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Photos: Cherry Coat of Arms: Johnson & Hanson Johnson & Hanson Trees Last Name: First Name: All Surnames Advanced Search Log In What's New Photos Histories Documents Videos Recordings Albums All Media Cemeteries Headstones Places Notes Anniversaries Reports Sources Repositories Statistics Access Log Change Language Administration Contact Us Bookmarks Register for User Account Home Search Login Find Surnames First Names Search People Search Families Search Site Places Dates Calendar Cemeteries Bookmarks Media Photos Documents Headstones Histories Recordings Videos Albums All Media Info What's New Most Wanted Reports Statistics Trees Branches Notes Sources Repositories DNA Tests Contact Us Search | Advanced Search | Search Families | Search Site First Name: Last Name: ID: Print Bookmark Thomas DE CHE'RIE 1349 - Individual Ancestors Descendants Relationship Timeline Family GEDCOM Suggest Loading... Cherry Coat of Arms File name Cherry coatofarms.gif File Size 8.32k Dimensions 306 x 534 Linked to Thomas DE CHE'RIE; Thomas DE CHE'RIE This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 13.0.1, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2022. Maintained by Admin @ Johnson & Hanson Genealogy. | negative |
Index Catalog // Vault Skip to Content Search Vault Go Advanced Search Toggle navigation Vault Libraries Search Vault About Contact Switch language English Switch language Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Português do Brasil 中文 Login Search Constraints Start Over Filtering by: Genre photographs Remove constraint Genre: photographs Geographic Coverage British Columbia--Stewart Remove constraint Geographic Coverage: British Columbia--Stewart Collection Karl Spreitz Collection Remove constraint Collection: Karl Spreitz Collection Subject Motion pictures--Production and direction Remove constraint Subject: Motion pictures--Production and direction 1 entry found Sort by title ▼ relevance date created ▲ date created ▼ title ▲ title ▼ date modified ▼ date modified ▲ Number of results to display per page 50 per page 10 per page 20 per page 50 per page 100 per page View results as: List Gallery Masonry Slideshow Search Results 1. Karl Spreitz location scouting for BC Film Commission above Salmon Glacier near Stewart, B.C. Subject: Spreitz, Karl, 1927-2016, Glaciers, and Motion pictures--Production and direction Rights Statement: In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted License: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to textual records and photographs [or archival fonds] and reproduction requests; due to preservation concerns, access to original motion picture film and other audio visual formats is not permitted. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only. Resource Type: Still Image Extent: 1 photograph (colour) ; 20 x 26 cm Geographic Coverage: British Columbia--Stewart Coordinates: 55.93598, -129.9866 Physical Repository: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library Collection: Karl Spreitz Collection Provider: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library Sponsor: Digitized through the support of the BC History Digitization Program, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. Genre: photographs Archival Item Identifier: File: 2.19 and Accession: 2016-026 Fonds Title: Karl Spreitz fonds Fonds Identifier: SC570 Is Referenced By: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/karl-spreitz-fonds Date Digitized: 2021-02-11 Technical Note: Digitized using Epson Expression 1640 XL (600 DPI TIFF; 48-bit colour), on 2020-02-11. Metadata by KH. Toggle facets Limit your search Collection Karl Spreitz Collection[remove]1 Genre photographs[remove]1 Resource type Still Image1 Geographic Coverage British Columbia--Stewart[remove]1 Subject Glaciers1 Motion pictures--Production and direction[remove]1 Spreitz, Karl, 1927-20161 Advanced Search Quicklinks Hours and Locations Main Library Site Digital Exhibits Terms of Use / Withdrawal Policy © 2022 University of Victoria Contact Contact Form 250-721-6673 778-400-4518 More Library Contact Info Social Media | negative |
BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A company advisor to Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei denied accusations that the company has received government subsidies or dumped products in EU countries.
"Huawei's products may have a price advantage, but it was gained via technological innovation, rather than through subsidies or dumping," company advisor Tian Tao was quoted as saying in Thursday's 21st Century Economic Report.
Huawei's rejection of EU charges came after the EU proposed opening an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into mobile telecommunications equipment from China last week.
The move is believed to be aimed at Huawei and ZTE, China's two biggest telecoms system and equipment producers.
"The cost advantage gained through technological innovation has brought Huawei bigger profits," Tian said.
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said previously that the company's technological breakthroughs have allowed them to cut costs by up to 50 percent in some cases.
Huawei has a heavy presence in Europe, including 13 research centers set up in the continent. Last September, Ren announced a 2-billion-U.S. dollar investment plan to expand Huawei's operations in Britain.
Tian said Huawei will take a moderate and constructive attitude toward the EU proposals, as the European market is more important than the U.S. market in Huawei's global strategy, according to the newspaper.
Huawei has attached great importance to the European market, where telecom giants like Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia are based.
Ren once said that Huawei will make it clear to competitors that the company is "not jeopardizing, but safeguarding rules."
Tian welcomed competition from European rivals in China's market, saying competition will encourage Chinese service providers to come up with high-quality, low-cost systems
He said cooperation with EU companies will facilitate Chinese exports of 4G products to the North American and European markets, adding that the participation of European companies in China's LTE-TDD network construction will help the standard go global.
LTE-TDD, or Long Term Evolution-Time Division Duplex, is one of two key types of 4G LTE technology. China is a major promoter of the LTE-TDD standard and owns many of the standard's core patents.
Recent reports indicate that the EU's planned anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe is not backed by European telecom giants. Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia have voiced opposition to investigations targeting Chinese companies. Last October, related probes were postponed due to the absence of the plaintiff.
Lyu Benfu, a professor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the telecom sector has been a bright spot of the EU economy amid its continued economic slump.
If the EU's moves lead to the closure of the Chinese market, that will affect the interests of EU telecom companies, Lyu said.
European companies currently occupy 50 percent of China's telecom market, while Huawei and ZTE only account for 20 percent of the market share in the eurozone, according to figures from Huawei.
"Both sides should open the market, rather than create barriers," Lyu said.
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Nokia is preparing to release two new smartphones this year.
Nokia which had a non-competent deal with Microsoft had earlier announced its plan to license its brand name and start selling smartphones.
Nokia’s smartphones are to be manufactured by HMD Global, which now holds license to sell Nokia branded smartphones for the next 10 years. This leak hints at those plans coming through.
Nokia executive Mike Wang, president of the joint management team in China, has confirmed that 3 or perhaps 4 new Nokia-branded Android devices are set to be unveiled in the fourth quarter of 2016. These devices will be split between new smartphone and tablet launches.
The company expects to make an announcement or two before the end of 2016, the actual launch could be pushed back into early 2017, depending on testing and development.
The two phones are expected to be flagship devices with Nokia’s trademark design languageaccording to rumours. A leaked photo hints at comeback of polycarbonate shells with bolder design and expressive patterns.
The two mobiles which have leaked are likely to feature a 5.2-inch and 5.5-inch displays. The report says both the devices will sport OLED display with Quad HD resolution.
The report also suggests that Nokia smartphones will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset and will be running Z-Launcher UI based on Android Nougat. With Android N final launch likely to happen in October, its likely that Nokia phones will debut only after Nexus launch.
With Qualcomm having announced Snapdragon 821, an updated version of 820, there is a good chance of Nokia phones getting the latest processor once it debuts. As one would expect from a Nokia device, the smartphone is reported to feature a 22.6MP primary camera.
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Along with high-end smartphones, HMD is expected to unveil two new Nokia feature phones in the next 6 months. Clearly Nokia is working to get itself back into the smartphone game, but are you excited to see what the company has to offer after all this time?
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Based on Rick Riordan’s popular children’s fantasy novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the series will star Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood. The main cast of Disney+ Percy Jackson series The narrative follows the adventures of Percy and his friends as they enter Camp Half-Blood, a training ground and safe haven for demigods like them. As half-mortal and half-god, Percy is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. Soon, the young lad will learn about his parentage and the quests he has to conquer. First Look At Percy Jackson’s Camp Half-Blood Camp Half-Blood is the key setting for the series, as most scenes will take place here. The set images shared by a fan account reveal the location, facilities, and overall look of the place. The 20-acre land is found in Aldergrove, Vancouver, and the photographer also mentioned that the cabins looked like the Hobbit-holes in The Lord of the Rings. Screenshot of the Twitter post about the location of Disney+ Percy Jackson series The series and cast were first teased in June, and even Rick Riordan himself posted a video showing the vast location of the set. The show’s director, James Bobin, also shared hints about Camp Half-Blood after the author’s post. The first season of the Percy Jackson series will consist of eight episodes based on the first book, The Lightning Thief. Riordan has been sharing continuous updates about the progress of the show, also revealing that it is the first television show to use Industrial Light and Magic’s Vancouver-based Volume platform. It is a high-quality soundstage filled with LED walls that can bring realistic forms. The same stage was also used for Disney+ Star Wars live-action. Disney+ Percy Jackson Series Riordan has also expressed his satisfaction with the early footage and designs of the series. 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In the U.S., we have been called veterinary technicians since the early ’80s, but there is now a push to call us veterinary “nurses” as they do in other countries, including the United Kingdom.
I think we should stick with “veterinary technician.”
To change things and to start calling us “nurses” now would definitely be a difficult task and cause a lot of disruption in our profession, as well as confuse us with human nurses (who, as I understand it, have a trademark on the word “nurse”).
To me, the bigger point is not about what we call ourselves, but how we represent ourselves. It is about education—educating the general public about who we are and the veterinary community about our expertise and passion.
Let’s compare veterinary technicians to other similar professions. Are we similar to teachers, nurses, dietitians, dental hygienists, or counselors?
The answer, of course, is that we are a combination of all of the above. Think about all the different aspects of our jobs. We wear so many hats every day—one minute we could be the radiology tech, then the pharmacy tech, then the surgery tech, then the dental hygienist. In the examination room, we take care of much more than a patient. Yes, we are the patient advocate and caregiver, but we are also the client educator, the communicator, counselor, and advocate. We do so much more than taking histories, keeping records, giving injections, and taking blood. We are usually with the client and the patient from the time they arrive at the practice until they leave.
Plus, how many species do we learn about, know about, and work with? Those with paws, wings, hooves, flippers, and no feet at all—not just two-legged animals.
What do nurses do in their day and whom do they work on? With their limited responsibilities and only one kind of patient—hmm, for me, it’s an easy choice which I would prefer to be.
Back to my bigger point. As the veterinary technician profession grows and veterinarians come to rely on us more and more, the world is at our fingertips. We are the heart of the veterinary team and the keeper of the human–animal bond. It is our job to ensure everyone knows that, and to fight for recognition and our reputation. It is also our responsibility to improve ourselves every day, wh | positive |
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of all brain disorders, and yet there’s been little progress in drug treatments for anxiety in more than 50 years. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on March 24 suggest that studies in flies might help to elucidate fundamental mechanisms underlying anxiety and point the way to new anti-anxiety treatments.
“Anxiety research in rodents has been frustrated by the small sample sizes typically used in experiments and the complexity of the mammalian brain,” says Adam Claridge-Chang of Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. “Many scientists in the rodent anxiety field would agree that this drug development failure does not imply a ‘failure to translate,’ but rather an inadequate understanding of the basic neurogenetic mechanisms of anxiety.
“Using flies lends the advantages of a smaller animal brain, more sophisticated genetic tools, and greatly larger sample sizes. Evolutionary conservation of function between animal species means findings in fly could eventually be translated into rodent anxiety research.”
Farhan Mohammad, the study’s first author, got the idea to study anxiety in flies after noticing that the insects follow walls when in an enclosed chamber. He knew that rodents in that situation do essentially the same thing.
“Wall-following behavior in rodents has long been linked to anxiety, so I hypothesized that fly wall-following was also related to anxiety,” Mohammad says.
As evidence that the behavior the flies were showing was related to anxiety, the researchers found that flies followed the walls less closely when they were treated with Valium, a classic anti-anxiety medication. Genetic manipulation of serotonin-related genes also influenced anxiety-like behaviors in a manner similar to what has been reported earlier in mice.
Finally, Mohammad and Claridge-Chang showed that flies began to follow walls more when they were put under heat stress. The flies’ apparent anxiety also increased as a result of 10 days in solitary confinement, away from other flies. These effects were linked to changes in an important stress hormone receptor. The researchers also identified several new genes related to anxiety behavior in flies.
The findings reveal that anxiety is an emotion with evolutionarily ancient genetic and neuronal pathways, the researchers say.
“Our discovery confirms a very old natural history for the mechanisms underlying this self-preservation emotion, at least to the last common ancestor of flies and humans,” says Claridge-Chang, noting that this ancestral species swam in the oceans around 700 million years ago.
Genetic experiments in the fruit fly Drosophila have already elucidated the neuronal and molecular basis of circadian rhythms, sleep, animal courtship, pain, hunger, aggression and many other behaviors. The researchers say they now believe that flies can do the same for anxiety.
One of the outstanding puzzles in psychiatric research is that even though it’s clear that serotonin plays a role in anxiety, widely prescribed serotonin-related drugs like Prozac show little efficacy on emotional disorders. They hope to gain new insight into this “serotonin paradox” by studying the role of this neurotransmitter in fly anxiety. | positive |
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Hulu is preparing to release its virtual reality app in November, letting viewers watch "Seinfeld" episode reruns and other contents as though they were inside the TV show itself.
Talking to CNET, Hulu's CEO Tim Connolly said that the currently on-demand TV and film experience on Hulu is almost getting upgraded with the launch of its VR app next month. this comes just in time for the launch of the upcoming Samsung Gear VR in November.
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News concerning Hulu moving into VR first came in September when the company announced through its official website in a press release that the app will incorporate support for "original virtual reality short-form" content and "unique viewing environments" meant particularly for VR gadgets.
The company is already collecting content that fans can watch on the VR app. For Hulu's first VR-exclusive original movie, the company collaborated with Lionsgate to produce Freddie Wong's "The Big One," a short movie that will be launched alongside "RocketJump: The Show" original series.
Set in an apocalyptic future, the film features a meteor shower that eventually portents the end of the world in the same way viewers understand.
In addition to Hulu's VR-only content, the company is also getting ready to port its current catalog of 2D-only original and licensed content into VR. In the near future, viewers may watch reruns of "Seinfeld" as if they were seated on the iconic couch in Jerry's living room or view Hulu's "Difficult People" while in a virtual classic movie theater.
The company's VR app will be available for the second Gear VR Samsung created in conjunction with Oculus VR. While the premium Oculus Rift may be sold expensively, the Gear VR will go for $99 at launch, making it more accessible to mainstream consumers.
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There are two sealed boxes up for auction, box A and box B. One and only one of these boxes contains a valuable diamond. There are all manner of signs and portents indicating whether a box contains a diamond; but I have no sign which I know to be perfectly reliable. There is a blue stamp on one box, for example, and I know that boxes which contain diamonds are more likely than empty boxes to show a blue stamp. Or one box has a shiny surface, and I have a suspicion—I am not sure—that no diamond-containing box is ever shiny.
Now suppose there is a clever arguer, holding a sheet of paper, and they say to the owners of box A and box B: “Bid for my services, and whoever wins my services, I shall argue that their box contains the diamond, so that the box will receive a higher price.” So the box-owners bid, and box B’s owner bids higher, winning the services of the clever arguer.
The clever arguer begins to organize their thoughts. First, they write, “And therefore, box B contains the diamond!” at the bottom of their sheet of paper. Then, at the top of the paper, the clever arguer writes, “Box B shows a blue stamp,” and beneath it, “Box A is shiny,” and then, “Box B is lighter than box A,” and so on through many signs and portents; yet the clever arguer neglects all those signs which might argue in favor of box A. And then the clever arguer comes to me and recites from their sheet of paper: “Box B shows a blue stamp, and box A is shiny,” and so on, until they reach: “and therefore, box B contains the diamond.”
But consider: At the moment when the clever arguer wrote down their conclusion, at the moment they put ink on their sheet of paper, the evidential entanglement of that physical ink with the physical boxes became fixed.
It may help to visualize a collection of worlds—Everett branches or Tegmark duplicates—within which there is some objective frequency at which box A or box B contains a diamond.1
The ink on paper is formed into odd shapes and curves, which look like this text: “And therefore, box B contains the diamond.” If you happened to be a literate English speaker, you might become confused, and think that this shaped ink somehow meant that box B contained the diamond. Subjects instructed to say the color of printed pictures and shown the word Green in red ink often say “green” instead of “red.” It helps to be illiterate, so that you are not confused by the shape of the ink.
To us, the true import of a thing is its entanglement with other things. Consider again the collection of worlds, Everett branches or Tegmark duplicates. At the moment when all clever arguers in all worlds put ink to the bottom line of their paper—let us suppose this is a single moment—it fixed the correlation of the ink with the boxes. The clever arguer writes in non-erasable pen; the ink will not change. The boxes will not change. Within the subset of worlds where the ink says “And therefore, box B contains the diamond,” there is already some fixed percentage of worlds where box A contains the diamond. This will not change regardless of what is written in on the blank lines above.
So the evidential entanglement of the ink is fixed, and I leave to you to decide what it might be. Perhaps box owners who believe a better case can be made for them are more liable to hire advertisers; perhaps box owners who fear their own deficiencies bid higher. If the box owners do not themselves understand the signs and portents, then the ink will be completely unentangled with the boxes’ contents, though it may tell you something about the owners’ finances and bidding habits.
Now suppose another person present is genuinely curious, and they first write down all the distinguishing signs of both boxes on a sheet of paper, and then apply their knowledge and the laws of probability and write down at the bottom: “Therefore, I estimate an 85% probability that box B contains the diamond.” Of what is this handwriting evidence? Examining the chain of cause and effect leading to this physical ink on physical paper, I find that the chain of causality wends its way through all the signs and portents of the boxes, and is dependent on these signs; for in worlds with different portents, a different probability is written at the bottom.
So the handwriting of the curious inquirer is entangled with the signs and portents and the contents of the boxes, whereas the handwriting of the clever arguer is evidence only of which owner paid the higher bid. There is a great difference in the indications of ink, though one who foolishly read aloud the ink-shapes might think the English words sounded similar.
Your effectiveness as a rationalist is determined by whichever algorithm actually writes the bottom line of your thoughts. If your car makes metallic squealing noises when you brake, and you aren’t willing to face up to the financial cost of getting your brakes replaced, you can decide to look for reasons why your car might not need fixing. But the actual percentage of you that survive in Everett branches or Tegmark worlds—which we will take to describe your effectiveness as a rationalist—is determined by the algorithm that decided which conclusion you would seek arguments for. In this case, the real algorithm is “Never repair anything expensive.” If this is a good algorithm, fine; if this is a bad algorithm, oh well. The arguments you write afterward, above the bottom line, will not change anything either way.
This is intended as a caution for your own thinking, not a Fully General Counterargument against conclusions you don’t like. For it is indeed a clever argument to say “My opponent is a clever arguer,” if you are paying yourself to retain whatever beliefs you had at the start. The world’s cleverest arguer may point out that the Sun is shining, and yet it is still probably daytime. | positive |
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Organic Valley, the nation's largest cooperative of organic farmers and a leading organic brand, announced at its regional office in Portland today the addition of an Aroostook County organic dairy farm to its lineup of Maine suppliers, bringing its state total to 33 farms.
"That 33 is just a beginning," said Steve Getz, coordinator of Organic Valley's New England dairy pool. "Maine is a big state for organic dairy farms. We see a lot of potential here."
Getz said the recent addition of Chase's Organic Dairy in Mapleton, located near Presque Isle in Aroostook County, enabled Organic Valley to add a third truck to its fleet of milk tankers in Maine. Doing so, he said, creates an opportunity to add milk volume from additional organic dairy farmers and help defray shipping and hauling costs to Stonyfield Farm's processing plant in New Hampshire.
"Organic Valley has the energy and resources to really expand the dairy market for us," said Vaughn Chase, who owns and operates with his wife, Laura, the 100-cow dairy farm in Mapleton. Their first delivery of organic milk via the Organic Valley tanker took place on July 2.
"It's a stable market," Chase added. "It's a paycheck you can count on week after week."
Jeff Bragg, an eighth-generation dairy farmer in Sidney, said his Rainbow Valley Farms has supplied milk to Organic Valley for 10 years after making the switch from conventional non-organic dairy farming in 2003. "It's a grassroots cooperative," he said, noting that his involvement in Organic Valley's cooperative has given him the opportunity to network with other organic dairy farmers both regionally and nationwide.
Despite the recent disbanding of Maine's Own Organic Milk, the 12-farmer company better known as MOO Milk that was founded in 2009, Getz is bullish about the potential for organic dairy farming in Maine, identifying Aroostook County and central Maine as two regions where a lot of interest is being shown in transitioning to organic dairy operations. The expansion into Aroostook County, which required a 25-cents-per-hundredweight premium payment to cover the extra hauling costs, was strongly endorsed by Organic Valley's 30 member farmers and its farmer-led board of directors, he said.
"This means our Maine farmers are going to reach into their own pockets as an investment in opening up the market in Aroostook County," Getz said.
"It's a very forward-looking approach,'" added Bragg. "The more we can strengthen the Maine organic milk pool, it's better for all of us."
"The organic market has legs," Getz said, noting that nationally, sales for the cooperative's array of organic food products increased from $857 million in 2012 to $928 million in 2013, for over 8% growth.
Dairy products were the largest category of the growing $29 billion organic food sector, according to the Organic Trade Association's 2013 Organic Industry Survey. Organic milk and cream sales were worth $2.6 billion, the survey found. Sales of whole, organic milk were up 10% in 2013, making it the fastest-growing category of milk. | positive |
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Sunshine Act Meeting.Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the Government in the Sunshine Act, Pub. L. 94-409, that the Securities and Exchange Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., in the Auditorium, Room L-002.The subject matter of the Open Meeting will be:The Commission will consider whether to propose rules and forms related to the offer and sale of securities through crowdfunding pursuant to Section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933, as mandated by Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.The duty officer has determined that no earlier notice was possible.At times, changes in Commission priorities require alterations in the scheduling of meeting items.For further information and to ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed, please contact:The Office of the Secretary at (202) 551-5400.Elizabeth M. MurphySecretaryDated: October 21, 2013 | positive |
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LEESBURG, VA — Several downtown Leesburg residents found bags of candy along with images and literature representing the Klu Klux Klan on their doorsteps Sunday morning, according to multiple reports. Leesburg Police said they received complaints from several people, but inasmuch that there were no threatening messages in the bags, they were protected by free speech.
According to WTOP, the bags contained candy as well as three sheets of paper with cartoons and propaganda. On the cartoon were the words "Attention White America! We are nearing the end of the line," as well as "white extinction." The literature railed against blacks, Jews and liberals.
Leesburg Police spokesman Sam Shenouda said the bags appeared to be a KKK recruitment effort, and that he notified federal authorities as an FYI. But as he told Loudoun Now, "It's not illegal to do that."
Several similar incidents have happened across the country, include one last spring in Texas, where recruiting flyers for the Klan were disguised in a bag of candy and distributed to 17 homes in Texas City. Tucked inside the plastic bags of candy was a message written in bold black letters from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan that read: "Help save our race! Join the best or die like the rest" and "Say No To Cultural Genocide."
Watch Now: KKK Propaganda In Bags Of Candy Greets Leesburg Residents
In August 2016, Gary Monker, who said he is the Exalted Cyclops, or chief officer, in New York of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, told Patch that many people have misconceptions about the organization.
"We're the only organization right now standing up for whites, upholding the second amendment of the Constitution," he said. "We are not a hate group. We are Christian and we're trying to restore America back to what it used to be."
The Klan, though, has long been recognized as one of the most vile hate groups in the United States, judged so by, among others, The Southern Poverty Law Center.
Patch file photo courtesy of Gary Monker | positive |
Nevada regulators deny requests to pause rooftop solar rate hike
Framed by a string of public comments from solar customers, employees and activists, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission denied petitions Wednesday to halt increases to rooftop solar bills, ensuring that the rates remain in effect as the commission considers appeals.
Before the vote, commissioners heard hours of public comment from activists, some of whom lined up to speak an hour before the morning meeting. Lines to speak in Las Vegas snaked outside of the office building that houses the commission here and into the parking lot.
They held sings like “Don’t Be Shady, NV Energy” and “Keep Calm And Go Solar.”
In December, the commission approved rates for solar customers that increased a fixed fee for solar users and reduced the value of credits customers can earn for generating excess electricity. It also lowered the base electricity rate that solar customers pay, commissioners clarified today. The rates applied to all customers, even early adopters of rooftop solar.
Solar companies argued that such changes could cripple its business model and two companies — SolarCity and Sunrun — announced hundreds of layoffs last week, as they pulled their sales and installations teams from the state, following the rate decision.
At today’s meeting, the three-member commission considered several filings asking that they halt the rates until they had heard all requests to reconsider or clarify the order. Several parties are in the process of challenging the rates that were implemented on Jan. 1.
Commissioners decided against delaying the rates because the parties had not satisfied their burden to prove such a motion met several criteria, including that there was an irreparable harm to solar customers, good cause for a stay or that a stay was in the public’s interest.
“The motions to stay fail to establish any factors that would support staying the commission’s final order or the tariffs filed therein,” the commission wrote in the order denying the stays.
Before Jan. 1, solar customers paid a fixed fee of $12.75. Under the revised rates, solar customers will pay a service charge of $17.90, a fee that will gradually rise to $38.51 by 2020. NV Energy had also reimbursed solar customers about 11 cents for per kilowatt-hour of excess energy they generated, under a policy known as net metering. The value of those credits fell to about 9 cents in January and will bottom out at 2.6 cents by 2020.
The rates are part of a larger philosophical debate, one taking place not only in Nevada but in states around the country, about how to integrate rooftop solar customers, who do not purchase as much energy from the grid and avoid paying some of the fixed costs wrapped into electricity rates. NV Energy and the commission have argued that the new rates are necessary to ensure that solar customers are not shifting costs to other ratepayers.
The Bureau of Consumer Protection, which represents all ratepayers in these matters, is arguing for a more moderate approach, saying cost shifts are often involved in utility regulation.
Activists argue those cost shifts are false and that the commission is not considering the benefits of solar for all ratepayers when one factors in the environment, a reduction of strain on the grid, and the decreased need for NV Energy to invest in costly infrastructure projects.
Solar advocates believe that, with reduced incentives, solar will not be economically advantageous for customers. In about five hours of public comments, solar customers and employees, some who had recently lost their jobs in the layoffs, excoriated the new rates.
Some felt betrayed because the revised rates do not grandfather customers, changing rates on some of the earliest adopters. Many solar activists called this a “bait-and-switch.”
“You just stole $48,000 from me with this decision,” said James Dale Collier, a Henderson resident who paid that amount to purchase solar panels outright more than four years ago.
Collier said he is now paying more than before and believes the decision, which lowers the value of credits for excess energy generated, no longer guarantees a return on investment.
SolarCity customer Jonas Woolverton said the decision could have ramifications on the value of homes. He said buyers might no longer see his solar panels as a benefit.
“If I do sell my house, now it’s all up in the air,” he said.
Others expressed anger, confusion and frustration with the commission.
Teddy Stanowski, a Sunrun employee who was laid off and has panels, said the decision was an anti-competitive measure that went against capitalism, ingenuity and the people. He also pushed back against the commission's claim that the rates would not cause irreparable harm.
He noted that his job loss is evidence of the decision’s effect.
“I am the evidence,” Stanowski said. “We are the evidence.”
NV Energy said in a statement it will not make a profit off the rates.
Like Stanowski, some have argued solar could be a threat to utilities like NV Energy. In a recent filing, the Bureau of Consumer Protection wrote “the (bureau) is sure the commission realizes that the debate over rooftop solar — not only in Nevada, but in other states — is not solely just about unreasonable cost shifts, but it is a product of the utilities recognizing there is a potential competitive threat to their business model from rooftop solar.”
The meeting Wednesday drew several activists from out of state, including actor Mark Ruffalo and Tea Party organizer Debbie Dooley. In his public comments, Ruffalo called the commissioners “anti-Robin Hood” for largely adopting NV Energy’s proposed rate structure.
“The actions you are taking today are taking from the mouths of the people and giving it to a single monopoly utility,” he said. "You are taking from the people and giving to the rich.”
Politicians also weighed in. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic nomination released a statement Wednesday in support of the solar activists at the commission meeting.
“It does not make sense that the second sunniest state in the nation is now walking away from solar energy,” Joan Kato, Sanders’ state director said in a statement.
In a letter responding to a constituent last week, Nevada Rep. Joe Heck said, “There should be a grandfather clause that protects the rates of existing residential solar users.”
NV Energy estimates it has about 17,000 net-metering customers.
On several occasions, commenters criticized Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns NV Energy. They also tacked blame on Gov. Brian Sandoval, who has said he is supportive of the solar industry but that he would not intervene in the commission’s ruling. He has said he would not interfere it is a quasi-judicial panel and to do so would be inappropriate.
When the official proceedings started around 4 p.m., Chairman Paul Thomson called some rhetoric hyperbolic and noted that the commission has been studying the issue for years.
“This commission has been working tirelessly, not to penalize people or to favor one technology over the other, but to create a path forward for rooftop solar in this state that treats all ratepayers fairly,” Thomson said. “That’s what we are trying to do.”
Commissioner David Noble, who wrote the order and is the presiding officer in the case, clarified several issues, noting that base energy rates for solar customers are now actually lower than they are for other ratepayers. He added that the ruling only applies to small commercial and residential rooftop customers, rather than larger customers like schools. He said NV Energy could not turn a profit from the new rates and if they did, it would trigger a regulatory mechanism that would reimburse those profits to NV Energy ratepayers.
