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MIR3 Intelligent Notification 4.0 Launches with Advanced Features for Enterprise-wide Alerting
New version provides enhanced workflow and other improvements to make it easy to reliably send, receive, respond to and track mass notifications.
SAN DIEGO (June 2, 2014) – Recognizing the increasing importance of reliable enterprise-wide communication, MIR3, Inc., the innovator of real-time Intelligent Notification (IN™) and response technology, today announced the launch of MIR3 Intelligent Notification 4.0. Intelligent Notification 4.0 is designed to improve business continuity, IT service management, operational performance and employee safety by enabling authorized administrators to send, receive, respond to and track emergency and operational alerts from the Intelligent Notification platform. This capability is critical when events interrupt normal business processes and important information needs to be delivered to or from a dispersed workforce quickly and efficiently.
Enhancements in Intelligent Notification 4.0 are apparent from the moment the product is launched and the user is presented with an updated and friendly graphical user interface (GUI). Notification screens throughout the product display the new GUI, many of which reflect workflow improvements intended to make use of the product more efficient. Device-specific messaging goes a step further by tailoring messages to pre-specified recipient devices. Full-featured HTML mail is integrated into the product, enabling the use of rich text and graphics for email notifications. Other features include drag-and-drop prioritization of devices to be contacted, message character counter, over-write protection of saved templates and an enhanced navigation bar to make managing notification easier than ever.
"Emergency mass notification is becoming increasingly critical as a common communication platform," says Amir Moussavian, president and CEO of MIR3. "Intelligent Notification 4.0 offers a flexible, reliable and powerful way to deliver important messages across the enterprise."
MIR3 Intelligent Notification software rapidly launches two-way mass notification to groups of one to many thousands in any location using a variety of delivery modes, automatically tracking message deliveries and responses in real time. The product comes in three levels, or editions: Premium edition for enterprises with a global reach and a wide variety of communication needs; Standard edition for companies that need a full-featured yet streamlined notification system with sophisticated data management; and Essentials edition for those that want reliable and flexible automated notification for fast response in times of business interruption or public crisis.


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'A Brilliant Young Mind' has good cast, interesting characters
Friday, September 25, 2015 | by: Mat DeKinder
"A Brilliant Young Mind" is one of those movies that takes a general family drama/coming-of-age story and sets it in a very specific place. Here, it is the world of high school mathletes.
Asa Butterfield (who you might remember as the young star of "Hugo" and "Ender's Game") stars as Nathan, an awkward, highly-intelligent boy who sits somewhere on the autism spectrum.
He is an enigma to most of the world, including his broken-hearted single mother Julie (Sally Hawkins). The only person who seems to understand Nathan is his math teacher Martin (Rafe Spall, who is sort of a bearded, British version of Ryan Reynolds).
Martin was a former competitor in the International Mathematics Olympiad who went on to amount to very little after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
With a singular focus and drive, Nathan is determined to be a math Olympian, but when he is selected to try out for the team at a two-week camp in Taiwan, he finds kindred spirits in the quirky group of mathematics enthusiasts and thus learns more about himself and life in general than he ever had before.
Yes, this movie is as sugary sweet as it sounds, but director Morgan Matthews (a feature debut for this documentary filmmaker) uses his documentarian eye and does a good job of showing us the world through the eyes of a remarkable young man.
"A Brilliant Young Mind" is light as a feather and not particularly insightful or revelatory. Although I did learn the British refer to the subject of "math" as "maths," so I did come away from the movie with something.
This is a fine little movie with a good cast and some interesting characters, but it is a small film with small aspirations and doesn't generate much more than a small emotional response.
"A Brilliant Young Mind" isn't really a movie you need to go out of your way to seek out, but if you stumble across it, there are certainly worse ways to spend your time.
"A Brilliant Young Mind" is not rated, but contains some adult language and situations.
