and Roanoke pushed ahead. Salem, with its own electric utility, already had some fiber infrastructure in place, which lowered the cost of the project. Even through negative push polls from the Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association (top donors Comcast and Cox), local support for the investment remained. Folks in the Roanoke Valley understood the connection between the network and economic opportunity. By the spring of 2016, the network started connecting their intended customers — businesses, schools, libraries, and nonprofits. In addition to Internet and data transport services, customers had the ability to lease dark fiber and manage their own IT structure. The RVBA also hoped to attract last mile residential Internet access companies interested in delivering services to households in the Roanoke Valley. It didn’t take long for entities taking advantage of the network to sing their praises, including Blue Ridge PBS, the Western Viriginia Water Authority, and David Carter, Chief Technology Officer from Advanced Logic Industries: ”For the first time in my years in IT; a fiber construction engagement; happened on time and as promised. You are to be congratulated on setting up the RVBA for continued success; and with customer service like this you can count on ALI to be an advocate for your services in the region. Thank you again; for helping us with a mutual client do what we were explicitly told could not be done in Roanoke.” Learn more about the network; listen to episode 221 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Christopher interviews CEO Frank Smith: Word Got Around After receiving the Governor’s Technology Award in the fall of 2016 and word spread about service from RVBA, more businesses and other entities signed up. In addition to GE Digital’s Meridium finance, RDG Filings, and Eldor Corp. When Elder Corp. was looking for a location to develop a $75 million manufacturing facility in Botetourt County, RVBA helped out by extending the network to their site. Over the past three years, the RVBA has expanded the network to approximately 80 miles. In 2017, ABS Technology started offering residential Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services in Roanoke to a downtown apartment building via RVBA fiber. The network also serves Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) and have connected a downtown Roanoke business and tech accelerator, in collaboration with the college. Heralded, But… It’s clear that the local communities’ investment is paying off in several ways: employers are bringing new development, competition is making rates more reasonable for entities that can’t afford necessary high-quality connectivity, and services are finally available that never were before. The RVBA is accomplishing its mission to boost economic development, an ambition shared by local elected officials. While most local leaders have shown support for the RVBA and the network, a few still oppose the investment. Often their lack of support is rooted in incorrect information that that, through repetition, perpetuates the wrong idea about publicly owned networks. For example, a recent Roanoke Times article, covers bipartisan support and accomplishments of the RVBA, but also repeats the line from former Roanoke Board of Supervisors Al Bedrosian that the investment amounts to “government subsidized Internet.” Like a municipal electric utility, the RVBA network is infrastructure that earns revenue from those that use it, which includes local businesses, nonprofits, and other entities. The local communities of Salem and Roanoke invested to improve economic development with fiber infrastructure and it’s paying off. Established rates are reasonable, realistic, and competitive — not subsidized in order to be artificially low. Unlike proposed payments to large providers to build out rural Internet access (usually with outdated DSL) or to develop better service, when the RVBA or other publicly owned network earns revenue, it stays in the community. Public funds handed over to Frontier, Comcast, or AT&T are used to build inferior infrastructure that earns profits for shareholders. The article also fails to clearly mention that the RVBA does not offer residential Internet access to the public, but allows private sector companies to do so. The RVBA provides the infrastructure that last mile providers lease and on which they deliver Internet access to homes. The RVBA isn’t competing for household subscribers, but creating an environment in which households have more options. For more on the services and rates the RVBA offers to businesses, nonprofits, institutional customers, municipal entities, and similar organizations, check out their services page. Both Sides of the Aisle The Roanoke Times referred to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey indicating that both Democrats and Republicans believe local control should govern municipal broadband network decisions. When we