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Puppy Kiki La Rue - Caardvarks Challenge
Sunday, July 11, 2010
I have been finding a bit more time to do some cards - seems harder and harder to just get some time to myself these days. So I needed to inspire myself, so a challenge from Caardvarks seemed just the ticket. The challenge was to create a birthday card.
Perfect opportunity to use this cute Kiki La Rue stamp by CC Designs. Coloured her in with my Copics and the used beautiful Kaisercraft Utopia paper.
Acloser look at my stamped image.
I have also been inspired to start doing the insides of my cards too, seems to feel more complete that way.
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I am a working mum with a gorgeous 11 year old boy, and a lover of making cards. I work for an employer association with a background in law. I teach card making classes at a small local papercraft store and my students always make me laugh! | {
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I recently received a new laptop at work and had several versions of Tableau Desktop on my previous laptop due to various users comparability issues. I'm coming across a workbook I've previously created in an older version of Tableau Desktop and I can't find a way to figure out which version I last saved the workbook in. Is there a way to know what version a workbook was last saved in? In my case, I can just open up my older laptop and see, but I'm sure this happens to other users as well who maintain the newest version of desktop along with older versions for various users. | {
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I AM A STRANGE LOOP
I think, therefore I am. But what is think, and what is I? Returning to themes first visited in Gödel, Escher, Bach (not reviewed), Hofstadter ponders most idiosyncratically.
Humans think because we can and must, for reasons of mental architecture and accidents of evolution; we do so, Hofstadter suggests, by recalling things we have already thought about and employing metaphors, analogies and concrete images to communicate our thinking to others. Others are important, for there is a social quality to I-ness; in one memorable passage, Hofstadter writes of his wife’s early death and her ongoing presence in his mind, as if he were allowing her to use some of it to continue to live. We humans wrestle with the ghost in the machine, looking for the soul or “that special kind of subtle pattern,” whatever it is that lies beneath. Hofstadter, one of whose specialties is the study of feedback loops in complex systems, coins sometimes unfortunate terms for our own loopy ways of thinking, among them “thinkodynamics” and “statistical mentalics,” but the governing idea is a fruitful one: There are large-scale and small-scale things happening within our minds all the time, but it can all seem like a funhouse mirror, just as Hofstadter recalls a philosophical treatise “talking about how language can talk about itself talking about itself (etc.), and about how reasoning can reason about itself.” He adds, “I was hooked,” which would explain his sometimes maddeningly circuitous explorations into, say, the manipulation of symbols or the nature of dogness. And what, in the end, is I? Perhaps “a certain abstract type of locked-in loop inside the careenium or the cranium,” perhaps “a shimmering rainbow-like entity that first recedes and then disintegrates entirely as one draws ever closer,” perhaps just “little miracles of self-reference.” Or perhaps not. | {
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NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A lone gunman killed 26 people at an elementary school here, including 20 children, in a terrifying Friday morning shooting spree that rocked this genteel community.
The shooter was identified by the Associated Press as Adam Lanza, 20, who was found dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At least three weapons were recovered at the scene, including a .223-caliber assault rifle from the back of a car and two semiautomatic handguns found near Lanza. His 24-year-old brother, Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned by authorities.
A law enforcement official -- briefed on the situation but asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly -- said that Nancy Lanza, the shooter's 52-year-old mother and Sandy Hook kindergarten teacher, was among those killed. Amid the chaos, quick-thinking teachers and faculty members hid some students in closets and bathrooms, while others rounded up others and spirited them out of the building.
The incident -- among the worst school shootings in U.S. history -- is the latest in a series of mass shootings in the U.S. this year, including Tuesday's assault by a lone gunman at a Portland, Ore., shopping mall that left two dead and one wounded.
Authorities say an adult victim was found at Nancy Lanza's home, but would not confirm the identity. Details about what transpired at the school and the Newton home remained sketchy several hours after the shootings, which began at about 9:40 a.m., shortly after classes started. State Police Lt. Paul Vance said authorities were still examining the gruesome crime scene and determining victims' identities and piecing together the sequence of events.
Children lucky enough to escape the carnage fled in frightened groups -- some crying, some holding hands -- as they were escorted from the single-story school by teachers. Witnesses reported up to 100 shots were fired. Vance said the victims were all shot in one section of the school, believed to be two kindergarten classrooms.
Vance said 18 of the children and six adults died at the school. Two other children were pronounced dead after they were taken to hospitals. One wounded victim was hospitalized.
"It's not a simplistic scene," Vance said. " We will be here through the night, through the weekend. There is a great deal of work that has to be done." Vance later said that the murder scene was so gruesome that first responders, including tactical squad police, were provided counseling later in the day.
"This was a tragic, horrific scene they encountered,'' he said.
Authorities roped off Nancy Lanza's home as a crime scene. Her affluent neighborhood is filled with large homes, many decorated for Christmas with strings of holiday lights.
A visibly shaken President Obama, wiping away tears, said he was "heartbroken."
"These were "beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old,'' Obama said. "They had their entire lives ahead of them. Birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. Kids of their own."
Sandy Hook is in residential, wooded neighborhood about 60 miles northeast of New York City. The school, which serves kindergartners to fourth-graders, has 39 teachers and nearly 700 students. A reverse 911 call went out to parents warning of an incident, shaking the quiet, middle and upper-middle class community of 27,000 to its core.
"This is the most tragic thing we've ever encountered,'' said Newton Police Lt. George Sinko. "We have to think about the famlies right now."
In brief appearance Friday night, Gov. Dannel Malloy described the youngest victims as "beautiful children who had simply come to school to learn."
Fourth-grader Bear Nikitchyuk was heading back to his classroom when he heard someone kicking a door. "I looked behind me and all I saw was smoke and I smelled smoke. I heard shots fired. The second-grade teacher grabbed me and pulled me into her room."
The unidentified teacher locked the door and huddled about 20 kids in closets until police banged on the door. The teacher first balked at letting the police in until she was convinced they were police. The children eventually exited out the school's back door through a playground and walked to a nearby firehouse used as a staging area for fleeing kids and faculty.
"I'm horrified,'' said Terese Lestik. "I just pray for whoever is hurt."
Alexis Wasik, a third-grader at the school, said police were checking everybody inside the school before they were escorted to the firehouse. She said she heard shots and saw her former nursery school teacher being taken out of the building on a stretcher but didn't know if the woman had been shot.
"We had to walk with a partner," said Alexis, 8. One child leaving the school said that there was shattered glass everywhere. A police officer ran into the classroom and told them to run outside and keep going until they reached the firehouse, The Hartford Courant reported.
Children are likely to be traumatized, says Dr. Victor Fornari, director of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry at North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y. Schools are supposed to be safe, nurturing environment. The shooting shatters that belief. Listening to children and trying to be supportive and reassuring can be helpful, Fornari says.
James Alan Fox of Northeastern University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice said Friday's incident seems reminiscent of several from the late 1980s involving shooting rampages at schools.
Fox couldn't speak to the specifics of the Connecticut case, but said, "If someone is interested in punishing society where it's most vulnerable, they know that a school is a place where lots of young, innocent children, our most cherished members of society, are congregated and under their gun -- literally."
Children are often seen as "easy targets to get even with society -- or maybe it was the school. We don't know what the primary target was, and the primary motive."
Still, over the past few years, shootings in K-12 schools have become increasingly rare. After reaching a high of 63 deaths in the 2006-2007 school year, the number of people killed in "school-associated" incidents dropped to 33 last year -- lowest in two decades, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
While a few dozen children are killed each year in school, statistically speaking, it remains the safest place a child will likely ever be, with the lowest chance of being killed. "When you consider the fact that there are over 50 million schoolchildren in America, the chances are over one in two million, not a high probability," said Fox. "And most cases that do occur are in high schools and less so in middle schools -- and hardly ever in elementary schools."
Police and local officials have met with family members of the victims, he said.
"It's a very difficult scene," Vance said. "It's a tragic scene. They are going through a tremendous amount of grief." | {
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LAKE PLAN SUBMERGED
The feasibility of Lake Wasatch will be studied. But it won't be any time soon.
The Legislature passed a bill creating an authority to study a fresh water lake on the east shores of the Great Salt Lake. But lawmakers refused to fund the authority. Supporters had been seeking $200,000 to get the study started as soon as possible."We'll have to find some way to raise private money to do it," said Rep. Stan Smedley, R-Bountiful. But it will delay the study at least a year." | {
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Pie in Sky
One of the things that puzzles us about New College over the last few years, is its acquisition of properties at the same time it is laying off employees and bouncing paychecks. It doesn’t make sense.
One property they are presently seeking to acquire amidst an accreditation crisis that threatens to shut down the institution all together, is the UC Berkeley Extension Laguna Street campus in San Francisco. They’ve even hired consultants, PR firms, architects, and lawyers just for this apparently pie-in-the-sky project.
One of those consultants is former board president of the San Francisco Unified School District, Keith Jackson. Jackson, according to this report, has opened political doors in city hall and elsewhere. Oddly, in 2005 he was enrolled at New College seeking a degree in political science. As a government relations specialist already well-connected in the city, we’re curious why he chose to attend there. Maybe it’s just coincidence. | {
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They're great products~! I sort of wonder how much the Terrans, and other conquered races, might be architecturally or aesthetically influenced by the Reticulans.
Makes me imagine in later years, we see Terran weapons looking like stuff out of 50s scifi movies, or battle dress that has this sleek 1950s atomic powered look to it~.
Thanks!
Terrans were always a backwater colony of the Reticulans, albeit one converted into an arms manufacturing center and source of troops to fight the Chiwak. The Reticulans also restricted the flow of some manufacturing techniques into Terran space, and many Terran colonies are TL12-, while Reticulan space is uniformly mature TL13. Terran tech was always less graceful than Reticulan designs and in essence is "hybrid" technology - lower-tech Terran manufacturing combined with several high-tech Reticulan components. For example, jump drives are very sleek high-tech devices, once imported from Reticulan space and now manufactured in the Terran core; Terrans install these graceful devices into much cruder starships.
Battle Dress looks a bit clunky but again, has a Reticulan-style retro-futuristic microfusion power-core in its back.
"Pure" Reticulan products are highly sought after in Terran space. You can buy Technate imports, which are expensive. However, you can buy everything cheap from the Cicek - at your own risk. Quality may vary as expected from knock-offs made in "Cottage Industry" of anarchistic space geckos!
New naval ships, especially post-War ones, are far sleeker than the early-mid-War designs.
__________________We are but a tiny candle flickering against the darkness of our times. | {
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BMA council chair warns against further NHS upheaval
BMA council chair Mark Porter has welcomed Labour’s aspiration of ‘whole-person’ care but warned that more NHS structural change would be ‘hugely disruptive’.
In response to shadow health secretary Andy Burnham’s speech today at the Labour Party conference, he said doctors had long called for closer integration of services within and beyond the NHS.
But Dr Porter added that this had been hampered by successive governments over many years, with the Health and Social Care Act moving further in a market-based direction.
The BMA council chair said it was not clear from Mr Burnham’s speech how he planned to achieve his aim of better integration of health, social care and mental healthcare.
‘Yet more, major structural change, would be hugely disruptive, and particularly when the NHS is likely to face considerable financial pressure for some time still to come,’ he declared.
‘It would be better to concentrate on reducing fragmentation by removing the artificial split between purchasers and providers of healthcare.’
The NHS’s ‘best hope’
In his speech, Mr Burnham maintained that Labour was ‘the best hope of the NHS’ and claimed it could be saved without another structural reorganisation.
He said: ‘I’ve never had any objection to involving doctors in commissioning. It’s the creation of a full-blown market I can’t accept.
‘So I don’t need new organisations. I will simply ask those I inherit to work differently. Not hospital against hospital or doctor against doctor. But working together, putting patients before profits.
‘For that to happen, I must repeal [prime minister David] Cameron’s market and restore the legal basis of a national, democratically accountable, collaborative health service.’
The former health secretary argued that as people became older, they developed a mix of social, mental and physical needs that were today met through three separate, fragmented systems.
He insisted: ‘We can get better results for people if we think of one budget, one system caring for the whole person — with councils and the NHS working closely together.
‘All options must be considered – including full integration of health and social care. We don’t have all the answers. But we have the ambition.’ | {
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CDs and Tower Records rock on in Japan, just a little while longer
When it appears that everyone in the world has moved on to digital music, downloads, and the iTunes music store, it seems a stark anachronism that a country always known to be a constant source of leading edge technology such as Japan would still hold on to compact discs for music – but that is reality and fact, not our imagination. By extension, as Japan still remains one of the world’s last markets for CD music, the Tower Records stores in Japan still persist when every single one outside of Japan has gone bankrupt and closed down.
On Friday, Tower Records Japan’s CEO Ikuo Minewaki said that the continuing popularity of CDs in Japan sustains the retail chain in the country – long after the U.S. parent company went bankrupt in 2006. In fact, Minewaki says that the Japanese arm – already 86 stores strong – is looking to add more outlets all over the country. “The Japanese market is very different from the rest of the world,” said Minewaki, speaking to reporters on Friday. Global sales of physical CDs have been understandably plunging under pressure from a surging digital download market, but Japan curiously bucks this trend at all points. According to numbers from the Recording Industry Association of Japan, Japanese CD sales actually increased by 9% in 2012. Tower Records Japan is owned by wireless and mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc.
Minewaki said that the enduring popularity of CD music has much to thank for in the strict implementation of intellectual property rights laws in the country, as well as the willingness of most of the citizens to obey them. The Japanese have also been relatively slow in switching from local feature phones – the keitai denwa (literally, “portable telephones”) – to smartphones, a trend that heavily accelerated the movement towards digital music all over the world. In fact, only in Japan will one probably still see the popularity of rental CD shops (!!!) – where Japanese consumers rent and then copy music, still considered a cheaper alternative to buying songs or albums online.
But it would be a great shortcoming to overlook what Tower Records in Japan has done to continue its business – the marketing push has been nothing short of amazing. This is evidenced partly in rival store HMV Japan, as that particular music retailer closed its doors in 2010, failing to keep itself relevant and fatally suffering the consequences. Minewaki says that Tower Records’ successful “hand shake events” – where Japanese fans can shake the hands of their favorite idols in regular in-store events and concerts – have been one of the things that have kept them in business. Events for wildly popular acts like Japanese all-conquering female idol group AKB48 are big people and fan magnets. “One recent event brought 300 people to the store, and together they bought nearly a 1,000 CDs” said Minewaki. AKB48 regularly sells over a million CDs copies on the first day of a release, so it is not surprising that Tower Records Japan still stands. Minewaki acknowledges though that it is the live experience – whether music or personality – that the Japanese fans love, and the CD is just an extension of the hype. “In Japan, we enhance the actual experience of buying the CD,” he said. “But digital music is growing quickly,” he adds and says that eventually CDs will be inevitably replaced. But wonderfully for Tower Records Japan, just not right now.
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PDIC’s patent allegedly covers encoding digital images in the JPEG format. PDIC licensed the patent to Adobe, promising not to sue Adobe or Adobe’s customers for claims arising “in whole or part owing to an Adobe Licensed Product.” PDIC sued Adobe customers, alleging that encoding JPEG images on the customers’ websites infringed its patent. Adobe was allowed to intervene to defend nine customers, asserting that PDIC breached its license agreement. PDIC dismissed the actions in which Adobe had intervened. Adobe unsuccessfully sought "exceptional case" attorneys’ fees, 35 U.S.C. 285, and FRCP 11 sanctions. The court concluded that it could not determine the prevailing party nor "say that PDIC’s pre-suit investigation was inadequate or that any filing was made for any improper purpose.” The court denied in part PDIC’s motion for summary judgment, finding that a reasonable juror could find "that PDIC’s infringement allegations . . . cover the use of Adobe products,” and violated the agreement; it held that Adobe could only collect fees incurred in defending its customers in suits that violated the agreement but could not recover fees incurred in the affirmative breach-of-contract suit. After failed attempts to identify "purely defense fees,” Adobe requested judgment in favor of PDIC. The court reiterated “that there are purely defensive damages that can be proven,” but entered the judgment. The Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal for lack of jurisdiction. There was no final ruling barring recovery on Adobe’s breach claim. Under New Jersey law, actual damages are not a required element of a breach of contract claim.
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________ PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Cross-Appellant v. OFFICE DEPOT INC., J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC., QVC INC., SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION, LIMITED BRANDS INC., GAP, INC., WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC., COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, NORDSTROM.COM LLC, NORDSTROM.COM INC., NORDSTROM INC., Defendants ADOBE INC., Defendant-Appellant ______________________ 2017-2597, 2017-2598, 2017-2600, 2017-2602, 2017-2605, 2017-2606, 2017-2609, 2017-2611, 2017-2612, 2017-2627, 2017-2628, 2017-2629, 2017-2630, 2017-2631, 2017-2632, 2017-2633, 2017-2634, 2018-1006 ______________________ Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in Nos. 1:13-cv-00239-LPS, 1:13-cv00287-LPS, 1:13-cv-00288-LPS, 1:13-cv-00289-LPS, 1:13cv-00326-LPS, 1:13-cv-00330-LPS, 1:13-cv-00331-LPS, 1:13-cv-00404-LPS, 1:13-cv-00408-LPS, Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark. 2 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. ______________________ Decided: January 22, 2019 ______________________ GEORGE PAZUNIAK, O'Kelly, Ernst, & Bielli, LLC, Wilmington, DE, argued for plaintiff-cross-appellant. TARA ELLIOTT, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant. Also represented by RACHEL WEINER COHEN. ______________________ Before DYK, TARANTO, and STOLL, Circuit Judges. DYK, Circuit Judge. The parties appeal and cross appeal from various rulings by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in a patent and breach of contract dispute. Because there was no final decision on the merits, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. BACKGROUND Princeton Digital Image Corporation (“PDIC”) owns U.S. Patent No. 4,813,056 (“the ’056 patent”), which relates to methods for encoding image data and allegedly covers the encoding of digital images in the JPEG file format. In June 2011, PDIC licensed the ’056 patent to Adobe, Inc. In the license agreement, PDIC promised not to sue Adobe or Adobe’s customers for claims arising “in whole or part owing to an Adobe Licensed Product.” J.A. 1538–39. Beginning in December 2012, PDIC sued numerous customers of Adobe, alleging that the encoding of JPEG images on the customers’ websites infringed claims of the ’056 patent. In November 2014, Adobe moved to intervene to defend nine of its customers, contending that its PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 3 customers were using Adobe products to display images on their websites, which was covered by PDIC’s license to Adobe. The district court granted Adobe’s motion to intervene on May 5, 2015. On May 8, 2015, Adobe filed a complaint in intervention, asserting that PDIC breached its license agreement with Adobe by suing Adobe’s customers. For this breach of contract claim, Adobe sought damages consisting of (1) its attorneys’ fees expended in connection with defending its customers and responding to customers’ indemnity requests and (2) its fees expended in bringing the breach of contract claim itself. By July 31, 2015, PDIC had dismissed each of the infringement actions brought against Adobe’s customers in which Adobe had intervened. Adobe moved for attorneys’ fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285, which permits an award of attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party in “exceptional cases,” and for sanctions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. The district court denied both fees and sanctions. As to § 285 fees, the district court concluded that it “cannot determine at this time whether PDIC or Adobe is the prevailing party.” J.A. 26. Assuming that Adobe was the prevailing party, the court found that the case was “exceptional” in that it “stand[s] out from the rest,” J.A. 39–40, but that in its discretion, it would deny the request for attorneys’ fees because the conduct was not “so exceptional,” J.A. 41 (emphasis in original) (citation omitted). As to Rule 11 sanctions, the court concluded that it “cannot say that PDIC’s pre-suit investigation was inadequate or that any filing was made for any improper purpose.” J.A. 42. Litigation continued on Adobe’s breach of contract claim. On August 1, 2017, the district court granted in part and denied in part PDIC’s motion for summary judgment based on liability and damages. As to liability, 4 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. the court held that there were “genuine issues of material fact precluding summary judgment,” because a “reasonable juror could accept Adobe’s view that PDIC’s infringement allegations . . . cover the use of Adobe products,” which would violate the license agreement’s covenant not to sue. J.A. 60. But as to damages, the court held that Adobe could only collect “defense” fees—“that is, those Adobe incurred in defending [its customers] from PDIC’s infringement suit, suits that were brought in alleged violation of the covenant not to sue.” J.A. 64. Adobe could not recover the fees that Adobe incurred “in attempting to vindicate its contract rights,” that is, “any attorney fees Adobe incurred in the affirmative breach-ofcontract suit.” J.A. 64. The court ordered Adobe to file a supplemental report disclosing Adobe’s defense fees. Adobe filed the supplemental report on August 7, 2017. On August 17, 2017, the court struck Adobe’s supplemental report because it did “not separate Adobe’s defense fees from its affirmative fees” but instead “claim[ed] all fees as defensive so long as they were incurred while at least one Defendant (who requested indemnification) was still involved in litigation with PDIC.” J.A. 82. The court concluded, however, that “there is sufficient evidence in the record to determine the amount of Adobe’s fees that are purely defense fees,” and therefore directed Adobe to file a letter disclosing the total amount of such fees and the record support for the claimed amount. J.A. 86–87. When Adobe filed its letter, however, the court struck it because it too “did not disclose a purely defensive number.” J.A. 106. The court nevertheless declined to grant summary judgment to PDIC on damages, explaining that it was “undisputed that some amount of Adobe’s legal fees are purely defensive.” J.A. 106. It ruled that Adobe would be permitted to present a purely defensive number to the PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 5 jury, but Adobe would have to disclose that number to PDIC before opening statements. In an effort to secure an appealable decision, Adobe then requested that the court enter judgment in favor of PDIC, contending that in light of the court’s rulings, “Adobe doesn’t have damages to present,” which Adobe contended was “an element of what is to be tried.” Tr. of Pre-Trial Conference at 67:23–24, Princeton Digital Image Corp. v. Office Depot Inc., No. 1:13-cv-00239-LPS (D. Del. Sept. 1, 2017), ECF No. 281. The court reiterated its conclusion “that there are purely defensive damages that can be proven on this record,” but granted Adobe’s request and entered judgment in favor of PDIC. J.A. 106–08. Adobe appeals, contending that the district court erred in (1) not awarding fees under § 285 and sanctions under Rule 11; (2) limiting the damages for Adobe’s breach of contract claim; and (3) refusing to compel PDIC to produce additional documents (regarding PDIC’s presuit investigation and litigation conduct) that Adobe asserted were encompassed within PDIC’s waiver of attorney-client privilege. PDIC cross appeals, contending that the district court erred in imposing two monetary sanctions on PDIC. The sanctions required PDIC to pay Adobe’s attorneys’ fees and costs in connection with (1) PDIC’s failure to timely answer Adobe’s complaint in intervention in one of PDIC’s infringement cases against an Adobe customer; and (2) PDIC’s failure to present a competent Rule 30(b)(6) witness for deposition. DISCUSSION Adobe contends that we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295 because this is an appeal “from a final decision of a district court.” Id. § 1295(a)(1). “Section 1295’s final judgment rule mirrors that of its counterpart 6 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. found at 28 U.S.C. § 1291.” Pause Tech. LLC v. TiVo Inc., 401 F.3d 1290, 1292 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (quoting Nystrom v. TREX Co., 339 F.3d 1347, 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2003)). The central question is whether the judgment entered by the district court at Adobe’s request constitutes a final decision. We hold that it does not. I A Generally, a final decision is a decision by the district court that “ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.” Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229, 233 (1945). “If a ‘case is not fully adjudicated as to all claims for all parties,’ there is no ‘final decision’ and therefore no jurisdiction.” Pandrol USA, LP v. Airboss Ry. Prods., Inc., 320 F.3d 1354, 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2003) (quoting Syntex Pharm. Int’l, Ltd. v. K-Line Pharm., Ltd., 905 F.2d 1525, 1526 (Fed. Cir. 1990)). At one time, several circuit courts recognized an exception to this rule, permitting an appeal from a denial of class certification if that denial sounded the “death knell” of the litigation. See Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463, 469–70 (1978), superseded on other grounds by rule as stated in Microsoft v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 1702, 1708– 09 (2017). The rationale for this exception was that “without the incentive of a possible group recovery the individual plaintiff may find it economically imprudent to pursue his lawsuit to a final judgment and then seek appellate review of an adverse class determination.” Id. Thus, under this doctrine, appealability turned on whether the plaintiff had an “adequate incentive to continue” litigating. Id. at 471. The Supreme Court in Coopers & Lybrand rejected the death knell doctrine. Id. at 476. “[T]he fact that an PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 7 interlocutory order may induce a party to abandon his claim before final judgment is not a sufficient reason for considering it a ‘final decision’ within the meaning of § 1291.” Id. at 477. Otherwise, many “other kinds of interlocutory orders” that “create the risk of a premature demise” of a plaintiff’s economic incentive to continue litigating would become appealable as a matter of right. Id. at 474. The Court held that the order decertifying the plaintiffs’ class was not a final decision and therefore not appealable. Id. at 464–65. More recently, in Microsoft v. Baker, the Supreme Court again addressed appellate jurisdiction in the context of an adverse class determination. There, following the denial of class certification, plaintiffs took an additional step that the Coopers & Lybrand plaintiffs did not: they dismissed with prejudice their individual claims while reserving the right to revive their claims if the certification decision were reversed, and then sought to appeal the denial of class certification. 137 S. Ct. at 1706–07. The Court held that this “voluntary-dismissal tactic” “subverts the final-judgment rule” and “does not give rise to a ‘final decision’ under § 1291.” Id. at 1712–13 (brackets omitted). The Court reasoned that treating every voluntary dismissal as a final decision would impermissibly “allow indiscriminate appellate review of interlocutory orders.” Id. at 1714. 1 The Court distinguished its earlier decision in United States v. Procter & Gamble Co., 356 U.S. 677, 680– 81 (1958), where the district court ordered the government, as plaintiff in a civil antitrust action, to produce a grand jury transcript to the defendants. At the government’s request, the district court amended the order to provide that if the government did not produce the transcript, the complaint would be dismissed. Id. at 679. The 1 8 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. Contrary to Adobe’s argument, although the Supreme Court in Microsoft relied in part on the conflict between allowing the appeal and the limited appeal right in the class action context, id. at 1714–15, we think that Microsoft’s reasoning extends beyond that context. Following Microsoft, other courts of appeals have applied its holding in cases not involving a denial of class certification. In Keena v. Groupon, Inc., 886 F.3d 360 (4th Cir. 2018), the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed her claims after the district court ordered her to arbitrate, because in her view “the costs of that process outweighed the potential recovery.” Id. at 362. The Fourth Circuit held that the order to arbitrate was not a final decision under Microsoft and thus not appealable. Id. at 364. In Board of Trustees of the Plumbers, Pipe Fitters & Mechanical Equipment Service, Local Union No. 392 v. Humbert, 884 F.3d 624, 625 (6th Cir. 2018), the district court held that certain defendants were liable to a union under a collective bargaining agreement. The defendants attempted to facilitate an immediate appeal as to liability by stipulating to damages. Id. However, the stipulated judgment order also provided that “none of the parties are waiving any rights or arguments in any subsequent government refused to produce the transcript and the court dismissed the complaint. Id. at 679–80. Although the government could have obtained an appeal of the production order “by the route of civil contempt,” the Court treated the voluntary dismissal as final under the circumstances, noting that this avoided “any unseemly conflict with the District Court.” Id. at 680. The Court in Microsoft distinguished Procter & Gamble because “that case—a civil antitrust enforcement action—involved neither class-action certification nor the sort of dismissal tactic at issue here.” 137 S. Ct. at 1715 n.11. Adobe does not contend that this case is similar to Procter & Gamble. PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 9 proceedings . . . including but not limited to the amount of the damages.” Id. The Sixth Circuit held that because this order “specifically reserve[d] the parties’ right to litigate ‘the amount of the damages’” in future proceedings, it did not “conclusively resolve” even the issue of damages and hence was not a final judgment for the plaintiff under Microsoft. Id. at 626. 2 B In an attempt to distinguish Microsoft and the cases following it, Adobe argues that the district court’s damages rulings here are unlike the denial of class certification in Microsoft, and instead are “akin to an unfavorable claim construction ruling, after which a party may stipulate to judgment of non-infringement to facilitate an immediate appeal.” Appellant’s Reply Br. at 3. As in the claim construction context, Adobe maintains, the district court’s order here “meant that Adobe’s claim was effectively dismissed.” Id. at 4. We disagree. Under our precedent, to be appealable a claim construction order must preclude a finding of infringement—a required element of the plaintiff’s cause of action. Such preclusion of infringement may be established by the patent owner’s binding admission that the accused activities are not infringing under the adopted claim construction. But where a claim construction order does not resolve the issue of infringement, it is not a final decision, and, accordingly, is not appealable. See Taylor Brands, LLC v. GB II Corp., 627 F.3d 874, 877 (Fed. Cir. But see Xlear, Inc. v. Focus Nutrition, LLC, 893 F.3d 1227, 1236 (10th Cir. 2018) (“We read Microsoft as addressing the narrow situation where a hopeful class action plaintiff uses a stipulation of dismissal as a tactic to overcome the limitations placed on appellate jurisdiction by 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”). 2 10 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 2010) (only “a stipulated final judgment after a dispositive ruling” is appealable); see also Wilson Sporting Goods Co. v. Hillerich & Bradsby Co., 442 F.3d 1322, 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2006) (“[F]inal judgment in a patent case will usually produce a judgment of infringement or non-infringement. This court reviews claim construction only as necessary to reach that final judgment on an infringement cause of action.”); Nystrom v. TREX Co., 339 F.3d 1347, 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2003) (“[I]mmediate appeal of an interlocutory claim construction ruling without a resolution of all of the factual issues of infringement or validity dependent thereon is often desired by one or both of the parties for strategic or other reasons. But, other than the accommodation for deferred accounting in 28 U.S.C. § 1292(c)(2), the rules of finality that define the jurisdiction of this court do not contain special provisions for patent cases or admit to exceptions for strategic reasons or otherwise . . . .”). Here the district court’s damages rulings were not dispositive, as is required under Microsoft. In Microsoft, the interlocutory order denying class certification was not dispositive because the order did not resolve any element of the plaintiffs’ claims on the merits. See 137 S. Ct. at 1710–11. Microsoft at least establishes that a voluntary dismissal does not constitute a final judgment where the district court’s ruling has not foreclosed the plaintiff’s ability to prove the required elements of the cause of action. This interpretation of Microsoft has been adopted by the other circuits that have followed Microsoft. In Keena there was no final resolution of liability. See 886 F.3d at 362. In Board of Trustees there was no final ruling as to damages. See 884 F.3d at 626. Several decisions by other circuits pre-dating Microsoft reached the same result and are virtually identical to this case. In Palmieri v. Defaria, 88 F.3d 136, 139–40 (2d Cir. 1996), the district court entered an order dismiss- PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 11 ing the complaint after the district court had excluded plaintiff’s preferred evidence in an in limine order. The Second Circuit held that there was no appealable final decision because the district court had “expressly declined to take the position . . . that [the plaintiff’s remaining] proof as a whole was insufficient as a matter of law.” Id. at 140. “The district court judge here continually showed his willingness to revisit all of his rulings depending upon how the evidence developed.” Id. at 141. Plaintiff “made clear to the district court that he sought to appeal the in limine evidentiary rulings without proceeding to trial. However, under the circumstances, there was no course of action he could have taken that would have allowed this to occur.” Id.; see also Ali v. Fed. Ins. Co., 719 F.3d 83, 88 (2d Cir. 2013) (explaining that although a plaintiff may “appeal from a voluntary dismissal” when “a prior order . . . had in effect dismissed plaintiffs’ complaint,” “to qualify as an ‘effective dismissal’ of the claim, . . . the adverse ruling must have rejected the claim as a matter of law” (citation omitted)). In Verzilli v. Flexon, Inc., 295 F.3d 421, 422 (3d Cir. 2002), the district court had entered an order restricting the plaintiff’s damages for failure to follow the court’s pretrial discovery rules. The plaintiff then entered into a consent judgment in an attempt to facilitate an appeal challenging the limitation of damages. Id. The Third Circuit dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, concluding that the challenged order was interlocutory and that the consent judgment did not create finality under § 1291. See id. at 422–25. In Union Oil Co. of California v. John Brown E&C, 121 F.3d 305, 309 (7th Cir. 1997), the district court had ruled that the plaintiff’s breach of contract damages were limited to $332,000, rather than the $8 million it sought. The plaintiff, “not wishing to continue with the litigation if damages were so limited, entered into a stipulation . . . PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 12 conditionally settling the case” and obtained a purported final order. Id. at 306. The Seventh Circuit held that there was no final decision and dismissed the appeal, because “the merits were never decided”—the plaintiff merely “d[id] not believe it’s worth the fight” to continue litigating. Id. at 309, 312; see also Massey Ferguson Div. of Variety Corp. v. Gurley, 51 F.3d 102, 104–05 (7th Cir. 1995) (“Not until all of the elements of a case have been wrapped up is there a final judgment . . . .”). Nothing in Microsoft calls these cases into question. In sum, the cases both before and after Microsoft make clear that unless the district court has conclusively determined, including determined by consent, that the plaintiff has failed to satisfy a required element of the cause of action, a voluntarily dismissal lacks finality. 3 C Here there was no final ruling by the district court barring recovery on Adobe’s breach claim because of a failure to prove a required element of that claim. Under New Jersey law, actual damages are not even a required element of a breach of contract claim. “[W]henever there is a breach of contract . . . the law ordinarily infers that damage ensued, and, in the absence of actual damages, the law vindicates the right by awarding nominal damages.” Nappe v. Anschelewitz, Barr, Ansell & Bonello, 477 We have held that “a final judgment exists when a district court fully adjudicates some claims and by consent dismisses” all remaining unadjudicated claims, including counterclaims. Atlas IP, LLC v. Medtronic, Inc., 809 F.3d 599, 604 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (emphasis added). That final judgment allows review of the adjudicated claims but not of the unadjudicated claims. Atlas provides no support for reviewing claims that have been partially adjudicated. 3 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 13 A.2d 1224, 1228 (N.J. 1984); Karcher v. Phil. Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 116 A.2d 1, 3 (N.J. 1955) (plaintiff who “established a breach of the contract” “was entitled to at least a judgment for nominal damages”). Nothing in the district court’s rulings foreclosed an award of nominal damages. Moreover, the district court did not even preclude Adobe from establishing actual damages, but in fact ruled multiple times that “there are purely defensive damages that can be proven on this record.” J.A. 106–07. The district court’s rulings did not foreclose Adobe’s ability to satisfy a required element of its breach claim; they merely limited Adobe’s potential actual damages as in the cases discussed above. Accordingly, we conclude that Adobe could still have proceeded to trial on its breach claim, and was required to do so to obtain a final decision on the merits that could be appealed. To be sure, the prospect of only a small damages recovery may have discouraged Adobe from going to trial, but the cases discussed earlier establish that the fact that continuing litigation could be economically imprudent does not create a “final decision.” See Coopers & Lybrand, 437 U.S. at 477; Keena, 886 F.3d at 362; Union Oil, 121 F.3d at 309. Adobe resists this conclusion, arguing that the district court’s judgment here qualifies as a “final decision” because “there is no action remaining for the district court to take.” Appellant’s Reply Br. at 4. But the fact that Adobe “persuade[d] [the] district court to issue an order purporting to end the litigation” does not create finality under Microsoft. 137 S. Ct. at 1715. Because the purported final judgment is ineffective, the district court must treat the case as though final judgment had never been entered. There are thus further steps remaining for the district court to take: it must determine whether PDIC breached its license agreement with Adobe, and if so, it must determine the damages (actual or nominal) to 14 PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. which Adobe is entitled. In short, the case must continue until there is a final disposition of the breach claim, at which point there can be an appeal. II Because there is no final judgment in the case, we also lack jurisdiction to consider Adobe’s objections to the district court’s denial of attorneys’ fees under § 285 and sanctions under Rule 11, as well as PDIC’s cross-appeal regarding the two sanctions imposed on it. Although an order regarding attorneys’ fees entered after a final judgment on the merits is separately appealable, here the district court’s order denying fees preceded any judgment on the merits. Such an interim order denying fees is generally not appealable. See Giraldo v. Building Serv. 32B-J Pension Fund, 502 F.3d 200, 203 (2d Cir. 2007) (denial of fees while merits litigation continued was not appealable until “following the district court’s final judgment on the merits”); 15B Charles A. Wright, Arthur R. Miller & Edward H. Cooper, Federal Practice and Procedure § 3915.6 (2d ed. 1992) [hereinafter “Wright & Miller”] (“Interim attorney fee awards present appeal questions quite different from awards made upon conclusion of proceedings on the merits. Refusal to make an interim award is not appealable . . . .”). In some limited and unusual circumstances, decisions as to fees before a final judgment on the merits might be appealable as collateral orders, particularly if there is reason to believe that there will be no opportunity for a future appeal on the issue. See Graham v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., 501 F.3d 1153, 1163 n.11 (10th Cir. 2007) (denial of petition for fees in an ERISA case appealable as a collateral order); Wright & Miller, supra, § 3915.6 (“Appeal may be allowed, however, if there is substantial ground to fear that the award [of fees] cannot be recaptured if later proceedings make that appropriate or if the award is PRINCETON DIGITAL IMAGE CORP. v. OFFICE DEPOT INC. 15 made in a complex proceeding that promises to endure a long time.”). No circumstances exist here that would justify treating the denial of fees as an order collateral to the merits. The same is true for orders imposing or denying sanctions on a party to the proceeding: in general, such orders are separately appealable only if entered after a final judgment on the merits. See Sanders Assocs., Inc. v. Summagraphics Corp., 2 F.3d 394, 398 (Fed. Cir. 1993) (order imposing monetary sanctions in the course of litigation not immediately appealable, but would only be “reviewable after final judgment is entered” on the merits); Tenkku v. Normandy Bank, 218 F.3d 926, 927 (8th Cir. 2000) (order imposing discovery sanctions on party not immediately appealable); McCright v. Santoki, 976 F.2d 568, 570 (9th Cir. 1992) (denial of motion for Rule 11 sanctions not immediately appealable); Wright & Miller supra, § 3914.30 (“Denial of a party’s request for sanctions of whatever variety ordinarily should not be appealable” before final judgment on the merits). Only once there has been a final decision on the contract claim may there be an appeal from the denial of fees pursuant to § 285, the denial of Rule 11 sanctions, and the imposition of monetary sanctions on PDIC. CONCLUSION The district court’s judgment is not final. We lack jurisdiction over this appeal and cross appeal. DISMISSED COSTS No costs.
