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"Have We Forsaken Reading Theory in the Name of "Quick Fix" Interventio" by Donald L. Compton, Amanda C. Miller et al. Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content ePublications at Regis University My Account FAQ About Home < Previous Next > Home > FACULTY_PUBS > FACULTYPUBS > 670 Regis University Faculty Publications (comprehensive list) Title Have We Forsaken Reading Theory in the Name of "Quick Fix" Interventions for Children With Reading Disability? Authors Donald L. Compton, Vanderbilt University Amanda C. Miller, Regis University Amy M. Elleman, Middle Tennessee State University Laura M. Steacy, Vanderbilt University Document Type Article Publication Date 1-1-2014 Abstract Our contribution to this special issue on reading theory questions the effectiveness of the prevailing interventions intended to improve word-reading and reading comprehension skills in children with reading disability (RD). Our hypothesis is that we as a field may have inadvertently diluted reading theory in ways that compromise the power of intervention programs. For both word reading and reading comprehension we argue that current intervention programs target instruction at a knowledge level below that which is necessary to foster reading skill development that is "generative" in children with RD. Further, we contend that current interventions for children with RD fail to mimic and promote the inductive learning mechanisms that characterize typical reading development. Thus, we return to reading theory in an attempt to identify ways that current interventions may be reconceptualized to treat word-reading and reading comprehension deficits. In doing so, we call for the development of a new generation of reading interventions that target the fundamental knowledge structures and learning mechanisms known to support typical reading development. © 2014 Copyright 2014 Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Recommended Citation Compton, Donald L.; Miller, Amanda C.; Elleman, Amy M.; and Steacy, Laura M., "Have We Forsaken Reading Theory in the Name of "Quick Fix" Interventions for Children With Reading Disability?" (2014). Regis University Faculty Publications (comprehensive list). 670. https://epublications.regis.edu/facultypubs/670 This document is currently not available here. DOWNLOADS Since October 22, 2021 Share COinS Browse Collections Disciplines Authors Theses and Capstone Projects Expert Gallery Search Enter search terms: Select context to search: in this series in this repository across all repositories Advanced Search Notify me via email or RSS Author Corner Author FAQ Submit Research Digital Commons Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement Privacy Copyright | negative |
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There’s nothing like violence in the name of sport. Tomorrow, November 3rd, just a few minutes east of downtown Austin, you’ll get your chance to revel in the ancient sport of rugby.
You may be a rugby aficionado, but you’re probably not. Either way, this event is called the St. Crispin Cup for a reason. Six free kegs of Crispin Cider and 10 cases of Crispin and Miller-Coors will be on hand to dull your rugby knowledge or lack thereof.
There will be live music throughout the day, with a trophy presentation to conclude the festivities.
You’ll find this episode of rugby in Austin at 4107 Nixon Lane, about 10 minutes east of downtown.
Schedule for the Day
There will be three rugby matches total, starting at 12 PM. Here’s the full schedule:
12-1:30 PM: Huns “C” vs. Grand Prairie
2-3:30 PM: Huns “A” vs. Dallas Reds “A”
4-5:30 PM: Huns “B” vs. Dallas Reds “B”
This event is about more than rugby and Crispin. Soles4Souls, an organization that has delivered more than 19 million pairs of shoes to over 125 countries, will be taking shoe donations on site. If you have old pairs of shoes that are taking up room in your closet, bring them along. Not everyone has 20 pairs of shoes to pick from every day.
Huns Rugby, the event organizer, is also partnering with Movember to raise awareness for men’s health.
After Party at Recess Arcade Bar
Recess Arcade Bar is opening up their space for players and supporters starting at 9:30 PM. Ask for Nic or Terrell, who will guide you to the private entrance for the party. $2 Liquor 43 shots will be available.
We’re all about hyperlocal Austin events that are off the beaten path, and this is definitely our pick for this weekend. Hope you make it out, and don’t forget to take some shoes to donate.
@QuasiBrit asks:
Do you know the rules of rugby?
Photos via Flickr CC, courtesy of Dave Wilson, Mitch and Stephen.
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Wondering what all is new in CF10? Have I got a list for you! :-) (revision 1.9, 217 items
I've not yet seen anyone try to create an ultimate list of *all* the new features in CF10, so here's my shot at it. (This is based on the public beta. I will update it soon with info from the final release.) Of course many (including Adobe) have created lists that show perhaps a couple dozen of what they think may be the most prominent features, or the most interesting for them, etc. I've just not yet seen anyone list even simply all the features mentioned in the beta new features guide. That's what I'm doing here.
But to be clear, I am not listing every new tag and function (that would be tedious.) Instead, I'm listing them as concepts, and where warranted, any relevant subtopics that expand on the new feature.
I've got more to say about the list (how I created it basically from the 244-page CF10 new feature docs, and what you can do to help expand it). But some will want me to cut to the chase, so here's the list. Please check out the additional discussion after it.
Charlie's Ultimate List of new CF10 Features, revision 1.9 (Sep 12 2012), listing 217 items1
(If you want an easy URL to share for this, use tinyurl.com/ultimatecf10list.)
Replacement of JRun with Tomcat Many are reporting better performance from this change Includes support for instances and clusters, as previously (since final, this is clarified as still being Enterprise-only) Support for IIS, Apache, and built-in web server, as previously Support for SSL and virtual directories Support for CFStat, even in multiple instances (and how to change the connector port for that) Support for SES (Search engine safe) URLs and log rotation, as previously Support for persistent sessions over restarts (more on that in a later blog post) Support for configuring Apache virtual host for each ColdFusion instance new sessionStartTime function (this seems listed in the wrong place in the doc) (as of final release, not mentioned in docs nor appearing in results of CF's getfunctionlist function. See instead new sessiongetmetadata function, which returns same session start time (for current session).) New Admin API method to obtain instance name (getinstancename in runtime.cfc), versus old jrun method getServerName in the jrunx.kernel.JRun class
Security enhancements Handling XSS attacks Only the following characters are allowed as values for the attribute name in the tag cfform : alphanumeric characters, _ (underscore), - (hyphen), : (colon), and . (dot). It prevents stored XSS for the scriptsrc field The following new encoding methods are added to reduce XSS attack vulnerability: encodeForHTML , encodeForHTMLAttribute , encodeForJavaScript , encodeForCSS , and encodeForURL . Encode the user inputs depending on the contexts. To decode the input string, added a method: canonicalize Handling CSRF attacks CSRFGenerateToken: Returns a random token and stores it in the session CSRFVerifyToken: Validates the given token and the key against the same stored in the session Session improvements CF Session cookies ( CFID , CFTOKEN , CFAuthorization_app-name ). The new features to manage session cookies are: The following properties of ColdFusion session cookies can be configured at server level or application level: httponly : true by default secure : false by default domain timeout : 30 years by default New methods added for session management: SessionInvalidate , SessionRotate Handling CRLF attacks Protection is added against CRLF attacks for the tags which create a header, for example, cfheader , cfcontent , cfmail , cfmailpart , and cfmailparam Information disclosure (Passwords for all services are encrypted in this version) New HMAC function (Hash-based Message Authentication Code) cfcookie support in CFScript Miscellaneous Changes The httponly cookies support is available on Tomcat supporting J2EE 1.6 A new parameter, numIteration , is added to the hash() method Strengthened cflogin and authorization cookies If the action attribute is not specified in the cfform tag, it does not generate the action using the current URL. If there are issues, add the following entry in the ColdFusion-install-dir\cfusion\bin\jvm.config file: -Dcoldfusion.generateformaction=true (This was changed by the final release, so no longer a "feature", as it negatively impacted some applications. See comment below by Aaron Neff.)
ColdFusion WebSocket Broadcast Point to point
Language enhancements Support for for-in construct (for query) Provide cffile content in the tag body Callstack for ColdFusion functions (new function CallStackDump ) Getting application metadata (new function getApplicationMetadata ) Getting disk space details (new getTotalSpace , getFreeSpace functions) Application-specific In-memory file system Securing your uploads by default (by verifying the MIME type), (Note that some of the features below are useful beyond just securing file uploads) New Application.cfc event method, onAbort New action copy for cfdirectory New function directoryCopy Modifications to the tag cffile New function FileGetMimeType New function ArraySlice New parameter merge supports arrayAppend Implicit constructor for CFC Method chaining for CFC methods CFC Implicit notation New parameter format added to LSParseDateTime function New attribute runOnce added to cfinclude New attribute timeout in cfstoredproc New attribute maxLength in cfparam New functions dateTimeFormat and lsDateTimeFormat New function reEscape The function replaceList takes delimiters Modifications to the functions arraySort , listSort , and structSort Implicit struct now supports use of : (colon) separator The attribute output is ignored in the interface signature FUNCTION is now a ColdFusion datatype Dynamic references supported in query looping New function invoke New attribute secure in cfpop New attribute group in cfloop For-in constructs now support Java arrays Enhancements to queryAddRow and queryNew functions New function listRemoveDuplicates Support for XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 syntax (Note that there are some other new tags and functions, mentioned in other sections of this document.)
Closures Also adds several new functions, some useful with on their own as well as with closures: ArrayEach , ArrayFilter , ArrayFind , ArrayFindAll , ListFilter , isClosure , StructEach , StructFilter
Enhanced Java integration Integrating Java libraries (dynamic class loading) CFC Proxy ( cfcproxy ) createDynamicProxy function
ColdFusion ORM search (full text search) Settable at application, component, and property level Supports both Auto-indexing (on persistence) or Offline indexing (on-demand using ORMIndex )
Solr enhancements 2 Use Data Import Handler for database indexing Index and search based on dynamic custom fields Reload individual collections Add languages for search Secure your search system using ColdFusion Administrator Autocommit indexed documents Boost specific fields or entire document for improved search results
Scheduler enhancements Grouping Application-specific tasks Event Handling Chaining Cluster Cron commands Prioritize tasks Exclude dates In case of error If task misfires Pause and resume/Pause all and resume all (in cfschedule) List tasks Retry Repeat Customize quartz
New system functions getSystemFreeMemory getSystemTotalMemory getCPUUsage
Connect to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Folder operations such as create, modify, or delete Get rooms and roomlist in the exchange organization Information on user availability, that helps effective scheduling Conversation operations such as find conversation details, copy, move, and the status if the conversation is read
Lazy loading across client and server (for applications that use ColdFusion ORM in the back end and Flex as the front end)
Web service enhancements Adds WSDL 2.0 specification support to current WSDL 1.1 Axis 2 support in ColdFusion lets you consume web services that publish WSDL in the following styles: Adds "Document Literal Wrapped", to current RPC and Document Literal support Adds SOAP 1.2 protocol support to current SOAP 1.1
RESTful Web Services in ColdFusion Follows HTTP request-response model Supports all HTTP methods Implicit handling of serialization/deserialization Publish web service as both REST service and WSDL service
Media Player enhancements HTML 5 video playback capability
Fallback to HTML 5 video playback if Flash player is not installed
Browser independent video controls
Dynamic streaming of Flash videos
Advanced skinning for media player
Play list for Flash videos
Embedding subtitles in SRT format using HTML track element
Extending media player using plug-ins built using Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), for example to:
Play videos in the YouTube server
Use stage video support by showing advertisements within the videos in linear and non-linear mode
Adding title to the video
HTML enhancements Displaying geolocation
cfinput attribute type now supports all HTML 5 input types, for example, email, range, or date; as well as new attributes such as max and min.
Client-side charting Popular chart formats with appropriate fallback functionality: Use HTML 5, Flash, SVG, or VML charts
Caching enhancements Application-specific caching (optional along with existing server-level)
Enhanced query caching using Ehcache (configurable at server or app level, including max size and removal of cache entries by id or region)
New and modified cache functions
removeCachedQuery
Enhancements to existing cache functions
Cache statistics
CFLOGIN now uses ehcache for an authentication cache
Other enhancements Virtual File System: Support for HTTP, FTP, and ZIP
CAR, migration, and Code Analyzer (not really "new" in CF10, nor even seemingly updated)
(not really "new" in CF10, nor even seemingly updated) Interoperability with Microsoft Office 2010
ColdFusion image enhancements An optional attribute interpolation has been added to cfimage action = "resize" for resampling Change of behavior if attribute name used for cfimage action = "captcha" (with respect to destination ) The function imageDrawText now returns struct with width, height of text drawn Fallback to system font for cfimage action = "captcha" New function imageCreateCaptcha New function ImageMakeColorTransparent creates an image and sets a transparent color New function ImageMakeTranslucent create a new translucent image with given percentage of translucence New parameters rule and alpha for the function imageOverlay
Support for HTML 5 multifile input field in fileUploadAll and Form scope
and Form scope Function expandPath resolves files in custom tag directory
resolves files in custom tag directory Form fields with same name can be accepted as an array, if new this.sameformfieldsasarray = "true" is used
is used Enhancements to Amazon S3 integration regarding file uploads
Database enhancements Track client information (enable auditing on database, while performing a database operation, in databases that support such tracking) using new ClientInfo attribute available on query tags to set the info use new type="clientinfo" for CFDBINFO to determine supported ClientInfo properties retrieve tracking info passed using new fetchclientinfo attribute on query tags Can pass client information on datasource definition in ColdFusion administrator Support for new SQL types (CF_SQL_NCHAR, CF_SQL_NVARCHAR, CF_SQL_LONGNVARCHAR, CF_SQL_NCLOB, CF_SQL_SQLXML) Miscellaneous enhancements that include enhancements to connection validation and exception handling (returned with cfcatch type=database )
ColdFusion Administrator enhancements Server update (auto hotfix management) List available updates Notification of new updates (on admin front page) Download updates, to apply now or later (via gui or command line)
Scheduler (scheduled task interface) Manage Application- and Server- Level Scheduled Tasks Enable Cluster Setup
Securing search system (can make Solr an HTTPS secured server)
Caching enhancements Use Internal Cache to store queries Clearing query cache Clearing folder-specific template cache
Web services specifying default Axis version specifying proxy server details (previously settable only on cfinvoke )
RDS can be enabled from ColdFusion Administrator
Can disable dumping of application scope of unnamed applications
Developer edition is now no longer limited to "the first two IP addresses that reach it" (which required a restart to reset) but instead can have up to any 2 concurrent IP addresses make requests against it at once
Accessing the ColdFusion Administrator in Developer mode when 2-IP address access limit is reached
Restricting access to ColdFusion Administrator (optionally, to specified IP addresses)
Logging Administrator actions (all admin changes now tracked in audit.log file)
file) Available Administrator password reset script
You are logged out from one of the ColdFusion administrators, if from the same host, you log in to the ColdFusion (10) Administrator and the ColdFusion Administrator of an older version
For a user with RDS access, in the ColdFusion Administrator, you can set the data source and secured file path permissions
The default values for the new sandbox are changed to make it more secure
Changes to the default settings (for new CF installations, and/or depending on whether "secure profile" is selected on installation) Client variable storage name now defaults to cookie Use UUID for cftoken now defaults to enabled Enable Global Script Protection now defaults to enabled Maximum number of simultaneous Template requests raised from 10 to 25 Maximum number of simultaneous CFC function requests (called via URL) raised from 10 to 15 Minimum JVM Heap Size (MB) changed from unspecified to 256mb Maximum size of post data (in MB) lowered from 100mb to 20mb Enable ColdFusion Event Gateway Services now disabled by default
Session cookie settings (HTTPONLY session cookie, Secure Session cookie, Session cookie timeout options)
Server monitor now shows URL for request, in request details 3 How did I come up with list? I obtained this list mostly from the Beta New Features Guide, which is listed from the CF10 wiki. Surprisingly, there's no table of contents, which makes it hard therefore to appreciate what all is there. Instead, there is only the bookmarks bar on the left (if you view the doc as a PDF), and that does have an outline structure, but you have to expand each one to see all that's new, which I doubt most would bother to do. So then you would have to browse the whole document and identify the headings, etc. I've filed a bug report (3132948) recommending a Table of Contents be added, if you may want to vote for it. To begin, I grabbed all the main sections (and some of the subsections) of that left navbar of the PDF to create this list. I also found often that some sections had features that were not drawn out into separate subsections in that outline of topics. Further, I also tweaked the wording a bit where necessary to make this stand better as a list on its own. So my list here really is more than "just a regurgitation of the document outline". FWIW, nearly all the same topics are listed also in the CF10 doc "Developing ColdFusion Applications", in the section, "What's new in ColdFusion 10". Just like the new features document and its PDF outline tree, in this other document you do also need to drill into each heading to find more details, and often it does not even list the details in the new features PDF (which at 224 pages is quite substantial). Finding code examples and more information Again, at 224 pages the new features PDF is quite substantial, and in many cases it does offer code examples for the new features. You can find still more examples, as well as more info, from any of many blog entries that have been written by various people (Adobe folks before the beta, and them and others after its release). The best news is that, just as with CF 9, inveterate fellow-list maker Albarsait has started his Adobe ColdFusion 10 Tutorials and Resources page where he tracks nearly all such resources (following almost the same pattern of top-level topics as I do above). The list will surely evolve, help me do so This is revision 1.8 of the list (as of an update I've done Mar 8 2012). I suspect it will grow and evolve. I know of some items that are being discussed that are not in this list, but I wanted to at least get this out as is in case it may help some readers. I will likely update it in place at least until it changes somehow substantially, so keep coming back to check the version if you're interested in tracking all that's new. :-) I've had thought of doing something still more substantial, like a wiki (that many of us together would contribute to, to elaborate on each feature, show examples, point to resources like blog entries, etc.) If you may be interested in contributing to such a concept, let me know in the comments. (Sadly, we can't seem to contribute to the labs wiki. Plus, that will likely be removed once the beta is over.) BTW, some of you will know that I created a similar list back in Oct 2011, when I did a talk called, "What's new in Zeus. I had compiled that list from the few public presentations Adobe had given. Silly me, I never got around to offering that list as a blog entry, so many never noticed it. I hope this list may help more people. If you have items you think ought to be added, do let me know in the comments, which will serve as your means of being credited (I'd rather not clutter the list with names if I add items, for now). Footnotes For more content like this: Signup to get my blog posts by email:
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Team news: Barrett comes in for Mayo August 26, 2015
Mayo's Chris Barrett. INPHO Mayo's Chris Barrett. INPHO
Chris Barrett replaces Tom Cunniffe in the Mayo team to play Dublin in Sunday's All-Ireland SFC semi-final.
It is the only change to the starting fifteen with Cunniffe, who suffered a hamstring injury in the quarter-final, making way.
Goalkeeper David Clarke is passed fit to play despite having also been injured in the last eight win over Donegal.
Mayo (SFC v Dublin) - 1. David Clarke, 2. Ger Cafferkey, 3. Donal Vaughan, 4. Keith Higgins, 5. Lee Keegan, 6. Chris Barrett, 7. Colm Boyle, 8. Seamus O'Shea, 9. Tom Parsons, 10. Diarmuid O'Connor, 11. Aidan O'Shea, 12. Kevin McLoughlin, 13. Barry Moran, 14. Cillian O'Connor,15. Jason Doherty.
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Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms,
I filled with love, and she all over charms;
Both equally inspired with eager fire,
Melting through kindness, flaming in desire.
With arms, legs, lips close clinging to embrace, [5]
She clips me to her breast, and sucks me to her face.
Her nimble tongue, Love's lesser lightening, played
Within my mouth, and to my thoughts conveyed
Swift orders that I should prepare to throw
The all-dissolving thunderbolt below. [10]
My fluttering soul, sprung with the painted kiss,
Hangs hovering o'er her balmy brinks of bliss.
But whilst her busy hand would guide that part
Which should convey my soul up to her heart,
In liquid raptures I dissolve all o'er, [15]
Melt into sperm, and spend at every pore.
A touch from any part of her had done't:
Her hand, her foot, her very look's a cunt. Smiling, she chides in a kind murmuring noise,
And from her body wipes the clammy joys, [20]
When, with a thousand kisses wandering o'er
My panting bosom, "Is there then no more?"
She cries. "All this to love and rapture's due;
Must we not pay a debt to pleasure too?" But I, the most forlorn, lost man alive, [25]
To show my wished obedience vainly strive:
I sigh, alas! and kiss, but cannot swive.
Eager desires confound my first intent,
Succeeding shame does more success prevent,
And rage at last confirms me impotent. [30]
Ev'n her fair hand, which might bid heat return
To frozen age, and make cold hermits burn,
Applied to my dead cinder, warms no more
Than fire to ashes could past flames restore.
Trembling, confused, despairing, limber, dry, [35]
A wishing, weak, unmoving lump I lie.
This dart of love, whose piercing point, oft tried,
With virgin blood ten thousand maids have dyed;
Which nature still directed with such art
That it through every cunt reached every heart — [40]
Stiffly resolved, 'twould carelessly invade
Woman or man, nor aught its fury stayed:
Where'er it pierced, a cunt it found or made —
Now languid lies in this unhappy hour,
Shrunk up and sapless like a withered flower. [45] Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame,
False to my passion, fatal to my fame,
Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove
So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?
What oyster-cinder-beggar-common whore [50]
Didst thou e'er fail in all thy life before?
When vice, disease, and scandal lead the way,
With what officious haste dost thou obey!
Like a rude, roaring hector in the streets
Who scuffles, cuffs, and justles all he meets, [55]
But if his king or country claim his aid,
The rakehell villain shrinks and hides his head;
Ev'n so thy brutal valour is displayed,
Breaks every stew, does each small whore invade,
But when great Love the onset does command, [60]
Base recreant to thy prince, thou dar'st not stand.
Worst part of me, and henceforth hated most,
Through all the town a common fucking-post,
On whom each whore relieves her tingling cunt
As hogs do rub themselves on gates and grunt, [65]
May'st thou to ravenous chancres be a prey,
Or in consuming weepings waste away;
May strangury and stone thy days attend;
May'st thou ne'er piss, who did refuse to spend
When all my joys did on false thee depend. [70] And may ten thousand abler pricks agree
To do the wronged Corinna right for thee. | positive |
SACRAMENTO, CA - NOVEMBER 20: Jimmy Butler #21 of the Chicago Bulls handles the ball against the Sacramento Kings on November 20, 2014 at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2014 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images) Bulls wing Jimmy Butler. (Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images)
The Bulls have extended All-Star wing Jimmy Butler a maximum qualifying offer of five years worth around $90 million, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Eric Pincus , a move that adds a wrinkle to Butler’s free agency.
By virtue of the Bulls extending that, any offer sheet Butler signs from another team must be for at least three years, options excluded. That’s significant because Butler reportedly wants to pursue a shorter-term deal so that he can become a free agent sooner and maximize his earning potential when the salary cap spikes in the summer of 2016 as a mega TV deal kicks in.
By extending the maximum qualifying offer, any offer sheet Butler now signs with another team would, at the earliest, have him becoming a free agent in 2018, which may be later than he wants. If the Bulls hadn’t extended such an offer, other teams could’ve proposed a two-year offer sheet to Butler, making him eligible to become a free agent in 2017.
The only way Butler can become a free agent in 2016 is to play on a one-year deal with the Bulls (or on a one-year deal with a second-year option), who have also extended the formal one-year qualifying offer that’s believed to be worth around $4.4 million, Pincus reported. The sides can also negotiate a one-year deal at a much higher value if they so choose.
If Butler really wants to become a free agent in 2016 and the Bulls don’t want to play ball on offering a shorter-term deal, Butler can play out his one-year qualifying offer deal from Chicago and become an unrestricted free agent next summer — but he’d be leaving a guaranteed $85 million or so on the table.
The maximum qualifying offer is rarely, if ever, extended, in large part because teams usually reach an extension with stars before they reach restricted free agency and because organizations usually want to negotiate so that they don’t have to pay the said player as much.
In this financial climate though — in which max deals signed in 2015 will often look like bargains when the cap spikes in 2016 — it makes good sense for the Bulls because it gives them a little more leverage and perhaps an extra year of Butler if he signs an offer sheet with someone else.
Butler averaged 20.0 points per game last season and was the team’s top perimeter defender. | positive |
Collections | Archives & Manuscripts Skip to main content Skip to search results Toggle Navigation Libraries Collections Subjects Names Record Groups Search Collection Guides Showing Collections: 1 - 1 of 1 Sort by: Relevance Title (ascending) Title (descending) Year (ascending) Year (descending) Hannah Clothier Hull Papers Collection Identifier: SCPC-DG-016 Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College.... Dates: 1889-1958 Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection Filtered By Subject: Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources X Names: Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 X Bryn Mawr College Special Collections Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Swarthmore College Libraries Contact Us Contact Us Contact Us | negative |
Virat Kohli scored 81 not out to help India beat Pakistan in their opening game
India v South Africa, ICC Champions Trophy Group B Venue: Oval Date: 11 June, 10:30 BST Coverage: Live Test Match Special radio and text commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra & BBC Sport website, plus desktop, tablets, mobiles and app.
India must keep their emotions under control in Sunday's decisive Champions Trophy match against South Africa, captain Virat Kohli has warned.
With all three sides in Group B on two points, the loser of the match at The Oval will be eliminated.
Kohli's side, ranked third, came into this tournament as holders and were seen by many as potential winners.
"The team that has the most composure will have a better chance of winning of the game tomorrow," said Kohli.
"You need to have a good balance of being competitive, being passionate about the game, but at the same time, not getting over-excited.
"A lot of times, teams come in and they want to do something special and end up messing up the game in important situations.
"That's what I've experienced in the past, and you tend to get over-excited, and then you commit errors that can cost the team important runs."
To the victors belong the spoils
India beat fierce rivals Pakistan in their opening game but suffered a seven-wicket defeat by Sri Lanka in their second game on Thursday to leave them requiring a win on Sunday to reach the last four.
World number one side South Africa also have one win from their two matches and will reach the semis themselves with a victory in south London.
Pakistan and Sri Lanka began the Champions Trophy as underdogs but a big win each means they too face essentially a knockout game against each other on Monday.
"For us as a team, it's a very important game, yes," added Kohli. "So it is the same for South Africa as well.
"As a cricketer, honestly, I crave games like this. You want to be part of matches that are as important as this one. Then if you perform in that and your team gets across the line, it's a different feeling."
Group B permutations India will qualify if... They beat South Africa or if the game is abandoned South Africa will qualify if... They beat India or if both games are abandoned Sri Lanka will qualify if... They beat Pakistan or if their game is abandoned and there is a result in the game between India and South Africa Pakistan will qualify if... They beat Sri Lanka
'Proteas better when they are relaxed'
AB de Villiers (right) has scored four runs in two innings this tournament
South Africa captain AB de Villiers has struggled with the bat so far at this tournament, scoring four against Sri Lanka before suffering the first golden duck in 221 ODIs in the second game against Pakistan.
"I'm still in good form. Still hitting the ball well, as always," said De Villiers.
"It's just a matter of going out and doing it. There's nothing I can say here that's going to change anything except for that I still believe I can and hopefully I'll prove that tomorrow."
South Africa haven't made the Champions Trophy final since winning the inaugural edition in 1998 and De Villiers, like Kohli, is calling for a composed display from his team.
"It is a must-win game, but we've played quite a few of them in the last 12 to 18 months and we've had a lot of success in those must-win games," added the 33-year-old.
"The guys generally perform better if they are relaxed in their mind sets and not too tense. That's partly my responsibility, to make sure there's no panic.
"It's really important to stay calm, not get over-excited. The tendency will be there, because we all live for these kinds of moments.
"That's why we play cricket. We want to play on the big stage against the big teams and tomorrow is one of those games." | positive |
Since the advent of the of the Occupy Wall Street movement and continuing though the rise of Black Lives Matter, Breitbart News has been warning and educating our audience about the real nature of the radical protest movements that act both as the vanguard of the revolution for the far-left and the shock troops for establishment Democrats.
The protests that America saw in California on Thursday and Friday should be wake-up call about the real nature and goals of these movements. The facts were all there about the people coming together not merely to protest Donald Trump but to strike out at America itself. Everyone could see the American flags burning, the Mexican flags flying, the violence and the vulgarity all aimed at capitalism, freedom, and white Americans.
In my appearance Thursday morning on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125, I connected the dots on a modern day axis of evil we see destroying the modern world: the deadly alliance between radical Islam and the radical Left.
I discussed the goal of these movements to destroy America and replace it with nation states divided along racial and cultural lines. It sounds crazy to think people really want to create the back-ruled country of New Afrikka out of America’s south or something as far-fetched as building a nation called Aztlan from the “stolen land” from California to Texas, but there it was on display in California.
In one video clip, a foul-mouthed female activist bleats into her megaphone about hating America’s values and railing against slavery, homophobia, and patriarchy.
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The sick hypocrisy is that the leftists decrying slavery, homophobia, and patriarchy are defending Islamists who keep women as literal sex slaves, force female genital mutilations, and throw gay people off of buildings.
Everything the left claims to hate about the West is practiced in Muslim majority nations across the globe, which are the global leaders in the real war on women. If you want to see real rape culture, you’ll find it in gang assaults from the Arab Spring in Cairo to the New Years attacks in Cologne to the “migrant” camps springing up as the Muslim invasion of Europe continues.
Don’t count on the mainstream media to report it, however. Trained by the entrenched radicals of academia, they don’t dare color outside of the politically correct lines that have been set for them. They bring you cherry picked info filtered through ideological blinders that don’t let them report what’s really hapenning on the ground.
You can’t expect the GOP establishment or their media lapdogs to give you the unvarnished truth either. Yes, the worst media on the right probably brings you more real information than a left wing outlet on a good day, but a combination of fear of being tarred with leftist insults and kowtowing to global big business interests mutes the real story. Unfortunately, on issues from immigration policy to “mass incarceration” to foreign entanglements with counties like Saudi Arabia, too often the establishment right and left work in collusion.
Even self-defense against the protester gang is not tolerated. Note that when Donald Trump began to mock the disruptive mobs who had been attacking his supporters and trying to ruin his events for months, both the left and right establishment attacked Trump for creating an “atmosphere of violence.”
The California protests proved once again that Trump and his fans are the ones responding to an atmosphere of violence and anti-American hatred.
Tomorrow is May Day, and for the socialists, communists, and other radicals, it’s like Easter, Christmas, and their birthday all rolled into one. It’s a time for chanting and property destruction in the name of anti-Capitalism in events held all across America.
You know that Breitbart News will bring you facts as the long hot summer rolls out on the road to Cleveland. Stay tuned.