In the coming weeks, the commission will consider requests to reconsider the rates. | positive |
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Rome IV criteria for the diagnosis of colic:4 For clinical purposes, must include all of the following: An infant who is <5 months of age when the symptoms start and stop Recurrent and prolonged periods of infant crying, fussing, or irritability reported by caregivers that occur without obvious cause and cannot be prevented or resolved by caregivers No evidence of infant failure to thrive, fever, or illness For clinical research purposes, a diagnosis of infant colic must meet the preceding diagnostic criteria and also include both of the following: Caregiver reports infant has cried or fussed for 3 or more hours per day during 3 or more days in 7 days in a telephone or face-to-face screening interview with a researcher or clinician Total 24-hour crying plus fussing in the selected group of infants is confirmed to be 3 hours or more when measured by at least one prospectively kept, 24-hour behaviour diary Practical tips for managing colic5-7 Parental support: parents of a baby suffering from colic need support. They will most likely be anxious and so need reassurance that colic is a common infant feeding problem and most infants will outgrow the problem by 4 to 5 months of age. Prevent the infant from swallowing excess air by sitting them upright during a feed. If breastfeeding this may involve the mother trying a different breastfeeding position. Wind the infant during and after a feed as necessary. Infants like movement, so pushing them around in their pram or pushchair, or going for a drive, can be comforting. Background noise or ‘White noise’ such as the sound of a washing machine or vacuum cleaner may be soothing for an infant. Gentle stomach, or back rubs, or a warm bath, may also help to relieve colic. If the infant is being breastfed, consider talking to mum about her diet. Some small changes may help to alleviate colicky symptoms. Advise the mother to avoid drinking too much tea, coffee, and other drinks and foods that contain caffeine and see if symptoms improve. Breastfeeding mums should be encouraged to continue breastfeeding. Formula-fed infants presenting with symptoms of colic may benefit from a formula specially formulated for the dietary management of colic. Medical treatments (simeticone or lactase drops) should only be tried if parents feel unable to cope despite advice and reassurance. NICE recognises that studies of interventions for infantile colic behind simeticone and lactase drops tend to lack methodological quality, making it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of any treatment. References Vandenplas Y et al., Prevalence and health outcomes of functional gastrointestinal symptoms in infants from birth to 12 months of age. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2015; Nov 61(5):531-7 Food Safety Authority of Ireland 2011. Scientific Recommendations for a National Infant Feeding Policy, 2nd Edition. Available online at: https://www.fsai.ie/resources_publications/national_infant_feeding_policy/ (accessed December 2020) Savino F. Focus on infantile colic. Acta Paediatr 2007; 96(9): 1259-64. Benninga MA. et al., Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Neonate/Toddler. Gastroenterology 2016; 150:1443-1455 Vandenplas Y et al., Gut health in early life: implications and management of gastrointestinal disorders. Essential Knowledge Briefing. Wiley, Chichester (2015). Clinical Knowledge Summary. Colic. Available at: http://cks.nice.org.uk/colic-infantile#!topicsummary (accessed October 2020) NHS Colic. Available at: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colic/ (accessed Nov 2020) You may also be interested in Beneficial bacteria and the developing gut Breastfeeding: getting started Common breastfeeding queries Nutricia uses cookies on this website. With your consent we will use them to measure and analyze usage of the website (analytical cookies), to tailor it to your interests (personalisational cookies), and to present you relevant advertising and information (targeting cookies). 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A 3-D Nanoelectrokinetic Model for Predictive Assembly of Nanowire Arrays using Floating Electrode Dielectrophoresis Browse Search Explore more content FE-DEP_Nanoelectrokinetics_Clean_Manuscript.pdf (2.92 MB) File info Download file Fullscreen A 3-D Nanoelectrokinetic Model for Predictive Assembly of Nanowire Arrays using Floating Electrode Dielectrophoresis Cite Download (2.92 MB) Share Embed journal contribution posted on 14.01.2019, 00:00 authored by Sachin K. Singh, Nehal Aryaan, Ruhul Amin Shikder, Bryan W. Byles, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Arunkumar Subramanian Floating electrode dielectrophoresis (FE-DEP) presents a promising avenue for scalable assembly of nanowire (NW) arrays on silicon chips and offers better control in limiting the number of deposited NWs when compared with the conventional, two-electrode DEP process. This article presents a 3D nanoelectrokinetic model, which calculates the imposed electric field and its resultant NW force/velocity maps within the region of influence of an electrode array operating in the FE-DEP configuration. This enables the calculation of NW trajectories and their eventual localization sites on the target electrodes as a function of parameters such as NW starting position, NW size, the applied electric field, suspension concentration, and deposition time. The accuracy of this model has been established through a direct quantitative comparison with the assembly of manganese dioxide NW arrays. Further analysis of the computed data reveals interesting insights into the following aspects: (a) asymmetry in NW localization at electrode sites, and (b) the workspace regions from which NWs are drawn to assemble such that their center-of-mass is located either in the inter-electrode gap region (desired) or on top of one of the assembly electrodes (undesired). This analysis is leveraged to outline a strategy, which involves a physical confinement of the NW suspension within lithographically patterned reservoirs during assembly, for single NW deposition across large arrays with high estimated assembly yields on the order of 87%. Funding A. S, S. K. S., M. R. A. S., and N. A. acknowledge support for this work, in part, from the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1655496 and 1661038. E.P. and B. W. B. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET- 1604483. Use of the Center for Nanoscale Materials, an Office of Science user facility, was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. History Publisher Statement Copyright @ IOP Publishing Citation Singh, S. K., Aryaan, N., Shikder, M. R. A., Byles, B. W., Pomerantseva, E., & Subramanian, A. (2019). A 3D nanoelectrokinetic model for predictive assembly of nanowire arrays using floating electrode dielectrophoresis. Nanotechnology, 30(2). doi:10.1088/1361-6528/aae9a4 Publisher IOP Publishing Language en_US issn 0957-4484 Issue date 06/11/2018 Usage metrics Categories Uncategorized Keywords DielectrophoresisFloating electrode DEPNanoassemblyElectrokineticsmanganese dioxide nanowires Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Exports Select an option RefWorks BibTeX Ref. manager Endnote DataCite NLM DC Hide footer AboutHow to DepositPreparing DataDMP ToolSupportDeposit AgreementTermsToolsFAQsDisclaimerSitemap figshare. credit for all your research. | negative |
The Government of India has decided to celebrate the 26th day of the November of every year as the "Constitution Day."The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment published notification with respect to this in the official gazette today.
The notification says that by celebrating constitution day the government seeks to promote constitutional values among citizens. The nation is also celebrating the one hundred and twenty-fifth birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar this year in recognition of his contribution to building modern India.
The people of India, adopted, enacted and gave to themselves the Constitution of India in the Constituent Assembly on the 26th day of November, 1949 to secure to all its citizens Justice, Liberty, Equality and to promote Fraternity among all. The Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, under the Chairmanship of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, provided its invaluable services in drafting the Constitution of India.
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Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t written in the stars. He didn't even win a plurality, much less a majority, of the national popular vote. With relatively small changes in big states – 73,000 votes in Pennsylvania, 27,000 in Wisconsin, 12,000 in Michigan – Hillary Clinton, not Trump, would have been the 45th U.S. president.
When you lose one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history, as Clinton did Tuesday, many factors align themselves to produce the result. Here are 31, many of them overlapping and reinforcing.
1. Trump Never Held Elective Office. His lack of experience was cited by many people as evidence the Republican nominee was unqualified. For millions of Americans who are disgusted with politics as usual, this was a point in his favor. Even before widespread disdain for Washington set in, the electorate has periodically been enthralled with the idea that an executive from the private sector could show Washington a thing or two. Now the experiment begins.
2. He Wasn’t Really a Republican. Since 1999, Trump had been a registered Democrat, Independent, Reform Party member, and finally, a Republican. Although this offended the GOP establishment, which viewed him as an opportunist, it helped Trump with independent-minded voters contemptuous of the reigning Democrat-Republican duopoly. Former Ohio congressman and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich put it this way: “This was a rejection of the Democratic establishment, the Republican establishment, the media establishment, and the financial establishment.”
3. The Mike Pence Pick. Having decided to run as a Republican, however, Trump needed the party’s social conservatives to rally to his side. Choosing Indiana’s governor, a devout Christian who describes himself as an “evangelical Catholic,” bridged the cultural gap between Trump and the party’s religious base.
4. Supreme Court. With one judicial vacancy pending and others likely in the future, one-fifth of the electorate told exit pollsters that the court was a major factor in their vote. Trump won these voters, 57 percent to 40 percent, suggesting that his vow to appoint strict constitutionalists sealed the deal with many conservatives.
5. A “Movement, Not a Campaign.” Trump used that phrase in his victory speech in the wee morning hours Wednesday. What’s happening certainly is bigger than one man. His victory, like the Brexit vote in the U.K., signifies a global revolt of the grassroots against the elites.
6. Re-imagining the Electoral Map. Political experts insisted that it was folly for Trump and his team to believe Michigan and Wisconsin were within their grasp. Pennsylvania was also said to be fool’s gold for Republicans every four years. Trump’s team ignored them—and struck a rich vein across the Rust Belt.
7. Working-Class Whites. “Donald Trump heard a voice no one else heard” is how House Speaker Paul Ryan put it Wednesday. But the alienation of these voters shouldn’t have been a mystery. Between 2007 and 2014, the median incomes of white males without college degrees fell by 14 percent. Trump carried them by nearly 40 points Tuesday.
8. Free Trade. Ross Perot warned of “a giant sucking sound” of jobs leaving the U.S. for Mexico if the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George H.W. Bush, Ivy League economists, and most of the media scoffed at Perot. But Bernie Sanders didn’t sound much different than Trump on trade on the 2016 campaign trail and Hillary Clinton reversed field on both NAFTA and the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership. In the general election, working-class Americans flocked to a candidate who blamed the Clintons for NAFTA, which Trump repeatedly called “the single worst trade deal ever.”
9. Corporate Greed. In February, a U.S. conglomerate called United Technologies abruptly announced it was closing two Indiana manufacturing plants in its Carrier division and moving them to Mexico. Both factories were profitable, but Carrier can pay workers far less south of the border and import the products at no charge, thanks to NAFTA. United Technologies, which reaps billions from government contracts, recently gave its departing CEO a $184 million severance package. “The greed of United Technologies is unbelievable,” said Sanders. “You really can’t make this stuff up.” Sanders and Trump campaigned hard on that theme, and both won the Indiana primary. Trump carried the state Tuesday by nearly 20 points, only eight years after Barack Obama won it.
10. Trump’s Billions: He’s an unlikely populist champion, this born-to-wealth billionaire who flaunts his riches. But while the media and the Democrats were appalled by Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns, Trump voters focused on something else: His assertion that he was too rich to be bribed.
11. Trump’s Mouth. From the beginning of his campaign – he called Mexican immigrants “rapists” in his announcement speech – Trump’s insensitive comments and racist asides horrified elites, journalists, Democrats, African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims, and others. Trump’s supporters chose to view it another way: They said his lack of a filter showed that Trump was genuine – and has the guts to say what others won’t.
12. Political Correctness. If some voters were rationalizing away his crudeness, the flip side was that he was a walking rebuke to oddball campus speech codes and customs, as evidenced by the Yale professor who excused his students from their midterms in the wake of Trump’s victory. “Nobody votes for Trump or likes Trump on the basis of policy positions,” says alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. “That’s a misunderstanding of what the Trump phenomenon is.” Trump is "an icon of irreverent resistance to political correctness.”
13. Hillary’s “Deplorables.” In describing Americans supporting such a brute, Clinton went off-script one day and said that half of them were a “basket of deplorables”– racists, she meant. Clinton backtracked quickly, but “Deplorables” T-shirts were already being proudly worn by aggrieved Trumpers. It was Clinton’s version of Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” remark – the 47 percent of Americans who would vote for Obama because they “are dependent on government, who believe they are victims.”
14. The Real Deplorables. So how much of Trump’s vote was racist (or sexist) or anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant? Measuring prejudice is an imprecise undertaking, but it’s a matter of record that Trump broke into politics by claiming that the first African-American U.S. president was born in Kenya; that Trump obliterated a highly qualified GOP primary field by promising to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and proposing a ban on Muslim immigration; and that he was caught on tape (albeit an 11-year-old tape) disparaging women in crude language. Did people vote for him because of this – or despite it?
15. The David Duke Factor. Most Americans probably didn’t know that the ex-Ku Klux Klansman was still active until the mainstream media began parading his endorsement of Trump on the front page. This was supposed to make Trump look bad, but it made the media look like it was actively sabotaging Trump’s campaign—a recurring theme throughout the election season.
16. Crony Capitalism. The grassroots in both parties have come to believe that corporate riches are increasingly dependent on political connections in Washington. Sanders criticized Clinton during the primary season by saying she was too cozy with Wall Street. She confirmed this perception by refusing to release transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street banks.
17. Clinton Cash. When some of those transcripts became available anyway, it looked as though Clinton was saying one thing to the banks in private—banks paying her lavishly for speeches—and something else on the campaign trail. It underscored how she and Bill came to Washington in 1992 with little money, and now have a net worth estimated at $200 million, all while ostensibly in public service.
18. Clinton Foundation. Soliciting massive donations from U.S. billionaires, overseas oligarchs, and foreign governments with lousy human rights records was problematic even before it was revealed that various political hacks were on the foundation payroll, giving the appearance that the Clintons had established a giant slush fund. When the Associated Press—not WikiLeaks—revealed that most of Secretary of State Clinton’s official appointments were with foundation donors, it played into Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” narrative.
19. Benghazi. If Clinton had left the State Department four months before she did, her reputation as the nation’s chief diplomat would never have been mired in the endless rounds of recriminations over an attack that killed four Americans – and whether she was truthful about the nature of the attack and its cause.
20. Her Secret Email System. Just as there are many theories about why Donald Trump won’t release his taxes, speculation abounds about why the Clintons went to great expense to set up a private server in their home. To keep the media from prying into her personal life? (Understandable.) To evade the requirements of federal records act? (Not great, but not a crime.) Or to hide the ongoing coordination between the Clinton Foundation, the State Department, the nascent Clinton presidential campaign and the Clintons’ personal finances? (Pretty sketchy.) Add some sloppiness with classified information and 33,000 emails deep-sixed by Hillary’s lawyers and you get a festering, low-grade scandal that lasted from March of 2015 to the eve of Election Day.
21. James Comey. Even as the election returns trickled in Tuesday night, distraught Democrats pointed fingers at the FBI director—with some justification. After absolving her of criminality over the email server in July, Comey abruptly announced in a letter to Congress that he was reopening the investigation on October 28. The weekend before the election, he made his third announcement—nothing to see here, folks—but by then Clinton’s momentum was stopped by the collective national remembrance of Clinton scandals past, and of impeachment, and well, of a future that seemed unappealing.
22. Anthony Weiner. It was his laptop that led Comey to the abortive second investigation, Anthony Weiner being the “perv,” in New York tabloid-speak, who’s married to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin. (They were wed in a ceremony officiated by Bill Clinton.) The Abedin-Weiner union dissolved for the same reason Weiner resigned his seat in Congress, which was the same reason he lost his attempted comeback in the New York mayoral race: his compulsive “sexting” with strangers. The last one was reportedly a 15-year-old girl, which is why the FBI was rooting through his computers in the first place. Weiner was more than an unwelcome distraction for the Clintons. He was their recurring nightmare.
23. Glass Ceiling. Hillary’s quest to be the nation’s first female president ran into a problem: Women voters didn’t flock to her side as much as the campaign had hoped. Yes, she enjoyed a 54 percent to 42 percent advantage over Trump among female voters, but this “gender gap” was about the same as Barack Obama’s advantage over John McCain and Mitt Romney. Hillary’s candidacy didn’t alter the equation.
24. Passion Gap. Since the first primary back in February, when more New Hampshire voters participated in the crowded Republican primary (won by Trump) than the smaller Democratic field headed by Clinton and Sanders (Sanders won), Democrats have worried about the problem that has dogged them throughout the Age of Obama: Unless Obama is on the ballot himself, Democrats have trouble turning out their voters. This hurt Clinton in all of the Rust Belt states she lost to Trump. The Obama political machine turns out to be non-transferrable.
25. Obamacare. Two weeks before the election, the Obama administration reluctantly conceded that premiums under the Affordable Care Act would rise an average of 22 percent in 2017. A confident Hillary Clinton ignored this bad news, but Trump didn’t. He said Obamacare was “blowing up,” and suggested that the true figure was probably much higher than 22 percent. But Hillary’s husband couldn’t restrain himself. Earlier in October, Bill Clinton complained about the premiums. “The people who are getting killed on this deal are small business people and individuals who make just a little too much money to get any of these subsidies,” he groused. “It’s the craziest thing in the world.”
26. Terrorism. A significant portion of white voters concluded during the last eight years that the Democratic Party in general and President Obama and Hillary Clinton in particular dance around the danger we face. The accusation is that they put a greater value on not hurting anyone’s feelings than on national security. A frequent conservative refrain is that the Democrats won’t even say “Islamic terrorism.” Is this concern justified? Or is it frosting on a cake that should really be labeled “racism” or “Muslim-hatred”? This is not an academic question. Trump’s blunt language helped him become president-elect. Now he, and this country, have to manage emotions he helped unleash.
27. Bruce Springsteen. A loyal Democratic Party trouper every four years, The Boss did his part again in 2016, playing a brief set for a huge crowd at a get-out-the-vote rally in Philadelphia attended by Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama. Springsteen, who’d previously called Trump a “moron,” extolled Hillary’s vision for America while excoriating Trump’s. Playing on his acoustic guitar, Springsteen sang three songs. One number he didn’t play, though, was “My Hometown,” and it is a line from that anthem that has haunted Rust Belt working-class voters for more than a generation: “They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks,” Bruce sings, “the foreman says these jobs are going boys, and they ain’t coming back.” Except that Trump promised to bring them back, and that’s a siren song of another kind altogether.
28. Kellyanne Conway. Trump’s campaign initially had no professional fundraising outfit, didn’t know enough to launch absentee-ballot campaigns, scoffed at get-out-the-vote efforts, and for much of the year had a single press aide, 27-year-old Hope Hicks. It was an infrastructure that couldn’t have handled the duties of a mayoral campaign. A third staff shakeup brought in Conway, a veteran GOP pollster, as campaign manager, and Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon as the overall head. Trump started heeding the advice of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who had dispatched RNC communications specialist Sean Spicer to New York to babysit the candidate. The pros helped. The Donald remained very much a “citizen politician,” but in the stretch run of the campaign he mostly stayed on message.
29. The GOP Machine. Although Trump didn’t have a get-out-the-vote effort, in some states, notably Ohio and Wisconsin, Priebus and the GOP Senate candidate had robust operations of their own. This helped Trump carry those two states as well as Florida, where Senate candidate Marco Rubio helped drag Trump across the finish line. In other words, even this personality-driven campaign wasn’t a one-man band.
30. Gary Johnson Tanked. The Libertarian Party, in its infinite wisdom, used this year – when millions of Americans were looking for an alternative – to field a candidate who struggled to name a single foreign leader he admired and who seemed like he was, well, stoned, half the time. Johnson is a nice man, but he was a poor fit in the Year of the Angry Voter. That said, he and his running mate, William Weld of Massachusetts, were both former Republican governors who figured to take more votes from Trump than they did. In the end, a critical mass of Americans didn’t want a protest vote, they wanted a protest president.
31. Lesser of Two Evils. In an exhaustive YouGov poll of some 5,000 voters, Clinton held a consistent, if narrow, lead in the national numbers. A large cohort of respondents consistently wouldn’t choose a candidate, however, saying they couldn’t abide either one. When pressed, just as many said they’d vote for Clinton as Trump, but this didn’t quite turn out to be true. A majority of those who told exit pollsters they disliked both candidates ended up picking Trump. Call it the hold-your-nose-and-vote mandate. Could 2016 have ended any other way? | positive |
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Yoko Taro On Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, His Best Of 2017, And A… Lovely Message For The Fans
By Sato . December 29, 2017 . 7:00am
Yoko Taro didn’t share any news for future work in 4Gamer’s year-end talk with the developers, but he did have some… interesting things to talk about his favorite things of 2017, and a lovely message for fans.
Of the games released in 2017, which title were you most impressed (or shocked) by?
Title: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Yoko Taro: I’ve been telling everyone, but Animal Crossing’s latest title on smartphone is amazing. It is missing various functions from the 3DS version, but to make up for it, the framework is made for a social game and I can’t get enough of the the gentle characters. As I level higher, the number of offerings the animals demand casually keeps increasing, so I think the sense of fear that comes from wondering “If these animals’ requests become extreme then what will they demand from me!?” is part of its good spice. I’m already trembling while waiting for the moment I lose myself and become impoverished in the social game world that never ends.
Of the entertainment contents that released in 2017, which left the biggest impression?
Yoko Taro: I don’t watch that many films, but I enjoyed Blade Runner 2049. It was a beautiful film.
Who caught your attention the most in 2017?
Yoko Taro: It feels like I write this every year, but it would be The Last Guardian director Fumito Ueda. I think it’ll still be a few more years until his next title releases, but I want to chafe against it already, so please announce a new title. Also, I’m waiting for a new title from Hiroshi Iuchi of M2…
Please share your ambitions for 2018 and a message for our readers
Yoko Taro: This year was a year that saw the release of many things I’ve worked on like the release of NieR: Automata, the release of SINoALICE, the book for the Kimi Shi ni Tamou Koto Nakare.
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I would love to join in but I guess I’ll see till saturday – if you see a ping back from me, it would mean that I didn’t give up trying to do this event LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 10:45 Great! No reason to give up – the entries can be pretty short, so no pressure, plus, I’m sure everybody has their favourite places they can talk about ;) LikeLiked by 1 person littlesnowflake says: February 10, 2015 at 10:48 I will surely give it my best! :D LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 10:49 Looking forward to it! :) LikeLiked by 1 person Miss Adelaide says: February 10, 2015 at 10:53 I really like the idea of your event, it’s a unique spin on something we can all relate to! https://aworldlyaddiction.wordpress.com/ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 10:59 Great! Come over on Saturday! :) LikeLiked by 1 person Rechito says: February 10, 2015 at 11:19 really is a great idea. I’ll try to make it this Saturday, if not, then the next one. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 11:20 Great! Will be waiting :) LikeLike SundaiValley says: February 10, 2015 at 13:31 Great plan. I’ve made a very similar concept with my blog too. i take an ever, image or location and rather than outline the facts i create visual interpretation for the reader. Let me know if you like it! https://sundaivalley.wordpress.com LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 13:32 Sounds interesting! Will check it out now! LikeLike tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 13:32 You can also link up to this event, if you’d like ;) LikeLike SundaiValley says: February 10, 2015 at 13:41 thanks heaps! LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 13:43 You’re welcome – just had a look at your blog, I think you’d know exactly what to do for this event ;) LikeLike SundaiValley says: February 10, 2015 at 13:49 awesome! I’m super keen to jump on board. I’m still sorta new to all this, what would be the best way to send you/post my entires for your project. other than adding the entry title and badge? LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 13:52 Place a ping back to my post, which I’ll make on saturday. This way I’ll see your post as well and will include the link on Tuesday round up :) LikeLike SundaiValley says: February 10, 2015 at 14:05 sounds good to me! LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 14:08 See you soon! :) LikeLike clara@expatpartnersurvival.com says: February 10, 2015 at 17:41 I’m in – although I may not be able to do this one as it’s pretty hard to do anything on Saturdays and it’s half term next week so again I am going to be tight for time. However, will folllow and try to join in at a later date…. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 17:54 Wonderful! No pressure – join whever you have time! LikeLiked by 1 person Maegan MacKimmie says: February 10, 2015 at 18:48 Love this idea! I will try and start participating! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 10, 2015 at 18:49 Cool! Will look forward to your entry! LikeLike Ailene Rhea says: February 11, 2015 at 00:49 What a fabulous idea! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 11, 2015 at 06:37 Come on over on Saturday ;) LikeLike #Blogging 201: The Buddy System says: February 12, 2015 at 17:40 […] #Show Your World […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 12, 2015 at 18:12 Thanks for sharing! For some reason, I cannot post a comment on your blog! Gives me error! So I’m posting here, what I tried to write there:Hi! Thank you for sharing my event :)) Of course, I can be your buddy :)) First of all, the event – Show Your World starts this Saturday and everyone’s welcome in any case! Second, I’ve got a TinyTravellers project going on (you can find it among my Wanderlust Projects on TinyExpats.com), basically, I post there posts of other bloggers on why do they think travelling with kids is beneficial for the kids and how. Maybe you want to write about that? Plus, I’m more than willing to publish anything you’d like to write on the topics of travel with kids/ expats with kids, which is one of your themes anyways :) Let me know if I can write anything for you! LikeLike mariaholm says: February 13, 2015 at 23:28 I am planning to join in this event too. Thank you for the initiative LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 13, 2015 at 23:32 Thanks a lot! See you tomorrow! LikeLike mariaholm says: February 13, 2015 at 23:30 By the way I tried to copy your fine widget on this event, but I can’t do it unfortunately LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 13, 2015 at 23:33 Hmmm.. Did you try just saving the image? I don’t think it works as a widget – still need to work it out, so it’s just an image badge. LikeLike mariaholm says: February 13, 2015 at 23:35 I will find out little by little. Or find a helper. It’s such a nice little picture for the title of your idea LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 13, 2015 at 23:36 Thank you :) I’ll actually start the series by describing this place :) LikeLike mariaholm says: February 15, 2015 at 21:37 I just want to tell you that I managed to copy your fine widget on “Show your world” for future posts on this event ! LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 15, 2015 at 21:44 Oh great :) Glad it worked! LikeLike authorsbmazing says: February 14, 2015 at 01:54 Great idea! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 14, 2015 at 08:43 Thank you! LikeLiked by 1 person My World – Show Your World Blog Event | Author S B Mazing says: February 15, 2015 at 09:14 […] In response to the Blog Event ShowYourWorld […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 15, 2015 at 09:16 So cool! Thank you for participating! :) LikeLike Show Your World – Global Village | Anniewhere she goes says: February 15, 2015 at 20:12 […] Your World is a blog event hosted by Tiny Expats. The place that I have chosen for this week is Global Village- an annual festival that takes place […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply littlesnowflake says: February 15, 2015 at 20:19 Hi! I have done my post (I really hope I am not that late! ) its here: https://distinctrhythm.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/show-your-world-global-village/ I hope the pingback i did worked :S Btw, I wanted to know, if you wont mind me not using your badge in every post? I have added it on the main “Blog Events” page I created, and I just thought I’d let you know (and Ill come to know if its ok to do that) anyways! Hope you find my post! :D LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 15, 2015 at 20:58 Thank you for participating! :) You’re not late, ping back worked and it’s fine not to use the badge in every post :) going over to check out your place! LikeLiked by 1 person littlesnowflake says: February 16, 2015 at 17:09 Yay! thank you ! :D LikeLiked by 1 person sb2711 says: February 20, 2015 at 06:32 Can it be an already published post that I have on my blog or an entirely new post? Looking forward to it :) I am from India by the way. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 20, 2015 at 07:59 Hi :) If you have a post that’s written along those guidelines, then you can link that up as well. See you on Saturday! LikeLiked by 1 person sb2711 says: February 20, 2015 at 08:03 Okies :) Cya! LikeLiked by 1 person My Part Of The World: Old Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India | Sucheta the Scribbler says: February 20, 2015 at 19:37 […] I recently went through Tinyexpat’s blog post, where she has shared a blogging event (#ShowYourWorld) that urges readers to show their part of the world. […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 20, 2015 at 19:38 Great! Thank you for participating! But this oct is already old and I collected all the links for the round up. Could you link your post to a new one, which I will post tomorrow? Then I will place you link for a new round up on Wednesday and share on my social networks as well. LikeLiked by 1 person sb2711 says: February 23, 2015 at 11:48 Hello, I will create a new one then :) No worries! I just read the comment now and hence the late reply! You can expect a pingback soon on this. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: February 23, 2015 at 12:01 Wonderful! Thank you :) LikeLiked by 1 person sb2711 says: February 23, 2015 at 12:05 :D LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 25, 2015 at 15:50 Hi! I’m collecting stories for the round up, which I’m posting tomorrow. Do you still want to participate? With the post you linked here? LikeLike sb2711 says: February 25, 2015 at 18:41 I do but I have no pictures yet…😳. I can take fresh pics over saturday only. Will post them soonafter 😊..and thanks a ton for asking. Yeayyy LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: February 25, 2015 at 19:23 No worries, just link up, when you are ready :) LikeLiked by 1 person sb2711 says: February 26, 2015 at 03:24 I sure will 😊 LikeLiked by 1 person My Part Of The World (Again): Lost Heritage | Sucheta the Scribbler says: March 4, 2015 at 06:21 […] so long ago, I went through Tinyexpat’s blog post, where she has shared a blogging event (#ShowYourWorld) that urges readers to show their part of […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply sb2711 says: March 4, 2015 at 06:22 Finally…after eons of wait… https://suchetabiswas.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/my-part-of-the-world-again-lost-heritage/ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Cherry Kristine Jennifer | Silver Lining Mama says: March 4, 2015 at 06:41 […] Expat’s Show Your World in Silver Lining Mama’s She-logy. A challenge within a […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply silverliningmama says: March 4, 2015 at 06:50 I made it! Did I? :D There’s a twist to my submission which I hope you don’t mind. :) I merged Show Your World challenge with my own blog series She-logy. And I hope there’s no required title format coz I had to stick with mine. And I exceeded the 300 words. Can’t help myself. Your blog event gave me a fun trip down memory lane. Thanks for that! http://silverliningmama.com/2015/03/03/cherry-kristine-jennifer/ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: March 4, 2015 at 06:53 Yes, absolutely! It works and I’m not too strict about the word count – you conveyed the atmosphere of the place and that’s the main idea :) LikeLiked by 1 person silverliningmama says: March 4, 2015 at 09:40 This blog event is addicting! :D LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: March 4, 2015 at 09:48 :))) happy to hear it! LikeLike Celebrating Sunshine says: March 4, 2015 at 14:54 This is such a great idea! I love it! :-) LikeLiked by 1 person Reply tinyexpats says: March 4, 2015 at 20:32 Thank you! You can always participate ;) Just link up to a new post this Saturday. LikeLiked by 1 person Celebrating Sunshine says: March 5, 2015 at 03:33 I will love to – thank you! :-) LikeLiked by 1 person tinyexpats says: March 5, 2015 at 06:41 Thank you for participating ;) LikeLiked by 1 person Rovine’s virtual neighbours | Rovine says: March 8, 2015 at 14:52 […] real Hong Kongers so the local participants are mostly expats). They also host a blogging event to show your side of the world for the internet to […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Singapore’s Gardens By The Bay {Show Your World} | Oh My Glai! says: March 14, 2015 at 18:27 […] This post is in response to TinyExpats’ weekly blog event: Show Your World […] LikeLike Reply Riga’s Central Market | Hey Helsinki says: April 12, 2015 at 14:14 […] This post has been shared as part of the Show Your World feature on the Tiny Expats blog – you can find out more here. […] LikeLike Reply Singapore Botanic Gardens: A Breath of Fresh Air in the Middle of the City | Oh My Glai! says: September 20, 2015 at 10:17 […] to describe this garden aside from it actually felt like we’re not in the city. I will let the photos tell you the storym/2015/08/05/announcing-a-new-event-showyourworld/”>the photos tell you the […] LikeLiked by 1 person Reply A Museum of Modern Art in my Home Town | Maria Holm says: October 12, 2015 at 19:20 […] think this post could link to Tiny Expats blogging event called Show your World. One of the most famous artists working there was the Italian Manzoni. Some of his works are […] LikeLike 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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FRIGHT NIGHT directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Marti Noxon based on the screenplay by Tom Holland, with Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette and David Tennant. A DreamWorks release. 106 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19). See listing
David Tennant is not the star of Fright Night. He's not on the poster, and he appears in exactly one shot in the theatrical trailer. Colin Farrell gets all the attention as the movie's menace, a suave suburban vampire named Jerry, and Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse score a lot of screen time as the teenagers who try to end his reign of terror.
But have no illusions: Tennant is the reason a large percentage of the movie's audience will be catching Fright Night this weekend. It's Tennant's first genre role since he left the hit British sci-fi series Doctor Who after playing the beloved time-travelling hero for four years. And to put it simply, as Fright Night's swaggering Vegas stage magician, Peter Vincent, Tennant owns the film, goosing the proceedings with the mercurial energy and over-the-top bravado of The Doctor, and then pulling back to reveal a very human hero underneath.
"It's a delicious character to be handed," the actor says from his dressing room in Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End, where he's starring in a production of Much Ado About Nothing opposite his former Who sidekick, Catherine Tate. "[It's great to] come in in the second act, as the Hollywood people like to describe such things - to be allowed to freewheel with that a bit, which was very much encouraged."
He's offering a radically different take on the Peter Vincent of Tom Holland's original 1985 Fright Night, a has-been horror star turned local TV host played by Roddy McDowall. Horror hosts having gone the way of UHF stations, Tennant's version of Vincent is a louche, leather-and-eyeliner-sporting rocker - The Doctor after a regeneration into Russell Brand.