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Federal Circuit dismisses an appeal for lack of jurisdiction; there was no final ruling because a breach of contract claim could be proven without actual damages.
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Rotherham United Manager Steve Evans will be given a welcome headache in the heart of his defence this evening as Craig Morgan returns from a one-game suspension that saw him miss Saturday’s defeat at Ipswich.
Kirk Broadfoot deputised admirably for the Millers skipper at the weekend alongside Kari Arnason who was struggling going into the game but the Millers boss is confident that the Icelandic international who has been a standout performer this campaign is fully fit going into the visit of Blackburn Rovers.
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Press the button at the side ,the LED's indicate the current time. Repeated operation of the button makes the LED's show the date. In the time mode :the 12 LED's in the top arch show the current hour and the minutes can be computed from the two Led rows beneath.The 5 LED's in the middle indicate the time exactly to 10 minutes and the lower LED's show the time exactly to one minute. Adding these two results to the exact time exactly to one minute. In the date mode: the 12 top LED's represent the current month and the two LED rows below indicate the day in the month. The 3 LED's on the bottom will always show the current mode (date, AM, PM) | {
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Dog Breed's Main Info
Sources have widely conflicting stories about the origins of this breed. According to one, the earliest Harrier types were crossed with Bloodhounds, the Talbot Hound, and even the Basset Hound. According to another, the breed was probably developed from crosses of the English Foxhound with Fox Terrier and Greyhound.
And yet another, the Harrier is said to be simply a bred-down version of the English Foxhound. The first Harrier pack in England was established by Sir Elias de Midhope in 1260 and spread out as a hunting dog throughout the west of England and into Wales. Although there are many working Harriers in England, the breed is still not recognised in that country.
In any case, today's Harrier is between the Beagle and English Foxhound in size and was developed primarily to hunt hares, though the breed has also been used in fox hunting. The name, Harrier, reveals the breed's specialty. The Harrier has a long history of popularity as a working pack dog in England.
The Harrier is the most commonly used hound by hunts in Ireland, with 166 harrier packs, 37 of them mounted packs and 129 of them foot packs, spread throughout the country. More commonly in Ireland it is used to hunt both foxes and hares, with some packs hunting mainly foxes.
This breed of dog is recognized in 1885 by the American Kennel Club and is classified in the Hound Group. | {
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Connecting Remote Workers
What’s the idea?
Jane proposed the innovation of a virtual office for remote workers.
This innovation could revolve around a series of webcams positioned around the organisation, with various social touch points connected to them. But rather than being visible to the public like the Sagemeister & Walsh webcams (shown below), the visuals would be private, with access enabled only for the organisation’s employees.
The interface could host a diverse selection of social touch points such as ‘what we’re listening to’, a white board, and audible chat or text options, allowing for a high level of cross-organisation interaction just as we’re used to in the real world.
We also discussed the prospect of having the ability to move conversations around the office (a bit like moving music through your home with Sonos, for example), again allowing more room for involvement and connectivity.
How could it enhance organisations?
Because remote workers spend little time with their colleagues in headquarters, such technology would make them feel more connected, involved, and included – like they were a key part of the organisation regardless of their location.
This would give remote workers a more tangible connection to the organisation, and allow them to keep up-to-speed in real-time with what’s happening within it. It would simulate the feeling of them actually being there, effectively removing locational barriers. | {
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Creative Cloud: CS6 marks new direction for Adobe
Along with the various new features to individual applications that mark any full revision to Adobe’s Creative Suite, this year’s CS6 release saw the introduction of a new subscription model called Adobe Creative Cloud. We recently had a chance to chat with Adobe Creative guru Michael Stoddart who walked us through some of the new changes implemented in CS6.
A few weeks before Adobe released its Creative Suite 5 (CS5) on April 30, 2010, a certain piece of hardware hit the market. That device was the Apple iPad and its immediate success highlighted the rate at which consumer technology can change and the effect it has on how online content is consumed and created.
It was also in April, 2010 that Adobe announced a 24-month release cycle for its CS Suite, with incremental “dot release” versions every 12 months or so. True to its word, Adobe released CS5.5 in April 2011, which included a number of updates aimed at developers now delivering content to tablets, smartphones and other devices.
In recognition of the increasing rate of technological change in general, if not in response to the success of the iPad in particular, Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen also announced that the release of CS5.5 marked the company’s “transition to an annual release cycle.” Again true to its word, CS6 arrived on April 23 of this year with even more features aimed at mobile publishing and app development, along with a new subscription based model.
Creative Cloud
Adobe’s Creative Suite with its collection of feature-rich applications that cover pretty much all the content creation bases has been the standard for designers and creative professionals for almost a decade now. However, it’s cost has also seen various applications, particularly Photoshop, become some of the most commonly pirated on the internet.
While Adobe continues to provide various bundles at varying price points, with CS6 it provides a cheaper legal option for those needing one or more of the applications for a short-term project or those keen to dip their toes in the water without having to shell out the large sum of purchasing the Suite outright.
Adobe’s answer is Creative Cloud, an expansion of the beta that has been available to users of Adobe’s Touch Apps since the end of 2011. Now users can download and install any of the six CS6 desktop applications (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Flash Professional) as well as extras including Lightroom 4, Acrobat, Edge, Muse and the Adobe Touch Apps for a monthly fee of US$49.99 on an annual contract.
The range of applications and services currently provided with Adobe's Creative Cloud
The service also includes 20 GB of online cloud storage and synching of files to allow files to be shared with far afield clients and collaborators. With the Master Collection CS6 costing $2,599 and individual applications such as Photoshop CS6 and InDesign CS6 costing $699 individually to purchase outright, a Creative Cloud subscription is likely to prove an attractive option for many designers and publishers.
The Creative Cloud also gives subscribers access to the latest applications and updates as they are released. Adobe has already signaled that it will continue to add features to the cloud service that go beyond the sharing and synching of files. This includes plans for team versions of Creative Cloud accounts so that additional staff brought onto a project can use cloud app licenses and upload files while working on the project. Additionally, Adobe recently announced that Photoshop and Lightroom will get an update adding Retina display support in the coming months, with other applications to follow.
"The beauty of the Creative Cloud is that previously you had nothing from Adobe for two years and BAM, here is everything all at once," Stoddard points out. "With Creative Cloud we’re allowed not only to release new product but tell you what is coming and keep you up to date."
It appears the option of a subscription model has already proven a success for Adobe with the company reporting higher-than expected second quarter earnings in June, which Narayen attributed partially to the launch of Creative Cloud.
Focus on the Web
With the publishing shift to online delivery, CS6 also sees Adobe fully embracing HTML5. As well as allowing HTML5 animations created in Adobe Edge to be integrated into Dreamweaver projects, Flash Professional provides a means for easily converting Flash applications to HTML5-based content via the CreateJS toolkit. However, this doesn’t yet support conversion of Action Script code to HTML5 equivalents (Javascript).
The CreateJS toolkit can convert Flash animations into HTML5
Stoddart points out this embracing of HTML5 isn’t specifically a reaction to Apple’s reluctance to bring Flash to iOS devices as the HTML5 features were already in development. However, the success of iOS devices helped accelerate things.
"Some of the products that we had in beta around the time of the iPad launch were accelerated, Edge our animation tool and Dreamweaver CS6 was already in development," says Stoddart. "So we had some of these things in the pipeline, but yes, certainly the growth of iOS devices has meant that we were in a good position to take advantage in the upswing in HTML5 requirements."
While many predicted the end of Flash at the hands of HTML5 and JavaScript, which raised fears amongst those that had invested a lot of time and money mastering the multimedia platform, the ability to output HTML5 animations created in Flash at the very least helps cushion the blow for those looking to transition to HTML5. Additionally, Adobe has created Edge as a new multimedia-authoring tool that builds applications on a foundation of HTML5, Javascript, and CS3, for browser-delivered content.
In the two years since the release of CS5, the rise of tablets and the continuing move away from traditional magazine publishing to online delivery has resulted in significant changes in the publishing industry. As a result, CS6 applications include a number of features designed to help traditional publishers more easily produce content for the iPad and Android tablets.
“With CS6 our desktop publishing tool, InDesign has been rearchitected to allow users to output an app,” says Stoddart. This is in addition to the ability to output a PDF, print, or SWF. The Digital Publishing Suite service lets files saved in InDesign’s .folio file format be uploaded to Adobe servers, where it will be converted it to an app that can be sold through iTunes or Google Play. This service starts at US$500 for a single, standalone app and increases for magazines that can have content pushed to them on a monthly basis.
Application updates
Many applications in the Suite also sport a new Charcoal look. This is currently only found in Photoshop Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Edge and Muse, with Dreamweaver and InDesign yet to get the change.
At 25 years old, Illustrator was Adobe’s first product (after PostScript). The company has shown its old warhorse some love by completely rewriting it from the ground up. Now 64-bit and decarbonized for Apple systems, it’s much faster. And in response to requests from many users, it now allows a gradient to be applied to a stroke.
Similarly, in response to feedback from users of Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere sports a new interface that includes JKL editing trimming and the ability to resize thumbnails. Although it’s not quite there yet, Stoddart says Adobe is working towards a render-free environment in which Premiere will read every single codec and allow video to be laid on the timeline without any transcoding into ProRes.
Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the CS6 apps to get a new Charcoal Grey look
Photoshop has always been the marquee application of Adobe’s stable and it continues to set the standard against which all others are measured. With its daunting array of features, it’s often said that 90 percent of Photoshop users only use 10 percent of the application’s features. That might be true, but as Stoddart points out, the 10 percent varies across users.
One feature that pretty much everyone is sure to use on a regular basis is the crop tool, which is slightly different in Photoshop’s latest version. Instead of the crop window moving when repositioned by the mouse, the image now moves while the crop window stays put.
Photoshop CS6's crop tool rotates the image rather than the crop window
This might sound like a fairly minor change, but it can be a bit of a surprise when first encountered. However, once you get over the initial shock, the benefits of this update quickly become obvious – particularly when rotating images. Now instead of twisting you neck with the rotating crop window, the crop window remains at the correct viewing orientation while the image rotates. The end result is that it’s much easier to see what the cropped image will look like. There are also a number of handy cropping overlays, including Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio and Grid.
Another commonly used tool is Autocorrect. In previous versions, using Autocorrect saw the image settings changed without actually letting users know what these changes were. All they saw was the end result. Now the sliders move to reveal just exactly what alterations have been made.
There’s also a new Content-Aware Move and Patch tool, which allows users to cut and paste a subject from one part of the image to another so that it blends into its new location and the space from which it was removed is automatically filled. It’s not perfect, but for certain images, particularly ones with organic backgrounds like grass or dirt, the results can be impressive and save users a lot of time.
Photoshop CS6's Content-Aware Move and Patch tool is impressive when moving subjects around an organic background, such as grass (Photo: Shutterstock)
Adobe has also cleaned up the interface and reorganized the menus. There’s also some improved 3D editing tools and Photoshop Standard gets some video editing capabilities, which might come in particularly handy for rotoscoping. And thanks to utilizing a your system’s GPU, Photoshop runs much faster, with the Liquify tool able to show changes in real time.
Conclusion
We’ve barely scratched the surface – or even the surface of the surface – of the multitude of upgrades and new features that can be found in the latest version of Adobe’s Creative Suite. While even Stoddart admits there may be specialized applications that can do a particular task better than one of Adobe’s offerings, it’s clear that the company’s Creative Suite and the individual applications contained therein are still at the top of the heap. Rather than being a jack-of-all-trades and master of none, CS6 is still a jack-of-all-trades and master of most.
Whether it’s worth the upgrade from CS5.5 will depend on your circumstances, but at least with the introduction of Creative Cloud, an upgrade need not necessarily be the massive one-off hit to the hip pocket nerve it once was.
Darren's love of technology started in primary school with a Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong (still functioning) and a Commodore VIC 20 computer (not still functioning). In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continued through a number of university courses and crappy jobs until 2008, when his interests found a home at Gizmag. All articles by Darren Quick
"Adobe is working towards a render-free environment in which Premiere will read every single codec and allow video to be laid on the timeline without any transcoding into ProRes."
You mean it will finally be able to easily work with MP4, MPEG and other types of video, without bogging down on even the fastest CPUs?
VirtualDub and many other freeware and shareware video editing programs have been able to do such for many years. I always found it silly that one of the most expensive video editing programs could not do what a FREE program could.
Gregg Eshelman 3rd September, 2012 @ 03:20 pm PDT
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2. Drinking mass amounts of alcoholic liquids while camping.
3. To wake up and start drinking with breakfast then continue drinking through out the day.
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Apartment, Accommodation & Rooms in Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital of Romania, and a city that visitors flock to every year. The city hold something for everyone and is known for it's vast array of architectural styles. It is shedding the outdated reputation and gaining a new one of a modern and sophisticated European capital city. Some of the most notable landmarks include the Revolution Square, Parliament Palace, and the old historic city in the heart of town. There are countless churches, each more beautiful than the last. The most popular to visit is the Curtea Veche or ""Old Court"" Church, which was built in the 16th century and was used for royal coronation ceremonies. There is certainly more than is possible to see and do in one day, so an overnight trip is necessary. Consider staying in a bed & breakfast, an apartment, or renting through Wimdu.
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Grays Hill Baptist Church, which wants to add a fellowship hall to host meetings and other events, is suing Beaufort County.
The church, which owns about 10 acres on Trask Parkway, seeks a variance from rules limiting development near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. Church representatives say the county approved its plan for a second building when it submitted a master plan for its property in 1996, before constructing its sanctuary.
When the church sought approval to build the fellowship hall in 2007, however, county officials denied the request, according to documents the church filed last year in Beaufort County Circuit Court.
Among other arguments, the church -- represented by attorney Fred Kuhn Jr. of Beaufort -- says its fellowship hall should be allowed because it:
Was previously approved in the master plan.
Satisfied the county's rules about land use near the air station at the time construction plans were submitted.
Would be an "auxiliary use" to the sanctuary that would not increase the property's "occupant load" and would require no new parking space.
County attorney Lad Howell said the county had to deny the church's request because a fellowship hall could enable the church to hold larger gatherings on its property.
"When you expand anything, it makes room for more people," Howell said. "Factually, you've got to look at that possibility."
Marine Corps officials, who advise local government about plans for development near the air station, oppose the fellowship hall because it would be in an "accident-potential zone," where multi-family residential development, assembly areas, churches, auditoriums and schools are incompatible with federal guidelines, wrote 1st Lt. Sharon Hyland, the air station's director of public affairs, in an email.
The church says the policy constitutes "an unreasonable restriction" to permit only one building on its property and argues that other organizations have received variances for activities near the air station.
Steve Blankenship, chairman of the church's trustees, said he has offered to do "everything within reason" to satisfy the county, including proposing to install an electrical system that would shut off power to one building when occupants move to the other.
He said church officials are frustrated by the expensive legal wrangling and want the fellowship hall so they can better serve their congregation, which includes air station personnel.
"All we're doing is spending money, and the county is spending money," Blankenship said.
He said the county's apparent unwillingness to compromise is "kind of like a slap in the face" because the county annually asks the church for use of its property in case of an emergency.
Judge Marvin Dukes recently asked both sides to submit their arguments in writing before he rules, Howell said. | {
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After removing my winter storage cover on my 98 Coachman slide-in camper,I have massive amounts of water damage above and around the cab-over from where I have no concievable clue. I have built several stich and glue boats and was wondering if it's possible to remonve the outer covering and steel sheet roof,then install 1/4" a/c plywood and fiberglass using 6oz. woven cloth. TX McCusker
Gary,
I was thinking about your camper & wondered if those fiberglass sheets would be a good thing to use on the roof.
I'm talking about the ones sold at Lowes or Hom depot.
They use them a lot in restrooms on the walls in restaurants, busnessses etc.
It has a pebble finish on one side.I used this stuff for headliner in my sailboat & it's pretty tough,but easy to work with.
You may have to use some sort of that silver roof coat stuff to seal the joints& make it U/V friendly. | {
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Why You Should Stop Trying to Be More Confident
Research shows that mastering self-compassion is a better tactic when it comes to relationship and career success.
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By Eric Barker
Let’s cut to the chase: yup, successful people are confident. And the more successful people become, often the more confident they are. And more confidence provides more benefits. Studies show overconfidence increases productivity and causes you to choose more challenging tasks, which make you shine in the workplace. Overconfident people are more likely to be promoted than those who have actually accomplished more. Just speaking first and often — very confident behavior — makes others perceive you as a leader.
If confidence is so powerful, should we simply pretend to have it when we don’t?
We all have a touch of delusion (everybody’s kids seem to be above average and not many people admit to being a bad driver), but when that goes beyond normal thresholds, things get problematic. Unfortunately, we don’t talk about this problem much. Everybody wants to increase self-confidence. That’s because confidence feels good. Confidence makes us feel powerful. But plenty of research shows that when we feel powerful it can be a slippery slope to denial and hubris.
Across a staggering number of studies, feelings of power have very negative effects on a person’s character. Power reduces empathy, makes us hypocritical and causes us to dehumanize others. Studies also show feelings of power cause us to be more selfish and more likely to commit infidelity. And we don’t just lie more; that power also makes us better liars. Feeling like number one means we don’t stress out about hurting others so we don’t experience stress when we fib. Without those stress cues it’s harder for others to detect our deceptions. We succeed because we don’t care about other people.
Confidence makes us feel powerful. Power reduces empathy, makes us hypocritical and causes us to dehumanize others.
When we’re less sure, we’re more open to new ideas and we’re actively and passively scanning the world for new ones. When we have that confident feeling of power, we don’t pay as much attention, because we feel we don’t need to. A study aptly titled “Power, Competitiveness, and Advice Taking: Why the Powerful Don’t Listen” showed that just making someone feel powerful was enough to make them ignore advice from not only novices but also experts in a field.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says there are two benefits to humility: it’s a reality check and it keeps us from being arrogant. He argues that humility actually drives self-improvement because we can see the gap between where we are and where we want to be. Also, being more competent than people assume we are is much better than not living up to our swagger.
Kinda sucks, doesn’t it? Seems like there’s no easy answer. You can impress people and make them angry or have them like you but not respect you. It feels like a contradiction. So how about this: What if you throw the whole confidence paradigm in the trash?
Studies show that self-compassion has all of the benefits of confidence — without the potential drawbacks. Hero Images / Getty Images
Plenty of research shows that looking through the lens of self-esteem might be the real reason the debate over confidence is so fraught with grief. But what’s the alternative to self-confidence? University of Texas professor Kristin Neff says it’s “self-compassion.” Compassion for yourself when you fail means you don’t need to be a delusional jerk to success and you don’t have to feel incompetent to improve. You get off the yo-yo experience of absurd expectations and beating yourself up when you don’t meet them. You stop lying to yourself that you’re so awesome. Instead, you focus on forgiving yourself when you’re not.
Research shows increasing self-compassion has all the benefits of self-esteem — but without the downsides.
Research shows increasing self-compassion has all the benefits of self-esteem — but without the downsides. You can feel good and perform well while not turning into a jerk or being unable to improve. Unlike self-confidence, self-compassion doesn’t lead to delusion. In fact, one study, “Self-Compassion and Reactions to Unpleasant Self-Relevant Events: The Implications of Treating Oneself Kindly,” showed that people high in the trait had increased clarity. They saw themselves and the world more accurately but didn’t judge themselves as harshly when they failed. When you check the numbers, there is a solid correlation between self-esteem and narcissism, while the connection between self-compassion and narcissism is pretty much zero.
What happens when you feel good about yourself and your abilities without inflating your ego? People like you. Neuroscience research shows that developing self-compassion leads to feeling compassion for others, instead of the loss of empathy that comes with overconfidence. Under an fMRI, people who were forgiving of themselves had the same areas light up that are activated when we care for other people. With romantic couples, self-compassion was evaluated as a better predictor of being a good partner than self-esteem.
One of the things self-confidence does is make you happier. Self-compassion does too, but without all the negatives: “Research suggests that self-compassion is strongly related to psychological wellbeing, increased happiness, optimism, personal initiative and connectedness, as well as decreased anxiety, depression, neurotic perfectionism and rumination.”
So how do you develop self-compassion? Just talk to yourself nicely, gently, like Grandmom would. Don’t beat yourself up or be critical when things don’t go your way. As researcher Kristin Neff explains, “Who is the only person in your life who is available 24/7 to provide you with care and kindness? You.”
You also want to accept your humanity. You are fallible. You don’t have to be perfect all the time. You can’t be. Nobody can. Trying to be is irrational, and that’s what leads to all the frustrating emotions.
You are fallible. You don’t have to be perfect all the time. You can’t be. Nobody can. Trying to be is irrational, and that’s what leads to all the frustrating emotions.
Finally, recognize your failures and frustrations without either denying them or seeing them as the end of the world. No rationalizing or melodrama. Then do something about them. Studies show that taking the time to jot down nice thoughts to yourself, how you’re a fallible human and how you can see problems without turning them into emotional disasters, made people feel better and increased self-compassion. Meditation and mindfulness paid off too. Throw them into the mix for better results.
Is growing self-compassion gonna improve your life overnight? Heck, no. But with time, improvement is possible as opposed to the confidence/nonconfidence spectrum, which always seems to come with side effects. | {
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Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, a film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and harmonica player for Wall of Voodoo. Acme Soundtracks' office was across the street from the Hollywood punk club The Masque and Ridgway was soon drawn into the emerging punk/new wave scene. Marc Moreland, guitarist for The Skulls, began jamming with Ridgway at the Acme Soundtracks office and the soundtrack company morphed into a new wave band.[1] In 1977, with the addition of Skulls members Bruce Moreland (Marc Moreland's brother) as bassist and Chas T. Gray as keyboardist, along with Joe Nanini, who had been the drummer for Black Randy and the Metrosquad, the first lineup of Wall of Voodoo was born.[2]The band was named Wall of Voodoo before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Berardi, a friend of Ridgway's and member of The Fibonaccis.[3] Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo" and the name stuck.[citation needed] | {
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Continuous Delivery for...Resumes?
If you’ve ever wrote a resume, you know it can be a tedious task. Microsoft word and LibreOffice both have
resume templates that act as a good starting point. Once you put all your information in, you start making
little tweaks to get the information to look perfect…
Then I decided on markdown. Oh boy. I was already writing my website and my blog (this post) in markdown and generating them using jekyll.
Why not do this for my resume?
I wrote up a quick markdown file and had jekyll build it to html automatically. It was as easy as dropping resume.md into the root directory of my source.
Just add this to the top of your markdown file and jekyll will make it a page:
---
layout: resume
title: Resume
permalink: /KevinLawResume.html
---
Now what’s cool with jekyll is you can inherit this markdown into a layout. I made a layout called resume.html in _layouts/.
Inside of that html file I just add my custom css:
..and it worked!
We load the custom stylesheet in because the css link in the html layout is relative to the webserver and we aren’t running the webserver when running this command.
Note: Use the system package wkhtmltopdf and not RubyGem’s wkhtmltopdf. The one in RubyGems is very out of date.
So how do we deploy this thing?
I had my site running on github since it has free static site hosting using jekyll (the only reason my site is in jekyll).
Well, they don’t allow custom build steps like wkhtmltopdf.
Turns out, gitlab.com just added gitlab-pages with SSL support and any static site generator you want, as long as it writes to /public folder.
I mirrored my repo over to gitlab, and here is my full .gitlab-ci.yml file. | {
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Agents: Group Moved $15 Million in Drugs
The massive drug organization taken down last week in the Albuquerque area had moved $15 million or more in drugs and had ties to drug kingpin Chapo Guzman and the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, federal agents said Friday.
Documents unsealed late Friday also show that funds from the Varela organization, named for lead defendant Homero Varela, provided cash toward 40 gun purchases, including 20 fully automatic AK-47s, Beretta pistols and .308 rifles. Varela allegedly provided the $73,000 to repay a drug debt to the purchaser, who was a drug trafficker engaged in an ongoing war against a rival cartel.
During a briefing Friday, agents painted a picture of a large organization operating in New Mexico that used racehorses and real estate to hide its illegal drug dealing.
“This was a huge organization with a big impact on drug sales in Albuquerque,” said Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown.
The firearm transfer took place last March at a Love’s Truck Stop in Las Cruces but was intercepted by undercover agents, who recovered the weapons.
Varela, a Mexican citizen and lawful permanent U.S. resident, surrendered this week and remains in custody, pending a detention hearing next week.
The nine-month, multi-agency investigation culminated in the arrests of 13 of 15 defendants named in a grand jury indictment, plus an additional defendant, and the seizure of 26 kilos of cocaine, over 500 pounds of marijuana, and over $165,000 in cash.
“It was an extremely significant group bringing methamphetamine and marijuana to Albuquerque for redistribution, and the proceeds went back south to Mexico,” Brown said.