Follow Breitbart News investigative reporter and Citizen Journalism School founder Lee Stranahan on Twitter at @Stranahan. | positive |
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OpticalGainPattern Methods | STK Components for .NET 2022 r2 STK Components for .NET 2022 r2 STK Components for .NET 2022 r2 Library Reference AGI.Foundation.Communications.Antennas OpticalGainPattern Class OpticalGainPattern Methods CheckForSameDefinition Method ComputeCurrentDefinitionHashCode Method ValidateProperties Method OpticalGainPattern Methods The OpticalGainPattern type exposes the following members. Methods Name Description CheckForSameDefinition(BaseGainPattern) Checks to determine if another instance has the same definition as this instance and returns if it does. Derived classes MUST override this method and check all new fields introduced by the derived class for definitional equivalence. It is NOT necessary to check base class fields because the base class will already have done that. When overriding this method, you should NOT call the base implementation because it will return for all derived-class instances. Derived classes should check the type of other to preserve the symmetric nature of IsSameDefinition(Object). (Overrides BaseGainPatternCheckForSameDefinition(BaseGainPattern).) CheckForSameDefinition(DefinitionalObject) Checks to determine if another instance has the same definition as this instance and returns if it does. Derived classes MUST override this method and check all new fields introduced by the derived class for definitional equivalence. It is NOT necessary to check base class fields because the base class will already have done that. When overriding this method, you should NOT call the base implementation because it will return for all derived-class instances. Derived classes should check the type of other to preserve the symmetric nature of IsSameDefinition(Object). (Inherited from BaseGainPattern.) CheckForSameDefinition(OpticalGainPattern) Checks to determine if another instance has the same definition as this instance and returns if it does. Derived classes MUST override this method and check all new fields introduced by the derived class for definitional equivalence. It is NOT necessary to check base class fields because the base class will already have done that. When overriding this method, you should NOT call the base implementation because it will return for all derived-class instances. Derived classes should check the type of other to preserve the symmetric nature of IsSameDefinition(Object). Clone Clones this object using the specified context. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) ComputeCurrentDefinitionHashCode Computes a hash code based on the current properties of this object. Derived classes MUST override this method and compute a hash code that combines: a unique hash code seed, the base implementation result, and the hash codes of all new fields introduced by the derived class which are used in the CheckForSameDefinition(DefinitionalObject) method. (Overrides BaseGainPatternComputeCurrentDefinitionHashCode.) EnumerateDependencies Enumerates the dependencies of this object by calling EnumerateT(T) for each object that this object directly depends upon. Derived classes which contain additional dependencies MUST override this method, call the base implementation, and enumerate dependencies introduced by the derived class. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) Equals Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.) Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) Freeze Freezes this object. Further attempts to modify it will result in an ObjectFrozenException. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) FreezeAggregatedObjects Called by Freeze to also freeze any objects that are considered to be a part of this object. Derived classes which contain additional aggregated objects MUST override this method, call the base implementation, and freeze aggregated objects introduced by the derived class. The objects that need to be frozen in this method are frequently created in this object's constructor and are not settable via properties. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) GetAntennaGainEvaluator(Vector, Axes, Signal) Get an evaluator for the gain that would be applied to the given sample signal based on the given geometry. (Inherited from BaseGainPattern.) GetAntennaGainEvaluator(EvaluatorGroup, Vector, Axes, Signal) Get an evaluator for the gain that would be applied to the given sample signal based on the given geometry. (Inherited from BaseGainPattern.) GetApplyAntennaGainEvaluator Get an evaluator which can modify a set of input signals based on link geometry and the gain pattern. (Inherited from BaseGainPattern.) GetDefinitionHashCode Gets a hash code representing the definition of this object. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) GetHashCode Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.) GetService Gets the service object of the specified type. (Inherited from BaseGainPattern.) GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) IsSameDefinition Determines if this object has the same definition as another object. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) ThrowIfFrozen Throws ObjectFrozenException if this object IsFrozen. This method should be called from any method or property that modifies this object. (Inherited from DefinitionalObject.) ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) ValidateProperties Validates that required properties and parameters are configured correctly in order to get an evaluator for this instance. 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Global Single-Use Upstream Bioprocessing Products - Unbiased Analysis, Market Size, Industry Output, Segment-By-Segment Forecasts, Market Leaders, Leading Brands, Market Drivers, Market Trends, US and World Topics, Data Visualization, Easy-To-Use Knowledge Center - profiles of pertinent leading suppliers, are covered in this report. A full outline of report items by page is available in the Table of Contents. Report Search Need immediate assistance? 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Download Brochure Printer Friendly HIGHLIGHTS GLOBAL OVERVIEW & FORECASTS Overview Global Market by Product Sensors & Probes Media Bags Bioreactors Mixing Systems Bioprocess Containers Tubing & Connectors REGIONAL SEGMENTATION & FORECASTS Regional Market Overview INDUSTRY STRUCTURE Market Share ABOUT THIS REPORT Scope and Method Sources Industry Codes Resources LIST OF TABLES & FIGURES Figure 1 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market Outlook, 2016 - 2021 Figure 2 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market by Product, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 1 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market by Product, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 3 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market by Product, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 4 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Sensor & Probe Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 2 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Sensor & Probe Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 5 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Sensor & Probe Market, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 6 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Media Bag Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 3 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Media Bag Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 7 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Media Bag Market, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 8 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Bioreactor Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 4 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Bioreactor Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 9 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Bioreactor Market, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 10 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Mixing System Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 5 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Mixing System Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 11 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Mixing System Market, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 12 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Bioprocess Container Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 6 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Bioprocess Container Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 13 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Bioprocess Container Market, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 14 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Tubing & Connector Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 7 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Tubing & Connector Market, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 15 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Tubing & Connector Market, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 16 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market by Region, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Table 8 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market by Region, 2016 - 2021 (US$ mil) Figure 17 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market by Region, 2016 - 2021 (%) Figure 18 | Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market Share by Company, 2018 (%) Table 9 | Selected Suppliers to the Global Upstream Bioprocessing Market Table 10 | Industry Codes Related to Upstream Bioprocessing Products Need Assistance? 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Should the Torturers Go on Trial?
The impending end of the Bush administration and the inauguration of Barack Obama, expected to repudiate the illegalities and human-rights abuses of his predecessor, pose the enormous and explosive question of what to do about those responsible for what are regarded by a significant part of the public in the Western democracies, not to speak of the United States, as war crimes.
Obama signifies a new start in the United States, and an opportunity for renewal and rendering justice. But new starts do not wipe the slate of history, as has become clear in recent years by the proliferation of memorials and ceremonies intended as apologies for histories of crimes and persecutions that can never be undone. A new American administration’s new start means a new structure of legislation to augment and correct what already has been done and to change the norms of public life.
In today’s case, a fundamental distinction must be drawn between political and foreign-policy issues up for debate in national elections, and now before the Obama government, and the Bush record of acts of international illegality, including what generally are thought to be war crimes, such as torture. There will be no war-crimes trial for George W. Bush or Richard Cheney. There will be investigations into many aspects of the two Bush terms.
These inevitably will from the start be turned into political battles between Democrats and Republicans, obscuring all else on the national scene short of military catastrophe (unfortunately, not entirely unlikely in 2009).
In a thoughtful examination of the war crimes issue in the Jan. 15 New York Review, David Cole of the Georgetown University Law Center concludes that for national foreclosure, there has to be a formal accounting and determination of responsibility for the criminal policies of the Bush government, made by an independent and bipartisan blue-ribbon commission, possessing subpoena power, security clearance and access to all requested documents. This commission should be mandated by the president or Congress (or both).
This is highly to be desired, but in my opinion impossible. It would be prevented, undermined or discredited by partisan pressures.
There will be many NGO and activist-group demands for trials.
There may well be indictments of individual Bush administration officials by foreign courts, acting on the principle of “universal jurisdiction” and the Gen. Pinochet precedent. This already has happened in Italy (in absentia) in the case of a number of named CIA agents, charged with the kidnapping and torture of a Muslim radical resident there.
These agents will not be handed over by Washington, and no foreign government is likely to try to enforce such a conviction, although the more notorious figures of the Bush administration would do well to be cautious in their holiday travels.
On the other hand, I would think both the good sense of the new administration, and the American popular sense of justice, would preclude any further throwing of ordinary soldiers to prosecutorial wolves, as in the ignoble case of the West Virginia reservists tried in the Abu Ghraib affair, made to take the rap for the highest officials in the American government — a disgusting and dishonorable affair.
So what can be done? There are two purposes to be served.
The first is to hold those responsible for war crimes to account, which I think unlikely (at least in this American political generation). Their punishment will have to be left to the historians (or perhaps to a future American Dante, capable of recreating Guantanamo as an Inferno for American politicians).
The second purpose that must be served is deterrence. On that, I have a proposal.
The most effective way to prevent future war crimes is not to threaten elected leaders with punishment that probably will not be imposed. It is to convince civilian and military officials at all levels of government that if they commit or participate in war crimes, as clearly defined in international law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, even under orders of their superiors, the serious possibility will exist that (in another administration?) they will be appropriately punished.
I would have President Obama solemnly recall to the members of the military services, and all other agencies of government, that acts violating the principles internationally agreed as a result of the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945-1946, and acts proscribed in the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Universal Code of Military Justice, are war crimes, and orders by senior officers to commit these acts are illegal orders.
Obviously, few individual soldiers, officers or officials will find themselves in a position to defy such illegal orders. But if they do not formally decline such orders, or fail to voice their protest when being compelled under duress to execute those orders, they should understand that this may eventually result in their trial. The punishment may be severe, or at a minimum their offense will be noted in their career personnel records, effectively terminating their professional careers in government.
One cannot multiply heroes. One can discourage a great many people in all ranks of government from condoning, acquiescing in, or joining torture teams, or otherwise accepting duty or condoning policies likely at worst to put them in prison, or at least end their careers.
I would at the same time have President Obama announce presidential honors for the military lawyers and CIA or Justice Department officials who defied or protested the illegal policies and actions of the Bush government.
William Pfaff’s Web site is www.williampfaff.com. | positive |
A couple of weeks ago in Scottsdale, Arizona fellow Around the Foghorn writer Chris Corbett and I were supposed to attend a very special event that featured Willie Mays and was hosted by Marty Lurie. The “Tommy Bahama Presents an Evening with Willie Mays” was on Thursday March 6th. Chris wrote about looking forward to this event here. Due to flight delays and bad weather, we were not able to make it in time. Both of us arrived in town just a couple of hours too late.
Longtime Bay Area radio host Marty Lurie found himself in the lucky chair as host for this event. Marty has been a fixture covering local baseball and getting some of the best interviews in the game since 1998. For many years he hosted the pre-game show for the Oakland A’s. Now, Marty hosts KNBR’s Giants pre- and post-game weekend shows. In 2002 he was invited to speak at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York on induction weekend about his work compiling the oral history of baseball. Marty grew up in New York and attended his first game at Ebbets Field. You can find much more at his website www.loveofthegameproductions.com.
Marty Lurie was kind of enough to talk with me and share stories from the “Tommy Bahama Presents an Evening with Willie Mays”. Who better to ask than the guy hand-picked by Willie to host this event for a 4th time? We at Around the Foghorn appreciate Marty taking time out of his schedule for us.
Marty on what the evening with Willie was like.
It’s a special event that Tommy Bahama has done 3 times before. You get a picture with Willie, get to meet him and a signed ball in a cube. It’s then one, to one and half hours of questions. It’s a time to be with one of the great icons in baseball history. You get to look at Willie like never before. It’s a very special night. We view the card, the story, the legend. That night the baseball card comes to life. All the stories, movies, cards, they all get explained. At the end he auctioned of items he had on him for charity. The crowd was in a frenzy. Willie tries to make the event unique because you get to be in his presence.
On how Willie is doing these days.
He’s in very good health. Willie’s mind is sharp. It’s the way he handles life and the way he still puts on a show. Any curveball that comes his way, he whacks it right out of the park. He’s a showman.
On Willie’s cap always flying off and the basket catch.
He wanted to be fast. It was part of how he performed. He learned the basket catch in the army. Willie said it gave him a quicker release of the ball.
The best catch Willie has told Marty about
Willie talks about a 1951 catch against the Dodgers. Don Mueller was in right field and Leo told Willie to go catch anything. Billy Cox was on 3rd base for the Dodgers. There was a ball deep in the right field corner that Willie tracked down. Then he spun and threw to the plate to get Cox.
On what Willie says he was thinking in the on-deck circle in October 1951.
He hoped it wouldn’t have to come to him. Willie said he was awestruck by the moment. He was nervous. You can see when Bobby Thomson hits the home run Willie didn’t even realize the game was over.
Marty’s answer to the question “Did you ever picture yourself doing these things?”.
I might as well have pictured myself as an astronaut. It’s incredible the journey we’ve had together. I had absolutely no inkling when I was younger that this could happen.
Once again, thanks to Marty Lurie for taking the time to talk with us here at Around the Foghorn. Chris Corbett and I are already making plans to attend next year’s event | positive |
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jindal's critique: Avoid 'sideshows' but don't change principles
Bobby Jindal is warning that the Republicans must stop being the "stupid party".
The Louisiana governor, a likely contender for his party's presidential nomination in 2016, said a number of Republicans had "damaged the brand" by making "offensive and bizarre" comments.
He's talking of course about those remarks about "legitimate rape" and how rape can't lead to pregnancy.
The Republicans who made those comments did seem to be going out of their way to back up John Stuart Mill's 1866 comment: "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."
OK. That's the headline grabber. But it is hardly a revelation to point out that those who make weird noises during an election campaign should shut up.
Jindal's prescription
So it is worth looking at Gov Jindal's prescription in full. It is, after all, among the first contributions from a big name of the Republican party on how not to go down to defeat for a third time in a row.
If he is identifying [House Republicans] as a major part of the party's image problem, he is right, but he's not pointing a way out of their complex dilemma
He's adamant the party shouldn't change its principles. Not on taxation or big government, of course. But not on abortion or gay marriage either.
He rejects Mr Romney's apparent contention that 47% of voters were out of reach for Republicans, which was always, when you think about it, a counsel of despair.
Gov Jindal identifies a core Republican problem: they are overwhelmingly white in a country that is becoming more of a melting pot day by day.
"We must reject the notion that demography is destiny, the pathetic and simplistic notion that skin pigmentation dictates voter behaviour," he said.
He's a good person to say this. His parents came to the US from India in 1970. It says a lot about the way America has changed that he has become the governor of a state that resisted civil rights and defended segregation to the bitter end.
I don't want to underplay how important that is - but his speech doesn't say how Republicans can reach the fastest growing ethnic group - Latinos - without shifting their stance on immigration reform.
Moreover, I am puzzled by what appears to be the core of his message. He rejects big government - but also seems to reject the fights about it in Washington.
'Sideshows'
He calls not only the debates about gun control, but also those on the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling "sideshows".
"These are in reality sideshows in Washington that we have allowed to take centre stage in our country - and as conservatives, we are falling into the sideshow trap," he said.
This is not an isolated point.
"We seem to have an obsession with government bookkeeping," he says. "We as Republicans have to accept that government number crunching - even conservative number crunching - is not the answer to our nation's problems."
Of course he's underscoring an inherent irony in conservatism - those politicians who dislike government put all their time and effort and will and money into becoming part of the government, so they can do away with much of it.
Inevitably, they rather like being part of it, and stick around for years trying to slim down something they disapprove of, fanatical dieters insisting on eating at the best restaurants so they can better control the portion sizes.
It is an irony, in that one can chuckle about it, but it is not a paradox. It is, I would have thought, pretty essential for conservatives who want to control government spending to have control of that government.
His argument seems to be that Republicans should spend their time encouraging the "real economy" and leaving it up to the states to spend what little public money he deems necessary.
Maybe this is merely a coded attack on those Republicans in the House of Representatives, who seem to think they won the election.
If he is identifying them as a major part of the party's image problem, he is right, but he's not pointing a way out of their complex dilemma - the choice between being quislings to faithful Republicans or obstructionists in the mind of most Americans.
So an "A" for effort, grabbing headlines, and identifying the obvious, but a "C" for a rather confused economic approach, which looks more like a desire to say something jolting than a serious contribution.
I'm looking forward to hearing Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and, even more, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, describe the way ahead.
But Gov Jindal has made a start confronting his shocked, and rather complacent, party. | positive |
NEW YORK – Jim Miller sure seems to find himself in the right place at the right time.
The 33-year-old lightweight vet has spent eight years in the UFC – no small feat on MMA’s biggest stage – and he’s found himself on some major cards.
The longtime contender, who looks for his third straight win following a rough 1-4 stretch, was part of the historic UFC 100 card (where he defeated Mac Danzig), he competed at the milestone UFC 200 show earlier this year (and scored a TKO victory over Takanori Gomi), and now the New Jersey native returns at Saturday’s mega-UFC 205 card, which marks the organization’s long-awaited New York City debut.
Miller meets former welterweight title challenger Thiago Alves (21-10 MMA, 13-7 UFC), who drops to lightweight, in the featured UFC Fight Pass prelim ahead of Saturday’s pay-per-view main card, which takes place at Madison Square Garden.
So how does he feel about a spot on the UFC’s latest can’t-miss super show?
“Just excitement,” he told MMAjunkie. “This opportunity came by one of the other fighters (Al Iaquinta) dropping out. I had asked (UFC matchmaker Joe Silva) if I could fight by the end of the year, and this is the one he gave me.”
“It’s exciting to be part of history. It’s exciting to be a part of such a big card. I plan on leaving a mark on the card and the event and history.”
Can Miller make it 3-0 in major UFC shows? He’s currently a small underdog to Alves, but he expects – and wants – the best version of his opponent, who faces a likely grueling weight cut.
“It’s never fun cutting a lot of weight,” Miller said. “It always impacts you the following day. So we’ll see how he does. I plan on fighting the best Thiago Alves that’s ever stepped inside the octagon, and I plan on brutally beating him up. Like I said, I’m prepared for the absolute best. … I want the absolute best out of him.”
Check out the full interview above.
And for more on UFC 205, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site. | positive |
Scrutiny aside, philanthropy is to be celebrated – eJewish Philanthropy Home News Opinion About Archive Jewish Insider Subscribe News Opinion Your Daily Phil Subscribe Opinion Inspiration Scrutiny aside, philanthropy is to be celebrated By Elizabeth Wong February 7, 2022 Share In Short Philanthropy is an inspiring combination of agency, ingenuity and opportunity. Recently, The New York Times ran a thought-provoking story on “troll philanthropy” that underscores the reality that the charitable giving of high-profile, megadonors is frequently – if not always – subject to public scrutiny, whether it’s instigated by the donors or not. The story centers on Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s seeming interest in using his reputation as an ultra-wealthy philanthropist to antagonize the public. It highlights his recent challenge on Twitter to the World Food Programme in which he said: “If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B would solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.” It also cites an online poll he conducted to ask if he should sell 10 percent of his Tesla shares to pay taxes on his wealth. Scrutiny aside, however – whether it’s warranted or not – as we embark upon this new year and reflect on the immense challenges our world has been facing, I invite and encourage the philanthropic sector to celebrate its many accomplishments and progress. Pixabay The incredible growth, diversity and innovation transpiring in private philanthropy today is exciting and inspiring. Foundations and individual donors come in all shapes and sizes and take varied approaches to reaching their end goal: making a positive difference. They range from couples, to multigenerational families, to young entrepreneurs who’ve amassed wealth early in their careers and even to companies that want to have a more pronounced emphasis on ESG [Environmental, Social and Governance] and social responsibility. Most philanthropists also are far from the megadonor status of Musk. Of the approximate100,000 private non-operating foundations in the US, nearly two-thirds have less than $1 million in assets and 98% have less than $50 million in assets, according to the IRS. Despite their diversity, today’s donors share a common interest: actively engaging in their philanthropy and effecting positive change. Philanthropy is an inspiring combination of agency (the choice one makes to do something not derived from government, religious, or public mandate), ingenuity (the ideas around what problems to solve and how to solve them to effect change), and opportunity (the financial and intellectual resources, regardless of zeros and years of experience, that can be deployed to help and create change). Every day I am inspired by the agency, ingenuity and opportunity that countless philanthropists deploy under the radar to help, innovate, improve, and generally make our world better. I see them support incredibly meaningful cultural organizations such as museums, orchestras, libraries and theatres that honor our past and inspire artists of the future. I see families who have lost children to unspeakable tragedy convert their grief into preventive action by funding medical research and developing educational curricula. I see “disrupter” philanthropists who eschew traditional grantmaking practices to fund high-risk, high-impact projects that capture the attention of larger donors and government entities that can bring more resources to each initiative. And I see foundation leaders commit to strategies that will result in sustained systems change, such as investing now in food science that may not produce nutritional calories at scale for years to come. These examples are just a fraction of the creative and inspired ways that philanthropists are effecting change and there are countless causes that deserve more attention and more funding than they receive. As we settle into the new year, I celebrate all philanthropists. It is a privilege to play a small part in their powerful displays of the human spirit. Elizabeth Wong is the national director of philanthropic advisory services for Foundation Source, the nation’s largest provider of management solutions to private foundations. 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The National Safety Council (NSC) says the average costs of a car accident in 2020 was: Per fatality: $1.75 million. Per evident injury: $29,200. Per possible injury: $23,900. When no injury is observed: $12,800. Property damage per vehicle: $4,700. These costs included wage and productivity loss, medical costs, administrative expenses, property damage, and employers’ uninsured expenses. With the average costs of injuries and property damage running so high, it is important to document your losses. If a civil suit is needed, documentation can help support your personal injury claim. Medical Treatment Expenses Whenever you are in an accident, obtaining medical care always is your first priority. A trip to the emergency room and follow-up care can document the extent and costs of treating your injuries. Treating injuries includes the cost of physical therapy and any mental health therapy that you might undergo due to the accident. 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We have tons of love for great directors — but often, when you're marveling at an especially lovely shot, you're partly admiring the work of the cinematographer who lit it and shot it. Often, the same cinematographer has worked on many of your favorite movies. Here are 10 great painters of science fiction films.
Note: We tried to credit people only for films where they were listed as the sole cinematographer or Director of Photography. Apologies if we accidentally credited someone with a film that had multiple cinematographers.
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1. Peter Suchitzky (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, all of David Cronenberg's recent films, Mars Attacks!, Red Planet, After Earth)
On lighting the Luke/Vader lightsaber fight: " There was another set in which a sword fight was to take place between two of the characters. When I looked at that set it struck me as being rather like a model for a stage set. In other words, it looked unfinished. It certainly had no walls at all; it was a series of ramps and discs and blackness. I was extremely concerned about that set and I thought about it a lot, about how I was going to make it work and look believable and look dramatic. Then I decided to light the whole thing from underneath, as the floors had been made translucent. In the black areas I placed Brutes and had shafts of light penetrating the darkness. Then the whole set was filled with steam, which made it photographically very impressive, but physically very uncomfortable, since it was like working in a Turkish bath. We were quite high up in the stage and we all suffered for quite a number of weeks, but it was one of those sets which made me fell uneasy before I entered into the shooting of it because it looked so unreal, so unworldly and unlike anything I had ever done before. I was concerned about it looking dull, in fact, because although there seemed to be plenty of material in the set, it was all either on the floor or on the ceiling. The fact is that unless one goes for extreme angles (and you usually can't do that right through a long sequence), the camera is pointing straight ahead and not up or down. There was nothing for the eye to look at straight ahead except blackness, because all the set elements were on the floor or the ceiling. I was concerned about the scene looking interesting and about the eye having something to look at—but, in the end, I think we succeeded in overcoming those problems—all of us working together."
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2. Douglas Slocombe (Rollerball, the Indiana Jones original trilogy)
The great Ealing Studios cinematographer recently turned 100. He shot the India sequences of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and then was rehired to work on the first three Indiana Jones movies. Harrison Ford recently recalled that Slocombe "never used a light meter – he just held up his hand and observed the shadow his thumb made on the palm."
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3. Roger Pratt (Brazil, Batman, Twelve Monkeys, two Harry Potter films)
Says Pratt, "Terry Gilliam is one of the most creative people that I’ve ever met. Although he’s not a normal person in some ways! To work with him is an education in what’s possible and what the possibilities are to create something really beautiful and interesting."
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4. Gilbert Taylor (Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars, The Omen, Flash Gordon)
He wasn't George Lucas' first choice for Star Wars cinematographer, but he arguably did a lot to make those effects-heavy sequences work so well. Not to mention the Tunisia sequences. Here he is talking about lighting the attack on the Death Star. On the Tunisia filming, he told an interviewer that the filming was hampered by the first rain Tunisia had seen in three years: "You couldn’t really see where the land ended and the sky began... It was all a gray mess, and the robots were just a blur. I thought the look of the film should be absolutely clean; also, I was mindful that there was an enormous amount of process work to be done in America after we finished shooting in England, and I knew a crisp result would help." He clashed with Lucas over how crisply to light the scenes, but the studio wound up backing Taylor. He adds, "I wanted to give [Star Wars] a unique visual style that would distinguish it from other films in the science-fiction genre"
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5. Guillermo Navarro (All of Guillermo del Toro's movies, I Am Number Four, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Night at the Museum)
The Oscar-winning cinematographer told an interviewer a while back: "I want to design and create images as opposed to working on a contemporary piece where realities exist right outside your window and all you have to do is register them... I believe in [Guillermo del Toro] as a filmmaker. He is a very visual director and someone that understands the contribution that cinematographers offer is important not only for the creative process, but as a film language."
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6. Claudio Miranda (Oblivion, Life of Pi, Tron Legacy, Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
On why he was hired for Life of Pi, the movie he won an Oscar for: "I believe I was hired because Ang [Lee] liked Tron and Benjamin Button. It’s a combination of those two films that he wanted to instill Life of Pi with: the 3D of Tron and digital not-looking-so-electronic on Benjamin Button." And read this interview where he talks about how they lit Oblivion using pure projection in many shots, and avoided the problem of excessive bluescreen on sets.
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7. Wally Pfister (All of Christopher Nolan's films, plus the underrated Scotland, PA)
Pfister is soon to be directing his first movie, Transcendence, but he's best known for working on all of Christopher Nolan's movies. Talking about his collaborations with Nolan to Moviefone, he said: "You analyze the script and what's going on in that scene, what the actors are doing, and you say, "Okay, what is the best way to bring forth this emotion in what I'm doing?" You know, is it with lighting? Is it with camera movement? And then it becomes discussions with the director, and Chris and I have fantastic conversations about 'what does it mean to be moving in? What does it mean to be moving left or right? What does it mean to be completely static with the camera? Should we go long lens? What does that mean?' So that's where it is my turn to get involved in the storytelling in visual terms, and that's what they pay me for, really, at this level is, to be the visual translator of the film, of the director's vision."
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8. Dariusz Wolski (The Crow, Dark City, Prometheus, Pirates of the Caribbean)
He got his start with the Bangles' "Eternal Flame" music video, and went on to create moody, distinctive, dark visuals. On his collaboration with Ridley Scott, he said: "The more you get into the visual effects world, people rely on it but in the wrong way. They put up a green screen and say they'll make their minds up later. Any time something requires more thinking, building a set, they say let's just throw up a green screen. Then they're stuck with shots that just look artificial. Also, because you can, you sometimes go to the point where it's unbelievable - you can create some impossible stuff behind them. Ridley still comes from 'whatever I can see, that's what I photograph'. That's inspiring, because no matter how good the visual effects are, the creative process is basically castrated because you're doign half of the job and the rest is being done later. If you're making a film in a real set, in real places, there's a certain logic to it, you can put a light in a certain place. There's a lot you don't see, and that's what beautiful about it."
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9. Andrew Lesnie (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, I Am Legend, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Last Airbender, Babe)
On the differences between the first two Lord of the Rings movies: "For The Fellowship of the Ring, I was very conscious of modeling with light, applying a black-and-white philosophy in using the tonal scale to create separation, rather than [doing so] through color. For The Two Towers, I decided that the light should be less controlled. I was able to follow the travails of each group and decide what was appropriate for the mood at any particular moment. Middle-Earth is descending into a very dark time, and the characters are battling to find light at the end of the tunnel, so the film needed to be more realistic and aggressive than The Fellowship of the Ring. The overall feel is less magical, and the story has become fractured and splintered."
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* Offers to sell Ukrainian votes appear on Internet
* Indicates cynicism of electorate, says analyst
By Richard Balmforth
KIEV, Jan 12 (Reuters) - For sale: my vote in Ukraine’s election on Sunday. From 300 to 500 hryvnias ($37-$63). Can gather others who want to sell.
Several offers have appeared on the Internet from disenchanted citizens in the ex-Soviet republic who say they are ready to sell their votes in the Jan. 17 election for president.
“I don’t believe in our democracy and so I am selling my vote in the elections. Maybe there will be 10 other votes for sale. The only discussion on price will be upwards,” said one Internet advertisement from Lviv in western Ukraine.
The State Security Service had no comment to make on the offers, but a central election commission official said buying votes was illegal and subject to criminal prosecution. It did not appear, however, to be an offence to offer votes for sale.
Another offer from the capital Kiev read: “I am completely indifferent to who wins. There are three votes for sale — two in Kiev, one in Bila Tserkva. 500 hryvnia apiece.”
Some have accompanying e-mail addresses. Other appear with a contact telephone number.
DISILLUSIONED VOTERS
Reached by telephone by Reuters, Vadim, a 25-year-old Kiev construction worker, said he had already received offers in response to his Internet posting.
“The politics of Ukraine don’t interest me at all. I am not interested in who will be president. I am not a patriot,” he said.
Vadim said he could gather a total of about 10 votes for sale from among his family and friends and the going rate for each was 500 hryvnias. “I have had offers already and I am deciding,” he said.
He would not say whether the offers had come from political parties, their agents or individuals.
Sunday’s election for president, the fifth since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, takes place amid deep economic gloom in Ukraine where the global recession has hit jobs, family budgets and pockets.
“This is a reflection of disappointment and the increasingly cynical attitude of voters towards politics and politicians,” said political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko.
“There is no trust among Ukrainians in the overwhelming majority of candidates.”
Sunday’s vote is not expected to produce an outright winner.
Opinion polls suggest that pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko, who came to power after mass street protests against election fraud in 2004, will not go forward.
A second round run-off is expected between the two front-runners, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, on Feb. 7. | positive |
Celestial Reflections: February 2015 Pages Home Contact JAR Trial Tarot Gallery Feb 24, 2015 Cafe By LaHuesera Buy From Art.com Around the Web, Around the World "Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt Ethics in Shamanic Practice: Hard Choices "Healing into death" sounds reasonable until the terminal diagnosis has been handed to someone we love, especially when that someone is young with a whole life head of them. Nonetheless, the ethics around shamanic healing force us to look at the bigger picture of a human life, particularly the parts we don't want to see: the fact that we are not in control, that we really don't know what's going on in another person's life, and the possibility that what the person really needs is that which we are least prepared to give. 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Click to Expand The winner of the tin ear award has to go to Dr. Sharron Stroud who writes: James Arthur Ray will be speaking for Innerfaith Spiritual Center Worldwide February 22nd. He has lifted himself Phoenix-Like from the Ashes of his former experience and is making a difference with what he has learned. Our Way of Life teaches the Power of Forgiveness and the Evolution of the Soul. The Path of each Being is filled with Spiritual Contracts and Karmic Experiences, the point being, what will we do with them? What "hellacious hot" furnace did the old bird rise from, you ask? Why the one that consumed the lives of Kirby Brown, Liz Neuman, and James Shore, of course. Stroud has stiff competition from Ray himself, though. Of all his new products, which does he choose to feature in the copy for this event? An ebook called Answers to Life's 11 Most Burning Questions. Natch! 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This act of power is even more accessible to us all with Sandra Ingerman's new book Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life, her new CD for journeying, "Shamanic Visioning Music" with Japanese Taiko drums, and her wildly successful new work creating virtual ceremony for personal and global healing. Author, therapist, and internationally recognized teacher of shamanism, Sandra Ingerman, continues to create excellent engaging resources and experiences for contemporary practitioners. She joins host, Christina Pratt, this week to explore how we all can use our shamanic practices to take responsibility for living a spiritual way of life, whether being the shaman is our destiny or not. This week's guest: Sandra Ingerman Sandra Ingerman, MA, is a licensed therapist and the author of numerous books including How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, Soul Retrieval, and Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins. 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Review: CRIME – Master of Illusion – ROCKPOSER DOT COM! Skip to content ROCKPOSER DOT COM! Rock & Blues – News – Reviews – Interviews Menu Music News Reviews Interviews Concert Photos Music News Review: CRIME – Master of Illusion by Rockposer Dot Com! on September 4, 2022 September 4, 2022 Review: CRIME – Master of Illusion Metalapolis Records (November 11th, 2022) Reviewer: Jason Hopper The band CRIME were a little known band from the 90s that released two albums that sold a few thousand units upon initial release before calling it a day. Most of the band members decided to reunite with new singer Francis Soto to try their luck in 2022, at a time when hard rock is more well received. If you’ve never heard of the band, you are certainly not alone. This is a band I have never heard mentioned by anyone. They could have started a new band, and no one would have been the wiser that most of the band members were part of a former group. I decided to do a quick search and found their first album online. There’s quite a big difference between the way the band use to sound and the way they sound now. If you are looking for a vibrant, hungry sounding band full of shredding guitars, you won’t find that here. They have replaced that sound with a tuned down heavy blues influence, for better AND for worse. The band pulls off this style very well with certain songs, most of which can be found on the first half of the album. The title track opens the album and kicks things off in an up-tempo fashion. The new singer sounds great but it’s clear why the band tuned down for these songs. He does not have a high register and the notes need to match his vocal abilities. They play to his strengths and the song is a strong way to start the album. From there we then have three mid-tempo heavy groove rockers and all of them offer the right amount of chugging guitar and low-end bombast. ‘Tears Are Falling Down’ has a Dokken “When Heaven Comes Down” feel to it. ‘From My Mind’ turns up the heaviness slightly and I love the vocal approach taken here, with Francis dropping his voice down into a guttural growl to sing the title of the track. ‘Shoot Shoot’ would be a great song if the Alannah Myles song “Black Velvet” never existed. They crib the rhythm section from that song and there’s no mistaking it. I did find it admittedly distracting. It is at this point in the album that I started having some issues with it. The problem is that the next two songs also have a mid-tempo rhythm. I dig an album that has an array of rhythm and sounds. Speed shredding, up-tempo, mid-tempo, ballads, atmospheric orchestral; the more diverse for me the better. With this album, many of the drumbeats are either in 1/4 or 1/8 time, which is more groove oriented and slower. A few songs like that on an album are great, but when eight of the twelve songs are like that, it makes the album sound more plodding, especially by the time the second half of the album begins. There are a few saving graces. ‘All Good Things’ is a welcome return to that Dokken influenced up-tempo sound after five mid-tempo tracks. The keyboards from Gunter Kierstein are also a stand-out here, making this the best track on the album. ‘Sisters of Mercy’ has a great riff and once again impressive keyboard playing and has that up-tempo approach that makes for an exciting rock sound. The band attempts a stab at a ballad with ‘Showed Me Love’, but the vocals are all wrong for this track. Mr. Soto is not cut out for this type of vocal approach. The song sounds like it was written for a singer who can pull off a higher pitch and the grit in his voice does not suite the track at all. A shame really because the music and words are quite good. So for me, there’s five solid tracks here. The lack in variation for me brings the album down. If you love a thick sounding, groove-based rock album, then your assessment of the album will be better. If I had a choice between this album and their first one, there’s no comparison, I prefer their debut album. It is best if you approach this album with the understanding that this is a new, rather than returning band and your expectations will be more managed when hearing the songs. Share this: Twitter Facebook Email LinkedIn WhatsApp More Skype Print Like this: Like Loading... 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Google's decision to split it's index will mean big changes in SEO next year
Google has unsettled the SEO community throughout 2016 by releasing back-to-back updates to its SERPs and search algorithms. The latest, and hopefully the last change for the year, was announced by Google's Gary Illyes at PubCon last month. Google is going to launch a separate mobile search index, which will eventually become its primary index. The index will be effective "within months," said Illyes. Google officially confirmed this announcement just days go, with a post on their webmaster central blog confirming their decision to make their index 'mobile first'. What was less clear was whether they'd be running two index's seperatly, or going straight to a single 'mobile first index'.