"You have this illusionist in every sense of the word," Tennant explains. "He's clearly very successful on his own terms, but his personal life is a disaster area. He's a drunk, he's miserable, he's self-hating. At first he just seems like an irascible drunk, but we find out [that's] perhaps more deeply rooted than it might first appear."
The actor says he was very happy with the experience of his first Hollywood picture, praising director Craig Gillespie (Lars And The Real Girl) for encouraging the cast to contribute ideas and improvise during the shoot.
"I mean, it wasn't improvisation like Mike Leigh would have it, but [Craig] would certainly be interested in sort of loosening it up a bit, seeing where it would go," he says, "to the point that it went to some quite dark or lurid places - some of which ended up in the final film, which I'm very pleased to see. You're on set at 3 in the morning, thinking, ‘Oh, you're never gonna use that joke about me shagging the showgirl,' and then you see the final film and it's in! That's quite pleasing."
Tennant hadn't seen the original Fright Night when he was offered the role.
"I was a kid when it first came out, and I remember it being there, but I didn't see it then," he says. "It was only after I was on board for this one that I checked out the original. It was a very small-scale, slightly tatty B movie that became a sensation. You look at it and you can't figure out why that should be, other than it's got a certain charm to it. And of course that's quite a hard thing to re-create with a remake, because you're chasing something that is by definition elusive."
Not that he would have turned from the challenge.
"It was a very juicy opportunity to be handed, and kind of out of the blue," he says. "I just got a phone call. DreamWorks wanted me to go over and meet some people, which is the sort of phone call that your drama-school self dreams about."
Despite having spent years seeing his face plastered all over the United Kingdom as part of Doctor Who's marketing - and having turned up as a baddie in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - Tennant is still dazzled by the idea that he's become a star.
"It's just remarkable that anybody knows who you are," he says. "You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there's any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me."
It seems bizarre to me, in the Comic-Con age when blockbuster movies target geeks and nerds directly, that Tennant wouldn't be a major star. His charismatic run on Doctor Who for then-showrunner Russell T. Davies brought millions of new fans to the revived series. In October, BBC Video will release a 26-DVD gift set collecting all of his episodes and specials, The Complete David Tennant Years.
There was a time, not too long ago, when doing a science-fiction series meant the end of an actor's serious career. You took a role on a show with Star Trek in the title and you spent the rest of your days turning up on shows like Eureka and Warehouse 13.
It's not the same now, as Tennant has discovered. His run on Doctor Who turned out to be the gateway to doing virtually anything else he wanted to do, including playing Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company - opposite Patrick Stewart, who similarly reinvented himself after more than a decade in the Star Trek franchise.
"Actors move from TV to film now in a way they never used to," Tennant says, "and things that might be called ‘genre' television I don't think are seen as the lesser art form they were once regarded as, [especially] when they're being done by people like Russell T. Davies. You know, he's the greatest writer television has."
It certainly doesn't hurt that genre television has grown up in the last decade. Shows like Doctor Who and the U.S. remake of Battlestar Galactica appeal to adult viewers who fondly remember the old versions but appreciate the maturity and gravity of the new productions.
When I ask whether he'll be part of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary celebration next year, Tennant is judicious: "I'm sure something will be celebrated, but I haven't had any phone calls yet."
He shouldn't have to wait much longer. Doctor Who is intensely beloved in England and elsewhere, and Tennant rates a big chunk of that love - and will likely be feeling it for a very long time.
"I think there's a generation now who don't see [Doctor Who] as something lesser," Tennant says. "They see it as something to be absolutely celebrated and put front and centre. Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor in the 70s, talks now about how he's employed solely by people who grew up loving him.
"I pray to god I'll be enjoying the same thing in about 20 years' time. That's fine by me."
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— Virginia Republicans immediately asserted their new power Wednesday, dismissing talk of sharing authority with Democrats in the state Senate, even though the two parties are likely to have equal numbers of members.
“Make no mistake about it — there is a Republican majority in the state Senate,” Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) said at an afternoon news conference.
Bolling would cast the deciding vote in any tie, giving his party the authority to control the chamber and run its committees. The last time both parties each had 20 members, Democrats and the GOP shared power and committee chairmanships.
If Tuesday’s tenuous election results hold, the GOP will be in control of the executive branch and both houses of the General Assembly, and the tenor of Richmond could turn decidedly to the right.
On the campaign trail, Republicans generally focused their pitches on boosting jobs, curbing spending and streamlining government. In many parts of the state, GOP candidates encountered token opposition, or none, from Democrats.
But many of those elected are social conservatives eager to revive legislation — to further regulate abortion and eliminate environmental rules, for example — that stalled or died in a Democratic-controlled Senate.
Even before the election, social conservatives were preparing to reintroduce hundreds of bills that had gone nowhere over the past two years, including measures that would require doctors to offer anesthesia for a fetus before an abortion; permit guns in parks, colleges and libraries; mandate drug screening for welfare recipients; and allow employers to fire workers for not speaking English.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) said that a Republican-controlled General Assembly will be more likely to push socially conservative issues — something he said he will not shy away from.
“I’m going to be strongly pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage,” McDonnell said.
The Senate’s top Democrat, Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, warned Republicans against trying to push a conservative agenda.
“You do these things, but you may wind up doing them at your own risk,” said Saslaw (Fairfax). “I would just caution them on trying to go crazy with some far-right agenda on a lot of this stuff.”
The new Republican caucus includes longtime antiabortion activist Dick Black, who served in the state House for eight years and on Tuesday won a Senate seat representing Loudoun and Prince William counties. Black’s confrontational tactics — he once sent pink plastic models of fetuses to fellow lawmakers as they prepared to vote on an abortion bill — sometimes drew ire from his party. But some Republicans say that Virginians have now made clear that they support a more conservative government.
Tom Garrett, the Louisa County commonwealth’s attorney, who won a Senate seat from an area northwest of Richmond, has proposed mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients and has advocated abolishing Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality, which is charged with keeping air and water clean.
As a delegate, Charles W. Carrico Sr. of Grayson, who won election to the Senate from southwest Virginia, sponsored a measure that would allow the manufacture of firearms not regulated by federal law if they are constructed in Virginia and are never sold or moved outside the state.
Weeks before Election Day, Senate Republicans were already debating whether to replace their moderate leader, Thomas K. Norment Jr. (James City), with a more conservative senator who would better reflect a new caucus that is keen to push forward on initiatives that got nowhere under a divided government.
Counting on the governor
Conservatives say they are counting on McDonnell, who has devoted himself to a moderate agenda in his first two years in office, to back more sharply conservative proposals that have been pressed by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R), a tea party favorite, but that have usually been derailed by Senate Democrats.
House Majority Leader M. Kirkland Cox said Republicans in that chamber are eager to work with a united legislature and a governor who will help reduce the size of government to core functions.
“I don’t think the governor is going to have to change,” said Cox (Colonial Heights). “You don’t change your values.”
Carrico, who will move to the Senate after a decade in the House, said he plans to reintroduce a proposal to amend the state Constitution to protect prayer in public places, including schools.
“I worked with [McDonnell] in the House,” Carrico said. “I know him and his beliefs. I think he would support these efforts. I think he would understand these problems.”
McDonnell, once considered too conservative to be elected governor, has largely avoided hot-button subjects in his first two years in office. Instead, he has championed less controversial kitchen-table issues — jobs, traffic congestion and education.
The governor, who has built a national profile as the leader of the Republican Governors Association, will have to decide whether the image he wants to project in the final two years of his term will be that of a centrist or of a more aggressive politician with what Democrats deride as a “God, guns and gays” agenda.
“All those bills would be on the governor’s desk in five weeks,” Saslaw said. “And they would be signed.”
After angering some conservatives in his first 21 months in office, McDonnell might benefit politically from supporting tougher policies, strengthening his position in time for the GOP vice-presidential selection process. If the ticket is topped by Mitt Romney, a former governor from Massachusetts whose moderate positions make him suspect in the eyes of some conservatives, the party might be looking for a Southern Republican with strong conservative credentials.
Budget priorities
McDonnell’s first priority now will be the two-year budget, which he will introduce next month. He said he is looking to cut spending in areas in which he thinks government should not be involved, such as public broadcasting, and to add money to priorities such as economic development. He also hopes to drill for oil off Virginia’s coast and reform public elementary, middle and high schools.
“Republicans have just shown more of a willingness to cut spending, make the hard decisions to restore fiscal responsibility without raising taxes,” McDonnell said. “The Democrats have been much more willing to say the solutions to most of their problems are raising taxes.”
He said he knows that governing with one party may be just as difficult as with two. Some of his proposals, including privatizing state-owned liquor stores, have not won Republican or Democratic support.
Bolling, who ran with McDonnell in 2009 and is vying to succeed him in 2014, acknowledged differences within his party but played down potential problems.
“The Republican Party is not monolithic,” Bolling said. “Having a majority will make it easier to get our agenda through the next two years. By all means, it is not a guarantee we get everything we want.”
The governor and other Republicans say their wins on Tuesday mean that Virginians approve of the direction of the state under McDonnell — a marked contrast with how they feel about the nation’s direction under President Obama. Democrats, sensing a defeat, began minimizing the meaning of a GOP victory in the weeks before the election.
“I don’t think we can read anything into one election,” said U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, a Democratic former governor who worked for months to keep the state Senate in his party’s hands. “As we’ve seen in Virginia, as we’ve seen in the nation, if the pendulum goes one direction, it’s much quicker than ever to swing back.” | positive |
THE LATEST FIGURES on motor insurance show premiums have risen by almost 40% in the last year.
According to the Central Statistics Office, the country has experienced a rate of inflation of half a percent in the last 12 months – the highest rate of inflation experienced in the last three years.
It attributed the change, in part, to higher motor, health and house insurance premiums. In the last 12 months, motor insurance costs have risen 38.3%, home insurance is up 11.2% and health insurance premiums increased by 7.6%.
One third of Irish drivers have seen their insurance rise by up to 50% in the last year and it is particularly impacting on younger drivers. Young men in their early 20s are being asked to pay anything between €6,000 and €14,000 a year.
In its defence, the industry has said higher claim payouts necessitated premium hikes, but figures recently released to Fianna Fáil TD Michael McGrath revealed this did not quite add up.
Claims have, in fact, been decreasing across Ireland since 2011. Insurance companies paid out €1.01 billion in 2014. This is less than the €1.5 billion paid out in 2011 and €1.06 billion paid in 2012.
‘An unsustainable model’
Last month Michael Horan of Insurance Ireland told TheJournal.ie that while overall claims costs have been dropping, the premium incomes of companies have also been in decline.
In 2011 we had higher claims it’s true, but we also had higher premium income because there were more cars on the road. The average cost per claim actually saw an increase between 2012 and 2014 and that’s borne out by the figures.
Commenting on what he described as “shocking figures”, Sinn Féin TD Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire said the issue has “far reaching consequences for motorist, workers, businesses and rural Ireland in particular”.
“I am deeply concerned at the move by some insurers to simply no longer quote drivers at first and then after an appeal to quote outrageous figures for simple renewals,” he said.
The root cause of this increase is an industry which until now has survived on an unsustainable model of relying on investments to cover other losses.
“In an age of zero rate returns this model is failing. With interest rates so low across Europe insurance companies are instead penalising drivers, whose record has not changed, with massive unjustifiable increases.”
- With reporting by Cianan Brennan. | positive |
Last week, the Conservative party posted an image and excerpt from Al-Shabaab’s threat against West Edmonton Mall, the party apparently hoping to solicit support for C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act. Press Progress, the media wing of the Broadbent Institute, subsequently wondered if this would have amounted to a transgression against C-51.
The answer to that question is . . . debatable. And that ambiguity might be the problem.
There is a separate conversation to be had about the wisdom, tastefulness and appropriateness of the party’s post. Setting that aside for the moment, the hypothetical legality of the post depends on a reading of a new offence that would be established by C-51. Here is the relevant clause from part 3 of the bill:
16. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 83.22: 83.221 (1) Every person who, by communicating statements, knowingly advocates or promotes the commission of terrorism offences in general—other than an offence under this section—while knowing that any of those offences will be committed or being reckless as to whether any of those offences may be committed, as a result of such communication, is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.
So would the act of relaying the text of a threat qualify as an offence by the letter of this law?
I asked law professors Craig Forcese and Kent Roach, who have written extensively about C-51, for their analysis of this particular point.
Here is Forcese:
Well, the offence requires intent to promote and advocate the commission of the offence, so I would doubt it reaches simple distribution of images, with accompanying commentary condemning the images. (Although I would think the images/videos themselves could be terrorist propaganda and so subject to deletion orders, and seizure by CBSA, whether embedded in someone else’s fundraising letter or not). But the overarching point is this: The offence is so unartfully ambigious . . . it invites slippery slopes. And that is precisely how it contributes to speech chill. In the final analysis, a court confronted with the sort of slippery-slope scenario this kind of example paints would likely construe the offence more narrowly than its possible outer reach. But of course, someone would need to be dragged into court on charges before that happened. It is for that very reason, in our proposed amendments, posted yesterday, we call the offence overbroad and unnecessary in relation to actual real or threatened terrorist violence. We see no reason for the offence, given that terrorist speech tied to violence is already prohibited. And at any rate, the absence of “purpose” language (tying the culpable speech to an actual terrorist purpose) and the absence of any of the public interest defences that exist, e.g., for hate crimes, makes the new crime an absolutely blunt and invasive instrument. Do I think the Tories will be prosecuted for their fundraising letter? No. Do I think their law will be counterproductive, measured on both a security and liberties basis? Yes.
On the other hand, here is Roach:
I would only add that all that is required is knowing (not wilful or intentional) promotion or advocacy. This is actually a significant difference in criminal law, and does open the door to possible prosecutions of those who knowingly distribute terrorist propaganda while aware of a risk that someone (even if predisposed and/or mentally ill) will commit an offence as a result of the communication. I agree with Craig that we are not likely to see such prosecutions, and courts would read down the offence, but the speech chill would still be there.
So while a conviction might not be likely, it might be possible to read the law as covering this sort of post. Interestingly, Forcese also suggests the post could qualify as propaganda. And regardless of the prospects of charges or a successful prosecution, the mere fact that the question can be asked could be enough to chill free speech.
For its part, a spokesman for the Conservative party says this of the party’s post:
It condemns terrorism, it does not promote it. The post supports the government’s strong response to combating terrorism.
When I, Craig Forcese and former CSIS official Ray Boisvert discussed C-51 last week, Forcese suggested a different example to explain how the prohibition against advocating or promoting terrorism could come into play:
I keep using this example involving a hypothetical Ukrainian resistance movement. An academic goes to a conference, which is attended by, among others, Ukrainian support groups, and that person says, “We should be supporting Ukrainian insurgency movements who are resisting the Russian occupation in Ukraine by targeting Russian oil infrastructure through means that involve the use of violence.” If that person says that, knowing someone in that room might then give money to that insurgency, that is almost certainly an offence, because those insurgencies would likely fall within the scope of the definition of terrorist group in the Criminal Code.
As Forcese mentions in his comments about the Conservative post, he and Roach have drafted a series of potential amendments to C-51. On this particular point, they would replace the existing clause with a more specific offence:
(1) Every person who, by communicating statements, willfully advocates or promotes the commission of a terrorist activity for the purpose of inciting an act or omission that would be a terrorism offence—other than an offence under this section—is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.
There are a few changes there: “knowingly” becomes “willfully”; “terrorism offences in general” becomes “terrorist activity”; and “being reckless” becomes “inciting.”
The public safety committee’s study of C-51 continues tomorrow morning with testimony from Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney and Justice Minister Peter MacKay. | positive |
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The Poor Have No Chance of Joining the Rich, the Game is Rigged
THE AGE OF MAMMON
"Financiers - like bank robbers - do not create wealth. They merely distribute it. While the mob may idolize holdup men in good times, in the bad times it lynches them. What they will do to the new money men when their blood is up, we wait eagerly to find out." - Mobs, Messiahs and Markets
As our economy hurtles towards its meeting with destiny, the political class seeks to assign blame on their enemies for this Greater Depression. The Republicans would like you to believe that Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank and their Community Reinvest Act caused the collapse of our financial system. Democrats want you to believe that George Bush and his band of unregulated free market capitalists created a financial disaster of epic proportions. The truth is that America has been captured by a financial class that makes no distinction between parties. These barbarians have sucked the life out of a once productive nation by raping and pillaging with impunity while enriching only them. They live in 20,000 square foot $10 million mansions in Greenwich, CT and in $3 million dollar penthouses on Central Park West.
These are the robber barons that represent the Age of Mammon. The greed, avarice, gluttony and acute materialism of these American traitors has not been seen in this country since the 1920's. The hedge fund managers and Wall Street bank executives that occupy the mansions and penthouses evidently don't find much time to read the bible in their downtime from raping and pillaging the wealth of the middle class. There are cocktail parties and $5,000 a plate political "fundraisers" to attend. You can't be cheap when buying off your protection in Washington DC.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon. - Matthew 6:19-21, 24
It seems that Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, may have been overstating the case in saying his firm doing God's work. With his $67.9 million compensation in 2007 and payment of $20.2 billion to his co-conspirators, Blankfein appears to be a proverbial camel trying to pass through the eye of a needle. This compensation was paid in the year before the financial collapse brought on by the criminal actions of Lloyd and his fellow henchmen. After having his firm bailed out by the American middle class taxpayer at the behest of his fellow Goldman alumni Hank Paulson, Lloyd practiced his version of austerity by cutting compensation for his flock to only $16.2 billion ($500,000 per employee) in 2009. I'm all for people making as much money as they can for doing a good job. But, I ask you - What benefits have Goldman Sachs, the other Wall Street banks, and hedge funds provided for America?
Never have so few, done so little, and made so much, while screwing so many.
In 2005, the top 25 hedge fund managers "earned" $9 billion, or an average of $360 million. One year after a financial collapse caused by the financial innovations peddled by Wall Street, the top 25 hedge fund managers paid themselves $25 billion, or an average of $1 billion a piece. For some perspective, there were 7 million unemployed Americans in 2006. Today there are 14.6 million unemployed Americans. While the country plunges deeper into Depression, the barbarians pick up the pace of their plundering and looting of the remaining wealth of the nation. Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva pointed out a basic truth in 2007, before the financial collapse.
"On the Forbes list of rich people, you will find hedge fund managers in droves, but no one who made his money as a hedge fund client." - Mobs, Messiahs and Markets
Ask the clients of Bernie Madoff how they are doing.
1920's Redux
The parallels between the period leading up to the Great Depression and our current situation leading to a Greater Depression are revealing. When you examine the facts without looking through the prism of party politics it becomes clear that when the wealth and power of the country are overly concentrated in the clutches of the top 1% wealthiest Americans, financial collapse and depression follow. This concentration of income and wealth did not cause the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the financial system implosion in 2008, but they were a symptom of a sick system of warped incentives. The top 1% of income earners were raking in 24% of all the income in America in 1928. After World War II until 1980, the top 1% of income earners consistently took home between 9% and 11% of all income in the country. During the 1950's and 1960's when Americans made tremendous strides in their standard of living, the top 1% were earning 10% of all income. A hard working high school graduate could rise into the middle class, owning a home and a car.
From 1980 onward, the top 1% wealthiest Americans have progressively taken home a greater and greater percentage of all income. It peaked at 22% in 1999 at the height of the internet scam. Wall Street peddled IPOs of worthless companies to delusional investors and siphoned off billions in fees and profits. The rich cut back on their embezzling of our national wealth for a year and then resumed despoiling our economic system by taking advantage of the Federal Reserve created housing boom. By 2007, the top 1% again was taking home 24% of the national income, just as they did in 1928. When the wealth of the country is captured by a small group of ruling elite through fraudulent means, collapse and crisis becomes imminent. We have experienced the collapse, while the crisis deepens.
Figure 4: Share of wealth held by the Bottom 99% and Top 1% in the United States, 1922-2007.
It's Good To Be the King
The Wall Street oligarchs were able to accumulate an ever increasing portion of corporate profits by inventing securitization, interest-rate swaps, and credit-default swaps which swelled the volume of transactions that bankers could make money on. These products were originally introduced as a means for corporations to hedge their risks. Wall Street shysters chose to use their "creative" financial products to build the biggest gambling casino in the history of the world. They functioned as the house, siphoning off billions in profits, but then got caught up in the hysteria and placed billions of bets themselves. This resulted in the financial industry generating 41% of all business profits in 2007. From World War II through 1980, financial industry profits ranged between 10% and 15%. Simon Johnson explains the despicable hijacking that has taken place since then.
From 1973 to 1985, the financial sector never earned more than 16 percent of domestic corporate profits. In 1986, that figure reached 19 percent. In the 1990s, it oscillated between 21 percent and 30 percent, higher than it had ever been in the postwar period. This decade, it reached 41 percent. Pay rose just as dramatically. From 1948 to 1982, average compensation in the financial sector ranged between 99 percent and 108 percent of the average for all domestic private industries. From 1983, it shot upward, reaching 181 percent in 2007.
The original robber barons amassed huge personal fortunes, typically through the use of anti-competitive business practices. These well known titans of industry included Henry Ford, Andrew Carnage, John D. Rockefeller, and JP Morgan. They may have practiced questionable business ethics, but they did create wealth while benefitting the country as a whole. They introduced the automobile, provided the nation with steel, produced the oil that powered our economy, and brought order to industrial chaos of the day. It seems their fortunes were built by creating rather than destroying.
The disgustingly rich Wall Street wheeler dealers who live in Greenwich CT and NYC and summer in the Hamptons have created nothing. Their immense wealth has been created through draining the economic system of its lifeblood. Their financial innovations have created no lasting benefit for our society. Wall Street knowingly created no documentation (liar loans) mortgage loans, Option ARM loans, and subprime loans. You do not create products that beg for fraud unless you want fraud. The packaging of these fraudulent mortgages into CDOs and CDSs by Wall Street's crime machine benefitted Wall Street only. Those who got the loans defaulted, lost the homes, and had their credit ruined. Wall Street financiers have lured the American public into debt with easy credit and a marketing machine geared to convince the average Joe that he could live just like the rich. Simon Johnson explained the phenomena in a recent article.
"Excessive consumer debt is an outcome of prolonged inequality – in trying to remain middle class, too many people borrowed too much, while unscrupulous lenders were only too willing to take advantage of such people."
You Call This Capitalism?
Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are not made by the government; Profit is distributed to owners who invest in businesses, and wages are paid to workers employed by businesses. The American economy is in no way a free market capitalistic system. It has become a oligarchic consumer capitalist society that is manipulated, in a deliberate and coordinated way, on a very large scale, through mass-marketing techniques, to the advantage of Wall Street and mega-corporations.
When you hear the Wall Street class on CNBC argue against tax increases for the rich, they hark to the fact that small businesses would be hurt most by the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. There are 6 million small businesses in the US, with 90% of them employing less than 20 employees. These are not the rich. The vast majority of these businesses earn less than $1 million per year. There are only about 134,000 people in America who make on average $2.5 million per year. There are another 600,000 people who make on average $760,000 per year. Out of a workforce of 150 million, less than 1 million rake in over $750,000 per year. These are not small businesses. They are the Wall Street elite, corporate CEOs and the privileged classes that control the power in NYC and Washington DC.
The following charts clearly show that perverse incentives in the US financial system have allowed corporate executives to reap ungodly pay packages, while the middle class workers who do the day after day heavy lifting in corporations have been treated like dogs. Considering the S&P 500, which measures the stock returns of the 500 largest companies in the U.S., has returned 0% for the last 12 years, the CEOs of these companies would slightly embarrassed paying themselves 400 times as much as their average workers. Not in the age of mammon. Big time CEOs are rock stars. Outrageous pay packages are a medal of honor in a world where humility and honor don't exist.
Figure 6: CEOs' pay as a multiple of the average worker's pay, 1960-2007
Source: Executive Excess 2008, the 15th Annual CEO Compensation Survey from the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
Figure 7: CEOs' average pay, production workers' average pay, the S&P 500 Index, corporate profits, and the federal minimum wage, 1990-2005 (all figures adjusted for inflation)
Source: Executive Excess 2006, the 13th Annual CEO Compensation Survey from the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
The Depression that currently is engulfing the nation was 30 years in the making. The criminal Wall Street financiers are the modern day John Dilingers. They have mastered the art of stealing from the masses while convincing these same people that they should admire them because they are rich. This is the oddity about Americans as pointed out by Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva.
"The poor genuinely believe the rich are better than they are. They are smarter and better educated. The poor even support low tax rates for the rich, as long as they have a lurking chance of joining them." - Mobs, Messiahs and Markets
The truth is that the poor have no chance of joining the the rich. The game is rigged. The poor have admired the rich for decades. But, hard times have arrived. And they are about to get harder. The rich have armed guards to keep the poor at bay. They will need an army of guards before this crisis subsides.
Leonard Cohen sums it up perfectly in his song Everybody Knows:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Join me at www.TheBurningPlatform.com to discuss truth and the future of our country.
By James Quinn
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Insidious debuts on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 12th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Patrick Wilson (Lakeview Terrace, The A Team, Little Children), Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, upcoming: X-Men: First Class) and Barbara Hershey (Black Swan) star in the frightening story of a family looking to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a mysterious realm called “The Further.†Bonus materials include three behind-the-scenes featurettes: “Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar,†“On Set with Insidious,†and “Insidious Entities.†Insidious will be available on Blu-ray for $35.99 SRP and on DVD for $30.99 SRP.
SYNOPSIS: From the makers of Paranormal Activity and Director James Wan and Writer Leigh Whannell, Insidious is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to realize that it was not their house that was haunted.
Directed by James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence), Insidious was written by Leigh Whannell. Jason Blum, Steven Schneider and Oren Peli produced, with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones acting as executive producer.
DVD and Blu-ray Bonus Features Include:
“Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar†Featurette
“On Set With Insidious†Featurette
“Insidious Entities†Featurette
Insidious has a runtime of approximately 102 minutes and is rated PG 13 for thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language. | positive |
On December 7, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a white paper on the “Matter of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration Initiated by the Republic of the Philippines.” It is an articulation of China’s legal and political position regarding the issues surrounding its maritime disputes. The paper argues that the questions of territorial sovereignty and maritime delimitation are central to the case and that the arbitral tribunal has no jurisdiction over such issues. Moreover it alleges that the Philippines is abusing the compulsory dispute settlement procedures and that it has violated agreements with China to settle their disputes through direct negotiations.
Whether or not the paper satisfies China’s legal and political critics, it is a significant document that implicitly recognizes existing international law and addresses some of the concerns and criticisms of its neighbors. As such it confounds its more severe critics and moves the argument into the arena of international law – where the issues can be debated ad infinitum. In doing so it enhances China’s political standing in the region.
China has been taking a bashing by many analysts for its policies and actions in the maritime sphere. Indeed some Asian governments and their nationalistic analysts and media seem to be on a “blame and shame” campaign that demonizes China as an arrogant and dangerous bully. But like many countries, China’s maritime policies and behavior have been a mix of good and bad.
Unlike the United States, the home of some of the China-bashing, China has joined the 164 countries in ratifying the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). China has not abided by all its provisions but neither have many other states. UNCLOS is young, having come into force only in 1994, and adherence to it, its interpretation, and state practice are still evolving. Some key terms like “freedom of navigation,” “peaceful purposes,” “abuse of rights,” “due regard,” and “marine scientific research” are ambiguous and undefined in the Convention and thus have been interpreted differently by different countries. China has also begun to fulfill its duties under the Convention by promulgating and enforcing – the latter so far mostly in its near-shore waters – pollution, environmental protection and fisheries laws and regulations.
China has also joined the anti-piracy effort off Somalia. Despite allegations by the U.S. and others, China has not interfered with freedom of commercial navigation – and in fact has publicly endorsed the concept. How it is defined and whether it includes intrusive, provocative intelligence gathering or maritime interdiction are subsidiary issues to be negotiated.
China has reached a creative boundary agreement with Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin that includes a joint fisheries zone and with Japan in the East China Sea on sharing of fisheries, prior notification of marine scientific research in disputed waters and, at least in principle, joint development of parts of the contested area. It has reached a similar agreement with North Korea although the details are unknown. Moreover China has agreed to an ASEAN Declaration on Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) and is discussing with ASEAN a more formal Code of Conduct for activities there. And when China feels it needs to enforce its jurisdiction and regulations it uses mostly civilian vessels.
These “good” policies and actions have been tarnished by alleged “bad” policies and behavior that have been trumpeted by some media. Some of this criticism may be deserved but much is exaggerated or heavily biased. For example, China has taken actions that appear to be contrary to UNCLOS and to the DOC. So have many other states involved in the South China and East China Sea imbroglios and this article could well have been written about any one or more of them. But some government supported analysts and media have by and large chosen to ignore others’ negative policies and behavior such as unilateral activities in disputed areas. China, as an emerging great power, generates great expectations – and great fears. This accounts for much of the seemingly biased treatment.
China’s most problematic behavior for other countries and for regional peace and stability is its refusal to clarify its claims in the South China Sea in a manner all can understand. Its ambiguous claim there is perceived by some to be reminiscent of China’s imperial rule over much of the region. It also blocks any possibility of negotiating boundaries. China’s declaring and publishing closing lines around the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and the Senkaku/Daioyu Islands in the East China Sea violates UNCLOS. And its claim to the Macclesfield Bank as an island borders on the ridiculous. The submerged bank at its shallowest is covered by some 30 feet of water. Of course China may claim it as part of its extended continental shelf but it has not yet done so.
China’s actions have at times been “ugly.” First and foremost, what is perceived as its unreasonable and even intimidating public relations tone and tenor on these issues has created frightened neighbors rather than friends. This white paper should be seen as an effort to replace implied and direct warnings and threats with an emphasis on reasonable arguments. There are many that China could make and it has been a puzzle that it has not done so. The paper may mark a transition from policy and actions seemingly reflecting an imperial attitude to those based on current international law, including UNCLOS. It specifies, clarifies and rationally defends its interpretations of various UNCLOS terms and provisions. Again, whether they hold up or not in the court of international opinion is another matter. Moreover it points out other claimants’ transgressions by emphasizing its positive policies and actions and contrasting them with the “bad” behavior of others.
China’s military exercises and expeditions in the South China Sea have not sent a politically positive message, Ditto its harassment and intimidation of other states’ vessels and aircraft with both civilian and military vessels and aircraft, including its skirmishes with Japan’s coast guard vessels and surveillance aircraft in Japan’s claimed territorial sea. Yes, China is only responding to what it sees as aggressive actions by Japan but these confrontations are dangerous and have alarmed all countries concerned – not just Japan. Finally China’s blatant violations of the DOC’s call for “self restraint” and “no inhabitation of uninhabited features,” with military exercises, unilateral activities in disputed areas and reclamation on disputed features are in your face and diplomatically ugly. Yes, other claimants have taken similar actions – but China should seize and hold the diplomatic high ground. This latest white paper is a step in that direction.
Unfortunately for China, some governments, analysts and media have chosen to ignore its good, emphasize its bad, and sensationalize its ugly. This is driven by a fundamental fear that China may be challenging the international system. Again, the white paper is a step towards alleviating that notion.