Brown said a law enforcement stop of Ramon Gonzalez Sr. last November in El Paso gave a snapshot of the organization’s breadth: Gonzalez at the time had 26 kilos of cocaine and 550 pounds of marijuana. The wholesale value was close to $1 million.
“From what we gather, that was not unusual. It was something they did (regularly),” he said. “The amount of drugs and the amount of money was incredible.”
Law enforcement officials said Varela used the racehorses he owned as well as bank accounts and real estate to launder the cash from drug sales.
Gabriel Grchan, IRS criminal investigation assistant special agent in charge in Phoenix, said some of the proceeds from the millions in drug sales went into horse racing and purchase of horses, including eight found at a Torrance County ranch when search warrants were executed last week.
Wiretaps, which must be authorized by a district court judge, were also used in the course of the investigation. The intercepted calls made it clear that, at the time of the November stop, Varela was expecting a shipment and would be aided by Ramon Gonzalez Sr. and Ramon Gonzalez Jr., and a relative, Andres Gonzalez, because Varela was on a planned trip to Mexico at the time.
Gonzalez Sr. is described as a legal permanent resident long active in area drug trafficking and owner of homes on Coors Road and in Edgewood, as well as a horse training facility in McIntosh.
Operations such as those in Albuquerque feed the cartels and keep them running, officials said. For instance, in one incident, $112,270 in cash was seized on its way back to Mexico.
The Sinaloa cartel, the world’s largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization, has been headed by Joaquín “Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman since 2003.
Cash in girdle
A search warrant affidavit says agents who had been keeping tabs on Varela and co-defendant Roy Madrid saw a woman with Chihuahua plates arrive and leave Madrid’s home in Albuquerque’s South Valley in a Toyota RAV4. When State Police made a traffic stop of the vehicle near Hatch, they obtained consent to search and found three bundles of cash strapped in an elderly woman’s girdle. The woman was later released, but learning of the seizure prompted Madrid and Varela to change their phones.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars more was being invested in bank accounts and property, agents said, and busts like the recent one take out trusted members of the organization.
“Drugs is pure capitalism,” Brown said, noting that Albuquerque firefighter Steve Chavez, one of those arrested, is believed to have been involved in distribution of drugs in Tampa, Fla., and laundering the money in New Mexico. Almost $350,000 is alleged to have gone through Albuquerque bank accounts that Chavez’s wife was not aware of.
Grchan said horse racing does not appear to have been a significant source of income for the organization, despite the fact that Varela listed it as such.
According to the IRS, Ramon Gonzalez Jr. reported losses from horse racing the last three years, and Varela had grossed about $32,000 in 2011 from racing.
But Brown said the horse racing illustrates the linkage of activities.
The cocaine and marijuana seized in November was in a horse trailer pulled by Gonzalez Sr., one of the owners of the Torrance County ranch where cocaine was found.
“Businesses often serve to disguise the illegal stuff, so they can have something they can say they’re making money from,” Brown said. “The two businesses were combined financially and structurally.”
Federal tax records showed Varela with income solely from horse racing and a rental property, but the search warrant affidavit says that his “lifestyle … is simply not possible on such a small annual income” of $27,000 to $33,000 a year.
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I read the story and it's all blah, blah....your tax dollars at waste in a pointless drug war that only enriches the cartels and LE (as well as all of those politicians and LE on the take). What a fucked up country we live in.
It's unbelievable how many people give their permission to search, when there's no obligation to do so.
Many people I know have fallen for this nonsense because they're used to the corrupt police in Mexico, who will do what they want with or without your permission. Here in America, we have the protection of the United States Constitution, and if you cooperate, but refuse to give your permission, the police will usually obey the law. | {
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From the famous faces who could never really blend in, to the characters who wrecked our hearts with tragic plotlines, these are 17 guest stars we'll never forget.
Best Mad Men guest stars
Rosemarie DeWitt as Midge Daniels
Midge, the beatnik who captured Don's heart in Season 1, was everything Betty was not -- freewheeling, artistic, independent. We'll never forgive Matthew Weiner for reintroducing her in Season 4 with a full-blown heroin addiction, a flailing career and a grotesque husband.
Jay Paulson as Adam Whitman
Seeing characters from Don's true past was always jarring, but few were more shocking than Adam Whitman.
Don's younger half-brother tracked him down, full of excitement at renewing their relationship, but things fell apart when Don cruelly rebuffed him, leading young Adam to commit suicide (the first person to do so in the series).
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Darby Stanchfield as Helen Bishop
Stanchfield played the sharply-dressed divorcee mom of Glen Bishop who was easily able to withstand the withering judgment of Betty and her housewife squad.
She tried to forge a bond with Betty in Season 1, but that went awry because Betty wouldn't give up her strange thirst for Glen's approval.
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Melinda Page Hamilton as Anna Draper
There was something so refreshing about the character of Anna Draper. When she was around, Don was his truest, purest self. She arguably may have even been the only person Don would do anything for -- which made her death even more unfortunate.
Yeardley Smith as Nurse Mary
This might clock as more of a cameo, if you recognize Yeardley Smith's voice. Since 1989, she's been the voice of Lisa Simpson.
Smith made a quick appearance in Season 3, Episode 5, as a hospital nurse where Betty was set to deliver.
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Colin Hanks as Father Gill
...a.k.a. Hot Priest.
Gill entered into Peggy's life in Season 3 as a modern Catholic priest who drinks, smokes and plays guitar. He and Peggy seemed flirtatious -- until Peggy realized she did not give a crap about religion.
Zosia Mamet as Joyce Ramsay
Mamet played Peggy's fast-talking friend who was an assistant photo editor at Life magazine, and one of few lesbians on the show.
She was hip and witty, and always sporting a sharp sports jacket.
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Danny Strong as Danny Siegel
Nepotism got the best of Roger Sterling in Season 4, when (then) wife Jane asked him to find employment for her cousin Danny. Strong (a major player offscreen who's written two Hunger Games films, along with writing and producing Empire) hilariously plays the ineffectual employee with little ad talent.
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Naturi Naughton as Toni Charles
The Playboy bunny girlfriend of Lane Pryce, she was a rare black woman to get a storyline on the series outside of the work office.
Image: Michael Yarish/AMC
Julia Ormond as Marie Calvet
British actress Julia Ormond cut a perfectly-accented turn as Megan Draper's prickly, French-Canadian mother. She was easily one of the shadiest women to ever grace the series, and one of the few who could bring Roger Sterling to his knees.
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Alexis Bledel as Beth Dawes
The doe-eyed seductress had a torrid love affair with Pete Campbell. Things turned tragic, though, when she opted to get electro-shock therapy and forgot who he was.
That twist crushed Campbell, who had fallen madly in love with her. (But fear not, fans -- Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser, the actor who plays Campbell, ended up marrying in real life.)
Neve Campbell as Lee Cabot
Scream queen Neve Campbell made a surprise appearance in Season 7, as a woman Don meets on a red-eye flight. Party of two, please.
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Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen
Nostalgia follows Linda Cardellini everywhere she goes. She of the ill-fated cult series Freaks and Geeks played a woman who had an ill-advised affair with Don, which ended only after Sally discovered them in bed together.
Despite the maddening affair, Cardellini, who is tragically underused by Hollywood, is one of the show's most memorable guests.
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Just enjoying wine, with friends, on the porch
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Outdoor dining season is here! I’ve literally been working on fixing up my backyard for two years. It’s really kinda close to being done about halfway done…
Instead of taking advantage of the great weather the past couple weeks and finishing the landscaping, I stayed true to form and started a new project in the backyard that could also be left almost completed (for now). It’s a really simple design, my son Jake built the skeleton (in record breaking slow motion). He used stainless steel deck plates that we happened to have laying around for the counter tops. Then I used fence boards to finish it. The unfinished part is the shade. Stainless steel will definitely need to be in the shade before summer, it’s already really shiny. So, a gazebo (from my favorite Bargain Market, perhaps) may be in order…
Welcome to the outdoor kitchen
I don’t know if it could actually be classified as a ‘Kitchen’. It has no electricity for a mini fridge (yet) and there’s no sink or running water – even though I have mentally ran water lines every possible route from the source to the new kitchen. Every route is completely complicated. So, maybe it’s more like an outdoor food prep/bar. But it’s enough. And, it inspired me to move Front Porch Wine Tasting to the back porch!
And, in turn, drinking on the back porch inspired me to add a couple of Fancy Craft Beers to the tasting menu
Quimera Premium Craft Beer from Chile
750 ml Amber Ale or Imperial Stout $3.19
Elsewhere price $11.99
We tried the Stout first, it is very dark with brown foam. Smelled kind of sweet and tasted of burnt caramel. I don’t usually like dark beers, but I didn’t hate this as much as I thought I would. Arvin tasted cocoa and Connie tasted coffee. Steve definitely liked it. He said it tasted like good clean dirt. I have no idea what that means.
On-line review: This Chilean Impy Stout pours pitch black with an off-white head that lingers. Intense malty aroma with notes of burnt sugars, molasses, dark chocolate, cigar smoke, tar and ashes. Taste is sweet with an ashy hint, not overly complex but with good development in the mouth and thoroughly enjoyable. Body is big with a dense texture. Almost viscous and chewy. The 8.2% alcohol is well disguised. A well-made strong stout.
I really enjoyed the Amber Ale. It had a nice creamy colored foam, you have to be careful when you pour or you’ll get way too much of it. Everyone liked this one. It was an easy drinking beer. Steve commented that he would enjoy this beer during a Packer win or even a loss.
On-line review: Poured a very pleasant amber color with minimal head. Nose was nearly pure malt and this followed through in the mouth. A very nice beer.
For some reason I was inspired to experiment a little with the food. I came across a recipe for Swordfish Skewers with salsa verde. They were easy to make and I found the swordfish right here at Manteca Grocery Outlet. So convenient.
Turns out, I love Swordfish! (2lb $9.99 in the freezer dept)
Click the picture for the recipe from Food & Wine
2011 Blue Fish Sweet Riesling $2.99
Elsewhere price $13.95
This beautiful blue bottle of Sweet Riesling from Germany was refreshing. Larry tasted peaches and nectarines and thought it was excellent. Terry said she really liked it, that it was clean and crisp tasting. Connie also enjoyed it, saying it was very summery. I definitely will be getting a case of this wine. Of course I enjoyed drinking it, but I plan to make a nice chandelier from the bottles to hang in the outdoor kitchen. Thermodynamics (from middle school science class) is my new best friend.
This sustainably grown Riesling is from the South Island of New Zealand and also comes in a really pretty bottle! We found this wine to be refreshingly crisp and fruity. Perfectly paired with the grilled Lemon Pepper Shrimp Kabobs as recommended by the on-line reviewer at yumsugar.com below.
On-line review: But I was equally taken by their Riesling’s layers of fruit: peach skins and petrol on the nose to start, followed by a puckery citrus and green apple palate, then a gooseberry finish.
Click the picture for the recipe from McCormick
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2011 Washington Hills Syrah $5.99
Elsewhere price $11.99
You know I love me some Syrah! Terry commented that it is very smooth and Larry said Hoorah for the Syrah. Steve thought it was sweet for a Syrah. Connie noted that it is full bodied and she noticed a spiceiness. I asked Arvin how he liked it and he said, “Well, it’s gone”. I think that means he likes it. We all did. The whole bottle was gone. Lol.
On-line review from Snooth.com: Lots of blueberries and blackberries. Very calm, slightly sweet but very delicious. I like this a lot!
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2009 Lady in Red Cabernet Sauvignon $10.99
Elsewhere price $24.99
Arvin started us off on this Cab. He said it has a full noise and is sexy! Every other comment that was made was either inappropriate for this blog or I was completely distracted and didn’t write it down. The on-line review is spot on:
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Firefighter safety after the flood waters recede
In the midst of flooding-related disasters, firefighters and other first responders are at the forefront of multiple-victim rescues and attempts to help the local populations cope with the ensuing aftermath of flooding and wind damage.
Certainly, members of the fire service have acted unselfishly in overwhelming circumstances and continue to take risks while mitigating the effects of powerful storms or other catastrophic events. Yet, this type of large-scale response effort creates a number of significant demands for maintaining personal protection and will continue to have long-term consequences during the extensive cleanup activities that follow.
From a gear perspective, firefighters are less likely to use turnout clothing during a hurricane or flood response, but often will continue to wear their standard PPE given the fact that downed power lines combined with multiple fire hazards warrant some form of protection despite the soggy conditions.
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Physical hazards including debris fields and unsteady structures will further contribute to exposure risks. However, the more ominous and persistent risk will be exposure to the contamination associated with floodwaters and its aftermath. How clothing and equipment are used under these conditions is an equally important consideration for maintaining health and well-being of firefighters and other first responders.
Specific hazards of flooding areas
Floodwaters are a known source of extensive chemical contamination. In urban areas, the hazards associated with contaminated floodwaters are much worse given the abundance of human activity, combined with industrial facilities.
Some areas have a large number of chemically-based production facilities, which – despite their best efforts for retaining the integrity of storage vessels and containers – can result in larges releases of chemicals into the runoff water.
Contamination can also include high levels of lead, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyls and a host of other chemicals that now have leached into floodwaters. Simple household chemicals have also significantly added to the mix, resulting in a variety of chemical hazards which, though diluted, can still impact human health.
Moreover, many of the containers at facilities and structures that were flooded and that came in contact with floodwater for extended periods of time have become compromised and are creating additional hazards for release even after the water levels have receded.
Infectious organisms are larger and more persistent hazards. Compromised sewage systems, together with the runoff from agricultural areas, are expected to produce multiple forms of biological hazards including E. coli, Salmonella and Shigella, known to cause intestinal health issues; as well as Hepatitis A Virus, typhoid, tetanus and other disease-causing microorganisms.
Waterlogged structures and materials will also give rise to mold, fungi and other health hazards, which can make firefighters sick if they are not properly protected. Finally, the increase in standing water in flooded areas is also going to result in a significant rise in the mosquito population and other insect-pests that carry various diseases.
Addressing PPE selection and cleanup for natural disasters
Unless watertight PPE is being worn, firefighters and other first responders operating in flooded areas are simply going to get wet with contaminated water. All firefighter footwear is designed to offer at least 1 foot of water protection off ground level, but any action for walking or wading through high water will quickly compromise the clothing and result in exposure.
Despite moisture barriers provided in turnout clothing, the outer shell and lining materials will absorb water and wick that water throughout the clothing. High rubber boots help, but cannot do anything about the clothing materials that come in contact with the water.
Individuals are most at risk when they have skin abrasions, cuts or lacerations that come in contact with floodwater.
Though there is a standard – NFPA 1952 – that specifies requirements for protective clothing and equipment for use in surface water operations, there are currently no certified products to the standard.
In principle, the standard represents the type of protective clothing appropriate for flooding disasters where it defines specific types of clothing, including dry suits along with the associated gloves and footwear. Unfortunately, many of the requirements are relatively severe and few manufacturers have even attempted to position products against this standard.
Short of there being compliant products to NFPA 1952, there are a variety of different clothing items that can work to help limit contact with contaminated water. Water-tight clothing that integrates socks and pants, such as waders and well-designed dry suits can prevent individuals from being exposed to floodwater, particularly when these types of clothing also provide good interfaces with gloves.
Generally, most fire departments will not have these types of resources and will rely instead on the types of clothing and equipment on hand.
With the resignation that protective clothing and other clothing is being saturated with contaminated water, specific attention must be given to properly cleaning the clothing. Any clothing that has been exposed to floodwater should be cleaned and sanitized before reuse.
In some cases, it may not be possible to effectively clean and decontaminate protective clothing, especially when the gear has been saturated for long periods of time and it is not possible to identify all of the potential contaminates. In these instances, it may be necessary to retire and dispose of the clothing in the interest of safety.
Ordinary cleaning may often suffice for removing biological contaminants, but the extensive soaking of clothing in floodwater will result in contamination throughout the clothing items. Therefore, extra steps are needed to ensure that clothing does not become a repository for infectious microorganisms.
Contaminated clothing should not be allowed to stay wet for long periods of time and should be washed as soon as possible following use. Many manufacturers and independent service providers offer procedures or cleaning to address biological contamination, though they are mostly intended for body fluid exposure.
The use of non-bleach sanitizing agents either in a pretreatment or as a laundry additive is one way of helping to neutralize any residual microorganisms on the clothing. It is important to only use laundry-based products that do not contain any agents that could deteriorate the clothing, such as chlorinated bleach.
Therefore, check with the manufacturer of the clothing if any particular sanitizing agent or disinfecting is proposed. We recommend increasing the temperature used for washing the clothing to 140 degrees F as an aid to rid the items of microorganisms. However, you should check with your gear manufacturer before you undertake this practice as the current NFPA 1851 standard for cleaning of turnout clothing limits washing temperatures to 105 degrees F.
Staying protected in flood waters
With any continuing potential contamination exposure, good individual and facility hygiene practices are essential. Contaminated items should be handled with disposable gloves and it is also a good idea to wear goggles in combination with a face mask, such as a surgical N95 respirator. An apron is also suggested.
While many water-borne infectious pathogens are not necessarily spread through inhalation, the practice of wearing goggles and a facemask helps to prevent touches to the eyes, nose and mouth, which are common transfer points for microorganisms and other hazardous substances.
Frequent handwashing and use of disinfectants on surfaces are also complementary associated practices for avoiding the spread of contamination. It is important that the firefighters in the affected areas continue to apply appropriate hygienic practices to lower their chances for contacting the different hazardous substances around flooded areas and all types of associated emergency operations.
Flooding events mandate additional considerations for personal protection on a larger scale than generally encountered, but they can be adequately addressed with some forethought and appropriate actions for maintaining firefighter health and safety.
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About the author
Jeffrey and Grace Stull are president and vice president, respectively, of International Personnel Protection, Inc. They are members of several NFPA committees on PPE as well as the ASTM International committee on protective clothing. Mr. Stull was formerly the convener for international work groups on heat/thermal protection and hazardous materials PPE as well as the lead U.S. delegate for International Standards Organization Technical Committee 94/Subcommittees on Protective Clothing and Firefighter PPE. They participate in the Interagency Board for Equipment Standardization and Interoperability and have authored the book, "PPE Made Easy.” Send questions or feedback to the Stulls via email. | {
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Rick Bigham has been named as the new product manager – magnetic separation for Bunting Magnetics Co., headquartered in Newton, Kansas.
“The magnetic separation product line is historically our largest in terms of sales and overall importance to the company,” Robert J. Bunting, the company’s owner and chief executive officer said. “Having someone with the experience and background of Rick will ensure that we keep being an innovator in this field and maintain our standing as the industry leader.”
Bigham has more than 27 years of experience in the automotive, industrial gas, magnetic products, and petroleum industries. He served in sales management roles for both Dresser Industries, based in Houston, and Cullum & Brown, based in Wichita, Kansas, before joining Bunting as international sales manager in 2000. Prior to assuming his new role, he worked as a product manager for LS Industries based in Wichita, Kansas.
In his new role, Bigham will be responsible for an extensive line of magnetic separation equipment that removes ferrous contaminants from dry particulates, liquids, and slurries. Bunting offers everything from basic cartridges, grates, and plate magnets to magnet housings, self-cleaning separators, pulleys, and drums. The company’s separators work individually or in tandem to remove ferrous metal debris from gravity, mechanical, or pneumatic conveying systems. Bigham will have responsibility for the worldwide sales effort for this product line as well as all new product development.
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You do not need to travel abroad, you do not need to wear beautiful clothes. You do not need to socialize with strangers. You do not need to experience sunset or the crowds on any bazaar in a hot country. You do not need to have a wonderful apartment on an attractive address. You can climb a mountain, or how many you want. Get yourself a proper education. Ride a helicopter over a volcano. Hunt economic benefits or be the coolest of Stureplan one evening. But you do not even need to rise up from the chair to experience the greatness in life. Here I quote the artist Ingemar Lööf: "The greatness in life come to the one who dare linger in the moment." Daring to turn inwards and not grasp at the material world. Follow your own sorrows of thoughts and not escape to visual distraction. You, just like me got many answers within ourselves. We know more than we think and we are more than we know. Can you help people in grief by leading them toward themselves? | {
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Donald W. Reynolds Maker Space - IST 613 - Greg Melvin
Materials and tools are either not relevant to the user's needs, and/or there is a continuous lack of available materials and tools to create the desired products.
Materials and tools are typically relevant and available to the user's needs.
Materials and tools are either not relevant to user needs, or there is a continuous lack of available materials and tools for desired products.
User feedback; Observation; Materials/Tools Inventory
Materials/Tools (Understanding)
Users have inadequate experience and knowledge for efficient use of the available tools and materials.
Users have some experience and knowledge for efficient use of the available tools and materials. Users ask several questions about material/tool usage.
Users demonstrate experience and knowledge for efficient use of the available tools and materials. Few questions are asked about their usage.
User feedback; Observation
Outreach
The library has few materials in the community. Outreach materials in the community do not focus and are not placed on target groups.
A steady and regularly updated flow of materials exist in the community. Outreach materials reach several target groups, but its easily seen that more can be done in terms of outreach to untouched target groups, and groups that are currently being reached for input and Maker Space usage.
The library takes a proactive approach and regularly analyzes their community outreach. All outreach projects effectively reaches out to identified target groups, and it has a noticeable impact on the library's Maker Space.
Maker Space Usage Data, Identified Target Groups
User Satisfaction
Users rarely feel their time is beneficial with the Maker Space, and a lack of products (in terms of quality and quantity) exist on a consistent basis
User's attendance rate in the Maker Space is steady and increasing to a small degree. Several products are produced on a regular basis and displayed for others users to gain insight and ideas
Users rarely feel their time is beneficial with the Maker Space, and a lack of products (in terms of quality and quantity) exist on a consistent basis
Instructors note some positive details about their experience with Maker Space users, and feel that there is a general supply of training materials and community interest with the Maker Space in general.
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Sussex County Council District 2 includes south Milford, Greenwood and Georgetown.
"The most important thing government can do to encourage new businesses to locate here is to get out of the way.
If you came before the county council and wanted to build a business here, it could be two years by the time you got an answer on something like zoning. That meant you couldn't plan ahead on whether to purchase property. That's gotten a lot better than it was four years ago, and now, most of the time, you get an answer in 60 days or even faster if it's a smaller project.
Unfortunately, we still have a problem with businesses getting approvals from [the state highway administration] or the [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]. That can take two or three years, but that's out of our hands because it's the state and federal government that's the problem.
I consider county government to be business friendly. We do provide tax incentives to businesses that want to locate here and we also have low-interest loans to help people who want to go into business.
I believe in government and necessary regulations, but not unnecessary regulation that hurts business or keeps business from getting anything done.
One of the biggest businesses in Sussex County is building homes. If you want to build a house, you get a loan from the bank, but then you get stuck with regulations on environmental issues and septic systems that can cost you $20,000 to $25,000 before you've even started building.
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The Watering Hole, Saturday, September 6, 2014: This Week In Paranoia: Kill Whitey, Big Sodomy, and A Criminal Organization By Any Other Name
Courtesy of our good friends at Right Wing Watch, we learned of several conspiracy theories floating around in the toilets known as the minds of right wing lunatics, some of whom you’ve heard of before. We’ve got the president planning to kill all the white people so he can declare martial law (which would seem silly since he could declare martial law first and save the taxpayers’ money on bullets.) We’ve got citizen border patrols sneaking upon and nearly apprehending scientists studying bats. We’ve got Teh Gays coming for your kids, as always. (Why is it always the kids Teh Gays want? Why aren’t they after your husbands and boyfriends, which is far more likely?) We’ve got the President secretly flying from Hawaii back to Washington to attend Christmas services at a mosque, then back to his family in Hawaii again without anybody noticing. And we’ve got a right wing cacophony of cries of secret messages and support for terrorists because the President chose to use a more accurate acronym for the bad guys. Nothing more than that. He just decided to use an ‘L’ instead of an ‘S’, and now you and I are going to die.
Professional Misanthrope Michael “Savage” Weiner wants you to buy his book (which I highly advise against) so you’ll understandhow President Barack Obama is plotting to instigate an insurrection. He’s going to do it by granting amnesty for millions of people who entered the country illegally. (One would think it would be only for the crime of entering the country, and not for everything illegal that they did, the way President Richard Nixon got a full pardon even for illegal acts we didn’t know he did, but you never know when you’re dealing with the Savage Mind of Michael Weiner.) And when all the white people rise up and protest this unconstitutional use of his vaguely defined pardon power, he’ll have no choice but to “mow down” all the white people rising up against him, and THEN declare martial law. You know that only a paranoid conservative could come up with a plot like that. It makes no difference that he peppers his fear mongering with things like, “I hope I’m wrong.” Why do conservatives believe that everybody wants to settle their differences with a gun? It’s the psychological behavior known as Projection, where you ascribe in others the things you hate about yourself, and where you believe you know how they’ll behave because you presume they’ll behave just as you would, even though the primary reason you hate them so much is that they never do what you would do in a given situation. Conservative minds are really messed up. And they seem to have vivid, bloody imaginations.
Just when you thought it was safe to count bats in an Arizona cave, along come a group of self-proclaimed patrollers of the border to start shining spotlights on you and calling the REAL Border Patrol agents, who eventually show up to find out you’re just a bunch of scientists doing a biological survey, and not a bunch of Mexicans deliberately not answering your Spanish. It was reported that no guns were pointed in the making of this nightmare, but to that I say, “Not this time.” These self-proclaimed “patriots” need to learn a few things: 1) They are hindering more than helping. In this case, Border Patrol agents were diverted from their primary job of trying to catch real immigration law violators. 2) They don’t need to carry guns if they’re just going to observe and report. 3) It is illegal to detain or assist someone crossing the border illegally. We taxpayers have decided we want the people we hired to patrol the borders to be the ones doing it, not a bunch of, let’s face it, racists, determined to make an example of somebody without, somehow, going to prison for it. If they are truly concerned about terrorists, or anybody else, entering our country illegally, then why don’t they patrol our Northern border, which has virtually nobody patrolling it? There are plenty of places where you could walk across unnoticed. I believe they’re not as concerned about people of their same skin color coming into this country.
But if the bat-counting scientists don’t get you, Lee Duigon is convinced Teh Gays will. You see, Duigon believes that his right to freely exercise his religion trumps your right to have sex with the consenting adult of your choice, especially if that adult is of the same gender as you. He refers to the effort to have LGBT people afforded the same rights and protections against discrimination as anyone else would, “Big Sodomy.” As Shakespeare might have said, “The bigot doth protest too much, methinks.” When you come up with a term like “Big Sodomy” to refer to the struggle for LGBT equality, you’ve given this way too much thought. I would like to publicly suggest to Mr. Duigon that if it bothers him so much, perhaps he should stop thinking about it all the time. Besides, your alleged religion (it’s supposed to be one of the various forms of Christianity) teaches you to love one another, not look for some irrelevant excuse to hate someone. I can promise you, Mr. Duigon, that most of what you think you know about gay people is very probably wrong. And what you understand about religious freedom is even less correct. Your right to practice the religion of your choice stops at my body. You cannot force me to follow your religious beliefs. I really wish Conservative Christians would understand that, but they can’t.
Speaking of someone who should stop thinking, Kamal Saleem, a right-wing darling who claims to have been a terrorist for several organizations (but who somehow has managed to avoid eating a drone missile) cites as absolute proof that Obama is a secret Muslim the “fact” that Obama went to a Washington, DC, mosque on Christmas Day to pray. For some reason, Saleem thinks that when Obama said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet [of] Islam,” he was siding with the minority of extremists who exploit a radical interpretation of the Koran. He also thinks that despite the well-documented fact that President Obama has spent every Christmas of his presidency in the state of his birth, Hawaii, with his family, that Obama managed to fly into DC, go to a mosque, take off his shoes to pray, and then flew back to Hawaii without the press or anybody else hearing about it. It amazes me the lengths some people will go to make their false view of reality seem plausible to the even less-well educated.
But if secretly abandoning his family for a 20-hour round trip just to get in a quick prayer at his favorite mosque (where he wouldn’t have to listen to the same Christian pastor he’d been listening to denigrate America for 20 years) wasn’t bad enough, now Obama is trying to confuse everybody in the US by using a different (and probably more correct) acronym to describe the latest band of criminals sweeping across Iraq. I seriously doubt our American media will ever call them by their Arabic name, al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham. Instead they’ll insist on something easier to pronounce, like a four-letter acronym based on the English translation of their name. And therein lies the problem, because they don’t seem to agree on how to translate the last word, al-Sham. Some translate it as “Syria”, thus making the scronym ISIS, while others say it actually refers to the area of Greater Syria known as the Levant, making the English-language acronym ISIL. But professional hate monger and weekend children’s party clown, Pamela Geller, thinks the president is just trying to confuse people by referring to them as ISIL. This is strange because on her own blog she wrote
The media had amended the name of the Islamic army tearing through Syria and Iraq to ISIS (Islamic State of Syria and Iraq). But the correct name is ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant). What is the the Levant? The geographical area they mean to rule. The Levant includes Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus and parts of Turkey.
If she thinks ordinary Americans are confused by this, what does she think her two-digit IQ readership thinks?
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Pam Geller can’t even get a simple acronym in the right order.ISIS (Islamic State of Syria and Iraq)
Wouldn’t that be Islamic State of Iraq and Syria? Or did she mean ISSI? That sounds like the Darryl Issa’s fan club.
Excellent post, Wayne. The strangest consequence of all the Wingnut miscreant analysis of virtually everything (always clearly designed to accuse Obama of ‘coming for us’ in one way or another) is that there are actually real people who believe the bullshit, and worse, who are scared shitless by it. There are more examples of such in this here corner of rural Colorado than I can count, much less keep track of. But they’re everywhere, and clearly in the majority locally. It would be funny if it weren’t so diabolically serious, given the fact that people who believe that shit are actually allowed to vote. Yikes!
On the northern border matter, reminds me of a ‘joke’ that apparently made the rounds in Minnesota after 9-11. There was at that time, see, a northern militia patrolling the border up there in the Boundary Waters Wilderness, armed to the teeth of course. One evening, they heard noises in the surrounding brush and with guns cocked and aimed, one of them shouted, “Halt! State your name and your purpose for being here!!” A moment later, a Swede emerged from the bushes, hands raised, and answered: “Ole. Bin Loggin'”
President secretly flying from Hawaii back to Washington to attend Christmas services at a mosque…
So he’s not leading the War on Christmas…?
I wonder how many mosques exist between Hawaii and DC? 😉 I think Obama celebrated Christmas at a mosque in Hawaii, but sent Air Force One to DC as a diversion, cuz he likes to fuck with wingnut minds and waste money like that.
Wayne, this post achieves a perfect mix of reportage and snark. Well done!
Why in the hell would any muslim fly anywhere to pray in a mosque on Christmas? I’m reasonably certain that Christmas holds no special religious significance for muslims. These people just don’t think things through. This is similar to their ability to both believe that Obama is the laziest, most incompetent president ever and that he is also capable of masterminded a secret plan to take their guns, put them in FEMA camps, and kill them.
Thanks, OIMF. I’ve decided that’s the effect I want my posts to achieve (unless I’m doing Science or something.) I like the way Jim Hightower writes, and I’d like to aim for something like that. I appreciate the compliment..
Lord Monckton’s op-ed in World Nut Daily could have been written by one of the Koch brothers.
His main premise:
By little and little, the “Democrats” have become the implacable enemies of everything for which the Founding Fathers so nobly and so successfully strove. Their increasingly close ideological links with international anti-capitalist, anti-democratic, anti-libertarian Marxism and its sinister bedfellow, pietistic environmental extremism, have become an existential threat to the very survival of the United States as an independent nation.