examined elections between 2008 and 2012, we determined that conservative communities are most likely to have developed broadband networks. Joe McNamara, who was just elected to the Virginia House of Delegates on a strong Republican platform, has been an ardent supporter of the RVBA. When asked about the publicly owned option in the past, McNamara replied: “It’s definitely, definitely something that whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, independent it really makes no difference,” McNamara said. “Everybody kind of has coalesced behind the need really to view broadband as another utility.” Check out local coverage from WDBJ7 on the network and Feeding America Southwest Virginia: Image of Roanoke, Virginia, by Joe Ravi [CC BY-SA 3.0] This article was originally published on ILSR’s MuniNetworks.org. Read the original here. broadband, dark fiber, economic development, featured, rural, video, virginia MuniNetworks Charlemont Chooses Community-Owned Fiber Over Comc… MuniNetworks Colorado Town Moves Forward on Potential Community…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1285
__label__wiki	0.611683	0.611683	Previous Article Alexa, where’s my next print job? Next Article Liquid assets When mixed reality becomes, well, reality, how will you know what’s true and what isn’t? And how will that impact on visual experiences, including print? Walter Hale investigates. Apple’s next smartphone - the hotly awaited iPhone 8 - is rumoured to mark the start of its drive to bring augmented reality to the masses. Yet technology in this area is moving so fast, that it may be behind the curve. Although we have all grown familiar with the terms augmented reality and virtual reality, the greatest curiosity is surrounding a company described as the most secretive start-up of all-time, a company named Magic Leap, so called, presumably, because its founders think its products will, when they come to market, provide a magic leap over anything that has gone before. Magic Leap’s solution certainly sounds different. Founder and CEO Rony Abovitz, talking at a recent investor’s conference in the US, said that, while he was delighted that VR and AR were whetting consumers’ appetite for new kinds of computing, Magic Leap’s “spatial computing in a digital light field” was more revolutionary than either. “What we’re doing is a new class of computing. You can think of it as spatial and ambient, where it is contextually aware, you can be hands-free, you’re not holding up a phone and looking through a video display – it’s a totally new kind of experience. We’re trying to build a computer and force it to act like people act, and understand your world without having to tell it all the time.” To distinguish this solution from AR and VR, most technology writers refer to it as mixed reality. So how will this Magic Leap computer work exactly? What you are about to read sounds like utopian science fiction but products that work in this way - and offer some of the functions mentioned - are already being manufactured in Florida and their market launch in the US is, Abovitz says, “not too far away”. If the launch goes well in the US, the company will look to quickly roll the product out across the world. The technology is expected to break through in the entertainment sector - Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment are two of the backers - but Abovitz believes his solution could revolutionise the retail sector. When you’re wearing the device, it doesn’t block your view of the world; the hardware projects an image directly onto your retina through an optics system built into a piece of semitransparent glass (the product replicates the way we naturally observe the world instead of forcing you to stare at a screen). The hardware also constantly gathers information, scanning the room for obstacles, listening for voices, tracking eye movements and observing hands. The headset can make not just a display, but anything appear, like directions to your next meeting, drawn in bright yellow arrows along the roads of your town. You will be able to see what that new couch you’re thinking of buying looks like in your living room, from every conceivable angle, under every lighting condition, without leaving your home. You could ‘try’ on a jacket or a dress in the same way. Even the least mechanically inclined will be able to repair their automobiles, with an interactive program highlighting exactly which part needs to be replaced and alerting you if you are doing it wrong. The clever bit - as far as Magic Leap is concerned - is that the company stands to profit from every interaction: not just from the hardware and software it will sell but also, one imagines, from the torrent of data it could collect, analyse and resell. Kevin Kelly, the founder of ‘Wired’ magazine, sums up the spellbinding possibilities this technology opens up: “Experience is the new currency. Technologies like Magic Leap’s will enable us to