In short, China needs a charm offensive in the China seas, and this is a good beginning. This doesn’t mean that giving up its national territory, rights and claims, but Beijing does need to tone down of its rhetoric and actions. If it fails to do that, it risks playing right into regional – if not global – anti-China public policy strategies. That is in turn likely to fan nationalistic sentiments in China and produce negative reactions in other countries. A dynamic of reactive nationalism will enhance the possibility of hostilities, hot or cold.
In that context, let’s hope this white paper signals the beginning of a more positive Chinese foreign policy towards the region.
Mark J. Valencia is Adjunct Senior Scholar at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies in Hainan, China. | positive |
A 25-year-old carpenter from the Central Coast will make his AFL debut at Spotless Stadium on Saturday when the GIANTS take on Collingwood.
Daniel Lloyd was told on Wednesday that he’d play his long-awaited first game, following more than a season on the club’s rookie list.
“It was a special moment,” he told GIANTS TV.
“I had no idea when Leon announced it in the meeting that I was debuting so it was a special moment.
“t’s a good occasion for me and my family, it’s an exciting time and I just can’t wait to be out on the field on Saturday.”
When he was just 15, Lloyd - from Killarney Vale on NSW’s Central Coast - signed with the Western Bulldogs on a NSW Scholarship after being spotted at a local carnival.
He spent four years training in Melbourne with the club during the school holidays, but it didn’t work out and he returned home and took up a carpentry apprenticeship following school.
More than five years after that disappointment, he was shocked when GIANTS Assistant Coach Mark McVeigh approached him after a game in the Black Diamond League and asked him to come to Sydney and try out.
“Our relationship started when I was about 20, 21,” Lloyd said.
“He used to just pop his head into the club every now and then, he never really said much to me but he just had his eye there for a number of years.
“He just approached me one afternoon after a game and said there was an opportunity here.
“We have a great relationship, he’s a great mentor, he’s taught me a lot and it’s thanks to him I’m in this position because he gave me a chance. I’m forever grateful for that.”
Lloyd got time off work, began pre-season with the GIANTS and when the Rookie Draft came around, he was selected by the club with pick 26.
“It’s been a great journey, it’s a different pathway than a lot of AFL footballers take. I was rapt last year that I got the opportunity last year to be on the rookie list and I think I’ve just taken it week by week and worked hard.
“The club’s been great, they’ve helped me grow and develop in all aspects of the game and life so I think it’s just been a great journey from there until now and now my AFL journey is just beginning.”
While it was the opportunity of a lifetime and one many dream of, there were still other considerations for Lloyd.
He was 23 at the time, with a two-year-old son and a daughter just 10 weeks old. But with now-wife Crystal’s support, they made the move to Sydney permanently and
“It was a exciting opportunity that I was presented with and I had no hesitation in taking it,” he said.
“The toughest thing was taking my family away from home but we settled into Sydney well, the club’s been great and looking back I wouldn’t change any decisions to date.
“Crystal’s been on this journey with me, and my two kids. It’s just as much of an achievement for her as it it for me. She gets a lot of pride and joy out of this as well, she’s been a great support.”
Crystal works at the club part-time and GIANTS TV were there as her husband told her their dream had come true.
“She never once second-guessed the decision to come here. It was a great moment telling her, she got a bit emotional but we’re just excited and ready for this Saturday and what’s to come.”
WATCH: INSIDE THE GIANTS - Daniel Lloyd to Debut
Killarney Vale Bombers’ 2015 Best and Fairest will have plenty of support in the crowd when he runs out on to Spotless Stadium on Saturday, with plenty of Lloyd’s former teammates set to make the trip down the highway to cheer on the the guy who once kicked nine goals in a semi-final for them.
“They are definitely a rowdy bunch and I think there’ll be a busload coming on Saturday so it’s exciting for them and exciting for me,” he said.
The GIANTS return to Sydney this weekend to take on Collingwood at Spotless Stadium at 4.35pm on Saturday afternoon. Click here for tickets. | positive |
OKLAHOMA CITY, August 4, 2017 – In preparation for its 10th season, the Oklahoma City Thunder announced its complete 2017 preseason schedule today. Oklahoma City will play four preseason games, including two at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
Full 4-game Thunder preseason schedule
announced. https://t.co/MjQDKGc8aT Get ready for our 10th season of #ThunderBasketball! pic.twitter.com/LMuqbRv6xV — OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) August 4, 2017
The Thunder tips off its 10th preseason on Oct. 3 versus the Houston Rockets in Tulsa at the BOK Center. The club will head back to Oklahoma City for two contests, starting on Oct. 6 when it hosts the New Orleans Pelicans.
The NBL’s Melbourne United comes to Chesapeake Energy Arena on Oct. 8, which marks the third time the Thunder has played host to an international team in OKC. The preseason concludes with a trip to face the Denver Nuggets on Oct. 10.
All preseason games can be heard on the Thunder Radio Network, led by flagship WWLS-The Sports Animal (98.1 FM) in Oklahoma City. The Oct. 10 contest at Denver will be shown on FOX Sports Oklahoma, while the other three games can be streamed live on the Thunder App and okcthunder.com.
Tickets for the game in Tulsa are now available and can be purchased through the BOK Center website, www.bokcenter.com. Additionally, tickets for both preseason games at Chesapeake Energy Arena will go on sale on Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. via the team’s website, okcthunder.com.
OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER 2017 PRESEASON SCHEDULE
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME (CST) Oct. 3 vs. Houston Rockets Tulsa, Okla. 7 p.m. Oct. 6 vs. New Orleans Pelicans Oklahoma City, Okla. 7 p.m. Oct. 8 vs. Melbourne United Oklahoma City, Okla. 2 p.m. Oct. 10 at Denver Nuggets Denver, Colo. 8 p.m. | positive |
Hash indexes must be rebuilt after pg_upgrade-ing from any previous major PostgreSQL version (Mithun Cy, Robert Haas, Amit Kapila) Major hash index improvements necessitated this requirement. pg_upgrade will create a script to assist with this.
Rename write-ahead log directory pg_xlog to pg_wal , and rename transaction status directory pg_clog to pg_xact (Michael Paquier) Users have occasionally thought that these directories contained only inessential log files, and proceeded to remove write-ahead log files or transaction status files manually, causing irrecoverable data loss. These name changes are intended to discourage such errors in future.
Rename SQL functions, tools, and options that reference “xlog” to “wal” (Robert Haas) For example, pg_switch_xlog() becomes pg_switch_wal() , pg_receivexlog becomes pg_receivewal, and --xlogdir becomes --waldir . This is for consistency with the change of the pg_xlog directory name; in general, the “xlog” terminology is no longer used in any user-facing places.
Rename WAL -related functions and views to use lsn instead of location (David Rowley) There was previously an inconsistent mixture of the two terminologies.
Change the implementation of set-returning functions appearing in a query's SELECT list (Andres Freund) Set-returning functions are now evaluated before evaluation of scalar expressions in the SELECT list, much as though they had been placed in a LATERAL FROM -clause item. This allows saner semantics for cases where multiple set-returning functions are present. If they return different numbers of rows, the shorter results are extended to match the longest result by adding nulls. Previously the results were cycled until they all terminated at the same time, producing a number of rows equal to the least common multiple of the functions' periods. In addition, set-returning functions are now disallowed within CASE and COALESCE constructs. For more information see Section 37.4.8.
Use standard row constructor syntax in UPDATE ... SET ( column_list ) = row_constructor (Tom Lane) The row_constructor can now begin with the keyword ROW ; previously that had to be omitted. If just one column name appears in the column_list , then the row_constructor now must use the ROW keyword, since otherwise it is not a valid row constructor but just a parenthesized expression. Also, an occurrence of table_name .* within the row_constructor is now expanded into multiple columns, as occurs in other uses of row_constructor s.
When ALTER TABLE ... ADD PRIMARY KEY marks columns NOT NULL , that change now propagates to inheritance child tables as well (Michael Paquier)
Prevent statement-level triggers from firing more than once per statement (Tom Lane) Cases involving writable CTEs updating the same table updated by the containing statement, or by another writable CTE, fired BEFORE STATEMENT or AFTER STATEMENT triggers more than once. Also, if there were statement-level triggers on a table affected by a foreign key enforcement action (such as ON DELETE CASCADE ), they could fire more than once per outer SQL statement. This is contrary to the SQL standard, so change it.
Move sequences' metadata fields into a new pg_sequence system catalog (Peter Eisentraut) A sequence relation now stores only the fields that can be modified by nextval() , that is last_value , log_cnt , and is_called . Other sequence properties, such as the starting value and increment, are kept in a corresponding row of the pg_sequence catalog. ALTER SEQUENCE updates are now fully transactional, implying that the sequence is locked until commit. The nextval() and setval() functions remain nontransactional. The main incompatibility introduced by this change is that selecting from a sequence relation now returns only the three fields named above. To obtain the sequence's other properties, applications must look into pg_sequence . The new system view pg_sequences can also be used for this purpose; it provides column names that are more compatible with existing code. Also, sequences created for SERIAL columns now generate positive 32-bit wide values, whereas previous versions generated 64-bit wide values. This has no visible effect if the values are only stored in a column. The output of psql's \d command for a sequence has been redesigned, too.
Make pg_basebackup stream the WAL needed to restore the backup by default (Magnus Hagander) This changes pg_basebackup's -X / --wal-method default to stream . An option value none has been added to reproduce the old behavior. The pg_basebackup option -x has been removed (instead, use -X fetch ).
Change how logical replication uses pg_hba.conf (Peter Eisentraut) In previous releases, a logical replication connection required the replication keyword in the database column. As of this release, logical replication matches a normal entry with a database name or keywords such as all . Physical replication continues to use the replication keyword. Since built-in logical replication is new in this release, this change only affects users of third-party logical replication plugins.
Make all pg_ctl actions wait for completion by default (Peter Eisentraut) Previously some pg_ctl actions didn't wait for completion, and required the use of -w to do so.
Change the default value of the log_directory server parameter from pg_log to log (Andreas Karlsson)
Add configuration option ssl_dh_params_file to specify file name for custom OpenSSL DH parameters (Heikki Linnakangas) This replaces the hardcoded, undocumented file name dh1024.pem . Note that dh1024.pem is no longer examined by default; you must set this option if you want to use custom DH parameters.
Increase the size of the default DH parameters used for OpenSSL ephemeral DH ciphers to 2048 bits (Heikki Linnakangas) The size of the compiled-in DH parameters has been increased from 1024 to 2048 bits, making DH key exchange more resistant to brute-force attacks. However, some old SSL implementations, notably some revisions of Java Runtime Environment version 6, will not accept DH parameters longer than 1024 bits, and hence will not be able to connect over SSL. If it's necessary to support such old clients, you can use custom 1024-bit DH parameters instead of the compiled-in defaults. See ssl_dh_params_file.
Remove the ability to store unencrypted passwords on the server (Heikki Linnakangas) The password_encryption server parameter no longer supports off or plain . The UNENCRYPTED option is no longer supported in CREATE/ALTER USER ... PASSWORD . Similarly, the --unencrypted option has been removed from createuser. Unencrypted passwords migrated from older versions will be stored encrypted in this release. The default setting for password_encryption is still md5 .
Add min_parallel_table_scan_size and min_parallel_index_scan_size server parameters to control parallel queries (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas) These replace min_parallel_relation_size , which was found to be too generic.
Don't downcase unquoted text within shared_preload_libraries and related server parameters (QL Zhuo) These settings are really lists of file names, but they were previously treated as lists of SQL identifiers, which have different parsing rules.
Remove sql_inheritance server parameter (Robert Haas) Changing this setting from the default value caused queries referencing parent tables to not include child tables. The SQL standard requires them to be included, however, and this has been the default since PostgreSQL 7.1.
Allow multi-dimensional arrays to be passed into PL/Python functions, and returned as nested Python lists (Alexey Grishchenko, Dave Cramer, Heikki Linnakangas) This feature requires a backwards-incompatible change to the handling of arrays of composite types in PL/Python. Previously, you could return an array of composite values by writing, e.g., [[col1, col2], [col1, col2]] ; but now that is interpreted as a two-dimensional array. Composite types in arrays must now be written as Python tuples, not lists, to resolve the ambiguity; that is, write [(col1, col2), (col1, col2)] instead.
Remove PL/Tcl's “module” auto-loading facility (Tom Lane) This functionality has been replaced by new server parameters pltcl.start_proc and pltclu.start_proc, which are easier to use and more similar to features available in other PLs.
Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers (Tom Lane) Users needing to dump from pre-8.0 servers will need to use dump programs from PostgreSQL 9.6 or earlier. The resulting output should still load successfully into newer servers.
Remove support for floating-point timestamps and intervals (Tom Lane) This removes configure's --disable-integer-datetimes option. Floating-point timestamps have few advantages and have not been the default since PostgreSQL 8.3.
Remove server support for client/server protocol version 1.0 (Tom Lane) This protocol hasn't had client support since PostgreSQL 6.3.
Remove contrib/tsearch2 module (Robert Haas) This module provided compatibility with the version of full text search that shipped in pre-8.3 PostgreSQL releases.
Remove createlang and droplang command-line applications (Peter Eisentraut) These had been deprecated since PostgreSQL 9.1. Instead, use CREATE EXTENSION and DROP EXTENSION directly. | positive |
Morning Intercessions - Give Us This Day Skip to content About Sample Subscribe Renew Prison Outreach Read Online Menu Close About Sample Subscribe Renew Prison Outreach Read Online Morning Intercessions Post author:Sr. Susan Barber, OSB Post published:Mar 22, 2021 Reading time:2 mins read Share This Post Share this content Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window God of daybreak, at the dawning of this day you rouse us to praise and love. In confidence we pray: God, come to our aid. Help us to show appreciation to volunteers who serve at food pantries, blood drives, and homeless shelters. God, come to our aid. Strengthen us to persevere in efforts to control the spread of disease. God, come to our aid. Reconcile warring nations, and unite all people in care for the earth and the world’s poor. God, come to our aid. Our Father . . . May God clothe us in love and bring us together to everlasting life in Christ. Amen. Sr. Susan Barber, OSB Sister Susan Barber, OSB, is a member of the Benedictine Community of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, KS. She received a master’s degree in Music from UMKC and a master’s degree from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Susan is currently the community’s liturgist. She is one of the community’s main organists and pianists. Susan graduated from Souljourners in 2018 and offers retreats at Sophia. Get the Full Give Us This Day Experience Give Us This Day is a monthly publication for Catholics with morning and evening prayers, hymns, Liturgy of the Word, Order of Mass and much more! LEARN MORE Customer Service Subscribe Renew Digital Login Frequently Asked Questions Subscription Inquiries Technical Support Call: 888-258-8470 Download the App Connect With Us Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube Daily inspiration and prayer for today’s Catholic right to your inbox. Email Sign Up View our privacy policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. | negative |
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"I don't think I've ever been on a film where it feels like the public has made it their own. It really feels like it's their movie now," said Producer Peter Del Vecho about the whirlwind success and public embrace of Disney's FROZEN. This was in mid-February, just three weeks prior to the 86th Academy Awards, a ceremony during which FROZEN would be crowned "Best Animated Feature," and take home the Oscar for "Best Original Song" (for "Let It Go") on the very same day that the film would cross the $1 Billion mark at the global box office - a stunning set of accomplishments for a film that was just released theatrically a mere four months ago, and just five years ago, was shelved.
Taking a break from the quite frozen landscape of Northern Illinois to visit Walt Disney Animation Studios in sunny Burbank, California for a media event, I took a seat on a couch across from Del Vecho, Writer/Director Jennifer Lee and Director Chris Buck to spend some time discussing the development of the film, it's ties to the Disney legacy of hand-drawn animation, and the cultural juggernaut that it's become, all on the cusp of it's home video release.
While it's long been rumored that Walt Disney himself wanted to bring a version of the Hans Christian Andersen tale THE SNOW QUEEN to life on the big screen, potentially as part of a live-action/animated feature about Andersen's life, no evidence of it actually going into production at that point has been discovered in the Disney Archives, despite later attempts at doing a Snow Queen film. For FROZEN, while it's roots may go back a good eighty years, it's the past five - but particularly the last three - that finally brought a story loosely connected to Andersen's to theaters everywhere.
The Beginning, and the Choice in Animation Style:
"I first pitched the film a little over five years ago, about five and a half," says Buck. "But then there was a little time off where I went and did other things for about a year." After working on variations of the project, Producer Del Vecho joined the production about two and a half years ago, followed by the addition of Lee just eighteen months out from release. Originally planned to be a hand-drawn film, I'd asked the filmmakers at what point those plans changed.
"It switched when it got put on the shelf, and then when it came back off, it became more CG," Buck explains. "Mulling it over, I'd grown up on hand-drawn, and then thinking 'a world of ice and snow' - what they can do with CG now is so incredible, that, for me anyway, made me want to go over to that world to see what we could do. The great thing about this studio, more than most, is that our legacy is hand-drawn, and we still have some of the best hand-drawn animators in the world, here. They helped work on our movie by doing early character design, and doing hand-drawn effects. Mark Henn, who's one of our premiere animators, was in our animation dailies room every day, and as the guys would show their work, we'd stop on a frame or something, and Mark would draw over it on a screen and give it that hand-drawn appeal with silhouette shapes and everything. So it has that feeling of classic hand-drawn, but it's CG."
"Our Art Director, Mike Giaimo, came from hand-drawn, and this was his first CG," adds Lee. "What I liked, is the way he used color, and that everything was stylized - it wasn't about reality, but it was about emotion. He was excited about being able to do things with cloth and such that we couldn't do [in hand-drawn], and detailing like to put rose mulling on a dress in hand-drawn is so complicated and expensive, and nearly impossible, but this was limitless, yet he could still do things stylistically. For us this was the best of both worlds."
The Casting of Idina Menzel as Elsa:
"I don't know if it was us or our Casting Director that initially brought her up, as we were all sort of circling around her," states Buck on the casting of Broadway star Idina Menzel as Elsa. "We'd been going to New York for auditions, and it was funny when she came in to do a vocal audition, because we knew her singing voice, and we weren't expecting her to sing. She says, 'No, no, I can audition,' and she sang 'Tomorrow' from ANNIE." Adds Del Vecho, "It was a GREAT version of the song. She kind of changed it up a little."
While Menzel might've scored fans with her take on ANNIE, what really pushed her into the lead for Elsa was at an early table read, long before any songs had been written...
"Kristen Bell was there, and Idina was there, but she hadn't been cast yet," said Lee, who was still working on WRECK-IT RALPH at the time. "They did the table read, and then they sang to each other at the end, 'The Wind Beneath My Wings.' It worked. Men and women were crying in the room, it was so powerful. When we finally got to a point where we knew who Elsa really was and could cast, we knew it was Idina."
The Sing-Along:
"During the holidays, Jen was in New York and I was here, but we'd both been to screenings toward the end of the holidays - beginning of January - and people were starting to sing, on their own," says Buck about the inspiration for the Sing-Along reissue." "It's like with the kids," adds Lee, "once they start singing, you can't stop."
In a meeting with Disney Animation chief John Lasseter, Buck reported on what they'd seen, and decided that they had to do a Sing-Along version, and initially thought that it would coincide with the DVD release because there wouldn't be time to put it together. But once the plans were in motion, it came together almost instantly.
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"Originally, it was supposed to be 200 theaters, primarily in the New York, Chicago and L.A. areas," says Del Vecho. "But the theater owners said that 'if you're doing it there, we want it here,' and it grew to over 2,000 theaters, and now they're talking about International versions. Again, it was the demand from the audience that made it bigger than we could've ever imagined."
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Police in New York state said they pulled over a "suspicious vehicle" that had no doors, no windshield, and an ax protruding from the roof. Photo courtesy of the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office
July 26 (UPI) -- A New York state sheriff's office said deputies pulled over a "suspicious vehicle" with no doors, no windshield, no license plates and an ax embedded in the roof.
The Wyoming County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded Monday afternoon to a report of a "suspicious vehicle" and they located the car at a nearby intersection.
Deputies noted the car had no doors, no windows, no windshield, no license plates and had an ax sticking out from the roof.
"A picture says a thousand words!" the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.
Sgt. Colin Reagan told The Daily News the driver, Jared Price, 21, "performed poorly" in a field sobriety test and was found to be "impaired by multiple different drug categories."
Price was arrested on charges of driving while impaired by drugs, driving while impaired by a combination of drugs and alcohol, driving without license plates, operating an unregistered and uninspected motor vehicle, operating without insurance, lacking a front windshield and driving without safety glass. | positive |
Tara Press Please Wait... We are processing your request. Cart 0 Register | Login | Catalog MENU Home About Us Books Authors Submissions Blog Contact Us Angel in the Full Moon: A Jack Taggart Mystery Synopsis In this gritty, gut-wrenching sequel to Loose Ends and Above Ground, Jack Taggart continues as an undercover Mountie whose quest for justice from the sunny, tourist-laden beaches of Cuba to the ghettos of Hanoi. His targets deal in human flesh, smuggling unwitting victims for the sex trade. Jack’s personal vendetta for justice is questioned by his partner, until he reveals the secret behind his motivation, exposing the very essence of his soul. This is the world of the undercover operative: a world of lies, treachery, and deception. A world where violence erupts without warning, like a ticking time bomb on a crowded bus. BUY NOW INR 249 Details Format : paperback Size : 20.3 cms X 3.8 cms X 12.7 cms Pages : 445 ISBN : 9788183861014 RRP : INR 249 Pub Date : 2013 Author Don Easton Don Easton worked as an undercover Mountie for twenty years. He found this world could not always be categorized in black and white. Right and wrong became blurred, and his novels expose the underbell Read More... Format : paperback CONTACT US contact@indiaresearchpress.com Connect with us SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER submit Press/ Media FAQs Policies Bulk/ Corporate orders Contact us Terms and Conditions GO TO TOP | negative |
Somewhere in the far reaches of space, a star gasped its dying breath and a black hole was born—then there was an enormous cataclysmic boom of gamma radiation to herald its arrival.
Superpowered gamma ray burst GRB170202 is an explosive find. GRBs are notoriously difficult to trace because gravitational wave observatories don’t yet have the technology to zero in on their exact locations. Even GRB170202’s blaze of glory was issuing from a galaxy far, far, far away, so far that the galaxy itself was swallowed up by blackness and not visible to telescopes. It only got scientists’ attention after its cosmic gamma rays collided with NASA’s Earth-oribiting Swift satellite and prompted an automatic alert that told the University of Washington’s Zadko Telescope to record the phenomenon. What Zadko imaged was astounding. An outburst with the brightness of a million stars emerged from what previously appeared to be a dark void—if only for under a minute.
Gamma ray bursts are optical transients, meaning that they materialize and then vanish from the sky (and visibility) extremely fast, never to be seen again. The Very Large Telescope in Chile was able to measure distance between our planet and the origin of the outburst using the spectrum of light from its optical afterglow. Just to give you an idea of how long ago 12 billion years, which is how long it took for the light to travel to Earth, actually is, the universe has quadrupled in size since then.
Zoom In This light curve from the Zadko telescope shows the superfast evolution—and devolution—of GRB170202.
GRB170202 was more than just a cosmic flash. Bursts like this indicate new black holes coming into being, and you know the birth of a black hole is underway when an intense flash of gamma radiation is followed by an optical transient. This funeral of fireworks results from the demise of a star so massive that it pretty much cannibalized itself by burning up its fuel within only tens to hundreds of thousands of years (if that doesn’t exactly sound like an early death, our sun has been shining for billions of years). The star’s gravitational collapse into a black hole happens in seconds.
Despite the infinite number of black holes out there, these events are rare because most stars in their death throes are unable to produce such an onslaught of gamma rays. GRBs can only happen when the star in question is tens of solar masses, rotates rapidly, and has a ridiculously strong magnetic field. They are also extremely valuable to researchers determining the universe’s black hole birth rate. While most of the resulting black holes either ravage unsuspecting stars and planets alone or merge with other black holes, those that are the astral corpses of neutron stars have the potential to really illuminate science. GRBs that flash in the wake of neutron star collisions and are coincidentally detected with gravitational waves could give invaluable insight into the physics of black hole formation.
While there is still only so much that telescopes can see, phenomena like GRB170202 keep illuminating the astrophysical mysteries black holes may be hiding.
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In the spring of 1878, Vincent van Gogh turned 25. As he looked back over his short life, the Dutchman found little to celebrate among the meagre endeavours of his faltering career. By conventional, middle-class standards, he was a failure.
A stint working for an art dealership first in The Hague then in London and Paris hadn’t worked out: shy and awkward, he didn’t take to the profession, and in 1876, he was fired. That was followed by a couple of dead-end teaching jobs in England, as well as a short, forgettable spell working in a bookshop in Dordrecht, before he moved to Amsterdam to become a minister of religion, following in his father’s footsteps.
However, he didn’t have the patience or rigour to master the necessary study, so in 1878 – a few months after his 25th birthday – he left for Brussels, in order to enrol in a swifter training school for evangelists. Even this, though, was beyond him. After a three-month trial period in which his performance was less than mediocre, he was told that he would not be admitted to the course.
By now, Van Gogh’s family was beginning to despair. He had not curbed his socially inept and awkward manner, which was exacerbated by an eccentric tendency to dress in a deliberately unkempt fashion. How could an oddball like Vincent ever hope to scrape a living? His father was beginning to wonder whether his eldest son should be admitted to a mental hospital.
Van Gogh, though, was still fired with religious zeal and remained adamant that he could find work as an evangelist. At the end of 1878, he set off for the depressed coalmining district of the Borinage to the west of the city of Mons in Belgium, determined to establish himself as a lay preacher to the working class.
The making of a master
As a new exhibition, Van Gogh in the Borinage, at BAM (Beaux-Arts Mons) documents, he stayed in the region until October 1880, when he returned to Brussels. (Mons is one of the European capitals of culture for 2015.) Although ultimately his ambitions to become an evangelist would be thwarted – things got so bad that at one point his sister suggested that he should re-train as a baker – the Borinage was the making of Van Gogh in one fundamental respect. It was here, encouraged by his gentle brother Theo, that he decided to become an artist.
The startling thing is that his experiences in the Borinage seem to have set the template for many subjects and motifs that would continue to fascinate him as an artist over the next decade, until his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest in the summer of 1890.
True to form, life for Van Gogh in the Borinage was not straightforward. He lived in a humble hut, gave away much of his money, and swapped his smart clothes for the practical work-wear of the ‘Borins’. Unfortunately, he was not a gifted orator, so his meetings were sparsely attended. His inability to connect with the local coalminers was compounded by a practical, linguistic difficulty: he couldn’t make head or tail of their quick-fire patois known as ‘Walloon French’, while they were mystified by his own attempts at French, which to their ears sounded overly formal and fussy. In July 1879, only half a year after he had arrived in the region, he received another setback: the authorities terminated his trial appointment as an evangelist, precipitating a crisis of self-doubt.
Yet it was at this rock-bottom moment that Van Gogh, now 26, tentatively started to draw. His religious zeal dissipated, and instead he focused on training as a draughtsman. “I often feel homesick for the country of paintings,” he wrote to his brother Theo in the summer of 1880 – suggesting, perhaps, that he missed the day-to-day encounters with works of art that he had enjoyed while working as an art dealer. That autumn, he left the Borinage for good and headed for Brussels, to study life drawing at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.
Laying foundations
So what did Van Gogh encounter in the Borinage that inspired him to become an artist? For one thing, he felt sympathy for the working-class miners. “For the first time in his life, middle-class Van Gogh was friends with poor, working-class people,” says Sjraar Van Heugten, who has curated Van Gogh in the Borinage. “The people were poor and illiterate, and their work was hard and dangerous. Yet for Van Gogh, there was some kind of bigger truth in their simple way of life. After he became an artist, he chose to find his subject matter there. Like artists that he admired, such as Jean-François Millet, he wanted to portray the life of working-class people, and he remained interested in doing so certainly for the first half of his career. Really, it stayed important to him forever.”
In addition to this general concern for everyday reality and the rural poor, particular motifs that Van Gogh encountered in the Borinage would later feature prominently in his art. As he once put it in a letter: “It was in the Borinage that I began to work from nature for the first time.”
“The simple cottages that the miners lived in provide a good example,” explains Van Heugten. “Two of his first drawings are of those cottages, and that motif remained important to him throughout his career – some of his last paintings are of cottages, for instance. So there are quite a few echoes in his oeuvre at the end that relate directly to the Borinage.”
Another noticeable echo recalls the way that Van Gogh trained himself to draw in the Borinage by copying black-and-white prints after famous works of art. “Then in 1889 in Saint-Rémy [in southern France where Van Gogh institutionalised himself at the end of his life] he picks that up again – except this time producing colourful paintings. He was still going back to the origins of his career.”
Few works from Van Gogh’s Borinage period have survived, because the artist destroyed most of them, as he revealed in a letter to a friend. Perhaps he felt they were too clumsy or redolent of an uncertain time when he was still developing his own style and artistic voice.
Yet for Van Heugten, the time that Van Gogh spent in the Borinage was crucial for his development as an artist, because it laid foundations upon which he could build as a painter: “The remarkable thing about his early career in the Borinage is that Van Gogh made choices that he would stick to for the rest of his life. From the early beginnings until his last days, he remained completely loyal to a basis of subject matter – and this allowed him to go very far in experimenting with style and colour, so that he could become the modern artist we remember today.”
Alastair Sooke is art critic of The Daily Telegraph
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These are my final words: “Why a camp chair?” I speak them to a man named Wade. Wade from Minnesota. I’m in line behind him, waiting to enter the Dhamma Giri meditation center, in the quiet hill country of western India, for the official start of the 10-day course. Wade tells me that this is his second course and that he learned a valuable lesson from the first. “I’m so glad I have this,” he says, indicating the small folding camp chair tucked under his arm. I utter my last question. It’s never answered. One of the volunteers approaches, puts a finger to his lips, and the silence begins.
Not just silence. I have – we all have – signed a pledge to observe what’s called “noble silence.” This means no speaking, no gestures, no eye contact. “You must live here,” we’re told, “as if you’re completely alone.” There is also no exercise permitted, except walking. No cellphones. No computers. No radios. No pens or paper. No books, pamphlets, or magazines. Nothing at all to read. There will be only two simple vegetarian meals a day. My suitcase, with my phone and laptop, is locked away in the meditation center’s office. I have just a day bag, with a couple of toiletries, a med kit, and a single change of clothes. I’m wearing sandals and sweatpants and a loose T-shirt.
The line begins to move, and I follow Wade and the rest of the men – women are in a separate area – through the 20-acre campus: cement paths piebald with bird droppings, a couple of shady banana trees. In the center is a monumental pagoda, with a gleaming gold-painted dome perched, wedding-cake style, atop several white, circular tiers. The 250 or so men have been divided into four groups, and I follow mine, Group Three, down a set of stone steps to a smaller pagoda.
We remove our footwear. I pick mine up while I notice that most of the Indian students – I’m one of only a handful of Westerners – pinch their sandals between the toes of one foot, lift the pair, and park them deftly on a metal rack. Inside the pagoda is a large, roundish room with white cinderblock walls, empty save for neat rows of square blue pillows.
A couple of volunteers – they’re officially known as Dharma Servers and are permitted to make occasional hand gestures – point to where I should sit. Cushion 51, according to the safety-pinned tag. To my left is a middle-aged man, portly, wearing slacks and a purple dress shirt and a large gold watch. To my right is a reed-thin student-looking guy in jeans and a polo shirt and stylish, metal-framed glasses. They’re both sitting cross-legged, with a straight back, so I assume the same position. We are all facing the front, where there are two raised platforms with unoccupied cushions. Soon a pair of older men, one with a mop of black hair, the other balding, walk in and sit on the raised cushions, facing us. These are our teachers. The first meditation is about to begin.