But that silliness said, here are his own self-defining words in the category, “Ignorance on Full Display” where he discusses
“the savage brutality of Marxism and its twin, Fascism”
There ‘they’ go again, equating the extreme left politic with its opposite, the extreme right politic. Reminds me of that famous sign, the one carried by another idiot that called Obama a “MARKSIST-FACIST”. At least Monckton spelled them both correctly, but that’s about as far as he got. It is, of course, unfair to expect much more from any of our typical modern day Fascists, esp., apparently, even World Nut Daily’s Monckey . . . errr . . . “Lord Christopher” Monckton.
Just an FYI. Mr. Monckton is not and has never been a member of the House of Lords. The House of Lords disavow him and have made numerous requests that he cease and desist from calling himself “Lord Monkton”. He is only “Lord Monckton” in his own mind.
Yep, that I assumed, put “Lord Christopher” in quotes (the Christopher part because I have NOT seen his birth certificate!). Also, while I’m definitely not British and make no claims to know anything about the British aristocratic pecking order, I’m willing to assume that no genuine British “Lord” could be as freakin’ STUPID as Monckton shows himself to be, and thus I can certainly understand why the House of Lords would take exception to said idiot!
I think I’ve been ruined for life. A friend of mine, and grilling expert, thought he owed me a favor so he grilled me a 12 ounce slice of “Kobe beef” tenderloin. It’s not genuine, being the right breed but raised in the U.S., but it was easily the best steak i have ever eaten. In fact; it might have been the best thing I have ever eaten!
I know. I almost never buy pork chops since my favorite butcher died. I wish I had asked him where he got his pork so I could find another outlet. The stuff at the local stores is just too lean so, when I get pork, I usually go with a tenderloin and use lots of butter in my gravy. It’s good but not the same as well-marbled prime cuts.
I did, however, find a downside to the great steak. The fat has apparently bonded to the inside of my mouth so I get that “furry” feeling with each swig of beer. Still; it’s a small price.
The increase in wildfires is another clue in the whole context of climate change but…? The “librul media” is failing to cover this subject as much as they fail to cover all the other clues. They keep going with the false equivalency between people who recognize what’s going on and those who deny the implications.
I swore off The PBS Newshour, in general, and Judy Woodruff, in particular, years ago. But? I saw a recent clip where she again let a denier lie for 7 minutes, gave him the last word, and ended the segment with “we’ll have to leave it there” instead of saying “that’s simply not true”.
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted President Obama on Saturday for failing to bomb Stonehenge while in the United Kingdom for the NATO summit.
“This is a time when it’s important to send our enemies the message that the United States is strong,” McCain told Fox News. “I can think of no better way to do that than by blowing Stonehenge off the map.”
McCain said that he was “astounded” by Obama’s reluctance to order airstrikes on the ancient monument. “He had a clean shot at Stonehenge, and he blinked,” he said. – Andy Borowitz
Danica finished 16th. She wasn’t able to catch any of the lead lap cars after the restart. Tony Stewart was 15th, three seconds ahead of her, and he couldn’t improve after the restart either. Still, a lead lap finish on a short track (3/4 mile), is an accomplishment in itself.
What has Ms. Patrick done to deserve all the adulation? She seems to be a competent driver but her finishes seem to be in “Dick Trickle territory”. Simply finishing on the lead lap should not be considered a triumph much less be a major story in the national sports’ press.
When did I become the National Sports Press? (DU – challenge all assertions/off)
I just follow her because I’m more interested in her succeeding than any other driver in Nascar. I used to root for the Allisons and Neil Bonnett because they were from my state, and they ran well enough to make watching the races fun back then. I lost interest for a while after Davey Allison and Bonnett died in ’93 and ’94, but wound up a Mark Martin fan which continued until he retired a couple of seasons ago. Always an Indy racing fan, I was impressed that Danica didn’t just barely make races and tool around a couple of laps down with a safe car with lots of downforce on it, like Lyn St. James used to do. She really was fast, stayed in contention in races, and posted good results. Before NBC took over Versus Channel, I could watch her drive via her in-car camera, looking from the roll hoop down into the cockpit. She actually could handle an Indycar very well.
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WHY has Oxford University Press brought out a revised edition of RichardEllmann's ''JamesJoyce'' nearly a quarter-century after this definitive biography first appeared? Because 1982 is the centennial year of Joyce's birth, it seemed a fitting occasion to add the nearly 100 pages worth of information, as well as 80 new illustrations (some of which appear for the first time), that have accumulated in Professor Ellmann's hands since his book first was published in 1959.
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And what is the nature of all the new information that has been added to the text and notes? One need only scan the two pages of ''Acknowledgments 1982 Edition'' to get the idea. Gratitude goes to the curators of new collections, such as the Ezra Pound papers at Yale's Beinecke Library, or the Harriet Shaw Weaver (Joyce's patron) collection in the British Library, that have become available since 1959; and to Dr. Melissa Banta, ''for access to some valuable Joyce letters''; Samuel Beckett, ''for Joyce's limerick on Murphy''; the late Frank Budgen, ''for ampler accounts of Joyce's relationship with Marthe Fleischmann and of his own quarrel with Joyce''; David DuVivier, ''for help on two points of French philology''; Dr. T.B. Lyons, ''for the autopsy report on Joyce''; William McGuire, ''for valuable suggestions about Dr. C.G. Jung's treatment of Lucia Joyce''; Mrs. Vera Russell, ''for her recollection of Joyce's attitude toward childbirth''; and so forth.
In short, the new material is composed of an amplitude of fairly minute details, which is entirely appropriate and desirable, considering the obsessive sort of attachment that Joyce's art inspires.
But for a Joyce-nut who somehow never got around to reading straight through the Ellmann biography, the publication of the revised edition provides an opportunity to fill a gaping hole in one's education. And the effect of this experience is fairly stunning, not alone because of the remarkable wealth of details that the author has gathered up and artfully pieced together. What also strikes a reader is the number of those details that wound up in Joyce's fiction, or, to put it the other way around, the degree to which Joyce's art was grounded in actuality. As Professor Ellmann writes, Joyce ''was never a creator ex nihilo; he recomposed what he remembered, and he remembered most of what he had seen or had heard other people remember.''
Most readers have known this, at least up to a point, and so have even taken the liberty of basing their image of Joyce as an individual on his fiction. The trouble is, we never went quite far enough, but instead confined ourselves to allowing the character of Stephen Daedalus to stand for his creator, which was fair enough so far as the young Joyce was concerned, but which was hardly adequate to a portrait of the artist as an older man.
The effect of this error seems to have contributed to a misunderstanding of Joyce's masterpiece ''Ulysses'' - specifically, a tendency to look down upon the character of Leopold Bloom, to see him as a parody of his Greek predecessor, or to dismiss him as a failed father figure of Stephen.
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Moreover, these parallels lend stature to Bloom in an additional way. As bumbling and inept as his progress around Dublin may seem, it is altogether stately compared with Joyce's own erratic passage through life, considering the windmills of debt, drunkenness and disaster that were forever toppling him off his wayward course. In the light of Professor Ellmann's biography, one almost has to accept Joyce's defense of himself, when his brother Stanislaus attacked him for ''intemperance'' while he was writing ''Ulysses,'' as ''the foolish author of a wise book.'' Oftentimes James Joyce was worse than foolish. But as Richard Ellmann impresses upon us, especially in his dazzling chapters on ''The Dead,'' ''Portrait of the Artist'' and ''Ulysses,'' Joyce in his art nearly always transcended himself. | {
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City of Alexandria to Host 18th Annual Alexandria Earth Day on Saturday, April 30 - Trashion Fashion
The City of Alexandria will host the 18th Annual Alexandria Earth Day and Arbor Day celebration at Ben Brenman Park, 4800 Brenman Park Dr., on Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This year’s theme is "Trashion Fashion” highlighted by a fashion show featuring students from the Alexandria City Public Schools modeling fashions created by them from recycled materials. The fashion show will take place throughout the event.
Earth Day features City agencies and organizations dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Exhibitors will provide environmental educational activities for the whole family that invokes the spirit of Earth Day. Additional activities include the Annual Earth Day Tree Sale; live animal exhibits; a celebration of Nature Poetry by the City Poet Laureate, Amy Young; live music by the T. C. Williams High School Jazz Band; the Third Annual Ellen Pickering Award presentation and the Arbor Day tree planting. Admission is free, food and beverages will be for sale.
Alexandria Earth Day is based on the need to promote education and lead us all to a green and sustainable future, in keeping with the goals of the Eco-City Alexandria Initiative. In addition, the Alexandria Earth Day Committee has committed to making this event a zero-waste and carbon neutral. For additional information, visit alexearthday.org.
The City’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities and Department of Transportation and Environmental Services, and the Environmental Policy Commission, are sponsoring the Earth Day Celebration.
The public is encouraged to take public transit, walk or bike to the event. Ben Brenman Park is served by DASH and Metrobus transit lines. For DASH route and schedule information, call 703.370.DASH or visit dashbus.com. For Metrobus schedule information, call 202.637.7000 or visit wmata.com.
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Sinful Sunday Weekly Round-up 263
Geeky Nymph’s Top 5 Pics of the Week
It’s my pleasure to choose my top 5 picks for this week’s Sinful Sunday. I haven’t participated in quite awhile, but I intend to contribute sometime down the road. All of the pictures this week were spectacular! It was difficult to choose my favorites, but I went with my gut. Here they are listed below, in no particular order.
I love the woods: what beautiful pictures of nature! I like how this set of photos tells a story of an outdoor performance, where two people are putting on a show and we get to be the spectators, along with the photographer.
I think this photo is so elegant. It has an ease to it that makes it feel graceful and seductive, while still maintaining an air of mystery. What happens now that one heel is taken off, for instance? I want to know!
Thank you very much to Geeky Nymph for this weeks wonderful collection of images. You can find her on her own blog Geeky Nymph and on Twitter @GeekyNymph
Blast from the Past
Sinful Sunday Week 142 – Beck and Her Kinks
I love this shot. We get the bright shiny glare of her hair and then beyond that a tantalizing glimpse of the little triangle of fabric covering her bottom and disappearing between her legs. | {
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Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as many believe, and that future change also will be highly constrained by Japan's long-standing "security identity," the central principle guiding Japanese policy over the past half-century. Oros' analysis is based on detailed exploration of three cases of policy evolution—restrictions on arms exports, the military use of outer space, and cooperation with the United States on missile defense—which shed light on other cases of policy change, such as Japan's deployment of its military to Iraq and elsewhere and its recent creation of a Ministry of Defense. More broadly, the book refines how "ideational" factors interact with domestic politics and international changes to create policy change.
About the author
Andrew Oros is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College. He is the Editor, with Yuki Tatsumi, of Japan's New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities, and Implications (Stimson Center, 2007).
"Andrew Oros' contribution to constructivist literature through his challenging of realist theories of international relations and rationalist understandings of domestic politics combine to make Normalizing Japan an important addition to international relations and comparative politics scholarship . . . In sum, the value of this book is twofold. The first lies in its empirical richness and description of compromises reached among domestic and international actors, while the second reflects its contribution to constructivist theory through charting the institutionalisation and evolution of Japan's security identity."
"It is clear that a tremendous amount of hard work and research went into the creation of this book .... Credit must be given to Oros for writing a book that is completely borderless with respect to sources, whether text or interviews; he represents a new breed of Japan specialists who operate with equal facility in Japan and in their own countries . . . This book should be required reading for current and aspiring Japan specialist in the arena of politics and security."
—Tosh Minohara, Journal of Asian Studies
"A model of academic research Normalizing Japan is enhanced with seven major appendices, extensive notes, a 29-page bibliography, and a comprehensive index, making it an invaluable and strongly recommended addition to academic library Contemporary International Studies reference collections in general, and Japanese Governmental Studies reading lists in particular."
—The Midwest Book Review
"This thoughtful, carefully argued study challenges the many Chicken Littles who warn that Japan is ready to break free of its post-war constraints."
—Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
"Andrew Oros has written an important book on one of the seminal questions in East Asian affairs. The character and impact of Japan's unique national security identity of antimilitarism--and its evolution today in a region where 'realist' forces are reasserting themselves is a challenging scholarly issue that also has real world significance. Normalizing Japan marshals impressive evidence to make careful and thoughtful arguments about the role of identity and history in Japanese national security decision making. The book is a welcome addition to a growing debate on the logic and pathways of Japan's postwar identity and foreign policy."
—G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University
"A well-crafted and innovative study of contested national identity. Oros shows how Japan's security identity, despite significant material changes in the domestic and international environment, remains rooted in domestic anti-militarism. He offers empirical benchmarks to suggest that so far Japan is normalizing but not nationalizing or permanently pacifying."
—Henry R. Nau, George Washington University
"This work effectively presents Japan's defensive orientation and practices as normal for the Japanese as they reflect the political negotiations and compromises that have shaped and continue to define the framework within which security decisions are made."
—CHOICE
"...Represents a fine example of the synergy that can be created by drawing upon the strengths of both area studies and discipline. In short, this book stands out as one of the best additions to the field over recent years and represents another excellent contribution to what is shaping up to be a fine series in Asian security studies under the sponsorship of the East-West Center." | {
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In the future, we may be able to point to the Women’s March on Washington in Saskatoon as the critical moment when all our scattered struggles came together as we realized how capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, imperialism, and heterosexism are interconnected. | {
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Gerardo Del Real: This Gerardo Del Real with Resource Stock Digest. Joining me today is president and CEO of Cordoba Minerals (TSX-V: CDB), Mario Stifano. Mario was instrumental in acquiring and consolidating the flagship San Matias Copper Gold Project in Colombia. Maria has over 15 years of mining experience and has raised over $700,000,000 to explore and build gold and base metal mines.
Mario, thank you so much for joining me today.
Mario Stifano: Thanks, Gerardo, thanks for inviting me.
Gerardo Del Real: Absolutely. I provided a brief overview there, but for those that aren't familiar with you and the Cordoba Mineral story, can you share a little background about how you got involved with the company?
Mario Stifano: Thanks. This is a fairly new project. We went public in 2014. As they say, it takes a lot of work to create great projects. In 2012, we found an outcrop in our area on the northern part of Colombia. It was quite obvious to us that this area was highly prospective for copper-gold. The area was fragmented with two other companies operating the area. My focus in 2012 was to try and consolidate this ground and create a district for copper-gold exploration. Took me almost two years to get this deal done and consolidated.
In 2014, we were able to consolidate the whole ground and take Cordoba public, or the new Cordoba public. In addition to that, there was always one little piece of ground that we didn't own, that we always wanted, but we wanted to make sure that no one else was able to step in. When the opportunity came to acquire this deposit, which we call Alacran, which is "the donut hole," again, it was a little bit of a headache to try and get this particular asset because the two owners and the prior JV partner were feuding with threats of lawsuit.
We stepped in to mediate and negotiate a deal in October of 2015. We acquired the Alacran deposit and we're currently drilling the Alacran deposit, as well as the other prospective areas on our ground.
Gerardo Del Real: Excellent. You have a very successful joint venture partner in HPX, which is a company that's indirectly controlled by a mining entrepreneur that everyone's familiar with, Robert Friedland. That allows HPX to earn up to 65% in the project by funding the project and completing a feasibility study. The San Matias copper gold-project is a district scale project, which obviously has the potential for multiple discoveries. Can you share with us how you are able to catch the attention of one of the most successful mining entrepreneurs ever?
Mario Stifano: Look, I'm Italian and I believe in fate. I think it was fate that brought me to Robert Friedland. A little bit of background on how Robert and I met. I was at the BMO conference, and at the end of the day when you finish your one on one meetings, you walk to the elevator to go up to your room and prepare for the evening events. Always at the end of the day, it's jammed packed, these elevators, everyone's rushing to get up to their room. This particular day, I ended up going on a different floor, I think I was looking for some food. If I decided to go on the regular route, I'm sure I would've missed Robert.
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I pressed the elevator to go up and the doors opened, and I walk in the elevator. In the corner is Robert Friedland, just Robert Friedland. As I said, normally these elevators are jam packed. I introduced myself to Robert and I said how much I love listening to his speeches because he did a fantastic afternoon presentation for the attendees at the BMO conference. For the rest of the elevator ride, I told him why I thought our San Matias project was the best copper gold exploration project bar none, and how it resembled his Oyu Tolgoi discovery in Mongolia, which most people know is one of the largest copper gold discoveries ever.
In the ensuring year, Robert Friedland and I negotiated what I think is one of the best joint venture agreements ever negotiated. I bought in what I feel is the best exploration that's out there bar none.
Gerardo Del Real: Fantastic. Drilling has been ongoing over the summer and you've already released some pretty impressive results. Where is the focus right now? You mentioned Alacran earlier.
Mario Stifano: Alacran is a fantastic deposit. When we acquired Alacran in October of 2015, we felt at the time it was a great deposit. What we've been doing over the last, I say since January when we've been drilling deposit, we've been able to identify Alacran as not only a 1.3 kilometer strike, which again, is a pretty strong mineralized trend, we've now been able to extend Alacran 250 meters in lateral width in the norther part, and we think it's still open to the east and to the west. It's open on strike and it's open at depth.
Alacran, very quickly, is turning out to be potentially a very large copper gold skarn system. We're drilling currently 10,000 meters at Alacran. We're in the middle of this drill program. We expect to have drill results continue to flow for the rest of the year, so there will be lots of catalysts for investors to sink their teeth into.
In addition to Alacran, we also had this large land package at San Matias, which you've alluded to. In the early days, our initial discovery hole was actually a porphyry, that we call Montiel, where we drilled 101 meters at 1% copper and .65% gold. We're now following up on that drilling with another 10,000 meters. In total, we have more drills turning at site. This is quite a bit of drills turning for a junior exploration company, but from an investor perspective, our shareholders don't have to pay for that. All the aggressive exploration is being funded by Robert Friedland and his private company, High Powered Exploration, or HPX.
Gerardo Del Real: That's fantastic. I understand you're working towards an initial resource estimate. When can we expect that?
Mario Stifano: Yeah. For Alacran, that's where we're going to issue our first resource. There is a historical resource there, 37,000,000 tonnes at .62 copper and .4 grams gold, which is a very high grade deposit. It's a great start to a potential resource. As you know, most copper mines in the world are 0.5% copper-equivalent and we're well above that in just the copper grade, plus we have the gold credits.
In terms of timing for that resource, we're anticipating sometime in October. We're going to incorporate some additional holes that we recently drilled at Alacran into the resource, specifically now that we've been able to extend the lateral width by 250 meters. You can just run the math. You got 1.3 kilometers in strike and to date, 250 meters of lateral width. This has turned out to be a fairly sizable deposit. We want to ensure that the market understands what we're starting to find here at the Alacran.
Gerardo Del Real: Absolutely. Can you tell us a little bit about the jurisdiction and the infrastructure near the project? I think that's important.
Mario Stifano: That's a great question. When you look at building a mine, infrastructure, the community, is absolutely critical. Obviously you have to have a fantastic deposit, which I think we have, but the infrastructure plays just as an important role. Right next to us, 20 kilometers away, is Cerro Matoso, which is the world's third largest nickel mine. It's open pit, it's owned currently by South32, or formally BHP. They've been operating there for 30 years and have another 30 years of reserves. It sort of gives you an idea of the geological potential in our area.
10 kilometers to the north of us are two open pit coal mines. It's currently being operated by a conglomerate in Colombia and was previously owned by Vale, another worldwide well known mining company.
The funny story about the infrastructure is these two international mining companies had no idea that there was copper gold in this district. I met with both of them and they told us in all the years that they were here, they had no inkling that there was potential for any copper gold in this district.
Gerardo Del Real: Interesting. Mario, you obviously have a very large and very prospective land package. You have an excellent partner funding aggressive drilling all the way through feasibility, and you're in the middle of what sounds like a very exciting drill program. Is there anything you'd like to add?
Mario Stifano: Look, I think from an investor perspective, what makes a company successful is obviously the resource and the exploration package that you have, but it's also the team that goes behind it. If you look at our team from the management side, I have Chris Grainger who's our vice president of exploration. He's an Australian but spent a good chunk of his career in Colombia, including helping find Buriticá, which is a great project by Continental Gold. We also added Charlie Forster to our team. He is the former senior vice president of exploration for Ivanhoe. He led the exploration team in discovering Oyu Tolgoi. He is now a special advisor to our team.
When you look into our board, I think we have a tier one board that any operating company or large international company would love to have. We have Peter Meredith, who's our chairman. He is the former deputy chairman of Turquoise Hill, which is the old Oyu Tolgoi/Ivanhoe. We also have Eric Finlayson, who's on our board. Eric ran the whole exploration team at Rio Tinto for five years. He led the whole Rio Tinto exploration team. In addition to that, we have David Reading, who was the former CEO of the European Goldfields that got picked up and purchased by El Dorado. David's credited for finding a lot of Rangold's exploration assets.
If you look at our team, you have a tier one management team and a tier one board that could really help drive this company forward.
Gerardo Del Real: Fantastic. Mario, you have four drills turning. I'm anticipating a lot of news flow and hopefully I'm looking forward to having you back on soon. | {
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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh is excited to announce that beginning in the Spring of 2018, clinical counseling services will be available from St. Ann Catholic Parish in Clayton, NC for the Newton Grove Deanery. “We are constantly talking with our parish partners to understand the needs of the community.” Ms. Wanda Collazo, Newton Grove Regional Director, explained. “When local pastors approached us with a need for clinical counseling, we worked with them to identify a path to providing that service.”
The plan is to have a professionally-trained clinical counselor available to provide a Catholic approach to counseling with individuals, couples, and families. “We often work with individuals who are experiencing emotional distress, have difficulty dealing with stress, depression or anxiety, or need healing from grief, loss or strained relationships.” Collazo shared. Counseling Services are provided from a perspective which recognizes the emotional, behavioral, cognitive, spiritual and physical aspects of an individuals’ healing or growth.
During the evaluation of how Catholic Charities could best serve the Newton Grove Deanery, additional changes were discussed. It was identified that other community partners were operating food pantries and providing financial assistance to families. “Efficient service delivery is always a priority for us at Catholic Charities.” Collazo explained. “We want to prevent a duplication of service so that we can better use the limited resources that are available.” The result is that emergency assistance will no longer be available from the Newton Grove Deanery Office. A list of community resources to meet this need can be found at www.CatholicCharitiesRaleigh.org/goldsboro.
A change will also be made to disaster services offered in the area. Immediately following Hurricane Matthew, the generosity of parishioners and individuals was clear as funds were raised to assist families impacted by the flooding. Therefore the Newton Grove office will be ending assistance geared specifically towards Hurricane Matthew survivors. “Unfortunately, at some point that funding runs out, and we are now at that point.” Collazo shared. “We are proud that over the past 15 months we have been able to assist over 130 families in the Newton Grove Deanery. For families still seeking assistance in the area, Lutheran Services of the Carolinas is continuing to provide case management assistance. For more information about Lutheran Services of the Carolinas, please visit http://www.lscarolinas.net/disaster-response/lutheran-disaster-response.
Due to the reduction in services provided at the Catholic Charities Newton Grove Deanery office in Goldsboro, St. Ann Catholic Parish will now serve as the Newton Grove Deanery location for Catholic Charities services. Catholic Charities will continue to work with parishes and local partners to evaluate community needs and address those needs in the most efficient and effective way possible. Collazo explained, “Change can sometimes be a challenge, but we are excited for the new direction we are taking in the Newton Grove Deanery and expect it to have a positive impact on the community.” | {
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On the night of Thursday, October 24, 1907, nearly every important banker in New York was meeting in J. P. Morgan’s exquisite private library, located next to his house at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street. In the magnificent East Room, with its three tiers of inlaid wood and glass cabinets containing the printed masterpieces of the world, the bankers sought a way to end the financial panic that held Wall Street, and thus the country, in its grip.
Liquidity—the easy flow of money between creditor and borrower—had vanished from the marketplace. Depositors by the thousands were withdrawing their assets from sound and unsound banks alike, forcing the banks to call in loans as fast as they could and to husband their dwindling reserves. That afternoon the call money rate paid by speculators (the cost of borrowing money overnight) had reached 125 percent. The Stock Exchange had managed to stay open until the usual closing hour only because Morgan had flatly forbidden it to close early and had raised twenty-five million dollars in a quarter of an hour to see it through. The American financial system appeared on the brink of collapse.
Everyone knew that something had to be done that very night to restore confidence. “If people will keep their money in the banks,” Morgan had told reporters that week, “everything will be all right.” He was correct, of course; getting people to cooperate was the trick.
As the other bankers met in the East Room, Morgan sat alone in the equally magnificent West Room, which was his office. Its deep red flocked wallpaper bore the arms of the Chigi family of Renaissance Rome. Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance hung on the walls in profusion. Sitting in an easy chair before the fire, Morgan played game after game of solitaire, a pastime that he found peculiarly soothing. Now and then one of the other bankers would come in and suggest a plan.
“No, that will not work,” he would say, and the banker would return to the East Room to help devise another.
After this had happened several times, Belle da Costa Greene, Morgan’s librarian, asked him, “Why don’t you tell them what to do, Mr. Morgan?”
“I don’t know what to do myself,” Morgan replied with characteristic forthrightness, “but sometime someone will come in with a plan that I know will work, and then I will tell them what to do.” He went back to his solitaire, putting the ten on the jack, the nine on the ten. Constrained by the rules of the game, he sought to bring order to the cards out of the chaos created by the shuffle.
Bringing order out of chaos, within the rules of the game, had been the abiding passion of Morgan’s life. A genius for doing exactly that, combined with a formidable personality, total self-assurance, and a powerful physical presence, had brought him to this moment. Now both Wall Street and Washington looked to him to rescue the situation. He had never held public or military office of any sort, but at this moment John Pierpont Morgan was, perhaps, the most powerful man in the country, and the future prosperity of America lay in his hands. He sat, he played his cards, he waited.
In retrospect, it might appear that Morgan’s whole life had been leading up to this moment. He had been born in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 17, 1837. Unlike so many who rose to great wealth in nineteenth-century America, Morgan was born affluent. His paternal grandfather had moved to Hartford in 1817 and prospered. As the city grew—it was then on the fastest route between New York and Boston—he invested in real estate, steamboat lines, and railroads. Later he was one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company.
Morgan’s father, Junius Spencer Morgan, was a partner in a dry-goods firm in Hartford for several years, before moving to Boston and becoming a partner of James M. Beebe & Company, which was heavily involved in conducting and financing the burgeoning Atlantic cotton trade. By 1854 his financial reputation had grown to the point where he was invited to join George Peabody’s banking house in London, one of the City’s leading private banks. Peabody was an American who had lived in London for many years and was widely known on both sides of the ocean for his business integrity and his philanthropies. When Peabody retired in the early 1860s, Morgan’s father took over the firm, which he renamed J. S. Morgan and Company.
From his earliest days J. P. Morgan was exposed to two elements that were to dominate and characterize his life: international banking at its highest levels and the idea held by Peabody and his own father that personal integrity was indispensable to success in that field. At the end of his life Morgan was questioned by a congressional committee about the workings of Wall Street. “Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?” the committee’s counsel asked.
“No, sir,” Morgan replied. “The first thing is character.”
“Before money or property?”
“Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it. … Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.”
Unlike many, Morgan meant exactly what he said in this regard. In 1905 Morgan had purchased on the Erie Railroad’s behalf a controlling interest in the small Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. After the firm had turned over the stock to the Erie, Morgan discovered that the figures on which the purchase had been based were fraudulent. Although under no legal obligation to do so, Morgan bought back the stock from the Erie at the price he had originally paid for it and then forced the CH&D into bankruptcy. The loss to J. P. Morgan and Company was about twelve million dollars, and 1905 was the only year, before the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the firm showed a loss.
Morgan never had any doubt what he wanted to do in life. Even as a boy living in Hartford he exhibited a love for the routines of business. At the age of twelve Morgan and his cousin Jim Goodwin organized a show that they called “The Grand Diorama of the Landing of Columbus.” Morgan kept precise accounts of all expenses and income from ticket sales and afterward prepared a balance sheet of the whole enterprise headed “Morgan & Goodwin, Grand Diorama Balance Sheet, April 20, 1849.” All his life he could read ledgers at a glance, spotting even trivial errors made by the trembling clerks who held them up for his inspection.
Morgan’s health was not robust in his childhood. At the age of fifteen he developed a bad case of inflammatory rheumatism, and his family sent him to the Azores, where he spent several months recovering. At the same time, he began to suffer from skin eruptions called acne rosacea that were to plague him through his life. His mother and maternal grandfather also suffered from this mysterious and disfiguring disease, which was the cause of Morgan’s famously large and unsightly nose. Physical exercise never interested him, and indeed, as his son-in-law noted, “he never seemed to give any heed to the ordinary rules for good health.” When his son converted a stable into a squash court and began to play there every morning before work, Morgan’s only comment was: “Rather he than I.”
He raised $25 million in fifteen minutes to support the Stock Exchange in 1907.
Morgan was educated on both sides of the Atlantic, first attending school in Hartford and then, after his father’s move to Boston, the English High School there, a public school of very high standards. When his father moved to London, Morgan was sent to a private school in Vevey, Switzerland, and then he spent two years studying at the University of Göttingen in Germany. At Göttingen his mathematics professor thought enough of Morgan’s abilities to urge him to stay on, offering to make Morgan his assistant. But Morgan had no interest in the academic life other than as preparation for business.
Morgan’s family was a religious one in a religious age, and his maternal grandfather, for whom he was named, was a fiery abolitionist clergyman. Morgan seldom pondered theological questions or thought deeply about moral issues (although he faithfully attended and obviously enjoyed Episcopal Church conventions). Instead he accepted without question the tenets of mainstream nineteenth-century Christianity and tried, with no more success than most, to live by them. While he would have been more than welcome in any church in New York, he attended and for many years was the senior warden of St. George’s Episcopal Church on no-longer-fashionable Stuyvesant Square. It was a church well known for its work among the poor. The first paragraph of Morgan’s will, written by Morgan personally, was a thundering affirmation of his belief in Christianity and its power to redeem his soul.
Unlike most of the other merchant princes, Morgan was born to affluence.
In 1857 Morgan left the University of Göttingen and moved to New York, where he joined the distinguished Wall Street firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co. as a junior accountant. The following year he was sent to New Orleans to study the cotton and shipping business. Inspecting New Orleans’s teeming waterfront, he soon found an opportunity to buy a shipload of coffee at a bargain price. He paid for it with a sight draft on Duncan, Sherman, although he had no authorization whatever to incur such an obligation. By the time he received peremptory orders from New York to dispose of the coffee at once, he was able to reply that he had already sold the entire cargo at a profit and was forwarding the checks.
This confident self-assurance and willingness to commit himself at once was a characteristic that only increased as Morgan grew older and richer. When Harvard was seeking funds to enlarge its medical school, the university approached both Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller had a committee study the proposal for six months and only then contributed one million dollars. When Morgan received the delegation from Harvard, he said only, “I am pressed for time and can give you but a moment. Have you any plans to show me?”
The university representatives rolled out a set of blueprints, and Morgan looked them over for a second. “I will build that,” he said, stabbing at a building on the plans with his forefinger, “and that—and that. Good morning, gentlemen.” He had made a commitment quite as large as the far richer Rockefeller’s and had taken no more than thirty seconds to do it.
A corollary to Morgan’s quickness and decisiveness was a certain willfulness and a stubborn romantic streak that possibly can be traced back to his grandfather Pierpont, not only a preacher but a considerable poet and a fearless crusader for the causes he believed in. This trait often led Morgan to act impulsively when he had been touched in some human way. Morgan once went to considerable trouble to concoct a job for an elderly lady that would give her the sense that she was earning her keep and not just living on his charity. More important, when the great New York publishing house of Harper & Brothers was threatened with bankruptcy in the 1890s, it was Morgan who rescued it with loans of more than a million dollars, not because it made business sense but simply because he thought Harper’s too important to American culture to lose. It was years later and only after Morgan’s death that Harper’s managed to repay this debt.