generate, transmit, quantify, refine, personalize, magnify, discover, share, reshare and overshare experience. The shift from the creation, transmission and consumption of information to the creation, transmission and consumption of experience defines this new platform.” The danger, as various sci-fi novelists has suggested, is that this technology could create a world so seductive people will never want to leave it. Peter Jackson, director of the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ trilogy, is one of Magic Leap’s advisers. After trying the technology for himself, he says: “I find mixed reality much more exciting than VR. Mixed reality doesn’t take you out of this world. Instead, it adds elements to our real world. And it has great flexibility. You can add as little as you want - a single tiny figure on a table talking to us - or you can replace the walls of a room with a skyscape so you can watch clouds go by.” Does all this sound too good - or impractical - to be true? It does, but Magic Leap has already attracted interest from Google, JP Morgan and Alibaba and, after its most recent round of financing, was valued at $4.5bn. Google is so convinced it has pumped $542m into Abovitz’s start-up. This is astonishing considering that, at that point, Magic Leap hadn’t even released a beta version of its product for testing. In part, such investments are inspired by Abovitz, a charismatic misfit who describes himself, on his Twitter bio, as a “friend of people, animals and robots”, draws cartoons that most people find weird rather than funny, has written a graphic novel and, while studying at Miami University, launched Mako, a business that built robots for surgery. That did so well that it went public in 2008 and was acquired for $1.65bn in 2013. The funds also flow because giants like Microsoft are betting so heavily on its potential. The company that successfully brings mixed reality to the masses could be bigger, ten years from now, than Apple is today. Yet Abovitz seems more focused on mixed reality’s life-changing scope rather than building a business empire, wondering, in one of his blogs: “What is software? If it can seamlessly transmit from blackberry to ipad to PC, why can’t our souls float as they will?” There are obstacles to be overcome. No matter how compact and light the headsets become, they will require an enormous infrastructure to make them work. So Kelly says: “The scale of the servers, bandwidth, processing, storage, and cleverness required to run networked virtual places at the scale of the planet for billions of people is beyond Big Data. It is Ginormous Data.” And, as everything that is mixed, augmented or virtual can be tracked, each virtual world could be a total surveillance state. There is also, for style conscious Millennial consumers - a natural audience for this technology - that it is very hard to wear the existing headsets or goggles without looking like a dork. And the big question that we are still decades away from being able to answer is: what are the long-term effects of fooling our minds or bodies? What is not in doubt that is quite a few people want this. Research by media agency J Walter Thompson found that 70% of American Millennials - and two-thirds of British Millennials - would like a company to use these technologies to showcase products in a more interesting way. The potential for transforming the kind of displays and signage wide-format printers supply to retailers and brands is obvious. Equally, it could be possible, for example, to print a wallpaper for the British Museum that enabled the visitor to ‘see’ the battle of Hastings. It may not be Magic Leap that makes the breakthrough. Apart from Microsoft, Apple and Facebook are interested in the technology and two Silicon Valley start-ups, Meta and Atheer have raised millions to fund their development. What is clear is that, in the next five years, we will be offered technology that will enable us to ‘mix reality’. The big question then - which even Abovitz, whatever his gut instinct tells him, can’t conclusively answer - is whether enough of us want to mix reality. 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__label__wiki	0.687433	0.687433	Updates coming Rule changes for travelling minors to SA planned ahead of busy December holiday season Gabi Zietsman Visa reforms and waivers will soon be announced - including changes to requirements for travelling minors in SA - to be officially gazetted in October. Cabinet received a joint report from the Ministers of Home Affairs and Tourism - Malusi Gigaba and Derek Hanekom - which laid out many visa-related reforms that will make it easier for tourists, business people and academia to visit South Africa. The biggest issue is the hoops foreign tourists have to jump through when travelling with minors and obtaining unabridged birth certificates, and changes to this regulation will also be included in the reforms, the state has confirmed. There are also negotiations on visa waivers and relaxation