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'Hands-on' Paladino raising his Republican profile as New York force for Trump
By Staff|Published Sun, Jul 17, 2016 |Updated Wed, Sep 7, 2016
CLEVELAND – Carl Paladino was ambling through this convention city's Terminal Tower over the weekend, clutching a Coke and a newspaper, clad in a gray T-shirt and rumpled "standing Buffalo" hat.
The hundreds of people passing through the downtown landmark would never know he was the 2010 Republican candidate for governor of New York. Nor would they ever fathom that the touristy-looking guy from Buffalo is assuming a high profile during the Republican National Convention, which this week will nominate Donald Trump for president.
Paladino will be everywhere in the convention that starts Monday night in Quicken Loans Arena, and he will be everywhere in New York this fall. As New York chairman, he faces the daunting task of winning for Trump his home state – the bluest of blue states.
Few experts view that task as even remotely possible, but Paladino has received his marching orders.
"I'm a hands-on guy," he said while draining the Coke at a Terminal Tower table, "and Donald feels very strongly about doing the best he can in New York State. He wants to win New York State."
That tough assignment begins here at the convention. It means giving the public as much exposure as possible to the "tough and determined" image of Trump that the campaign's media meisters will craft for television.
Paladino predicts that a new seriousness will replace the bombast and bravado of the primaries. Conventions are all about image, and Trump – maybe more than anyone – knows about image.
Still at the Terminal Tower table, Paladino fielded phone calls from Rick Gates, a top official of Trump's campaign. Then another came in from Jeanine Pirro, the onetime Westchester County district attorney and state attorney general candidate who hosts a Fox News television show. Paladino was slated for an appearance with her over the weekend, and he was lining up other possible surrogates.
The Buffalo developer has other Fox News TV appearances during his first-ever convention, and it's a pretty good bet more national media will seek him out too. It's all part of a plan that began with Trump's landslide victory in the New York primary back in April. Paladino served as a driving force then, too.
"I ran eight rallies in 10 days throughout the state," he said. "It was brutal. But he was happy."
In Cleveland, state GOP officials are expected to unveil the team that will work with Paladino. The big county chairmen and state committee members will surely leave here as united as any delegation in the country for their New Yorker. That means Paladino will find himself stumping the state from Niagara Falls to Montauk this fall, working with top party people – and maybe just laying the foundation for 2018, too.
The Buffalo developer has made no secret that he is "seriously considering" another run at Andrew Cuomo in the next gubernatorial election, the same Cuomo who easily dispatched him in 2010. Cuomo seems to rile up Paladino more than anyone, as he makes sure a reporter scribbles down words like "nightmare" and "crooked." Now, he thinks emerging Republicans such as Mike Pence – the Indiana governor and Trump's running mate – will show the way for the GOP in New York.
"I've been reading up on Pence," he said of one of the Indiana governor's own economic-development plans. "Pence created 2,000 jobs with an investment that cost about $5,000 per job. Andrew Cuomo will create maybe 500 jobs (at Buffalo's SolarCity project) if it ever happens at all, at about $1.5 million per job. It's so obviously incompetent, if not corrupt."
Paladino will rely heavily in Cleveland on John Haggerty, the veteran Republican operative from Queens who was with him in 2010 and will help this year, too. The bet here is that Haggerty will also be around in 2018. Together, they will cement their already strong contacts throughout the state and build on an already strong advantage.
Some people call Trump "Paladino's protégé." After all, Paladino's 2010 campaign of bluster and bravado earned him tabloid headlines of "Crazy Carl," but it also fostered an overwhelming primary victory. Ditto for Trump.
Critics lambasted Paladino in recent days for his trademark intemperate remarks, when he even suggested one "dump Trump" advocate should be "hung for treason." Paladino does not back off, pointing to the "political correctness" that he detests.
But he knows he can go only so far with talk like that. Maybe he would have fared much better in 2010 by acting "gubernatorial" (sound familiar?).