Certainly his most impulsive and romantic act was to marry Amelia Sturges, better known as Mimi. Mimi was a beautiful woman from one of New York’s finest families, and Morgan fell in love with her soon after he moved to New York. But in the spring of 1861 she contracted tuberculosis, the Victorians’ dreaded, dark disease. She weakened rapidly, and Morgan insisted on abandoning business and marrying her in order to take her to a warmer climate, which was thought the only hope. Although she was too weak to stand, the wedding took place on October 7, 1861. Only four months later she died at Nice. Morgan was a widower at the age of twenty-four.
He recovered quickly and in September of the following year opened the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan and Company. (His father still headed the London firm of J. S. Morgan & Co.) The great boom engendered by the Civil War was in full swing by 1862 and a speculative frenzy had erupted in Wall Street. Huge amounts of money were being made, and as one contemporary described it, “New York never exhibited such wide-spread evidences of prosperity. Broadway was lined with carriages. … The pageant of Fifth Avenue … was bizarre, gorgeous, wonderful! … Vanity Fair was no longer a dream.” In 1864 Morgan, who turned only twenty-seven that year, had a taxable income of $53,286, fifty times a skilled worker’s annual wage.
Business conditions in New York during and immediately after the Civil War were fraught not only with opportunity but with peril too. The government and the courts were sunk in corruption, while the New York Stock Exchange and other Wall Street institutions were only beginning to acquire the power to enforce standards. Those years saw capitalism red in tooth and claw and there were hardly any rules at all beyond caveat emptor.
In two instances during the war Morgan became involved in dubious schemes with men of good family but, it turned out, bad character. Although there is no evidence that Morgan did anything illegal or, in a strict sense, dishonorable, these events have been used ever since by writers trying to tarnish his name. Oddly, for one who deeply believed that character was the only important consideration in a man, Morgan would admit that he was not always perceptive about it. “I am not a good judge of men,” he told his minister. “My first shot is sometimes right. My second never is.” Perhaps sensing this, Morgan, in 1864, took on a senior partner, Charles H. Dabney, and the firm’s name was changed to Dabney, Morgan and Company.
Although used to the best, Morgan had no interest in show for show’s sake.
For a man with a love for both order and the concept of honor, the Civil War era was economic disorder incarnate, and these years could only have had a profound effect upon Morgan’s thinking as an investment banker. Having seen at first hand the deep corruption of the New York courts and legislature during the reign of Boss Tweed and the hog wallow of greed that was the Grant administration in Washington, Morgan would never conceive of government as a means of regulating business conduct. To Morgan, government was part of the problem. He thought, quite honestly, that it was up to men like himself, men of good breeding and character (in other words, those he thought of as gentlemen), to put American business on a sound and honorable basis and keep it there.
In this sense J. P. Morgan was a Tory. He believed his own class had a fiduciary obligation to run things for the benefit of all. By the time he died, this was a very old-fashioned idea. But in his younger days it was entirely understandable. And within the scope of his vision, Morgan was a reformer and progressive, seeking always to bring order out of chaos within the rules of the game as he saw them.
As the war ended, Morgan married a second time. His new wife, Frances Tracy, known as Fanny, was the daughter of a prosperous New York City lawyer. Together they had four children, three daughters and a son. While they often traveled separately and were apart for long periods, their marriage was solid and content.
Certainly Morgan was an enthusiastic and affectionate father. When his children were young, he would dress up as Santa Claus at Christmas, and his son remembered all his life a trip he took with his father to visit Thomas Edison at Menlo Park. (Morgan had invested three hundred thousand dollars in the Edison Electric Light Company even before Edison had perfected his great invention. Morgan’s house on Thirty-sixth Street was the first one in the world to be completely wired for electricity, and the Morgan family endured numerous sudden blackouts at the hands of the new and often erratic technology.)
In 1871 Dabney wanted to retire, and Morgan formed a new partnership with the Drexel firm of Philadelphia. The New York firm, known as Drexel, Morgan and Company, had its offices in the newly erected Drexel Building, at the corner of Wall and Broad streets. The offices of the Morgan bank have been there ever since, at the symbolic and actual center of American capitalism. With the new firm’s many connections with Philadelphia and with J. S. Morgan and Company in London, it was immediately profitable. Morgan’s share of those profits averaged close to half a million dollars a year, even in the depressed economy of the mid-seventies.
That same year he bought Cragston, an ample but unpretentious house on the west shore of the Hudson River. Nine years later he bought his house on Madison Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street. While the house was large and comfortable, it was nowhere near as grand as those being built by dozens of newly minted millionaires a mile uptown on Fifth Avenue. Although Morgan was used to the best of everything and insisted on both luxury and comfort, he had no interest in show for show’s sake. In an age when even modest middle-class households had two or three live-in servants, Morgan’s staff on Thirty-sixth Street was only twelve. (By way of contrast, the servants at the vast palace of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on Fifty-eighth Street numbered at least fifty-six.) In 1881 Morgan had the Corsair built for him, the first of three steam yachts by that name. The first was 165 feet long; the third, ordered in 1898, would be 302.
In 1879 Morgan made his first really big financial deal. William H. Vanderbilt owned no less than 87 percent of the New York Central Railroad and wanted to diversify his holdings. Morgan arranged to sell in England 150,000 shares of Central at $120 a share and managed to do it so quietly that there was no notice taken of it until the deal had been accomplished. Not only was the stock sale very successful, and profitable, but Morgan, holding the proxies of the new English shareholders, now sat on the Central’s board. He had become a power in the railroad business, and he intended to use this power to bring order out of the chaos that was American railroading.
The American railroad system had grown quickly and haphazardly over the previous fifty years. The larger trunk lines had mostly been assembled out of a myriad of small local roads and often had bizarrely complex corporate structures as a result. Railroads had been the first economic enterprises to be managed by people who did not own them, and there were few laws to compel railroad managers to act as fiduciaries for the stockholders. As a result the managers could, and all too frequently did, act as they pleased.
One of the more popular schemes was to build, or at least start to build, a line that would compete with an established railroad. The managers would often hire a construction firm that they owned and overcharge their own railroad while coercing the other into buying them out. The managers made a tidy profit whatever happened, and the shareholders of the two railroads were the losers. Morgan felt that these sorts of shenanigans were unspeakable.
By the mid-eighties, a time of great national prosperity, railroad profitability was rapidly declining as ferocious rate wars and overbuilding wracked the industry. Even the splendidly managed New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad were at each other’s throats, building competitive lines in each other’s territories. Morgan persuaded Vanderbilt to let him work out a peace settlement, and he invited the heads of the Pennsylvania and the Central to cruise the Hudson on Corsair. As the yacht sailed up and down the river, Morgan got the two railroad directors to thrash out an agreement ending the war between them.
Morgan’s prestige soared as a result of the deal, and much profitable business flowed to his firm as a result. Although he was a banker, not a railroader, Morgan was the most influential man in the railroad business in the last two decades of the century, doing much to rationalize corporate structures and routes. In those years he reorganized the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Erie, and many other major railroads.
One of Morgan’s greatest assets in this process was his formidable physical presence and personality. He obtained agreement among diverse interests often because those interests were simply afraid not to agree. He looked and acted like a man of supreme authority and wisdom, and most people took this at face value. At six feet tall he was well above average height for his generation. His hearty appetite and lack of regular exercise soon gave him above-average bulk as well. But his most remarkable feature was his flashing, hazel-colored eyes. Edward Steichen, the photographer, said that meeting Morgan’s gaze was like confronting the headlights of an express train. As Frederick Lewis Alien paraphrased Steichen, “If one could step off the track, they were merely awe inspiring; if one could not, they were terrifying.”
Morgan spoke in a deep, booming voice and often appeared abrupt. He had early learned that most people will not challenge a show of aggression. But when he was challenged, he often backed down quickly. Lincoln Steffens as a young reporter had to ask Morgan to explain the meaning of a statement the firm had issued. He remembered the incident in his autobiography.
“‘Mean!’ [Morgan] exclaimed. His eyes glared, his great red nose seemed to me to flash and darken, flash and darken. Then he roared. ‘Mean! It means what it says. I wrote it myself and it says what I mean.’ …
“He sat back there, flashing and rumbling; then he clutched the arms of his chair, and I thought he was going to leap at me. I was so scared that I defied him.
”‘Oh, come now, Mr. Morgan,’ I said, ‘you may know a lot about figures and finance, but I’m a reporter, and I know as much as you do about English. And that statement isn’t English.’
“That was the way to treat him, I was told afterward. And it was in that case. He glared at me a moment more, the fire went out of his face, and he leaned forward over the bit of paper and said very meekly, ‘What’s the matter with it?’”
Unlike so many men who make a great fortune, Morgan was no slave to business and early developed the habit of taking frequent and often extended vacations, almost always in England or Europe. “I can do a year’s work in nine months,” he once said, “but not in twelve.”
After his father’s death in 1890 he began to collect art on a serious scale on these vacations, and it soon turned into what can only be described as an inspired mania. It was not just paintings that interested him but drawings, ceramics, books, manuscripts, jewelry, and sculpture. The lobbies of the hotels he stayed in were soon habitually jammed with art dealers and down-at-the-heel aristocrats hoping to turn family legacies into ready money. Morgan would look at these offerings and decide instantly whether to pay the asking price or refuse it. He never haggled.
So vast were Morgan’s art purchases that he is credited with raising the price of old masters generally. The day after he died, The New York Times headlined one of the pages of stories it carried ART DEALERS ALARMED.
His was the first private house to be completely wired for electricity.
Morgan was not an expert in art, and he bought so much so quickly that he occasionally got stung and often got overcharged. But he could tap the services of the greatest experts in the world, and he had a fine eye of his own. Certainly he knew what he liked. To J. P. Morgan, art was a gift from the past. He was not the least interested in modern art and indeed collected little done after the 1700s.
Also after his father’s death, Morgan reorganized his business connections. J. S. Morgan and Company in London became J. P. Morgan and Company, as did the firm in New York. The Drexel name was used only in Philadelphia. By the mid-1890s Morgan’s name was as famous as any in the world. On both sides of the Atlantic, Morgan walked as an equal with kings and presidents. On Wall Street merely to be seen walking with him down the steps of the Morgan bank was said to make a man’s career.
In addition to his houses on the Hudson and on Thirty-sixth Street, he maintained elaborate country and city households in England. He had a camp in the Adirondacks, a fishing box in Newport, and Corsair, the equal of any yacht in the world in size and luxury. With his great banking house, his imposing presence, and his swelling, almost imperial art collection, Morgan became the very symbol of Wall Street and its rising power, as it reached equality with London as a money center in the last years of the century.
His name was famous; he walked as an equal with kings and presidents.
Not only railroads but industrial concerns as well were being created and restructured by Morgan and others on Wall Street at the turn of the century, as the country entered the modern economic era characterized by corporations of national scope. When Morgan had first come to Wall Street, not a single industrial concern was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. But in the ensuing fifty years they came to dominate both Wall Street and the American economy. The shape of corporate America today is still largely the invention of the investment bankers of turn-of-the-century Wall Street.
As Frederick Lewis Allen, Morgan’s best biographer, explained it, “In a real sense it was he and the other fabricators of giant industries, and the lawyers and the legislative draftsmen inventing new corporate devices, who were the radicals of the day, changing the face of America; it was those who objected to the results who were conservatives seeking to preserve the individual opportunities and the folkways of an earlier time. You might question the direction in which Morgan was moving; but that he was moving fast, and with a purpose which seemed to him to be to the country’s benefit, is certain. In this, the major sphere of his life, he was not a brake, he was an engine.”
To give just one instance of the new business environment that the bankers created, it was they, not government, who, in the last two decades of the century, required that publicly held corporations employ independent accountants to certify their books and issue annual and quarterly reports.
Among Morgan’s successful stock underwritings were General Electric, International Harvester, and, of course, U.S. Steel, launched in 1901. It was the largest corporate enterprise the world had ever seen. The companies being combined to create U.S. Steel controlled 60 percent of the American steel market. The new firm was capitalized at no less than $1.4 billion, while all the manufacturing capacity of the United States was capitalized at only $9 billion. Even The Wall Street Journal confessed to “uneasiness over the magnitude of the affair” and wondered if the new corporation would mark “the high tide of industrial capitalism.”
It did not, of course, but more and more people were becoming alarmed at the power of corporations that wielded such immense capital, and they were less and less willing to depend on the honor of men like Morgan to protect the interests of the country as a whole. Morgan, although he accepted the inevitable, never understood it.
In 1902 he was stunned when the government announced it was suing under the Sherman Antitrust Act—long thought a dead letter—to break up Morgan’s new Northern Securities Company. He hurried to Washington, wondering why Theodore Roosevelt, as one gentleman to another, had not informed him ahead of time so that a satisfactory agreement could be reached quietly.
“If we have done anything wrong,” Morgan told the President, encapsulating fully his idea of how the world should work, “send your man to my man and they can fix it up.”
“That can’t be done,” Roosevelt said.
“We don’t want to fix it up,” the Attorney General explained, “we want to stop it.” Both business and government had left the nineteenth century and entered the twentieth. In some ways Morgan never would.
Still, five years later, in 1907, when the financial crisis hit, Teddy Roosevelt was nowhere to be found. Instead, far beyond the reach of telegraph or telephone, he was happily slaughtering bears somewhere deep in the Louisiana canebrakes. Even if he had been available, there was, probably, little he could have done, for the United States government lacked the needed instrument to deal with the crisis: an effective central bank.
It is the business of a central bank to monitor commercial banks, regulate the money supply, and act in times of panic as the lender of last resort. A central bank, in other words, is supposed to prevent precisely the sort of liquidity crisis that Morgan and the other New York bankers were trying to deal with in late October of 1907.
Because banks mostly hold deposits that can be withdrawn on demand and lend these deposits out on term loans, they are all, in one sense, perpetually insolvent. If the depositors come to doubt the soundness of a bank and begin to withdraw their deposits, they can drain a bank of cash very quickly, and the bank will be forced to close. A central bank, taking a basically sound bank’s loan portfolio as security, can provide it with the cash needed to meet the demand, printing the money, if necessary.
In his last years he spent his time at his library, or abroad on collecting trips.
But Morgan and his allies could not print money, and that was exactly the problem. Because the United States lacked a central bank, its money supply was what economists call “inelastic” and could not be adjusted to meet varying demand. With depositors by the thousands withdrawing money from the banking system and hiding it in mattresses, the panic had caused a huge increase in the demand for money. Late on that Thursday night when this story began, as Morgan played solitaire, the bankers in the other room sought a way to provide it.
Since they could not print it, they developed a plan to do the next best thing. The major banks were members of the New York Clearing House, an institution founded in 1853 to facilitate transactions among New York banks. All checks written on member banks were brought to the Clearing House, allowing banks to settle accounts among themselves quickly and easily. To do this, they all maintained large balances at the Clearing House. The bankers now decided to allow the the settling of accounts to be made by Clearing House Notes, which were to pay 6 percent interest, rather than cash. This freed the banks to lend out their Clearing House balances.
A similar plan had been used before in times of economic crisis, and Morgan was confident that it would work. Before the panic was over, the banks would hold as much as eighty-four million dollars in Clearing House Notes, a major increase in the money supply of that time.
The Secretary of the Treasury had come to New York in the emergency, and he made available ten million dollars in government funds for deposit in national banks. John D. Rockefeller made another ten million available. On Friday Morgan raised thirteen million dollars in additional call money for the Stock Exchange, and he let it be known that anyone selling short to take advantage of the panic would be “properly attended to.”
As the sound banks continued to meet their obligations and the Stock Exchange continued to function, the panic began to abate. To be sure, there were many financial brush fires that needed attention over the next ten days, but the worst was over.
Although many Wall Street bankers, such as George F. Baker and James Stillman, had contributed substantially, it was acknowledged that only Morgan could have held them together and forced them to act in the general good, often at the peril of their own solvency. One of Morgan’s partners, George W. Perkins, said, “If there ever was a general in charge of any fight for any people that did more intelligent, courageous work than Mr. Morgan did then, I do not know of it in history.” Even Theodore Roosevelt, so fond of railing against “malefactors of wealth,” now praised “those influential and splendid business men … who have acted with such wisdom and public spirit.”
After the crisis was over, many radicals and reformers, such as Upton Sinclair, accused Morgan of having fomented the panic for his own nefarious ends, and these calumnies have been echoed over the years by others. Morgan was too proud to defend himself against such outrageous charges, and it is a measure of the critics’ profound financial ignorance that they could think that there might be any truth to it. A man whose own prosperity depends on the continuing prosperity of Wall Street as a whole—as every investment banker’s does—would no more precipitate a general panic than a commander would infect his own troops with typhoid.
In the last years of his life Morgan spent less and less time on Wall Street and more at his library or abroad on his endless collecting trips. In 1913 he traveled to Egypt, a country he knew well, to inspect an expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that he was funding. There he took ill. He returned to Rome, where better medical treatment was available, but it was to no avail, and he was ravaged by fever. Near the end, as the fever played tricks with his mind, he seemed to be remembering some schoolboy adventure. “I’ve got to go up the hill,” he told his son-in-law, pointing upward with his finger, and then sank into unconsciousness and death on March 31. In the first twelve hours after his death, 3,698 telegrams, from the Pope, from emperors and kings, from bankers and industrialists, from art dealers and curators, poured into the Grand Hotel in Rome, where he had died.
Modern corporate America was shaped by Morgan and his contemporaries.
Two weeks later he was buried in Hartford, where he had been born nearly seventy-six years earlier into a world quite different from the one he lived to see and helped fundamentally to shape, and in which he prospered so mightily. In his will he left his wife and daughters very comfortably fixed and gave a year’s salary to every employee of J. P. Morgan and Company. To his son he bequeathed the bulk of his estate and the greatest art collection in private hands the world has ever known. He hoped a way could be found to make it available to the public. Today most of it is at the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library in New York and the Wadsworth Atheneurn in Hartford.
Considering how very large Morgan loomed on the financial landscape in the first years of the twentieth century, many people were astonished at the relatively modest size of Morgan’s estate. It amounted to a little less than seventy million dollars plus his art collection, which was valued at an additional sixty million. To John D. Rockefeller—the country’s first billionaire—this was not even enough to make Morgan a rich man.
But Morgan had been born rich, and money for him was never a goal in itself. He could well afford to be ignorant of the cost of running his yacht (a standard that Morgan may or may not have coined), and that was quite enough for him. Nor, in a sense, had Morgan sought the immense power that was his, power of the sort money can never buy. That power, and thus Morgan’s unique place in American economic history, was his because of both the person he was—a banker of great skill, integrity, and total self-assurance—and the times in which he lived, as the nineteenth-century world of private banking and personally managed capital changed into the twentieth-century world of the national corporation.
In December 1913, eight months after Morgan’s death, President Wilson signed into law the Federal Reserve Act, establishing, at last, a true central bank for what had become a fully integrated national economy. Never again would the country have to call on a private banker to rescue its financial system in a crisis. And that is just as well, for never again could there be another J. P. Morgan.
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Summermetrics: 10 Ways of Looking at a Very Bad Movie
1. We as summer moviegoers should probably be grateful for Rock of Ages, the first big film of this blockbuster season to signify nothing other than good old-fashioned Hollywood narcissism — no knotty questions about the soupy, staple-y origins of man and xenomorph; no referendums on anyone’s increasinglyperplexing career; no hyena laughing about the misfortune of the hubris-salted studio executives who greenlighted John Carter. Just Tom Cruise in leather pants, with a tattoo of a heart above his actual biological heart. It’s the platonic ideal of summer cinema: You are going to go to the theater, and people are going to entertain you inside of it.
2. Well, “entertain” you, anyway. Rock of Ages, adapted from a jukebox musical named for a Def Leppard song, is pretty much the “Cee Lo Green Presents Loberace!” to the rest of the cinema marquee’s Soul Food — the ersatz, Vegas version of a Hollywood film, with 10 lead actors instead of one, and Foreigner songs in lieu of a plot. It’s about two young lovers trying to make it on a stage-set version of the ’80s Sunset Strip, with Alec Baldwin as their lank-haired boss and benefactor and Cruise as the dead-eyed, be-codpieced rock star they both aspire to become. As Rock of Ages is a musical, most of this information is conveyed via song — in one crucial scene, our two lovers converse by trading lines from Extreme’s “More Than Words” and Warrant’s “Heaven,” which is unsettling. More on this in a second.
3. First, Tom Cruise. You hear him right away, singing “Paradise City” over the opening credits. His pitch-perfect vibrato is basically the devil’s music — the hair on the back of my neck and arms actually stood up and shook when he nailed the falsetto on “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Cruise’s intensity in this film is such that there is no way it wasn’t terrifying to be in the same room as him while they were making it. His character is called Stacee Jaxx and Jaxx is the front man of Arsenal, a band we’re supposed to read as a sort of Poison–Guns N’ Roses hybrid. Jaxx never wears a shirt and travels everywhere with a monkey named Hey Man, which apparently was Cruise’s idea, to give the monkey a name that is the most succinct unit of rocker speech.
4. There are Hollywood comedies, which are made all the time, and then there are movies like Rock of Ages, in which Hollywood people try to be funny. Think of Les Grossman, the balding, profane studio executive played by Cruise in Tropic Thunder, in which the entire joke is that Cruise is balding, profane, and playing against type. Look at the famous man dance to Ludacris! Amazing!1 This type of humor requires an enormous investment in the brand of Tom Cruise or whoever — since the joke comes at the expense of that brand — an investment that seems cruel and narcissistic to ask audiences to share. And Rock of Ages, which was written in part by Tropic Thunder screenwriter Justin Theroux, is pretty much predicated on this kind of joke — there is no other reason for the script to call for Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand to awkwardly kiss, or for Paul Giamatti to sing a few killer bars of Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again.”
5.Rock of Ages is directed by Adam Shankman, the man who cast John Travolta as a woman in the not-entirely-watchable-but-still-sneakily-subversive 2007 remake (of a remake) of Hairspray. That movie has Zac Efron as a variety-show dancer who leaves his beauty-queen girlfriend for an overweight integration crusader and Amanda Bynes in a life-imitates-art turn as an outspoken devotee of black men. Shankman’s one of those guys who finds gentle ways to nudge Hollywood to places it doesn’t often go; he’s described, for instance, his goal with Rock of Ages as “doing a musical for straight guys.” (I can’t decide whether that’s mildly progressive or insanely conservative — it’s certainly a good description of The Book of Mormon.) Shankman doesn’t seem to have much of a filter. Here he is explaining the character of Justice, played in Rock of Ages by Mary J. Blige: “It’s you know, that wise black woman who’s always there to give us some help. I said, you know Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. You know, she, her voice in this movie is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she’s just this person who blows out of the screen.” (Queen Latifah, by the way, plays the Queen Latifah character in Hairspray.)
6. Why is Mary J. Blige here, anyway? Rock of Ages definitely has that Ocean’s Twelve, we-shot-this-movie-at-Clooney’s-villa-on-Lake-Como vibe, where you get the impression that part of the reason this got made is that a bunch of famous people wanted to hang out and play comedic versions of themselves and perhaps hear Mary J. Blige’s voice up close. Even the casting seems informed by and illustrative of the Hollywood pecking order. Dancing With the Stars‘s Julianne Hough and the young Mexican actor Diego Boneta play the two young-lover leads — they are by far the least famous two people in this movie, and they spend most of its running time, plot-wise, either trying to ingratiate themselves with their elders or stripping down to their undergarments. In this, as in the Tom Cruise is world’s biggest rock star Stacee Jaxx sense, Rock of Ages is in every way a movie about the people who star in it.
It makes you feel like the destiny of every song you ever loved is to become a sock puppet in a movie musical starring Tom Cruise.
7. Well, that and ’80s hair metal. Rock of Ages attempts to appeal to the childhood nostalgia of audiences in the 25-54 age demographic in the same way that Battleship and MIB3 and any number of other summer blockbusters spawned from preexisting brands do, though the ongoing assumption that people will just continue to care about Journey until the end of time remains chilling. More chilling is the way Rock of Ages treats the music of that era, which is to divorce it from any sense of context or intended meaning and instead use it to play Mad Libs. I have no particular reverence for Starship or Twisted Sister, but the scene in Rock of Ages in which two mobs face off by singing “We Built This City” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” at one another is somehow deeply depressing. (Imagine a version of this film in which a depressed group of Nirvana devotees chanting the lyrics to “Lithium” are brought back from the brink by a chorus of people singing LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends.”) It makes you feel like the destiny of every song you ever loved is to become a sock puppet in a movie musical starring Tom Cruise.
8.Rock of Ages really puts into perspective Hollywood’s obsession with sequels, toys, and franchise properties. Sure, it’s sort of a conceptual bummer that they’re already rebooting Spider-Man or still making Alien films 30 years after the first one. But at least none of those movies attempts to make a brand out of 10 years of human cultural history (“Nothin’ but a Good Time”).
9. Although I did enjoy Paul Giamatti’s drain-clog ponytail:
10.Rock of Ages ends in a deeply semantically weird way. (Spoilers ahead, I guess.) Early in the film, we see Boneta’s character play for Hough the first verse of a song he’s written that’s supposedly inspired by their love. The song is “Don’t Stop Believin'”; later, in Boneta’s big-break moment, he performs the song onstage, in the process catching the ear of Cruise’s Jaxx, who in turn makes the song the centerpiece of his newly launched solo career. Rock of Ages ends inside an arena, with Cruise now singing “Don’t Stop Believin'” as his own hit and bringing out Boneta in front of the audience to thank him and credit him with writing Journey’s song. As the crowd roars, the screen fades to black. Rumors of Jaxx’s murder are unconfirmed at this time.
Zach Baron is more of a Public Enemy kind of guy. Find him on Twitter at @xzachbaronx.
OK, that’s not the entire joke: The entire joke is that Cruise’s Grossman is supposed to be a dead-on Harvey Weinstein impression, a fact that means nothing to 99.9 percent of the American viewing public, who will nevertheless soon have the opportunity to watch a whole feature-length film dedicated to what might as well be a Masonic handshake. | {
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08.28.12 by REELZ
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Oprah Winfrey didn't have the best year. The media mogul saw her yearly income decrease by $125M, but that's just a drop in the bucket because despite the reduction in pay, Oprah still topped Forbes's Highest-Paid Celebrities List.
Forbes estimates that Oprah earned $165M between May 2011 and May 2012. Just last week, Forbes included Oprah on its list of The World's Most Powerful Women (she came in 11th). Oprah outearned other Hollywood tycoons such as Transformer director Michael Bay, who came in second place with $160M, and Steven Spielberg, who thanks to two directorial efforts, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, earned a solid $130M.
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Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking BP wellhead northeast toward an underwater canyon whose currents feed sealife in the waters off Florida.
The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume reported since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20. The find was announced Thursday.
The cloud was nearing a large underwater canyon whose currents fuel the foodchain in Gulf waters off Florida and could potentially wash the tiny plants and animals that feed larger organisms in a stew of toxic chemicals, another researcher said.
Larry McKinney, executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said the DeSoto Canyon off the Florida Panhandle sends nutrient-rich water from the deep sea up to shallower waters.
McKinney said that in a best-case scenario, oil riding the current out of the canyon would rise close enough to the surface to be broken down by sunlight. But if the plume remains relatively intact, it could sweep down the west coast of Florida as a toxic soup as far as the Keys.
The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet and is more than 6 miles wide, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at USF.
Hollander said the team detected the thickest amount of hydrocarbons, likely from the oil spewing from the blown out well, at about 1,300 feet in the same spot on two separate days this week.
The discovery was important, he said, because it confirmed that the substance found in the water was not naturally occurring and that the plume was at its highest concentration in deeper waters. The researchers will use further testing to determine whether the hydrocarbons they found are the result of dispersants or the emulsification of oil as it traveled away from the well.
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TEACHING ETHICS THROUGHOUT THE CURRICULUM
Case
21. Objectivity and Incentives
Situation
Corine Donnelly, Ph.D., is on the faculty at a regional university and
her research expertise is in the area of evaluation of training
programs. She routinely conducts evaluations and the grant dollars fund
her salary as well as support research assistantships of a number of
graduate students. As an expert in this area, Dr. Donnelly has received
a contract with an employment-training firm (Backtowork, Inc.) to
assess the effectiveness of their demonstration program for job
training and placement. The results of this study are needed within 3
months so that Backtowork, Inc. can include the results in a federal
grant proposal. Favorable results will guarantee the firm's receipt of
federal funding to expand their program nationwide. Whatever Dr.
Donnelly finds, her university will receive $125,000 to cover the
expenses of the research over the 3 month period. However, if the
results are positive, Dr. Donnelly has been assured by a Backtowork
representative that she will be contracted to conduct ongoing
evaluations of the nationwide job training and placement program over
the next five years.
Questions
What kinds of potential biases are created by
incentives such as the promise of future evaluation contracts?
Backtowork, Inc. is under pressure to validate the
effectiveness
of its program and Dr. Donnelly is conscious of this. If you were Dr.
Donnelly, what would you do to retain your objectivity in this study?
Society as a whole has many concerns about the
relationship
between scientists in academic research institutions and private
business/industry. What are some of these concerns and what principles
should be guide these relationships?
Reflect on the above questions and form your
own answers before clicking the discussion
key to review the commentary provided with this case.
Discussion
The area of ethical concern raised here is that importance of
objectivity, in the face of a potential conflict, future financial
incentives. Researchers must take steps to avoid undue influence. Dr.
Donnelly must make clear to Backtowork that they will use the highest
standards of science in the research (see Section 14.01a of the Code).
She should explain to Backtowork representatives who contracted the
research that it is in their best interests in the long run to have
reliable and valid information about their job training and placement
program. If their program is not effective as designed, then research
can provide valuable information about appropriate modifications to
enhance its effectiveness.
For researchers within the academy whose salary may be determined, in
part, by the receipt of grants, the guarantee of future funding is
difficult to ignore. However, the promise of future work represents
depending not on the quality of the research, but on its outcomes in a
particular direction, violates the very nature of social science
research. As such, Dr. Donnelly must be conscious of this pressure and
strictly adhere to the standard of scientific objectivity. Her
integrity will be compromised if the study does not adhere to the
highest standards of scientific investigations.
What steps should researchers take to insulate themselves from having
biases, however unintentional, enter into their work? Setting up and
relying on reference groups other than the contractor would be useful.
To maintain her objectivity and have it validated, Dr. Donnelly should
involve other colleagues outside the university in a review of the
research design, analysis, and reporting. Having impartial authorities
(such as review panels, other experts in the area or an advisory
committee) assess grant proposals and the quality of the research is an
important mechanism to control potential bias in evaluative research.
By disclosing the potential conflict of interest and introducing
mechanisms to monitor and scrutinize the research and reporting, Dr.
Donnelly and her university have reduced the potential for the pressure
from sponsoring organizations to cloud their scientific objectivity.
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14 April 2012 - Security Council - Syria/ Adoption of Resolution 2042 - Explanation of vote by Mr Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2042 (2012). We hope that it will mark a turning point in the crisis in Syria.
The point is to quickly deploy a strong and reliable United Nations mission with the task of verifying the implementation of Mr. Annan’s plan. With this resolution the Security Council makes that goal its own.
We hope that in the short term the resolution will open the way to an end to brutal violence and that we will be able to say to the Syrian people that the time of indiscriminate violence is finally over.