Not quite a bombshell, I'd say, considering that Google has been experimenting with a mobile index since last year. Google's mobile-first strategy that it has aggressively pursued for at least the last couple of years is no secret, but the latest change represents a huge challenge for businesses and SEOs, particularly when viewed side-by-side with the other changes to mobile search and SERPs that have been introduced this year. Before we can find out how to deal with the new mobile index as well as the other updates, let's run through what those updates were.
Latest Google Updates that Will Affect SEO in 2017
Right Column Ads Gone: Google blew away the right column ads from its SERPs, dedicating a wider panel to the search results. It was in Feb this year.
Longer Titles and Descriptions: Then, in May, SEW observed something odd. It appeared Google had increased the displayable character limit of the page titles to 68-70 char for desktop, and a whopping 78 char for mobile SERPs. The SERPs were also displaying longer meta descriptions, which sometimes extended to 3 lines instead of the usual two.
Mobile-Friendly Label Gone: On August 23, Google announced that the Mobile Friendly label would no longer appear in the SERPs. Some 85% of the websites appearing in mobile search results had already become search friendly at that point in time, so Google just pulled the plug on the label to de-clutter its pages.
Putting Pressure on Pop Ups: In the same announcement, Google slapped full-page interstitials (or pop-ups) with negative points for ranking mobile websites. The so-called "lead magnet" websites with boxes might have seen their traffic nosedive as a result of this change.
AMP Update: AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a Google-backed technology that speeds up the loading time for mobile pages to a remarkable 0.7 seconds (median time). In September Google said it would be displaying the AMP icon with AMP-coded pages on its mobile SERPs. Google says AMP is not a ranking signal, but SEOs should see this as an opportunity to drive better CTRs because the results with the AMP symbol are more likely to be clicked. Moreover, the increased page speed will have a positive impact on SEO too.
Separate Indexes for Web and Mobile Search, but Why?
This time, Google has not just announced a dedicated index for mobile SERP's but has also said it is going to be their primary index, which means that it will be updated more frequently.
Google's obsession with mobile first shouldn’t be a surprise if you know that on average 56% of the traffic now comes from mobile devices. In fact, most digital growth is now coming from mobile usage, whereas desktop is becoming a secondary touch point for an increasing number of users. Google wants its users to be able to find the content they want as conveniently and as quickly as possible. Because most of Google's users are now mobile, it simply makes sense to put mobile first.
But why a mobile-only index? Probably, Google realises that users behave differently when searching on mobile. For instance, they want the content to be served more quickly or want to see directions or distance info during local searches. Additionally, because of the rapid mobile adoption rate, Google has seen a phenomenal increase in the number of voice searches. Voice queries have multiplied 35x since 2008 and now constitute up to 20% of all searches.
Most of the voice searches are made with natural language queries, which are often different and longer than traditional, typed queries. Google may have increased the title length on its mobile SERPs to cater for the increasing number of natural language queries. Accommodating user needs and incorporating the changes we have discussed above may require radical changes to be made to Google's search algorithms. A mobile-only search index solves the problem.
This move could also help Google achieve in helping boost the digital performance of businesses who perform well with their offline marketing efforts. For a while now, Google has used various metrics in their ranking algorithm which can be helped with good offline marketing. For example, your brand being mentioned around the internet and more people searching for you will help your organic performance. Because mobile devices are always with you, if you see something useful on the move, you can search for it instantly.
How the Mobile-Only Index Changes SEO in 2017
As said earlier, the flurry of changes have rattled the SEO grounds and presented businesses, marketers and SEOs with new challenges and opportunities. Many websites may see their mobile rankings and traffic slipping, whereas others may be able to work their way up into the top rankings. Let's see how the mobile-only index and other changes impact us and how to deal with them.
I reached out to Neil Patel for his thoughts on the announcement...
“Google will eventually create a new set of search results for mobile. The reason being is that the user behaviour for mobile users is different. They don’t have the screen size and bandwidth to go through dozens of results… ideally, they should see one result and the ideal one for them”.
The separate mobile index will leave marketers in a bit of a dilemma about whether to optimise for desktop or mobile. Should they have 68-70-char page titles that display on both desktops and mobile, or should they embrace the 78-char mobile titles and take advantage of long-tail and natural language key phrases? The longer titles (and meta descriptions) can prove effective at optimising for long-tail and natural language queries as well as for using your brand name in the titles. Moreover, conversion-focused websites or lead magnets may need to strip their mobile pages of annoying full-page pop-up lead boxes in order to retain their mobile rankings.
Many small and micro businesses may need to prioritise based on how much of their traffic comes from mobile vs. desktop. But we might see the return of dedicated mobile websites (m.example.com) if businesses want to retain their mobile traffic and SEO ranking.
The need to have a dedicated mobile website is also underlined by the AMP update. It is an open source technology that developers and SEOs can leverage to dramatically increase their page speeds, and consequently their mobile SEO ranking and CTR. Hence, separate mobile websites that had been pushed into the oblivion by responsive/adaptive design may become a necessity once again, thanks to Google's mobile-only index and AMP update. | positive |
I had this idea (pretty stupid, I know) in mind for a loooong time :'D It's finally done!Ron/HermioneI've always loved the Amortentia scene in the sixth book, and auntie-Rowling said herself that Hermione had totally smelled Ron's scent in the potionSo, since I'm a big fan of the couple (like you don't know it already!), I just had to do something like this, sooner or later :'DObviously, if you haven't read the sixth book, you can't understand what's happening - or maybe YOU CAN?Uuuuugh, I got super-bored AGAIN with this piece! I thought I'd never completed the shading part, too many vignettes X_xComics are fun to elaborate, but are a pain to draw and colour. My comic skills totally need to be improved, I'm not really good at paneling X-|Btw - I know that Ron is notoblivious... but teasing him is fun! It's just for the lulz xDHope you like it!P.S. Ginger Ale: the best cure for sore throat. | positive |
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Billionaire Beach Owner Wants Californians To Keep Out
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California officials are battling a Silicon Valley billionaire for public access to a spectacular slice of sand south of San Francisco.
It's the latest in an ongoing fight between the state and its richest residents over choice stretches of beach, a particular problem in the Southern California city of Malibu. But as California's economic center has shifted north, so has the battle over its coast.
This latest round involves Martins Beach, a crescent-shaped stretch of sand totally hidden from the highway.
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"For a lot of us, it feels like a little Yosemite of the coast," says Mike Wallace, a surf coach at the local high school. His daughter caught her first wave off of Martins Beach.
All California beaches are, by law, public between the ocean and the high-tide mark. The problem is getting here. Unless you're on a boat, the only way to get to Martins Beach is the road — which has a gate and a big sign that says "Private Property: Keep Out."
For almost a century, the land was owned by a family who charged a small entrance fee to visitors. In 2008, they sold Martins Beach to a new owner for $37 million. Almost immediately, says Wallace, the gate and sign went up.
"No one knew quite what the status was," he says. "They weren't sure who the owners were."
Eventually, they figured it out: Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Khosla wouldn't comment for this story, and his lawyers declined to answer questions.
With his background in solar power and biofuels, Khosla — who recently promoted one of his clean energy ventures on 60 Minutes — isn't the kind of person you'd expect to find in a showdown with environmentalists.
"Even billionaires with a solid track record of conservation efforts, taking coastal property and trying to privatize it — people generally are not willing to allow that to happen," says Mark Massara, a longtime surfer and a lawyer involved in one of several lawsuits filed over Martins Beach.
He and others point out that people have been coming to Martins Beach for decades. They say amenities like public bathrooms, an old cafe and a parking lot set a precedent of access.
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Massara says if Khosla wins this fight, he won't be the last one. "Make no mistake that if the beach is allowed to be privatized in this case, it will inspire other efforts by other wealthy individuals."
Nancy Cave of the California Coastal Commission — the state agency whose job it is to keep beaches open to the public — says the group wrote to Khosla asking if he wanted to resolve the issue. Maybe, she thought, something could get worked out. After all, Khosla is going to need permits if he wants to develop the property — and he's going to have to get them from her office.
The group did meet with Khosla's attorneys. "They showed no interest in resolving," says Cave. "They only wanted to litigate."
She and her colleagues say they know how quickly a billionaire can strain the legal resources of a small and chronically underfunded state agency like hers — but they're steeling themselves for a long fight.
Meanwhile, the most recent lawsuit could go to trial in the spring. | positive |
This part of David Brooks’ defense of the coup in Egypt is telling:
When you elect fanatics, they continue, you have not advanced democracy. You have empowered people who are going to wind up subverting democracy. The important thing is to get people like that out of power, even if it takes a coup. The goal is to weaken political Islam, by nearly any means.
One of the serious flaws with this argument is that the coup isn’t likely to weaken political Islam in Egypt or elsewhere over the long term, but will push Islamists out of the political process and encourage fanaticism to flourish unchecked. The coup will give many Islamists in other countries a clear lesson that they may as well not participate in any political process. Even if Egyptian Islamists don’t resort to violence in opposition to the coup and the next government, potentially creating yet another cause for jihadist recruitment, some Islamists in other countries may conclude that taking up arms is the only way left available to them. This quote from The New York Times article on various Islamist reactions to the coup expresses this very well:
“Didn’t we do what they asked,” asked Mahmoud Taha, 40, a merchant. “We don’t believe in democracy to begin with; it’s not part of our ideology. But we accepted it. We followed them, and then this is what they do? [bold mine-DL]”
This is the reaction that should worry us, because there are few sources of resentment against a political system more powerful than the feeling the system is inevitably rigged against your group. Brooks is saying that the goal should be to rig the system against them and to do almost anything that is required to rig it that way. What makes this even more foolish is that Morsi and his allies were already failing. It would have been only a matter of time until they would have been defeated at the next election, and then there would have been no question that they had been rejected on the grounds that their tenure had indeed been a disaster. The coup allow Morsi and his supporters to claim that they have been robbed, and it is unlikely that they are going to take that lying down. That is a recipe for continued strife and instability, which are exactly what Egypt can least afford. | positive |
Special operations forces from the United States and Vietnam are signaling a readiness to start forging ties should their governments choose to do so, in what would be a major step in relations between militaries that were at war 4-1/2 decades ago.
Rear Admiral Colin Kilrain, who leads U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Asia-Pacific region, told Reuters in an interview that he met the commander from Vietnam's elite forces on the sidelines of a conference in Tampa, Florida, this week.
"Both of us would like to deepen the relationship but we're also very mindful that we go at the pace of what our governments want to do," Kilrain said, disclosing the details of the meeting.
The talks, which lasted about half an hour on Wednesday, came two days after U.S. President Barack Obama ended the U.S. arms embargo on Vietnam during a visit to that country on Monday.
Obama's trip to Vietnam, which borders China, underscored shared concerns about China's growing military clout as Beijing aggressively advances sovereignty claims to the South China Sea.
Ready for next steps
"We were both very encouraged by the positive meeting that President Obama had with the Vietnamese. And we wanted to go back and tell our chains of commands that ... we stand ready to take the next steps," Kilrain said.
U.S. President Barack Obama (3rd R) and his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang (2nd R) review an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam May 23, 2016.
Still, Kilrain was emphatic that the extent and pace of any such contacts would be decided by their governments.
"We will wait for positive signs from our own governments to move forward," he said.
The U.S. Navy has already taken important steps, carrying out four port visits last year, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet said. The head of U.S. military forces in the Asia-Pacific earlier signaled to Congress his desire to do more visits in 2016.
The United States has also contributed over $92 million since 1993 to help Vietnam address the threats posed by unexploded ordnance from the war and is supporting Vietnam's development of a peace keeping training center near Hanoi, the White House said.
Kilrain noted that when it came to kick-starting military ties, elite U.S. special operations forces, which include everything from Navy SEALs to the Army's elite Delta Force, are often some of the best options.
Green Berets, who specialize in irregular warfare, were active in the Vietnam conflict.
"For us, because we're light, we're small and we can move quickly, we're about re-establishing friendships and relationships," Kilrain said.
"And we're oftentimes the easiest ones to start with militarily. And I'm proud of that."
Although he declined to speculate on first steps with Vietnam, Kilrain acknowledged the process usually started slowly, with planning conferences to share information about how their militaries were organized and discussions on human rights.
"So it's somewhat benign and it's not necessarily classic military-type training," he said. | positive |
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Report: FCA finally readying AWD Dodge Challenger
Sep 6, 2016, 12:26pm ET
by Justin King
The \'GT AWD\' variant is said to be set for debut later this year.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is reportedly moving forward with plans to launch an all-wheel-drive Dodge Challenger.
The company previewed such a model last year at SEMA, introducing the Challenger GT AWD concept (pictured) as a "one-of-a-kind, year-round muscle car." The coupe also added a wide-body kit with flared fenders, shrouding 20-inch staggered wheels.
An Automotive News report now claims the GT AWD will debut in production form later this year.
The company is also said to be working on a new Hellcat flagship with wide-body styling, rumored to be called the Challenger ADR.
Both the AWD and ADR variants are expected to be built upon the current-generation Challenger platform. The next-generation model, built upon the Giorgio architecture and 500 pounds lighter, is said to be slated for 2018.
Live images by Ben Hsu. | positive |
UPDATE: 1:03 p.m.
Oregon State Hospital superintendent Greg Roberts has issued the following statement about the news of Cary Fairchild's death:
"Cary worked at Oregon State Hospital for 25 years, and was known to all as a passionate advocate for the patients she served."
According to the state hospital, she was a mental health specialist who led treatment groups, including yoga, to help patients reduce anxiety and other symptoms.
Original Post:
The Oregon State Hospital employee who was critically injured in the same Interstate 5 crash that killed Dr. Steven Fritz in September has also died, Salem Hospital confirmed Saturday.
Cary Fairchild, 64, was carpooling to work with Fritz from Portland on Sept. 24 when Fritz's zebra-patterned Sentra collided head-on with a Ford Ranger pickup that crossed the center line.
The crash ultimately involved several vehicles and severely snarled I-5 traffic for several hours. Fritz was killed in the crash, while Fairchild was rushed to Salem Hospital with critical injuries.
In the weeks since, Fairchild has remained at Salem Hospital. Salem Health spokesman Mark Glyzewski confirmed on Saturday morning that Fairchild had died.
Glyzewski could not confirm exactly when Fairchild died.
But according to a memorial post on a website called CaringBridge.org, someone identifying himself as Jim Fairchild posted that Cary was taken off life support on 11 a.m. Friday.
"She is still with us but the end is near," the post read. "Please send Cary your prayers and well wishes for an easy transition."
Another post, also from Jim Fairchild, reported that Cary Fairchild had died as of early Saturday.
"She was the world's most wonderful woman and I am the world's luckiest man," he wrote in the post. "A memorial is being planned. It will not be immediate because we are all too lost."
According to Oregon State Police, who also reported Fairchild's death Saturday morning, the investigation is ongoing and no enforcement decisions have yet been made.
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But thanks to a number of successful conservation and wildlife reintroduction programs, Malawi is fast developing a reputation as an up-and-coming safari destination, and tourists are slowly cottoning on to the wealth of other offerings to be found in the so-called warm heart of Africa. Malawi currently has nine national parks and wildlife reserves, six of which are especially recommended for visitors. There are also many attractive and accessible forest reserves. All the parks and reserves are uncrowded and give visitors an excellent experience of unspoiled wilderness. In 2012, lions were reintroduced into Majete Wildlife Reserve after a 30-year absence, which means Malawi is once again home to the Big 5 (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino). As well as iconic African wildlife, Malawi also boasts diverse scenery, including deep valleys, evergreen forests and waterfalls, all presided over by the dramatic peaks of Mount Mulanje and the rugged and regal Zomba Plateau in the south. Outdoor activities are central to any visit to Malawi. You can trek, mountain bike or horse ride in entirely natural surroundings or climb peaks and plateaus. But the vast Lake Malawi remains the shimmering jewel in Malawi’s crown. Cut into the Great Rift Valley and stretching from the northern tip of the country to Mangochi in the south, Lake Malawi is Africa’s third largest lake. Some of the world’s rarest tropical fish are found here, not to mention myriad bird species. It’s a dream destination for twitching, scuba diving and kayaking, or simply relaxing by the beach. Though Malawi remains one of the poorest countries in Africa, unlike some its neighbours it is an inherently peaceful place. And what it lacks in economic capital, it more than makes up for with its natural riches and ubiquitous kindness. Travel Advice Coronavirus travel health Check the latest information on risk from COVID-19 for Malawi on the TravelHealthPro website See the TravelHealthPro website for further advice on travel abroad and reducing spread of respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic. International travel Commercial flights to and from Malawi may be subject to short-notice change. Check with your travel company for the latest information. Malawi airspace remains open to a limited number of commercial flights. Entry and borders See Entry requirements to find out what you will need to do when you arrive in Malawi. Everyone should comply with the measures put in place in Malawi to limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Be prepared for your plans to change No travel is risk-free during COVID-19. Countries may further restrict travel or bring in new rules at short notice, for example due to a new COVID-19 variant. Check with your travel company or airline for any transport changes which may delay your journey home. If you test positive for COVID-19 you will need to self-quarantine either at home if you are resident in Malawi, or a Government Treatment Centre if you are a visitor. You will be responsible for paying any costs. If self-isolating at home, government officials will regularly check that you are not breaking the terms of self-isolation. People under the age of 18 are treated the same as adults. Plan ahead and make sure you: can access money understand what your insurance will cover can make arrangements to extend your stay and be away for longer than planned Travel in Malawi Public transport continues to operate throughout Malawi with some restrictions and COVID-19 related measures in place. Face coverings in public are mandatory. Accommodation Hotels and private rentals continue to operate with some restrictions and coronavirus precautionary measures in place. We advise that you contact your accommodation provider before booking to confirm what restrictions are in place. Public places and services Gatherings of more than 50 people are banned. The majority of shops, banks and restaurants continue to operate, with some restrictions and coronavirus precautionary measures in place. Hand washing is compulsory before entering shops, banks, restaurants, bars, etc. Face coverings in public are compulsory. Healthcare in Malawi If you think you have COVID-19 symptoms: You should stay at home. If you are residing in a hotel or lodge please inform hotel management or your tour operator. If you need to seek medical attention call the toll free number +265 887 371 288 or the District Health Office +265 999934523 (Lilongwe) or +265 999520319 (Blantyre). A full list of contacts can be found on the Ministry of Health Facebook page. If you test positive for COVID-19 you will need to self-quarantine and may be transferred to a Government Treatment Centre. For contact details for English speaking doctors visit our list of healthcare providers. General medical facilities throughout Malawi are unable to provide the same standard of healthcare as in the UK, with sophisticated equipment and intensive care facilities being very limited. View Health for further details on healthcare in Malawi. Your emotional and mental wellbeing is important. Read guidance on how to look after your mental wellbeing and mental health. See also the guidance on healthcare if you’re waiting to return to the UK. Finance For information on financial support you can access whilst abroad, visit our financial assistance guidance. Further information If you need urgent consular assistance, contact your nearest British embassy, high commission or consulate. All telephone numbers are available 24/7. Crime Most visits to Malawi are trouble-free, but you should take sensible precautions to protect yourself from muggers and bag-snatchers. Most thefts from visitors take place around the main bus stations in Lilongwe and Blantyre. Avoid walking around quiet areas, especially after dark. Leave valuables and cash in a hotel safe, where practical. Keep copies of important documents in a separate place Report any thefts to the police as soon as possible. You should avoid all demonstrations and rallies, remain vigilant and follow the advice of the local security authorities and/your tour operator. Be cautious if over-friendly people approach you offering to act as guides or selling goods, or who claim to know you and ask for a lift. Don’t accept food or drink from strangers; people have been robbed after eating drugged food. House burglaries, including by armed gangs, do occur though crime rates are low by regional standards. There has been an increase in break-ins in Lilongwe, Blantyre and Limbe, including violent assaults on residents. Review your security systems and watch out for anything unusual. Local travel Since March 2020 there have been reports of possible incidents of unrest and violence in rural areas of Mulanje, linked to rumours of bloodsuckers. This is further to similar incidents of violence and unrest reported during the period September to December 2017 and July 2018 in the areas of Mulanje, Thyolo, Chiradzulu, Phalombe and also in rural parts of Blantyre, Zomba and Nsanje districts. You should continue to exercise extreme caution if you’re travelling in these areas, especially after dark, avoid any demonstrations or large groups of people and follow local security advice. Seek security advice from the Mulanje Mountain Club if you intend to climb Mulanje mountain. Political situation Spontaneous demonstrations related to governance and economic issues can occur. If you’re in Malawi, avoid large crowds or demonstrations, monitor this travel advice and local media for updates and keep any local and international travel plans under review. Road travel You can drive in Malawi using a UK driving licence for up to 90 days or an International Driving Permit for up to one year. You should carry a valid driving licence, a copy of your passport and your visa or residence permit at all times when driving, as you may need to produce these at police check points. Slow down in all built-up areas. Traffic police often place speed cameras where there are no signs showing the speed limit. The police can impose on the spot fines. Driving in Malawi can be hazardous. Always wear a seatbelt and avoid travel after dark. Potholes, animals, abandoned vehicles and cyclists can cause serious accidents, as can vehicles travelling at night without lights. Malawi has a very high rate of fatalities on the road. Travel between towns by public minibus or pick-up truck isn’t recommended; vehicles are often in poor condition and overloaded. Emergency services are basic. Larger coach services do run between the major towns and are more reliable. Lock car doors and keep windows closed. Armed carjacking is a risk, especially for drivers of four-by-four vehicles. Don’t offer lifts to strangers and look out for obstructions in the road ahead. When driving, be very wary if another car signals you to pull over or blocks your progress. In recent years there have been a small number of kidnapping incidents involving foreign nationals (including a British national in 2021) taken from their vehicles in Malawi by criminals. The long-standing policy of the British government is not to make substantive concessions to hostage takers. The British government considers that paying ransoms and releasing prisoners builds the capability of terrorist groups and finances their activities. This can, in turn, increase the risk of further hostage-taking. The Terrorism Act (2000) makes payments to terrorists illegal. The Malawi Police Service has introduced breathalyser tests, and regularly stops vehicles for speeding. There are speed cameras on the main roads. Drivers caught drink driving or speeding can have their licences and vehicles confiscated on the spot. Convicted drivers face a fine and/or imprisonment. The blood alcohol limit is 0.08g per 100ml of blood (the same as in England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks in Malawi. UK Counter Terrorism Policing has information and advice on staying safe abroad and what to do in the event of a terrorist attack. Find out more about the global threat from terrorism. There’s a heightened threat of terrorist attack globally against UK interests and British nationals, from groups or individuals motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria. You should be vigilant at this time. Drug taking and smuggling are offences. This includes cannabis. Punishment can be severe. It is illegal to buy, sell, kill or capture any protected wild animal or trade its parts without a license. Malawi is a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) which bans trade in ivory. Those caught purchasing or trafficking such goods will be prosecuted and receive prison sentences or fines. Buying uncut precious stones is illegal. Outside the main tourist areas, women should cover legs and shoulders to avoid offending local sensitivities. Homosexual acts are illegal. See our information and advice page for the LGBT community before you travel. Carry a photocopy of your passport and visa at all times. This page has information on travelling to Malawi. This page reflects the UK government’s understanding of current rules for people travelling on a full ‘British Citizen’ passport from the UK, for the most common types of travel. The authorities in Malawi set and enforce entry rules. If you’re unsure how Malawi’s entry requirements apply to you, contact its UK embassy, high commission or consulate. All travellers You need a visa to enter Malawi as a visitor. See Visas for more information. If you’re fully vaccinated You are not required to show proof of a negative PCR test if you are fully vaccinated. You may be tested for COVID-19 on arrival at your own expense. Passengers may be required to remain at the airport or a testing centre until their COVID-19 test results are known, usually within 24 hours. Individuals testing positive for coronavirus on arrival may be taken for treatment at a government facility. All other individuals will be required to self-monitor for COVID-19 signs and symptoms for 14 days after arrival. This allows the traveller to interact with others but they will be required to strictly observe physical distancing and hand hygiene, and must always use a mask in public. You should not use the NHS testing service to get a test in order to facilitate your travel to another country. COVID-19 entry and exit requirements may be announced and altered at little notice. You should monitor the Malawi Ministry of Health Facebook page for the latest developments. Flights in to and out of Malawi from South Africa, Kenya or Ethiopia may also be affected by their own coronavirus (COVID-19) response. Follow our travel advice for South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia for information on entry and transit requirements. Residents of Malawi Returning residents must follow the same rules as for fully vaccinated travellers. You may not be allowed to board your plane, or be turned back at the border if you are not fully vaccinated or cannot provide proof. Proof of vaccination status You must produce an electronically verifiable full vaccination certificate at the point of entry. Malawi will accept the UK’s proof of COVID-19 vaccination record and proof of COVID-19 vaccination issued in the Crown Dependencies. Your final vaccine dose must have been administered at least 14 days prior to travel. Your NHS appointment card from vaccination centres is not designed to be used as proof of vaccination and should not be used to demonstrate your vaccine status. If you’re not fully vaccinated You must produce an electronically verifiable full vaccination certificate at the point of entry. You may not be allowed to board your plane, or be turned back at the border if you are not fully vaccinated or cannot provide proof. See Malawi’s Ministry of Health Facebook page for further information. If you’ve had COVID-19 in the past year You must produce an electronically verifiable full vaccination certificate at the point of entry. You may not be allowed to board your plane, or be turned back at the border if you are not fully vaccinated or cannot provide proof. Children and young people Children aged 12 to 17 should follow the rules for fully vaccinated travellers to enter Malawi. Children under the age of 12 do not require proof of vaccination or PCR on arrival. If you’re transiting through Malawi Transiting is when you pass through one country on the way to your final destination. Transiting through Malawi is permitted for travellers who present proof of a full vaccination certificate and a negative COVID-19 PCR test not older than 72 hours from your time of departure from your country of origin. Exemptions There are no exemptions to Malawi’s entry requirements. Check your passport and travel documents before you travel Passport validity Your passport should be valid for minimum period of 6 months on arrival in Malawi. Visas British passport holders need a tourist or business visa to enter Malawi. Malawi has introduced an ‘e-visas’ system through which applications can be submitted and approved online in advance of travel. You can find details of the application process on the Malawi High Commission website. The Malawi authorities strongly advise you to get a visa before travel. If you can’t get a visa before travel, you may be able to get a single entry tourist or business visa on arrival at main ports of entry to Malawi, subject to the fulfilment of all immigration requirements. You should check with the Malawi High Commission in London for more information. Travelling with children via a South African airport If you’re transiting through a South African airport with children (under 18), see our South Africa travel advice page for information and advice about the documents you’ll need to carry. Yellow fever certificate requirements Check whether you need a yellow fever certificate by visiting the National Travel Health Network and Centre’s TravelHealthPro website. UK Emergency Travel Documents UK Emergency Travel Documents (ETDs) are accepted for entry, airside transit, and exit from Malawi. ETDs must be valid for 6 months for entry into Malawi if the holder is not a returning resident. If you have a health condition, or you are pregnant, you may need specialist healthcare abroad. Check whether your destination country can provide the healthcare you may need and ensure you have appropriate travel insurance for unexpected medical evacuation or local treatment. See the Coronavirus travel health and Healthcare sections in the Coronavirus page for COVID-19 health information. At least 8 weeks before your trip, check the latest country-specific health advice from the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) on the TravelHealthPro website. Each country-specific page has information on vaccine recommendations, any current health risks or outbreaks, and factsheets with information on staying healthy abroad. Guidance is also available from NHS (Scotland) on the FitForTravel website. General information on travel vaccinations and a travel health checklist is available on the NHS website. You may then wish to contact your health adviser or pharmacy for advice on other preventive measures and managing any pre-existing medical conditions while you’re abroad. The legal status and regulation of some medicines prescribed or purchased in the UK can be different in other countries. If you’re travelling with prescription or over-the-counter medicine, read this guidance from NaTHNaC on best practice when travelling with medicines. For further information on the legal status of a specific medicine, you’ll need to contact the embassy, high commission or consulate of the country or territory you’re travelling to. While travel can be enjoyable, it can sometimes be challenging. There are clear links between mental and physical health, so looking after yourself during travel and when abroad is important. Information on travelling with mental health conditions is available in our guidance page. Further information is also available from the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC). Health risks Outbreaks of gastric intestinal infections including cholera are also common. Whilst the majority of travellers are at low risk of disease, standard food, water and personal hygiene precautions should be observed. You should follow the health advice issued by the National Travel Health Network and Centre. Tap water may not be safe to drink, especially in rural areas. The UNAIDS 2013 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic estimated that around 950,000 adults aged 15 or over in Malawi were living with HIV; the prevalence percentage was estimated at around 10.8% of the adult population compared to the prevalence percentage in adults in the UK of around 0.25%. You should exercise normal precautions to avoid exposure to HIV/AIDS. Medical treatment General medical facilities throughout Malawi are unable to provide the same standard of healthcare as in the UK. Facilities in rural areas are basic and emergency services are limited. You should carry basic medical supplies. Many medical facilities expect to be paid up-front for treatment. Make sure you have adequate travel health insurance and accessible funds to cover the cost of any medical treatment abroad, medical evacuation and repatriation. The rainy season runs from November to April and can make roads harder to pass, and make some areas impassable. Flooding is also a possibility. Monitor local reports, including the Malawi Government’s official Facebook weather page, the MetMalawi website, and World Meteorological Organisation. Check your routes before travelling around the country and follow the advice of the local authorities. Earthquakes In 2009, there were a series of earthquakes in northern Malawi around Karonga. Some of them registered up to 6.2 on the Richter scale, and caused deaths and damage to buildings. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency has advice about what to do before, during and after an earthquake. If you’re abroad and you need emergency help from the UK government, contact the nearest British embassy, consulate or high commission. If you need urgent help because something has happened to a friend or relative abroad, contact the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in London on 020 7008 5000 (24 hours). Foreign travel checklist Read our foreign travel checklist to help you plan for your trip abroad and stay safe while you’re there. Travel safety The FCDO travel advice helps you make your own decisions about foreign travel. Your safety is our main concern, but we can’t provide tailored advice for individual trips. If you’re concerned about whether or not it’s safe for you to travel, you should read the travel advice for the country or territory you’re travelling to, together with information from other sources you’ve identified, before making your own decision on whether to travel. Only you can decide whether it’s safe for you to travel. When we judge the level of risk to British nationals in a particular place has become unacceptably high, we’ll state on the travel advice page for that country or territory that we advise against all or all but essential travel. Read more about how the FCDO assesses and categorises risk in foreign travel advice. Our crisis overseas page suggests additional things you can do before and during foreign travel to help you stay safe. Refunds and cancellations If you wish to cancel or change a holiday that you’ve booked, you should contact your travel company. The question of refunds and cancellations is a matter for you and your travel company. Travel companies make their own decisions about whether or not to offer customers a refund. Many of them use our travel advice to help them reach these decisions, but we do not instruct travel companies on when they can or can’t offer a refund to their customers. For more information about your rights if you wish to cancel a holiday, visit the Citizen’s Advice Bureau website. For help resolving problems with a flight booking, visit the website of the Civil Aviation Authority. For questions about travel insurance, contact your insurance provider and if you’re not happy with their response, you can complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service. Registering your travel details with us We’re no longer asking people to register with us before travel. Our foreign travel checklist and crisis overseas page suggest things you can do before and during foreign travel to plan your trip and stay safe. 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Amy Schumer has her own show on Comedy Central, where she isn't afraid to let fly with the off-color humor.