I’m deeply, heart-slammingly nervous, yet also elated. This is something I’d long wished to experience: a chance to unplug, de-stress, switch off. To halt, for a decent spell, the incessant babbling – my own and everyone else’s. I’d had three children in three years: My life, morning, noon, and, goddammit, middle of the night, was overwhelmingly noisy. I was snared in the new-father vortex of fewer hours to work and more bills to pay. At my last doctor’s visit, for the first time in my life, I registered alarmingly high blood pressure.
I chose the meditation style known as Vipassana for several reasons. It’s wholly nondenominational. No gods are prayed to, no mantras chanted, all religious iconography is prohibited. If you typically wear, say, a crucifix, you must remove it for the duration of the course. Also, there is no need for prior meditation experience – in fact, I was told, a neophyte is the ideal student because you won’t have any bad habits to avoid – which suited me perfectly, as I’d never meditated before.
Vipassana, which means “insight” in the ancient Pali language of India, has what must be history’s greatest possible endorsement. The Buddha himself – born Siddhartha Gautama – used Vipassana meditation to help achieve enlightenment. This was 25 centuries ago. The technique employed by the Buddha, carefully passed down from teacher to teacher, is supposedly the one still taught today. Vipassana adherents believe so strongly in the purity of this practice that it remains untainted by economics. The price of a 10-day course, including room and board, is exactly zero. Everything is funded by donations; no one is paid to work, not even the teachers.
The goal of Vipassana is a sort of spring cleaning of the mind – a removal of all cerebral detritus, with the ultimate result being complete liberation from suffering, mental and physical alike. The draconian restrictions are in place so that virtually all distractions are removed, smoothing the way to a quiet and focused demeanor. I knew two people who’d completed Vipassana courses, and I contacted both before I went. One told me it was among the more amazing things she’d ever done. The other said it was the most phenomenal thing he’d ever experienced, including witnessing the birth of his children.
Demand for Vipassana courses, despite the 10-day commitment, is often overwhelming. Waiting lists are common. Classes are now taught in more than 70 countries, including the United States, but I wanted to travel to India – to the motherland of the Buddha, to the world’s preeminent Vipassana center, to a place so far from home that I’d be deterred from quitting. Dhamma Giri, the center I wished to attend, can house more than 500 students, but getting in is like applying for college. I even had to write a brief essay, in which I pleaded that I was desperate to “capture a greater degree of calmness in myself.” A few weeks later, via email, I learned I’d been accepted for a spot in the February 2012 class. So I left my wife and kids and flew to Mumbai.
Now, folded atop my royal-blue cushion in the crowded room in the small pagoda, facing the teachers, I wait. I don’t quite know what to do. It’s evening; there are no windows in the meditation room, but there’s ambient light, gradually waning. Spiderwebs are hammocked about the ceiling. I glance at the teachers; they’re motionless, eyes closed. I look at my neighbors. Eyes shut. I close my own. I listen to the birdcalls, intense beyond the pagoda’s walls. There’s the scent of a burning bug coil. Someone burps.
Finally, I hear a noise in the front of the room, a slight rustle. I can’t help but peek. One of the teachers, the balding one, presses a button on a portable CD player. A gravelly voice flows through several wall-mounted speakers. First in Hindi, then English. It’s the voice of S.N. Goenka, who is credited with Vipassana’s current resurgence. Vipassana had faded from use in India a few centuries after the Buddha’s death. But it thrived in Burma, where Goenka stumbled upon the technique in the 1950s. Though a successful businessman, he suffered from debilitating migraines that no mainstream doctor could alleviate. Vipassana not only ended his headaches, it infused him with a deep sense of bliss. His motto – “Be Happy!” – is stenciled on dozens of signs across the Dhamma Giri campus.
Goenka eventually abandoned his business pursuits in order to share what he’d learned. In 1969, he traveled to India and reintroduced Vipassana to the land of its origin. In a nation sharply divided by caste and religion, Vipassana welcomed people of every background. The meditation technique fanned across the subcontinent and then, driven by word of mouth, spread throughout the world. Goenka is now too old to teach in person, but his recorded instructions and videotaped lectures are used in all Vipassana centers – every course, in every country, is highly coordinated, right down to specific meditating and sleeping hours.
The voice, Goenka’s voice, tells me to think about my nostrils. To focus all my attention on my respiration. On the air flowing out. Flowing in. Is it predominantly coming from my left nostril? My right? Both equally? Ponder it, says Goenka. Feel it. Concentrate.
That’s all. The teacher shuts off the CD player, and the room falls silent. I sit, eyes closed, focusing on my breathing. I am, in fact, a predominantly right-nostril man. Which I find interesting. Sorta. For a few minutes.
I had steeled myself, over the weeks leading up to the trip, for an intense mental challenge. My plan was to give Vipassana a serious and thorough try, though I was aware it was unlikely to be an easy fit. I don’t think anyone has ever described me as a natural-born meditator. I’m loud. I’m energetic. I’m spazzy. I crave constant stimulation. “As soon as you finish breakfast,” one of my friends predicted, “your only thought will be ‘What’s for lunch?’ ” But I’d reached the age – I’m 43 – at which becoming a little more contemplative, a little less chicken-without-a-headish, might serve me well. My doctor had said as much.
In other words, I am prepared to be bored. What surprises me – what I haven’t envisioned – is meditation’s physical aspect. The last time I sat on the floor, without back support, for an extended period of time was probably kindergarten. Minutes into Goenka’s nostril assignment, my lower back is throbbing. Also my hips. My knees. My neck. I shift position. I refold my legs. I forget about my breathing. All I can feel is the pain.
Fortunately, it’s an extremely brief meditation session. Less than half an hour. Still, it’s long enough to worry me. The balding teacher – Yogesh, he tells us, is his name – picks up a microphone and calmly informs us that the real meditation starts tomorrow. We’re dismissed to our rooms.
We rise, file out of the pagoda, engage in a silent sandal-retrieving scrum, and scatter along the cement paths, dark now beneath a half-moon, past the central pagoda dotted with lights – all of us shuffling about as if in a zombie movie. The breeze tinkles a few chimes. The canoe-size banana leaves create a pleasing susurrus. I’m a little hungry.
I’ve been assigned a private room in a cluster of shoe-boxy buildings near the campus’s barbed-wire-topped perimeter wall. The room has white walls, a white bed table, a white ceiling fan, and a white toilet. It’s illuminated by a single flickery, low-wattage bulb. The bed is a thin mattress atop a plank of wood. It’s purposely uncomfortable. According to the Vipassana Code of Discipline, which we’ve all vowed to follow, in addition to no dishonesty or stealing or taking of any intoxicants or engaging in any sexual activity, we also promised not to sleep in “luxurious beds.” Sleep deprivation is apparently an integral part of purifying the mind. I lie on the bed. It is, indeed, not luxurious. I flip off the light. I hear the buzzing of mosquitoes, which reminds me of another rule in the Code: no killing any being. I let them buzz.
I’m tired from travel – the three-continent trip to Mumbai, the packed train north to the village of Igatpuri, the uphill walk to Dhamma Giri – and my cravings for a mind-easing book or television show or album swiftly dissipate. I drift to sleep.
My head has been stuffed inside an enormous drum. And now someone’s pounding on it. Or, rather, no. My head is right here. I’m still in bed. But the booming is real. It’s a gong, an incredible gong, rolling like thunder through the night. I glance at my watch: 4 am, on the nose. Wake-up time.
I stand. My back – from the meditation, from the bed – gives me a cranky greeting. I flip on the light. Son of a bitch. I’m bitten to all hell, my chest and arms and shoulders a crazy domino game of red dots. I splash cold water on my face and walk back to the Group Three pagoda.
I’m looking forward to learning the next step, beyond contemplating my nostrils. But no teachers arrive, just students. There are no further instructions. And I can’t ask anyone what I’m supposed to do. So I sit, striving to keep my mind free of distractions. I detect the tide of my respiration flowing over my upper lip – cooler entering my nose, warmer exiting. Still favoring my right nostril.
A line from The Big Lebowski jumps to mind. You want a toe? I can get you a toe. Then a song refrain. A dozen of them, as if I’ve pressed scan on my car radio. This is Ground Control to Major Tom. Snippets of sitcom dialogue, a phrase from a Richard Brautigan poem, famous opening lines – A screaming comes across the sky – old phone numbers. I try to decide whether I prefer chunky peanut butter over creamy. Chunky, I conclude. Commercial jingles, yearbook quotes, I got the horse right here the name is Paul Revere, math equations, crossword-puzzle clues, Hotel-Motel Holiday Inn, anything, everything, a deluge of internal prattle.
This doesn’t bother me. Before coming, we had been instructed to discard any mantras we might have used in the past – not a problem, as I’ve always been mantra-free – but I actually have brought with me something of one. Really more of a slogan. It is this: “waterfall, river, lake.” I find myself repeating it, frequently, as I try to meditate. “Waterfall, river, lake. Waterfall, river, lake.”
The phrase comes from an article on meditation a friend had mailed me. It said that in the process of achieving an essential element of successful meditation, stilling one’s mind, it is inevitable there will first be a wild flow of random thoughts – a waterfall – which will gradually ease – a river – and then finally cease – a lake. I liked this notion, and I made a plan for myself: three days of waterfall, three days of river, three days of lake. If I made it that far, the 10th day could be whatever it wanted. So this first day’s waterfall feels fine, all part of my plan.
Unplanned is the continued torment of my lower back. I spot Wade, a few pillows in front of me. Wade from Minnesota. The man with the camp chair. It’s one of those simple seats, just two cushions that form a right angle. He’s sitting on one cushion and provided back support by the other. Glorious back support. Now I understand. But there’s nothing I can do. An hour passes. It’s impossible not to stare at my watch.
After 90 minutes, the sound of chanting emerges from speakers hung across campus. It’s Goenka. He’s singing, I think, in Pali. No one in my pagoda moves. The chanting continues for half an hour, and then everyone stands. The session is over. I’ve survived. Dawn is just breaking, a crease of orange over the treeless mountains. It’s immensely lovely, and I get all goose-bumpy – I’m proud of myself; I’m joyous. I meditated for two hours. It’ll only get better, I know it. I’m going to thrive.
I stand in line for breakfast. A Dharma Server hands me an aluminum plate and spoon, and I serve myself a few scoops of oatmeal from a vat the size of a kiddie pool. I pour a cup of milk tea. I sit in a white plastic chair at a long crowded table and stare at my plate, avoiding eye contact, suppressing all social instincts. It’s very uncomfortable. Then I head back to my room and toss a bucket of water over my head – there are no showers at Dhamma Giri – and return to the little pagoda.
This time the teachers are in the room with us. Yogesh flips on the CD player, and I wait expectantly for Goenka to switch from Hindi to English. When he does, it’s the same thing: Concentrate on your nostrils. Nothing more. I’m in pain, and I’m restless, and I think about quitting. I do. It’s just past eight in the morning of the first full day.
I try to relax and focus on my nose, but the waterfall continues. I think about home, where it’s getting-the-kids-ready-for-bed hour, and I envision the whole process, the bath and the splashing, the argument over which video to watch – no, it’s not a SpongeBob night – the brushing of teeth, the reading of books – Harold and the Purple Crayon, something about mermaids – the complaints about needing to pee, the Band-Aids pasted over hidden owies, a round of ?”Twinkle Twinkle.” And in this way an hour passes. Then Yogesh speaks into the microphone and tells us to take a five-minute break and return to the pagoda for a two-hour session.
From the 4 am wake-up to the 9:30 pm lights-out – that’s 17½ hours – we are expected, with a few rests and meal breaks, to meditate. Ideally, without moving. Of course without talking. Though there are, actually, two chances to speak. Either just after lunch or right before bed, you are permitted to ask your teacher a question. I show up at the very first opportunity, wait on my pillow, and when a Dharma Server indicates it’s my turn, I walk to the front of the pagoda and sit before Yogesh. He’s in his mid-sixties, I’d guess, with gentle brown eyes and long thin fingers and an air about him of utter kindness.
“My body,” I tell him, “is failing me.” I mention my back and knees and hips. Then I ask about the chairs. Five or six times during the course of the morning’s meditations, a Dharma Server had walked to a storage area behind the main room of the pagoda and returned carrying a rudimentary chair. He’d set it up in the rear, and a student would sit in it, leaning back, supported. Wade had his camp chair. I was in severe pain, so bad I couldn’t even attempt to meditate.
“May I have a chair?” I ask.
Yogesh gazes at me. So kind. “Do you have a physical ailment?” he asks. “A medical need?”
I pause. Here is my chance to make it easier on myself. I might have emptied my bank account for a chair. But I’ve sworn not to lie. Vipassana has a 2,500-year history of success. I should either play by the rules, I realize, or I should leave.
“No,” I say.
Yogesh tells me that my body is rebelling against this new challenge. It happens, he says. It’s an integral part of the process. I must work through it.
And with that, he returns me to Cushion 51. For three and three-quarter days, our assignment remains the same: Think about your nose. The purpose, we’re told, is to hone our powers of perception until every microsensation is felt, every prickle of sweat, every wisp of air, every tingle and tickle and quiver and itch.
It works. My senses, all of them, grow incredibly sharp. When I step on a twig, it sounds like a firecracker. A sneeze is nearly deafening. I sit, during a break, in front of a bush, and I note that every leaf is a slightly different shade of green. I watch a leaf-cutter ant at work, and I move a little closer, and it’s true – I can actually hear it gnawing.
This, however, is also true: Pondering your schnoz is insanely dull. I’m not even sure how I get through it. Minute by minute, one session after another. My back does not get better. I am stuck at waterfall with no sign of impending river. Every time I pass a “Be Happy!” sign, I have to stop myself from ripping it down.
Then, late in the afternoon of the fourth day, Yogesh makes an announcement: We have finished contemplating the mysteries of our nasal passages. We are ready to learn advanced Vipassana. Even by this point, I have little idea what Yogesh means. My friends who’d gone previously told me it was better not to know much in advance, to allow things to unfold naturally, to be free from expectations.
We listen to a long recording from Goenka. Vipassana meditation, in essence, is like taking what we’d learned about the area around our nose – that there are continual sensations, some subtle, some blatant – and applying it to our entire body. Starting with our head and traveling to our toes, we’re to mentally pass over every inch of our body, detecting these sensations at each spot. We must not react – don’t be pleased by a transcendent tingle or feel ruffled by an off-putting itch – but instead remain steadfastly equanimous, secure in the knowledge that all sensations are temporary, that everything will change.
I confess that I’m a little disappointed. That’s it? I had hoped for something more, I don’t know, explosive. But I see the students who’ve been here before; I watch them meditate – stock still, an astonishing blissfulness about them. I think about Yogesh, ever serene, ever peaceful. My moods, in general, tend to swing widely – extreme joy when things go well, acute distress when they don’t. Goenka says it’s an unhealthy way to live. It’s essential, he teaches, to remain poised under all circumstances. Just be aware, keep balanced. I resolve to give it a try.
There are moments, brief and rare, when I succeed, when I’m on my cushion, and up and down my body I perceive myriad sensations, a full-body tingle. I’ve dissolved like an Alka-Seltzer tablet into the soup of the universe, a state Goenka calls “free flow.” It’s wonderful, though Goenka also warns us not to crave this feeling. Always, he says, be satisfied with what’s happening right now.
I find this difficult. Mostly because what’s happening is that I’m miserable. The day we’re introduced to Vipassana, we are also assigned individual meditation cells – some in the grand wedding-cake pagoda; others, mine included, in a large but less grand pagoda. Rather than always meditating as a group, we’re now expected to spend seven hours a day alone in a tiny, narrow room with a tiled floor and white plaster walls and a dim light. At least here, without teachers monitoring our posture, I can stretch out, head against the door, feet touching the far wall, easing the pain in my back. I feel as though I’m lying in my own grave. But even without the pain, I simply cannot meditate successfully for more than a few minutes. My head is still too noisy; my flow isn’t free.
Every group session begins with the same words from Goenka: “Start with a calm and clear mind.” Then he goes on to give further advice. But I can’t even get to step one. Everyone else in the room, it seems to me, is floating gleefully on a crystalline lake. I realize I can quit; I’m not being held here against my will. But there’s a part of me that believes a breakthrough is imminent. I’m a bull-headed man. I know how to endure. I once ran 100 miles in a single day (in 23 hours and 48 minutes, to be precise). I’m absurdly competitive – I can even turn something as airy-fairy as a meditation course into a kind of sporting event. And if all these other people are still here, no way am I leaving. This isn’t dangerous. I’m not climbing some 8,000-meter peak or crawling through a war zone. All I have to do is sit. Simplest thing in the world. So I soldier on.
But something happens to me. Something bad. It might be bearable to suppress my natural extroversion – to shut me up completely. Or you can corral my need to run or bike or swim or climb – to immobilize me completely. But the combination of the two is deadly. I have actually climbed an 8,000-meter peak; I have crawled through war zones. And let me tell you: Both of those are way easier than Vipassana. This coddled and calm environment generates in me a frightening rage. I begin to hate my fellow students. I hate the teachers. I hate the Dharma Servers. I hate Goenka. I hate the food and my bed and my cushion and my cell. I hate Vipassana. I hate myself.
I feel bored and angry and trapped and claustrophobic. Lonely, too, far lonelier than if I’d actually been alone. My brain seems like a centrifuge, continuously spinning. As the days pass, I feel less calm. The waterfall only intensifies. By the time the gong pounds to start the fifth day, there’s a Niagara busying in my head.
And then, sitting down for the predawn session, I make eye contact with the man on the cushion next to me. The portly one. There are protocols about what to do when this sort of thing happens. You should immediately look away. But instead – it’s an involuntary action – I nod my head in greeting. I break one of the rules. And my cushion-neighbor, startlingly, smiles back. Yes. A genuine human interaction. It lasts maybe three seconds but fills me with an unaccountable euphoria. Later that morning, we do it again. It feels lifesaving.
Then, on the zombie shuffle to lunch, I spot a rusty key on the path. I grab it. I’d developed a habit, over the days, of picking up random bits of junk – a scrap of string, a couple of screws, a safety pin, a paper clip. I don’t know why. All I do is pile them on my bed table. But in my room that evening, more crazed than ever by the lack of distractions, I fish the key out of my pocket. I grip it like a pencil. I take my Nalgene bottle. I make a scratch on the bottle’s side. Then another.
I spend half the night, headlamp on, in a fit of pent-up angst, scratching an entire letter, a cri de coeur, on the side of the bottle. Probably a thousand words long. It’s like one of those manifestos psycho-killers occasionally produce. Most of it, fortunately, is unintelligible, though what I can make out is deeply paranoid. I wonder if I’m being brainwashed, if the food is poisoned, if I’d really be allowed to quit.
During a group meditation the next day, I imagine I’m suffocating – I am suffocating! – and my legs begin to thrash about on my cushion, and I pinch my cheeks, fiercely, as if trying to wake myself from a nightmare, and sweat pours from me, and I can think only of hopping to my feet and sprinting away. Forget my belongings; just make an escape. When the meditation session ends, Yogesh makes eye contact with me and motions for me to come forward. As everyone else files out of the pagoda, I walk to him. I sit. I believe I’ve been so undisciplined that he’s going to kick me out of the center for disturbing the real meditators. I hope he’s going to kick me out.
He looks me directly in the eyes. “Michael,” he says. Softly, compassionately. Using my whole name – everyone calls me “Mike” – like my mother always did. “Michael, what’s wrong?”
I try to answer, but my mental scaffolding collapses. I break. Tears flow down my cheeks. Yogesh continues to look at me. And when I squeeze myself back together, he smiles.
“This is wonderful, Michael. Truly. So much is coming to the surface. This is powerful. I think you are getting more out of this course than anyone else.”
To my amazement, I feel better. Five minutes ago, I was planning to run off. Now I think that I am, indeed, receiving a greater benefit than any of those motionless meditators. I might even be winning the course. The moon grows full and begins deflating. My aches start to fade. I’d like to say the meditation gets easier, but it doesn’t. Not a single minute feels like it has less than 60 seconds. I time myself on my wristwatch to see how long I can sit without moving. My record is 27 minutes. I keep up the illicit relationship with my neighbor – a wink, a grimace, a smirk, a sigh.
One night, also in defiance of the rules, I read the label on my deodorant. And my hand sanitizer. And my toothpaste. Then I break into my first-aid kit, looking for other things to read. I see the bottle of painkillers: prescription-strength hydrocodone. I can’t help myself – I swallow a few pills and zone out for a couple of pleasant hours.
A few times, when I’m supposed to be meditating in my cell, I wander about campus, avoiding the Dharma Servers – the Dharma Police, I rename them. I observe, in a nearby field, a group of boys playing a game of pickup cricket. I dance, by myself, to the faint licks of an unseen stereo. OK, I admit it – it’s more than a few times. I come across other truants; a couple of guys chatting, one man speaking on a cellphone. I watch the distant cliffs morph from tan to purple to black as the sun slides away.
I come up with a theory: People who are really good at meditation, who can truly suppress every thought, probably didn’t have many thoughts in the first place. They’re stupid. I like this theory. It makes me feel better. Who the hell wants to be a Buddha anyway? It’s not a bit of fun; there are no girls. I’d rather be Derek Jeter.
The final meditation is a one-hour group session. My head’s still a waterfall, strong as ever, so I envision the drive from my home in Montana to the entrance of Yellowstone National Park – a trip that takes almost exactly an hour – and I visualize every bit of scenery along the way. I picture myself filling up my car with gas, buying a Diet Dr Pepper, swerving to avoid a deer, stopping to snap a photo of a bighorn sheep.
When it’s over, our vow of silence is still in effect. We’re not permitted to speak until we’re past the grand pagoda. We walk along the paths, students from the other groups spilling out of their pagodas. I fall into stride with a young Indian man, and I sense both of us speeding up, aching to reach the finish line.
I tend to measure my travels not by what I see but by how intensely I feel. And on this scale, I realize in my last moments of silence, my time at Dhamma Giri qualifies as the most profound trip of my life. Even weeks later, long after I’ve resumed the rhythms of normal existence, I can see that the 10 days have altered me. The stream of petty, kid-centric stresses that used to keep me perpetually riled – the third glass of spilled apple juice; the cellphone dropped into the toilet – now seem precisely what they are: not that big a deal. And even when I’m faced with a couple of truly big deals, like a death in my family and an emergency-room visit with my son, I feel this calm and clear-headed understanding of the vicissitudes of life.
Goenka says that it’s essential to keep meditating, two hours per day. I don’t even bother trying. None of my friends has noted any diminishment in my capacity to chatter. But the truth is I actually do feel a little bit enlightened, more deeply connected to the world. I feel like I have a greater understanding, and acceptance, of who I am, my foibles and strengths.
I communicate with a few of the other students and discover that they, as well, struggled greatly. One guy admits that he also cried. Another, an Indian student, tells me that to pass the time, he gave almost everyone a nickname: I was “Steve Jobs” because I’m Caucasian and balding and wear circular glasses. Fifteen people, I learn, quit the course, most in the first couple of days.
But overall, I think of the three-word review I give to the young man I’m walking next to when we conclude our silence. It remains my most honest and unalloyed assessment. The instant I was able, I turn to him, and he turns to me. Both of us are grinning radiantly. And I speak my first words: “That fucking sucked.”