Since six o’clock Thursday morning the violence has subsided; however, the attacks against civilians in Homs today have confirmed the doubts that may exist as to the reality of the Syrian regime’s commitment.We will very soon know if Syria will fulfil its commitment. If that does not happen, it will be the responsibility of all members of the Council to consider the measures that should be taken. We will judge the Syrian regime by its acts and nothing else.
Let us be clear: this partial de-escalation of repression comes very late, after more than 10,000Syrians have fallen to the brutal violence of the Damascus regime. The perpetrators of this barbaric repression of a peaceful civilian population will not go unpunished, and I am happy that today, finally, the Security Council has been unanimous in recognizing their criminal responsibility.
Above all, we cannot consider this de-escalation of repression to be enough; it is up to the Syrian Government to fully and immediately fulfil the commitments it has made to the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States. The collective message we are sending today is an appeal for a halt to violence in every form — not just heavy artillery but also torture, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and sexual violence, all of which are violations of human rights and have been committed systematically and on a huge scale by the Syrian regime’s security forces for 13 months.
Today’s resolution enables the deployment of an advance mission to observe and assess the halt to the violence and to test the seriousness of the Syrians’ commitment before authorizing a mission with enough scope to cover the whole territory. Such a mission cannot act without the withdrawal of the Syrian authorities’ troops and heavy weaponry, as Mr. Annan requested in the Security Council and as today’s resolution recalls. Nor can it act if the Syrian regime does not respect the guarantees required of it by the Council. It is up to all Council members to reinforce that message to the Syrian authorities. In sending this first mission, and, we hope, a second one soon after, we are not seeking merely to freeze the situation on the ground. The Council is supporting Mr. Annan’s plan of action, designed to facilitate Syria’s political transition to democracy in order to meet the aspirations that the Syrian people have so courageously expressed. Those are the conditions for launching the political process that we are attempting today to create on the ground by ending the violence and restoring the hope of the Syrian people that a peaceful political solution is possible.
This resolution marks another turning point: the rediscovered capacity of the international community to speak with one voice in response to the Syrian crisis and to contribute to a peaceful transition to democracy. That return by all to responsible action is another reason to rejoice. It is unquestionably a genuine reason for hope for the people of Syria.
I would also like to stress France’s appreciation for the efforts of the United Nations, the Secretary-General and Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, whose task is as difficult as it is crucial. It is thanks to all of their efforts that we have been able to act as one.
But that consensus is fragile. The line separating us from the abyss of a civil war or its regional ramifications is a narrow one. Let us not deceive ourselves: there can be no other process if this one founders through the irresponsible actions of some who have stubbornly propped up a regime that has given proof of how unworthy it is to govern Syria.
Today we finally have a hope of a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria. France therefore solemnly calls on all members of the Council to support unreservedly the efforts aimed at meeting the aspirations of the Syrian people. | {
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I wish they had fixed the Itunes Match issues where in the play count and last palyed dates keeps reverting back to a couple of days sometimes months old. Its a nightmare to manage your Smart Playlists because of this Bug. I am using iTunes without Match enabled for the last couple of months now, which is ridiculous considering that I paid for it and cannot use it / am not using it.
Somebody could make a lot of money with a great alternative to iTunes. It’s just a mess, now. Instead of intuitive controls, you now have to figure out the little secrets to get things done. And then you have to remember them.
I’m getting the feeling Tim Cook doesn’t use his own products enough to recognize how badly some of them operate. I suspect Steve Jobs would have screamed at the mess off spaghetti that’s iTunes and iCloud, and sometimes Mail.
Tim Cook by his own admission does 80% of his work on an iPad. In addition, I remember reading that he felt unable to properly test products like Steve Jobs did. Therefore, he relied on the lead developers to test their own products. This is like asking authors to be their own proof reader and editor.
Songbird was supposed to be the iTunes alternative. But it’s been generally mediocre and is now stagnating. Aspects of it have also be a huge PITA, like being able to even download and install it without throwing errors. (o_O)
Dangit, they still haven’t fixed the issue of album art not showing up in new genius playlists. Pre-iTunes 12 genius playlists still show them, but new ones created in iTunes 12 don’t, and there’s no option to show them.
I use iTunes pretty much solely for the purpose of managing the music on my iPod classic via smart playlists. It pretty much does it all automatically whenever I dock my iPod. If I want to listen to music, I generally use the iPod.
Well, it took 5 years for Apple to update iWork apps, and it was clear that the 2014 apps were gutted of desktop functionality primarily in order to force people to use iCloud. After all, that’s what Google and Microsoft are doing. The faster these companies force people to use their servers for document storage, the sooner these companies can charge monthly fees for you to store your data.
So too it is with iTunes. The reason iTunes has degraded in usability and stability in the last several years is because Apple is in the process of forcing subscription services for media too. Even though millions of people already have extensive music & video collections of our own, Apple wants us to rent our media. To speed the process, Apple is making iTunes progressively uglier and harder to use, while making zero effort at improving file management and sync capabilities. One can’t see what “other” files are clogging up your phone. Syncs fail regularly. Podcast management is a mess. archiving large libraries results in more spinning beach balls than any other application i’ve ever seen.
It is true: Apple’s software quality is declining badly because Apple is more interested in selling iCloud than they are serving longtime customers who know what they want, which is intuitive software that just works. No longer can that be said about Apple software. I’ve said this for a few years now, and it seems finally even the MDN echo chamber is starting to realize that Apple leadership is turning a technology company into a fashion business that doesn’t attend to the details. This is unacceptable to some of us. Apple more than ever needs to get a software chief engineer to right the ship, and get Jony the hell out of there. iTunes 12 is a @#$%$&^% ugly mess. | {
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5 Things to Do With Pumpkin Seeds
I’ll be heading to the pumpkin patch this month with my kids, like many of you. Never mind the fact that they’re all teenagers now—they still love this tradition, and they’re happy to indulge me with a trip that always takes me back to their toddler years. There’s nothing cuter than a 3-year-old trying to carry a pumpkin bigger than her head.
And this brings up the question I’ve been asked every year, for the past 15 years or so: “Mom, what should we do with the pumpkin seeds?”
This Halloween season, I have a few answers other than, “I don’t know, leave them on the table and let me think about it.” Of course I threw them away eventually because I had no clue what to do. This year, I do.
First tip: Soak the pumpkin’s insides in water to quickly separate the seeds from the rest of the pulp. That’ll get the slimy stuff off of them.
Then I’m going to try a few of these:
1. Toast them. Pumpkin seeds are a healthy snack—who knew? They’re high in protein and fiber, low in fat, packed with antioxidants and they work well with many different seasonings. Just toss the seeds with olive oil and bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Add a bit of coarse salt, or for a little spice, add a pinch of both chili powder and paprika before you bake the seeds.
2. Feed the birds. After separating the pulp and drying the seeds out, hang them in a bird feeder—because of the size of the seeds, you’ll likely attract larger birds. If you want to attract smaller birds, you can hull the seeds first.
3. Grow your own pumpkin patch. If you have some space in your garden, consider growing your own pumpkin patch. Keep your seeds from this year’s pumpkins and plant them after the final frost next year (usually mid-March to May, depending on where you live).
4. Search for recipes. Here’s a recipe I found for Cinnamon Pumpkin Seed Brittle that looks delicious and will, no doubt, be kid-approved in my house.
5. Add them to smoothies, salads and oatmeal. If you want to boost the nutritional value of your kids’ favorite smoothies, throw in some seeds when you’re blending the ingredients. It’s a great way to add protein without having to buy expensive powders or other ingredients that may radically change the flavor.
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'One of the methods we employ to achieve this is an increasingly stringent regime of on-going due diligence. First, a fund’s risk-adjusted profile is measured against different market conditions. We use changing market conditions as a live stress-test and note how funds behave. New and existing managers are then scored through a proprietary matrix and traffic light system, which we call “P6”.
‘We underweight “Profile” from the outset because we presume to seek out only established firms; and link less to boutiques. We underweight “Performance” because we believe solid risk-adjusted performance should be expected and largely becomes a hygiene factor in fund assessment.’
Fundamental questions
‘Our P6 scoring process is complemented by a series of key questions we ask ourselves, the first being: ‘Would I own this fund?’ We assume the view of the customer; we want to highlight quality and what falls short of fit for purpose. We believe in quality rather than quantity. For example, offering 20 different European funds from 10 different managers is not in the best interests of investors. Instead we want to have high conviction in the fund managers we link to, to ensure all information is thoroughly reviewed and unbiased – to understand what drives performance by lifting the bonnet on the funds we link to.’ This is how LBG’s Jake Moeller and Jonathan Beckett explain their fund manager assessment method.
The 'P6 matrix': Click to enlarge
Eye-balling essentials
For them, face-to-face fund manager meetings are an essential component of good fund assessment. They normally bring along two analysts to allow the meeting to evolve and to ensure fund manager responses are accurately recorded. They believe building a rapport with the fund manager is essential to encourage them to express themselves. They can then interject on points of interest and use the manager’s own responses to tease out a particular theme. In this way they can read the fund manager’s tone, conviction and confidence by easing them subtly away from any rehearsed scripts. Both Jake and Jonathan have been fund buyers at various points in their careers and their experience of blending funds in a portfolio adds an extra dimension to their understanding of style biases, portfolio tilts and performance outcomes.
Being fund mechanics
The team like to quickly get past the marketing and into the mechanics of the fund; the nuts and bolts, the people, the stocks, the asset allocation, the optimisation and the risk.
The team has used most of the high profile fund analysis software packages on the market; while constantly calibrating and enhancing their own screens to filter out noise. Both Jonathan and Jake believe all key variables should tell you something unique; to be multiple facets of a fund and not be too correlated.
Combining distinctive approaches
When it comes to tools, their different preferences reflect different backgrounds: Jonathan’s iPad goes everywhere; Jake on the other hand likes a pen and some paper. Jake prefers to undertake more style analysis; Jonathan focuses more on hedge-like ratios such as Omega and Calmar; while taking a special interest in distribution patterns.
More so than Jonathan, Jake likes the Information Ratio as a measure of a fund’s active management. For him, tracking error and alpha are simple but crucial metrics to calibrate the success of a fund. The team also dig into style drift, volatility, scenario analysis and sector exposures but as Jake says ‘at the highest level you simply need to know if your fund manager is converting active bets into outperformance’.
Jonathan tends to have FinEx, Lipper and Bloomberg on his desk. ‘By having three screens Jake thinks I am trying to launch my own Mars explorer; I genuinely prefer to have as much “noise” in front of me at all times.’
By comparison Jake doesn’t like clutter or undue complexity. ‘After I have been tempted by the initial marketing story of a fund, I ask myself could I explain the mechanics of this investment to a friend who is an investment layperson?’
Those different approaches lead to healthy debates and a culture of constant peer review as they unpick each fund like a puzzle. Both believe in getting down to stock-specific stories – the key drivers – and qualitative analysis. Meanwhile the team is not the biggest fan of ‘black box’ proprietary models that tend to be overly rigid and believes in making active decisions founded on solid analysis and debate.
Jonathan Beckett and Jake Moeller are senior managers in fund manager assessment at Lloyds Banking Group
Selectors' took kit: click on the pictures to enlarge
1. FE Analytics: 100% cloud-based, Jonathan’s
go-to tool when it comes to quickly checking numbers
in the office or on the move. Easy to use, easy to illustrate and
with good charting options.
3. iGoogle: A great way to capture a vast
array of fund manager activity through RSS feeds.
We also use Bloomberg and Reuters for capturing market news and metrics.
4. John Bogle: Common Sense on Mutual Funds
is something of a bible on fund basics.
Bogle may not always be right but he keeps you grounded.
5. Star Wars coaster: We both grew up in the 70s
and this was the film from our childhood.
Jonathan is something of a sci-fi buff, which perhaps
explains his love of technical software and multiple screens.
6. Paul Kaplan: Kaplan’s coverage of Black-Litterman
models has led to some good debates on volatility.
This article originally appeared in the December 2012 edition of Citywire Global magazine.
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Learning to Listen
Header image: logo design is about 10% design skill, 30% design knowledge, and 60% listening to what your client is (and isn’t) telling you. Our logo design process for Redfish was a good example of giving your client more to talk about if they don’t really have a distinct idea in mind.
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I am not a very good listener. I am guilty of forgetting what someone has just told me and realizing with shame that I wasn’t really paying attention to what they had to say. It’s a terrible habit and I don’t really know when it became so commonplace for me to mentally withdraw from conversation. I do, however, know the moment I realized that I had some very serious work to do on my listening skills.
Long story short, I was working on a large case-bound book for a local organization to celebrate a milestone. They kept giving me ideas for what they wanted to see and I kept dismissing them for what ‘I knew’ they really wanted. In the end, I finally opened my ears and we got the finished piece, which they adored, on-press just in time but that feeling of having absolutely no idea what to do about my client’s displeasure has stuck with me ever since.
Admittedly, all of us fall into the habit of being poor listeners from time to time – we’re all busy and we’re all consumed with our own thoughts. However, I have recently found listening to be one of the most valuable skills a person can learn. People who listen well not only do their jobs better but people tend to like them much more. And so, without further blabbering, I present my top three tips to help you improve your listening prowess.
Give up trying to be so interesting.
I don’t mean that you need to dull yourself down or diminish your accomplishments – far from it! When the moment is right, use your fascinating life and talents to add meaning and depth to the conversation but – and here’s the kicker – don’t start preparing your speech while your conversational partner is still talking.
This is a mistake that so many of us make – we get so focused on what we’re going to say next that we completely tune the other person out. Others often pick up on this and soon the conversation just becomes two (or more) people politely enduring the chatter of others until they get the opportunity to talk about themselves again.
To avoid this, I have been attempting to make myself approach conversation a little more organically. Instead of trying to prepare something interesting to say as the other person is speaking, I try to take away little bullet points from what they’re saying. Maybe their daughter just turned 5 years old or perhaps they just got an advanced degree – maybe they even just went shopping and really like the new shirt they’re wearing. It doesn’t have to be big, just meaningful.
Then, when it’s your turn to speak say something related to one of your bullet points to engage with your conversational partner or, if you don’t have anything to add, ask them to expand on something they’ve already said! This brings me to my next point –
Ask questions.
People love talking about themselves and I certainly don’t mean that at all as a negative attribute – it’s just a fact. And, this is also the greatest conversational tool out there.
Because everyone likes to talk about themselves, the people in their lives, their hobbies, woes, triumphs, and even ho-hum moments, you have endless conversational prompts that you can grab on to. Ask about their children, their spouse, their job, their pets – whatever! Asking questions not only shows your interest in the person but it also makes you stop thinking so much about your role in the conversation and focus more on the other party.
Make it fun.
As I’ve said before, even if you’re doing your best to listen well, we all experience lapses from time to time. I often feel my attention straying after about an hour of fierce networking so I employ my favorite listening method – I make it game.
In this game, I try to remember as much as possible about the person with the intent of bringing up those same points the next time I see them. If I’m in a large group setting, my goal is three facts (and a name!) from at least 15 people. In smaller settings, I increase the number of facts and tidbits I’d like to remember. This little game has given me a way to measure my listening skill overtime by how well I remember someone’s name and personal little details next time I meet them. I feel an immediate sense of satisfaction when I remember pieces of these people’s lives and they often feel better connected to me in return.
However you decide to enjoy listening, remember that it’s all just to help you get in the habit of doing it more naturally. Some of us (me) need more practice than others so giving yourself a little mental challenge can be a great way to encourage better communication.
As I get better, I am delighted by the way people respond when I remember things about their lives and express an interest in them and I feel like I am able to form a genuine connection much more quickly. Just a little bit of effort and focus can really make a difference in the way those around you perceive you and the way that you perceive yourself. | {
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¶ 1Leave a comment on paragraph 101–2: At regina graui iamdudum saucia cura/ uulnus alit uenis et caeco carpitur igni: the ‘at’ at the beginning startles. Rather than announcing a fresh start, the adversative force of the particle sets up a contrast to what immediately came before.[1] To appreciate its full force, it is therefore necessary to recall how Book 3 ended (3.716–18):
¶ 3Leave a comment on paragraph 30
[Thus father Aeneas, with everyone listening eagerly, was alone recounting the destinies ordained by the gods and was teaching of his travels. At last he fell silent and, having come to a stop here, rested.]
¶ 3Leave a comment on paragraph 30
This marks the end of Aeneas’ narrative of the fall of Troy and his subsequent odyssey, which covered two full books (Aeneid 2 and 3). There can be few more apposite uses of tandem (‘finally’, ‘at last’). Virgil gives the finish triple emphasis: conticuit, facto hic fine, quieuit.[2] The silence that settles in has a funerary finality: the last event Aeneas has recounted before ceasing to speak is the death of his beloved father Anchises (3.708–11):
¶ 8Leave a comment on paragraph 80
[Here I, who have been driven by so many storms of the ocean, lose, alas! my father Anchises, solace of every care and contingency; here, best of fathers, you desert me in my weariness, snatched, alas! from such great dangers all in vain.]
¶ 8Leave a comment on paragraph 80
The pathos is palpable—and chimes well with Dido’s own sense of abandonment and grief at the murder of her husband Sychaeus, which she voices at 4.15–29. Both characters are coping with traumatic bereavement when they meet, yet are forced to move on, driven by divine forces. Aeneas continues on his way to Italy; and Dido is compelled to re-experience erotic desire. At the end of Book 1, she had requested of her host a comprehensive account of his labours (1.753: a prima dic, hospes, origine nobis…; ‘Tell us, guest, from the first beginning….’), forcing Aeneas to relive his grief (2.3: ‘infandum, regina, iubes renouare dolorem…; ‘Unspeakable is the grief you bid me renew, o queen…’). He does so for two full books. But now, at the beginning of Book 4, it is Dido who is suffering from something that she cannot well put into speech, something infandum (see explicitly 4.85: … infandum si fallere possit amorem, with note below). And thus the ‘at’, a pointed antithetical gesture across book boundaries, fittingly cancels any premature sense of closure. Whereas Aeneas has finally come to a momentary rest, the opposite is true of Dido: we encounter her in a permanent state of restlessness. Contrast, especially, 3.718: … quieuit and 4.5: nec placidam membris dat cura quietem. The ‘at’ thus underscores the sense that Aeneas and Dido constitute a complementary couple. As Austin notes, ‘the strongly contrasting particle at not only shows that the story now turns from Aeneas and the Trojans to Dido, but also points the antithesis between Aeneas’ sufferings that are now past, a mere tale that is told (conticuit tandem, iii. 718), and Dido’s sufferings that are already beginning, between his composed silence and her agitation’[3]—though one may debate in what sense the trials and tribulations of Aeneas ‘are now past.’ A more ambivalent reading of at, which takes into account that the moment of closure Aeneas experiences at this stage is ephemeral, could start by considering to what extent Dido’s mental unrest highlights Aeneas’ failure to understand and communicate with the Carthaginian queen. Presumably, the last thing he wished to do is to mentally unsettle his gracious hostess.
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[Extra information: especially for the history buffs among you, the end of Aeneid 3 is worth a closer look. In his account of how they sailed along the shore of Sicily, Aeneas mentions as the final two spots Lilybaeum (706) and Drepanum (707). They are situated on the western-most point of Sicily—virtually midway between Carthage and Rome. Intriguingly, Lilybaeum was founded by Phoenician settlers in the 8th century (under the name Motya); and, even more intriguingly, Lilybaeum and Drepanum were both sites of major military actions in the First Punic War (when this part of Sicily was a stronghold of the Carthaginians). In 250 BC a Roman Consular army led by Gaius Atilius Regulus Serranus and Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus put Lilybaeum under siege, which was, however, lifted after the battle of Drepanum, in which the Romans suffered their one major naval defeat in the First Punic War (249 BC). Once Lilybaeum had fallen under Roman domination, it served Scipio Africanus Maior as boot camp and launching pad for the invasion of Africa towards the end of the Second Punic War (from 205 BC onwards). Add to this the etymological affinity of Lilybaeum and Libya (where Aeneas has now ended up on his Juno-triggered detour: cf. 3.715: hinc me digressum uestris deus appulit oris; ‘departing from there a god drove me to your shores’), the end of Book 3 obliquely prepares not just for the African setting of Book 4 but also prefigures the historical consequences of Aeneas’ legendary stay with Dido: the lethal enmity between Rome and Carthage and the series of Punic Wars.][4]
¶ 10Leave a comment on paragraph 1001: regina: After referring to the anonymous, ‘eager crowd’ that listened to Aeneas’ account at the end of Book 3 (cf. 716: intentis omnibus), Virgil, in the first line of Book 4, singles out the queen for exclusive attention. This is Dido’s book and with At regina Virgil uses an appropriate keynote. Significantly, he chooses to return our attention to Dido not by mentioning her name but her social role: she is a queen. The noun regina recalls Dido’s royal entry into the epic at 1.496–97: regina ad templum, forma pulcherrima Dido,/ incessit (‘the queen Dido, of surpassing beauty, approached the temple’). But the contrast between her first appearance and the state she is in when Book 4 opens is pointed and poignant: whereas she is ‘surrounded by a large throng of followers’ in Book 1 (1.497: magna iuuenum stipante caterua), at the beginning of Book 4 we encounter Dido all alone. And whereas Virgil invited us to observe Dido discharging her civic responsibilities when we first set eyes on the queen, we now see a helpless victim of uncontrollable desire, tossing about sleeplessly: the focus has shifted from her impressive public persona to her tormented inner self. Yet Virgil’s programmatic use of ‘regina’ at a moment when she is, above all, a woman madly in love serves as encouragement to appraise her not just as a desiring individual, but as a queen, that is, as someone who has a key social role to perform and may do so well or badly. The question of what makes a good king (or, more generally, leader) was a topic of hot debate in antiquity (it still is now), to which literary genres made important contributions. Reflections on excellence or shortcomings in leadership constitute an important facet of the political discourse of epic poetry in particular, from Homer onwards.[5] Virgil’s handling of the topic is characteristically complex, insofar as he invites his readers to assess his royal personnel against various and often conflicting benchmarks of excellence, deriving from literary predecessors (both Greek and Roman), philosophical discourse (in particular Stoicism), and lived experience, both republican and imperial. In the case of Dido, it is worth paying particular attention to her gender (and the difficulties this causes not least for male observers such as king Iarbas: see 4.206–18, discussed in detail below) and the potential conflict between her feelings for Aeneas and the role-expectations that come with being the royal leader of a young city and civic community in a hostile environment.[6]
¶ 11Leave a comment on paragraph 1101: regina graui iamdudum saucia cura: regina (a1) agrees with saucia (a2), graui (b1) with cura (b2). We thus have the following pattern: noun (a1) – adjective (b1) – adverb: iamdudum (c) – adjective (a2) – noun (b2). The arrangement artfully combines a parallel patterning in the way the two phrases regina saucia and graui cura interweave (a1 b1 c a2 b2) with a chiastic design in terms of grammatical categories (noun, adjective; adjective, noun). The set-up helps to foreground the adverbial modification of time at its centre (iamdudum), which reminds the reader of what happened before Aeneas started speaking: Dido has been burning with love ever since Cupid’s stealth attack on the unsuspecting queen in the guise of Aeneas’ son Ascanius in Book 1. See esp. 1.719–22: at memor ille [sc. Cupido]/ matris Acidaliae paulatim abolere Sychaeum/ incipit et uiuo temptat praeuertere amore/ iam pridem resides animos desuetaque corda (‘But he [sc. Cupid], mindful of his Acidalian mother [sc. Venus], little by little begins to efface Sychaeus [i.e. Dido’s deceased former husband], and attempts to incite with live passion her long-inactive soul and her heart that had unlearned to love’). The adverb, which means ‘some while ago now’, thus serves as bridge between Books 1 and 4 and, like tandem at the end of Book 3, mischievously underscores the length of Aeneas’ narration.
¶ 12Leave a comment on paragraph 1201: cura: the meaning of cura ranges from ‘anxiety’ to a (public) ‘task’ or ‘responsibility’, to be carried out with diligence and care. Here the former sense is of course paramount, but in signifying love pangs the term also evokes negatively its public-political meaning: Dido’s real cura ought to be the prudent governance of her city’s affairs. Some interesting passages to consider for the semantics of cura in the Aeneid include 1.227 (the first occurrence of the word in the epic, referring to the cosmic administrative responsibilities of Jupiter), 1.562 (Dido replying to Aeneas’ impassioned plea for support: … secludite curas (‘set aside your cares’), which resonates ironically in the light of our passage), 1.662 (Venus imagining Juno preoccupied by anxiety, a passage cited and discussed below), 1.678 (Venus referring to Ascanius as mea maxima cura), and the trail of further instances of the word in Book 4 at lines 5, 59, 332, 341, 379, 394, 448 (magno persentit pectore curas, of Aeneas), 488, 521, 531, 551, and 608.
¶ 13Leave a comment on paragraph 1302: uulnus alit uenis et caeco carpitur igni: uulnus alit uenis and caeco carpitur igni are two carefully balanced clauses of three words each. Both feature the verb in the middle (alit, carpitur: Dido is the subject of both) and involve alliteration (uulnus uenis; caeco carpitur). But Virgil alternates the construction. The first clause consists of an active verb, a direct object (uulnus) and an ablative of either place or instrument (uenis: ‘in or with her bloodstreams’), the second of a passive verb and an ablative of agency (caeco igni, as often in poetry without the preposition a/ab). Caecus has both an active (blind, i.e. unable to see) and a passive (hidden, i.e. invisible) sense. Here it is clearly the latter: the consuming fire of Dido’s passion does its damage out of sight, more specifically in or through her bloodstreams. There is, then, a thematic link between the last word of the first clause (uenis) and the first word of the second clause (caeco). Virgil may be alluding to Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1120: usque adeo incerti tabescunt uolnere caeco (‘in such uncertain state they waste away with a wound invisible’). Appropriately, the line is part of his diatribe against love (‘a romantic delusion’) as opposed to sex (‘a biological necessity’). And he certainly has in mind book 3 of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica, which features Medea burning in secret love for Jason after being hit by one of Eros’ arrows.[7]
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The metaphorical wound of Dido here corresponds to the literal wound she inflicts upon herself at the end of the book. 4.689: infixum stridit sub pectoreuulnus recalls both 4.2: uulnus alit uenis and 4.4: haerent infixipectore, the latter also via the deer simile at 4.70–3. (See further below on 4: haerent infixi.) Likewise, the metaphorical caecus ignis here has a real counterpart at the end of the book: the flames of Dido’s funeral pyre. At 5.4–5 Aeneas gazes back from his departing ship to a Carthage aglow in flames: quae tantum accenderit ignem/ causa latet (‘Which cause set ablaze so great a fire remains hidden’). In the case of the fire-imagery there is an intermediate stage: the literal fire of the funeral pyre not only harks back to the fiery passion from which Dido suffers at the beginning but also picks up the transformation of the fires of love into the fires of wrath midway through the book: see the ‘black fires’, the atri ignes, that animate her curse at 4.384, which will pursue Aeneas and his descendants.[8] The gradual transformation of metaphors of love into realities of death is one of the most haunting (and poetically brilliant) aspects of Aeneid 4. As Oliver Lyne puts it: ‘These sequences of fire and wound images are fine examples of “linked imagery” … They introduce among other things a sense of tragic inevitability. Dido’s love wound is converted remorselessly and seemingly inevitably in the maintained imagery into the wound of her suicide; and the fire of her love is converted with similar but less sympathetic inevitability into the fires of her curse.’
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[Extra information: in the lines that follow upon Dido stabbing herself, Virgil uses a simile to connect her suicide to the historical fate of her city (4.667–71):
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The palace rings with laments, sobbing, and women’s shrieks, heaven echoes with load wails—as if all of Carthage or ancient Tyre were collapsing under the onslaught of enemies and raging flames were rolling over the roofs of men and over the roofs of the gods.
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As already Macrobius observed (Saturnalia 4.6), Virgil adapts the scene of lament and the illustrative simile from Iliad 22.408–11, where we have a similar intertwining of individual and city in the context of lament: Priam and the Trojan women mourn for Hector slain, in anticipation of the fall of their city:
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His father groaned piteously, and all around the people were given over to wailing and groaning throughout the city. To this it was most alike, as if all of proud Troy were smouldering with fire from top to bottom.
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And, in the teeth of Jupiter’s promise in Aeneid 1 that the Romans would come to enjoy an imperium sine fine (1.279: ‘an empire without end’), Greek sources report that Scipio Africanus Minor was stirred into a moment of tragic reflexivity after his sack of Carthage in 146 BC, reciting two verses from the Iliad, in which Hector recognizes the inevitability of the fall of Troy (6.448–49):[9]
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This is a particular striking instance of the way in which Virgil in the Aeneid intertwines Roman history and the literary tradition by means of an oblique allusion—behind the scenes as it were of the tragic plot that is centred in the gruesome transformation of erotic passion into bloody suicide and lethal hatred: in this epic, the personal is always already also political. Or, as Otis puts it: ‘The wound and the flames that mark Dido’s end, and proleptically Carthage’s end as well (flammae furentes, 670), are thus the visible signs of an inner tragedy: the course of the book has developed Dido’s private wound and private conflagration into a public catastrophe, foreshadowing a greater one to come.’[10]]
¶ 27Leave a comment on paragraph 2703–4: multa uiri uirtus animo multusque recursat/ gentis honos: there is a switch in subject from Dido to the contents of her thought. Two assets of Aeneas are foremost in her mind. Virgil captures them in the pair of grammatically identical phrases multa uiri uirtus and multus gentis honos, i.e. the excellence of the man (uiri uirtus) and the distinction of his lineage (gentis honos). (The –que after multus links uirtus and honos.) The polyptotic adjectives multa and multus that modify uirtus and honos stand in place of adverbs and combine with the frequentative verb recursat to highlight the obsessive nature of Dido’s mental activity: Aeneas’ manly qualities and family prestige render any peace of mind impossible.
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[Extra information: the repetition of multa/ multus recalls both the beginning and the end of Book 1. See 1.3–5: multum ille et terris iactatus et alto/ ui superum … multa quoque et bello passus (‘much thrown around on sea and land by violence of the gods … and also much enduring in war’) and 1.749–50: longumque bibebat amorem,/ multa super Priamo rogitans super Hectore multa (‘she drank deeply of love, asking much of Priam, much of Hector’). Likewise, recursat harks back to 1.662: urit atrox Iuno, et sub noctem cura recursat, a parallel discussed in further detail below.]
¶ 28Leave a comment on paragraph 2803: uiri uirtus: an alliterative figura etymologica: uirtus is what distinguishes the uir.[11] Originally, uirtus seems to have indicated martial prowess above all. But in the course of the Roman assimilation of Greek philosophical thought, the semantics of the term expanded considerably, as uirtus became the preferred Latin term to render the Greek arete.[12] In this process it also became a generic designation for good qualities more generally. The English ‘virtue’, while deriving from Latin uirtus, inevitably carries moral connotations and hence does not capture the full semantic range of the Latin term very well. ‘Excellence’ (uirtus) or ‘excellences’ (uirtutes) is therefore frequently the better option in translating. (Not all excellences need have a moral dimension.)