Madonna has a tour that will launch Aug. 29 in Miami that will last into December, and she’ll be opened by an entirely different kind of performer: comedienne Amy Schumer, a woman known for raunchy comedy rather than your typical singing opening act.
Schumer, who has a show on Comedy Central and is known for her raunchy humor, bragged over Twitter that she “auditioned for @Madonna and got the part,” posting a video of her dancing and singing “Like a Prayer” at around the age of 10, according to an Uproxx report.
Madonna is touring to promote her new album, Rebel Heart.
Schumer stars in the sketch comedy show Inside Amy Schumer, which premiered on Comedy Central in 2013. She also finished fourth on the fifth season of Last Comic Standing on NBC, and was second on Reality Bites Back, a Comedy Central Series. In addition, she had a recurring role in Delocated on Adult Swim.
She is the second cousin of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Schumer first got her break in 1992 when she was dressed as a boy for the musical drama Newsies, and also starred in some off-Broadway show before doing stand-up comedy in 2004. | positive |
The massively popular video game Everquest II will start sending cheaters and rule breakers to their own "prison server."
EQ2 is one of those games, like World of Warcraft, with a huge online community of dedicated players. Playtime is serious -- and bullies inevitably ruin the experience.
The exile is permanent, a "ONE-WAY trip for an entire account forever," developers announced earlier this week.
The dedicated server is a solution that EQ2 customers have wanted for years as a way to deal with disruptive players. A team of Game Masters will decide who gets banished.
But it's not all bad news.
Players relegated to this Australia of EQ2 can continue to live and socialize in their own, separate virtual world and can maintain their membership. However, they won't get any customer support, and they won't be able to rejoin the larger game community.
"As gamers, we recognize there are some players who like to step outside our rules," the developers said. "Ultimately, players who break the rules -- or want to -- will have a world of their own to do... whatever they will."
Daybreak, the company that makes EQ2, is calling this an experiment.
"We wanted to see what happens given it's not a very common option," it said.
Typically, video game companies punish bullies by kicking them off a session or temporarily banning them from playing. But the punishment clearly isn't severe enough because these online trolls tend to pick up their bad ways again later.
That's why Daybreak is trying out this rigid new approach. But this is a penal colony anyone can visit.
Players who are curious about what it's like in this prison server can ask to join through the game's petition system. | positive |
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Observations During a Walk Along Vancouver’s Seaside Greenway | BC Write Skip to primary content BC Write British Columbia Discoveries Search Main menu Home Blog Vancouver British Columbia The Arts Nature in BC Biology About Me Contact Post navigation ← Previous Next → Observations During a Walk Along Vancouver’s Seaside Greenway Posted on March 20, 2019 by lindacrampton7495 The Seaside Greenway is a 28 km pedestrian and cycling path beside the sea in Vancouver. According to the official City of Vancouver website, it’s the “world’s longest uninterrupted waterfront path.” It travels from the Vancouver Convention Centre in the downtown area, around Stanley Park, and onwards to the Spanish Banks beaches. The scenery along the route is beautiful and interesting. The path is a wonderful place to exercise, to take photographs, or to relax and enjoy the scenery. I enjoy walking along the greenway. In this post I share some of my photos and some observations about the first part of the route, which starts at the convention centre and ends at the entrance to Stanley Park. The route travels beside Burrard Inlet. In future posts I’ll discuss other parts of the journey. The start of the Seaside Greenway In Vancouver, a “greenway” is a walking and cycling path in the city that is bordered by plants or by nature in some other form. The path is wide enough to have a separate lane for pedestrians and cyclists. The sides of the trail are often landscaped. On the seaside greenway, one side of the path is bordered by the ocean and in some places by a rocky or sandy beach as well. Greenways are attractive, go to interesting or useful places, and are great places for cyclists to travel safely. Walking down to the greenway (The path can also be accessed without going down stairs.) An ambitious person could travel along the entire Seaside Greenway in one day. It’s perfectly possible to travel along a section and then either backtrack or take a shortcut through the city back to the starting point, though. Since the path is so long, it’s advisable to check a map, do some planning, and pack suitable (and lightweight) supplies before doing anything more than a short walk or cycle. Washrooms, places to buy food and drink, and benches for sitting down are located along the route. One or more of these facilities may be quite far apart, though. especially in some parts of the path. The Vancouver Convention Centre with its revolving globe The Vancouver Convention Centre is often the starting place for my walks along the greenway. The centre is located by the waterfront and consists of two buildings. The revolving globe in the one beside the start of the greenway (the west building) is a nice metaphor for exploration. The path begins to the right of the view in the photograph above. The route can be accessed from multiple places, however. The east building of the convention centre is located very close by at Canada Place, which is a complex for business and tourists. The complex is a great place for visitors to explore. It contains a large pier with a promenade on top and various attractions on the pier. Interesting sights in the area are the huge Olympic Cauldron, the five sails on the pier, and the Digital Orca sculpture. The blue raindrop The first part of the Seaside Greenway is located slightly to the west of the Canada Place pier and its berth for a cruise ship and next to restaurants and stores. The west building of the Vancouver Convention Centre extends over the top of the stores. It’s impossible to miss the huge blue raindrop sculpture in this area. Cruise ship berths are located on both sides of the pier and can be viewed from the structure’s promenade. The ships go to Alaska and are impressive when they’re seen close-up. It’s always interesting to look at them and to watch the activities as the staff prepare for their next voyage. I’d love to be a passenger on one of the ships. A voyage to Alaska is on my bucket list. Canada Place can be seen from the start of the Seaside Greenway. The blue sculpture that can be seen near the start of the greenway is known simply as “The Drop.” It was created by a group of four German artists collectively known as Inges Idee. The sculpture is 65 feet tall and was installed in 2009. It’s made of steel and is covered by polyurethane. The area where the sculpture is located is called Bon Voyage Plaza. The sculpture represents a drop of rain in the act of touching the ground and is partly meant for amusement. Vancouver receives quite a lot of rain. According to the artists, it’s also meant to pay homage to the “element of water and the un-tameable forces of nature which are omnipresent in Vancouver.” The artists coloured the drop blue in order to form a contrast with the yellow piles of sulphur on the other side of Burrard Inlet. The piles can be seen when the sculpture is viewed from a particular angle. Bon Voyage Plaza It’s enjoyable to watch the activity in Burrard Inlet during the first part of the walk. Float planes frequently take off and land and boats pass by. The marinas are good places to observe the different styles of boats and to daydream about a life at sea. Birds that live near the inlet and cultivated plants are also interesting sights. Restaurants, a community centre, and small park areas are located beside the path. The walk may give a traveller ideas for later explorations. They may think that a restaurant looks tempting, for example, or they may decide to buy a ticket for a whale-watching tour. They may also decide to explore an area leading away from the trail. Part of a marina that can be seen during the walk The greenway travels through an area known as Coal Harbour. Despite its rather unattractive name and its former identity as the site of a shipyard, the area is attractive today. The Coal Harbour Community Centre is located beside the greenway. It provides washrooms, snacks, and free wireless Internet. The city of Vancouver provides free Internet in a variety of locations in the downtown area. If you reach English Bay Beach via the greenway or another route, you’ll also find free Internet. The mountains on the other side of the inlet and Stanley Park in the near distance are almost constantly in view during a journey along the first section of the greenway. The view in the opposite direction shows Canada Place and is also worth looking at. I enjoy trying to recognize landmarks that I know at and around Canada Place. Binoculars would be useful on the walk, but they aren’t essential. Canada Place (the area to the left of the skyscrapers) as seen from the greenway Some of the boats moored beside the greenway can be chartered for special events. I attended a high school graduation event on one a few years ago. The class was small, so the students, guests, and teaching staff could all fit on the boat. I enjoyed the graduation ceremony as well as the voyage and the scenery. It was certainly an interesting way to celebrate the end of high school and the start of a new phase in the students’ lives. The voyage took us away from the sheltered area of Burrard Inlet. At one point, the captain decided to speed up so that we could quickly pass through an area in which turbulence was developing. He slowed down when we reached a more sheltered area. The rocking motion and the increased roar of the engine as we outran the developing problem was a good reminder of the power of the open sea. A view of the Lions Gate Bridge from the Stanley Park Seawall The time needed to reach Stanley Park depends very much on walking speed and the number of times that someone stops to look at views or scenes beside the path. Forty minutes is a rough estimate for the time required for a walker without mobility problems to reach the park. I often walk along the greenway to Stanley Park. Travelling to the park along Robson Street in the downtown area can be enjoyable for people who like to explore shopping opportunities. I take this route when I don’t have as much time available as I would like. The street goes directly to the park and travels through a residential area in its last section. It ends near Lost Lagoon, one of Stanley Park’s main attractions. The quickest way to reach the greenway from the end of the road is to travel through the underpass on the right. The journey doesn’t take long. Canada geese that I photographed in Stanley Park in summer Once Stanley Park is reached, the greenway is usually referred to as the seawall. The scenery changes here but is still attractive. As before, it’s easy to leave and later return to the path, with one exception. On one part of the seawall, the ocean is located on one side and impassable cliffs on the other. The only way to leave the trail is to turn around or go forward. The seawall is wide enough for an ambulance, which may be reassuring in case of an emergency (provided a traveller has a charged cell phone with them). The seawall travels beside Burrard Inlet for a while but then reaches a more open area of water. Eventually it turns back and travels beside the sandy beaches on the other side of Stanley Park. Maps are easy to find online and are available at tourist booths. The photo of one on a display board shown below gives a general idea of the layout of the park. Map of Stanley Park (Photo by dronepicr, CC BY 2.0 license) Tempting Stanley Park Attractions Stanley Park is located on a peninsula, as shown in the map above. The yellow route on the perimeter of the peninsula and the area below it on the map is the Seaside Greenway. The greenway extends beyond the yellow line on the left of the map, however. When a traveller reaches the Stanley Park Seawall, they may get sidetracked as they discover interesting things to do in the park. It’s possible to cut through the park and rejoin the Seaside Greenway on the other side, which may be an attractive idea for some people. There are many routes and choices of activity in the park. A visitor should probably decide on their goal for each trip along the greenway, especially if their time in Vancouver is limited. Lord Stanley welcomes everyone to Stanley Park Stanley Park can be reached by bus, car, and taxi. It can also be reached by walking from the downtown area. The walk along the sidewalks beside the main roads is quicker than travelling along the Seaside Greenway but less picturesque. Whatever decision is made, the exploration will probably be fun. The greenway network is growing and connects to trails in neighbouring cities. Provided a person has suitable shoes, appropriate clothing for the weather, and other essentials, exploring Vancouver on foot or on a bicycle can be very enjoyable. The greenways provide a great opportunity for making new discoveries. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... This entry was posted in Attractions and tagged Seaside Greenway, seawall, Vancouver by lindacrampton7495. Bookmark the permalink. 8 thoughts on “Observations During a Walk Along Vancouver’s Seaside Greenway” Laura on March 20, 2019 at 4:26 pm said: Ahh, who doesn’t love the seawall!? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ lindacrampton7495 on March 20, 2019 at 5:43 pm said: That’s so true! LikeLike Reply ↓ ladyfi on March 21, 2019 at 8:55 pm said: What a lovely place for a walk. LikeLike Reply ↓ lindacrampton7495 on March 22, 2019 at 1:48 am said: It is. I always enjoy visiting the area. LikeLike Reply ↓ indianeskitchen on March 22, 2019 at 9:04 pm said: Awesome pictures but that blue raindrop is so unique! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ lindacrampton7495 on March 22, 2019 at 9:22 pm said: The raindrop is certainly noticeable! It’s an interesting landmark. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ daisydust02 on May 1, 2019 at 3:50 am said: What a lovely place for a walk. LikeLike Reply ↓ lindacrampton7495 on May 1, 2019 at 7:49 am said: It is! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply ↓ Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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Fact: House's famous anti-hero Dr. House was inspired by a woman. Yet in conceiving the hit show, creators chose to make their protagonist male. Why? Because misbehavior is tolerated—even accepted—in men. TV audiences are used to rooting for male anti-heroes—from Tony Soprano to Walter White. We're able to forgive their often horrific actions because, to quote the most tired excuse ever, "boys will be boys."
"Misbehavior is tolerated—even accepted—in men...We're able to forgive their often horrific actions because, to quote the most tired excuse ever, 'boys will be boys.'"
But what about women? The female anti-hero is a relatively new phenomenon largely because sexism is a systemic problem in this country, and people have a hard time with women subverting stereotypes. It's (at least part of) the reason so many people had such difficulty imagining a female president during this past election. But the apprehension towards female unlikability on TV is slowly changing, in part thanks to Amazon's Fleabag (which just got a second season order, FYI), created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Unlikable women on TV have existed before—there was Nancy Botwin, the drug dealer on Weeds, and Sex and the City's self-absorbed Carrie Bradshaw—but Fleabag is different. Most shows require their female protagonist to have her life together in at least one way (be it career, love, friendships, family) in order to balance out deficiencies in other areas of her life, yet Fleabag has no refuge. She's literally ruined every area of her life. And yet, as a viewer, we still root for her to succeed. It's a true mark of a successful anti-hero, so MarieClaire.com hunted down Waller-Bridge to chat about breaking the mold.
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On whether she'd call Fleabag an anti-hero:
"When writing the original stage play I described her as an anti-hero/anti-heroine a lot. It felt very edgy to be talking about a young woman like that back in 2013. The idea has become more mainstream now, which is great. I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen. But having said that, I see Fleabag's honesty about her flaws heroic in a different way. Her attempts to hold herself together even in the face of her own mistakes and pain is her great struggle, but she does it for us, the audience. And we witness the pain she suffers only in glimpses, but hopefully enough to show us how hard she is working for us."
On the key to a successful female anti-hero:
"There's some sort of charm and humor that makes them forgivable. This is where the comedy was vital to the show. Without the jokes or the honesty, Fleabag would be much harder to root for. We're living in a time when people are responding to characters who are honest rather than aspirational. I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions."
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On worrying about female likability:
"I did worry, but I had to quickly shake that off. I knew how much pain she was covering so I could see through the callousness and take her good nature and broken heart for granted. It was making sure the audience were given moments of that vulnerability. Without Fleabag's mask slipping, she'd have been inexplicably hard and impenetrable and there isn't a huge amount to like in that. If we have even a sliver of understanding about why a person is acting strangely we see them in a totally different light. I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character, it's inviting them to try and understand them...then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth."
On Fleabag's complicated feminism:
"Fleabag never contradicts or challenges the fundamental argument in feminism; she never questions the right for women to have equal opportunities as men. She's just confused about the 'rules' that seem to apply to a certain brand of feminism. But I didn't find it useful to think about it because there were other themes taking precedence like family, and grief, and obsession. However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful or we will explode."
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Announcing Quill 1.0
Quill 1.0 has arrived. It was just two years ago that Quill made its public debut as an open source project. Today, it can be found in applications and products of all sizes, ranging from personal projects and promising startups, to established public companies.
Quill is designed as an easy to use editor, to support content creation across the web. It is built on top of consistent and predictable constructs, exposed through a powerful API. With coverage across both ends of the complexity spectrum, Quill aims to be the defacto rich text editor for the web.
In the 111 releases, Quill has iterated relentlessly towards this goal. It has stabilized its API, moved essential internal implementations into customizable modules, and exposed its document model for users to define and add entirely new formats and content.
New Features
Editable Syntax Highlighted Code blocks can now seamlessly exist inline with the rest of your text.
Beautifully rendered LaTeX formulas can be inserted to your contents.
Many, many new formats have been added, including superscript, subscript, inline code, code blocks, headers, blockquotes, text direction, videos, and nested lists. Inline styles can now also use classes instead.
An entirely new theme Bubble has also been added, based on a floating toolbar.
Take a look at the Changelog to see an exhaustive list.
Parchment
As the biggest feature in Quill 1.0, Parchment deserves its own mention. It offers a powerful abstraction over the DOM to enable custom formats and content in Quill. It is responsible for the numerous new formats added in Quill 1.0, including videos, syntax highlighted code, and formulas.
With Parchment, you can now enhance or customize existing Quill formats or add entirely new ones in your own application. Take a look at Cloning Medium with Parchment for a detailed guide.
Website
In addition to the fancy new features, Quill’s documentation site has also been given an upgrade. The referential portions have all been filled out, with no more incomplete or unstable pages. A new Guides section has been added to cover some of the common how-tos and whys behind design decisions.
There is now also an Interactive Playground, for tinkerers and immediate gratification. You can use it try out Quill’s features and experiment with its API, without any setup or installation.
What’s Next
Quill will continue to refine itself in being the easiest editor to use, while allowing for the most sophisticated customizations. With a stable and solid foundation on 1.0, some areas of focus will include:
Iterating on modules and themes, making them easier to create, customize and share
Add remaining common formats, such as tables
Better internationalization support
Getting Started
If you are just joining us today, the example editors on the homepage are an excellent demonstration of the gorgeous editing experiences you can add to your application. Make sure to open up your developer console to play around with the API.
Head to the Interactive Playground if you want to tinker some more or to the Quickstart docs if you are ready to add Quill, with just a few lines of code.
Credits
Last, but not least, a special thank you goes out to Quill’s community. Whether you contributed code for the codebase, help for other community members, reports or context for bugs, ideas for new features or improve existing ones, feedback on use cases, or evangelism for the project, Quill would not be nearly as successful without your collective efforts. Thank you for your contribution! | positive |
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Vortex Matter - CMT - TU Dortmund To content To the home page Department of Physics To the home page Condensed Matter Theory To path indicator To navigation To quick access To footer with other services Anders Group Anders Group Here we, the Anders Group, introduce ourselves. You can find information about our working group, research and teaching activities. To main page Anders Group Members Head of the Group Scientific Staff & Postdocs PhD Students Master Students Secretariat Emeriti Alumni Research Projects Collaborations Publications Teaching Lectures Seminars Theses Bachelor Theses Master Theses Doctoral Theses Events News Contact Kierfeld Group Kierfeld Group Here we, the Kierfeld Group, introduce ourselves. You can find information about our working group, research and teaching activities. 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On the contrary, type-II superconductors exhibit a "mixed" physe for sufficiently strong magnetic fields, in which the magnetic flux can penetrate the sample in the form of quantized magnetic flux lines, which form the hexagonal Abrikosov vortex lattice. In this state, any external transport current leads to a Lorentz force and motion of flux lines which results in dissipation. Hence the perfect electric conductivity is lost. In high-Tc materials this field region covers essentially the whole superconducting phase (for an introduction into superconductivity, see Ref. [1], for a review on vortex physics in high-Tc superconductors, see Ref. [2]). To prevent dissipation, flux lines have to be pinned by impurities, which are an intrinsic property of (stochiometric) high-Tc materials but can also be engineered into the materials. It has turned out that in high-Tc superconductors the vortex lattice is subject to fluctuations, which are both thermal fluctuations because type-II superconductivity and, thus, the vortex lattice exist up to relatively high temperatures and fluctuations from the frozen (quenched) impurities and defects. As a result, the vortex lattice constitutes a very interesting form of lattice matter, in which interactions are tunable (by magnetic field) and in which thermal and quenched disorder fluctuations give rise to a very rich phase diagram comprising both liquid and glassy phases. In a sense, the vortex matter can be regarded as "soft" because elastic deformations can be easily triggered by energies of the order of kBT or typical disorder energies, which makes vortex matter very susceptible to phase transformations. Because of this property, vortex matter has also shifted into the focus of statistical physics. To prevent dissipation, flux lines have to be pinned by impurities. The presence of randomly distributed impurities leads to the formation of a glassy state of the flux line array, the "vortex glass", in which the linear resistivity of the superconductor vanishes because of arbitraryly high energy barriers between different metastable pinned states of the vortex lattice. Such glassy phases can be the result of point ("vortex glass") or columnar ("Bose glass") defects (see Refs. [2],[3] for recent reviews). The existence of vortex glass phases for point disorder has been proposed initially in Refs. [4], however, with the conclusion that these glassy phases lack any positional order. Since then, it has become clear that this picture should be modified in superconductors with point defects. The vortex glass phase which could be establisehd in these systems is actually a phase with quasi-long range topological order of the Abrikosov-lattice: The elastic "Bragg glass" [4]-[6]. It could be also called a "positional glass" since its properties are defined in terms of the vortex degrees of freedom. Moreover, thermal fluctuations of the vortex lines can give rise to a melting of the vortex lattice and, thus, the existence of "vortex liquid" phases (see [2] for a review). It is the theoretical challenge in this field to develop a consistent theory for all types of vortex matter phases, including the quasi-ordered "Bragg glass", eventually another "amorphous vortex glass" phase lacking positional order, and the "vortex liquid" phases at higher temperatures. In order to achieve this we developed a unified theory of liquid and glassy vortex phases for superconductors containing quenched point disorder based on defect-mediated phase transitions between the different phases [7-11]. Specifically, we showed that the proliferation and pinning of dislocations and dislocation loops can explain the complex phase behavior observed in experiments [7-10]. We also studied dynamic features such as creep in a topologically disordered vortex glass containing dislocations [11]. Already for a single vortex line, the description of pinning-induced or thermal fluctuations and its depinning in reponse tu external currents is difficult because high-Tc materials are layered, and there exist both electromagnetic and Josephson coupling between vortex segments [12]. Columnar defects represent stronger pinning centers for vortex lines. At low concentrations of columnar defects several vortex lines compete for a single defect, which gives rise to a novel exchange-delocalization transition [13]. Generic phase diagram for type-II superconductors with point defects as proposed in [9]. References [1] M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity, McGraw-Hill NY, 2nd edition 1996. [2] G. Blatter et al., Vortices in high-temperature superconductors, Rev. Mod. Phys. 66, 1125 (1994). [3] T. Nattermann and S. Scheidl, Vortex-glass phases in type-II superconductors, Advances in Physics 49, 607-704 (2000). [4] M.P.A. Fisher, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1415 (1989), D.S. Fisher, M.P.A. Fisher, and D. Huse, Phys. Rev. B 43, 130 (1991). [5] T. Nattermann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2454 (1990). [6] T. Giamarchi and P.Le Doussal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1530 (1994), Phys. Rev. B 52, 1242 (1995). [7] J. Kierfeld, T. Nattermann, and T. Hwa, Topological order in the vortex glass phase of high-temperature superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 55, 626-629 (1997). [8] J. Kierfeld, Topological order in the phase diagram for high-temperature superconductors with point defects, Physica C 300, 171-183 (1998). [9] J. Kierfeld and V. Vinokur, Dislocations and the critical endpoint of the melting line of vortex line lattices, Phys. Rev. B 61, R14928-R14931 (2000). [10] J. Kierfeld, H. Nordborg, and V.M. Vinokur, Theory of Plastic Vortex Creep, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4948-4951 (2000). [11] J. Kierfeld and V. Vinokur, Lindemann criterion and vortex lattice phase transitions in type-II superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 69, 024501 (2004). [12] J. Kierfeld, Single vortex fluctuations in type-II superconductors: Electromagnetic coupling and crossover to strong pinning, Phys. Rev. B 69, 144513 (2004). [13] J. Kierfeld and V.M. Vinokur, Competitive Localization of Vortex Lines and Interacting Bosons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 077005 (2005). To top of page Search & People Search Calendar Location & approach ServicePortal UniMail Search & People Search Search Search People Search Calendar To event list Location & approach By car The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is “Dortmund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Campus), and from B 1 / A 40 “Dortmund-Dorstfeld” (closer to North Campus). 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Dubai’s Future Blockchain Summit to create global business opportunities for crypto, metaverse innovators – Daily Digital Health Skip to content Daily Digital Health Medicine Health Care Nutrition Fitness Search for: Dubai’s Future Blockchain Summit to create global business opportunities for crypto, metaverse innovators Cloud PRWire September 22, 2022 Cloud PR Wire The fifth edition of the Summit will unveil the potential of immersive metaverse applications, exploring pioneering use-cases Crypto, DeFi & Virtual Asset Forum will re-evaluate and navigate the future of alternative investments Dubai, UAE, 22nd September 2022, ZEXPRWIRE, The Future Blockchain Summit, the MENA region’s longest running exhibition and conference connecting key stakeholders across Blockchain, crypto, and Web 3.0 will return to Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) from 10th-13th October 2022. An integral part of GITEX Global 2022, the world’s biggest tech and startup event of the year which will feature over 4,500 tech and digital companies from 170 countries, the four-day event will explore topics including the metaverse, Blockchain for enterprise and the future of digital assets. The Summit comes at an opportune time for the Middle East region’s development in Blockchain and cryptocurrency – the UAE has positioned itself as a global futuristic innovations’ hub, emphasised with the recent launch of the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority and Dubai Metaverse Strategy, showing the commitment of its government to the implementation and advancement of cutting-edge solutions to the digital economy. The Summit is set to provide a major international meeting point for the Blockchain and crypto communities, welcoming more than 600 investors, offering Blockchain, cryptocurrency and metaverse innovators an unrivalled opportunity to accelerate their growth. Day four of the Summit will play host to the North Star Dubai Supernova Challenge, the biggest pitch competition in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, offering startups the opportunity to pitch to an audience of global investors and earn potentially transformative capital. Leading cryptocurrency exchanges and market makers including OKX, Coinstore, KuCoin, the Hong Kong Digital Assets Exchange, Elliptic, Chainalysis, Coinfirm and Sun Zu Labs will exhibit at the Summit. Blockchain protocol specialists Consensys, EOS Network Foundation, Ultron Foundation will also be exhibiting, while there will also be a comprehensive focus on the Metaverse, NFT and gaming with innovators including Sensorium, METAP Japan and Ghost Ivy set to be at the show. 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Pseudo-observables in electroweak Higgs production | The European Physical Journal C (EPJ C) News Archives Scientific advisory committee About Open Access EPJ a b d e ap st h plus c ds pv ti qt am n woc rnc 2021 Impact factor 4.991 Particles and Fields 10 most recent Browse issues Topical issues Reviews Letters Open Access Regular Article - Theoretical Physics Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 158 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4000-5 Regular Article - Theoretical Physics Pseudo-observables in electroweak Higgs production Admir Greljo1,3, Gino Isidori1,2*, Jonas M. Lindert1 and David Marzocca1 1 Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland 2 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044, Frascati, Italy 3 Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 33-35, 71000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina * e-mail: gino.isidori@lnf.infn.it Received: 7 January 2016 Accepted: 2 March 2016 Published online: 18 March 2016 Abstract We discuss how the leading electroweak Higgs production processes at the LHC, namely vector-boson fusion and Higgs associated production, can be characterized in generic extensions of the Standard Model by a proper set of pseudo-observables (PO). We analyze the symmetry properties of these PO and their relation with the PO set appearing in Higgs decays. We discuss in detail the kinematical studies necessary to extract the production PO from data, and present a first estimate of the LHC sensitivity on these observables in the high-luminosity phase. The impact of QCD corrections and the kinematical studies necessary to test the validity of the momentum expansion at the basis of the PO decomposition are also discussed. © The Author(s), 2016 All current EPJ and Archives Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. EPJ Appl. Metamat. Eur. Phys. J. B Eur. Phys. J. D EPJ Data Science Eur. Phys. J. E Eur. Phys. J. H EPJ Nonlinear Biomed Phys EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol. EPJ Photovolt. EPJ Plus EPJ Quantum Technology Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation EPJ Web of Conferences Eur. Phys. J. A Eur. Phys. J. C +Advanced search Homepage Table of Contents Previous articleNext article Article Abstract PDF (2.15 MB) Services Same authors - Google Scholar - All Journals Recommend this article Download citation Related Articles Electroweak Higgs production with HiggsPO at NLO QCD Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 838 Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8 Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 212 Trilinear Higgs coupling determination via single-Higgs differential measurements at the LHC Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 887 Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and coupling strengths using pp collision data at and 8 TeV in the ATLAS experiment Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 6 Higgs Boson Physics at CMS EPJ Web of Conferences 158, 01001 (2017) More Bookmarking Mendeley Submit your Paper Conference announcements CMD 2022 Manchester, UK 21-28 August 2022 11th Conference of the Balkan Physical Union (BPU11 Congress) 28 August - 1 September 2022 Belgrade, Serbia 31st Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2022) Belgrade, Serbia 5-9 September 2022 Física 2022 7-10 September 2022 Porto, Portugal Società Italiana di Fisica 108th National Congress 12-16 September 2022 Milano, Italy Fontevraud 10, International Symposium on Contribution of Materials Investigations and Operating Experience to LWRs’ Safety, Performance and Reliability, 19-22 September 2022 Avignon, France ANIMMA2023, 12-16 June 2023 Lucca, Italy 29th International Conference on Amorphous & Nanocrystalline Semiconductors (ICANS 29) 23-26 August 2022 Nanjing, China 8th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2022) 25-30 September 2022 Glashütten, Germany ICAMDATA 2022, 12th International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications 25-29 September 2022 Bari, Italy Conference on Complex Systems CCS2022 17-21 October 2022 Palma de Mallorca, Spain About Contacts Privacy policy | negative |
With a spot for the North American Star League Season 3 Grand Finals LAN up for grabs, was in action last night against MvP Galaxy in the Round of 16. The Best of 5 match took place on the North American server for StarCraft 2. With NASL in its final two weekends of play, you could tell that tensions were running high in the 2 games before MC vs Galaxy. With Yang 'Alicia' Joon Sik beating Chia Yang 'Sen' Cheng , who won a marathon ZvZ Bo5 the night before, and Kim 'Puzzle' Sang Jun beating Payam 'TT1' Toghyan , it was a night of the odd on favorites showing their dominance.Game 1 took place on Daybreak, and the word of the game was Colossi. By the end of the game, MC had 2 with 60+ kills each. MC deviated from his norm, 2 base all-in Blink Stalker play, and went with 3 base Sentry/Stalker/Immortal/Colossi mid to late game play. Galaxy followed up with Ling/Infestor/Brood Lord. This game went back and forth, and the turning point for the game was that Galaxy made to few Brood Lords. MC charged in to the natural and main of Galaxy and it was only a matter of time till Galaxy had to GG and leave the game.Dual Sight was Galaxy's choice for the 2nd map. Much like Game 1 MC went with a 3 base build, but this time opting for Sentry/Phoenix/Archon and Galaxy went Ling/Roach in to Mass Mutalisk. MC whiffed with multiple Storms that have wiped out the Mutas. This led to Galaxy being able to over run MC and tie up the series at 1-1.MC's map choice for Game 3 was Cloud Kingdom. This game mirrored Game 1 for MC, 3 bases and Colossi picking up a massive number of kills. MC was able to get the most for his money for the Colossi, with them picking up over 144 kills. Once again, Galaxy made to few Brood Lords, and was only trading 1 Fungal Growth for 1 Infestor.Galaxy's next map choice came the way of Antiga Shipyard. While Galaxy is known for using cheese builds to get to this match, MC was the one one to attempt the first cheese in this match. MC tried to hide a probe in the Natural base of Galaxy, but it was scouted and MC had to move in to his 2 base Blink Stalker play. MC caught Galaxy off guard and killed the 3rd base and moved to the Natural and Galaxy, knowing he was to crippled, GG'ed one last time MC takes the Match 3-1.This moves MC to the Grand Finals happening July 14 and 15, in Toronto, Canada. Tonight we will find out who else moves on as we have 5 Best of 5 Matches, Casted Mr. Bitterdam, Mr. Bitters and Rotterdam, starting at 6 pm PST. | positive |
It is, says John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, "the greatest underdog sports story you've never heard". It stars, in his words, "a bunch of middle-aged people with absolutely no athletic talent". And soon, thanks to Green, it will be coming to a movie theatre near you.