of visa requirements from certain countries which are being finalised, and further details will be announced later this week. This is expected to include China and India, as part of high-level agreements between the countries and South Africa that was announced in July during the BRICS summit. According to the latest StatsSA figures for May 2018, compared to May 2017, Indian tourist arrivals to South Africa was down 12%, while China was up by 5%. While the details of the Chinese visa agreement is not confirmed, Hanekom did mention that one of the options being considered was a “multiple entry Visa” that would be valid for five years and offer tourists up to 90 days in the country. South Africa is also rolling out e-visas soon, set to be a gradual roll-out starting with "Phase 1, Release 1, for applications for temporary residence visas, adjudication of temporary residence visas, applications for waivers, notifications to the applicant via email and biometrics captured at the Mission." The ePermit will be piloted at one Mission or local office in the last quarter of the next financial year by 31 March 2019. This is to ensure system stability. Once stable, more offices locally and abroad can then be gradually brought online, says the DHA This is sure to make travel to South Africa much simpler and less complicated once it is up and running.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1287
__label__wiki	0.647286	0.647286	Tag Archives: american horror story roanoke spoilers American Horror Story: Roanoke Update! Ryan Murphy Spills More Details On Big Twist! Well, we’re not sure if a spoiler warning is in order here or not. There wasn’t a spoiler warning on the story, and Ryan Murphy pretty much gave the details casually, possibly because we are less than 48 hours away from “Chapter Six”. Most of it is pretty good news… So, we got this all from a new piece that is exclusive to Entertainment Weekly. If you want to cut to the chase and read the story online, here’s the link (it’s their scoop, not ours). Okay! First, Lady Gaga’s primal witch character, Scathach, ties in to Coven. Turns out that RM has confirmed she was the “first Supreme”. He alludes a little more to a Coven crossover, and we have to be honest: Coven was our least favorite season (admittedly, it didn’t help any that it had a tough act to follow, which was Asylum). But that’s just our opinion, and Coven did have some high points (Misty, Marie LaVeau, and Fiona was pretty fun, off the top of our heads). Murphy went on to say that American Horror Story will return to the Coven storyline in future seasons, but he doesn’t know when that will be. Speaking of different seasons, we will see more Freak Show. To quote Murphy directly: “Next year, we will be going back to some Freak Show characters, deeper histories and mythologies. So we’re sort of still exploring season 4 in season 7.” Fine with us, especially if we get to see Naomi Grossman as Pepper again! Taissa Farmiga fans, rejoice! She will return this season! Ryan Murphy told EW.com that he brought Farmiga back in (after her sitting out Freak Show and Hotel) because it was a matter of coming up with the right part for her. He also confirmed that, though there are only ten episodes (GODDAMNIT!), the finale will be a pretty big deal. “The finale is the wrap-up to Roanoke but the mythology and some of the characters will continue in subsequent seasons. So it’s the ending but not the ending,” says Murphy. Hmmmm… Also, Murphy really stresses that the “upcoming twist” will be the biggest twist the series has had so far. Since we are on Season Six, that is saying quite a bit. We are trying to manage our expectations, but the other fans we’ve heard from are expecting nothing but being completely blown away. Several have said, in fact, they will be really pissed off if it doesn’t make their jaw hit the floor. Horror Boom is still sticking to our “Found footage, plus going behind the scenes of the filming of My Roanoke Nightmare, possibly including some American Horror Story regulars such as Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates playing themselves” theory. We found another Entertainment Weekly online story that went up after Chapter Five ended last week, with co-creator Brad Falchuck. In it, he says that fans should be prepared for these next batches of episodes to be their own thing. He explains, “I really think it’s three seasons: it’s like [episodes] 1 through 5, 6 through 9, and 10 is its own thing.” He also stresses, regarding the twist: “No matter what you think it is, it’s not that.” Well, that certainly doesn’t sound boring! We just hope we get to see Evan Peters again. Here’s the teaser for tomorrow night’s episode one more time. The “never stop recording, no matter what,” found-footage statement reminds us of the original [REC] (2007). As everyone who has seen the movie will recall, that didn’t turn out well for absolutely anyone, though we’re glad they kept recording so we could have