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Access to this content in this format requires a current subscription or a prior purchase. Please select the WEB or READ option instead (if available). Or consider purchasing the publication. The Culture Fix: Creative People, Places and IndustriesBuy this book Disclaimers Regional perspectives: CCS as drivers of regional and local development Cultural and creative sectors (CCS) are important for regional development CCS tend to “cluster” in specific regions or cities CCS are feeding into regional smart specialisation strategies Culture is also a driver of regeneration in local communities References AA A+ A- Embed link copied to clipboard Share Regional perspectives: CCS as drivers of regional and local development Cultural and creative sectors (CCS) are important for regional development CCS businesses are widely acknowledged to significantly contribute to regional development. CCS businesses directly generate wealth, jobs and innovation which stimulates the local economy. These sectors also contribute more broadly to local ecosystems through their impact on other sectors of the economy, for example by driving revenues for other businesses within CCS supply chains and creating jobs in sectors supporting or adjacent to CCS. These “multiplier effects” have been observed in many national contexts and for many different CCS subsectors. For example, Gutierrez-Posada et al. (2021[1]) examined the role of CCS in stimulating employment in London and find that every job in CCS generated 1.9 jobs in other sectors of the economy. Similarly, analysis of the video games industry in Canada, shows that while the sector directly supported 27 700 full-time jobs in 2019, it also supported 9 800 jobs in the video games supply chain, and stimulated an estimated 10 600 jobs through the “induced effects” of spending by videogames industry workers (ESAC/Nordicity, 2019[2]). As well as contributing to local economic growth through supply chains and job creation, CCS generate a broad range of knowledge, industry and network spillover effects (Figure 1). Such spillovers have a strong spatial dimension and are therefore particularly important for regional development. This includes spillover effects to other businesses, but also broader effects on local communities, such as improving health and wellbeing and facilitating social cohesion. CCS can also play an important role in influencing attitudes and behaviours, and can therefore contribute to local sustainability agendas, for example in tackling climate change (WCCF, 2019[3]). The innovation spillover effects of CCS in particular have been shown to contribute to higher productivity across regional economies. Boix-Domènech and Soler’s (2015[4]) study on CCS in 250 regions across Europe finds high correlation between labour productivity (measured as the regional GDP per person) and the proportion of people employed in some cultural and creative sectors. They distinguish between “creative services” (which includes publishing, programming and broadcasting, computer programming, architectural and engineering activities, scientific research and development, advertising and market research, design, photography, and artistic and cultural activities) and “creative manufacturing” (which includes wearing apparel, leather and related products, printing and reproduction of recorded media, and jewellery), finding that employment in creative services highly correlates with increased productivity. Moreover, they suggest that around 90% of this relationship is not due to higher productivity in CCS, but rather the generative nature of spillovers from CCS to other sectors of the economy. However, the spillover effects of CCS on productivity are uneven across regions and differ by type of CCS activity. Using a similar methodology to the study mentioned above, applied to 275 European regions, Boix-Domènech et al. (2021[5]) find that while the presence of CCS had a significant positive effect on labour productivity on average, this was not the case across all regions and there were stark differences between the effect of creative services vs creative manufacturing. Their estimates suggest that while the effect of creative services on labour productivity was positive for 92% of regions, the effect of creative manufacturing was negative for 44% of regions meaning that in some regions, the high presence of creative manufacturing actually had a negative impact on labour productivity. Figure 1. CCS effects on knowledge, industry and networks Source: Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy (2015[6]), Cultural and Creative Spillovers in Europe: Report on a Preliminary Evidence Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2210-7975_HRD-1957-2015001. Box 1. Harnessing CCS to address climate change and supporting CCS businesses in the green transition Cultural and creative sectors can support the green transition in three key ways. Firstly, the sectors themselves can address the impact that their activities have on sustainability issues, for example by addressing sustainability issues in the fast fashion industry, or the use of plastics at live events. Secondly, CCS can contribute to the green transition in other areas of the economy, for example through design services which incorporate more sustainable materials. Thirdly, CCS have an important role to play in raising awareness and shaping narratives around the sustainability agenda through the work they produce, such as documentaries, music, novels etc. Creative Carbon Scotland Launched in 2011, Creative Carbon Scotland works with individuals, organisations and strategic bodies from CCS, sustainability and policy spheres with an aim to harness the cultural and creative sector in addressing sustainability needs in Scotland. Alongside working directly with artists and individuals on sustainability projects, the Creative Carbon provides arts organisations with training in carbon measurement, reporting and reduction, and has supported around 120 organisations in mandatory carbon reporting. Creative Carbon has also worked in partnership with the sector body Creative Scotland in developing an environmental sustainability policy for arts organisations across Scotland and offers a wide range of both general and sub-sector specific guidance documents on sustainability in CCS through its website. Ahead of the COP26 summit in Edinburgh in 2021, Creative Carbon led the Climate Beacons project, which aimed to stimulate long-term public engagement in sustainability through a collaborative programme of work between climate change and environmental organisations, and arts, heritage and cultural organisations. The Climate Beacons project launched seven “hubs” across Scotland where artists and cultural sector professionals, environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs), scientists and policymakers and members of the local community could meet physically or virtually to discuss and debate COP26 themes and climate action specific to each local area. Source: Creative Carbon Scotland (2022[7]), Creative Carbon Scotland: Connecting Arts and Sustainability, http://www.creativecarbonscotland.com/. (accessed on 28 Feburary 2022) CCS tend to “cluster” in specific regions or cities It is well established that CCS have a tendency to cluster in specific regions or cities. There are multiple reasons why CCS cluster (Lazzeretti, Capone and Boix, 2012[8]). Firstly, much like other sectors, CCS businesses can gain significant “agglomeration” benefits from being geographically situated near to other businesses in the same sector, as they are able to pool resources and share knowledge and expertise (Porter, 1990[9]). These benefits of agglomeration are however particularly important for CCS, as they rely more heavily on knowledge generation and human capital, operate within dense networks and comprise smaller firms. Secondly, there are historic cultural reasons why CCS clusters develop and persist over time. Cultural heritage represents a resource for creativity and as expertise build over time regions develop path-dependent knowledge accumulation, meaning that areas with rich cultural heritage often develop into creative and specialised hubs. Thirdly, the popular “creative class” approach to understanding CCS clustering (Florida, 2002[10]) explains how creative professionals are drawn to places which exhibit certain characteristics (namely, access to technology, high levels of talented human capital, and high levels of social tolerance) and that the presence of this “creative class” in turn enhances these characteristics, thus attracting more creative professionals and increasing the clustering effect. The clustering of CCS businesses and labour markets leads to uneven CCS activity across regions. As discussed in Chapter 3, CCS employment is most often concentrated in large cities and capital regions. Analysis from the UK shows that productivity (measured in this study as GVA per employee) also varies widely by region, with CCS productivity in London being up to three times higher than in other regions (Tether, 2019[11]). Moreover, they find that productivity in London and the south-east of England has grown over six times faster between 2011 and 2017 than in the rest of the UK. Evidence from China, (Tao et al., 2019[12]) suggests that the urbanization economies reflected in being in a large city (e.g. more diversity of industries, greater access to transport and communications networks etc.) raise the productivity of CCS businesses. However, studies also show that small “micro-clusters” of CCS can be found across regions, in both cities and non-metropolitan areas (Siepel et al., 2020[13]; Boix., Hervás-Oliver and de Miguel-Molina, 2015[14]), suggesting that there is potential to significantly improve CCS national productivity by targeting policy intervention towards rural and non-capital regions. CCS are feeding into regional smart specialisation strategies Considering the benefits that CCS can bring to local economies and communities, many local governments have put the development of CCS as a priority area in their smart specialisation strategies. Smart specialisation is an industrial and innovation framework for regional economies that combines industrial, educational and innovation policies to leverage innovation-led, knowledge-based investments in regions, while taking into account contextual specifies (OECD, 2013[15]). The smart specialisation approach encourages countries or regions to identify and select a limited number of priority areas for knowledge-based investments, focusing on their strengths and comparative advantages (OECD, 2021[16]). CCS can deeply benefit from such approaches, as they focus on investment in knowledge sharing, collaboration, infrastructure and the businesses environment. Emerging from the EU expert group “Knowledge for Growth”, smart specialisation strategies (S3) is the result of EU cohesion policies and investments. However, the smart specialisation approach has been taken up by many regions across the world. In total, 19 EU Member States and 7 non-EU countries as well as 180 EU and 42 non-EU Regions are registered on the European Commission’s Smart Specialisation Platform, which provides advice to countries and regions for the design and implementation of their Smart Specialisation Strategies (EC, 2022[17]). While specialisation may have traditionally focused on technology sectors, a growing number of regions have focused their smart specialisation strategies on CCS. Evidence from the European Commission (2019[17]) shows that 80% of public authorities in Europe have included CCS in their innovation strategies, with more than 90 EU regions including CCS in regional smart specialisation strategies. Between 2014 and 2020, more than EUR 67 million were made available to regional smart specialisation strategies through the European Structural and Investment funds and through national and regional funding (EC, 2012[18]). In 2014-2020, around 100 European regions had cultural and creative industries and/or cultural heritage included in their Research & Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation, both within regional and national priorities. However, there remain barriers to taking up CCS-focused smart specialisation. For example, a lack of data on innovation in CCS has prevented some countries from including the sector, focusing instead on areas with a stronger evidence base (EC, 2018[19]). Moreover, the growing interest in developing smart specialisation strategies around CCS does not correspond to an equally substantial commitment in terms of allocation of financial resources (see Figure 2). Figure 2. Shares of overarching topics addressed by Smart Specialisation Strategy priority areas and budget spent on such topics from ERDF funding, 2014-20 Source: European Commission (2021[20]), Study on prioritisation in Smart Specialization Strategies in the EU, Prognos and CSIL, 2021. Smart specialisation can be a helpful approach to consolidating CCS policy across different areas or levels of governance. CCS business and entrepreneurship policies are often fragmented, with initiatives and programs split between arts and cultural ministries and economic, or innovation ministries. Moreover, national policies can be inconsistent with local approaches. Smart specialisation approaches to policy design can help to integrate various government departments in formulating comprehensive policy agendas, as well as bringing together the creative community, academia and businesses across the economy (EC, 2020[21]). Moreover, co-planning at a national level could help solve regional and local lack of resources when it comes to business development by sharing resources on a larger scale (EC, 2018[19]). Smart specialisation strategies can target CCS as a whole or target specific subsectors. For example, in Catalonia, Spain, the region’s cultural and creative strategy for 2014-2020 focused on tourism, culture and sport, while aiming to promote entrepreneurship through education from secondary and tertiary education so that youth from all sectors may participate in an entrepreneurial culture (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014[22]). In Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, France, home to the Cannes film festival, the 2014-2020 strategy focused on exploiting the audio-visual and tourism sectors to increase the attractiveness of the region while also making culture an interactive element through e-tourism. (Région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, 2014[23]) Box 2. CREADIS3: The Smart Specialisation Creative Districts Project As part of the EU’s Regional Funds Interreg Europe initiative the Sustainable Smart Specialisation Creative Districts or CREADIS3 project was launched in 2017 as a collaborative project between six regional actors: the Basque Country, Emilia-Romagna, Central Finland, Wallonia, Western Greece and the Slovak Republic. The purpose of the project is to align territorial public policy agendas and support the development of more efficient CCS policies in European territories, in order to generate innovation and economic development in European regions. The project aimed to: Promote administrative collaboration at different levels to facilitate synergies between the different authorities in charge of the CCS Articulate better cultural and economic policies to achieve effective innovation policies for CCS Support the international territorial appeal to increase investment in the creative potential of each territory and retain entrepreneurs Improve collaboration within the local ecosystem of centres, laboratories, clusters, incubators, universities, science parks, etc. Improve growth between cultural and technological sectors Support the internationalisation of SMEs through capacity building and new business models in the field of research and innovation Each region developed specific policies in response to these objectives, tailored to their own regional contexts, with a total of 22 actions developed across the partnership. For example, Wallonia developed actions around supporting creative hubs in the region and Western Greece looked at developing an online calendar of CCS events. Evaluation of the programme shows that the project has been highly impactful and the majority of actions taken by regional partners have a strong potential to be transferred to other regions. Source: CREADIS3 Project (2020[24]), Lessons Learnt in CREADIS3: From Territorial Action Plans to Smart Specialization Strategies in Cultural and Creative Districts, https://www.interregeurope.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/tx_tevprojects/library/file_1585655498.pdf. Alongside this, CCS are increasingly feeding into wider policy initiatives, such as tackling climate change and creating more sustainable environments. The New European Agenda for Culture (EC, 2018[25]) highlights the importance of “cultural cross-overs”, where connections between cultural and non-cultural spheres generate new, hybrid forms of social and economic value. This includes cross-overs between culture, health, and wellbeing; culture and social cohesion; culture and innovation; and culture, learning and education, to name only a few. Harnessing these types of cultural cross-overs can help address some of the most pressing policy issues and responding to the Sustainable Development Goals. For example, the recently launched New European Bauhaus initiative connects the European Green Deal with CCS to promote sustainability agendas. It aims to connect science and technology sectors to the world of art and culture through knowledge sharing and idea generation in order to produce innovative solutions for sustainable living (EU, 2021[26]). Culture is also a driver of regeneration in local communities With growing recognition of the direct and indirect benefit of CCS to local regions, culture-led regeneration policies have proliferated in cities and regions across the globe (IDB, 2019[27]). As economies shift away from traditional manufacturing and primary industries, cities and regions have looked towards knowledge-intensive sectors and creative capability building as a way to remain globally competitive. Culture-led regeneration policies focus on economic and social development of a city or region through promoting and enabling cultural and creative activity (Vickery, 2007[28]; Evans, 2005[29]). Initial culture led-regeneration strategies emerging in the mid-1990s focused on “transforming old industrial and harbour areas with key infrastructures, hosting cultural events and reconstructing their industrial image through place marketing” (Gainza, 2017[30]). Over the past decade or so, these strategies have become increasingly targeted, focusing on specific neighbourhood level intervention and the promotion of spaces for cultural production. Whereas policies to support CCS at a national level typically see growth in CCS as the end goal, culture-led regeneration strategies at a local level are more targeted towards development, with CCS acting as a catalyst for this change. Here CCS are understood to not only provide economic benefits (through local taxation, job creation and innovation), and social benefits (e.g. improved wellbeing and community cohesion) but also to contribute to “place making” by making cities and regions more attractive to work and live, encouraging inward investment, inward labour flows, higher productivity and increased tourism. An often-cited example of this wider impact is that of the city of Bilbao, which experienced transformative regeneration after the Guggenheim Foundation opened its second European museum in the city in 1997 (González, 2010[31]). Culture-led regeneration policies integrate urban planning with economic and regulatory policy. CCS require affordable office and workshop space as well as physical and digital infrastructure (e.g. good transport links, high-speed broadband, etc.). Urban planning schemes can address these needs by investing in new building programs and reallocating former industrial districts and unused warehouse spaces for CCS use. For example, the INCREDIBOL! Project in Bologna has renovated over 40 vacant buildings in the area for use by entrepreneurs and start-ups in CCS (see Chapter 4 Box 4.4). Urban planning and city regulation also has a role to play in promoting a creative “milieu”, by promoting nightlife (such as clubs, bars and restaurants) as well as cinemas, galleries, museums and libraries. These forms of cultural infrastructure contribute to city vibrancy, attracting creative professionals and proving an opportunity for social networking. Sustainable culture-led regeneration must remain mindful of protecting existing communities. One of the main criticisms of culture-led regeneration is that it leads to gentrification and the “pricing out” of local communities (Cameron and Coaffee, 2005[32]). Sustainable regeneration therefore requires consideration of how increased development might impact the affordability of places for local communities. Moreover, while strong cultural heritage in a region or city represents a significant asset, over commercialisation or “commercial misappropriation” of local cultural heritage can be deeply damaging to local communities (UNESCO/World Bank, 2021[33]). Consequently, sustainable culture-led regeneration requires consideration of how to support communities in retaining control over the marketisation of heritage and ensure that they adequately benefit from it. Box 3. Co-financing of regional CCS via the EU’s Cohesion funds The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is a structuring instrument for EU Member States’ investments in cultural and creative sectors. The ERDF is the most significant source of EU funding for investments in culture. For the programming period 2014-2020, EUR 39.3 billion have been allocated for the co-financing of culture and cultural heritage programmes and projects in Europe. Through ERDF and other structural funds, such as the European Social Fund (ESF), European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), financial support has addressed culture and culture-related projects in cities and regions across the EU. This includes support on the local level earmarked directly for culture (including cultural heritage), for the development and promotion of cultural and creative SMEs, and devoted to access to public sector information (including open data on culture, digital libraries, e-content and e-tourism). Regarding ERDF itself, a number of broad programmes and actions supported by this fund provide opportunities or explore topics connected to cultural and creative sectors. For example, URBACT is a European exchange and learning programme promoting sustainable urban development. It conducts a number of culture related work streams including KAIRÓS, an URBACT Action Planning Network focused on cultural heritage as a driver for sustainable urban development and regeneration. A second example is Urban Innovative Actions (UIA), which provides urban areas throughout Europe with resources to test new and unproven solutions to address urban challenges. Culture and cultural heritage are one of UIA’s main thematic areas, receiving over 100 funding applications under this theme in its latest funding call. ESPON (European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion), co-funded via ERDF, has also been analysing the impact of cultural heritage investments on societies and economies across Europe, including examining the economic impact of culture and the links between cultural heritage and identity. Source: EC (2022[34]), European Regional Development Fund, https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/ (accessed 13 May 2022); URBACT (2022[35]), Culture & Heritage, https://urbact.eu/ (accessed 13 May 2022); UIA (2022[36]), Culture and cultural heritage, https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/theme/culture-and-cultural-heritage, (accessed 13 May 2022); ESPON (2022[37]), Cultural heritage, https://www.espon.eu/search/node/cultural%20heritage, (accessed 13 May 2022) https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/ ; https://urbact.eu/ ; https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/uia-cities, https://www.espon.eu/search/node/cultural heritage References [14] Boix., R., J. Hervás-Oliver and B. de Miguel-Molina (2015), “Micro-geographies of creative industries clusters in Europe: From hot spots to assemblages”, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 94/4, pp. 753-772, https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12094. [5] Boix-Domenech, R., J. Peiró-Palomino and P. Rausell-Köster (2021), “Creative industries and productivity in the European regions. Is there a Mediterranean effect?”, Regional Science Policy and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/RSP3.12395. [4] Boix-Domenech, R. and V. Soler-Marco (2015), “Creative service industries and regional productivity”, https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12187. [32] Cameron, S. and J. Coaffee (2005), “Art, gentrification and regeneration – From artist as pioneer to public arts”, European Journal of Housing Policy, Vol. 5/1, pp. 39-58, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616710500055687. 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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Nicole Doz spent most of her life as a beauty pageant queen – a first runner up for Miss Brooklyn and Miss Staten Island.
But for all the glitz and glamour, she says she has now landed her dream job.
“I work for the sanitation department,” she says.
Yes, trashy as it may seem.
“Trashy but classy,” she says.
The 23-year-old from Eltingville decided to make a career in the garbage business, working for the New York City Department of Sanitation. Why?
“What I really like the most about it is that it really shocks people, telling them what I do as my career,” she tells CBS2’s Scott Rapoport. “They would never expect it.”
She says she’s following in the footsteps of her father, Joe, and her uncle, Jayson, who also made careers hauling garbage and cleaning streets. She remembers hearing their stories as a kid and she knew that’s what she wanted to do.
“They always talked about how it was winning the lottery this job, how great it was,” she says.
It isn’t your typical career path for a beauty queen, but her dad says it works for him.
Right now, she says she’s the only female in her garage – one of only 200 women in the entire department.
Her job is to drive the street sweeper. As a newbie, she works the graveyard shift from midnight to 8 a.m., but she’s thrilled to be there.
As for her beauty pageant aspirations, she says she’s not hanging up her bikini and high heels just yet. She says she can do both.
“Even when I’m too old for pageants, I’m still going to wear the bikinis and the high heels,” she says.
She’s a beauty queen who found a treasured career in trash.
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Sharp eyed readers have spotted a common face appearing in some of my website's posts. From self-driving engineers to Vietnamese schools, and more. Her name is Quynh Neutron. She's a geek, a data analyst at Facebook, and the most wonderful woman in the world.
Last weekend I secretly hijacked Quynh's DNS and redirected the google.com domain to an account on my home server. It served a page that was virtually indistinguishable from Google, but with one important difference: no matter what one types, the same query is generated. Go ahead, try it. [Joy, Chrome and Firefox are now labeling that page as a phishing site.]
It didn't take long that morning before Quynh tried to do a search (for "PyData video"). At first she was confused that her keystrokes did not match the resulting characters. As a fellow Dvorak user, she assumed that her computer had suddenly reverted to Qwerty. Then she saw the pattern. And she pressed the 'Yes' button.
I am a lucky man.
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President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.
“I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States,” writes Clarice Feldman in an American Thinker commentary.
The situation developed as leaders of the world attending the G20 summit in London assembled for a photograph to mark the event.
In this first image, after the king extended his hand while Obama approached, Obama bends from the waist until his head is nearly at the monarch’s waist:
President Obama’s bow to Saudi king
In a second image, Obama has straightened up and is exchanging remarks with the Saudi leader:
Obama speaks briefly with Saudi king after bowing
Video by a television crew was posted on YouTube. The bow comes at about 50 seconds into the video:
The action appeared especially awkward since among the dozens of world leaders and their spouses, handshakes abounded, but there appeared to be no other bowing in the room.
The U.S. State Department’s office of protocol, in a statement attributed to acting chief of protocol Gladys Blouda, confirmed the type of greeting between heads of state depends on the customs of the countries, but a handshake is the most common form of greeting.
The online Travel Etiquette website for Saudi Arabia said handshakes are common greetings between members of the same sex.
“You should expect to undertake a considerable amount of small talk, and learning a few Arabic greetings would be well received. Saudis will stand closer to each other than many westerners are used to, and members of the same sex will often touch arms when postulating or emphasizing a point. You should not draw away from this as it would be considered rude and rejecting. Be aware that due to the conservative nature of Saudi Arabian society, it is not considered proper etiquette for men and women to greet each other in public,” the site advises.
“It is proper etiquette to refer to a royal as Your Highness, and any members of the government ministries as Your Excellency,” it said.
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Many of the proper procedures for meeting royalty are set by the British monarchy, since its members carry probably the highest royal profile around the world today.
The website for the British queen advises men who are from the United Kingdom to provide a neck bow (from the head only) “whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual way.”
“On presentation to The Queen, the correct formal address is ‘Your Majesty’ and subsequently ‘Ma’am’,” the site advises.
ABC reported Obama and his wife, Michelle, were less formal meeting Queen Elizabeth II earlier this week, when they exchanged handshakes. The queen briefly touched Michelle Obama on the back, and she returned the contact.
Pundits were surprised, since in 1992 Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was criticized when he put his arm around the queen in violation of a general “no-touch” rule regarding royalty.
But the traditional Miss Manners book of etiquette advises: “One does not bow or curtsy to a foreign monarch because the gesture symbolizes recognition of her power over her subjects.”
Jamie Glazov, the author of “United in Hate,” said Obama’s act actually was to be expected.
“And people don’t know what’s going on here? Are we kidding?” he said. “This is simply the continuation of fellow traveling. It’s to be totally expected. Leftists have prostrated themselves before despots throughout history – during the whole Cold War and now vis-à-vis jihadists in the terror war. ‘United in Hate’ crystallizes with precision how and why this dark process occurs.”
He cited the Obamas’ less formal interaction with the queen earlier.
“Obviously, the queen does not wield totalitarian power and does not mete out sadistic punishment – with which a believer yearns to identify. The Saudi king, meanwhile, is a tyrannical entity to which Obama can subjugate his individuality – and through which he can vicariously experience a feeling of power and purpose. This is the process of negative identification that every leftist must practice and that ‘United in Hate’ documents is at the heart of every leftist’s main driving force,” he said.
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A woman accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son in the woods for several days has been hospitalized.Police say the woman, identified as 41-year-old Nyia Parler, went to see her boyfriend in Maryland after leaving her son.No word on her condition or why she was hospitalized.Parler will face charges for aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, kidnapping, false imprisonment and related offenses.She will formally be charged after she's extradited back to Philadelphia.Police say they don't believe Parler's boyfriend had any involvement.Detectives say this is one of the worst cases of neglect that they've ever seen."This kid is obviously a fighter. It's just unbelievable how we found him last night. It's just heartbreaking to see how another human, especially a mother, could treat him like that," said Lt. John Walker, Philadelphia Police.On Friday night, a man walking on a trail made the discovery at 59th Street and Cobbs Creek Parkway in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek section.Police say the 21-year-old victim is a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. He's confined to a wheelchair and has no verbal communication skills.According to authorities, the young man's mother laid him on the ground and left him there for at least a week with only a blanket and a Bible."Sometimes around 11:00 a.m., the mother went to visit her boyfriend down in Maryland. We believe she placed the child into the Cobbs Creek park right there in the 1100 block of 59th Street right by the parkway," said Lt. Walker.Investigators say the special needs man attends The High School of the Future at 42nd Street and Parkside Avenue.The school became concerned and couldn't reach his mother so they called an aunt.Once in touch with the mom, authorities say she lied."She indicated to both family members and police officers the child was with her down with her boyfriend in Maryland," said Lt. Walker.Police say the mother lives in the 5700 block of Baltimore Avenue with the victim and a 16-year-old child.Neighbors, who didn't know them, were appalled."Only a monster - that's your blood, that's your son, you gave birth to him," said Keyneah Lane.Police say the child is lucky to be alive."He has a cut to his back that they are concerned about because of infection. He's also suffering from dehydration, and some malnutrition issues that they are working on. Also from the weather conditions, his eyes are having some issues and they're having a doctor come in and look at those," said Lt. Walker.Lt. Walker says the victim is surrounded by loving family members while he remains at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receiving treatment.Doctors there are familiar with him and his medical history because he's been treated there since childhood.The woman's 16-year-old child is also in the care of family. | positive |
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(Catholic World News) – Police in Jakarta used tear gas to break up a boisterous rally of over 100,000 Muslims protesting against the governor of the Indonesian capital.
Thousands of Indonesians protest against Jakarta's ethnic Chinese and Christian governor for insulting Quran verse pic.twitter.com/f24G9djfCG — 真回安然 ☪ (@ismaelan) November 2, 2016
Fear in Jakarta as Muslims prepare for protests against #Christian governor. Click here: https://t.co/q1lV7JXoxn ^DH — persecution.org (@persecutionnews) November 2, 2016
Video: Muslim Protestors Call for Violence Against a Christian Governor- “Hang, Capture Ahok”
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama , who became governor of Jakarta in 2014, is the first Christian to hold the post, and is now a candidate for re-election. Some Islamists have objected to his role, saying that Muslims should not be under the authority of a “non-believer.”
The massive rally on November 4 seemed to illustrate the growing strength of militant Islam in Indonesia—which is the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, but also a country with a history of inter-religious cooperation.
Jakarta police calling for protesters to be orderly at tomorrow's big demonstration against Christian, ethnically Chinese governor Ahok https://t.co/jQYPklPDLz — Ben Bland 白杰明 (@benjaminbland) November 2, 2016
Indo on edge as jihadists urge violence at rally against Ahok, Jakarta's Christian governor – read Anti Chinesehttps://t.co/vhglYp9YBX pic.twitter.com/eL9mZsss1N — Finnigans 天有道地有道人无道 (@Thefinnigans) November 2, 2016
The demonstration against Purnama was also fueled by his ethnic Chinese background; Chinese have frequently been the objects of resentment in Indonesia.
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Today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook’s mobile strategy relied too much on HTML5, rather than native applications.
Not only was this a big mistake with mobile, but Zuckerberg says that its biggest mistake period was the focus on HTML5. This is the first time that the Facebook CEO has openly admitted this, but things are looking good for the new iOS native app. According to Zuckerberg, people are consuming twice as many feed stories since the update to the new iOS app, which is great.
The first half year has been a little bit slow on product, but for the next six months I expect a lot of really cool stuff.
This “really cool stuff” will probably have monetization in mind, as it’s very clear that mobile is the path to ad revenue for the company.
It’s extremely difficult for a company to nose-dive into an adoption of a particular set of tools and then quickly change course. I suspect that this is exactly what happened with Facebook and things are at least looking up.
Last year, Facebook’s CTO at the time, Bret Taylor, discussed the future of mobile, which at the time very much included HTML5. Here’s a snippet from that piece, where Taylor discusses the platform:
Does that mean an evolution away from Flash? After all, Flash dominates the market for the types of HTML5 games that Facebook is talking about. “Well it’s hard,” Taylor said about Flash specifically. When I laughed and noted he was giving the diplomatic answer, he assured me that it is something they think about a lot. “We want to be ahead of the curve and fill in the gaps when possible,” is how he ended up putting it. And this stance on HTML5 is vital for Facebook because Taylor really does see mobile as the future — but as it stands right now, that’s a bit of a problem. “The popularity of mobile devices will change,” he said implying that the dominant devices today might not be so dominant in the future. And if that’s the case, why should Facebook dump resources into them? Wouldn’t it be easier if they just focused on HTML5 — something which will work on an increasing number of devices going forward? Of course.
As Taylor noted, mobile devices have indeed changed dramatically, and a company like Apple is going to make sure that big companies are writing native apps to fully utilize the resources of the device.
Check out our full coverage of Mark Zuckerberg’s chat at Disrupt SF below.
Zuckerberg Says “On Mobile We Are Going To Make A Lot More Money Than On Desktop”
Zuckerberg: Mobile Users More Likely To Be Daily Active Users
Zuckerberg on Facebook’s IPO: Stock Performance Has Been “Disappointing”
Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5
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Mark Zuckerberg: A Facebook Phone Just Doesn’t Make Any Sense
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A Sikh man in New Zealand who removed his turban to aid a boy struck by a car received worldwide praise — and then an unexpected bonus.
The Good Samaritan, Harman Singh, said he "wasn't thinking about the turban" when he saw that a child was bleeding on the ground following an accident outside his home in Auckland on May 15.
"I was thinking about the accident and I just thought, 'He needs something on his head because he's bleeding.' That's my job — to help," Singh, 22, said in an interview with the New Zealand Herald.
Singh removed his turban and used it to stem the bleeding — especially significant because in Sikhism, a turban is an article of faith and usually removed only in the privacy of the wearer's home.
A passerby who witnessed the scene snapped a photo of Singh cradling his turban under the boy's head at the scene of the accident. The photo of the act of kindness went viral and led a local television news outlet to interview him at his home.
One good turn deserves another
The One News TV crew returned after a few days to prepare a second report about how Singh was handling his newfound fame — but they also had something else in mind.
After the first report aired, viewers noticed that the business student's house, which he shared with a roommate, was bare of furniture save for plastic chairs and a simple mattress on the floor.
During the second interview inside his home, the reporter asked him if he wanted to furnish his house one day, to which he replied that he would.
The crew then brought Singh outside, where a local business owner surprised him with a set of new furniture.
"Thank you. Thanks a lot. I'm very happy," a visibly moved Singh said in response, prompting the reporter to tears as well.
In the video, Singh is shown inside his living room as couches and coffee tables are unloading around him.
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Soon after you are born, you begin to identify with your body, personality, culture, likes and dislikes, as well as all of the thoughts and beliefs that arise as a result of the physical experiences you have lived. The identification with all of these things builds the idea you have of yourself. But it is an idea that is restricted to the short timeline from your birth to your death in this singular lifetime. It is the temporary nature of this singular lifetime that often causes you, at some point in your life, to begin to question these roles and identities which you have become. This questioning leads you then to a deeper awareness of the truth of who you really are. It leads you to the discovery of your true nature. In other words, it establishes a profound conscious connection with your higher self. Any kind of spiritual belief is empty of meaning without a personal and direct experience of your higher self. Your higher self is the eternal, incorporeal, omnipotent, consciousness that is your real self. It is the being that you go forth from and withdraw back to from life to life. It is the summation of all that you have ever been and all that you are. It is often called a higher self because the frequency of the energetic vibration of God and therefore your higher self could be interpreted as a much higher frequency than that of physical structure. Your connection to your higher self is unbreakable. It is in fact the focus of your higher self into the idea of you that created you in the first place. If that connection of focused energy from your higher self was to be withdrawn, you would die. For this reason it is always a capability of yours at any moment to utilize this connection. Your higher self is focusing love and guidance into your life in every second of your life, and it is your choice to either prevent that focused energy or to allow it. You prevent this focused energy of your higher self by thinking thoughts that are of a discordant energetic vibration to the energetic vibration of your higher self. You allow the focused energy by practicing thoughts that energetically resonate with the vibration of your higher self. You will know if you are doing one or the other because when you are thinking thoughts that oppose and therefore prevent the energetic vibration of your higher self, the thoughts make you feel emotionally bad to think. Likewise, when you are allowing the vibration of that focused energy by thinking thoughts that are a match to your higher self, the thoughts feel emotionally good to think. Your emotions are a translation, informing you at all moments of the day of where you stand energetically in relation to your higher self. When you are preventing the focused energy of your higher self, you quickly develop ailments of all kinds. When you create a lack of that energy flowing through you, you make yourself a match to illness, to accidents, and to absence instead of abundance and health. This is the reason that even though most people do not know what role their emotions play, feeling better still remains the motivation behind every action taken in this world. Your higher self also plays out in a very important way in this physical experience you are living with respect to your desires. When you experience a situation which you would define as negative, it serves as a comparison. It serves as a comparison from which its opposite arises within you. In other words, the idea of what is alternately positive. This is an inevitable process; you do it even without conscious awareness. Your higher self becomes vibrationally that "idea" that you have consciously or subconsciously desired. This is how the higher self evolves and becomes more. But once this has happened, like a magnet, the law of attraction (which is the most powerful and invariable occurrence in this universe) begins drawing you and your higher self together, because the energetic vibration of what you desire and the energetic vibration of your higher self is now a "like" energetic vibration. This means all things in the third dimension which you identify as your life and your identity are drawn together with all the things in the physical dimension that are an energetic match to the vibration of the manifestation of your desire. They are orchestrated towards you so that your physical reality becomes a full realization of that thing you desired in the first place (what you, yourself caused the universe to become). If you think thoughts that feel good, you are allowing those changes into your experience, if you think thoughts that feel bad, you are preventing them. However, they do not go away. They are always there, they simply can not become in your universe because you have free will which is expressed through choice of thought to not cooperate with your own desires. The conscious awareness and utilization of your constant connection to your higher self is the key to achieving everything you desire as well as living a happy life, full of all the experiences you intended for yourself upon choosing to come into this physical life. Your eternal, true self is always with you, eager for your conscious notice and communication, in a space of unconditional love and aid, becoming more because of the physical you. More sharing options... Go to articles Teal Swan Articles × Where can we send you your 5 free guided meditations? Join Our Newsletter And Get Teal's 5 FREE Guided Meditations as a welcome gift! Send me guided meditations Your privacy is our top priority. We promise to keep your email safe! 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What to Eat Now – Tyger Tyger Skip to content Tyger Tyger Truth is light and warmth and a fiery knowledge. So rise like the sun, and burn. Menu Home Choose Joy Choose Joy Healthy Habits Light the World Action for Happiness Write the World Portfolio 52 Poems to Adam My Writings Chapters from My Book Read the World Read the World Project WWII Book Reviews Top 10 Lists Halloween Countdown Book Clubs Boston & Books Children & Reading Reading Goals See the World The Bahamas Run the World These Running Shoes of Mine Taste the World My Recipes This&That These Parents of Mine This Hedgehog of Mine Cook the World, Trying New Recipes What to Eat Now Posted by ofnoblebirth on August 19, 2015 October 9, 2016 Like most human beings, I’m interested in food. Who’s not? But I’m even more interested in healthy delicious food. No, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, Time magazine’s What to Eat Now focuses on food that is both delicious and healthy. This 112-page book is separated into three section: the kitchen, the body, and the field and factory. My favorite is the kitchen section, because it focuses on healthy foods and recipes, like how to add flavor to your food without adding fat and calories or great substitutions to make to cut down on fat and sugar. It even introduces new and interesting spices like miso and lemongrass. What is this, you ask? Well, you’ll find out! I’m anxious to use miso in a recipe someday. An interesting article is “31 Healthiest Foods of All Time” (p42). Luckily, the entire article is on the Times.com website. But I’ll give you a taste—no pun intended—of some of the items: dark chocolate, black beans, tuna, broccoli, spinach, skim milk, apples, almonds and fat-free Greek yogurt. Eat up! Get the book to at least peruse the “Use This, Not That” article, a great reference for substituting ingredients for healthier options. As an experiment, I made one of the recipes, Spicy Thai Coconut Chicken Soup (which you can find on My Recipes or by following the link. FYI, it called for lemongrass, which is this herb that comes in thick stalks that resembles green onions, but are stiff and yellow. You put the lemon grass into the soup at the beginning and let it soak into the liquid until it’s time to serve, and then you take it out. It has a nice, citrusy flavor. Anyway, the soup turned out awesome! I served it to several people and received glowing reviews. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... Related Post navigation Previous Post Downtown Abbey Next Post Keturah and Lord Death: Book Review 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. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. About Contact Search for: Follow Tyger Tyger on WordPress.com Goodreads Facebook Instagram Pinterest Twitter Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy Follow Following Tyger Tyger Join 208 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Tyger Tyger Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar %d bloggers like this: | negative |
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Exposure to microgravity generates alterations that are similar to those involved in age-related diseases, such as cardiovascular deconditioning, bone loss, muscle atrophy, and immune response impairment. Endothelial dysfunction is the common denominator. To shed light on the underlying mechanism, we participated in the Progress 40P mission with Spaceflight of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVECs): an Integrated Experiment (SPHINX), which consisted of 12 in-flight and 12 ground-based control modules and lasted 10 d. Postflight microarray analysis revealed 1023 significantly modulated genes, the majority of which are involved in cell adhesion, oxidative phosphorylation, stress responses, cell cycle, and apoptosis. Thioredoxin-interacting protein was the most up-regulated (33-fold), heat-shock proteins 70 and 90 the most down-regulated (5.6-fold). Ion channels (TPCN1, KCNG2, KCNJ14, KCNG1, KCNT1, TRPM1, CLCN4, CLCA2), mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, and focal adhesion were widely affected. Cytokine detection in the culture media indicated significant increased secretion of interleukin-1α and interleukin-1β. Nitric oxide was found not modulated. Our data suggest that in cultured HUVECs, microgravity affects the same molecular machinery responsible for sensing alterations of flow and generates a prooxidative environment that activates inflammatory responses, alters endothelial behavior, and promotes senescence. | positive |
Expand An old woman standing next to the remains of her house in Kondrashevka, southeastern Ukraine. The house was severely damaged in an alleged Ukrainian air strike on July 2, 2014. © 2014 Human Rights Watch
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine
Dear Mr. President,
I am writing to raise issues relating to the conduct of military operations in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, in particular the shelling of a hospital in Krasny Liman and air strikes in the villages of Luhanskaya and Kondrashevka.