It is the story of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned soccer team born out of the decision by the owners of the club based in the south London suburb of Wimbledon to move to Milton Keynes, 90 kilometres to the north, in 2001.
The moment AFC Wimbledon became a league team ought to provide a thrilling climax to John Green's story. Credit:Chris Brunskill
Opposed by the majority of fans, the move nonetheless went ahead, and the team played its first games in the northern satellite town in 2003. In 2004, the club formerly known as Wimbledon FC (for Football Club) was renamed Milton Keynes Dons after becoming insolvent.
In 2002, disaffected supporters founded a rival team, AFC (for Association Football Club) Wimbledon, based in the suburb of Kingston-Upon-Thames, just west of Wimbledon Common (home of TV's Wombles). The club began in the Premier Division of the Combined Counties League, which is the ninth tier in English football, and has since been promoted five times. | positive |
Bryan Fischer on 'sin and sickness' 080913 [YouTube]
On Friday, Voice of Russia Radio presented an interview with homosexuality “expert” and Christian radio host Bryan Fischer, who praised that country’s campaign of violence and intimidation against LGBT people. The far-right minister said that Russia’s attitude towards LGBT people “is not being homophobic, it’s homo-realistic” and reiterated one of his favorite tropes, that LGBT people are dirty disease-carriers who go against “God’s design.”
“Russia is not being homophobic, it’s homo-realistic,” Fischer told VOR interviewer Olga Yazhgunovich. “(T)he Russian government is trying to take the issue into consideration and establish public policy to contribute to public health, as this lifestyle is not be promoted, endorsed or granted special legal protection.”
“Homosexual behavior is just as risky as drug abuse,” Fischer said, he continued. “I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.”
“Homosexual behavior damages the body and soul. We love homosexuals enough to tell them the truth,” he said.
Listen to Fischer’s remarks to Voice of Russia Radio, embedded below via Mediaite: | positive |
It was a happy occasion. The town was now decked out in Christmas finery. My article had run so there was no longer a question of what I was up to. Hisham admitted that, for a while, he thought I was an F.B.I. agent. The New York Times business card didn’t fool him.
“I can print you a thousand business cards that say, ‘I’m the pope,’ ” he said.
The article appeared shortly after Abraham’s family had received an eviction notice. Donations from readers helped them pay the security deposit and first month’s rent on a new place, and get some used furniture and a bed for their 5-year-old. Someone from Texas paid off their electric bill. Abraham was able to buy a bicycle. That meant he could get to work on his own.
Hisham said the article had put Fort Smith on the map. One of the photographs we ran featured a sign for his car lot. He got calls from Atlanta, Cincinnati and Riverside, Calif. At first he thought they were telemarketers, but then he realized they were well-wishers. Dr. Nassri got calls from London and Switzerland.
The article seemed to satisfy a deep craving for something healthy after months of gorging on outrage. At a time when each side of the political divide seemed sure the other side was crazy and maybe even evil, it was an antidote. It helped people see that Americans are much more moderate than Twitter and Facebook would have us believe, that we actually have a lot in common, and that our mutual capacity for tolerance and kindness is quite large.
“You wove the lives of 2 men and their community in a way that for the first time I don’t feel like everyday I have to fight or be militant & absolute about good & evil, right & wrong,” one woman wrote on Twitter. “Thank you for that peace.”
A reader in Oregon said the story “gives me something to hold onto, an amulet, a prayer bead.” A woman named Linda Brown said the story was “a reminder that most Americans aren’t the caricatures we are presented with over and over.”
Abraham was stunned. He expected to be mocked. Instead he was praised. This flew in the face of his assumption that he didn’t have the right to take up space on this earth. He had been written off — by school, by society, by the world of educated adults — but here were complete strangers telling him he mattered. | positive |
"So much more of them to love". "More cushion for the pushin'". "Built for comfort, not for speed". Skinny girls wish they had cute sayings for them.
Just The Facts
Young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or of losing their parents. The average weight of a North American woman is now 163.5 pounds. These absolutely true statisitics proves that girls are crazier than we thought, and that you, despite your best manly efforts, are sleeping with a fatty. Ha! All sizes referred to in this topic page are US sizes. If you desperately want to know what size they would be in another country, Google it yourself. We're not your mother, and it's high time you learned to do things for yourself.
A History of Fat Girls
There was a time in most societies when fat women were revered above all other types of women. Being a fat chick actually made you more desirable, since it meant you were wealthy enough to afford food. It also made you much more likely to be married, since these women had them birthin' hips to pump out precious, precious sons.
Porn, circa 1600's.
Somewhere along the way, the establishment decided to change their minds completely and declare skinny girls to be the new 'sexy'. Why the sudden about-face?
Two reasons:
Physical power:
For the uninitiated, that's a corset. It's worn around the torso and laced up tightly in the back. Over time, it does this to a woman's body:
"Mmmm, I can taste my own lungs!"
We'll point out the obvious. When you wear a corset, either temporarily or long term, your internal organs get crammed together and tend not to work properly. This means that common physical processes like breathing become a very delicate and sometimes torturous affair. If you have limited lung capacity because your lungs are being shoved up into your shoulders, could you run a 5K? Hell, could you even do simple, everyday things you take for granted in a corset?
No, you couldn't.
Corsets and other similar undergarments were meant to keep women unnaturally petite and weak. Men wanted delicate pansies, not wild roses that could easily beat them at an arm wrestling match while birthing a baby and making a kickass potroast all at once.
Mental power
The 98 pound weakling is always a 98 pound weakling in his head. Even if he rocks some 'roids and gains 250 pounds of pure muscle, inside his head he'll always be that nerdy little shit who has daddy issues and sexual insecurities galore.
Same goes for the mental power of the sexy skinny female figure. If you convince women to wear a brutal torture cage like a corset, it's not much of a stretch to convince them that you, as a manly man, can run the world while they just have the occasional fainting spell over the slightest of controversies.
A Modern History: The Fat Girls Your Grandpa Liked
Back in your grandpa's day, waaaaay before the Internet was just a byte of code in Al Gore's optical repository, men got their rocks off to pin-up girls and movie starlets.
Here's a few names even you whippersnappers may know.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn ranged from size 8 to 14 throughout her career. She had sex with baseball players, politicians, and a President. She starred in many movies and was famous all over the world.
What a fat piece of shit.
Rita Hayworth
Screen goddess of the 40's, Rita was one of the most recognized sex symbols in Hollywood. She married a bunch of guys, including a prince. Also, she was the chick your grandpa fapped to in the trenches during WWII.
But seriously: look at that stomach roll. Barf.
Lana Turner
One of the first starlets to help coin the phrase "sweater kittens". Turner stood at 5'3", weighing about 110 pounds.
The guy trying to carry her was Mr. Universe back in 1940. Look at the strain in his muscles and the grimace on his face: he can barely lift her! Soooooo-weeeeeeee!
The Fat Girls (Some of Us) Like Today
As the great Bob Dylan once opined: "the times, they are-a rapidly becoming more different, and not for the better."
We've seen three examples of timeless movie stars in the 40's and 50's that could never make it in Hollywood today. However, there must be some fat actresses working in Hollywood that can still get Old Glory to salute, right?
Short answer: yes... with a 'but'.
Okay, to clarify: the mainstream media says there are plenty of fat actresses out there. Remember how Marilyn Monroe got up to size 14 sometimes, but was still considered to be the most bangable chick in the world?
Tyra Banks, former supermodel, got blasted in 2007 for the disgusting offence of displaying her swimsuited fat ass in public. Come on, there were people on that beach, and paparazzi hiding in the trees! Show some dignity, woman!
Oh, and for Tyra's height (5'10"):161 pounds makes her about a size 10-12. Smaller than Marilyn by at least one size.
Jennifer Love Hewitt was also caught in full pixellated glory blatantly showing off her fatness in Hawaii in 2007. The tabloids jumped all over this picture, slamming JLH for daring to draw attention away from her majestic rack by getting fat.
JLH stands at 5'2" and ranges from under 100 pounds to up to 117: 7 pounds heavier than Lana Turner.
Christina Hendricks
Hendricks, the stunner from AMC's "Mad Men", stands at 5'8" and 140 pounds. She was ridiculed in the New York times as being a "big girl" (and not in the patronizing-to-a-female-toddler type of way).
She's not even close to Marilyn's or Tyra Banks' sizes, yet she considered going on a diet in response to the flame war the Times started. Luckily, she ignored the trolls and decided not to diet, letting us all continue to fast forward through the PVR to get a glimpse of her character's Rackzilla.
The Fat Girls (All of Us Should) Love to Love
Fear not, lovely ladies, there are still men out there who appreciate the surrender into the softly scented pillowed form of a Fat Girl.
If you are one of the few men willing to stand up and loudly proclaim your worship for a true woman, here are a few ideas to get you started on converting others. Viva la revolution!
Plus-Size Models
With rulings by Spain and England's fashion modelling authorities, anorexic models may eventually be on their way out. Enter the plus-sze model.
Laughably, with the average North American woman being a size 14 or larger, the plus-size model is one who is size 8 or larger. However ridiculous their title may be, these women at least prove that "fat" girls are gorgeous.
Check it out for yourself:
Chloe Marshall: size 14: kickin' ass and getting phone numbers. This plus-size model from England went all "fuck y'all" on the British beauty pageant industry, entering pretty much every contest they had. She eventually won 2nd place in the Miss England contest. She could have won 1st place by exposing the hot, naked affair the winner was having with an egg beater and a car battery, but Chloe was too busy fucking lots of hot guys.
Lizzie Miller: size 14. Lizzie did a shoot for the September 2009 issue of Glamour magazine. These pics caused a shitstorm of controversy: Lizzie was called "too fat" to be a model, and others bitched she wasn't fat enough to be a plus size model. Aside from that, the comments about her stomach roll ranged from "she's beautiful, who cares" to "mffffhfkwjhaiufwjaascdkskkkgghhhhhh". *
*: The speech patterns of anorexic models, whose vocal chords and throat muscles have partially collapsed from neglect.
Toccara Jones: 5'9", 180 pounds. 38 DDD, all natural. Damn... just... damn. She's so smokin' hot, Klansmen would give up their hoods and join the Million Man March just for a chance to motorboat those funbags.
BBW Porn Stars
If these pictures weren't enough to get you worked up, how about something a little more naked? Brother, have we got the girls for you. Let's meet some lovely Fat Girls who just happen to be porn stars.
Devyn Devine: 4'10", 38 DDD, all natural. Devyn is an exotic dancer in Seattle, as well as an accomplished porn actress. With her height and love of the color blue, you can finally now have a visual aid for that Smurfette fetish you've shamefully hid for years.
Wonder Tracy: 5'6", 198 pounds. Bra size: GG. This Hungarian fox loves her job so much that it took 3 weeks of research to find a Cracked.com approved picture of her. Wonder Tracy is guaranteed to make some serious Hungarian goulash out of your cock.
Lady Spyce: 5'6", 190 pounds. 40 DDD, all natural. You'll definitely want to make a 'spice rub' of your own if you check out her videos. Muy caliente!
Mythbusting: Are Fat Girls Better at Oral Sex?
An episode we're sure Adam and Jamie would love to do. Well, probably not Jamie.
This myth has raged for decades in the Norh American collective consciousness. There are men who will swear that if you want your wiener waxed properly, get a fat girl to do it. The reasoning varies from physical ("fat chicks love to eat so they love having men's junk in their mouths") to sociological ("they're so desperate to sleep with any dude that they'll do the shit that skinny chicks don't like doing").
While it may be true that some fat women are more eager to please and therefore willing to dunk your dragon, science has proven that women with oral fixations prefer to perform oral sex on their partners. So, look for women who smoke, chew gum, chew tobacco, chew on straws, and so on.
Bottom line here: if taking your limo to the car wash is your favorite thing to do, you'd better find yourself a girl who likes having stuff in her mouth. Avoid all anorexics and supermodels.
She will throw holy water on your junk and hiss at you if you even suggest it. | positive |
Labour will expand a programme offering help to budding entrepreneurs, in the latest pro-business pitch from shadow Chancellor John McDonnell.
In a speech today, McDonnell is expected to lay out a plan to help create 20,000 new entrepreneurs a year. This is part of his wider ambition to build up an “entrepreneurial state” – a central plank of the Labour leadership’s economic vision.
McDonnell will announce that Labour will support the nationwide rollout of Strategic Entrepreneurial Hubs (SEHs), which would help provide practical support for 20,000 extra entrepreneurs every year. The move would cost around £25m a year, an investment Labour expects will be more than matched by the long term growth prospects.
“Our future success as a nation depends on growing in a more strategic way, and Labour wants to see an entrepreneurial state at a local and national level to help make this happen,” McDonnell is expected to say.
The expansion of enterprise hubs, where new entrepreneurs will have shared space to work in, is aimed at helping small business start-ups with initial overheads, of which rental costs is a main problem.
In his pitch to small business, McDonnell plans to argue that collaborative work spaces will help create a shared growth, and tackle the productivity crisis that has grown under the Tories.
McDonnell is expected to say:
“The next Labour Government wants to build upon and grow the over five million small businesses who contribute £1.8 trillion to the UK economy and which provide employment for 60 per cent of all those employed in the private sector.
“We don’t want money to be the barrier to someone with talent, skill or a good idea and who wants to control their own destiny being prevented from starting up a small business of their own, staying the course and delivering growth.
“Labour has always been the party of makers and doers, we have a rich history of supporting those people who want to be designers, makers and innovators. And it’s by helping to create the next generation of entrepreneurs that we will build the economy of the future.” | positive |
Everybody has lost money, due to currency notes being washed along with dirty laundry. The washing machine, however, may no longer be able to eat your money. Arjun Ram Meghwal, minister of state for finance, recently told Lok Sabha that “it has been decided to conduct a field trial with plastic banknotes at five locations of the country. Approvals for procurement of plastic substrate and printing bank notes of Rs10 denomination on plastic substrate have been conveyed to the RBI (Reserve Bank of India)." Let’s know more about these notes.
“Plastic banknotes are expected to last longer than cotton substrate-based banknotes," said Meghwal, and added, “Central banks across the world have been exploring different solutions for extending the lifecycle of banknotes. These include introduction of plastic banknotes." The pioneer in plastic notes is Australia, which started using them in January 1988.
Since then, they have been circulating in countries like New Zealand, Canada, Scotland, Vietnam, Brunei and Papua New Guinea. Bank of England started circulating plastic-based notes of £5 on 13 September 2016. It plans to issue £10 plastic notes from September 2017 and £20 notes by 2020. The bank estimates that these notes last up to 2.5 times longer than paper-based notes. In the long run, polymer notes are expected to reduce expenses incurred on printing currency, as they last longer. According to the Reserve Bank of India, the total expenditure incurred on security printing stood at Rs3,420 crore during 2015-16 (July-June) and Rs3,760 crore during 2014-15.
Changing currency notes can be tricky, because we first need to upgrade the entire infrastructure. We recently saw some of these issues crop up, when ATMs had to be recalibrated because they could not handle the new currency notes introduced after demonetization.
Also, it needs to be seen how these notes will perform in India, which experiences extremes of weather. It is reasonable to ask whether the plastic notes would be able to withstand the extreme heat of India. This is why the trial of plastic notes is expected to be conducted in five cities— Kochi, Mysuru, Shimla, Jaipur and Bhubaneswar—which are in different climatic zones. If the trial run is successful, we may see more plastic notes. | positive |
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When the Kite & Lightning developers told me they had something to show me that couldn’t physically be demonstrated anywhere else, I was intrigued. Little did I know, upon arriving at their office, that I would be stepping into a contraption that’s been presumed to be a torture device, a jungle gym, and yes, even a “sex machine.”
Kite & Lightning is a creative development studio co-founded by Cory Strassburger, a two-time Emmy award winning visual artist, and Ikrima Elhassan, a visual effects technical artist who’s held research positions at the University of Texas, Intel, and Nvidia. The studio specializes in high tech and interactive content, with experience in the realm of augmented reality, and more recently, virtual reality. Kite & Lightning is responsible for some of the most visually impressive Oculus Rift demos to date, including K&L Station, The Cave, and most recently, the one-of-a-kind Senza Peso.
Reverend Kyle and I swung by the Kite & Lightning office while we were out in LA earlier this month. We were greeted at the door by Elhassan who showed us to the office. As we rounded the corner, we came in view of the machine we were about to step into.
Entering the office, the machine—called ‘Genesis’—takes up the majority of the space. Strassburger told us that passerbys in the office have guessed what the device might be—most frequently, some sort of torture chamber, and occasionally, some kinky sex device. I tweeted a teaser from the office calling it ‘Jungle Gym Sim 2014.’
In reality, Genesis is a virtual reality immersion machine; a huge polyhedron consisting of cylindrical metal beams, suspended in the center is a padded bed for a user to lay on. Surprisingly, the device doesn’t move, instead it relies on the immersive power of audio, visual, and tactile feedback to play with your senses.
Mounted on the bars surrounding the bed are eight powerful speakers and a fan, all directed at the user. Attached underneath the bed are two subwoofers and three tactile transducers. Strassburger told me that the setup usually uses two additional tactile transducers, but they weren’t set up at the time. As someone who has a single small tactile transducer in his couch for gaming, I was plenty excited at the prospect of three large units, not to mention the subwoofers. Despite Strassburger telling me that he wasn’t cranking Genesis up to full power—to spare the other folks in the office—the rumbling was even more powerful than I expected.
For visuals, Genesis is using the Oculus Rift. Kite & Lightning have added some DIY ear flaps to the headband which house small speakers. This allows for more intimate audio (like whispering) to be combined with the powerful speakers surrounding the bed.
A Reality-bending Ride
I climbed up into the bed, with metal beams all around me; I was staring at the ceiling as I donned the Oculus Rift. When I opened my eyes, I was staring at the same ceiling and saw the same metal bars as before, but this time they were virtual. I was looking at a near-exact virtual recreation of the office where I started. Despite being a very terrestrial view, it was one of the most surreal moments of the experience. It felt so aligned that I could only imagine that the virtual version of the room and the virtual Genesis were based on exact dimensions of their physical counterparts. And yet, this was just the beginning of a wild ride.
Before I knew it, the walls and ceiling blasted away, I was left, with the Genesis still surrounding me, flying through the air over a huge ocean. Then things got interesting. The horizon of this virtual experience started to shift. While I started the ride looking upward, the entire world tilted until it felt like I was looking forward. At this point, the virtual Genesis actually flew away, leaving me with the feeling of being suspended over this ocean—upright and uncontained—flying forward.
It’s generally accepted that playing with the horizon in VR is a recipe for simulator sickness, however, this experience pulled it off in an amazing way that left me with nothing but an interesting altered sense of my orientation.
If you’ve seen Kite & Lightning’s Senza Peso—and you absolutely should have—you’ll know that there is a high bar for visuals in the Genesis experience, which Strassburger told me is built in Unity.
After flying over the ocean, I dove down into it—with this sudden shift came powerful vibrations around me, until I was suddenly greeted with a surreal scene. Underneath the water were beautiful luminescent jellyfish with what appeared to be some sort of glowing spirit dancing about the water. The music at this point has become very somber, with the spirit’s laugher reverberating around me.
Suddenly, from the sea floor below, a rocky walkway emerges and I’m transported from the bottom of the ocean to a cold and snowy tundra, once again accompanied by powerful rumbling as the rock came into place. At this point, the fan kicks in to simulate the cold wind blowing around me. The effect is convincing—the air from the fan isn’t actually cold, but I’m almost convinced that it is because of the scene I’m witnessing.
Proceeding down the cold and rocky pathway, I reached what appeared to be a dead end. A glowing orb spirit circled near me and whispered into my ear before flying away through the dead end. The tiny orb becomes a massive sun as the rocky landscape falls away. I’m flying again, backwards this time, above the ocean. A woman starts singing in time with the music and it now feels like I’m in some sort of psychedelic music video with glowing particles raining down around me.
I see the Genesis structure fly toward me and reposition itself around me. The walls and ceiling of the room are floating around me and suddenly snap back in place—only now do I realize I’m on my back again, and have been the entire time.
Reverend Kyle, who also had a chance to try the experience, said this of his time in the device:
The Genesis experience is unlike anything else that I’ve tried in VR. The combination of visual stimuli, immersive audio, and vibrations, took me into another dimension. I truly felt like I was flying through space into another world. If this is the future of VR, then someone needs to give me a DeLorean, because I want this now!
The Genesis structure itself was conceived by Michael Bradford and has been in existence since as far back as 1997. It was designed as an audio-only experience—a sort of reactive musical therapy device. Cory Strassburger of Kite & Lightning acquired the device second hand from a friend who is a good friend of Bradford’s. Strassburger came up with the idea to add an immersive visual component to the experience using the Oculus Rift. He built the audio and visuals in around a week.
Genesis is an immersive experiment—Kite & Lightning doesn’t have plans to sell the thing—but they surely have created something that I think people would pay to experience. Reverend Kyle and I joked that they should have transported the unit right outside E3, thrown a black veil over the thing, and charged $5 a pop for the ride. The powerful audio and rumbling alone surely would have been enough to draw a line of people wondering what was inside.
Experiences like Genesis further the discussion of the VR Arcade concept. Such experiences, which may require equipment that would be too expensive or otherwise impractical to have in the home, could flourish in an arcade setting. Perhaps this is the realm where professional and consumer virtual reality finally meet? | positive |
To the researchers, this suggests that the decision to commit murder or suicide, “instead of being purely a consequence of individual choices, might have strong correlations with the underlying complex social organization and interactions.” In other words, suicide and murder aren't random; they're products of our life circumstances.
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In some ways, the suicide part makes very little sense. Cities are stressful; they’re polluted, crowded, and expensive. Metropolises like New York have the ability to make people feel completely alone while surrounded by millions of people. And yet: There’s something about that dense coexistence that seems to work like a buffer against the deepest of depressions.
Social interaction makes us happier, so it's possible that big cities simply provide more opportunities to interact and share experiences. As the authors put it, “a large supply of potential social contacts and interactions might work as an ‘antidote’ for this tragic event. This result is consistent with the idea that human happiness is more a collective phenomenon than a consequence of individual well-being conditions.”
Most suicidal people want to live, but they see no other way to escape their problems. My other theory for this phenomenon is that populous areas offer more options across the board—in access to mental-health practitioners, types of jobs, and/or the ability to find a new mate or social group—so fewer people feel like they have no other choice but to end it all.
Brazil in general has a very low suicide rate and high murder rate, but the fact that suicide rates in big American cities were similarly low seems to corroborate the Brazil data. The most suicidal U.S. cities are the relatively mid-sized and sparsely populated towns of Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, and Tucson.
If anything, this study is a bit of a double-edged sword for advocates of population density. Living in a teeming mass makes you less likely to experience inner turmoil, it seems, but more likely to want to off your neighbors. Hell might be other people, but they might just save you from yourself. | positive |
SG-17 said: Paying for sex is rape. You can't pay for consent. It degenerates women into nothing more than a commodity.
But like I said, if just one of the 3 player characters was a woman GTAV wouldn't be nearly as bad as it is, because as it is women have no agency in the game and thus the depictions of women are detrimental.
The way GTA uses satirical stereotypes of American culture is fine, for the most part. Prostitution crosses the line, and the lack of women player characters turns the game into a male circlejerk fantasy. Click to expand...
If paying for sex is rape, dating would illegal.I am with you for the depiction of women in GTA being overwhelmingly negative, but my concern for social good clashes with my hate of censorship, and banning sales of a game is especially concerning when it is justified by being called "a male circle jerk fantasy." That's a moral judgment and it takes a lot of hubris to make that call. If it could be proved that GTAV directly contributed to harm against women (something like the link between smoking and cancer), I would be more supportive of this move (and I don't think that link is outside the realm of possibility). At the very least it contributes to a culture of degradation and disrespect. I don't believe that is enough to ban its sales.But here is the thing: Target is a private corporation and is not obligated to sell you all the things you want. The government is not censoring or banning sales of the game, so for all of you who disagree with the decision, shop elsewhere. In effect this is protesting the decision, as an impact on their sales (especially over the holidays) will provide more of an impetus for change than a strongly worded letter.I am glad there is so much discussion about these issues now, and I look forward to checking back on gaming culture in some years, to see the sexist critics become the crotchety old racists of the future. | positive |
At VidCon 2010 conference today, YouTube announced compatibility for the type of video that you typically see on 25 foot IMAX screens.
Hunter Walk, YouTube’s Director of Product Management, keynoted the VidCon 2010 Conference and had some interesting information regarding YouTube video.
YouTube will now support 4096 x 3072 video, otherwise known as 4K.
That’s if your computer and Internet can handle the huge requirements to stream that kind of video using Adobe’s Flash. Below a sample is embedded, four more can be found here.
It may make more sense to use one of the many tools out on the Internet to extract the MP4 file and play it in a standalone player. The downloads are still pretty huge.
It is hard to imagine what Google plans on doing with this new capability but they will now support the types of resolutions that the new filmmakers are getting with products like the RedOne camera.
Perhaps this will spur some new innovation in displays and computer GPUs. | positive |
Japan's HRP-4 robotic pop star has been hogging the spotlight lately, honing her singing style and making appearances at CEATECH JAPAN and more recently at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo. But this time she's performing with her own crew of backup dancers, which very well could make Divabot – as she's sometimes known – the first robot to headline a musical performance with support from a human dance troupe.
Alright, so it's a distinction of dubious grandeur. But the robot is notching some pretty impressive achievements in the field of robotics. Her creators at the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have developed programs that not only allow her to mimic a real human singers vocal performance, but also her facial tics and gestures as she sings. The result is a humanoid that, while still creepily robotic, is learning to be outwardly more and more like her human counterparts.
That's not even taking into account the fact that she's got moves. Check out this weekend's performance from two different perspectives below.
[YouTube, Pink Tentacle, NY Magazine] | positive |
So a variant of the web portal that TiVo had developed for their cable partners, like RCN, is now being made available to retail subscribers. And TiVo Online is looking pretty killer. Beyond the expected Season Pass OnePass configuration, recording management, and a highly polished guide, the tent pole feature is the ability to stream our DVR recordings and live content to Mac, PC, and possibly Chromebook (replacing the tired and archaic TiVoToGo, if not the infinitely valuable kmttg).
Sadly, TiVo is only allowing in-home laptop or computer streaming at this time while TiVo indicates all Roamio and Premiere models are supported… But I’ll go ahead and assume Premiere and lesser Roamios require purchase of the TiVo Stream accessory to make it happen, versus native Roamio Pro/Plus capabilities.
All we need now is that Fire TV or Roku app…
(Thanks Sam!) | positive |
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This article is about the poem by Goethe. For the German legend this poem is based on, see Erlking . For the novel by Michel Tournier, see The Erl-King (novel)
"Erlkönig" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlkönig, often half-translated as "Erlking", though the eponymous character is clearly some kind of demon or 'fairy king'. It was originally composed by Goethe as part of a 1782 Singspiel entitled Die Fischerin.
"Erlkönig" has been called Goethe's "most famous ballad".[1] The poem has been set to music by several composers, most notably by Franz Schubert.
Summary [ edit ]
An anxious young boy is being carried at night by his father on horseback. To where is not spelled out; German Hof has a rather broad meaning of "yard", "courtyard", "farm", or (royal) "court". The lack of specificity of the father's social position, beyond owning a horse, allows the reader to imagine the details. The opening line tells that the time is unusually late and the weather unusually inclement for travel. As it becomes apparent that the boy is delirious, a possibility is that the father is rushing him to medical aid.
As the poem unfolds, the son seems to see and hear beings his father does not; the reader cannot know if the father is indeed aware of their presence, but he chooses to comfort his son, asserting reassuringly naturalistic explanations for what the child sees – a wisp of fog, rustling leaves, shimmering willows. Finally, the child shrieks that he has been attacked. The father rides faster to the Hof. There, he recognizes that the boy is dead.
Text [ edit ]
Literal translation Edgar Alfred Bowring[2] Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
"Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?" –
"Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht?
Den Erlenkönig mit Kron' und Schweif?" –
"Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif."
"Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!
Gar schöne Spiele spiel' ich mit dir;
Manch' bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand,
Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand." –
"Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht,
Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht?" –
"Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind;
In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind." –
"Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn?
Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön;
Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn,
Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein." –
"Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort
Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort?" –
"Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh' es genau:
Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau. –"
"Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt;
Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch' ich Gewalt." –
"Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an!
Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan!" –
Dem Vater grauset's; er reitet geschwind,
Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,
Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not;
In seinen Armen das Kind war tot. Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He has the boy well in his arm
He holds him safely, he keeps him warm.
"My son, why do you hide your face in fear?"
"Father, do you not see the Elf-king?
The Elf-king with crown and cape?"
"My son, it's a streak of fog."
"You dear child, come, go with me!
(Very) beautiful games I play with you;
Many colorful flowers are on the beach,
My mother has many a golden robe."
"My father, my father, and do you not hear
What the Elf-king quietly promises me?"
"Be calm, stay calm, my child;
Through dry leaves the wind is sighing."
"Do you, fine boy, want to go with me?
My daughters shall wait on you finely;
My daughters lead the nightly dance,
And rock and dance and sing to bring you in."
"My father, my father, and don't you see there
The Elf-king's daughters in the gloomy place?"
"My son, my son, I see it clearly:
There shimmer the old willows so grey."
"I love you, your beautiful form entices me;
And if you're not willing, then I will use force."
"My father, my father, he's touching me now!
The Elf-king has done me harm!"
It horrifies the father; he swiftly rides on,
He holds the moaning child in his arms,
Reaches the farm with great difficulty;
In his arms, the child was dead. Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?
The father it is, with his infant so dear;
He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm,
He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
"My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?"
"Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!
Dost see not the Erl-King, with crown and with train?"
"My son, 'tis the mist rising over the plain."
"Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me!
For many a game I will play there with thee;
On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."
"My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?"
"Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
'Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves."
"Wilt go, then, dear infant, wilt go with me there?
My daughters shall tend thee with sisterly care;
My daughters by night their glad festival keep,
They'll dance thee, and rock thee, and sing thee to sleep."
"My father, my father, and dost thou not see,
How the Erl-King his daughters has brought here for me?"
"My darling, my darling, I see it aright,
'Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight."
"I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy!
And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ."
"My father, my father, he seizes me fast,
For sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last."
The father now gallops, with terror half wild,
He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child;
He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread, –
The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead.
The legend [ edit ]
The story of the Erlkönig derives from the traditional Danish ballad Elveskud: Goethe's poem was inspired by Johann Gottfried Herder's translation of a variant of the ballad (Danmarks gamle Folkeviser 47B, from Peter Syv's 1695 edition) into German as Erlkönigs Tochter ("The Erl-king's Daughter") in his collection of folk songs, Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (published 1778). Goethe's poem then took on a life of its own, inspiring the Romantic concept of the Erlking. Niels Gade's cantata Elverskud, Op. 30 (1854, text by Chr. K. F. Molbech [da]) was published in translation as Erlkönigs Tochter.