the living shit scared out of us. Souce: Entertainment Weekly Online Hell, we were really bummed out when we realized “Hotel” would only have 12 episodes. How do you think we feel now? No holiday break! What are we supposed to do now for our “post-Christmas depression”? On the bright side, we still have a chance for the two-part Halloween episode. They’d better not skip it this year. *unless you count La Nina Medieros, AKA ‘The Attic Monster’ Our theory is that they spelled out “PIG” on purpose… Posted By: Mrs. Horror Boom (HorrorBoom.com) Category: American Horror Story, American Horror Story, Found-Footage Horror, Horror Anthologies, Horror Boom, Horror Franchises - Featuring All the Best, Horror on TV, Images and Galleries, It's Just So Wrong, Raves- BITCHIN'!, The Stuff of Nightmares, Trailers and Clips, TV Dramas Tags: american horror story roanoke episode 6 spoilers, american horror story roanoke spoilers, american horror story roanoke twist, American horror story season 6 big twist, american horror story season 6 found footage, evan peters American Horror Story, Taissa Farmiga American Horror Story Ten Scary Things We Learned From American Horror Story: Roanoke “Chapter Five” (SPOILERS) Once more, BIG spoiler warnings for the entire season so far of American Horror Story: Roanoke. Especially Chapter Five! And boy oh boy, do we have lots of images for you! Evan Peters is finally here on Roanoke! In possibly the best cold open American Horror Story has had since the “Freaks” tribute in Season 4’s “Showstoppers”, we find out he plays an extremely wealthy hardcore art enthusiast named Edward Philippe Mott. In 1792, he made the horrendous mistake of using the Roanoke cursed property to build a huge mansion as retreat for him, his art, and his lover Guinness. And yes, he was an ancestor of the narcissistic sociopath Dandy Mott from American Horror Story Freakshow. “Madness always ran in the family,” Doris Kearns Goodwin (as herself) tells us. On the night of the blood moon (we get a great shot of it hanging in the sky, crimson and sickly), his paintings get mauled and he freaks out (reacting as a parent would if they found their child’s head on a stick), screaming at his poor staff and then tossing them in the seriously deep root cellar (where they stayed until they had rotted into skeletal remains). Mott does not locate “the thief”. Instead, Tomasyn and her murderous supernatural gang drag him out of the house, impale him with a huge sharpened stake, and then push him into the fire while he is still screaming. So none of that worked out for anyone human. 2. If Tomasyn is really, really pissed off at you during a blood moon, she can summon all her past victims. After the female Thai Ghost girl dropped into frame– about two seconds after Matt and Shelby told her to be brave because they were going to make it out of there– and made Flora scream, we knew they were going to wrap up the “My Roanoke Nightmare” true crime/reality show portion of the season (more on that later) and that we were in for one hell of a fun episode, so we turned of all the lights but our flatscreen, and sat back and let the roller coaster-haunted house thrill-ride begin. Oh Shit! Run! Right off the bat, the Millers got the scary Thai ghost lady (if you are a Horror Boom regular, you already know we are huge, reverent fans of Thai ghost stories), who scuttles off speedily with poor Flora and eventually lets her go but leaves finger-shaped scars on her arms. The half-naked guy who has a pig’s head stuck over his own and makes horrible inhuman squeals, as well as the hunters who blew each other’s heads off proceed to corral the Millers for “an easy slaughter” while Tomasyn and her gang set the Miller’s cars on fire for good measure. Apparently, what Elias told them was true: all her former victims were still so terrified of her that she could control them when she needs them. Can you find the Thai Ghost Girl in this photo? 3. It turns out that Edward Philippe Mott’s severe social anxiety is what helps The Millers escape from the interior of the house and into the woods. In an extremely welcome return, he appears to them in the cellar (“Perhaps I may be of some assistance.”) and tells them he was the original owner. He leads him through the network of tunnels he included in the building (to smuggle out his beloved and expensive paintings if they were in danger) and tells them that though everything has been taken from him, he has been left with one sliver of grace: his solitude. “I can hardly suffer three more souls,” he explains. He gets them out of there and into the woods not so much out of kindness, but selfishness, but the Millers understandably don’t really give a shit because they just want to get as far away from the house as possible. To make the scene even more unnerving, his face flickers very briefly a few times in the light of his torch, revealing something far from human… 4. Elias wasn’t killed by the arrows, but it really would have been