¶ 29Leave a comment on paragraph 2904: gentis honos: in enjambment. The phrase yields a metrical pattern (– u u –) called the choriamb, which enhances its unity and impact. Both gens and honos are key components of the political culture of the Roman republic. Latin authors tend to contrast the populus Romanus with foreign people (gentes), but with reference to Rome itself the term gens invariably designates one of the noble families (gentes) that formed the traditional polycentric core of Rome’s senatorial ruling elite:[13] Hence we have (say) the gens Claudia (giving us the Claudii), the gens Cornelia (to which the Cornelii belonged) or the gens Fabia (the kin-group of the Fabii). Julius Caesar and hence also his adopted son Caesar Octavianus (later to be known under the honorific name Augustus) were part of the gens Iulia, which famously derived its name from Aeneas’ son Ascanius, also named Ilus, from Ilion, the Greek name of Troy (hence Iliad) and renamed Iulus after the fall of Troy.[14] During the years of the republic (and also, under slightly altered circumstances, imperial times), members of the various gentes vied with each other for public offices (honos/ honores; the phrase gentis honos hints anachronistically at this key feature of Roman republican politics). In so doing, they could draw on the prestige of their gens in making themselves attractive to voters.[15]
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[Extra information: Against this republican background of a plurality of gentes, Virgil throughout the Aeneid promotes a semantic reorientation of the term: from the proem onwards, he integrates the multiple gentes into a single overarching gens, the gens Romana. See his announcement at the end of his extended proem at 1.33: tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem! (‘So vast was the effort to found the Roman race!’). This shift from many aristocratic gentes to one Roman gens is programmatic: at various places in his epic, Virgil uses the language of blood-descent to intimate an overlap approximating identity between the family of Anchises and Aeneas (later called the gens Iulia) and the entire Roman people (conceived not as the populus Romanus but the gens Romana). This is spin, very much aligned to the ideological preoccupations of the Augustan principate, which it is important to bear in mind whenever Virgil uses gens.[16]]
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Dido here repays Aeneas the compliment Aeneas had paid her in Book 1.609–10: semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt,/ quae me cumque uocant terrae (‘forever shall your honour, your name, and your praises abide, whatever lands summon me’), especially if one considers that nomen is a virtual synonym of gens (via the phrase nomen gentile: see e.g. 6.756-59).[17] She knows of his partly divine lineage: at 1.615–18 she addresses Aeneas as soon as she realizes who has just walked into her city as nate dea (‘goddess-born’) before displaying an impressively detailed knowledge of his parentage and the circumstances of his birth: tune ille Aeneas, quem Dardanio Anchisae/ alma Venus Phrygii genuit Simoentis ad undam? (‘Are you that Aeneas, whom nurturing Venus bore to Dardanian Anchises by the wave of Phrygian Simois?’).
¶ 31Leave a comment on paragraph 3104–5: haerent infixi pectore uultus/ uerbaque: Virgil here systematically inverts standard word order: the main verb (haerent) precedes the subjects (the alliterative uultus uerbaque) and the participle infixi precedes its adverbial qualification (pectore). Vultus (which, as infixi makes clear, is in the ‘poetic plural’) refers to Aeneas’ appearance, uerba to his speech: he is a handsome hero and a spell-binding speaker. Together, these two qualities affect Dido profoundly and stay fixed deep within her heart. uerbaque is another instance of enjambment. Yet unlike in lines 3–4, where the enjambment of gentis honos was set up by multus—which was left ‘dangling’ without referent in the previous line—uerbaque comes as a surprise. It is tagged on, without advanced warning, either as an afterthought or for special emphasis. The design could suggest that it does not really matter what, precisely, Aeneas is saying since Dido is anyway completely beholden, stunned by his striking good looks; or it could mean that the verbal stimuli outweigh the visual ones in importance. Virgil underlines the contrast between the stable presence of Aeneas’ appearance and the mellifluous nature of his discourse metrically: apart from pectore, the phrase haerent infixi pectore uultus is spondaic, whereas uerbaque, for a moment, picks up dactylic speed, which comes to a somewhat abrupt stop at the diaeresis after the first foot. Virgil’s lexical choices here recall 1.717-19, where Dido cuddles Cupid disguised as Ascanius: haec oculis, haec pectore toto/ haeret et interdum gremio fouet, inscia Dido,/ insidat quantus miserae deus (‘with her eyes, with all her heart Dido hangs on him and from time to time fondles him in her lap, unknowing how great a divinity sits there to her sorrow’). As planned by Venus, the physical affection Dido displays for Aeneas’ insidious ‘son’ has evolved into a mental obsession with the father.
¶ 32Leave a comment on paragraph 320Vultus and uerba is the third pair of words linked by u-alliteration in the opening lines, after uulnus – uenis and uiri – uirtus. Virgil seems to be hinting at a thematic link between the uulnus of Dido and the uirtus, uultus, and uerba of the uir Aeneas—a nexus reinforced if we take into consideration the erotic uenenum (poison) that Venus ordered her son Cupid to assault Dido with fire and poison (cf. 1.688: occultum inspires ignem fallasque ueneno; the poison metaphor continues at 1.749: longumque bibebat amorem).[18]
¶ 33Leave a comment on paragraph 3304: haerent infixi: Virgil reuses infixus with reference to Dido’s suicidal wound at 4.689: infixum stridit sub pectoreuulnus. The lexical parallel thus constitutes another literalization of a metaphorical image as love turns into death. Both verbs also recur in the stricken-deer simile at 4.70–3: quam [sc. ceruam] … fixit/ pastor agens telis; … haeret lateri letalis harundo (again inverting subject and verb). The simile marks a midway stage in the gradual transformation of the metaphorical imagery at the opening of the book into deadly reality at its end: it is a narrative comparison, designed to illustrate Dido’s pathological condition (and as such is a figurative use of language), but involves the actual wounding and killing of an animal.
¶ 34Leave a comment on paragraph 3405: nec placidam membris dat cura quietem: the subject (cura) recalls the cura of line 1, but the switch from ablative to nominative suggests a subtle increase in Dido’s anxiety. The phrase membris dat cura separates the adjective placidam from the noun it modifies (quietem), generating a hyberbaton that is thematically appropriate: the unsettled word order enacts Dido’s inability to achieve a restful state of mind. The opening five lines contain a veritable anatomy of Dido: after hailing her wholesale as queen (regina, 1), Virgil focuses in turn on her veins (uenis, 2), her mind (animo, 3), her heart or breast (pectore, 4), and the rest of her limbs (membris, 5).
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[Extra information: Before moving on, it is instructive to set the opening five lines of Aeneid 4 against a passage from Book 1—a backward glance designed to illustrate how Virgil generates intratextual coherence and suggestive complexity by means of the strategic repetition of key words and phrases (1.657–63):
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But Venus revolves new designs, new schemes in her breast, how Cupid transformed in face and form may come instead of sweet Ascanius and by means of his gifts inflame the raging queen and embed the fire in her bones. In fact, she fears the uncertain house and the double-tongued Tyrians; black-biled Juno burns and at nightfall her anxiety rushes back. Therefore she addressed winged Amor with the following words…
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(iv) sub noctem cura recursat (1.662) prefigures the opening of Aeneid 4 more generally, with a specific lexical parallel in animo … recursat (4.3): in both passages, it is night; cura (worry on behalf of Aeneas on the part of Venus, love of Aeneas in the case of Dido) causes emotional upheaval; and emotive thoughts assault the peace of mind of the character in question.
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At the same time a displacement has occurred: because of the cura that Venus felt in Book 1, Dido feels cura in Book 4. The lexical reminiscences thus serve as a reminder that Dido’s pathological condition owes itself at least in part to a divine intervention and therefore encourage theological reflection about the interface between the divine and the human realm (as well as the ethics thereof).]
¶ 44Leave a comment on paragraph 4406–7: postera Phoebea lustrabat lampade terras/ umentemque Aurora polo dimouerat umbram: Virgil here offers an elaborate description of dawn (or Dawn, the goddess Aurora, who is the subject of both lustrabat and dimouerat). Myth has it that Aurora fell in love with Tithonus, a mortal, son of the Trojan king Laomedon. She prevailed upon Jupiter to grant her beloved immortality but forgot to request eternal youth as well.[19] The lines feature two striking hyperbata: postera … Aurora (‘the following dawn’) and umentemque … umbram, the last linked by the um-alliteration and containing a touch of paronomasia that suggests a thematic affinity between umens and umbra. The symmetry of line 7 is striking: umentem and umbram frame the subject (Aurora) and the verb (dimouerat), with polo, in the ablative of separation, dead centre. Aurora and dimouerat thus function as buffers that keep the dewy (umentem) darkness (umbram) away from the sky (polo): in other words, Virgil reproduces on the level of verbal architecture the result of the action described in the line.
¶ 45Leave a comment on paragraph 4506: Phoebea lustrabat lampade: the phrase acquires formal coherence through alliteration (lu-, la-) and assonance (-bea, –ba-, –pade). Phoebeus means ‘of or associated with Phoebus Apollo; of Phoebus, belonging or sacred to him.’ It is formed as a calque on Greek Φοίβειος, which explains why the –be– is scanned as a long syllable: it represents a long syllable (the diphthong -ει-) in Greek. lampas, in the poetic sense that Virgil uses it here means ‘the light of the sun’; but its primary meaning is ‘torch’ or ‘fire-brand.’ As such the term could be taken to foreshadow the tragic turn of events, more specifically Dido’s funeral pyre. The last image that Aeneas catches of Carthage are the city walls aglow with the funeral flames of Dido at 5.3–4: moenia respiciens, quae iam infelicis Elissae/ conlucent flammis (‘looking back on the city walls, which now gleam with the funeral flames of unlucky Dido’). The primary meanings of lustrare are ‘to purify ceremonially with rituals usually involving a procession’ and hence ‘to walk around, to circle.’ Here it means ‘to spread light over or around, to irradiate’ (OLD s.v. 4), though Maclennan believes that the primary meaning also registers ‘because Dido feels in some way polluted by her feelings for Aeneas.’[20] This is an interesting suggestion, but the rising of the sun does not alter the religious quality or implications of Dido’s feelings, and the key thematic contrast here seems rather between night/ darkness/ secrecy/ solitude and day/ light/ confession/ company.[21]
¶ 46Leave a comment on paragraph 4608: cum sic unanimam adloquitur male sana sororem: The so-called cum-inversum—inverted because the background action (here: sunrise) comes in the main clause, whereas the main action (here: Dido approaching her sister to share confidences) is put in the subordinate cum-clause—is a favourite device of Virgil to enhance a dramatic scene.[22]
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[Extra Information: two correlated instances of the cum-inversum occur at the beginning of the poem. See Aeneid 1.34–7: uix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum/ uela dabant laeti, et spumas salis aere ruebant,/ cum Iuno, aeternum seruans sub pectore uulnus, haec secum [sc. dixit]… (‘Hardly out of sight of Sicilian land, they were spreading their sails onto the high sea and were gladly ploughing the foaming sea with brazen prow, when Juno, nursing an immortal wound in her breast, spoke thus to herself…’). The narrative stretch thus introduced, i.e. Juno’s outraged soliloquy, her subsequent visit to the wind-god Aeolus, and the unleashing of the storm that will blow Aeneas’ fleet off-course to Carthage, finds its conclusion at 1.223–26, with another cum-inversum: Et iam finis erat, cum Iuppiter aethere summo/ despiciens mare ueliuolum terrasque iacentis/ litoraque et latos populos, sic uertice caeli/ constitit… The syntactic device thus frames the initial stretch of action, being first associated with Juno, the goddess of beginning, interference and obstruction, whose intervention verges on generating chaos but also provides dramatic energy, and then with Jupiter, the god of ending (cf. finis), entropy, settlement, ordaining, and order.]
¶ 47Leave a comment on paragraph 4708: unanimam … sororem: Dido’s sister (Anna, who is not named until the following line) appears out of nowhere, but Virgil obliquely stresses the strong attachment that unites the siblings by means of two formal instances of bonding: the adjective unanimus enacts its meaning by merging the two words unus and animus into one; and the elision of unanimam adloquitur practices bonding at the level of metre. The notion of two individuals being of one mind ultimately goes back to the Homeric ideal of ‘likemindedness’ (ὁµοφροσύνη) that forms the basis of Odysseus’ and Penelope’s perfect marriage. After Dido has mortally wounded herself on her funeral pyre, Virgil stages a last encounter between her and her sister Anna, using language that refers the reader back to the beginning of Book 4. Anna bedding her dying sister in her lap (686): semianimemque … germanam amplexa (‘embracing her dying sister’) constitutes a tragic gloss on 8: cum sic unanimam adloquitur male sana sororem. Since Dido and Anna are each a unanima soror to the other, the phrase semianimis germana not only captures Dido’s limbo state between life and death, but also the fact that Anna and Dido, who were unanimous, are split in half: half of Anna dies with Dido.[23]
¶ 48Leave a comment on paragraph 4808: male sana: a periphrastic, colloquial way of saying insana, though male seems more than a mere synonym for non: combined with sana, it is not simply a negation but produces a contradictio in adiecto or even an oxymoron. The phrase stands in predicative position to the subject of the cum-clause, i.e. Dido: ‘she addressed her sister, in a state of ill-health/ mentally disturbed.’
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The reference to Dido’s psycho-pathological condition concludes the multi-faceted metaphorics of love that Virgil has splashed across these opening lines. It will be useful to take stock of the images he uses here and elsewhere in Aeneid 1 and 4 to capture Dido’s amorous feelings for Aeneas:
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(a) Wounds: 4.1: saucia, 4.2: uulnus, 4.69–73: the simile of the deer killed by an arrow. Note, though, that, in contrast to his counterpart Eros in Apollonius’ Argonautica 3, Virgil’s Cupid does not use arrows in inflicting a wound on Dido; bow and arrow imagery are displaced upon Aeneas: ‘Vergil’s Cupid is emphatically not an archer. That role is reserved for his half-brother: for Aeneas, here in 4.69ff.’[24]
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The metaphors point to different stages and aspects of erotic experience: the metaphorics of wounding construe being in love as the outcome of an assault by Eros, Amor, or Cupid, the god of love, armed as he is with bows and arrows, though he also uses more insidious means to press his attack. Fire imagery, too, has associations with Cupid, the fire-brand or marriage torch, but the notion of a conflagration also refers to physiological symptoms of love (going hot and cold at the sight of the beloved, for instance). The idea of poisoning points to Cupid as an infiltrator who secretly enters the bloodstream—as do notions of ill-health (whether physical or mental).
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The most striking use of at as a keynote has to be the opening of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass: it is the first word of the novel, casting it as an already begun ‘conversation’ with the reader.
¶ 59Leave a comment on paragraph 590[2]facto hic fine arguably refers both to the action in the poem (the deictic hic in a temporal sense: at this moment) and to this particular point of the poem, i.e. the end of Book 3 (hic in a spatial sense: at this point in the scroll).
¶ 63Leave a comment on paragraph 630[4]
I owe this Extra Information section to John Henderson, who recommended its inclusion ‘to emphasise just how wide a range of registers the Aeneid spans—from pedantic aetiological-etymological scholasticism to searing hot erotics in a turn of the page/switch of a scroll—and how sheer the juxtapositions can be—a big part of Virgil’s “sheer” audacity’ (per litteras).
¶ 65Leave a comment on paragraph 650[5]
Homer was considered the fountainhead of every conceivable type of discourse, including political theory, and his epics certainly portray key issues in politics in a proto-philosophical spirit. A good place to start from to explore this topic further is Murray (1965).
¶ 67Leave a comment on paragraph 670[6]
A good starting point for exploring Virgil’s representation of Aeneas and Dido as king and queen against ancient discourses on kingship is Cairns (1989), esp. Ch. 1, ‘Divine and Human Kingship’ and Ch. 2, ‘Kingship and the Love Affair of Aeneas and Dido.’
¶ 79Leave a comment on paragraph 790[12]
For a recent monograph on the term, see McDonnell (2006), though reviewers have argued that he unduly simplifies the evidence: see e.g. R. A. Kaster in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (02.08.2007).
¶ 83Leave a comment on paragraph 830[14]
Jupiter, in his magisterial unscrolling of destiny in Book 1, comments on this nomenclature as follows: at puer Ascanius, cui nunc cognomen Iulo/ additur (Ilus erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno)… (‘But the boy Ascanius, now surnamed Iulus (Ilus he was, while the Ilian state stood firm in its kingdom)…’).
¶ 85Leave a comment on paragraph 850[15]
Hence the difficulties ‘new men’ (homines noui) such as Marcus Tullius Cicero faced, who hailed from the gens Tullia: they were called ‘new’ since they belonged to gentes that had no prior consulship to their credit.
¶ 89Leave a comment on paragraph 890[17]
The passage is important also to illustrate that Aeneas, from the beginning, considered his stay in Libya nothing more than an unforeseen, temporary sojourn—his ultimate goal is Italy, and he will travel on. He is, however, noticeably more reticent about his final destination here than he was at 1.380, when talking to his (disguised) mother Venus: Italiam quaero patriam et genus ab Ioue summo (‘I seek Italy, my fatherland, and a race sprung from Jupiter most high’).
¶ 91Leave a comment on paragraph 910[18]
For a word of caution on the possible etymological connection between Venus and uenenum, see O’Hara (1996), p. 106: ‘Due [another scholar] has suggested that the metaphor is underscored by a presumed connection between the words Venus and venenum, but this suggestion must remain tentative, since ancient awareness of the perhaps genuine connection beween Venus and venenum is not clearly attested, and wordplay in Vergil here is not certain.’
¶ 97Leave a comment on paragraph 970[21]
Virgil here develops an idiom pioneered by Cicero, de Republica 6.17, where Sol is described as of such magnitude ut cuncta sua luce lustret et compleat (‘that he illuminates and fills all things with his light’) and Lucretius 5.693, where the sun is described as ‘illuminating lands and sky with oblique light’ (obliquo terras et caelum lumine lustrans).
¶ 99Leave a comment on paragraph 990[22]
For metrical devices underscoring Dido’s mental disposition see Austin (1963), p. 28: ‘the elision at the end of the second foot, and the absence of a third-foot caesura, give a metrical picture of urgency.’ (Note, however, that the elision occurs at the beginning of the third foot, though there is an elision at the end of the second foot in the previous line: umentemque Aurora.)
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Local Property – hit by Stamp Duty (SDLT) ? – and what about apartments supply ?
Land Registry data for 2015 was not quite complete when we compiled this data on sales history across the local area. We think the 2015 figures below may have been be understated by about 8-10% (delay in registration of new title) but, even making a due allowance for that, what is clear is that, locally – mainly within BH13 and BH14 sub-codes 8 and parts of 9 – the market above £1.5 million – prime property -is ‘off’ by a substantial margin but that the market from £500,000 up to £1.5m is still healthy.
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2015
2014
BH13, BH14 8/9
No. of sales
Value of Sales
No. of sales
Value of Sales
£ million
£ million
> £2 million
18
£61.85
27
£88.38
> £1.5 million +
22
£37.99
29
£51.72
> £1.0 million +
54
£62.96
43
£52.39
> £750,000+
72
£62.68
88
£74.07
> £500,000+
153
£93.37
164
£100.93
> £200,000+
337
£109.97
397
£129.84
TOTAL
656
£428.77
748
£497.33
Increased rates of SDLT have applied for around a year now (leave aside the 2015 Autumn Statement – 3% premium for second home and buy-to-let investments – being introduced from April 2016). The implications are clearer, confirming the story of declining top end sales in London. There are still sales at the upper end. Indeed, 5 properties at prices in excess of £4 million during the second half of 2015, 4 of these paying SDLT of more than £500,000 – on top and out of taxed income (one other was a Company purchase, with lower SDLT).
So, let’s turn to apartments. It’s hard to believe but there are currently over 500 apartments in the planning pipeline (212 x 3 bed; 263 x 2 bed, plus 14 x 4 beds and 35 x 1 bed). While some of these are still only applications which may or may not achieve approval, over 400 units are already approved; and 200 of those are either completed but not yet sold or are currently under construction. There is, I suspect, a potential over-supply looming, despite the fact that not all the potential supply will be delivered. Bank lending policies will see to that.
Interestingly, while some of these new apartments are being designed specifically for the retirement market (Woodlands and Compton Acres in Canford Cliffs; The Landing in Lilliput, for example), there are several instances where existing nursing homes are being take out of commission and re-presented as new apartments, throughout the local area. The overall age demographics of the area may not currently be under threat. However, the cost of retiring here may be facing a sharp upward adjustment in prices.
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SonoBat Walkabout - SBDN 2019
Over 50 people participated in Bat Conservation and Management's SonoBat Walkabout just prior to the Southeast Bat Diversity Network's 2019 Florida meeting. After an afternoon of data management and bat call vetting mini-workshops, it was time to take an evening stroll around a local park in some misty rainy weather and see what, if any bats would be out and about. Led by Joe Szewczak, Bryan Butler, John Chenger, Todd Sinander, and Julie Zeyzus, then reinforced with Chris Corben and Kim Livengood, it was a force to be reckoned with.
We passed out 5-Surface Pro tablets loaded with SonoBatLIVE connected to Pettersson M500 microphones or Binary Acoustic Technology MiniMics. Almost 400 recordings were collected, representing over 500 bat passes (accounting for recordings with multiple bats in a file) during a 45-minute transect. This mini report only includes data from these five devices, and doesn't include Chris Corben's Anabat Walkabout data and observations. Interestingly and probably expected, no one device captured all six species. Chris claims to have recorded seven (everything SonoBat recorded, but also NYCHUM), so the takeaway is we need to clone Chris and place him at all our study site!
One hundred percent of this collection was manually vetted to species, species-guild or HiF/LoF divisions, by
These charts represent the summary information for the collection as a whole, and a breakdown of relative activity and species occurrence by the five different detectors on the transect.
NOTE: The collection included a total of 80 “noise” files containing no bat calls. These files were deleted prior to analysis. Time stamps were off on two of the recorders (an artifact of time zone changes), and one recorder did not include text notes or standard filename nomenclature (an artifact of meeting 50 people in a drizzle for a bat walk). Time stamps were not corrected for the analysis. Files were renamed to adhere to the standard nomenclature. Filenames and notes were easily fixed using the SonoBat Data Wizard. Even time itself can change using that app, if desired!
TADBRA was the dominant species recorded, making up nearly 50% of the recordings. About 1/4 of the recordings could not be confidently identified to species. Nearly 15% of the recordings had multiple individuals in the file.
Between 1-6% of the remaining recordings were made up of files from each of the following species EPTFUS, LASBOR, LASINT, MYOAUS, and PIPSUB.
Notes on EPTFUS, LASINT, and NYCHUM
Recordings from EPTFUS and LASINT should be carefully scrutinized, as few examples of highly confident archetypical examples for either species were collected from these transect. There is a good deal of overlap in many of the call characteristics from these two species, therefore, one or the other, or both, could be present in this collection.
Also, no sequences from NYCHUM were auto-classified by the SonoBat algorithms, nor were any convincing sequences identified during the manual vetting step. Several “FRAGLO” guilds and ambiguous EPTFUS/LASINT and EPTFUS/TADBRA sequences were designated during the manual vetting effort. These could be additionally scrutinized, but it is unlikely that they would yield disambiguous examples consistent with what is known for NYCHUM. A longer deployment at this location would be required to collect suitable high-quality calls to confidently identify these three species.
Manually vetted results from all other species are much more confident and include many examples of archetypical recordings known for each species. Screenshots of the archetypical recordings for each species follows. (Tip: To maximize the graph, right click on it and "open in new tab".)
Sample Species Call Sequences and Brief Description
Tho descriptions of archetypal call types are comprehensive, lack of space allows for presentation of only one graphic example that complements a portion of the known repertoire for each / any species.
Eptesicus fuscus - big brown bat
Typical call-shapes are shallowly sloped with characteristic frequencies that typically range from 25-30kHz, but can be as low as 21kHz or as high as 33kHz. Calls are usually curvilinear, with no obvious inflection. But, calls can be highly variable, with shorter duration, broader bandwidth calls being produced as the bat moves into more highly cluttered environments. In fact, EPTFUS will often produce very steeply sloped FM call pulses when flying thru close-in cluttered habitats, then switch all the way to long-duration, low frequency, narrow bandwidth flat calls for open-air foraging and navigation.
Lasiurus borealis - red bat
Lasiurus borealis has a very diverse repertoire, from nearly vertical, steeply sloped FM sweeps with large bandwidth and short durations to nearly flat, shallowly sloped QCF or CF pulses with extremely narrow bandwidth and long durations. This is because LASBOR will really vary its calls depending upon habitat and behavior. When in a more cluttered habitat, these bats produce the shorter duration, steeply sloped variants. As they move into more open habitats their calls become narrower in bandwidth, lower in slope and longer in duration.
Unfortunately, Seminole bat is acoustically ambiguous with the red bat. And this is a problem where the two species overlap. In these areas, they cannot be confidently classified to species. So when LASBOR classifications are made, they could just as easily actually be LASSEM. Sometimes dominant habitat types can be used to intuit which species is present, with LASBOR being more common around deciduous vegetation, and LASSEM more common in areas with large concentrations of Spanish moss, but these distinctions are not absolute. Therefore, everything that is said about LASBOR acoustically can also be said about LASSEM.
Lasiurus intermedius - northern yellow bat
This species has call characters that IDENTICAL to red bats, just 10kHz lower in Fc. This repertoire will give you a gestalt for the species, note how similar their call shapes are red bats, but overall the Fc generally oscillates above and below 30kHz, between 25-35kHz whereas LASBOR generally oscillates above and below 40kHz, between 35-45kHz.
Note the archetypical smoothly-shaped call pulses, the reverse-J shape, in the sequence, just like the red bat. And, just like the red bat, the yellow bat calls bounce around randomly in Fc throughout the sequence.
Myotis austroriparius - southeastern myotis
Myotis austroriparius produces a smoothly curved steep FM call, usually with little or no inflection, which begins steeply and then increases in curvature. Like most myotis, the calls may also have a well defined downward tail, but this is not always present, especially on sequences that are slightly out of range. On full-spectrum recordings, the peak power in the call typically persists for at least 1ms on non-saturated calls. This can be discerned by viewing the shape and size of the oscillogram (in green) below the calls.
Pipistrellus subflavus - tri-colored bat
Typical call pulses are made up of two distinct parts: (1) a very steep mostly vertical FM portion and (2) a very shallow nearly flat QCF or CF portion. These two parts come together at a distinct break or inflection (aka: knee or ledge) right at the Fc. This makes PERSUB calls bilinear, appearing “hockey stick” shaped.
Fc’s typically range from 41 to 44kHz but can be as low as 36 or as high as 47kHz. The Fc is also extremely consistent from pulse to pulse in a sequence, rarely varying more than 1kHz. One of the first thing that tips us off that this is not a Myotis is that these calls are rarely steeply sloped curvilinear FM pulses that sweep from the F-hi to the F-low and they do not have downward trending toes like we see in the Myotis.
Tadarida brasiliensis - Mexican free-tailed bat
Tadarida brasiliensis produces calls which are extremely variable in call shape, but generally produce two main call types: (1) nearly flat, QCF to CF dashed-line type “power forward” call and (2) a much more broad bandwidth, higher frequency, FM lazy-s shaped “power centered” call. Plus, there’s often a bit of a continuum between these two call types. Occasionally will produce “honks” that are nearly CF with Fc of 20kHz. Sequences can also be highly variable, with CF calls interspersed with one or two sequential inflected FM calls. And as the bat’s behavior switches from a typical commuting-phase to an approach-phase or acquisition-phase style, the calls become even higher in Fc, shorter in duration, and longer in bandwidth.
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Work will begin this spring on widening Interstate 25 between Woodman Road and Monument but prior to the widening project soil and pavement samples will be taken which will result in overnight lane closures.
Current soil and pavement samples are taken in order to design the project to the standards it needs to be according to Bob Wilson, spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
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Canada’s $440 million commitment towards three years immigration increase strategy
Canada’s federal government is up with the multi-year immigration levels plan and this would require a support worth $400million. Revealing the plan, Canada’s Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen presented an update of the same before the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on Thursday.
The three-year immigration plan of Canada covering a period between 2018 to 2020 was put forward in November 2017 that aims at a gradual increase in the immigration levels over that span of time targeting an average admission of 310,000 to 340,000.
Minister Hussen, in his statements said that the country’s new strategy represents the highest percentage of immigration in more than 40 years and the highest admissions in more than 100 years and that about sixty percent of this hike would come through the country’s economic immigration programs worked upon by Canada’s Federal Express Entry system and Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs). The Express Entry system would be engaged in selecting skilled immigrants which would be comparatively higher in this span of time, which implies more highly skilled talent for the country’s labour market.
In his statements, Hussen highlighted that the Provincial Nominee Programs form a key driver for the multi-year level plan by allowing the country’s provinces and territories each year to nominate a set number of immigrants for permanent residence.
As per the goals of the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the three economic immigration programs managed through the Express Entry system – the Federal Skilled Worker Class, the Federal Skilled Trades Class and the Canadian Experience Class would be engaged in new admissions of 242,100 and new admissions through the PNPs would see an hike by 23 percent within the three stipulated years.
The candidates admitted through Express Entry with a provincial nomination receive a hike in the Comprehensive Ranking System score by about 600 points. These candidates are well-positioned and get subjected to invitations from the IRCC to apply for Canadian permanent residence.
Hussen in his speech praised the Provincial economies and stated that they had asked for help to meet the soaring demand for workers and skilled labour and for increases. As a matter of fact, an increase every single year as part of the three-year plan can be well witnessed.
Predicted outcomes of the plan
As stated by Hussen, unlike the one year at a time admission plan, as has been the norm for the last 15 years, admission plans of over three years would ensure that the government and the service provider partners are in a better position to plan for newcomer-specific settlement needs.
The minister further said that as per present expectations, the higher immigration levels would leave rooms to improve the operations of the immigration system, improve processing times for the clients and help to reduce application backlogs and that in certain categories the increased levels would also allow IRCC to process more applications per year.
The country expects to see real progress in the reduction of processing times in family, caregiver and refugee programs. Faster processing would also ensure that employers get the desired talent more effectively.
Ahmed Hussen stated that the government’s immigration objectives are supported by independent studies by organizations like the Conference Board of Canada, which late last year had suggested Canada’s need to increase immigration levels by around one percent of the country’s population over the next two decades for the economic growth of the country.
The minister said that by the year 2020 immigration would form 0.9 percent of Canada’s population under the multi-year levels plan.
In accordance with the last 47 years decreasing the ratio of workers to aging Canadians, Hussen said that every Canadian invested his interest in increased immigration levels. He further said that immigration constitutes about 65 percent of the net population growth of Canada and immigrants constitute about 25 percent of the country’s workforce.
In addition, Hussen justified how necessary it is to exercise efforts to attract immigrants with the skills Canada needs so that the size of its labour force and its economy could grow and the national social programs are maintained. He also explained how immigration would support the public health care system and public pensions.
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Genetically modified (GM) dairy products that are similar to human milk will appear on the Chinese market in two years, an expert in biotechnology has predicted.
Li Ning, a scientist from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the State Key Laboratories for AgroBiotechnology at China Agricultural University, said progress in the field is well under way. Li said Chinese scientists have successfully created a herd of more than 200 cows that is capable of producing milk containing the characteristics of human milk.
“In ancient China, only the emperor and the empress could drink human milk throughout their lives, which was believed to be the height of opulence,” Li said. “Why not make that kind of milk more available for ordinary people?”
Human milk contains two kinds of nutrition that can help improve the immune systems and the central nervous systems of children. The components are not available in milk produced by goats or cows. Li said the scientific world had not previously found a way to mass-produce those ingredients.
Li states that the GM milk will be as safe to drink as that of the ordinary cows, and within 10 years, people will be able to pick up these human-milk-like products at the supermarket.
The Ministry of Agriculture issued bio-safety examination certificates for the GM herd in March 2010, giving the scientific team a 22-month period during which the technology can be tested in laboratories. The ministry will then evaluate the results of the tests before deciding whether to allow the milk to be sold. Xue Dayuan, chief expert with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said the government will carry out a series of tests on the transferred gene and the method of transplanting it before the genetically modified cows and their milk are declared safe. | {
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Leading the way are the Bengals, who despite numerous re-signings still have $28.9 million to spend. The Browns come in a close second, with $28.7 million.