The Erlkönig's nature has been the subject of some debate. The name translates literally from the German as "Alder King" rather than its common English translation, "Elf King" (which would be rendered as Elfenkönig in German). It has often been suggested that Erlkönig is a mistranslation from the original Danish elverkonge, which does mean "king of the elves."
In the original Scandinavian version of the tale, the antagonist was the Erlkönig's daughter rather than the Erlkönig himself; the female elves or Danish elvermøer sought to ensnare human beings to satisfy their desire, jealousy and lust for revenge.
Settings to music [ edit ]
The poem has often been set to music with Franz Schubert's rendition, his Opus 1 (D. 328), being the best known.[3][4] Probably the next best known is that of Carl Loewe (1818). Other notable settings are by members of Goethe's circle, including the actress Corona Schröter (1782), Andreas Romberg (1793), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1794) and Carl Friedrich Zelter (1797). Ludwig van Beethoven attempted to set it to music but abandoned the effort; his sketch however was complete enough to be published in a completion by Reinhold Becker (1897). A few other nineteenth-century versions are those by Václav Tomášek (1815) and Louis Spohr (1856, with obbligato violin) and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (Polyphonic Studies for Solo Violin). 21st century examples are pianist Marc-André Hamelin's "Etude No. 8 (after Goethe)" for solo piano, based on "Erlkönig".[5]
The Franz Schubert composition [ edit ]
Schubert's autograph of a simplified accompaniment to his "Erlkönig", one of several revisions
Franz Schubert composed his Lied "Erlkönig" for solo voice and piano at the age of 17 or 18 in 1815, setting text from Goethe's poem. Schubert revised the song three times before publishing his fourth version in 1821 as his Opus 1; it was catalogued by Otto Erich Deutsch as D. 328 in his 1951 catalog of Schubert's works. The song was first performed in concert on 1 December 1820 at a private gathering in Vienna and received its public premiere on 7 March 1821 at Vienna's Theater am Kärntnertor[citation needed].
The four characters in the song – narrator, father, son, and the Erlking – are all sung by a single vocalist. Schubert placed each character largely in a different vocal range, and each has his own rhythmic nuances; in addition, most singers endeavor to use a different vocal coloration for each part.[citation needed]
The Narrator lies in the middle range and begins in the minor mode. The Father lies in the lower range and sings in both minor and major mode. The Son lies in a higher range, also in the minor mode. The Erlking's vocal line, in the major mode, provides the only break from the ostinato bass triplets in the accompaniment until the boy's death.
A fifth character, the horse, is implied in rapid triplet figures played by the pianist throughout the work, mimicking hoof beats.[6]
"Erlkönig" starts with the piano playing rapid triplets to create a sense of urgency and simulate the horse's galloping. The left hand of the piano part introduces a low-register leitmotif composed of rising scale in triplets and a falling arpeggio. The moto perpetuo triplets continue throughout the entire song except for the final three bars, and mostly comprise the uninterrupted repeated chords or octaves in the right hand, established at the opening. Significantly, the Erlkönig's verses differ in their accompanying figurations (providing some relief for the pianist) but are still based on triplets.
Each of the Son's pleas becomes higher in pitch. Near the end of the piece, the music quickens and then slows as the Father spurs his horse to go faster and then arrives at his destination. The absence of the piano creates multiple effects on the text and music. The silence draws attention to the dramatic text and amplifies the immense loss and sorrow caused by the Son's death.
The song has a tonal scheme based on rising semitones which portrays the increasingly desperate situation:
Verse Tonality Character 1 G minor Narrator 2 G minor -> B-flat major Father & Son 3 B-flat major Erl-King 4 (D7) -> B minor Son -> G major Father 5 C major Erl-King 6 (E7) -> C-sharp minor Son D minor Father 7 E-flat major -> D minor Erl-King (F7) -> G minor Son 8 G minor Narrator
The 'Mein Vater, mein Vater' music appears three times on a prolonged dominant 7th chord that slips chromatically into the next key. Following the tonal scheme, each cry is a semitone higher than the last, and, as in Goethe's poem, the time between the second two cries is less than the first two, increasing the urgency like a large-scale stretto. Much of the major-key music is coloured by the flattened submediant, giving it a darker, unsettled sound.
The piece is regarded as extremely challenging to perform due to the multiple characters the vocalist is required to portray, as well as its difficult accompaniment, involving rapidly repeated chords and octaves which contribute to the drama and urgency of the piece.[citation needed]
"Erlkönig" is through-composed; although the melodic motives recur, the harmonic structure is constantly changing and the piece modulates within characters. The rhythm of the piano accompaniment also changes within the characters. The first time the Erl-king sings in measure 57, the galloping motive disappears. However, when the Erlking sings again in measure 87, the piano accompaniment plays arpeggios rather than chords.
"Erlkönig" has been transcribed for various settings: for solo piano by Franz Liszt; for solo voice and orchestra by Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt and Max Reger; for solo violin by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst.
The Carl Loewe composition [ edit ]
Carl Loewe's setting was published as Op. 1, No. 3 and composed in 1817–18, in the lifetime of the poem's author and also of Schubert, whose version Loewe did not then know. Collected with it were Op. 1, No. 1, "Edward" (1818; a translation of the Scottish ballad), and No. 2, "Der Wirthin Töchterlein" (1823; "The Innkeeper's Daughter"), a poem of Ludwig Uhland. Inspired by a German translation of Scottish border ballads, Loewe set several poems with an elvish theme; but although all three of Op. 1 are concerned with untimely death, in this set only the "Erlkönig" has the supernatural element.
Loewe's accompaniment is in semiquaver groups of six in 9/8 time and marked Geschwind (fast). The vocal line evokes the galloping effect by repeated figures of crotchet and quaver, or sometimes three quavers, overlying the binary tremolo of the semiquavers in the piano. In addition to an unusual sense of motion, this creates a flexible template for the stresses in the words to fall correctly within the rhythmic structure.
Loewe's version is less melodic than Schubert's, with an insistent, repetitive harmonic structure between the opening minor key and answering phrases in the major key of the dominant, which have a stark quality owing to their unusual relationship to the home key. The narrator's phrases are echoed by the voices of father and son, the father taking up the deeper, rising phrase, and the son a lightly undulating, answering theme around the dominant fifth. These two themes also evoke the rising and moaning of the wind.[citation needed] The Erl-king, who is always heard pianissimo, does not sing melodies, but instead delivers insubstantial rising arpeggios that outline a single major chord (that of the home key) which sounds simultaneously on the piano in una corda tremolo. Only with his final threatening word, "Gewalt", does he depart from this chord. Loewe's implication is that the Erlking has no substance, but merely exists in the child's feverish imagination. As the piece progresses, the first in the groups of three quavers is dotted to create a breathless pace, which then forms a bass figure in the piano driving through to the final crisis. The last words, war tot, leap from the lower dominant to the sharpened third of the home key; this time not to the major but to a diminished chord, which settles chromatically through the home key in the major and then to the minor.
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Galway tour-bus firm brings legal action over stop location Home About Us About Us Our History Testimonials Our Team Our Team Introduction To Our Team Bryan Lynch Senior Partner Hugh O'Neill Partner Marcus Lynch Caroline Davin-Power Brendan McArdle Services Services Employment Law Employment Law Employment Law Conveyancing & Property Law Conveyancing & Property Law Commercial & Residential Property Commercial Advices & Litigation Commercial Advices & Litigation Administrative Law Commercial Law Criminal and Road Traffic Offences Debt Recovery Licensing Landlord & Tenant Law Litigation Personal Injury Company & Business Law Company & Business Law Contract Review Technology Law Wills, Estate Administration & Probate Wills, Estate Administration & Probate Enduring Power of Attorney Wills and Probate Law Family Law Family Law Family Law Buying a House Contact Us Blogs News Payment 01 873 2134 Back to blog Galway tour-bus firm brings legal action over stop location Posted on 24th January 2022 at 21:52 Company wants to use Merchants Road stop rather than city coach station, court told The owner of a Galway-based sightseeing tour bus company has brought a High Court challenge over not being allowed to operate a roadside stop away from the city’s coach station. The action has been brought by Galway Sightseeing Tour Company Ltd, trading as Galway Tour Company, with an address at Deerpark, Oranmore in Co Galway, which the court heard wants to be allowed to collect and drop off its passengers from a location on Merchants Road in Galway. The company has been providing buses for sightseeing tours and private hire for many years. It claims that in 2009 it was required by Galway City Council to move its collection and drop off points from Merchants Road to the then newly-constructed Galway Coach Station, a facility that was built on public lands. However, the station is operated by private entities. Represented by Mark Harty SC, the company claims that when it was built, bus tour operators in Galway were told that the licence fees charged for use of the station would be low. Counsel said his client exited the station in 2020 after it could not agree terms with the station’s operators due to what it described as the “unfair terms” and the “astronomical price” the station’s operators sought to introduce. The company sought a licence from the National Transport Authority (NTA) to be allowed operate a stop on Merchants Road. It claims the NTA said that any such licence required the council’s approval. The council objected to the proposal, on grounds of traffic congestion. The NTA then informed the company that it would not approve the stop at that location. ‘Monopoly’ Mr Harty SC said what the council has effectively done in this instance was “create a monopoly situation” for a private company by refusing to allow his client to operate a stop from anywhere else in the city other than the bus station. This inflexible policy has favoured a business rival of his client, counsel added. Counsel said it is his client’s case that the council’s refusal to allow it to operate outside of the station means it is applying a fixed policy with no basis in law. Counsel said that other separate legal proceedings are in being arising out of his client being wrongly invoiced for use of the coach station. The NTA, counsel added, had acted in an unfair and arbitrary manner and outside of its powers and obligations in the manner it considered the application to be allowed use a stop away from the city’s bus station. Both respondents are acting in an unlawful manner, it was further submitted. In its judicial review proceedings against both Galway City Council and the NTA, the company seeks various reliefs including an order allowing the tour company to maintain a roadside stop for its customers at Merchants Road. It also seeks an order quashing the NTA’s refusal to consider any application the company made for a licence to maintain a stop other than at Galway Coach Station without the prior approval of the council. The matter came before Mr Justice Charles Meenan at the High Court on Monday. The judge, after hearing that there were other proceedings being brought over the dispute, directed that the application for permission to bring the challenge be made on notice or in the presence of lawyers for the other parties. The matter was adjourned to a date in February. 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Mountain bikers and water officials are currently at odds over access to off-road trails in Massachusetts Water Resources Authority watershed areas.
Mountain bikers and water officials are currently at odds over access to off-road trails in Massachusetts Water Resources Authority watershed areas.
“I think this is a silly argument we’re having,” said Joe Favaloro, executive director of the MWRA Advisory Board. “There’s enough land in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, so why are we arguing over drinking water protection for more than half the commonwealth?”
According to the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s land-access regulations, activities such as hiking, hunting and snowmobiling are allowed in designated sections of watershed lands. Biking is allowed on designated roads, but not on off-road trails.
Brett Russ, a member of the New England Mountain Biking Association, has been spearheading an effort to get permission to ride on narrow single-track trails in limited off-road areas. For years, he said, mountain bikers rode on trails in the Ware River Watershed without issue, but the state began ramping up enforcement of the land use regulations in 2014.
“We’ve been having an ongoing dialogue with state officials,” Russ said. “There are some interesting forces not making decisions yet based on facts. We’re trying to force them to look at facts, and if there are restrictions placed on bicycles, there must be some justification in fact beyond fear or bias.”
Mountain biking, Russ said, doesn’t impact the land any more than permitted off-road activities.
DCR Commissioner Leo Roy, however, said that’s not always the case.
“We’ve certainly done an extensive literature review and the scientific literature generally points to no real difference in environmental impacts between mountain biking and hiking on properly designed trails, but the key part of that is ‘properly designed trails,’” Roy said. “The issue in the Ware River Watershed is a number of illegal trails have been cut.”
Favaloro, who recently raised concerns over mountain biking in an editorial on the MWRA Advisory Board’s website, said riding on and creating unauthorized trails on watershed lands can lead to erosion that could threaten the safety of the drinking water supply for 2.5 million people throughout Greater Boston and sections of Eastern Massachusetts.
This map indicates the communities that receive all of their water from the MWRA in dark orange, the communities that receive part of their water supply or emergency water from the MWRA in light orange. The map also highlights both the Quabbin and Wachusett reservoirs as well as the land owned by the Department of Conservation Watershed District in the Quabbin, Ware and Wachusett watershed basins in dark green and the watershed areas in light green. Source: DCR and MWRA. Map/Caitlyn Kelleher, Wicked Local Staff
The MWRA system, which draws from the Quabbin Reservoir as well the Ware River and Wachusett Reservoir watersheds in Central Massachusetts, is one of the largest unfiltered water supply systems in the nation, Favaloro said. As a result of its unfiltered status, it is subject to strict regulations. The soil and vegetation surrounding the water, he said, act as a sort of natural filter that helps contain stormwater runoffs and keeps contaminants out of the reservoirs.
“With mountain biking, erosion is a constant,” he said. “They’re building bridges over brooks. They’re cutting down trees to make trails. Those are incubators of adding bad stuff into our drinking water.”
Russ, said that while some older bike trails from decades ago may have been improperly constructed the newer unauthorized trails were carefully built, albeit without permission from the state.
“When a trail is built, it’s the absolute minimal vegetation removed to build it,” he said. “We always look at building trails with the most minimal impact to the land.”
He still hopes a compromise can be reached.
“We would honor any buffer zones to water bodies,” he said.
Lexi Dewey, executive director of the Water Supply Citizens Advisory Committee, agrees with the prohibition on off-road biking in watersheds.
“We have nothing against biking in appropriate areas,” she said. “There are 45 state parks in Massachusetts that allow mountain biking and encourage biking.”
Roy said the DCR needs to balance both recreation and conservation concerns. While he has concerns over unauthorized mountain biking in the watersheds, he’s met with members of NEMBA and said he would accelerate the public access plan process for the Ware Watershed, providing a chance for public input on all forms of recreation there.
“If we were an all-conservation agency or an all-recreation agency, this would be easier,” Roy said. “The fact that we’re responsible for both means we have to achieve the appropriate balance.” | positive |
French action platformer Flashback is being remade for modern consoles, and rumour has it that a Wii U eShop edition is also on the cards.
Originally developed for the Commodore Amiga by Delphine Software in 1992, the game combined 3D visuals with 2D platforming and quickly gained a cult following. Console conversions for the Sega Mega Drive and SNES followed the year after, adding more fans to the ranks.
The remake - entitled Flashback Origins - is being handled by VectorCell, the studio established by Paul Cuisset - who created the original during his time with Delphine. Delphine itself succumbed to bankruptcy in 2004.
Aside from a single screenshot, there's nothing else to go on at the moment. Ubisoft is apparently handling the publishing duties, but when contacted by Spong, the company declined to comment.
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Instrument Maintenance Guide – Seery Strings Home About Gallery Learning Services Contact – hours by appointment – Search for: © 2018 All Rights Reserved. Home About Gallery Learning Services Contact Seery Strings | Instrument Maintenance Guide 10139 portfolio_page-template-default,single,single-portfolio_page,postid-10139,edgt-core-1.0.1,woocommerce-no-js,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,hudson-ver-2.2,vertical_menu_enabled, vertical_menu_left, vertical_menu_width_290,smooth_scroll,side_menu_slide_from_right,paspartu_enabled,paspartu_on_top_fixed,paspartu_on_bottom_fixed,paspartu_header_set_inside,vertical_menu_inside_paspartu,woocommerce_installed,blog_installed,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-5.4.5,vc_responsive Instrument Maintenance Guide Caring for your stringed instrument will not only keep the instrument looking and sounding great, it will also help hold its resale value. Warped bridges, open seams, cracks, dings, and dents, while often an inevitable part of owning a stringed instrument, a little bit of care goes a long way to minimizing damage. Wood string instruments are a little like children; if you try to force them to do things you will often get negative results. Seriously though, forcing an instrument into a case or forcing stuck pegs to move or the like will almost always end badly. If the soundpost is down, the bridge looks like it will fall over at any minute, the fingerboard is loose or separated, cracks, open seams (especially at the block or neck), or any problem where string tension could cause damage or when in doubt; loosen the strings immediately! This will cause the bridge to fall off which is okay, just put it safely inside the case. Lastly, always loosen the bow when it is not being played. Never hesitate to call us or call your luthier. Below you will find detailed point-by-point discussion of the various issues that arise as an instrument owner. Cleaning and Polishing – The bow wont work without rosin but most of that rosin dust ends up falling onto the top of your instrument where it begins slowly eating its way into the varnish. To keep this from happening it is important to periodically clean the rosin off the top and sides of the instrument, the end of the fingerboard, and the stick of the bow. The best practice is to do this after each time the instrument is played using a soft cloth that has a bit of polish on it. For polish I recommend Gaurdsman Furniture Polish; which is available in many hardware and grocery stores for a fraction of the cost of instrument polish that can be purchased at a music store. Gaurdsman is a concentrate and can be diluted according to directions but I often use it straight out of the bottle in small amounts, it is also wonderful for your furniture, particularly heirlooms. If the rosin is already stuck on and will not come off with polish then a stronger solvent is needed. Please note that it needs to be a solvent that will not remove any finish! The cleaner available from Hans Weisshaar is an excellent cleaner of rosin and safe for nearly all finishes. However it is fairly costly. Really old built up rosin requires old- fashioned elbow grease, rubbing the cleaner in small circles until the finish is free of dull spots. Once the rosin is removed the instrument can be polished with glowing results. The Bow– For beginners the bow is an under-appreciated accessory to the instrument. Advanced players appreciate full well that the instrument is little without its essential counterpart – the bow. The most important thing to remember about the bow is that it needs to be loosened when it is not in use. Loose means that the screw at the end of the bow is turned in a counter clock-wise direction until the hairs just start to separate from each other. It is also important that the bow be secured in the case, having it rattling around inside can cause damage to instrument and bow alike. Rosin does not need to be applied until the dust is flying all over the place; it needs only enough to produce a solid even tone. Lastly, watch where you put your bow, secured in the bow holder in your case or in a bow case are the only truly safe places for a bow. On a bed or soft chair are bad ideas because it could be forgotten and sat upon. The music stand is also another classic horrible place to put a bow. Music stands are not long enough to hold a bow without one or both ends hanging off the sides. These exposed ends are then open to all kinds of blows from a whole variety of sources that can cause irreparable damage. 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Stacking the Shelves & Wrappin’ It Up November 2015 – Confessions of a Book Geek Skip to content Confessions of a Book Geek Main Menu Home All Reviews 5* Read 4* Read 3* Read 2* Read 1* Read Discussions Babes & Books (S)he Said Features Author Spotlight Awards & Tags Deals & Discounts Challenges Popsugar Reading Challenge 2015 Popsugar Reading Challenge 2016 The Classics Club Hauls & Wrap-Ups Top Ten Tuesday Giveaways #TABookProject About Advertising Policies Contact Twitter Facebook Bloglovin Goodreads Stacking the Shelves & Wrappin’ It Up November 2015 12/07/2015 By Rachel I’m so close to getting a long break off work – I can FEEL it. In the final stretch now and I literally cannot wait for some well-deserved (in my opinion) time off. I don’t even know what I did this month. I worked hard, got the majority of my Christmas shopping out of the way, and failed miserably at the gym. The cold weather, and dark nights afternoons, do not inspire me to go gymming after work. I fail at winter, I’d much rather hibernate. I’ve decided to REALLY try this week though, and I’m determined to go to the gym 3 times. I know the biggest hurdle is getting there in the first place, once I’ve done a class I’ll head for home feeling so much better. The Books: My wonderful #OTSPSecretSister spoiled me again this month with a box of pamper goodies including some Lush and The Body Shop products, some stationary items, and a copy of My True Love Gave To Me. I don’t typically pick up seasonal reads, and I don’t think I would have purchased a short story collection for myself, so this was a perfect gift. The book also features a couple of authors I’ve been meaning to read, so sampling their short story first might help me make up my mind to commit to their full length books! I had to check my order history to be sure, but I didn’t actually purchase any other books this month, and there were no charity shop visits. My TBR can breathe a sigh of relief. I recently posted my Bookish Gift Guide with 20 EXCLUSIVE discount codes, so thought I’d include some items I’ve received. First up, I got this beautiful necklace from Mind the Book featuring a quote from my 2015 favourite, To Kill A Mockingbird. The quote reads, “With him life was routine, without him life was unbearable”. Discount code MINDTHEGEEK gets you free International shipping from this store. The next item is from TheBookwormPrints – it’s a lovely, crisp Mary Oliver quote print (is it obvious I’m fond of quotes?) that reads, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” I can’t wait to get this framed and hang it on the wall near my bookcases (when they finally get built, no joy as of yet!). I also picked up a custom Christmas present for a fellow blogger from this store, but I can’t share too much about it, as I don’t think she has received it yet. Discount code BOOKGEEK20 gets you 20% discount from this store. Finally, I’ve ordered some bookmarks from Beedoo.TO, but I don’t have a picture as they haven’t arrived yet. I’m definitely going to be making some more purchases before the discount codes run out, and there is a special giveaway from one of the stores going live very soon! Movies and TV Shows: I’ve taken a break from Charmed, I binge-watch so much of a show that I bore myself of it and have to take a break. I’ve become addicted to Reign instead, which I’ve been wanting to watch for ages and it’s now finally on UK Netflix. I think I’ve watched all of the available episodes though, so I’m going to have to switch to something else for a while. Any suggestions? Wrappin’ It Up! Amber @ Books of Amber asks what you think about monthly TBRs? Ashley @ Nose Graze discusses how to make money from your book blog (and why we shouldn’t be ashamed of it!) Christina @ A Reader of Fictions discusses unlikeable characters, and the power of fiction, and what it means to her. 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I also shared 25 Bookish Facts About Me, spent a lot of time putting together a Bookish Gift Guide that has 20 EXCLUSIVE discount codes for Etsy stores, and Litographs – it’s worth checking out, and sharing with your bookish friends! Finally, in November, I finally launched The Transatlantic Book Project, which I’m hosting along with Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense. 10 bloggers, 2 books, 2 countries. It’s going to be great! My most popular posts in November were my Bookish Gift Guide, and the interview with the cover designer for the new Bloomsbury Harry Potter covers. How was your November? Are you all set for Christmas? Talk to me in the comments! Rate this: Share the love: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... Related About Rachel Avid reader & #bookblogger. Lover of all things business. A fan of drinks & dancing. Ever optimistic. Feminist. Monthly Wrap-Up, Stacking the Shelvesmonthly wrap-up, stacking the shelves 12 Responses joyousreads I, too, am looking forward to the Holiday break I’ve got coming. How long will you be off work for? I’m salivating at the amount of books I will attempt to read before the year is out! Have a great month! LikeLike Reply 12/07/2015 at 12:15 pm Rachel I’ve just less than two weeks booked off and I cannot wait! I need to recharge the batteries after a long year of hard work, and get myself supercharged for 2016! Love getting to spend time with friends and family too, and reading and binge-watching TV as well, of course! Do you have any plans for the holidays? R xx LikeLike Reply 12/07/2015 at 11:14 pm aimeerobyn I LOVE Reign! Not just the story, but the fact that they appropriate current music into what the royals dance to! Ingenious! I watched the Duchess for the first time on Netflix over the weekend and I loved that too. Glad you are well – gonna head over to your gift guide section and have a mooch 😉 Aimes x LikeLike Reply 12/07/2015 at 8:55 pm Rachel AHHHHHH! Aimee, how are you?! Are you blogging again?! Where did you go?! Have you watched The White Queen and The Tudors? Both are fab and come before Reign chronologically. I’m obsessed with these eras of history because of these shows, and Philippa Gregory’s books! I hated the modern touch to the music originally, but now I love it too. Especially when I recognise a modern ballad slowed down even more throughout the show. So good. I heard it was really historically inaccurate though, so I researched it a little, but for entertainment value you can’t beat it! R xx LikeLike Reply 12/07/2015 at 10:32 pm curiousdaisy You’ve gotten some great books there. Happy reading! LikeLike Reply 12/07/2015 at 10:32 pm Rachel Thanks! R xx LikeLike Reply 12/07/2015 at 10:47 pm Cait @ Paper Fury Aw, thanks for linking to my posts! 😀 And I agree…Winter isn’t terrifically inspiring for working out, is it? *heavy sigh* And I LOVE that Mary Oliver quote!! It’s one of my favourites and if I had wall space, I’d totally be keen on getting a framed quote like that…except. I have bookshelves all over my walls. XD LikeLike Reply 12/08/2015 at 3:41 am Rachel You’re welcome! You were on a roll!! 😀 You could frame one and display it ON your shelves! Do you do that? Or do books only? R xx LikeLike Reply 12/12/2015 at 3:32 pm Brandie I know it’s hard to stay motivated in the winter months, but YOU CAN DO IT! Just think how good you’ll feel after you’ve gone to the gym! 🙂 I am ready for the holiday break, too. Two much needed weeks off. Can’t wait! LikeLike Reply 12/08/2015 at 5:44 pm Rachel I FELT AMAZING AFTER GOING ON TUESDAY! Whoop whoop. Didn’t manage three times this week with work, xmas shopping, and whatnot, but did go twice. Feeling better for it already. I’m off for two weeks as well, doing some freelance work and helping my sister set up her new business though, but I’ll enjoy the lie ins and extra gym time (during daylight hours!) R xx LikeLiked by 1 person Reply 12/10/2015 at 11:54 pm 25 Days OF Blogmas! | […] December 7 – Stacking the Shelves and Wrapping It Up November 2015 […] LikeLike Reply 12/12/2015 at 12:55 am Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction I’ve been meaning to watch Reign too – glad to hear it’s so good! I’ll probably start bingeing on that one after I finish Once Upon a Time. LikeLike Reply 12/15/2015 at 3:23 am Leave a comment, and start a conversation! Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) either blatantly lied or revealed he has no reading comprehension skills whatsoever on the House floor on Wednesday morning. The bombastic Illinois Democrat falsely accused Breitbart News of reporting that Gutierrez was inciting “violence” when he told attendees at a Chicago church on Saturday that he wanted to non-violently “eliminate” President Donald Trump through the impeachment process and bring Trump to his knees like Gandhi did to the British empire.
Breitbart News did no such thing.
“So, I went back to the video to see if I threatened to assassinate the President and you know what? I didn’t,” Gutierrez said on the House floor even though Breitbart News’ story did not mention anything about assassination. “So what Breitbart imagined as an incitement to violence was really a call to action for people to get involved in their democracy, which, last time I looked, is still the form of government we aspire to in this country and still non-violent.”
All Gutierrez had to do was read the very first paragraph to realize that Breitbart News was not imagining Gutierrez inciting violence in any way. The lede in the Breitbart News story, which is also bolded and in bigger font, read (emphasis added):
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) denounced President Donald Trump on Saturday as a “major criminal” who must be peacefully “eliminated” and brought to his knees after Democrats take back the House of Representatives and begin the impeachment process.
If the lede was not enough for him, Gutierrez, since he acknowledged on the House floor that he relies on Breitbart News–like the outlet’s 45 million unique monthly readers–for coverage of his speeches and events, could have read the second paragraph, which read (emphasis added):
Fuming and furious at the thought that Trump could end former President Barack Obama’s executive amnesties and impact 1.2 million who did not have “papers,” Gutierrez tore into Trump at Chicago’s Lincoln United Methodist Church, vowing to “resist” Trump non-violently with “everything possible.”
Gutierrez either did not read Breitbart News’ story–he did admit that he merely “read the headlines in Breitbart” and “went back to look at what” he actually said–or just decided to lie.
The Congressman was angry that “a lot of Trump supporters got angry about what I said Saturday” and said “they didn’t take the time to watch or listen to the speech.” He accused other outlets of misrepresenting his words by not fully reading Breitbart News’ completely accurately story just like Gutierrez did not fully read the Breitbart News story.
“They got fired up by Breitbart, the only publication I can count on to cover everything I say,” he said, acknowledging the influence Breitbart News has in shaping the news cycle. Breitbart News watched the speech twice and was one of the first–if not the first–outlet to report on Gutierrez’s fiery address.
Gutierrez took issue with Breitbart News’ headline, which read: “Luis Gutierrez Unhinged: Time to ‘Eliminate’ ‘Criminal’ Trump–Bring Him to His Knees.”
Gutierrez then said he was not talking about “assassination,” which Breitbart News never mentioned, and was instead talking about the impeachment process. He said since former President Bill Clinton is still alive, the impeachment process is non-violent and selectively quoted (and misquoted) himself when he read some lines from his speech (it looks like Breitbart News quotes Gutierrez more accurately than he does, which is why he may have admitted that he relies on Breitbart News to cover his speeches and events):
I am going to make sure that I am there to make sure of one thing… That we write those articles of impeachment and take [the Trump Administration] to trial before the Senate and eliminate him as president of the United States of America.
“That is the quote and clearly I am talking about the impeachment process, which I believe to be non-violent,” Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez conveniently left out the part where he referred to Trump as a “major criminal.” Here is what Gutierrez said in full on Saturday, as Breitbart News accurately reported:
“For me, the major criminal that exists in the United States of America is called Donald Trump—he lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House,” Gutierrez thunderously said. “And we’re going to take actions today, and we’re going to take actions tomorrow. And there will soon be a majority in the House of Representatives, and I am going to make sure that I am there, to make sure of one thing, that we write those articles of impeachment and take him to trial before the Senate and eliminate him as president of the United States of America.”
Gutierrez, again taking issue with Breitbart News’ headline (“Bring Him to His Knees”) and what he claimed was this “whole blood-thirsty-brown-people motif,” said, “what I actually said was that Gandhi, by employing the techniques and practices of non-violent resistance, brought the British Empire to its knees, which is true. And we should learn from his example.”
Again, Breitbart News quoted Gutierrez accurately in its original story (emphasis added):
“Gandhi took on … the greatest British empire non-violently with love in his heart … and he brought them down to their knees,” Gutierrez said. “We can do the same thing to Donald Trump in the United States of America if we’re ready to do it.”
The hallucinations are strong with this one. pic.twitter.com/pFAGtZJdIm — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 26, 2017
“So I read the headlines in Breitbart and I went back to look at what I actually said,” Gutierrez said, concluding his hissy fit riddled with lies. “And you know what? I stand by it. And I won’t back down.”
Gutierrez may have tried to smear Breitbart News because he may be upset that Breitbart News often reminds him that he once predicted that George W. Bush would be the last GOP president if Republicans did not join him to pass massive comprehensive amnesty legislation.
Read Breitbart News’ original story here. Watch Rep. Gutierrez’s Saturday speech in full below as Breitbart News did. Watch Gutierrez’s Wednesday morning speech on the House floor here. And decide whether Gutierrez lied or is just illiterate. | positive |
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Neil Leifer‘s photograph of Muhammad Ali standing over a knocked out Sonny Liston is, without a doubt, the most iconic image of the heavyweight champion ever captured. And now, you can own the photographer’s own print of the photo, signed by Ali himself.
Leifer, a prolific sports photographer who captured over 200 Sports Illustrated covers, is selling off his photography collection through Guernsey’s auction house in NYC. Many of the prints are his own, some are not, but all of them are incredible.
To give you an idea of just how great this collection is, in addition to the Ali vs Liston shot, it also includes a print of Eisenstaedt’s VJ Day kiss, Rosenthal’s marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima, and many of Leifer’s own spectacular Sports Illustrated cover shots.
The jewel, though, has to be the Ali print, signed by the late great boxer himself.
If you’re lucky (and rich) enough to win the signed 11 x 14 dye transfer print, you’re not just getting the photo. You’ll also own Leifer’s credentials for the dressing room, the weigh-in, the fight, and the original envelope they all came in.
Just be ready to pay out the nose for this item. The official auction of Leifer’s own photos is on Sunday, but bidding is already open online, where the Ali/Listen photo’s starting bid is listed as $160,000. And that’s just for the print… SI still own the rights to the image itself.