better if he had just died in the first place. Things do not improve for the Millers after Edward Mott dematerializes in the woods, away from the house as promised. Shelby realizes that in the forest, they are nothing more than prey. But, wait! Flora sees a light! Before they can wonder where the hell they are, they get whacked on the heads by shovels and unseen figures shove burlap sacks over their heads. They end up in the same blood-curdling house where they’d seen the grotesque feral kids suckling the pig (who as I recall was dead or dying at the time–there were lots of flies around at the time, anyway). It turns out they are all members of the same terrible Polk clan, who are not only probably inbred, vicious, hostile, and insane hillbillys, but are also predatory cannibals! They kept poor Elias (who is terrified of “Mama Polk” and begs Matt to just kill him) alive so they could take his leg and his arm and eat him. As a small mercy for Elias, Mama Polk (Frances Conroy, another welcome familiar face along with Evan Peters) tries to eat a piece of “jerky” from him but spits it out, declaring that it, and Elias, are rancid. She says there’s no more use for him and they promptly cave in his head with a shovel. It isn’t pretty. Looks like Denis O’Hare needed a head cast made at some point in the production of this season. Oh, but it gets worse. It turns out The Polk family have had a deal with Tomasyn going back 200 years; they help provide for the blood sacrifice, and she leaves them (and their cannabis crops) alone. Could we mention that Frances Conroy can be really, really fucking scary when she wants to be? She delivers her most frightening performance–as Mama Polk– on the entire series to date. As such, the Polks are going to return them to the dreaded house and the even more dreaded Tomasyn and her large group of murderous pilgrims. 5. Did we mention that Matt means well, but isn’t a rocket scientist when it comes to escape? They ride back in the bed of the pick-up with two of the Polks; Ishmael drives and Lot, played by Chas Bono, holds a shotgun pointed at them (also in the back). Matt makes his move and forces the shotgun away from him and his family, and successfully (though also possibly accidentally) blows Ishmael Polk’s head clean off (okay, maybe not so clean, but that head is mostly gone). Then he shoves Lot Polk over the side of the truck, leaving him sort of disabled on the road! Why, this is great news! Matt can simply shove the headless body out of the driver’s seat, grab the shotgun for back-up, hop in with his family, put the pedal to the metal and drive to safety at top speed! The keys are in the ignition, and the motor is even still running! Wait, Matt? Matt? Where are you going, Matt? Don’t run off into the woods, dummy, Lot is clearly not dead and still has his shotgun! Sigh. What is left of Ishmael’s head. The only explanation we get for this stupidity (other than total panic) is his statement: “I figured I’d rather us take our chances in the woods than be slaughtered like pigs”. Nope, that still doesn’t make sense to us, there was very little chance of them being slaughtered if they had grabbed up all the shotguns and drove out of town as fast as they could, meanwhile NOTHING has ever worked out for them in the woods!** In fact, the woods are not even safe in broad daylight, especially during the blood moon! They run into the woods, huddle up together and hide (sort of) behind a log. Within seconds, Lot is standing over them with his shotgun pointed in their direction and soon after that, Mama Polk is so infuriated with them killing her son that she brings her shovel down on poor Shelby’s ankle, hobbling her in a gruesome mess. Jesus! We actually thought her foot was severed at first. 7. Matt’s sister Lee, though, is thinking straight. “Whatever was going on, it was bad. Matt wouldn’t just ignore my call, especially if he had Flora,” she recalls, and immediately asks the cop leaving the station with her for a ride. When they get near the Roanoke house, with all the murderous colonists plus Tomasyn carrying torches and standing around a blazing inferno of a bonfire in front, she calls out for the cop giving her a ride to stop and tells him to call for backup. For some reason (possibly because he sees what is going on and says “fuck this, I’m outta here”) he pulls out and hastily drives off, but Lee hears Flora’s screams and heads towards them. 8. Apparently, Tomasyn’s son Ambrose (Wes Bentley) is still pissed at his mother for killing him. He has also had enough, because he snaps. Right before it looks like poor Flora is going to die horribly, Ambrose puts Flora down instead of into the fire and yells, “Nooooo! I shall not stand by and watch thou shed another drop of innocent blood!” Ambrose conks her over the head with a huge piece of wood, then pulls her into the fire with him. When the Millers make their getaway (thanks again to Lee, pulling up in a car and yelling for them to get in) Shelby looks back and sees Tomasyn engulfed in flames, but still blundering towards them. Oh Shit! Drive! Oh, and you know who else is not too fond of Tomasyn? Little Priscilla, who was Flora’s “invisible friend” and probably remembers Tomasyn bashing her head in with a giant rock. Seriously, watch the smile on her face as The Butcher burns. “How do you like getting hit over the head, bitch?” 