Human Rights Watch considers that the hostilities between Ukrainian government forces and armed insurgent forces identifying themselves as the South-East Army and the Donetsk People’s Army constitute an internal, or non-international, armed conflict under international humanitarian law. Therefore, Ukrainian forces and insurgent armed groups are bound by customary international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians and civilian objects and to refrain from attacks that fail to discriminate between combatants and civilians, or would cause disproportionate harm to the civilian population.
Since the beginning of the crisis, Human Rights Watch has documented abuses by all parties. We have documented numerous incidents of killings, kidnapping, torture and ill-treatment, threats and other abuses by insurgent forces against political activists, civil servants, investigative journalists, and the like. We also documented several cases of enforced disappearances of journalists working for Russian TV stations and self-proclaimed Donetsk People Republic’s (DNR) administration by Ukrainian forces.
From July 1 to 5, Human Rights Watch carried out a field mission to areas where the armed conflict is ongoing to examine compliance with international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict. We received information that insurgents were unlawfully holding civilians captive and subjecting them to cruel and degrading treatment, which would constitute a war crime. We also examined an apparently targeted attack on a hospital in Krasny Liman, in Donetsk region which resulted in civilian casualties and loss of civilian life and property during aerial strikes in the Luhansk region. We call upon you to ensure a thorough, prompt, and effective investigation into these cases, to publicize the investigation’s findings, and in case violations of international humanitarian law are established, to hold perpetrators accountable.
Krasny Liman
On July 2, Human Rights Watch visited Krasny Liman, some 20 kilometers southeast of Sloviansk, which at the time was the insurgents’ stronghold in the Donetsk region. The visit was carried out in cooperation with a leading Russian non-governmental organization, “Memorial Human Rights Center,” and three Ukrainian human rights organizations (Kharkiv Human Rights Group, Independent Monitors’ Organization, and Civil Liberties Center), and the account below reflects the report these groups published on July 8.
Russian and pro-insurgent media had reported that on June 3, during operations to re-establish government control over Krasny Liman, Ukrainian forces’ shells had hit a hospital on the southern edge of town, killing a doctor and wounding several civilians. One of the leaders of the self-proclaimed DNR also stated in an interview for Russian federal television that Ukrainian servicemen killed “25 wounded [insurgent] fighters in the Krasny Liman hospital.” When speaking to the press during his visit to Normandy, France, on June 6, Vladimir Putin made a special mention of the Ukrainian forces, “taking-over a hospital and shooting the wounded dead.” Ukrainian authorities denied the allegations. Human Rights Watch found it imperative to look into this highly publicized case
Human Rights Watch interviewed a commander and several servicemen of the Ministry of Internal Affair’s Artyomovsk battalion, several Kransy Liman residents, and the hospital personnel. We also visited the hospital. Human Rights Watch was not able to find evidence to corroborate the allegations that wounded persons were shot in the hospital. However we have strong grounds to believe Ukrainian forces deliberately targeted the hospital for attack as they believed—falsely—that there were insurgents on the ground. Under international humanitarian law it is prohibited to direct an attack against hospitals, medical units, or any place used for sheltering the wounded and sick, including combatants hors de combat. Article 3, common to all Geneva Conventions, and applicable to non-international armed conflict also requires that anyone not taking active part in hostilities, including insurgents placed hors de combat by sickness or injury shall be treated humanely, and that the wounded and sick are to be cared for.
The hospital that had been shelled is known as the “railway hospital” due to the fact that under normal circumstances it provides services exclusively to workers of the railway system and their families as part of their benefits package. It has 100 beds, 80 of which were filled on the day of the attack, according to the medical personnel interviewed by Human Rights Watch.
The chief doctor, Leonid Zagursky, and two junior medical personnel told Human Rights Watch that on June 3 the shelling started unexpectedly, and that they had no time to evacuate patients or take other precautions.
Medical personnel told Human Rights Watch that mortar shelling began at around 3:30 p.m. and the attack lasted no longer than 10 minutes, with a total of nine shells hitting the hospital and its grounds. Dr. Zagursky told Human Rights Watch that the hospital’s only surgeon, 62-year-old Vasiliy Shistka, had just finished a planned operation when the shelling started. As he was walking out of the operating room, a shell fragment hit him on the head. He died several days later as a result of his injury. No other hospital personnel or patients were killed or wounded in the attack.
The chief doctor told Human Rights Watch that on the morning of June 4, a group of Ukrainian servicemen approached the hospital in an armored carrier to carry out a sweep operation, as they believed insurgents were using the hospital for military purposes. According to Dr. Zagursky, they did not show any identification documents but demanded that he lead them through all the wards. Doctor Zagursky had to move from ward to ward opening doors and several servicemen with cocked automatic guns walked behind him. Having examined all the wards and hospital grounds in that manner, the military acknowledged there were no insurgents present.
Doctor Zagursky told Human Rights Watch:
I was very stressed. My hospital was severely damaged, my colleague was dying. I screamed at them, “Why did you do this? Why did you attack the hospital? It’s full of patients, our surgeon is going to die, and more people could’ve been hit!” If you have nine shells fired once at the same place you just know it’s targeted. Of course, I did not know for a fact the mortars were theirs [Ukrainian] but as they came to the hospital “to mop it up” from insurgents that actually weren’t there … so, their commander showed me a map and said, “Look here. Here is your hospital marked on the map. And it’s marked specifically as an insurgent hospital. That’s why it happened.” I said, “But you’ve looked all over and you haven’t found anything suspicious. We’ve never had any insurgents here. It’s an ordinary hospital and we’re only servicing railroad workers.…” Five days later, another group of Ukrainian servicemen came to the hospital for another “mop-up” visit. I complained to the town commandant and they stopped bothering us.
Two medical workers, interviewed separately from Dr. Zagursky, confirmed the latter’s account.
The hospital suffered significant damage from the shelling. In particular, the roof and infrastructure of general therapy wing is seriously damaged, as are the walls and infrastructure of surgery wing, gynecology wing, and the hospital’s pharmacy. The windows were shattered by the explosions and glass shards and other debris still had not been fully cleaned up on the day of Human Right Watch’s visit.
Human Rights Watch also viewed numerous photographs taken by the hospital personnel right after the attacks and examined nine craters from the shells and several remaining fragments, which were consistent with a 120 mm mortar attack. Human Rights Watch also examined the neighboring buildings and noted that they have not suffered any damage except very small shell fragment damage to some of the walls, which also supports the chief doctor’s belief in the targeted nature of the attack.
Dr. Zagursky told Human Rights Watch that he filed a complaint with the district prosecutor’s office and passed all shell fragments and photographs to prosecutors. The prosecutor’s office staff recorded his testimony and examined the hospital grounds. The investigation is currently ongoing.
As there is strong evidence suggesting the targeted nature of this attack on the hospital, which resulted in a civilian casualty and significant damage to the infrastructure, Human Rights Watch urges you to ensure the investigation is full and impartial and its results are made public.
We are concerned that this attack was a violation of the prohibition of directing attacks against hospitals or medical personnel as well as civilians and those hors de combat due to sickness or injury.
Luhanskaya and Staraya Kondrashevskaya (Kondrashevka), Luhansk Region
On July 4, Human Rights Watch, jointly with Memorial Human Rights Center, visited the villages of Luhanskaya – close to the Russian border and approximately 10 kilometers northeast of the city of Luhansk, one of the remaining insurgents’ strongholds in eastern Ukraine – and the neighboring Staraya Kondrashevskaya. Also known by local residents as Kondrashevka, Staraya Kondrashevskaya is officially viewed as the northern part of Luhanskaya and is located on the other side of the railroad crossing. In both villages we documented civilian casualties and property damage resulting from two alleged aerial strikes on July 2. The combined population of Luhanskaya and Kondrashevka is about 15,000 people.
In a statement cited in media reports, Andrei Lysenko, spokesperson for the National Security and Defense Council, said that the Ministry of Defense had seized insurgent Grad launchers and had determined that they had been used to shell Stanitsya-Luganskaya (Luhanskaya), and firmly denied that Ukrainian forces’ artillery or aviation had been used to attack this village. (See for example, http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3387085-stanytsu-luhanskuui-obstrelialy-separatysty-est-zhertvy-tsentr-ato; http://inforesist.org/sily-ato-zaxvatili-ustanovku-grad-s-kotoroj-terroristy-vchera-obstrelyali-stanicu-luganskuyu/.)
Human Rights Watch’s research in Luhanskaya and Kondrashevka revealed no evidence of Grad use in the villages and strongly indicated that aviation attacks had taken place on the villages. Sixteen local residents of these two villages interviewed by Human Rights Watch described hearing the noise of a plane engine, and several also said they saw the actual aircraft in the sky. Multiple shell entry points, which were also examined by Human Rights Watch, suggest airstrikes as they were approximately two meters in diameter. Human Rights Watch also collected some unidentified explosive weapon fragments, though most of the fragments had been cleared away before our arrival. The fragments and the damage we documented are consistent with allegations of air strikes.
Human Rights Watch is not in a position to establish conclusively which side conducted the aerial strikes. However, Human Rights Watch’s research suggest that Ukrainian forces may have conducted the strikes for the purpose of destroying an insurgent checkpoint/base located on a small hill around 800 meters from Moskva-Donbas Street, which was hit in Luhanskaya. The base is about three kilometers from Ostrovskaya Street, which was hit in neighboring Kondrashevka. During the three-and-a-half hours Human Rights Watch spent in each of these villages, our researchers did not see any insurgent presence, except at the checkpoint near Moskva-Donbas Street. Local residents interviewed by Human Rights Watch denied that insurgents were in the village on July 2 and denied the insurgents had maintained firing positions inside the villages.
Luhanskaya
Human Rights Watch examined six severely destroyed houses on Moskva-Donbas Street in Luhanskaya and spoke to six of the people who lived in and owned these homes. We also examined the local police department building, which was damaged. They referred to two deaths – an elderly male resident known in the village by his patronymic Palych (full name unknown) and another man who was apparently visiting with him when the strike occurred around 10.30 a.m. They also said that resident of Moskva-Donbas Street, a man by the last name of Podgoev, was wounded.
Ekaterina Bogdanova, owner and resident of 17 Moskva-Donbas Street, which was largely destroyed in the attack, told Human Rights Watch:
My husband and I spent the night in the basement of the local history museum – there was mortar fire between 3:30 and 5:30 a.m., and there were some 50 people there with us, the place is used as a shelter by those who don’t have proper basements. So, we only returned home in the morning when everything was quiet and went to bed. We awoke at 10.30, there was this horrid, deafening noise, debris was flying everywhere, and our house was collapsing on us. My husband covered me with his body … it’s a miracle we’re both OK except for small burns and lacerations.… This house was built by my family 203 years ago, it survived World War II and now it’s gone. How could it happen? Is this our punishment for living not far from the [insurgents’] checkpoint? Does this make us terrorists?
Bogdanova’s husband, Alexei Shelikhov, confirmed her account in an interview with Human Rights Watch.
A 25-year-old local resident, Stas (last name withheld on his request), told Human Rights Watch that he was at home when the airstrike happened at 10:30 am. He said:
I heard the rumble of a plane. I poked my head out of the window on the second floor trying to take a close look. The plane made three circles and suddenly, when it was again on the side which I could not see [the house blocked the view to the other side] there was this whooshing sound, a whooshing roar.… My daughter was napping right here on the bed – see, it’s now all covered in debris and the wall’s full of holes and half-collapsed – and I rushed to her and screamed to my wife, ‘Run, run!’ We literally rolled down the stairs with the girl in my arms, trying to cover her from flying debris. It’s a miracle we’re alive…
When Human Rights Watch interviewed Stas, he said he continued to have ringing in his ears, doctors in Luhansk had diagnosed his wife with a concussion, and their three-year-old daughter was waking up with nightmares.
Kondrashevka
Human Rights Watch documented greater civilian casualties and even more significant property damage on Ostrovskaya Street, in Kondrashevka. Human Rights Watch interviewed 10 witnesses who provided consisted descriptions of the airstrike on Ostrovskaya Street, which occurred at about noon on July 2. They listed nine civilian deaths resulting from the attack, including two children (ages were approximated by interviewees):
Lidia Kirnosova, 51 Stanislav Ivanov, 36 Dmitry Shamardin, 45 Mikhail Kalugin, 65 Andrei Dyusik, 50 Vladimir Ermilov, 49 Ivan Ermilov, 5, son of Vladimir Ermilov Valentina Mironova, 62 Three of the people we spoke to also referred to a four-year-old girl by the last name of Romanova, first name unknown, who was visiting her grandmother, Nadya Romanova, at the time of the attack.
Also, according to local residents, three people were wounded, including Tatiana Gazhemon whose leg had been blown off and who was in critical condition in the local hospital. Two local residents interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they saw Gazhemon being taken to the local hospital and inquired about her afterwards. The other two wounded, one of whom was interviewed by Human Rights Watch, were released from the hospital on July 4, having received treatment for fractures and light flesh wounds. Among the ten people interviewed by Human Rights Watch two lost their immediate family members.
Human Rights Watch examined nine destroyed houses on Ostrovskaya Street. Two of the houses – described by local residents as two-story buildings each with four apartments – caught fire and burned to the ground. The other seven were still partly standing but made uninhabitable due to collapsed roofs, collapsed walls, or fire damage. We also saw two houses that were damaged but remain habitable. The attack left Ostrovskaya Street with neither water nor electricity.
Human Rights Watch examined about a dozen shell entry point craters on both sides of the destroyed houses – on the road in front of them and in the backyards. The craters were at least two meters in diameter and therefore consistent with an air strike.
Galina Lobach, 67, who lives on Ostrovskaya Street, told Human Rights Watch:
It was close to noon. I was in the house alone and three [male] neighbors were sitting on the veranda across the street. There was a plane and this horrid whooooooooooooosh which just deafened me and everything was shaking … the three men [were killed]. Shreds [of their bodies] were everywhere.... It was so hard to figure out which body part belonged to whom. One was identified by a tattoo on his arm … no heads, no feet.... My other neighbor, from the house next door was killed in her garden. I cleaned what I could.
When Human Rights Watch approached Lobach for an interview she was searching her vegetable garden for remaining body fragments and the smell of charred human flesh still lingered in the air. Lobach’s face, arms, and legs bore multiple small lacerations from injuries she sustained from the attack.
Another local resident, 63-year-old Nadezhda Golovkova, resident of House #8/3 on Ostrovskaya Street, provided Human Rights Watch with the following account:
At around 10.30 [a.m.] I heard explosions from not too far away. I ran outside to find out what’s happening and a neighbor was talking on his cell phone … he hangs up and says, “A friend called me from Luhanskaya and he says they’re being bombed from a plane … bombs are falling on them from sky. A plane is bombing them.” I got so frightened, I felt faint. So, I went back inside to lie down. I was lying in bed, on top of the blanket, for a while, right here, and then there the roar of a plane, and this awful whooshing noise, and the wall next to my head shattered and I could not see anything from the debris.
Golovkova said that her neighbor’s son, five-year-old Ivan Ermilov, and his father had been among those killed by the strike, and that Ivan had just celebrated his fifth birthday the day before.
In light of strong allegations suggesting that the air strikes were carried out by Ukrainian forces, a detailed investigation is called for. If there were no insurgents deployed in Luhanskaya and Kondrashevka at the time, the attacks may have been in violation of international humanitarian law.
Human Rights Watch recognizes that the actions of the insurgents violate Ukrainian law, and that their military operations may also violate international humanitarian law by failing to take all feasible measures to minimize harm to civilians. However, while the Ukrainian government is entitled to carry out law enforcement and military operations to counter the armed insurrection, it also has obligations never to direct attacks at civilians or civilian objects or to engage in indiscriminate attacks; to distinguish at all times between civilian objects and military objectives; and to adhere strictly to the principle of proportionality insofar as attacks that may cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, or damage to civilian objects, in excess of the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated, are prohibited. Under international humanitarian law the insurgents are bound by the same obligations, and under human rights standards, all parties must take all feasible measures to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, and damage to civilian objects.
Respectfully yours,
Hugh Williamson
Director
Europe and Central Asia Division | positive |
India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has come in for criticism during his time in office for being uncommunicative with the media. He might well wish now that he’d stayed that way after a rare sit-down with Indian newspaper editors backfired and he was quoted as warning over China’s growing regional clout.
According to The Times of India, Singh said ‘India had to take adequate precautions but not give up hope of peaceful resolution of issues with China…in reaction to "pinpricks" by Beijing on Jammu and Kashmir and other issues.’
The newspaper also quoted him as saying: ‘China would like to have a foothold in South Asia and we have to reflect on this reality. We have to be aware of this.’
Singh was reportedly incensed by the publication of remarks that were supposedly meant to be off the record. But regardless, they underscored the ongoing tensions between the two nations almost a year after there was fevered speculation inside India and out over whether a border dispute in Arunachal Pradesh might actually spark some kind of military skirmish.
But suspicion of China is by no means confined to the Indian government. According to the most recent Pew Global Attitudes Project, only 34 percent of Indians view China favorably—the second lowest number in Asia after Japan. This compared with 58 percent in Indonesia and 85 percent in Pakistan.
The fact that 85 percent of Pakistanis view China favorably probably says something about why China is viewed with suspicion in India. But why else? I asked a couple of our India-based bloggers for their take on this.
Delhi-based writer Shreyasi Singh told me:
‘I think Indians look at China with a mix of envy, awe and condemnation. China's meteoric rise and its incredible ability to expand infrastructure is grudgingly admired. Indians bristle at being told that we might be as much as 100 years behind China. And, I know several people who say we should temporarily adopt some of China's rigid politics to force economic development through.’
But she said that although there’s a certain admiration over the pace of its neighbour’s economic growth, Indians are also fiercely proud of the more democratic make-up of their country.
‘For many, it's the first retort when discussing China's rise, and many Indians are proud of that critical socio-political difference. There’s also a feeling that while in China the development has been top-down, India is the hotbed for technical innovation, personal ingenuity and entrepreneurial buzz, the combination of which many believe ensures India a more sustained, long-term, deeper progress.’
This point on entrepreneurism is a point she made in a recent blog entry on the issue following an Economist cover story on the rivalry between the two countries. As Shreyasi noted, it’s hard to get away from discussion of the issue at the moment, and Shreyasi’s fellow Indian Decade blogger Rajeev Sharma also took up the issue of tensions between the two in his look at how India is responding to the growth in China’s navy.
So how much of a calculation is India in China’s eyes? I got an interesting take on this from Diplomat writer and UNESCO Peace Chair Madhav Nalapat. Madhav spends a great deal of time travelling between India and China, and I wondered what his sense from meetings there was on how India is viewed by the PLA.
He told me: ‘The military still sees from the prism of the past, and is in favour of continuing the policy of ensuring that the Pakistan Army gets the help it needs to box in India within South Asia. It’s the PLA that’s driving policy towards both India and Pakistan, and which most recently has sought to add two more China-supplied nuclear reactors to Pakistan's stock.’
So how does he recommend the Indian government respond to China, including that controversial nuclear reactor sale?
He said: ‘The gifting of reactors needs to be followed on the Indian side by an immediate upgrading of ties with Taiwan (by permitting higher-level official interaction) as well as activation of the India-Vietnam nuclear agreement. Hanoi needs to be helped by India in its path to nuclear progress, the way China has assisted Islamabad.’ | positive |
It took a while, but the second, and final, beta of the next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, 13.04, aka Raring Ringtail, has been released.
Image: Screenshot by Steven J Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet
Behind the scenes, there's been a lot of debate on how long Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, will support non-long-term support (LTS) releases of the Linux-based operating system, such as this one. The final decision by the Ubuntu Technical Board was to "reduce maintenance period for regular/standard (non-LTS) Ubuntu releases from 18 months to nine months". In short, Ubuntu is moving to a rolling release schedule.
As Ubuntu continues to evolve into being a universal operating system for PCs, tablets, and smartphones , this move to a more rapid-fire schedule doesn't come as any surprise. This is a natural continuation of Canonical becoming more focused on its own development path instead of the broader Linux desktop.
That said, here's what we can expect from Ringtail.
First, if you really, really can't stand Unity, the default Ubuntu interface, not only do you have KDE for a choice in Kubuntu, Xfce with Xubuntu, and LXDE with Lubuntu, but you'll also be able to use GNOME 3.6, with some of 3.8, in Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04. Let me just say though that I still find the GNOME 3.x family to be more annoying than useful. If you want an old-style Ubuntu GNOME 2.x style interface look to Linux Mint with either Cinnamon or MATE.
As always, there will be a slew of updated programs. That starts from the core. Ubuntu will be using the Linux 3.8.5 kernel. Above that, you're going to fine LibreOffice 4.01 for the office suite; Firefox 20.0 for the web browser; and Thunderbird 17.05 for email.
For development tools, Ubuntu has the usual assortment. While Canonical intended to wean users away from Python 2.x, and does indeed ship with Python 3.3, they were unable to "convert everything to Python 3 for Ubuntu 13.04".
Ubuntu will also include an early version of Upstart Users. This is a new desktop tool designed to speed up the desktop login experience by deferring some desktop services from starting unless they're requested or required. This feature won't be enabled in 13.04, but you'll be able to manually turn it on for all users or a particular user if you wish.
Finally, and annoyingly, Ubuntu 13.04 will not include the Ubuntu installer for Windows, Wubi. This popular tool enabled Windows users run Ubuntu from within Windows just as if it were an application.
Unfortunately, as Steve Langasek, an Ubuntu developer, explained, Wubi is "not currently in very good shape for a release" for a variety of reasons. Not least of which is that "Wubi has not been updated to work with Windows 8" and Ubuntu has been focused on its mobile client over the desktop.
Don't like this decision? Ubuntu would be more than happy for a developer to take Wubi on. Langasek concluded, "If someone is interested in taking over the maintenance of Wubi so that it can be released with 13.04 (or if not with 13.04, then with a future release), I would encourage them to start by looking at the above-mentioned bugs and preparing patches, then talking to the release team." I, for one, would welcome someone bringing Wubi back from retirement. It's proven a useful program for introducing Windows users to Linux.
In the meantime, if you want to give Raring Ringtail a try, you can either download an Ubuntu 13.04 ISO or upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 by taking the following steps:
Open Software Sources
Switch to the Updates tab and set Notify me of a new Ubuntu version to For any new version
Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box
Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release "13.04" is available
Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.
Enjoy!
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Sentiment analysis uses computational tools to determine the emotional tone behind words. Python has a bunch of handy libraries for statistics and machine learning so in this post we’ll use Scikit-learn to learn how to add sentiment analysis to our applications.
Sentiment Analysis isn’t a new concept. There are thousands of labeled datasets out there, labels varying from simple positive and negative to more complex systems that determine how positive or negative is a given text.
For this post, we’ll use a pre-labeled dataset consisting of Twitter tweets that are already labeled as positive or negative. Using this data, we’ll build a model that categorizes any tweet as either positive or negative with Scikit-learn.
Scikit-learn is a Python module with built-in machine learning algorithms. In this tutorial, we’ll specifically use the Logistic Regression model, which is a linear model commonly used for classifying binary data.
Environment Setup
This guide was written in Python 3.6. If you haven’t already, download Python and Pip. Next, you’ll need to install Scikit-learn, a commonly used module in machine learning, that we’ll use throughout this tutorial. Open up your terminal and type in:
pip3 install scikit-learn==0.19.0 pip3 install jupyter==1.0.0 1 2 pip3 install scikit - learn == 0.19.0 pip3 install jupyter == 1.0.0
Since we’ll be working with Python interactively, using Jupyter Notebook is the best way to get the most out of this tutorial. You already installed it with pip3 up above, now you just need to get it running. With that said, open up your terminal or command prompt and entire the following command:
jupyter notebook 1 jupyter notebook
And BOOM! It should have opened up in your default browser. Now you can go ahead and download the data we’ll be working with in this example. You can find this in the repo as negative_tweets and positive_tweets. Make sure you have the data in the same directory as your notebook and then we’re good to go!
A Quick Note on Jupyter
If you are unfamiliar with Jupyter notebooks, here are a review of functions that will be particularly useful to move along with this tutorial. If you are familiar with Jupyter, you can skip to the next section.
In the image below, you’ll see three buttons labeled 1-3 that will be important for you to get a grasp of — the save button (1), add cell button (2), and run cell button (3).
The first button is the button you’ll use to save your work as you go along (1). I won’t give you directions as when you should do this — that’s up to you!
Next, we have the “add cell” button (2). Cells are blocks of code that you can run together. These are the building blocks of jupyter notebook because it provides the option of running code incrementally without having to to run all your code at once. Throughout this tutorial, you’ll see lines of code blocked off — each one should correspond to a cell.
Lastly, there’s the “run cell” button (3). Jupyter Notebook doesn’t automatically run it your code for you; you have to tell it when by clicking this button. As with add button, once you’ve written each block of code in this tutorial onto your cell, you should then run it to see the output (if any). If any output is expected, note that it will also be shown in this tutorial so you know what to expect. Make sure to run your code as you go along because many blocks of code in this tutorial rely on previous cells.
Preparing the Data
Before we implement our classifier, we need to format the Twitter data. Using sklearn.feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer , we will convert the tweets to a matrix, or two-dimensional array, of word counts. Ultimately, the classifier will use these vector counts to train.
First, we import all the needed modules:
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer 1 from sklearn . feature_extraction . text import CountVectorizer
Next, we must import the data we’ll be working with. Each file is a text file with one tweet per line. We will use the builtin open function to split the file line-by-line and build up two lists: one for tweets and one for their labels. We chose this format so that we can check how accurate the model we build is. To do this, we test the classifier on unlabeled data since feeding in the labels, which you can think of as the “answers”, would be “cheating”.
data = [] | positive |
Still plenty of support, but the fans are getting anxious for some real success.
The Whitecaps face the San Jose Earthquakes at Avaya Stadium today (2 p.m., TSN2, TSN 1040), but with both teams eliminated from the playoffs, the post-mortem is well underway.
We polled Province readers about what went wrong, and why, and where to next. Almost 1,000 of you responded as of Saturday. Thank you!
Whitecaps beat reporter Marc Weber breaks down some of the reaction.
Management, ownership taking more heat than Robbo
More than one-third of readers pointed to the players at the biggest reason why the Caps missed the playoffs this season. Not surprising.
The Caps finished second in the west last season and the core returned. Expectations were high, and that core underperformed. Captain Pedro Morales garnered 73 per cent of the vote as most disappointing.
But what is surprising is that another one-third of voters felt the front office was most to blame for the poor season. Not the players. Not the coach (Carl Robinson). But Bobby Lenarduzzi and Co. at Water Street.
In a separate question, only 13 per cent of voters claimed to have confidence in the front office, while almost half of voters said they didn’t have confidence in ownership.
So what’s happening here?
Lenarduzzi’s made it clear that Robinson has final say on player moves, and it’s Robinson’s key signings who’ve struggled to match their previous form: Morales, Kendall Waston, Matias Laba, Cristian Techera, the departed Octavio Rivero.
Perhaps people don’t believe the front office is hands off, and this surely comes back to Lenarduzzi explaining “the committee” back when Martin Rennie was dumped as coach.
The only line that’s haunted the Caps more was that zinger about being a “top 25 club in the world” in their expansion season.
If perception is reality, the Caps clearly have some work to do in convincing fans of who does what at the club.
And for fans newer to the sport, the lack of a traditional general manager figure — Lenarduzzi is the president; Greg Anderson is vice-president of soccer operations — probably adds to the confusion.
Furthermore, if the coach has to coach and is also in charge of scouting and signing players, are there enough hours in the day to do it all to the best of his ability? And is that the best model?
Ultimately, the Caps are six seasons into this venture and fans expected more by now. The vote on this particular poll question reads more like a referendum on the body of MLS work thus far.
In Robinson, fans — like the club — believe they have a good coach. Almost 92 per cent voted that Robinson should be back next season, an impressive level of confidence after a poor record this year.
For reasons that the club might want to ponder, there seems far less confidence in the structure around him.
Telling off-season ahead
There are different ways to win in MLS. You can spend close to $20 million like L.A. and Toronto and Seattle and New York City.
The Caps will never do that.
Or, you can be more like FC Dallas and the New York Red Bulls, and like Colorado this season — balanced teams with talent, but not star power.
Colorado is an interesting case because they’ve gone from dead last in the west in 2015 to first-overall in the league right now. They’ve widely been praised for their teamwork, spirit, defending and coaching. Rightly so.
They also spent $5.4 million US in salary this season on three players: goalkeeper Tim Howard, playmaker Shkelzen Gashi and striker Kevin Doyle, according to MLS Players’ Union figures.
Now, you can debate what percentage of the Rapids’ success is down to that trio, but you can’t debate that there’s some correlation.
Dallas and New York, for the record, don’t have any millionaires on the books, so it’s also about spending wisely, scouting, development, coaching, and getting all the little things right.
What’s clear, though, is that Caps fans think it’s time for the owners to open their wallets wider.
Almost 77 per cent of respondents believe the Caps don’t spend enough money to have a shot at MLS Cup. Ouch.
Almost 90 per cent want the club to spend at least $3 million in combined salary on a new striker and playmaker.
The fact that only 29 per cent said they have confidence in Caps’ ownership is no doubt related to this topic, too. They’re not convinced this club is going to spend enough to truly compete.
With Octavio Rivero out the door and Pedro Morales surely not coming back as a designated player, the Caps can reshape this roster quickly in January’s transfer window.
They are not as far off the pace as they seem today, but they have to get those two signings right, whatever they spend.
More than 72 per cent of voters said they don’t care where the top-end talent comes from, although Europe (21 per cent) garnered more votes than Latin America (3.3 per cent), which is interesting given that the Caps have gone to latter route under Robinson.
Two-thirds of voters also said it’s important for the club to sign someone with name recognition — most with the caveat that said player must be at a good age. This is of course hard to do unless you spend a certain amount.
As for one name fans would recognize — former MLS Golden Boot winner Camilo — 63 per cent said they’d welcome him back, at least after he scored a bunch of goals.
Maybe we say this heading into every off-season, but this off-season feels like a huge one. It’s stunning how quickly the Caps can go from the flavour of the summer to being swallowed up by talk of the Canucks’ third defensive pairing.
The Caps have enjoyed a loyal core fan base, but there’ll be plenty of eyes on the January transfer window.
That said, the general sentiment is still one of optimism. Almost three-quarters of voters remained “somewhat optimistic” or “optimistic” about the Caps future, and the same amount still believe the core is good, led by goalkeeper David Ousted, who was voted the most untouchable Whitecap.
Everybody loves The Kid
Alphonso Davies has been a welcomed distraction down the stretch.
The Caps have won once since mid-July, away to non-playoff Columbus. But Davies, a 15-year-old winger raised in Edmonton, has dazzled in eight MLS appearances.
He’s been the biggest reason to tune in these last few weeks because even when the present looks grim the future is always fun to think about.
More than 40 per cent of voters said that promoting Davies from the USL team to the MLS one this summer (along with Brett Levis) has been the Caps best move of the season.
Sure, that tells you something about their moves last off-season — Christian Bolańos has done well, but neither Masato Kudo (who had that horrific jaw injury) or Blas Perez has made a big impact.
It tells you more about Davies, though.
Scouts from Manchester United and Liverpool are among those who’ve watched him at B.C. Place. But most fans don’t want him going anywhere for a while. They want to enjoy him, live. Davies and Kekuta Manneh on the wings next season? That’s a tantalizing thought.