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ITT 2020 Microcomputer
The ITT 2020 was an Apple II clone manufactured by ITT under license from Apple Computer (the first licensed clone), specifically for the European market. In the Benelux, it was distributed by Bell Telephone mfg. company. In the United Kingdom, it was distributed by Microsense Computer Limited.
The major difference, and the reason ITT believed this personal computer would be a success, was that the color video signal conformed to the European PAL standard, rather than the American NTSC standard. This meant color graphics could be viewed using a standard European monitor or TV set, rather than having to import an NTSC monitor from America or Japan as was the case with the Apple II. ITT sold this computer starting 1979 for only a few years. When Apple Computer started shipping the Apple II Europlus, ITT withdrew from the market, despite the fact that the Europlus did not support color.
ITT also supplied a floppy disk drive that was identical to the Apple II disk drive with 13 sectors and DOS 3.2. They never supplied the upgrade to 16 sectors and DOS 3.3.
[1] Other changes [ edit ]
A 220 V 50 Hz Power Supply manufactured by ITT themselves The case was spray-painted a matte silver color, and the keyboard was black. The ITT 2020 used a higher clock frequency, necessary for the PAL signal. A 17.73 MHz crystal was used (Four times the PAL subcarrier frequency of 4.433 MHz), whereas the Apple II used a 14.318 crystal- four times the NTSC subcarrier frequency of 3.58 MHz. In the ITT 2020, the crystal frequency was divided by 17 to give the microprocessor a clock frequency of 1.042 MHz. In the Apple II, the frequency was divided by 14 to give a microprocessor clock frequency of 1.023 MHz.[2] The slots in the back of the casing were smaller, making it extremely difficult to install some expansion cards. On later versions of the ITT2020, the reset switch only worked in combination with the Control key. This was done to avoid the many accidental resets earlier (and Apple II) users complained about. The 4th annunciator output was not supported. The I/O addresses (0xC05E and 0xC05F) Apple used for this output were used by ITT to bank-switch the extra RAM chip. The third button on the game connector was not supported, as ITT used the I/O address of this input (0xC063) to read the extra RAM. The bug in the ONERR GOTO routine in the Apple II that required users to BLOAD a patch, was resolved in the ITT 2020. Some users reported a Bug in the XDRAW routine, causing strange shapes to appear under certain circumstances. The DOS ITT supplied with the 2020 was Apple DOS 3.2. However a catalog listing showed Basic programs as type 'P' (for PALSoft) rather than type 'A' (for Applesoft)
Consequences [ edit ]
Any Apple II program using graphics had problems on the ITT 2020.
Only programs written specifically for the ITT 2020 could make proper use of the Hi-res graphics. These could use horizontal co-ordinates of up to 359, rather than the 279 maximum of the Apple II
If the program used the Applesoft Basic graphic commands in ROM, the image would appear squashed- circles would appear as ellipses and squares as rectangles.
If the program accessed the video memory directly (and many did), 40 white or black vertical lines would appear through the image as a result of the 9th bit not being set.
Programs using the HPLOT command with multiple parameters did not work properly.
The colors were different to those on the Apple II, not only in hi-res mode, but also in lo-res mode. In lo-res mode, some colors were not available.
Programs using the missing annunciator output or missing switch input did not work.
Because of the difference in clock frequency, programs on the ITT 2020 (without graphics) ran 2% faster (Benchmarks confirmed this).
Programs that automatically loaded the patch for the ONERR GOTO bug would crash if an error occurred, as this bug was already fixed.
Programs making system calls (calls to subroutines in ROM) would sometimes crash because some entry points had changed.
BSAVE and BLOAD of graphics images did not work, as the 9th bit was not included in the file.
The Hi-res routines in Apple's Programmers Aid did not work.
The different timing signals made some peripherals and expansion cards malfunction.
ITT eventually released a technical note with an assembly language program that allowed users to load and save hi-res images.
Graphics [ edit ]
Differences with the Apple II [ edit ]
The most significant difference between the ITT 2020 and the Apple II is the Hi-res graphics resolution. ITT increased the horizontal resolution from the 280 pixels the Apple II used, to 360 pixels. The vertical resolution however, remained the same. This made many Apple II programs incompatible with this computer.
The higher resolution was a necessary consequence of the higher frequency of the PAL color subcarrier. In order to provide enough bits to the video shift register to generate the higher PAL subcarrier frequency, 9 bits per memory location were needed, rather than the 7 bits the Apple II used. To achieve this, an extra 16Kx1 memory chip was added to the motherboard, which added a 9th bit to the Hires memory pages (0x2000 to 0x5FFF). This made it necessary to modify the graphics routines in Apple's Applesoft Basic interpreter in ROM (product 341-0021 to 341-0025). To emphasize this difference, ITT called this "PALSOFT".
To make room for the longer graphics routines (manipulating the 9th bit required extra code), the HPLOT instruction was limited to a single parameter, rather than a string of parameters.
Accessing the 9th Bit [ edit ]
The extra RAM chip was basically a write-only memory: data was written to the chip by software, but read out by the video generation hardware. The data input of the chip was wired to the data input of the 8th bit (the MSB) of the main video memory and was therefore equal to this 8th bit during a write operation. By enabling the extra chip, the same data would be saved in the 9th bit as in the 8th bit.
For example, in order to set the word of memory location 'HiresLoc' to 0b110100101, the following routine is necessary:
LDA $C05E ; enable the extra RAM chip LDA #$80 ; set MSB to 1 STA HiresLoc ; save data to both bit 8 and bit 9 LDA $C05F ; disable extra RAM chip LDA #11010010 ; load the remainder of the data STA HiresLoc ; save to main memory, but 9th bit remains set.
To change only the 9th bit requires even more programming:
LDA HiresLoc ; read bits 1-8 PHA ; store on stack LDA $C05E ; enable the extra RAM chip LDA #0 ; bit 9 must become 0 STA HiresLoc ; but bits 1-8 are also changed LDA $C05F ; so disable extra RAM chip PLA ; retrieve data from stack STA HiresLoc ; and put the old value back in 1-8
It is possible to read the 9th bit when this is necessary, for instance, to save a Hires image to disk.
This is achieved as follows:
LDA HiresLoc ; read address LDA $C063 ; MSB of this address is value of bit 9 of last address read in BPL notset ; branch if bit is zero
Hires conversion board [ edit ]
Hires Conversion board for the ITT 2020
The bitmap graphics compatibility with the Apple II could be improved by installing a third party Hires conversion board.
When enabled this board removes the video artifacts caused by programs ignoring the 9th bit. This significantly improves compatibility with software intended for the original Apple II manipulating graphics memory directly. However even with this board enabled the colors still differ from the original Apple II.
When using PALSOFT BASIC commands for drawing Hi-res graphics, the Hires conversion board should be disabled to see the graphics as intended.
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Pillsbury Creates Blended-Learning Training Program for Experienced M&A Lawyers - Hotshot PD Hotshot home Menu Sign up Log in Contact Us Hotshot PD Resources for legal professional development. Training Ideas Pillsbury Creates Blended-Learning Training Program for Experienced M&A Lawyers By Katie Walter share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn How and why Pillsbury is using blended learning to offer associates and partners opportunities to deepen their knowledge of key transactional provisions. “When I started practice, materiality scrapes didn’t exist and there was no basket,” says Nate Cartmell, senior partner in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman’s Corporate practice group. “Over the course of 40 years transactional practice has really changed.” Cartmell and his contemporaries learned the ropes of complex corporate transactions as the practice area developed – helping shape the way deals get done as they went. They brought along new associates with on-the-job-training over long negotiations and debriefing sessions. Still, Cartmell has long worried that these informal learning opportunities were never really happening as often or consistently as they should be. And that was even more of a concern when it came to nuanced provisions like materiality scrapes, sandbagging, and indemnification. Then, with more work happening remotely, opportunities for informal lessons and deep dives on provisions became less and less frequent. So, as educating associates and partners got even more difficult during the remote-working days of the pandemic, Cartmell started looking for new ways to support their learning. He worked with Anna Bankey and Rebecca Augustine in the firm’s Professional department to create a new program. They crafted a low-preparation, high-impact format to level set on the provisions covered in the ABA M&A Committee’s Private Target Deal Points Study. Working with Hotshot, the team developed an engaging training program he could deliver over video conference with limited preparation on his part. Training Overview Cartmell’s new training program involved 12 one-hour sessions offered every two weeks for about six months. The sessions were available to anyone in a transactional practice, including associates and partners. And each session covered a discrete issue in M&A agreements like materiality scrapes, sandbagging, non-reliance, and fraud exceptions. For some of his sessions, Cartmell used videos in Hotshot’s M&A Provisions topic, which Hotshot created in collaboration with the ABA M&A Committee. In addition to definitions, drafting tips, and buyer and seller perspectives, these courses also cover market trends for complex provisions tracked by the study. Each video also features members of the M&A Committee (who are partners at major U.S. law firms) explaining the concepts and discussing how they think about them in a negotiation. Cartmell explains that he’d start by introducing the audience to the topic: “What is a materiality scrape? Where did it come from? What should you watch for?” Then he’d cut to video of the partners—like Rita-Anne O’Neill from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Craig Menden from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, who delivered the materiality scrapes content. And he employed the same approach when covering other topics addressed by the Hotshot videos, including that featuring him and Lisa Hedrick of Hirschler LLP on “sandbagging.” Cartmell would end by taking questions to wrap up. “I could talk for 20-30 minutes without getting really detailed, knowing that the videos would reinforce my explanation of the provision and add nuance to help participants think about how to apply what they had learned.” Relevant for All Levels of Lawyers Because Cartmell had invited lawyers at all levels and across transactional practice areas, he was keen to be sure everyone could learn something: “We would start off just setting the table: What is indemnification? Why include a standalone indemnification section when an aggrieved party already has a remedy for contractual breach?” He explained how “that was a good level set, as new lawyers hadn’t been exposed to all the different considerations being addressed, and more seasoned practitioners might not have the nuances top of mind,” and how it allowed them to then get into “how it works and what limitations and variations there might be.” Cartmell says these provisions can be tricky, and people don’t always fully appreciate what they’re agreeing to. “It only becomes a problem once in a while,” he says. “But when it does, it’s a real problem.” He notes that a real estate partner was facing a materiality scrape demand in a contract negotiation right after the training, and the timing of the program helped him address the issue. By starting off with the basics, Cartmell found that newer lawyers were less likely to get lost. “They might not totally understand it, but at least they’re hearing it and can start to apply it in future matters.” He also found that “for those more experienced, you get into things where they have questions or don’t quite understand it.” He appreciates being able to address those questions because “no matter how well you already know the topic, you always walk away with something you haven’t thought about before.” That was particularly true, when as often the case, fellow partners would offer their own perspectives and experiences on the matters being discussed. Cartmell also felt that the benefit of him presenting the program goes beyond the material delivered in the session. “Now people in the firm know I’m here and that I can help,” he says. “I’ve had people referred to me based on my knowledge of these issues – people who otherwise wouldn’t have known I was a resource.” Having video helped reduce preparation time for Cartmell and, he says, made the sessions more engaging for the audience. “The videos relieved me of having to go through all those things myself, lessening preparation time.” He also found that the videos “offered a different mode of delivery and helped recapture interest when it was waning.” The somewhat subjective nature of the topics helped create an environment for discussion from participants: “Partners used the chat function to share their own perspectives on the provisions and how they handled them. It was a great interactive discussion that happened organically.” Future of the Training Program The format worked so well for attendees and presenters that Pillsbury is bringing it to more corporate lawyers. This year, Bankey and Augustine are working with another partner in the practice to develop a more basic program for summer and new associates. They are offering Hotshot videos to presenters to simplify the presentation portion of the session. “These videos are a great resource for everyone,” Bankey says. “If the presenters want to do what Nate did and show the video during the session, that can really take the pressure off them to present live. If they prefer to deliver the material themselves, the videos serve as a great resource before or after the session. We love how they can help the people learn in a different way.” Hotshot can work with your firm to implement many of the ideas above. We can also brainstorm other ways to engage and educate your associates. 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Dorner: Riverside defends rescinding $100,000 reward
Riverside Mayor William Bailey on Wednesday defended the action, saying the city probably could not pay the reward because Dorner was dead, the Press-Enterprise reported.
"Because the conditions were not met, there will not be a payment of a reward by the city," Riverside spokeswoman Cindie Perry said last week.
Riverside rescinded its $100,000 contribution for information leading to Dorner's "arrest and conviction." Dorner was killed at the end of the standoff.
The LAPD says there's still enough for a $1-million payout, culled from various sources during the manhunt.
Riverside's mayor on Wednesday defended the city's decision to pull back a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner .
The reward "called for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator, and that didn’t occur," Bailey said, according to the paper. "We were bound by government code to obey the language of our resolution and not give a gift of public funds."
The city came under some criticism for its action.
FULL COVERAGE: Sweeping manhunt for ex-cop
Two claims have been made on the money since Dorner's death Feb. 12 -- by a couple near Big Bear who were tied up and whose car was stolen by Dorner, and by a man whose pickup truck Dorner later hijacked.
But some groups that are reconsidering said they offered the reward for information that would have led to the capture and conviction of Dorner, neither of which occurred. Dorner committed suicide when cornered in a burning cabin near Big Bear.
Underlying their objections is a moral argument that donors will not make publicly. Some find the claims for the money unseemly.
WHO THEY WERE: Victims in the Dorner case
They believe reward seekers had called police to report they were victims of crimes by Dorner and now seek to profit from their brief encounters, which left them unharmed, during a rampage that devastated the families of police officers and of others he killed.
Police believe Dorner went on a 10-day killing rampage of revenge against law enforcement officials whom he blamed for his 2009 firing from the LAPD. Dorner is thought to have killed Riverside Police Officer Michael Crain; San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay; Monica Quan, the daughter of a retired LAPD captain; and Quan's fiance, Keith Lawrence.
More than 25 donors pledged reward money, including state and local police unions, civic organizations and individuals. But now, many are hesitating to follow through.
"I've spoken with some groups -- including a few that are substantial -- that have already decided to withdraw their pledges," said Ron Cottingham, president of the 64,000-member union Peace Officers Research Assn. of California, which has placed its own pledge on hold pending additional information. "They said the reward doesn't fit their criteria."
The LAPD, responding to the arguments donors make publicly, says the money should be paid.
LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said that to deny someone the reward because Dorner died before he could be put on trial "would be disingenuous" and would undermine future attempts by police to get information about unsolved crimes by offering rewards.
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European Union (EU) flags fly in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, December 3, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating several banks for possible rigging of the $1.5 trillion government-sponsored bond market, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The investigation is the latest in a series of actions against suspected wrongdoing in financial services, including alleged attempts to rig the markets for Libor and foreign exchange.
The European Commission has sent questionnaires asking about the price of supra-national, sub-sovereign and agency (SSA) debt to a number of market participants, the sources said, confirming a Financial Times report on Tuesday.
Debt issuers in this market includes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and agency borrowers such as the German-backed development bank KfW. Such bonds often covered by an implicit or explicit state guarantee.
IFR, a Thomson Reuters service, reported in January, quoting several sources, that four London-based traders of SSA debt were being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for possible manipulation of bond prices.
The sources said one worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, another at Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA), a third at Nomura and the fourth at Credit Suisse CSGN.VX. All four had vacated their desks pending the outcome of the U.S. investigation, they said. The banks declined to comment at the time.
The Justice Department is investigating allegations that SSA traders at different banks agreed prices and shared information on certain U.S. dollar bonds in chatrooms they established for the purpose, the sources quoted by IFR said. The Justice Department declined comment.
The FT said the EU probe probably started at the same time as Justice Department’s.
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A lot has been said about the impact of social media on the dissemination of news and the future of journalism. Opinions seem to span from believing Twitter and Facebook hold the power to bring down dictatorships, to despairing at the space it gives to armchair analysis and knee jerk reactions. One thing can be agreed upon: readers, listeners and viewers now have access to a platform to express themselves and challenge the mainstream narrative of events, Milana Knezevic writes.
Take Newsweek’s #MuslimRage debacle from last September. The magazine’s main article about protests over the controversial film Innocence of Muslims, featured a front page with angry men in traditional clothing, under the headline “MUSLIM RAGE.” Newsweek posted a link on their official twitter feed, encouraging their followers to voice their opinions under the hashtag #MuslimRage. And voice them they did:
BURN ALL WESTERN LITERATURE….onto a zip drive so I can listen to it while driving. #MuslimRage — Qasim Rashid (@MuslimIQ) September 17, 2012
Lost your kid Jihad at the airport. Can’t yell for him. #MuslimRage — Leila ليلى(@LSal92) September 17, 2012
Not knowing how many cheek kisses are due #muslimrage — Abrar(@errnooo) September 17, 2012
On the surface, this shows how a carefully planned “social media strategy” can go wrong in an instant. More importantly, it shows that traditional media outlets no longer have as much control over the conversations around their coverage.
Social media and other online platforms give readers the ability to speak out and take part in setting the agenda. The age of user generated content has also ushered in a kind of crowdsourced fact-checking on a massive scale. If a story is being misreported, readers, listeners and viewers can and will let the authors know. Other examples include the huge social media backlash CNN faced over their article on hormonal female voters ahead of the US elections. On a lighter note, viewers lambasted NBC’s shambolic Olympics coverage through hashtags like #NBCfail and #ShutUpMattLauer.
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Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of this development is the platform it has provided for people outside of the western world to speak back against the often simplistic and incorrect way in which their nations and cultures are reported on in international media.
For instance, some journalists are still likely to present African countries as one, exclusively impoverished and backward entity, which is constantly balancing on the brink of war. Alternatively, there is the increasingly popular, but almost equally tedious and one-dimensional “Africa rising” narrative.
In the past, people had few possibilities to respond to such coverage — if it even reached them. But this has changed with the dawn of the internet. As foreign reporters parachuted in to cover the Kenyan elections in March, an easy go-to story following the crisis of the 2007-2008 vote was that of ethnic tensions and the potential for violence. However, this narrative was undermined the fact that most Kenyans went to the polls peacefully. Foreign media promptly experienced the full wrath of a well-informed and snarky Kenyan social media population.
The below are only a few examples of the hashtag #PicturesForStuart, aimed at France 24 anchor Stuart Norval, who trailed their Kenya report with a tweet promising “dramatic pictures”:
Armed w/ MACHETE & spoons, Kenyan man destroys a plate of rice! Cc @stuartf24 #PicturesForStuart twitter.com/rimbui/status/… — rimbui (@rimbui) March 4, 2013
Then there was #SomeoneTellCNN, aimed at a particularly sensationalist CNN report titled “Armed as Kenyan vote nears”, featuring an unknown militia, seemingly consisting of a group of men rolling around in the grass with homemade weapons. The piece was widely mocked.
#SomeoneTellCNN that we had 2 presidential debates and countless peace rallies that they didn’t cover so they can take their crap elsewhere! — tinakagia (@tinakaggia) March 1, 2013
There was also the more general #TweetLikeAForeignJournalist:
Kenyans go bananas awaiting election results, and dig in with Passion. Outcome fruitless. #TweetLikeAForeignJournalist twitter.com/MafiaCuckoo/st… — Faiba Kartel (@MafiaCuckoo) March 5, 2013
#TweetLikeAForeignJournalist Fears as millions fall asleep before final results get released in Kenya. @stuartf24 #SomeOneTellCNN @nimacnn — Wahura Kanyoro (@wahurakL) March 4, 2013
#TweetlikeAForeignJournalist International observers starry eyed at the goings on of the Kenyan election twitter.com/Frankiewgichur… — Frankiewgichuru (@Frankiewgichuru) March 4, 2013
The hashtags trended worldwide. This was picked up by Al Jazeera and the Washington Post among others, and prompted CNN to release a statement defending their coverage. Kenyans had successfully turned the lazy journalism into the dominant story. As Africa is the fastest growing smartphone market in the world, over the coming years millions more will get the opportunity to challenge one-dimensional international reporting.
It’s important not to overstate the power of social media. Traditional media still commands the biggest platforms and audiences, and many sensationalist, ignorant or incorrect reports do remain unchallenged. Twitter in itself is not a solution, it is simply a tool. Used correctly, it provides a legitimate possibility for people to collectively raise their voice and be heard. It provides the platform for those on the ground, those in the know and everyone in between to help bring balance and nuance to big news stories. And that is certainly a positive development for freedom of expression. | positive |
Election Day
I sit at my desk in the staff room of the school where I teach English. The television covered in dust in the corner is turned on for the first time in two years. I didn’t think it worked. The teachers, the vice principal, and the principal all stand around it, commentating.
“Mr. Trump is going to win. What are we going to do?”
“This is bad.”
Trump is leading by an unrecoverable margin at this point, though the votes haven’t all been counted.
A student from the class where it has been decided that I will have lunch today comes to the staff room to fetch me. I run through the easy-to-answer questions.
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Yura.”
“How old are you?”
“I’m eight years old.”
Yura and I make it to her classroom and sit down, and after the usual hysteria that comes with sitting so close to a foreigner, the students and I with them give thanks for the food and tuck in.
I field questions for a few minutes, and then off wears the novelty of having a foreigner present, allowing these fourth grade elementary students to talk in Japanese casually among themselves.
“What are we going to do if Mr. Trump is elected?”
“It’s going to be so bad.”
Japanese public opinion is as diverse as Japanese demography
Kids are spies in their parents’ home. They repeat mum and dad’s opinion with the understanding of a parrot. Through them we hear the opinion of Joe and Jane Japanese – not that you don’t see that opinion repeated in print, on television, and from the mouths of your Japanese coworkers.
My little corner of Japan is a small one. One of my schools has nine kids in the fifth grade. It will merge with a slightly larger school in a few years. The Japanese with whom I associate are between the ages of 5 and 70; my good friend is the former head of research and development and current manager of a manufacturing plant for one of the biggest and most influential Japanese companies. Furthermore, being that the study of English in this part of the country (at least) is somewhat reserved for the elite, and being that one of my jobs is simply to engage these people in conversation, I have access to the opinions of the upper-middle class as well as the working class.
And one thing I learned is that that doesn’t mean much. Japanese public opinion is more or less consolidated across the economic and political spectrum on most issues (consider that the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party has held power almost uninterrupted since the 50s), and I’ve found that absolutely to be the case whenever the conversations turn to Donald Trump. Whether it is the vice principal, the students, the CEO, his wife, or their mailman, everyone can agree that Donald Trump is a cause for concern.
But why is that?
The threadbare Japanese case against Trump
In my experience, the most frequently cited of Trump’s apparent vices is his “bad mouth,” and that it makes him unfit for the office of the president of the US. It’s understandable for Japanese, I suppose. This is a country where nobody has ever spoken badly of anyone in public, unless it’s followed by canned laughter.
Trump’s frank and brazen words might rub against a population whose culture teaches them to avoid conflict at all costs. And when his words are turned into Japanese subtitles, and the humour and the sarcasm and the tone are lost, and that humourless non-rhetoric is read like a press release by people who have little to no understanding or interest in the issues that concern the US, then Trump would certainly appear to have a bad mouth.*
The second most cited reason to reject Trump in Japan is the rising threat posed by an undeterred China if the US reconsiders its current defence commitments. This fear will obviously cause Japan to amend its war renouncing, military-restricting constitution (constitutional amendment was on the card before Trump’s election; this fear provides a much needed boost in momentum). But more on that later.
The third most cited issue is Trump’s immigration policy. They say that his policies on deportations of illegal immigrants, strict limitations on refugees and immigrants from Islamic nations, and his proposal to erect a wall on the Mexican border are callous, uncaring, and reprehensible.
This to be said from within the confines of the exclusive club that Japan has always been inspires a comedic level of hypocrisy.
Japan is in crisis because the government refuses to supplement the current insufficient birth rate by increasing immigration. About 98% of the population is ancestrally Japanese.** Japan accepted 27 refugees and rejected the other 99% in 2015. Anyone who has tried to get a working visa in Japan understands how difficult the process is, how strict the vetting is, and how strictly the terms of the visa are enforced. That is how it is on a governmental level. That is not to mention the well-documented backwards way which ordinary Japanese citizens treat foreigners.
But all that is overkill.
“I think it’s a bit silly for Mr. Trump to say he will erect a wall on the US-Mexican border,” one of my students, a 60 year old business owner, tells me. “And I think it’s disturbing that such a large number of people support that idea.”
“I appreciate that you have such a compassionate heart, sir,” say I to him. “But I wonder if your heart would change if Japan were in a similar position. Suppose that Japan were not an island.”
And I notice a sudden change in his expression.
“Suppose Japan were connected to China.”
And I can see from his face that I don’t even need to finish my thought. He’ll support Trump’s wall from this day forth.
The actual issue
Interestingly, the criticism of Trump which is rarely brought up to me is his desire to renegotiate certain trade and defence arrangements. It is interesting because it seems to me that this is the one issue born by Trump that immediately concerns Japanese interests. Perhaps it is only rarely brought up because most Japanese, like most people, would rather take out their political adversary without having to mention reasons which could be interpreted and dismissed as selfish – hence Trump is bad for us all, not Trump is bad for me.
Now, that might be the reason of some, but I think that more likely it is the reason of the government and therefore the media. We know that Reporters Without Borders currently ranks Japan’s press freedom at 72nd in the world (one place below Tanzania). We know that Katsuto Momii, head of NHK (Japan’s BBC), said that NHK should follow the position of the government. (See here too.)
The government identifies Trump as a threat to Japanese interests. (Clinton, who is not seen as a threat, who represents the status-quo, who supports TPP, enjoyed great support from Prime Minister Abe, and thus the media, and thus the population.) Yet the media reports that Trump has a bad mouth and he hates minorities and refugees, that a Trump presidency means war with China and the Koreas. Thus the population, in spite of what you would assume to be intense cognitive dissonance, holds the opinions which I have introduced.
The future of Japanese relations with Donald Trump
I mentioned that constitutional amendment was on the card before Trump was elected.
The current government of Japan that is supported by a group (Nippon Kaigi) whose main objective unquestionably is to amend the constitution, particularly Article 9, the renunciation of war as a means of settling international disputes. Though the Liberal Democratic Party has managed to pass the proposed amendments through the Diet, constitutional amendment requires a simple majority in a national referendum. Polls suggest that though such a referendum would be close, the more likely outcome would be that the LDP and others in favour of constitutional amendment would fail to gain a simple majority, and designs for constitutional amendment would be trashed.
That, however, was before a Trump presidency.
Though the current government is against a Trump presidency because it means higher tariffs for exports to the US and an increase in defence costs, the government is also presented with an opportunity to rebrand their proposed constitutional amendments as necessary for national security in a new world where the Chinese monster grows larger, and the American protector falls back.
Do you expect the Japanese to sit defenceless surrounded by at least three vocally hostile neighbours?
Joe and Jane Japanese won’t have it; they and their kids have told me.
A Trump presidency has paved the way for constitutional amendment in Japan, and nationalism continues its worldwide resurgence.
Notes
* To be sure, there are people who listen to Trump in his native tongue and reach the same conclusion. It’s not the purpose of this article to defend or critique Trump’s communication skills. That’s been done on a million other blogs and websites.
** It may be argued that the statistics are flawed because censuses in Japan only only people to input their nationality. However I would argue that the reason for that is that it is taken for granted that a person whose nationality is Japanese is ancestrally Japanese too. The purpose of this census question is to determine the number of foreign nationals working in Japan.
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French imams want Muslims to require a license to preach in a bid to crack down on extremist clerics. The body also called for an organisation of Muslims to be formed to fight jihadist propaganda.
Anouar Kbibech, president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM), said that imams should be issued a certificate like a driving license to prove that they taught a "tolerant and open Islam", AFP reported.
The announcement comes after Isis terrorists killed 130 people in a series of shootings and bomb attacks on 13 November.
The CFCM said that it would certify preachers if they demonstrated knowledge of Islam and adherence to French principles. Those who passed would be required to sign an "imams' charter" agreeing to respect the laws of the Republic.
"The time for action has come. The Muslims of France will play their part," Kbibech said.
He said the organisation would set up a religious council to challenge the arguments used by jihadists to radicalise French men and women, using theological knowledge.
On 20 November, Kbibech told France's BFMTV that a leaflet had been distributed to 2,500 mosques condemning violence and terrorism, and urging French Muslims to proclaim their adherence to the values of the French republic.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that in the wake of the Paris attacks that he would begin the dissolution of mosques where hate was preached. France has deported 40 imams since 2012 for preaching extremist messages, with 15 in the wake of the January terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Cazeneuve said the three month state of emergency that was declared after the attacks would allow authorities to crack down on extremist preachers. | positive |
The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on
The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on
On Wednesday the Palestinian shopkeepers in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City will pull closed their metal shutters under curfew. Residents will retreat behind the doors of their houses in the little streets and alleys around the Via Dolorosa and Al-Wad Street.
Thousands of Israeli police will spread out through the cramped neighbourhoods and around the Old City’s towering limestone walls and gates to prevent confrontation with the thousands of Israeli nationalists carrying blue-and-white flags and drums, some blowing shofar horns, who every year descend on Jerusalem Day to march through the streets.
This year the march will be more fraught than usual, coinciding as it does with the 50th anniversary of the six-day war, fought from 5-10 June 1967, which saw Israeli forces capture east Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories – the West Bank and Gaza – as well as the Golan Heights and Sinai in a series of lightning advances. For Israeli nationalists the anniversary is being celebrated as the “liberation” that opened the way to Jewish settlements and the Israeli claim of sovereignty – not recognised by most of the world – over all of Jerusalem.
It will be given extra meaning, too, by this week’s visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories of US President Donald Trump, who will take in (in a private capacity) the Western Wall, the most revered of Jewish holy sites, captured by Israeli paratroopers in 1967.
For Palestinians, the coming weeks will signify an entirely contrary and bitter set of emotions. They will be reflecting on 50 years of military occupation, and the fact that, despite the Oslo peace process of the 1990s, the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the rounds of talks, and the endless lip service paid by both the international community and Israeli and Palestinian leaders, a two-state solution appears further away than ever.
The Jerusalem events – which will begin officially on Monday, coinciding with Trump’s visit to the city the day after – will continue through the summer, culminating in the official Israeli government celebration of the six-day war in the middle of September in the Jewish settlement of Gush Etzion in the occupied Palestinian territories.
For all that, it remains a war the meaning of which within Israeli society – let alone outside it – is no more settled than it was half a century ago when Israeli paratroopers fought their way through the same streets to the Western Wall.
For the Israeli right wing, the six-day war is seen as a definitive event, a theme articulated by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the cabinet meeting that announced the funding for the celebration, when he described it as “one of the greatest victories in the history of Israel”.
“It brought us back to parts of our homeland and completely changed our strategic situation,” he said.
More explicit still has been Israel’s controversial culture minister, the far-right Miri Regev, who has described the planned celebration as touching “every Israeli, because these parts of Israel were always, and will remain, the heart of the greater land of Israel”.
She said: “These are the areas where Abraham struck the roots of the Hebrew nation, and they are full of Jewish history from then until today. Regardless of the disagreements regarding the conflict over these areas, every Israeli must know and cherish these places as the cradle of the Jewish nation and its culture.”
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Israeli soldiers celebrating on 4 June. Photograph: Reuters
In many respects a conflict of the cold war, the six-day war redrew the map of the Middle East, confirming Israel as a regional power and ending the notion that the new state could be swept away by the strength of the Arab armies. And while it opened the way to peace with Jordan and Egypt, it inaugurated a new and darker chapter in the conflict between Israelis and the Palestinians that Israel now ruled over.
Pitting Israel against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, the conflict followed tense weeks of military buildup by Egypt, which had closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping with its armoured forces close to the border with Israel. The response was a pre-emptive Israeli air attack by almost 200 planes that targeted the Egyptian air forces on the ground. As Jordan joined the war, Israeli forces quickly fought their way into east Jerusalem, overrunning the positions occupied in the city by Jordanian forces for 19 years.
The West Bank and Gaza also fell quickly to Israeli forces, while in the north they pushed back the Syrian military to take the Golan Heights, and in the south pushed deep into the Egyptian Sinai peninsula.