9. Shelby still has nightmares. We get a fake-out at the motel, when Shelby makes her way slowly on crutches towards the door and sees smoke leaking in from under it. She opens it just in time to see a burning Tomasyn before The Butcher buries a cleaver in her skull… then she jolts awake. “To this day, I still have that dream,” Shelby tells us. “I’ve tried yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy… We escaped with our lives, but I never completely got over it. I’m not sure I ever will.” 10. “My Roanoke Nightmare” as we know it has ended, but we still have five episodes left in the season. Ryan Murphy told us that in episode six, everything would get turned on its head. From the teaser for next episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke, it looks like we are entering (at least partially) “found footage” territory. Cheyanne Jackson, who played the interviewer in the reality-show segments, is seen in what looks like some kind of studio interior telling the camera, “Rolling? The camera never stops. No matter what anyone says, even if I tell you to stop, keep rolling, got it?” Cuba Gooding Jr. also made a comment about “breaking the fourth wall”, which leads us to think we might see some of the “re-enactors” such as Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates playing themselves. Notice how we never got any closure on Lady Gaga’s primal witch character, Scathach? We think we might see her again. Hell, the Polks didn’t get killed off either (other than Ishmael), they just drove off. Stray Thoughts: Evan Peters seemed to be having a blast playing Edward Mott. Nice to see a little snippet in the final act of the episode where he returns and cuts Matt and Shelby’s ropes so they “can make a grand escape”. If we were in the middle of building a house and heard a loud, horrible sound (the Closed Captions described it as an “inhuman howl”) coming from the woods in broad daylight, we’d dismantle the house and build it the fuck somewhere else. Doris Kearns Goodwin (who was wonderful to see cast as herself) reports that the “last Mott” died in South Florida in 1952. That story checks out. Good riddance, Dandy! So far, the AHS stars that we were told would appear as cast members this season but have yet to see are: Matt Bomer and Finn Whitrock. We wouldn’t be shocked to have a surprise appearance from, say, Gabourey Sidibe, Mare Winningham, Connie Britton, or NPH. Aaaand, here’s the rest of those photos! Horror Boom does not own the rights to any of the American Horror Story images in this piece, FX owns the copyright. The ones here are provided for entertainment purposes only. Was I the only one that loved it when Evan Peters (as Edward Mott, that is) grabbed Guiness by his collar and pulled him in for a big deep kiss? The icing on the cake is that since Edward was part of the Mott family and had so far seemed pretty arrogant and snotty, we thought when he snapped, “Wait! Come back,” to Guiness it was going to be because he was going to bark some racist order at him. Instead, he passionately kissed him in front of his workers and staff. Unless you want to count Matt getting to bang Scathach (Lady Gaga), though from the look on his face, he wasn’t getting any pleasure out of it at all. Posted By: Mrs. Horror Boom (HorrorBoom.com) Category: American Horror Story, Disturbing Image Warning (Even For Horror Boom), Gorehounds Unite!, HOAH!, Horror Anthologies, Horror Boom, Horror on TV, Images and Galleries, It's Just So Wrong, Raves- BITCHIN'!, The Stuff of Nightmares, TV Dramas Tags: american horror story reality show, american horror story roanoke chapter 6, american horror story roanoke chapter 6 images, american horror story roanoke chapter six, american horror story roanoke spoilers, american horror story season 6 explanation, evan peters on american horror story season 6 roanoke, lady gaga american horror story season 6, my roanoke nightmare spoilers Want Intel On Upcoming ‘American Horror Story: Roanoke’ Events? Lookie Here! OK, so we don’t exactly know every single little thing (and face it, you wouldn’t want to know everything any more than we would) but this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features Ryan Murphy and some of his favorite talent on the cover, with a big chunk devoted to AHS Roanoke. He drops some VERY interesting teasers on the episodes to come, and though he’s not dumb enough to give outright spoilers, there is quite a bit of information on what to expect this season, even some specifics about tie-ins to other seasons (hint: they’re not the seasons you’d expect). Here’s some