Dealing Beitashour a disaster
As much as people have griped about the lack of a legitimate striker and grumbled about Pedro Morales’s contract and impact, more than half of voters felt right-back was where the club did its worst business over the past year.
Trading Steven Beitashour to Toronto — which was really about not wanting to pay him the near-$250,000 salary he’s on with TFC — garnered 40 per cent of the vote as the worst move since December.
Add in the votes that claimed “bringing Jordan Smith back” was the biggest misstep and that means 54 per cent of the votes for worst move involved right-backs.
Playing Smith over Fraser Aird at the position was also the second-biggest gripe people had with coach Carl Robinson. So, yeah, a lot of mental energy was spent fretting over the position this year.
The Caps were tied for the best defensive record in MLS in 2015 (36 goals allowed). They have the worst defensive record in the West this season (51 goals allowed).
That’s not just about one position or one player. Not even close. But unsettling the back four — with the idea of spending more in attacking positions — set them back this year. They were easier to game plan for and to pick apart.
They have to address the position in January.
Refereeing a turn off
The Caps led MLS in red cards and suspensions this season — and by quite a margin. Just looking at the raw numbers you might think they’ve been MLS’s version of the Broad Street Bullies.
Caps fans, though, don’t think all the bans are down to their team being dirty (1.4 per cent), but rather undisciplined (50 per cent), and that’s certainly a fair assessment. Outside of Kendall Waston’s tackle in Portland there wasn’t anything nasty.
The troubling part of this poll question is that almost 50 per cent of people either think the referees and MLS Disciplinary Committee “haven’t got a clue” or that there is some MLS conspiracy against the Caps.
Perhaps this is true of most fans in most sports when it comes to their own team, but there’s no doubt that refereeing was a major talking point on too many days at B.C. Place.
And if not at the stadium, then mid-week once DisCo had reviewed the video evidence and handed down further judgement without much explanation.
MLS has taken proactive steps to protect players and that’s commendable in its intent. But talk to most of the Whitecaps and they haven’t got much a clue what is and isn’t a fair tackle anymore, never mind the fans.
Some of the red cards this season have been laughable.
These decisions impact games and seasons. And even if they do — in theory — even out over the course of a season, they’re still collectively a reason to tune out.
mweber@postmedia.com
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Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley speaks at a Democratic fundraiser at Gibson's Bookstore and True Brew Cafe on March 6, 2015, in Concord, N.H. O'Malley is considering a run for president. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Democrat Martin O’Malley weighed in Saturday on the national debate about policing that now includes the city where he was mayor, and where the police strategies he implemented provoked heated debate.
Speaking to an audience of party activists here, O’Malley called the police-custody death of Freddie Gray part of “a painful history in our country, a legacy that we continue to work on and work through and seek to overcome every day.”
“We have been seeing far too many tragic videos of police-involved deaths in our country,” said O’Malley, who became Maryland governor after serving as Baltimore mayor, and is considering a White House bid. “We have to make all our institutions more open and transparent.”
It was as a crime-busting mayor some 15 years ago that O’Malley first gained national attention. Although he is positioning himself as a progressive alternative to Hillary Clinton, O’Malley also touts a police crackdown during his time as mayor that led to a stark reduction in drug violence and homicides as one of his major achievements.
Yet some civic leaders and community activists in Baltimore portray O’Malley’s policing policies in troubling terms. The say the “zero-tolerance” approach mistreated young black men even as it helped dramatically reduce crime, fueling a deep mistrust of law enforcement that flared anew last week when Gray died after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody.
[Remembering Freddie Gray: ‘He was our family’]
Police in Baltimore — like their counterparts elsewhere — have had strained relations with African Americans for generations. But community leaders say the relationship reached a nadir during O’Malley’s tenure, thanks to a policing strategy that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests for minor offenses such as loitering and littering.
Although prosecutors declined to bring many of the cases, activists contend that those who were arrested often could not get their records expunged, making it harder for them to get jobs.
“We still have men who are suffering from it today,” said Marvin “Doc” Cheathem, a past president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, which won a court settlement stemming from the city’s policing policies. “The guy is good at talking, but a lot of us know the real story of the harm he brought to our city.”
Bishop Douglas Miles, a community leader, said O’Malley’s department “set the tone for how the police department in Baltimore has reacted to poor and African American communities since then.”
“None of us are in favor of crime,” Miles said. “But we also recognized that you couldn’t correct the problem through wholesale arrests.”
For all the criticism, O’Malley twice won election as mayor, capturing nearly 67 percent of the Democratic primary vote in 2003 on his way to a second term. In an interview Saturday, he said he believes to this day that his administration did the right thing.
Then-Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley talks to senior citizens in Prince George's County in this 2006 file photo. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
“They were individual arrests, and oftentimes of the same people again and again and again,” O’Malley said. “We achieved the biggest reduction in . . . crime of any city in America, and none of it was easy. All of it was hard. But there were very few people who want to return to those violent days of 1999.”
[O’Malley, trying to get noticed, hits Clinton from the left]
Crime fell during O’Malley’s mayoralty, with the number of homicides declining by 16 percent — part of a wider decline across much of the country. At the same time, the number of arrests in Baltimore soared, reaching 108,447 in 2005, or about one-sixth of the city’s population.
“What was positive was that there was zero-tolerance for criminals and drug dealers locking down neighborhoods and taking neighborhoods hostage,” said the Rev. Franklin Madison Reid, a Baltimore pastor. “Does that mean there was no down side? No. But the bottom line was that the city was in a lot stronger position as a city after he became mayor.”
Benjamin T. Jealous, a former president of the national NAACP who worked with O’Malley when Maryland abolished the death penalty in 2013, credited him for supporting a civilian review board as mayor and for a sharp drop in police shootings that occurred during that time. Jealous said O’Malley’s “mass incarceration” police strategy is “a separate issue” than police brutality, and “a conversation for a different day.”
“It was a period where a lot of mayors were doing whatever they could to try to reduce crime,” Jealous said.
But others wonder about a hidden cost.
A. Dwight Pettit, a Baltimore lawyer whose clients have won numerous settlements from police brutality complaints, said O’Malley’s “approach to policing when he was mayor was disregard for the Constitution.”
“His philosophy was, ‘Put them in jail and figure it out later,’ and that will solve the crime problem,” he said. “It created a confrontational mentality with the police.”
Over the past year, as he has criss-crossed the country, O’Malley has talked about alleged police misconduct in places such as Ferguson, Mo. and North Charleston, S.C. On Saturday, he called Gray’s death “another awful and horrific loss of life.”
“Whether it’s a police custodial death or a police-involved shooting,” O’Malley said, “we all have a responsibility to ask whether there’s something we can do to prevent such a loss of life from happening in the future.”
Earlier this month, at a civil rights event convened by the Rev. Al Sharpton, O’Malley said his crime-reduction efforts as mayor saved many lives. “There are a thousand fewer black men in Baltimore who died violent deaths over the last 15 years than otherwise would have died had we not come together.”
Sharpton — who said he invited O’Malley to speak at the convention because he is a potential presidential candidate -- still recalls O’Malley’s police strategies when he was mayor, which he criticized at the time for leading “to a lot of racial profiling and harassment of black men.”
“It breeds mistrust when you have everyone stopped two or three times,” Sharpton said. “It permeates throughout the community.”
Baltimore’s history is rife with moments when tensions between the police department and black residents flared. In 1942, for example, 2,000 African Americans from Baltimore marched in Annapolis to protest the fatal shooting of a black soldier by a white city police officer. Nearly 40 years later, the local NAACP branch demanded a federal investigation into police brutality in the city.
In 2005, with O’Malley in office, Cheathem recalled the local NAACP branch being “inundated with calls from African Americans and Hispanic men saying they were being arrested and no charges were being filed.”
A contingent of activists “met with the mayor and shared our anger — that these guys weren’t being charged but were coming out with arrest records,” Cheathem recalled. “We requested that this process be stopped, and he was not receptive to it at all. We left with the idea that we had no recourse but to sue.”
The NAACP joined in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU that was based on the arrest of a 19-year-old man with no prior criminal record who spent hours in jail for dropping a candy wrapper on the street while sitting on the steps of his aunt’s house. The suit named O’Malley and other Baltimore officials, including the police commissioner, and alleged that the Baltimore police had improperly arrested thousands of people “without probable cause and in violation of the U.S. Constitution.”
The complaint was settled four years later, with Baltimore agreeing to pay an $870,000 settlement. By then, O’Malley was governor. But the memory of his police strategy endured.
“We’re not saying the mayor had ill intentions,” said state Del. Jill Carter (D-Baltimore), a longtime O’Malley critic. “He probably had the best intentions. But when all the evidence hit that this was creating more problems, he should have been able to reassess it.”
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By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Authorities in Kaohsiung yesterday questioned executives of Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co (慶富造船), which is suspected of defrauding banks and using money intended for a Republic of China Navy contract to invest in projects in China.
The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office questioned 19 people from the company, which was contracted by the navy to build six minesweepers.
Company executives are suspected of securing NT$35.293 billion (US$1.164 billion) in loans under false pretences.
Ching Fu owner and president Chen Ching-nan (陳慶男) and his son, company vice chairman Chen Wei-chih (陳偉志), were later released after posting bail of NT$8 million and NT$5 million respectively.
More than 100 law enforcement personnel, headed by Kaohsiung prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau, on Wednesday searched 14 locations linked to the probe into the firm and its parent company, Ching Fu Group (慶富集團).
Company executives and managers involved in procurement and financial operations were questioned by prosecutors and were listed as people of interest in the case.
Ching Fu Shipbuilding, one of Taiwan’s largest private shipbuilders, in October 2014 won a Ministry of National Defense contract to build six minesweepers as part of the nation’s indigenous ship building and upgrade program.
After securing the contract, Ching Fu Shipbuilding allegedly colluded with a South Korean firm in 2015 and last year to set up three overseas shell companies to launder money, prosecutors said.
Chen Ching-nan and Chen Wei-chih used fraudulent receipts and forged documents from the shell companies to obtain loans from 12 Taiwanese banks, prosecutors said.
The largest was a NT$20.5 billion joint loan from a consortium of nine banks headed by First Commercial Bank (第一銀行).
The first of the vessels to be built according to the contract was a 700 tonne ship, which is being constructed by Italy’s Intermarine SpA, with US firm Lockheed Martin providing support for the mine detection hardware and weapon systems.
Ching Fu Shipbuilding was to build the remaining vessels.
Prosecutors said that Chen Ching-nan and Chen Wei-chih had admitted using false documents to obtain bank loans.
However, they said the firm faced financial difficulties because the ministry had not paid initial installments outlined in the contract.
They said that the situation meant the company was unable to gain US approval to import weapons systems, according to prosecutors.
Allegations of fraud and illegal transfers of funds were raised when investigators found that Ching Fu Group had boosted its listed capital to NT$5 billion, partly from bank loans, and was in talks over a series of joint ventures with Chinese companies.
Investigators said Chen Wei-chih was in Shanghai in June to meet with China MCC20 Group’s (二十冶集團) Zhang Jinxian (張進賢) regarding a joint venture to build luxury resorts and an amusement park on Dongshan Island in China’s Fujian Province.
Meanwhile, the Financial Supervisory Commission yesterday said that despite loan irregularities involving false documents, Ching Fu Shipbuilding had not lapsed in servicing its debt and no domestic banks have filed a complaint about the company.
The commission confirmed that First Commercial Bank had arranged the syndicated loan, of which the shipbuilder had received about NT$15 billion, but declined to provide further details amid an ongoing investigation. | positive |
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A hospital in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, which cost US taxpayers almost $600,000, is so ill-equipped, hospital staff are washing newborn infants using untreated river water, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported on Wednesday. SIGAR’s visit, which was conducted in November 2013 (photos here), also found mold and mildew throughout the hospital; a lack of furniture and equipment; a serious risk for earthquake damage; and only enough electricity to operate three light bulbs in the entire facility.
In 2009, a local Afghan contractor, Shafi Hakimi Construction Company, was commissioned to build Salang Hospital as part of a Department of Defense-funded reconstruction program. When a US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) task force first inspected the hospital when it was under construction in 2012, they determined it had major problems and residents of Salang district wouldn’t have adequate healthcare until they were fixed. In November 2012, the contractor was paid in full. But when SIGAR inspected a year later, it found “the deficiencies identified by the task force had not been corrected.”
NBC News, which recently visited the facility, observed “desperate” hospital staff attempting to administer dental care to a 12-year-old girl—even though they only had access to six pieces of rusty dental equipment. As NBC described it: “The girl was shivering with fear, and began crying after the doctor gave her a shot in her gums. Another man held her still as Sarwy swiftly tilted her head back, opened her mouth and yanked out one of her teeth with a pair of pliers.”
Hospital staff told SIGAR that they are paying about $18 a month of their own money to a neighbor, in order to get enough electricity to operate the three light-bulbs in the hospital. Additionally, SIGAR found that the contractor built the hospital two stories high, instead of one, without authorization from US officials or further study. “The hospital does not serve the medical needs of the people of Salang district as intended and may be a danger to its patients and staff because of the potential for the structure’s collapse in an earthquake,” the report reads.
This account differs sharply with a press release put out by US Forces-Afghanistan yesterday, which argued that despite the SIGAR report, “the facility is currently providing improved medical services” and noted that, “local ministry officials are currently in the process of hiring a surgeon and other staff and have installed a solar power generation unit.” John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told NBC, “either no one from USFOR-A has actually visited this facility recently or USFOR-A is living in an alternate reality.”
Mother Jones has reached out to US Forces-Afghanistan to find out when they last visited the facility. According to a January 21 US Army document obtained by Mother Jones, US forces have been unable to conduct a physical re-inspection of the hospital since the SIGAR notified them of their findings on January 3, due to “reduced combat forces [and] threats in the area.” ? | positive |
VANCOUVER, BC - A sold-out crowd at BC Place witnessed a winning start for Vancouver Whitecaps FC as they beat Canadian rivals Toronto FC 1-0 to open the club's third season in Major League Soccer.
Highlights: Whitecaps FC 1 - 0 Toronto FC
A well-worked goal finished off by man of the match Gershon Koffie was the difference between the sides as the 'Caps continued their streak of winning each of their first three MLS season openers at home.
Head coach Martin Rennie fielded a strong starting lineup with captain Jay DeMerit starting at centre back and goalkeeper Joe Cannon given the start in net. Rookie Kekuta Manneh and newcomer Daigo Kobayashi started on the wings with Kenny Miller just behind striker Darren Mattocks in a 4-2-3-1 formation, whilst Jun Marques Davidson got the nod alongside Koffie in the centre of the pitch.
The match started at a cautious pace with neither team dominating the opening exchanges. In the third minute, Miller got in behind the Toronto FC defence but his ball back across the box found no Whitecaps FC players in support.
Robert Earnshaw, making his debut for Toronto FC after joining the team on Friday, tried his luck in the fifth minute as he received the ball outside the area but his low shot was comfortably saved by Cannon. In the build up to the chance, captain DeMerit landed awkwardly whilst heading the ball clear and was substituted for Brad Rusin, who was making his MLS debut for Whitecaps FC.
In the 18th minute, Toronto FC winger Reggie Lambe went down under a challenge from Whitecaps FC left back Alain Rochat to win his side a freekick in a dangerous position just outside the area. Earnshaw took the freekick but saw his effort sail harmlessly over the bar.
TFC created a chance on 40 minutes as a long, hopeful ball from Reds captain Darren O'Dea found Earnshaw deep in the Whitecaps FC half and clear on goal but a terrific recovering tackle from Rusin denied the Welshman a clear shot on goal.
As the first half neared it's close, a nice one-two between Whitecaps FC speedsters Manneh and Mattocks saw Manneh one-on-one with a Toronto FC defender. The rookie winger turned the defender before firing a low shot that was well saved by Bendik as the teams went into the break scoreless at 0-0.
Looking for a spark, the 'Caps made a halftime change that proved decisive as new signing Nigel Reo-Coker entered the action, coming on for Manneh as the team changed to a 4-3-3 formation with Miller and Kobayashi joining Mattocks up top.
“Nigel won a lot of balls that we weren’t winning in the first half. His way of passing forward was very good, creating some good chances, some good balls in the box. And generally, he’s got a presence and a swagger about him and rubs off on other people. You have to have that to be a good team.” Martin Rennie POST MATCH
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Minutes into the secon half Mattocks drew a foul from Toronto FC left back Ashtone Morgan in a dangerous area. The resulting free kick was curled to the back post by Rochat and was heading in until a last second intervention by Bendik who parried the ball tantalizingly close to Whitecaps FC defender Rusin's lunge only to see the danger cleared by the visitors.
The deadlock was finally broken in the 59th minute as Whitecaps FC were rewarded for their positive start to the second period. Lee played a smart one-two with Miller before feeding the ball to Kobayashi on the edge of the area. The Japanese maestro then laid it off first time for the on-rushing Koffie and the fan favourite took one touch before firing a powerful shot past Bendik into the Toronto FC goal to give the 'Caps a well-deserved 1-0 lead.
Toronto nearly replied instantly as Rochat conceded a corner in the 63rd minute. Bekker swung the ball deep into the area where Dunfield managed to find space for a free header but could only direct the ball well over the bar.
With two minutes to go in regular time, Reo-Coker laid it off to Lee who was closed down fast by a Toronto FC defender. The ball deflected to Hurtado who found himself in space in the area but the American saw his eventual shot blocked. From the following corner, Hurtado played another quick one-two with Mattocks before racing towards the area. He laid the ball of for the supporting Mattocks who also saw his shot blocked.
In the end, Whitecaps FC saw out a late surge from Toronto FC to record a winning start to the new season with a final score of 1-0. Goalscorer Koffie received the Budweiser Man of the Match award for his efforts.
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Next up for Whitecaps FC is another home fixture on March 9 as they take on Columbus Crew at BC Place. Kickoff is at 4:30 p.m. PT.
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Rockman Corner: This NES Has Been Megafied Monday, August 20, 2012 This NES Has Been Megafied How do you make an old Nintendo console better? Simple: give it a little Blue Bomber flare fare. This bad boy is brought to you by Video Game Rescue's Kevin. Unfortunately, it's not for sale. Still, that shouldn't stop you from admiring some fine camera work. Check out more images here! Source: Video Game Rescue Posted by Protodude at 10:23 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 16 comments: Anonymous August 20, 2012 at 10:28 PM Notice how the face is made about X, but the buster is the one Normal Megaman uses, lol ReplyDelete Replies Reply Wilynumber13 August 20, 2012 at 10:33 PM Kinda weird to use a Mega Man X design on a console that had zero Mega Man X games (unless you count pirate game Rocman X!), but it looks cool. ReplyDelete Replies Reply kotipeltox August 20, 2012 at 10:43 PM @Wilynumber13:Kinda weird to use a Mega Man X design on a console that had "ZERO" Mega Man X games (unless you count pirate game Rocman X!), but it looks cool. Oh yeahhh..... ReplyDelete Replies Reply Amir August 20, 2012 at 11:43 PM Hey, if I post a picture of my Megaman collection, is it gonna get a whole article, too? ReplyDelete Replies Reply Protodude August 20, 2012 at 11:44 PM @Amir: Depends. ReplyDelete Replies Reply Musashi the Master August 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM Hey Protodude, is it possible to post a article about MegaMan fanfiction? If so, will you mention my MegaMan Battle Network fanfic? ReplyDelete Replies Reply Anonymous August 21, 2012 at 10:08 AM Moar leik "This NES Has Been Megafied X." amirite? ReplyDelete Replies Reply TheTrueLegend August 21, 2012 at 12:13 PM It is odd how often pictures of X get labeled with the classic logos . . . I guess, maybe, to the layman there isn't much difference between Mega Man Classic and Mega Man X. ReplyDelete Replies Reply Amir August 21, 2012 at 12:55 PM Kay, here's a snapshot of it. I can get more, if you'd like. http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/408/img0711zi.jpg ReplyDelete Replies Reply undamned August 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM Something tells me this would have blown people's minds back in the 90's. Today we are spoiled with so much amazing fan crafts it's hard to go bananas for something like this, as cool as it is. -ud ReplyDelete Replies Reply Anonymous August 21, 2012 at 4:38 PM @Musashi: When people start actually writing good fanfiction based on Megaman. :) ReplyDelete Replies Reply Alyssa W August 21, 2012 at 5:17 PM I don't care if the Buster doesn't match the Mega, it still looks like time and effort went into making it like that. And it's very cool to see. ^_^ ReplyDelete Replies Reply Pluvius August 22, 2012 at 3:45 AM Amir, where are all the games? ReplyDelete Replies Reply Amir August 22, 2012 at 10:39 AM @Pluvris: I wanted to show my more unique and obscure items. I mean, everyone has seen the usual stuff like Megaman Anniversary on PS2, X1-8, the EXE games, and all that jazz. I'd rather have my more "Oh wow" items on display, like the EXE3 Plug In PET, and so on. There's more pictures than just that one, but I sent them as an email. ReplyDelete Replies Reply Anonymous August 22, 2012 at 12:50 PM Looks like a Mega Game Cube. XD Is X a Transformer able to turn into a video game??? ReplyDelete Replies Reply Anonymous August 22, 2012 at 3:03 PM Maybe he used X's face and the original buster on purpose? ReplyDelete Replies Reply Add comment Load more... Keep it friendly. Disparaging, belittling and derogatory comments are not permitted. 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Millennial Asks for Net Neutrality Explanation
RUSH: We start on the phones today with Rob in Colorado Springs. Great to have you, sir. How you doing?
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Doing well. How are you?
RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you.
CALLER: I wanted to speak to you about net neutrality. Being a Millennial, I have friends who are so scared that evil corporations are going to regulate the internet now that net neutrality is not going to happen, and I was wondering if you can give me a brief synopsis of why we don’t want net neutrality that I can give to my Millennial friends —
RUSH: Happily.
CALLER: — instead of me trying to explain it all the time.
RUSH: Happily. But I guarantee you they are not going to accept what you tell them is true, unless you use the word “sustainability” somewhere in your answer. But first, I just ended up interviewing for the next issue of my newsletter, Thomas Hazlett. He’s a professor of the broadcast spectrum, the communications spectrum. He’s an expert. He’s written a book called The Political Spectrum, and it’s in lay terms to explain the history of regulation over the spectrum — radio, TV, two-way, internet, wireless, cellular, and all of that, so that people can understand what exactly has and has not happened.
Here it is in a nutshell. Net neutrality as advocated by the people that your friends like and support is asking for the government to regulate it. Corporations don’t regulate things; they compete. It’s the federal government that regulates, and your pals are seeking that. Your pals believe that government enforces fairness and equality and sameness, and that’s not at all what’s gonna happen; and the history of the spectrum is all the proof that you need.
The internet, up until two or three years ago when people started getting crazy about net neutrality, the internet is the one communications medium that was not regulated, and look at how it expanded, and look at how free it was, Rob. The New York Times, the Washington Post, you name it, enter the internet and everything is free. They’re charging their subscribers the same thing, but on the internet it was free. Everything was. Everybody got on board. There wasn’t any regulation. There wasn’t any limitation. It was the wild west. It was the essence of customer and market freedom. Do you know when cellular technology was invented?
CALLER: I can’t say I do.
RUSH: Well, would you be surprised to learn that it was first invented in 1940?
CALLER: Wow.
RUSH: It was suppressed by the government, in collusion with broadcast communities, broadcast companies, to keep it from coming to market until the nineties — well, the late eighties, actually. FM radio was invented and shelved for 30 years by a consortium of the government and AM broadcasters who did not want competition.
Net neutrality would equal the government making partnerships with various corporations based on the politics of the president and the administration at the time, and they would make deals to benefit the corporations. You do not want the government involved in this at all. If you want a free internet, if you want an internet that’s gonna be affordable at what rates you have the ability to pay, if you want different tiers. But if you want the internet to become your cable company, then support net neutrality.
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RUSH: Rob, if you’re out there, I’ll delve into this a little bit more. I had to hurry through that, but you got the essence of it, if you go back to Rush Limbaugh and just reread that, you’ll be up to speed, but I’ll spend some more on it anyway.
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Now, I want to go back. Our first caller today was a young man — he’s a Millennial — and his buddies very much believe in net neutrality, and he doesn’t, and he was seeking my help in persuading them that they’re wrong in what they think about it. And this is… It’s dicey. You know, people who have been propagandized or brainwashed (for lack of a better term) to believe that the government offers the solution to every injustice and every unfairness out there, it’s hard to talk people that believe that out of it.
It’s an emotional attachment that they have, and I’ve found that even a solid recitation of facts that dispel everything people believe often is also ineffective. It just causes people to become more distant and build an even bigger wall of boundaries to prevent the facts from getting in, because there has been a comfort level that has been built around the misunderstanding of false knowledge. The belief that the government is the great equalizer, the belief the government is benevolent and seeks to right injustice and to promote fairness and equality, coupled with the way everybody is raised to believe that corporations are evil…
“They kill their customers! They don’t care about anybody’s health, and they don’t care about jobs, and they don’t care about this, and they don’t care about their customers!” So you battle those two beliefs, and you’re really up against it. So I admire young Rob for taking this on. But, Rob, the way to refute the current belief system in net neutrality is to be able to expose the history of the regulation of the spectrum in this country — and by “spectrum” I mean frequencies used to communicate either one-way or two-way.
The spectrum is everything that we have commercialized in communications. The cellular cell call — the cell signals that we use — are a portion of the spectrum. FM radio is 88 to 115 megahertz. AM radio is 550 AM to 1600 AM. That is a much lower frequency than what FM is. Two-way radio for cops and EMS, that’s a whole ‘nother frequency. NASA talking to its rockets? That’s another part of the spectrum. Radar. Sonar. That’s all part of the spectrum, and it all had to be discovered. That spectrum, all of those radio waves are around us all the time.
We are awash in all of these waves. We just don’t have, in our brains, the technology to translate what’s on those waves into something we can hear. That’s why we need radios that can decode what’s on these frequencies and convert those into audio that we can then hear in a speaker. But you’re being bombarded by television, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth LTE, LTE on cell. You’re being inundated with radio waves from television antennas. It’s immense. We’re all inundated. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s not a health thing.
I’m just telling you that the spectrum is broad — and at first, it was totally unregulated. As it was discovered and used, it was totally unregulated. Certain… Like the radio spectrum. Marconi invents radio, and he invents it in a certain spectrum because it was the right frequency. It had the correct ground wave and sky wave to be able to actually transmit over great distances, particularly at night. FM is such high frequency, it’s only line of sight.
A radio station in a town that has a power of 5,000 watts in its transmitter and is at, say, 630 on the AM dial can easily cover 200 miles. An FM station with 200,000 watts in the same town can barely get 30 miles because it has no ground wave, which is what your radio listens to. Well, all of this had to be discovered, and it was discovered and it had to be regulated. One of the primary reasons of regulation originally was to prevent signals from competing or interfering with other signals.
So there had to be separation between the various forms of usage of spectrum so that there wouldn’t be any interference. There had to be regulation in terms of how much power a station at certain wattage would be allowed to have so it wouldn’t interfere with another station on the same frequency in another town 150 or 500 miles away. And as these frequencies began to be used — AM radio was the first — those guys became very proprietary. A man in Philadelphia came along and invented FM radio about ten years after the first AM station, KDKA, went on the air.
And the AM radio guys got together with government, and they kept FM off the market for years. The inventor got so frustrated he committed suicide! FM radio could have followed AM by 10 years, except the government didn’t permit it for many more years after that. Look, Rob, the point of this: The internet is also spectrum. Much of it is wireless. Not all of it is, obviously. But when it burst on the scene, it was totally unregulated, and look at what it was! It was the Wild West — and as people learned about it and put themselves on it, you can get anything you wanted.
And it didn’t cost you anything, because it was so new, the businesses populating didn’t stop to even formulate a business plan because at the time, nobody knew how big it was gonna get. They never thought that it would compete with their circulation of the newspaper they publish and distribute every morning. So there wasn’t any regulation, and it remained relatively free of regulation. It grew, and now it’s big and free and open — and guess what? A bunch of liberals want to now regulate it.
When liberals want to regulate something, Rob, it’s not for fairness, and it’s not for equality. It’s to punish. It is to give themselves an advantage, or it is to essentially implement socialism into whatever arena they want to regulate. Which means they want to give the government total power in determining who can do and say and provide what. And, Rob, you don’t want the government doing that in any business, and certainly not on the internet. The market will always work if you keep government and the regulators out of it. That is the history of spectrum. The history of the growth of the internet and the sustainability of wireless communications is the history of non-regulation at the outset of discovery. | positive |
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
I have known Google longer than most. At Opera, we were the first to add their search into the browser interface, enabling it directly from the search box and the address field. At that time, Google was an up-and-coming geeky company. I remember vividly meeting with Google’s co-founder Larry Page, his relaxed dress code and his love for the Danger device, which he played with throughout our meeting. Later, I met with the other co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, and got positive vibes. My first impression of Google was that it was a likeable company.
Our cooperation with Google was a good one. Integrating their search into Opera helped us deliver a better service to our users and generated revenue that paid the bills. We helped Google grow, along with others that followed in our footsteps and integrated Google search into their browsers.
However, then things changed. Google increased their proximity with the Mozilla foundation. They also introduced new services such as Google Docs. These services were great, gained quick popularity, but also exposed the darker side of Google. Not only were these services made to be incompatible with Opera, but also encouraged users to switch their browsers. I brought this up with Sergey Brin, in vain. For millions of Opera users to be able to access these services, we had to hide our browser’s identity. The browser sniffing situation only worsened after Google started building their own browser, Chrome.
Now, we are making the Vivaldi browser. It is based on Chromium, an open-source project, led by Google and built on WebKit and KHTML. Using Google’s services should not call for any issues, but sadly, the reality is different. We still have to hide our identity when visiting services such as Google Docs.
And now things have hit a new low.
As the biggest online advertising company in the world, Google is often the first choice for businesses that want to promote their products or services on the Internet. Being excluded from using Google AdWords could be a major problem, especially for digital companies.
Recently, our Google AdWords campaigns were suspended without warning. This was the second time that I have encountered this situation. This time, however, timing spoke volumes.
I had several interviews where I voiced concerns about the data gathering and ad targeting practices – in particular, those of Google and Facebook. They collect and aggregate far too much personal information from their users. I see this as a very serious, democracy-threatening problem, as the vast targeting opportunities offered by Google and Facebook are not only good for very targeted marketing, but also for tailored propaganda. The idea of the Internet turning into a battlefield of propaganda is very far away from the ideal.
Two days after my thoughts were published in an article by Wired, we found out that all the campaigns under our Google AdWords account were suspended – without prior warning. Was this just a coincidence? Or was it deliberate, a way of sending us a message?
When we reached out to Google to resolve the issue, we got a clarification masqueraded in the form of vague terms and conditions, some of which, they admitted themselves, were not a “hard” requirement. In exchange for being reinstated in Google’s ad network, their in-house specialists dictated how we should arrange content on our own website and how we should communicate information to our users.
We made effort to understand their explanations and to work with them on their various unreasonable demands (some of which they don’t follow themselves, by the way). After almost three months of back-and-forth, the suspension to our account has been lifted, but only when we bent to their requirements.
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power. I am saddened by this makeover of a geeky, positive company into the bully they are in 2017. I feel blocking competitors on thin reasoning lends credence to claims of their anti-competitive practices. It is also fair to say that Google is now in a position where regulation is needed. I sincerely hope that they’ll get back to the straight and narrow. | positive |