But if the war was short, its continuing aftermath has dragged on for decades, a reality some would foresee even immediately after the fighting. Writing in August 1967, barely three months after the end of the conflict, a young Amos Oz – now one of Israel’s most celebrated writers – was among a number to caution against the sense of national celebration, recognising that the conquest also meant occupation, not least of the populous Palestinian territories.
“We are condemned now to rule people who do not want to be ruled by us,” he wrote bleakly in the long-defunct Labour newspaper Davar. “I have fears about the kind of seeds we will sow in the near future in the hearts of the occupied. Even more, I have fears about the seed that will be planted in the hearts of the occupiers.”
Others – even from within the same Labour movement as Oz – took a starkly different approach. The Nobel prize-winning novelist Shai Agnon and others in his circle produced a manifesto “loyally committing to the wholeness of our land”, adding that “no government in Israel is entitled to relinquish this wholeness”.
It is an argument that has persisted in Israeli society through the decades, becoming ever more hardened – between those who believe in swapping the land captured in 1967 for peace, as happened with Egypt and was proposed for Syria – and a resurgent pro-settler right wing, now in the driving seat, that sees a greater Israel between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean as a promised messianic imperative.
If the description of the planned Gush Etzion celebrations sums up that latter sentiment, the left’s position was laid out in the Israeli daily Haaretz on 7 April.
“From the military point of view, it was indeed a ‘glorious’ war, which was seen as justified,” the paper stated. “But it was also a war that generated a fundamental transformation in Israeli society.
“It led to the growth of unbridled national arrogance, which exacted an awful price in blood over the past 50 years and turned the military victory into a moral defeat. In retrospect, it should be called the 50 Year War, not the Six-day war, and judging by the political situation, its life expectancy appears endless.”
The writer Gideon Levy, a Haaretz columnist, has long been one of the most tenacious and trenchant critics of the impact of the Israeli occupation that followed the victory in 1967. He believes, however, that – outside of the pro-settlement right – the 50th anniversary of the war and what followed it will be marked mostly by apathy.
“I think most Israelis will be quite indifferent,” he said. “It is a society in denial. It is a society totally preoccupied with private affairs. No one but the settlers will celebrate. But, also, no one will mourn. In that respect, Gush Etzion is the right place to mark it, because only settlers will feel the day. In Tel Aviv, people couldn’t care less and no artificial effort by the government can change that.”
Other Israeli commentators have argued that the planned celebrations have missed an opportunity: focusing not on a national narrative where there is most consensus – most notably the idea of a “defensive war” against heavy odds – but on its problematic consequence.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest An Israeli soldier marches a captured Jordanian soldier through the streets of Bethlehem. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
Among those who served during the war is Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, a seventh generation Jerusalemite, whose family moved to the city in 1809 and who still remembers his emotions.
Like many of his generation – both secular and religious – he recalls the sense of euphoria at the news of the conquest of east Jerusalem and the Western Wall.
“I was a reserve intelligence officer in the Jerusalem Brigade,” he said last week. “I remember it so clearly. I was in an army Jeep travelling between Bethlehem and Hebron, when I heard over the two-way radio the voices of my fellow soldiers.
“We could hardly believe it. The Temple Mount [as Jews call the area where the Second Temple is located, also revered as the third holiest place in Islam] is in our hands. I can never forget this. We all felt the history – and the future – of Israel, of the Jewish people, rested on our shoulders… We had returned home.”
But while Rivlin, a member of the same Likud party as Netanyahu, talks about a need for coexistence within the city, he is also starkly aware of how it persists as a contested space.
“For 50 years, Jerusalem has been ours, but we have not let her rest. Some want to divide her, some want to see her grow, some want to see her shrink. The city is pulled and pushed and argued about, here and all over the world.
“As we mark the half a century since the city was reunited, I believe the time has come to bring peace to Jerusalem. To grow within her an Israeli hope, a hope for Jerusalem: the city which welcomes pilgrims from all communities, from all over the world. This is our duty now more than ever. To work to develop and preserve our city. It is not enough that the city is united if its people are still divided.”
Another of Israel’s most prominent politicians is the centre-right Yesh Atid leader, Yair Lapid, whose party is challenging Netanyahu’s Likud for supremacy in the polls. He sees a different dynamic 50 years after the war.
“You have two competing things going on,” he told the Observer at the country’s parliament, the Knesset. “The first is the fact that the Zionist dream couldn’t have been completed without the unification of Jerusalem.
“My father was the most secular person you could ever meet, and a very devoted atheist. He decided when there was a boat in Europe after the [second world] war to come here, not go to the US or the UK.
“Not because [of] the future office buildings in Tel Aviv, but because he had this yearning for the Tower of David and the Western Wall, reconnecting to the places of [the prophets] Jeremiah and Isaiah and Ezekiel.
“[But] the other understanding is that – promised the right security measures – we have no interest in ruling 2.9 million Palestinians. We have nothing to look for in Nablus and Ramallah, and therefore we need to separate from this idea. Not because it is theirs, but because we are willing to give up on something that is ours in order to divorce from a situation that threatens the Jewish character of Israel.
“Which is why we cannot discuss the result of the six-day war as one conclusion or a one-dimensional result. It is like anything else in this country. It’s complicated.”
It is a complexity that has been dissected by historians including Avi Shlaim and Benny Morris. Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall, an acclaimed study of Israel’s military policies, has made a close study of the cabinet and general staff papers from the war. Although he agrees that it was a defensive war, he argues that – in the ease of the victory and in the national sense of joy – opportunities were lost, not least for a wider peace.
“Zionism [the historic movement for Jewish self determination in its own state] lost its way in 1967, that’s the crucial thing,” he told the Observer. “The main aim of the Zionist movement before the war was the establishment of an independent Jewish state in Palestine. But by the eve of the war that objective had already been achieved. The victory in 1967 reopened the old question of the territorial aims of Zionism.
“And the two trends that emerged cut across party lines … the big division after 1967 was between those who accepted the division of Palestine as a solution and those saying the West Bank was an integral part of the land of Israel. And in an Israeli society split down the middle, the government resolved the dilemma by deciding not to decide.”
For Benny Morris, currently a visiting professor of Israel studies at Georgetown University, the victory was conflicted in another way as well. “The ultimate consequence is that, paradoxically, the war both contributed to advancing towards peace with the Arabs as well as undermining the peace between Israel and the Arabs.
“On the one hand it contributed to peace because it was so decisive that it persuaded the Arab regimes that Israel couldn’t be beaten militarily, and it gave Israel the bargaining chips in terms of land it could give in Sinai for peace with the Egyptians.
“On the other hand it gave rise in Israel to a messianic rightwing expansionism and ideology that had not really existed before 1967. Once Israel took over the West Bank and more and more settlements were built, these became a major obstacle that worked against peace.”
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrian soldiers give themselves up to Israeli tanks on the Golan Heights. Photograph: Moshe Milner/AFP/Getty Images
The memorial on Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill is the best known national site dedicated to the six-day war . The scene of the fiercest fighting in the city, between Jordanian and Israeli paratroopers, its fall on 7 June opened the way for the quick capture of east Jerusalem, a pivot on which the history of the region has turned for half a century.
The paratroopers who fought here would be the same men who would continue through the city via Mount Scopus, the lanes of the Old City and finally the Western Wall itself.
Once an isolated outpost, these days it is part of a city that has grown around it, its trenches and a bunker preserved for posterity. Last week it was buzzing with activity. Groups wandered the grounds, one wearing black-and-white T-shirts with the number 50, while workers set up stands for an official commemoration ceremony this week.
Among the visitors were Yehudit Katz and Adara Zak, both aged 80. “The most important thing,” said Katz, when asked about the legacy of the war, “is that Jerusalem is unified.”
“It’s not unified,” interjected her friend quickly. “Everything is still under a question mark.”
In his museum office, Alon Wald, the site’s events and marketing manager, was keen to escape the political and ideological debates around the war. But then the conflict has a particular and visceral meaning for him. His father, Rami, was one of the 36 Israeli soldiers killed during the fighting on the hill, 50 metres from where Alon’s office is now. He admits that has defined much of his life.
“I am 50 myself. I belong to the next generation of Israelis to the men who fought here.”
He said that this year he would like the events marking the anniversary to be elevated above politics, if only for a moment. “It is about belonging,” he explained. “A sense of connection.”
Perhaps the final word should be left to the celebrated Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, who in his cycle, Jerusalem 1967, described a return to the city after the war – depicting the conflict’s legacy in emotional terms where a sense of historic foreboding is never far away:
I’ve come back to this city where names
are given to distances as if to human beings
and the numbers are not of bus-routes but 70 After, 1917, 500 BC,
Forty-Eight. These are the lines
you really travel on.
And already the demons of the past are meeting
with the demons of the future and negotiating about me
above me, their give-and-take neither giving nor taking,
in the high arches of shell-orbits above my head
Fifty years on that anxiety persists.
HOW THE WAR UNFOLDED
Events immediately leading up to the outbreak of war were messy and sometimes contradictory in intent, underpinned by Soviet disinformation about an Israeli plan to attack Syria, then in the midst of worsening border tensions.
May
After mobilising its troops against a perceived Israeli threat, Egypt moves its forces into the Sinai peninsular as UN forces withdraw. Barely a week later, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, right, orders the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Israel, warned by US president Lyndon Johnson not to pre-empt a war, begins calling up its forces as Arab armies 200,000-strong mass on the border. On 27 May, Nasser cancels a planned attack, believing that Israel has discovered the plans.
5 June
After an Israeli cabinet briefing that Jordan, Egypt and Syria are preparing to attack on three fronts, Israel orders a surprise air attack against the Egyptian air force, destroying most of its craft on the ground. Jordanian and Syrian airfields are then also targeted. In response, Syria and Jordan, joined by Iraq, launch air strikes on Haifa, Netanya and other Israeli targets.
6 June
In a lightning advance, Israel takes Gaza, Ras el Naqeb and Jebel Libni from Egypt. In Jerusalem, Israeli paratroopers capture Ammunition Hill from the Jordanian army, opening the way to capture east Jerusalem and the Old City.
7 June
Egypt’s Nasser turns down a UN ceasefire proposal. As Israel advances into the Sinai, its forces capture Nablus and Jericho.
8 June
The southern West Bank city of Hebron is captured by Israel as Egypt accepts a ceasefire .
9 June
Israel orders an attack to capture Golan Heights.
10 June
Israel gains Golan Heights. Ceasefire with Syria is agreed.
• Clarification added 9 August 2017: The introduction to this article referred to an expected curfew based on events of previous years. However, in 2017 there was no official order to close businesses, although there was a de facto curfew because streets were closed by the police, who also advised shopkeepers to shut.
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We are pleased to report that Thunderbird usage, as reported though the standard Mozilla metric of Active Daily Inquiries (ADI), has surpassed 10 million users per day on Monday November 30 2015 for the first time ever.
ADI is a raw measurement of active users, and is taken by counting the daily requests from Thunderbird users for updates to the plugin blocklist. This measure under-counts active users for a variety of reasons (such as firewalls, or users that do not use Thunderbird everyday). Based on more detailed studies with other applications, a typical multiplier applied to ADI to estimate total active users is 2.5. So the best estimate of current active users is 25,000,000.
Thunderbird Celebrates its 11 Birthday
Eleven years ago, on December 7 2004, Mozilla announced in a blog post the birth of Thunderbird. Happy Birthday, Thunderbird!
String-freeze for Thunderbird 45 on December 14
The Thunderbird development team is working hard on the next major release of Thunderbird, version 45, which is due for release in March of 2016. String freeze for new features is this weekend. Over 1000 code commits have been done to the main Thunderbird code repository in preparation for this release (in addition to the tens of thousands of commits to the Mozilla platform repository that Thunderbird uses as its base).
Mozilla Foundation as (Temporary) Thunderbird Home
Coincidentally on the same date as the new ADI record, in a post to a public Mozilla discussion forum, Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker outlined some upcoming changes in the relationship of Mozilla to Thunderbird.
In the administrative part of that post, Mitchell announced that the Mozilla Foundation under Mark Surman has been working with Thunderbird to provide at least a temporary legal and financial home for the Thunderbird project (which we have been sorely lacking for several years). At the same time, a formal process will be undertaken to determine what is the best long-term home for Thunderbird, which might be Mozilla or might be some other entity.
Practically what this means is that in 2016, Thunderbird will finally be able to accept donations from users directed toward the update and maintenance of Thunderbird. In the long run, Thunderbird needs to rely on our users for support, and not expect to be subsidized by revenue from Firefox. We welcome this help from the Mozilla Foundation in moving toward our goal of developing independent sources of income for Thunderbird.
In the technical part of that post, Mitchell reiterated that Mozilla needs to be laser-focused on Firefox, and that the burden this places on Thunderbird (as well as the burden that Thunderbird places on Firefox) is leading to unacceptable outcomes for both projects. The most immediate need is for the Thunderbird release infrastructure to be independent of that used by Firefox, and Mozilla has offered to help. In the long-term, there will be additional technical separation between Firefox and Thunderbird as a continuation of a process that has been ongoing for the last three years. | positive |
The American Pregnancy Association, an organization that presents itself as an unbiased medical resource for women seeking to sustain their pregnancies, in fact acts as a funnel for crisis pregnancy centers.
When a young woman named Jessica wrote to me on Scarleteen to ask whether women who are pregnant should visit a crisis pregnancy center for resources and support, I warned her that CPCs are non-medical establishments that provide false information to women in order to scare them away from abortion as an option. I explained how easy it can be to be fooled by CPCs, even when you’re savvy, aware of practices CPCs typically employ — even, I soon learned, when you’re writing an article in protest of them. And then I offered Jessica a link to the American Pregnancy Helpline as an option for women looking for support sustaining a pregnancy and as an alternative to a CPC.
I proved my own point too well.
At first blush, Helpline’s website presents itself as supportive of all pregnancy options. I found several sites I know to be reputable and fully supportive of choice linking to the Helpline. But I should know to be wary of any sites offering aid to pregnant women. If I had, I would have found that the American Pregnancy Helpline is affiliated with a larger organization, the American Pregnancy Association (APA), whose site is linked to even by such organizations as the National Abortion Federation, the Our Bodies, Ourselves blog, the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, WebMD, RAINN, the Feminist Majority Foundation, and, perhaps most disturbingly, MedlinePlus, a well-vetted consumer health site that is a project of the National Library of Medicine — all of whom are likely unaware of the extent of the APA’s connection to anti-choice causes. Once I found the link between the Helpline and the American Pregnancy Association, I found a whole lot more.
By the end of a day of deep digging, I discovered that both the American Pregnancy Helpline and the American Pregnancy Association and their founders have no record of being supportive of all reproductive options. In fact, the organizations both trace their origins to a crisis pregnancy center. I found misleading and medically incorrect information on both organization’s sites, including references to “partial-birth abortion” and the suggestion that future fertility or breast cancer has anything at all to do with having had an abortion. I learned that the Helpline is widely linked in CPC and anti-choice directories. And I soon noticed the strange absence of any information on contraception at the site for teens, while links to sites pushing ab-only proliferate. (I emailed the site immediately asking a few basic questions about their stance and background early but have yet to get any response.)
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“As a longtime options and abortion counselor, I am blown away to learn that this place has sneaked under the radar to this extent,” says Parker Dockray, executive director of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom and the Rewire reader who first questioned my link to the American Pregnancy Association. “I think it is a wake up call for the pro-choice community that we cannot rely on circular referrals without doing our own due diligence every single time we find a new hotline purporting to do unbiased abortion or pregnancy options counseling.” After being informed of APA’s biases, the National Abortion Federation’s Vicki Saporta wrote, “This site is a prime example of how well some crisis pregnancy centers masquerade as legitimate reproductive health care organizations. Imagine how difficult it must be for a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy to determine which sites and centers provide full options counseling and comprehensive reproductive health care services…We no longer link to this organization.”
A waltz through the Helpline’s web archives reveals that the organization was founded as a textbook CPC. At that time it was called America’s Crisis Pregnancy Helpline and didn’t claim any sort of medical accuracy or affiliation. To its credit, the organization’s information page did once admit that it doesn’t provide referrals to abortion services; the organization no longer makes that statement anywhere on the current site.
Misleading Readers Since 1999
This 1999 page demonstrates a clear bias. Note that the questions about finances, about “long-term physical and emotional effects,” knowledge of procedures, pressuring, changing one’s mind or “looking down on” women are asked about abortion but not about parenting or adoption. Parenting is a lifelong endeavor, so why does the options page pose no questions at all about readiness, desire or ability to parent? Same goes with adoption: no questions are posed; only a list of possible benefits is presented.
Abortion gets a list of “possible emotional side effects,” but none is listed for parenting or adoption, despite the fact that abortion “side effects” also commonly occur to women who parent or give children up for adoption. If you’re considering an abortion, the Helpline prods you to ask yourself, “What would an adoption plan look like?” but there is no such question about parenting, nor do the lists for adoption or parenting ask what an abortion plan would look like.
Apparently, only “when it comes to abortion” — not parenting or adoption — “there are many issues to consider when making a decision.”
The Helpline’s current online pregnancy test — which reports that you may be pregnant no matter how you respond — offers you the opportunity to see a “baby” in the womb “at every stage,” though that link leads to a page with no gestation dates listed for the few select photos it provides. It suggests access to free pregnancy testing through the Helpline but does not instruct readers to purchase a home test or to see a healthcare provider for a test.
Birth of the Helpline
According to the 1999 site archive, the Helpline was established by Mike and Anne Sheaffer in 1995. The couple advertised their desire to adopt a baby on two billboards in Dallas and set up a hotline to respond to the calls from pregnant women the billboards provoked. Says the site archive:
In the 1,100 calls the Sheaffers subsequently received, many were from women facing unplanned pregnancies who did not know where else to turn. Recognizing this unfulfilled need in society, the Sheaffers envisioned a confidential crisis line where women could receive the help they desperately needed. [America’s Crisis Pregnancy Hotline] functions in this capacity today as its trained staff provides counseling, pregnancy-related information, and referrals for community resources. ACPH is an independent, non-profit entity and is funded primarily by corporate and private donations.
The Schaeffers started the CPC called America’s Crisis Pregnancy Helpline in 1995; that CPC was later renamed America’s Pregnancy Helpline. In 2003, that organization spawned the American Pregnancy Association. Both the Helpline and the APA continued to exist, ostensibly as separate entities; in reality, at one call center, at the same address.
But the current Helpline site provides no organizational background, nor does it make any reference to the Sheaffers or to a direct affiliation with the APA — even though the current site for the APA tells the story of the Sheaffers and notes that,
In 2003, the Helpline became the American Pregnancy Association, a foundation of health services for the public, including education, research, advocacy, public policy and community awareness. Utilizing a Medical Advisory Committee, and collaborating with other reproductive and pregnancy health organizations, APA is a recognized leader of reproductive and pregnancy health information.
The organization’s named president, Dr. Phillip B. Imler, seems to exist only on a site profiling Christian Adoption International. A Dr. Brad Imler, whose doctorate is in psychology, is listed as their contact for corporate partnerships, and appears elsewhere online — in press quotes and in his profile at the forums for the site. I couldn’t find any background, practice or resume for Brad previous to the APA, either — as the President of the APA, not Philip. Dr. Brad Imler is interviewed here in a publication for the American Life League.
On an exceptionally difficult-to-find page, the founders of the APA are listed as J. Michael Sheaffer and Dr. Brad Imler. J. Michael Sheaffer can be found in a tax-exempt organization listing as the director of Pastors for Life International, an organization listed as a Right to Life organization in Texas with a return last filed in 2002. The website for PFLI appears to have gone dark in 2005. Until 2002, the web archive of the domain shows J. Michael Sheaffer of the organization. In an archive of the site during the time Shaeffer was listed as a Founding Director, a page lists ways pastors or congregations could get involved with the mission of PFLI. Those include:
Start a pregnancy center or maternity home. Create a “Mentoring Mothers” network for pregnant teenagers. Start a post-abortion reconciliation ministry. Refer women who are unexpectedly pregnant to pro-life safetynets. Create web links to pregnancy, adoption, and post-abortion resources.
Those goals are paired with contact links, and the Helpline is listed as a contact to “Help individuals gain access to pro-life safety nets,” and “Identify and support a local pro-life agency (prayer, material assistance, financial, or volunteer).”
In June 2006, Charisma magazine reported that the American Pregnancy Association had collaborated with a pregnancy test manufacturer to add inserts providing its Helpline number in 3.5 million test kits. The article quotes “APA President Brad Imler,” who tells the magazine, “What we find is that most women, when they receive information, desire to carry a child to term.” Charisma writes,
Statistics have shown that 70 percent of women did not have enough information before deciding to abort a pregnancy, Imler said. The APA compiles statistics based on its own data, as well as research coming from other reliable sources, Imler said.
Calling the Helpline
So, knowing all of this, what else could I do but take America’s Pregnancy Helpline for a test drive? Scarleteen volunteer S. called them up.
The Helpline staff answered as the American Pregnancy Association. S. reported that she was seven weeks pregnant and needed an abortion because her parents would put her in danger if they found out she had gotten pregnant. The staffer on the line refused to give her a referral for any abortion services or any abortion counseling or information (nor did the staffer suggest that she get somewhere safe), but asked where she was and offered the phone number of “somewhere nearby she could go to get information on abortion.” That number was for the Monroeville Crisis Pregnancy Center, which also calls itself the Monroeville Pregnancy Care Center and Crossroads Pregnancy Services. The organization, a member of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, has at least two different websites despite being one business and clearly fails to provide any accurate information about abortion. We can safely presume my volunteer was not given this number by accident — when pressing for more information, the staffer on the phone refused to give any other resources, even though a Planned Parenthood is located nearby as well.
That Helpline number is the only hotline number offered for questions about abortion procedures on the APA’s abortion information pages.
What We Know Now
I cannot say whether the APA exists solely or primarily as a way to feed CPCs. Plenty of the information at the APA certainly is medically accurate, and the organization may very well be as passionate about maternal health as they are about the pro-life cause. But given all of this information, given the personal bias involved, and the extent to which these links and affiliations are disguised, I think it begs the question.
In many ways this is a sadly perfect object lesson about CPCs. I’m streetwise, and I have a keen eye for bias, for things that don’t quite fit, and for deception when it comes to reproductive options and aid. What I don’t have is unlimited time, so, like any busy, stressed woman fearing pregnancy would also do, I relied on not hearing anything bad about these organizations from the pro-choice groups I trust. “Exposing [CPCs] for what they are takes constant attention,” cautions Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
I hope my readers understand that this was a sincere error on my part, for which I take full responsibility. I am certainly glad to have discovered all of this about these organizations and to have the opportunity to reveal this information about them. I didn’t learn this lesson, after all, as a woman in the midst of an unwanted pregnancy seeking help and the accurate, supportive information I was assured I’d be given for all of my choices. | positive |
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Standard & Poor's appeals landmark ruling in favour of NSW local councils
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One of the world's biggest credit ratings agencies and a European investment bank will begin an appeal in the Federal Court in Sydney today to try and overturn a landmark ruling that they misled local councils.
In late 2012, the court ruled that 13 New South Wales councils were deceived because Standard & Poor's gave complex investments a AAA credit rating, the highest investment ranking.
The councils lost most of their money when the product, a Constant Proportion Debt Obligation (CPDO), plunged in value during the global financial crisis.
The judge, Justice Jayne Jagot, granted them nearly $30 million in compensation.
S&P, ABN AMRO, the European bank which created the investments, and Local Government Financial Services, which sold the product to the councils, are appealing the judgment to the Full Court of the Federal Court.
Claimants and their losses: Bathurst Regional Council: $1 million
Cooma Monaro Shire Council: $1.86m
Corowa Shire Council: $933,225
Deniliquin Council: $466,613
Eurobodalla Shire Council: $466,612
Moree Plains Shire Council: $1.9m
Murray Shire Council: $933,225
Narrandera Shire Council: $1.86m
Narromine Shire Council: $466,612
Oberon Council: $933,225
Orange City Council: $1.4m
Parkes Shire Council: $2.8m
City of Ryde: $933,225
S&P told the ABC in a statement that it is not responsible for investment decisions and investors need to do their own analysis.
"It is bad policy to enforce a legal duty against a party like S&P, which has no relationship with investors who use rating opinions, yet impose no responsibility on those investors to conduct their own due diligence," the statement read.
"It turns S&P's predictions about the future into guarantees."
Standard & Poor's decision to give the investments a AAA or gold star investment ranking was criticised by Justine Jagot in November 2012.
The judge found S&P made negligent misrepresentations and had misled the councils.
It was the first court ruling of its kind worldwide against a credit ratings agency.
Justice Jagot said a description of the CPDOs as "grotesquely complicated" was accurate.
ABN AMRO and Local Government Financial Services (LGFS) were also found to have behaved in a misleading and deceptive way.
LGFS also was found to have breached its fiduciary duty to the councils.
Litigation funder John Walker, from Bentham IMF, financed the case for 12 of the councils.
He says CPDOs were high risk but were marketed as being as safe.
"It turned out to be very risky. It was simply a bet," he said.
Council says any overturn would have significant impact
Bathurst Regional Council was awarded more than $1 million in compensation by the court.
It originally got just $67,043 of its $1 million investment back.
Bathurst Regional Council Mayor Gary Rush says council spending plans will be affected if the judgment is overturned.
"Having to pay that money back would have a significant impact," he said.
"It would mean we have to curtail some of the maintenance opportunities or the development of infrastructure opportunities we are currently looking at."
CPDOs were created by ABN AMRO in 2006 and were described as the "poster child for the excesses of financial engineering" by researchers from the United States Federal Reserve.
In court documents, an ABN AMRO banker described the product as being like a casino.
"If you win you start again. If you lose, double your bet. Repeat. You have a great chance of winning (99.9 per cent) 1 pound, but a chance of losing the lot (0.10 per cent) if you lose 11 times in a row," ABN AMRO's David Poet wrote in an email.
The investments tracked corporate debt but as companies defaulted on their loans during the global financial crisis, the value of the notes was all but wiped out.
Justice Jagot found S&P rating analysts were "sandbagged" by ABN AMRO into awarding the top investment ranking to the product to make it more appealing to investors.
Court documents show S&P debated whether the CPDO was worth a AAA rating.
"You are the wuss for bending over in front of bankers and taking it... you rate something AAA, when it is really A-? You proud of that little mistake?" wrote Sebastian Venus to Derek Ding in May 2007.
Standard & Poor's is also being sued by 90 local councils, churches and charities for rating toxic mortgage bonds sold by the collapsed investment bank, Lehman Brothers, as AAA.
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ISTANBUL,— Turkish warplanes struck 24 targets in a bombardment of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the southeastern Kurdish province of Hakkari in Turkish Kurdistan late on Tuesday, the military said.
The targets destroyed in border towns of Yuksekova and Daglica were mainly weapon emplacements and shelters, the army said in a statement on Wednesday.
Turkey has been bombarding PKK positions in the mountains of northern Iraq as well as the mainly Kurdish southeast following the collapse of a ceasefire in July in the most intense fighting between Kurdish militants and the state since the 1990s.
More than 120 security personnel and hundreds of militants have been killed since the ceasefire, initiated by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan more than two years ago, broke down.
Erdogan said on Tuesday more than 30 Kurdish militants had been killed in cross-border operations last Friday and added that the campaign would continue both inside and outside the country.
The PKK said in a statement last Sunday that its guerrilla fighters have killed 586 of Turkish soldiers and police officers in a month of clashes with the Turkish army, ANF news agency reported.
The military also said in its statement that two soldiers were killed on Tuesday when a bomb buried in the ground went off when a military vehicle passed by on a road between southeastern Kurdish towns of Semdinli and Yuksekova.
Three soldiers have been wounded during the incident.
Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state.
In the 1990s, the PKK limited its demands to establish an autonomous Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds,who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 75-million population but have long been denied basic political and cultural rights, its goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.
In March 2013, its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan called a ceasefire. But violence has resumed after a suicide bombing blamed on Islamic State killed 32 pro-Kurdish activists in July 2015 in the Kurdish town of Suruc in Turkish Kurdistan.
Since then, the PKK and Turkish forces are again trading attacks on the ground and from the air.
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Since the days of President Ronald Reagan, the GOP has included as two of its main components businesspeople and working class voters. The business class provided the economic policies for the party (free markets, free trade, fiscal responsibility, low taxes, small government) and the working class provided voting muscle as well as the commitment to some social issues (gun rights, anti-abortion, among other issues). The coalition worked well as long as the economy grew and lifted all boats, making everybody better off.
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This has ceased to be the case as a result of globalization and technological changes. According to the Pew Research Center, from 1991 to 2012, household incomes for those with at least a bachelor's degree increased 9 percent after adjusting for inflation. However, household incomes for those with only a high-school education declined by some 5 percent.
Republicans can offer attractive economic policies to their working-class constituency at the state level. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker challenged public-sector unions. The working class could support Walker's tough stance because they perceived the unions as privileged consumers of working-class sales tax dollars. However, the same does not hold true at the federal level.
Can the GOP offer jobs? Actually, the Republican working class has jobs. Nationwide, the unemployment rate is hovering at 5 percent. The working class has jobs as retail attendants at megastores, cooks in hospital cafeterias, trolley drivers in historic tourist districts, maintenance workers in universities, security guards in office buildings and there are even some who are non-union workers in factories. Their problem is not jobs, but stagnant wages.
Can the GOP offer lower income taxes? Actually, the Republican working class pays no federal income taxes. According to the Tax Policy Center, a family of four with an annual income of $45,000 pays no income taxes. This is partly the result of the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which supplements the income of low-income groups like working-class Republicans.
During his presidential bid, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney expressed frustration that 47 percent of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes and were thus less amenable to his candidacy. This was ironic. What the working class needs, and is willing to support, are better-paying jobs and fringe benefits. The irony is that Romney, as the governor of Massachusetts, implemented a health reform that guaranteed access to health insurance for the working class and was a stepping stone for the ObamaCare program.
During the 2012 Republican primaries, the party establishment forced Romney to veer to the right. In the same vein that "Prussian field marshals do not mutiny," Romney was unwilling to stake a claim on the working class over the party establishment. However, Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpHouse committee believes it has evidence Trump requested putting ally in charge of Cohen probe: report Vietnamese airline takes steps to open flights to US on sidelines of Trump-Kim summit Manafort's attorneys say he should get less than 10 years in prison MORE has appealed to this group and won its support with a populist message and empathy for their causes. It is unclear if Trump's economic proposals address the issues of the working class, but it is clear these proposals represent a break from the free trade, free markets and fiscal responsibility advocated by the Republican establishment.
If Trump wins, he would have unmoored the working class from the Republican establishment. If — when? — Trump loses, it is far from certain that the working class would come back to the fold. Republicans are offering very little in economic terms for the working class, while Democrats are waving at them the prospects of a higher minimum wage, permanency and perhaps expansion of ObamaCare, and better access to college education for their children.
As with the case of the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Republican establishment needs to search for market-friendly policies that advance the interest of the working class, although these policies could represent a larger government. For example, a voucher program so that working mothers with infants could pay for childcare would help the working class, increase jobs in the private sector and yes, lead to a larger government. Doing nothing will not only leave this real society need to be filled by Democrats, but also erode Republican support among the working class.
In the end, the Republican business establishment must start by accepting that Karl Marx was not completely off the mark: that it was policies of government intervention in the economy such as child labor laws that saved capitalism from itself. Two generations ago, the Republican leadership accepted that President Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security program and unemployment insurance, which were initially fiercely resisted, were here to stay. Some years later something similar occurred with President Lyndon Johnson's Medicare initiative. Now ObamaCare should be, however grudgingly, accepted.
And the Republican business establishment should accept that it is time to climb down from their high horse of unfettered free-market policies and get on with the dirty task of advocating market-friendly government interventions that advance the interests of the working class. Otherwise, the "blue wall" of 18 states and the District of Columbia — which provides Democrats with 242 of the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency, and which Democrats have won in each of the last six presidential elections — will reach the 270 mark. And rightly so.
Feliciano is president of Advantage Business Consulting.
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