specific highlights from the Entertainment Weekly cover story, plus some extra goodies! NOTE: SPOILERS INCLUDED FOR AMERICAN HORROR STORY SEASON SIX : ROANOKE. IF YOU ARE NOT CAUGHT UP ON EPISODES ONE TO THREE, STOP READING AND CATCH UP. What the hell are you waiting for, anyhow? Dandy Mott origin story, anyone? Remember that rotten, murderous, rich little prick from Freak Show? Finn Whitrock’s Dandy turned out to be much more dangerous and horrible than Twisty the Clown. He definitely deserved the horrible death he got while the surviving characters watched while happily chomping popcorn. Ryan Murphy says that we can expect the shows to “explain how the Motts began”. We hope that means we’ll get to see Frances Conroy this season, because we really missed her during Hotel. Roanoke might seem more stripped down–RM’s rule going in was “no script longer than 36 pages, no cut longer than 41 minutes”*–but we still will get plenty of gore. For instance, he says, “If you ever want to see how you do a human disembowling, watch episode four and you’ll learn a lot”. You would think Kathy Bates as “The Butcher” and her gang of long-dead colonists (Lady Gaga plays one), along with the murderous bloodthirsty nurses, would provide enough scares. We also get “Piggy Man”, as another horrifying apparition (or is he?), and the EW story refers to him as “one of the main baddies”. Piggy Man, who we saw in one of Dr. Cunningham’s found-footage VHS tapes, is the same one as the legend discussed in Murder House. While EW was visiting the set, someone was getting set up with a “crotch harness”, but it isn’t for what you’d think after watching AHS Hotel. A character is killed after a very nasty staircase fall. Here’s the big surprise: Halfway through the season, beginning with episode 6, everything you thought you knew about Roanoke gets flipped on its head. BIG TIME. Says Murphy: “The show has a huge turn, and the thing that you think you’re watching is not what you’re watching.” We are willing to bet that is going to include a departure from the mock reality crime show format. Here, piggy piggy… Our speculation on the big twist? The scope of the show is going to widen, because the fact that the “real” family (Shelby, Lee, and Matt Miller) who “My Roanoke Nightmare” is based on all are alive and appear to be in one piece kind of ruins any suspense regarding who will survive and who is not. The story in the reality show might seem to wrap up, but we’ll see the evil continuing on outside the show. Maybe Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Sarah Paulson themselves will be haunted, though that could get a little ‘meta’. Maybe we’ll see a little more a little more of Cheyenne Jackson (it took us a while to pick up on it, but he is the interviewer of the documentary My Roanoke Nightmare). Your guess is as good as ours… and there are plenty of theories to explore online. Let’s hope the episodes get longer than the bare minimum, and hey, maybe we’ll even see a fish-eye lens shot or two. We do have a few more miscellaneous nuggets from the Entertainment Weekly cover story. The whole “The Mist” misdirect isn’t mentioned (though it was pretty clever), but as far as all those involved in the filming and prep leading up to the surprise premiere date, they–and this is a direct quote– “took a blood oath not to reveal anything”. Scripts got shredded, actual security was hired, and even Sarah Paulson could only get two scripts in advance. Also, several phony semi-leaked plot descriptions were written under the name American Horror Story: Cul-de-Sac. Everything worked, up until some sleazes who wanted a payday from TMZ snuck onto the set and took a few photos, but fortunately, that was only a few days before the surprise premiere. Oh, and Murphy also knows the concept for next season… and then some. Oh, and any rabid Even Peters fans who have been really, really upset he hasn’t shown up yet three episodes in? Take a deep breath and try to be patient, he IS signed on for this season. He isn’t even listed as a special guest star, but as a part of the main cast. They may be saving him (along with Finn Whitrock and Matt Bomer) for after the big mid-season switcheroo! Source: Entertainment Weekly, “Unlocking American Horror Story” by Tim Stack @ewtimstack, September 30, 2016/Issue #1433 **Not going to lie, this bums us out. The last few season’s extended episodes (“Hotel” was especially generous with these, even though there were only 12 instead of the usual 13 episodes) spoiled us, we guess. We’re going to pretend really hard that we did not only see ten “chapters” listed for this season on the reliable IMDB episode guide, though… Posted By: Mrs. Horror Boom (HorrorBoom.com) Category: American Horror Story, American Horror Story, Found-Footage Horror, Historical Horror, Horror Anthologies, Horror Boom, Horror Franchises - Featuring All the Best, Horror on TV, Images and Galleries, Spoiler Alert! 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