This year, teams are required to spend 89 percent of the unadjusted cap. But that number is determined at least for now on a four-year rolling average, which essentially allows teams to pocket 44 percent of a single year’s spending limit from 2013 through 2016. Based on the current cap numbers, some teams are well on their way to that number.
I know this team is trying to build through the draft and re-sign their own. I'm all for that, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt considering their recent success in the draft.
But this is garbage. This team is close to being really good and they have a front office holding them back. You read the crap that Hobspin spills out once a week how "the Bengals only have $14 million to spend, they're trying to save for extensions, they have to hoard $10 million for injuries and bonuses, blah blah blah". Amazing how other teams find ways to re-sign their young stars while supplementing their teams with quality free agents. The only outside guy the Bengals have brought in played all of one snap last season. I'm not saying spend like a madman, but relying solely on young guys and rookies is not only risky, but downright foolish.
I know this is the same tired rant that I'm sure has been posted countless times. But I'm incredibly frustrated. This team is close, and the utter cheapness shown by this franchise (Mikey) is disgusting and holding the team back. Want to put some asses in the stands, Mike? Stop pinching pennies and show the fans you're serious about winning.
Sorry for the rant. I'm just frustrated with how this off-season has shaped up. Carry on.
Of course Hobspin disagrees. He'll have you believe we'll be lucky to even sign our 1st round pick and have to cut Dalton if we need to pick up a LB off the street next season. He's a blowhard who just writes what Mike tells him to write.
Cincy jungle is now doing their best to do the same. This is nothing but a spin job. Like I said, no need to go pull a Miami Dolphins and throw a contract offer to every available FA. But no excuse for not bringing in ANYONE yet who represents even a slight upgrade. Other teams have to spend money on rookies and must account for injuries/bonuses. Most of them find a way to re-sign their young stars. Somehow, someway, they manage.
That article didn't include the roughly $6 million they could save by cutting two guys who won't get off the bench this season (Allen, Anderson) and another roughly $1.5 million by cutting someone who likely won't either (Wharton). There's an extra $7.5 right there.
I'm tired of the spin job some (mainly Hobspin, now CincyJungle I guess) do for this team. There's no excuse for it other than Mike wanting to be cheap and pocket some cash.
There's a old saying "You don't pay the winner until the race is over", by next week 10 mil of that money could be gone. I too am unhappy with not signing a Safety but when you look at the draft all our needs could be filled by the end of day 2. This draft is lining up perfect for meeting the Bengals needs, so I'm willing to wait and see at this point._________________
There's a old saying "You don't pay the winner until the race is over", by next week 10 mil of that money could be gone. I too am unhappy with not signing a Safety but when you look at the draft all our needs could be filled by the end of day 2. This draft is lining up perfect for meeting the Bengals needs, so I'm willing to wait and see at this point.
No doubt. Like I said in my original post, the Bengals have drafted extremely well for the past few seasons, so I'm definitely giving them the benefit of the doubt in that regard. I'm sure they'll re-sign Smith in the next week too, and probably Newman.
It's just frustrating that they didn't even bring in a guy like Michael Huff, who signed for only $6 million over three years. They still have needs at RB2, WR2, LB, and S, and that assumes they get Smith and Newman re-signed. I just think it's short-sighted that it look like they're going to rely solely on the draft to fill these needs, and I get tired of people making excuses for why the team refuses to spend any money.
I hear what your saying 'Hokie', and part of me agrees, but the Bengals just haven't had that much luck with pricey vet FA's over recent years, and I can't blame them for their current strategy.
They have some expensive bills coming down the pipe, (Andre Smith, AJ Green, Dalton, Geno, Dunlap and a long term deal for MJ93), so I'll hold out on criticism until this time next year when we'll know how they've dealt with these guys, we'll know if we've won a play-off game, and we'll know if this years draft class have succesfully filled those holes at WR2, RB2, LB & S that you mention.
Just read that they may have to stack up $15M pa to get AJ Green extended, so its gonna get interesting.
I do know that we will all be pretty p$$$$d-off next April if we haven't got Geno and AJ buttoned-up already. So I for one say good job by the FO so far, lets keep our powder dry until next year._________________" Democracy is a system where two idiots can out-vote a genius..........."
While i agree, i'm gonna pipe down until either AJ, Geno or Andre go elsewhere. If we get them locked up, i'm good._________________[quote="YoursTruly"]He doesn't get the ball because he is shut down. Zero seperation. It is my understanding that Elite WR should be able to do this when their number is called. AJ gets shut down relatively easy.[/quote]
The Cincyjungle piece is spin. Any discussion of the team's cap situation that mentions the rookie pool is nonsense. The rookie pool has nothing to do with the team's overall cap situation, it's just a limit on how much rookies can be paid beyond their base salaries.
I'm all for the FO rolling over as much as they want to resign AJ, Geno, MJ and Dunlap. No reason to blow their stack of cash on FA's.
Besides, when was the last time this team spent big (or even moderate) money on a FA that worked out? I don't care if they never sign another FA again, money spending aside._________________If you're not in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
The rookie money still gets paid though, right. So where is the spin? Let's just ignore the upcoming contracts, throw a bunch of money at some FAs, then not worry about extending our own. No thanks.
I know you aren't advocating that, but who out there would you have spent it on? Wheeler didn't even get his agent to talk here. I would have loved Huff, expecially at the price the ravens got him at (don't they seem to have mojo on their side this week, as Huff wanted to go to Dallas but they had no cap space and fax screw up?). Bush wanted top be the top dog wherever he ended up.
We still have 10 picks in a deep safety, RB and DL draft...the spots we will most likely target. These players will be cheaper and younger. I think that's a good thing.
We could pay the rookie salaries just by cutting Jason Allen and Anderson.
Leading the way are the Bengals, who despite numerous re-signings still have $28.9 million to spend. The Browns come in a close second, with $28.7 million.
This year, teams are required to spend 89 percent of the unadjusted cap. But that number is determined at least for now on a four-year rolling average, which essentially allows teams to pocket 44 percent of a single year’s spending limit from 2013 through 2016. Based on the current cap numbers, some teams are well on their way to that number.
I know this team is trying to build through the draft and re-sign their own. I'm all for that, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt considering their recent success in the draft.
But this is garbage. This team is close to being really good and they have a front office holding them back. You read the crap that Hobspin spills out once a week how "the Bengals only have $14 million to spend, they're trying to save for extensions, they have to hoard $10 million for injuries and bonuses, blah blah blah". Amazing how other teams find ways to re-sign their young stars while supplementing their teams with quality free agents. The only outside guy the Bengals have brought in played all of one snap last season. I'm not saying spend like a madman, but relying solely on young guys and rookies is not only risky, but downright foolish.
I know this is the same tired rant that I'm sure has been posted countless times. But I'm incredibly frustrated. This team is close, and the utter cheapness shown by this franchise (Mikey) is disgusting and holding the team back. Want to put some asses in the stands, Mike? Stop pinching pennies and show the fans you're serious about winning.
Sorry for the rant. I'm just frustrated with how this off-season has shaped up. Carry on.
No, they are rolling that $10M to next year to re-sign/extend Geno, Carlos and AJ. There is not a single free agent available right now I want on the Bengals more than I want to lock those guys and MJ up long term.
As much whining and complaining as Bengals fans did when they lost Joseph I'd hate to see what happens if they lose Geno or AJ._________________2017 Draft Needs: Interior O-line, Pass Rushing DE, Linebacker, Kicker, Overall Team Speed.
Rule of 51 means only the salaries of the top 51 contracts count against the cap until teams cut down to the final roster. When that does happen there are several salaries especially for our team will be cut off the books which will more than make space for the rookie salaries.
What they may do is give Andre Smith his guaranteed money as a roster bonus instead of a signing bonus. If he falls apart in the later years of his contract extension, it would make him cuttable without a cap hit. Or they could do something similar with bonus money if they work out an extension for Geno or AJ over the summer._________________
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What they may do is give Andre Smith his guaranteed money as a roster bonus instead of a signing bonus. If he falls apart in the later years of his contract extension, it would make him cuttable without a cap hit. Or they could do something similar with bonus money if they work out an extension for Geno or AJ over the summer.
That's kind of what i'm thinking will happen. Push a lot of the cap hit into this year. Of course, that means next year we'll hear the same whining, because they'll have a ton of cap room again.
Honestly, no one should be shocked. Every year the Bengals are in the top 5 of cap space available. It's because they prefer to take the hit in the current year and not defer it, like most other teams. They still spend the same money, they just start every year with a ton of room. I don't see a problem with it. It gives the team more flexibility when it comes to changing the roster over._________________If you're not in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
The rookie money still gets paid though, right. So where is the spin? Let's just ignore the upcoming contracts, throw a bunch of money at some FAs, then not worry about extending our own. No thanks.
I know you aren't advocating that, but who out there would you have spent it on? Wheeler didn't even get his agent to talk here. I would have loved Huff, expecially at the price the ravens got him at (don't they seem to have mojo on their side this week, as Huff wanted to go to Dallas but they had no cap space and fax screw up?). Bush wanted top be the top dog wherever he ended up.
We still have 10 picks in a deep safety, RB and DL draft...the spots we will most likely target. These players will be cheaper and younger. I think that's a good thing.
We could pay the rookie salaries just by cutting Jason Allen and Anderson.
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But Montreal-based SkyMotion offers a different take on weather forecasting, eschewing a focus on the temperature and instead delivering an educated guess on whether any rain or snow can be expected soon, exactly where you are.
The company, which was acquired late last year by U.S.-based weather giant AccuWeather, asks users for their address and then outputs a forecast for the next two hours. The online service even offers precipitation predictions on a minute-by-minute basis.
SkyMotion is the brain child of Andre LeBlanc, who started cobbling together his own forecasts for his commute to work by bike by tapping into various online resources.
He was frustrated that traditional forecasts covered whole cities, even though the weather could be dramatically different on opposite ends of town.
"I was using weather radars online and various meteorological products to try to get a general sense if I would get wet (going to work) or when would be the right time for me to leave and come back home. And I figured out the way I was doing it manually could probably be automated using some of the algorithms I already knew of," LeBlanc said.
"Ultimately I found out it actually worked, I could make it home just in time without getting wet."
Each forecast targets the area within one kilometre of a user's address and is updated every few minutes.
"Sometimes Mother Nature is just unpredictable. Most of the time, if you see an imprecision on the system it's because a precipitation event has just spawned almost straight overhead or very close to you," said LeBlanc, who added that he's very happy with the service's accuracy rate, although he wouldn't disclose it.
"It's definitely something we keep an eye on, we know how the system performs, we're very happy with it, and like any other prediction system there's always something you can learn and new technology you can deploy to make it better.
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Getting acquired by AccuWeather has strengthened SkyMotion's ability to provide accurate predictions and will help the service further expand globally, LeBlanc said.
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SkyMotion is also encouraging crowdsourcing and hopes users will get in the habit of filing on-the-ground weather reports to supplement its data.
"The more observations you have the better, the more precise the system will be," LeBlanc said.
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Hans Sluga on Trump's “Empire of Disorientation”
Who is Donald Trump, and what does he stand for? Do we know? Does he himself know? Or is he caught in that precarious state of disorientation that characterizes our current political predicament?
The public discourse is heated, the language inflammatory. Philosopher Hans Sluga of the University of California, Berkeley, brings a cool head and rational thinking to his interview about our 45th president, Donald Trump, with Entitled Opinions host Robert Harrison.
Trump has been a real estate developer, a reality TV star, a prolific tweeter, a politician, and has changed his party affiliation seven or eight times. Is he a fascist? Sluga, author of Wittgenstein and Heidegger’s Crisis, warns against easy tags: “We’ve drained this word of much of its specific meaning.” Fascism, he says, “is a form of statism quite different from what we have in America today.”
Is he a populist? That’s not clear, either. “Plutocrat,” the term Aristotle used to describe the rule of the rich,” might be a more precise characterization. Sluga says we might turn to the world of real estate to understand Trump’s worldview.
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Author of THEY WERE LIKE FAMILY TO ME, a collection of linked stories illuminated with magical realism, following the inhabitants of a small town in 1942 Poland and tracing the troubling complex choices they are compelled to make. Published by Scribner. (Paperback edition of "In the Land of Armadillos")
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Is your book club reading In the Land of Armadillos? Then this is for you! Here are some great discussion questions to get it rolling, courtesy of Scribner.
1. The first passage of the book is a love letter that a man writes to his wife. It is followed by an entry in his diary, where he philosophizes about his former job in the Einsatzgruppen, shooting women and children. What did it feel like when you first realized that a Nazi officer was writing the love letter?
2. Knowing that Max is a former member of the Einsatzgruppen, “a cold-blooded killing machine,” how does that complicate our feelings about him when he begins to care for Toby? How does it complicate our ideas of good and evil, of villains and the righteous?
3. The first story, “In the Land of Armadillos,” contains short summaries of Toby Rey’s books. Max, his protector and admirer, doesn’t understand that Toby’s illustrated fables are thinly veiled metaphors. What do you think Toby’s story about Bianca the blue cockatoo and Aramis the armadillo means to say? What about the story Toby summarizes for Max, “The Thief of Yesterday and Tomorrow?”
4. Some of the stories feature characters typically despised for their acts in World War 2; Nazi officers, and Poles who collaborated with the enemy. Readers expect German characters to be evil, and Polish characters to turn their backs on their Jewish neighbors. In which stories are our expectations challenged?
5. Discuss how the eight stories are linked. Which characters appear in more than one story? Can you name them—and in which other stories you find them? Which event—or events—is shown from different points of view?
6. The overwhelming majority of people in Poland refused to help Jews during World War II. Why do you think that is?
7. At one point in the title story, “They Were Like Family to Me,” Stefan, who is now an old man, calmly describes a murder he committed during the war, while working for a German killing squad. Erich reacts in horror, and Stefan lashes out at him. “What else could I do?” he said roughly. “You couldn’t just say no. I had to think about myself, my father’s position. What would you have done?” What do you think you might do under the same circumstances? Do you think people today would act differently?
8. Though many of the events in the stories are based on events related by the author’s parents, the stories feature elements of magical realism—sometimes less, as in “They Were Like Family to Me,” and “The Golem of Zukow,” and sometimes more, as in “The Partizans” and “The Messiah.” Translated into art, magical realism would be the paintings of Marc Chagall. Some other Jewish writers working in this genre are Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Meir Shalev and David Grossman. Do you enjoy magical realism in literature? Do you think magical realism is appropriate when writing about the Holocaust?
9. Shankman wrote that she was uncomfortable humanizing Max, who has participated in some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust. She explains, “Once we label someone a monster, we let him off the hook for the evil he commits. After all, monsters have no control over themselves. But if they’re human—if they have wives, children, jobs, hobbies, indigestion, ordinary workplace gripes—then they are just like us.” In some of the stories, Shankman explores humanity in people whose actions brand them as evil. How does that make you feel when you read their stories?
10. Pavel Walczak, in “The Jew Hater,” is the biggest anti-Semite in the district. He has given the Nazis the names of neighbors who are hiding Jews, and tells them where to find Jews hiding in the forest. Yet he risks his life for Reina, the little Jewish girl left with him by partizans. Do you think Pavel deserves to be redeemed? Is it possible to forgive someone who has committed such terrible crimes if they change their ways?
11. Knowing that Pavel is “The Jew Hater,” how does the title of the story complicate our ideas of good and bad, of villains and the righteous?
12. At the beginning of the story, “The Golem of Zukow,” Shayna doesn’t believe rumors about German atrocities, and doesn’t believe in her brother Hersh’s ghost stories, folktales and fables, either. Do you think she feels the same way by the end of the story? Was Yossel really a Golem? And what does this tell us about the power of stories?
13. The protagonist of “A Decent Man,” Commandant Willy Reinhart, is seen by the Jews as “A good German” and by his fellow Germans as a “Jew lover.” Time and again, he smooth-talks Nazi officers into leaving his Jewish workers alone, even as Jews are swiftly being eradicated from neighboring towns. At the same time, he’s enjoying all the privileges and riches that come with being a German in Nazi-occupied Poland. How do you see Willy Reinhart? Is he a hero or a murderer? A failed Schindler, or a selfish, greedy opportunist?
14. Hersh Mirsky, from “The Golem of Zukow,” tells Commandant Willy Reinhart a folk tale about a midwife who delivers a demon’s baby: “One night, a midwife was called to deliver a demon’s baby. An incredible coincidence, the demon’s wife turned out to be a stray tabby cat the midwife had been feeding. Though the demon’s cave sparkled with gold and jewels, the cat advised the frightened woman not to accept any food or presents no matter how hard she was pressed. Taking the cat’s advice, she was led safely home. Upon waking the next morning, she found piles of treasure heaped in every corner.” How does this tale resonate in “A Decent Man?”
15. Willy Reinhart, Commandant of the Adampol forced labor camp, and Haskel Soroka, his saddlemaker, are friends. Do you think it would have been possible for a German and a Jew to be friends in wartime Poland?
16. Early in “A Decent Man,” Reinhart witnesses a mass shooting. This is the first of many turning points in the arc of his story. Can you think of some other turning points?
17. Soroka the Saddlemaker is forced to make a choice no parent should have to make. When seven-year-old Reina is lost in the forest, he realizes that the family cannot go back to search for her, and that they must continue on to find a place to hide. Can you think of some other characters in the book who are forced to make difficult choices?
18. There are many acts of resistance throughout the stories, from small to monumental, by characters who are German, Polish and Jewish. Can you name some of them? What do you think the author wants us to take away from this?
19. Max and Hackendahl and Toby in “In the Land of Armadillos,” Pavel and Hahnemeier and Marina in “The Jew Hater,” the old man and the priest in “They Were Like Family to Me,” Shua from “The Messiah,” Zev Heller in “The Partizans,” Yossel in “The Golem of Zukow.” Discuss what happened to these characters in the past, and how it affects their actions in the present.
20. In “1987,” the story which serves as an epilogue, Julia, who is American, winces every time Lukas, who is German, attempts to make conversation. “She cringed. It didn’t matter that he was disconcertingly handsome, with green eyes fringed just now with long damp black lashes, or that he was pleasingly proportioned and dressed entirely in bohemian black. Every time he opened his mouth, he sounded like a Nazi.” Do you think this is a common reaction? Have you ever met anyone from Germany?
21. Ninety percent of Polish Jewry was murdered during World War 2. At the same time, there were more Righteous Gentiles in Poland than in any other country, by a wide margin. Why do you think that courage, compassion and responsibility were more present in Poland than in any other German-occupied country?
22. In “They Were Like Family to Me,” the priest tells Erich that he is searching for sites where massacres were committed because it is the only way he can think of to atone for his father. The children of Nazis divide into two groups; those who defend their fathers and say they were innocent, and those who despise their fathers’ memory and experience crushing guilt. Often, Holocaust survivors didn’t tell their children about their war experiences. German soldiers who worked in concentration camps or in the Einsatzgruppen didn’t tell their families what they did during the war, either. It’s as if both sides wanted to forget, to just move on. What do you think? Is it important for victims and perpetrators to remember and discuss their experiences? Why?
23. How does Poland figure as a character in the story? What elements of the Polish countryside, and of Polish folklore, appear throughout the book?
24. Shankman has said that she was concerned that people were experiencing “Holocaust overload,” that readers might feel that they already know everything there is to know about the subject. “As an author, that’s where my challenge lay. I needed to make people feel it, for the first time, all over again.” Do you think she was successful?
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Blocking offshore leases may get attention
By Allen Lottinger - February 9, 2006
Gov. Kathleen Blanco is getting aggressive in her efforts to attract more federal government financial support in our efforts to rebound after Hurricane Katrina. Now she has threatened to block the sale of offshore oil leases off the coast of Louisiana in August if we don’t get a larger share of the revenue.
Whether or not this can be done remains to be seen, if it comes to that. Of course, Blanco is hoping it doesn’t and that the feds will suddenly offer us 50 percent of the revenue from offshore production from 6 to 10 miles out. At present, Louisiana gets all of the revenue up to 3 miles out and 27 percent of it from 3 to 6 miles out.
It is only right that Louisiana get a larger share of revenues from production out there. Other states get 50 percent of revenue coming from federal land within them. Texas has always received oil revenue from water bottoms up to 10 miles out.
Getting a greater share of the revenue off the Louisiana coast would allow the state to create the greatest hurricane defense of all - - restoring the coast which would retard future Katrinas even before they could begin washing away levees. Enriching the barrier islands with sand and introducing fresh water and sediment from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers into the coastal wetlands is what we need to build up the land to withstand future hurricane surges.
Rebuilding the coast, which lost a lot of solid ground in the hurricane, will also help rebuild the most productive estuary in the country where half of its commercial seafood is born. We’re sure the rest of the country would go for that.
In normal years, Louisiana loses up to 50 square miles of land each year to erosion. If nothing is done, the present coast will soon disappear. And if that happens, there will be no more seafood industry. Likewise, the launching area for this country’s greatest concentration of offshore oil production will be gone.
So it stands to reason the country has a great deal to lose if coastal Louisiana washes away. Governor Blanco has a good argument on her side.
Giving us a greater share of revenues out there is only good common sense. The federal government will get a whole lot more in return. | {
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JAMES AND FLORENCE WISEMAN ITNERVIEW
OH 1079
New Deal in Montana/ Fort Peck Dam Oral History Project
Montana Historical Society
Summary
1 to 5 minutes
James raised on cattle ranch in Garfield County. Came to Ft Peck, February 1934 to work. Didn't
know anything about construction, but got job as laborer on railroad. Describes first day on job,
spiking rails. Depression years on cattle ranch. No money, but had garden and meat. After got
married, tried to run a ranch, but couldn't make a living. His wife taught school. Wife's wages
were cut during Depression, so he told her to forget the teaching job, he'd get a Ft Peck job. Was
about 28 years old when went to Ft Peck. Remembers incident on ranch when little daughter was
dragged away by one of their pigs intending to eat her, but he was able to free her from the pig and
they ate him instead. Tells where first lived. ( chimes) He and friend came together. Lived in
shack at Park Grove. Describes living arrangement. When his wife came, James built a 10 x 14
shack in Nashua. Florence was pregnant when came. Didn't like treatment at hospital, so was
determined to have next baby at home.
6 to 10 minutes
Doctor Curry delivered second baby at home. Got new job at spillway. Foreman wanted him to
take course to learn welding, but he didn't have the money, so got laid off. Then went to work pile
driving. Then worked as carpenter's helper. Then got job as rigger. Describes work as rigger. Was
made foreman. Was told to keep men working doing " rough job." Also worked as foreman over
sawmill crew. Florence remembers day of the slide, worried about him, thought he might have
been caught in it. James went to " electrical school" so he wouldn't be a laborer all his life.
Discusses entry into electrical field. World War II went to work in shell- loading plant. Returned to
Montana in 1946. Was living in Circle and didn't feel it was a good place to raise children, so
moved.
11 to 15 minutes
Safety procedures at Ft Peck. Didn't know anyone who was hurt on the job. Does remember when
a man was electrocuted. Tells story about this incident. Learned many skills on different jobs.
Tells what did when couldn't be spiker, carried water for men. One man would give him money to
buy beer instead of water. Florence remembers that 31- day months were great because it was an
extra $ 8 day's pay. Florence had a hard time maintaining charge accounts, so stopped charging.
Discusses her teaching work and inability to get certificate. Earned 50 cents an hour at laundry.
Had hired girl for $ 3 per week to stay home with children and prepare evening meal. Had two
different women babysit for her. One would keep everything clean and neat, but her daughter
wasn't allowed outside to play. The next one, whom the children loved, wasn't much for
housework, but was a better babysitter.
Transmission, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use under the copyright laws requires written permission of the copyright owner. For permission to publish contact [email protected].
Interviewed by Mary Murphy on 31 Jul. 1987 in Fort Peck, Mont., as part of the repository's New Deal in Montana/Fort Peck Dam Oral History Project.; Topics include James's work on the railroad, on the spillway, and on the rigger; Florence's duties in a local laundry; general living conditions; and recreation.; Residents of the Fort Peck area during the construction of Fort Peck Dam in the late 1930s.
JAMES AND FLORENCE WISEMAN ITNERVIEW
OH 1079
New Deal in Montana/ Fort Peck Dam Oral History Project
Montana Historical Society
Summary
1 to 5 minutes
James raised on cattle ranch in Garfield County. Came to Ft Peck, February 1934 to work. Didn't
know anything about construction, but got job as laborer on railroad. Describes first day on job,
spiking rails. Depression years on cattle ranch. No money, but had garden and meat. After got
married, tried to run a ranch, but couldn't make a living. His wife taught school. Wife's wages
were cut during Depression, so he told her to forget the teaching job, he'd get a Ft Peck job. Was
about 28 years old when went to Ft Peck. Remembers incident on ranch when little daughter was
dragged away by one of their pigs intending to eat her, but he was able to free her from the pig and
they ate him instead. Tells where first lived. ( chimes) He and friend came together. Lived in
shack at Park Grove. Describes living arrangement. When his wife came, James built a 10 x 14
shack in Nashua. Florence was pregnant when came. Didn't like treatment at hospital, so was
determined to have next baby at home.
6 to 10 minutes
Doctor Curry delivered second baby at home. Got new job at spillway. Foreman wanted him to
take course to learn welding, but he didn't have the money, so got laid off. Then went to work pile
driving. Then worked as carpenter's helper. Then got job as rigger. Describes work as rigger. Was
made foreman. Was told to keep men working doing " rough job." Also worked as foreman over
sawmill crew. Florence remembers day of the slide, worried about him, thought he might have
been caught in it. James went to " electrical school" so he wouldn't be a laborer all his life.
Discusses entry into electrical field. World War II went to work in shell- loading plant. Returned to
Montana in 1946. Was living in Circle and didn't feel it was a good place to raise children, so
moved.
11 to 15 minutes
Safety procedures at Ft Peck. Didn't know anyone who was hurt on the job. Does remember when
a man was electrocuted. Tells story about this incident. Learned many skills on different jobs.
Tells what did when couldn't be spiker, carried water for men. One man would give him money to
buy beer instead of water. Florence remembers that 31- day months were great because it was an
extra $ 8 day's pay. Florence had a hard time maintaining charge accounts, so stopped charging.
Discusses her teaching work and inability to get certificate. Earned 50 cents an hour at laundry.
Had hired girl for $ 3 per week to stay home with children and prepare evening meal. Had two
different women babysit for her. One would keep everything clean and neat, but her daughter
wasn't allowed outside to play. The next one, whom the children loved, wasn't much for
housework, but was a better babysitter. | {
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Developing Four Essential Analytical Skills for Your Negotiating Team
In 2017, an ABA Business Law Section task force completed a landmark report titled “Defining Key Competencies for Business Lawyers” that was published in The Business Lawyer. The report, directed towards law firms and law schools, drew on the framework of the influential ABA MacCrate Report (“Legal Education and Professional Development—An Educational Continuum”).
Both reports identify negotiation as a key lawyering skill. As the MacCrate report notes, negotiation is a skill that is “essential throughout a wide range of kinds of legal practice….” The reports discuss specific analytical skills that lawyers should employ when participating in negotiations. The MacCrate report specifically advocates four specific skills that lawyers should utilize in negotiations: (1) determine the bottom line; (2) evaluate alternatives; (3) analyze whether the negotiation is zero-sum, non-zero-sum, or a mixture of the two; and (4) identify outcomes from the negotiation.
This article elaborates on these four analytical skills and includes a link to a free exercise that you can use to develop these skills among members of your negotiating teams.
The Analytical Skills that Lawyers Should Possess
1. Determine the Bottom Line
The MacCrate report correctly emphasizes the importance of determining the bottom line, which in negotiation terminology is also called the reservation price. But other information is also important when analyzing a negotiation.
Your stretch goal. Negotiators who have the largest stretch goals are most successful over time. Your challenge is to select a stretch goal that is well beyond your reservation price, but that is not so unreasonable that you lose credibility when presenting it to the other side.
This is your ultimate goal in a negotiation. Targets lie somewhere between your stretch goal and your reservation price.
Zone of potential agreement. Great negotiators look at negotiations from the perspective of the other side. This enables them to estimate the zone of potential agreement, which is the range between their reservation price and the reservation price of the other side. If successful, the deal will take place within this zone.
2. Evaluate Alternatives
Your most important task when preparing for a negotiation is to evaluate your best alternative if the negotiation is not successful. In negotiating language, this is your BATNA (“Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement”). Determining your BATNA is important because it is a key source of power. The better your alternative, the more leverage you have to walk away from a negotiation.
Your BATNA strategy should include three elements: find, weaken, and improve. First, you should try to find the other side’s BATNA so that you can determine how powerful they are. Second, you should attempt to weaken their BATNA. For example, if you are involved in negotiating the sale of your client’s company to a buyer who is considering an alternative purchase, you should emphasize problems with the alternative. Third, you should try to improve your BATNA. In negotiating the company sale, for instance, try to find other potential buyers so that you can develop a strong alternative for your client.
3. Analyze Whether the Negotiation is Zero Sum
Determining whether a negotiation is zero sum is important because your negotiation tactics might be more competitive when fighting over a fixed pie. But don’t be trapped by what researchers call the “Mythical Fixed Pie Assumption.” The assumption that every negotiation is zero sum, while prevalent in settlement negotiations, also arises during transactional negotiations. To avoid the assumption, you should ask questions designed to identify the interests of the other side and match those interests with those of your client to develop opportunities that benefit both sides.
4. Identify Outcomes from the Negotiation
The decision tree is an especially useful tool when identifying outcomes from a negotiation. For example, when you are involved in settlement negotiations, you can use a decision tree to calculate the expected value of the litigation, which is often your BATNA if the negotiation is not successful. Decision trees are also useful during transactional negotiations, such as helping your client decide which of two companies to purchase. Creating a decision tree involves a three-step process: (1) depict the decision in a tree form, (2) add probabilities and financial values, and (3) calculate the expected value of the litigation or a business transaction. I discuss decision trees and the other analytical skills in greater detail in Negotiating for Success, Chapter 3, “Conduct a Negotiation Analysis” (Van Rye Publishing, 2014).
A Negotiation Exercise to Teach the Analytical Skills
To help you and the colleagues on your negotiating teams develop a common understanding of these skills, I have prepared a teaching package that you can use without charge (and no permission is necessary). The package includes a negotiation exercise with two roles, a Teaching Note, and PowerPoint slides. There is a twist to the exercise, known to only one of the parties, that will raise ethical concerns and challenge their negotiating skills.
I have used this exercise in training lawyers and judges. Organizations in the public and private sectors (for example, the World Bank and one of the five largest U.S. companies) have used the exercise for negotiation training led by their in-house staff. Thank you to the University of Michigan for support in the development of this package and encouragement to make it available for free distribution outside the university. My only request is that if you decide to use the exercise, I would appreciate your comments and recommendations for improvement. | {
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Poison and Motley Crue concert at Fort McCoy was awesome
I arrived just before Poison took the stage. At first, there was something wrong with their sound. That was soon fixed and I kept thinking that Poison should have been the headliner. They were amazing--we sang along and danced. But then... Motley Crue commanded the stage--came on with a bang (literally). If anyone in the crowd was bored, tired, or just not paying attention; they were well aware that Motley Crue had started. The crowd stood for most of their performance especially when Tommy Lee played the drums while riding around an upright circle contraption. I still don't know how he could concentrate and play amazingly while traveling upside down. A military personnel was invited to ride along and did great on the "air" drums. Both bands had awesome stage shows with plenty of pyrotechnics but I have to agree with my friend, Rick, that Motley's stage show was the absolute best I have ever seen. | {
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