"Yeah," he acknowledges. "I've got to tamp that down and stick to the issues."
In Cleveland and for the rest of the campaign, Paladino will make gaining New York votes for Trump his main task. He recalls his first visit with the candidate in 2013, when Trump summoned him to his Trump Tower office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan while contemplating a run for governor – which both men realized would only serve as a warm-up to 2016.
Now, he points to one of his recent conversations with Trump.
"He said to me, 'I've done everything in my life, and one thing I feel earnestly about is that I can do some great things for this country. My mom and dad worked hard to earn a place for me. My legacy for them and my kids would be to do something great.' "
"He won my heart," Paladino added.
Paladino may be tramping through Terminal Tower on Public Square this week as a little-known visitor. But throughout New York in the months and maybe years ahead, everyone will recognize his face and know his name.
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Anti-Zionist cartoonist bites hand that feeds him
A panel from an Eli Valley cartoon that appeared on the +972 website
Eli Valley is not a suburb of San Francisco.
No, Eli Valley is a vicious Israel- and Jew-hating cartoonist who draws things like the panel above, in which Bibi Netanyahu rapes Barack Obama in outer space, after first eating his arms and legs.
Apparently, the liberal Jewish Daily Forward, of which Valley is "artist in residence," didn't have the balls to publish this particularly emetic example of his work, so it appeared on the extreme anti-Zionist +972 website.
Eli Valley's message is simple: Israel is an apartheid state, ruled by neo-fascists and fanatical religious fundamentalists. American Jews that support Israel are either dupes, or are cynically exploiting the fear and ignorance of other Jews to rake in the dough. The Jewish establishment in the US pushes the party line of Israel's "right-wing" government, and viciously clamps down on dissent. Meanwhile, the Likud regime continues to victimize Palestinian Arabs and shun peace while manipulating — with the help of fundamentalist Christian fanatics — the US government, in best Elders of Zion fashion.
Valley's style is imitative of R. Crumb and of 1950's horror comics, although he doesn't have the artistic talent of Crumb or Jack Davis, Will Elder, etc. His politics aren't original either, being straight out of the Peter Beinart / J Street book. Much of the humor in his work comes from deliberate shock or vulgarity, as in the Bibi and Obama strip.
What distinguishes him, and titillates his Forward audience, is his effective projection of a visceral dislike of Jews, particularly observant Jews. Forget the words — just look at the pictures: for example this one:
Some of Eli Valley's Jews
Someone could try to explain Valley's animus in terms of his biography: divorced parents, father a rabbi, etc. But who cares? It's the essential characteristic of his work.
Valley suggests that corrupt mainstream Jewish organizations have conspired to hide the truth about Israel. In "Bucky Shvitz, Sociologist for Hire," Valley invokes "casino mogul Milt Levy" (presumably Sheldon Adelson), who comes up with a suitcase full of money:
Ironically, in addition to his gig at the Forward, Valley has a day job as a writer and editor for The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life, an organization created by hedge fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt, one of the founders of Birthright Israel. And another major contributor to Birthright ($100 million) is none other than "casino mogul" Sheldon Adelson!
But there's more. One of the projects of the Steinhardt Foundation is called the Steinhardt Social Research Institute, which engages in exactly the same kind of research as Bucky Shvitz. And Steinhardt-funded research just happens to show that Jewish identity is positively related to support for to Israel. These findings directly contradict the argument of Peter Beinart that young American Jews are repelled by the reality of today's Jewish state.
In other words, the same organized Jewish community that Valley attacks in his cartoons as corrupt, the very community that does see identification with Israel as the path to preserving Jewish identity, is Valley's meal ticket!
And Valley's cartoons not only attack the research funded by his employer, but even suggest that researchers have been bribed to reach pro-Israel conclusions!
This is one confused little anti-Zionist.
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Shalom Freedman says:
This is a disgrace. My guess is that if Steinhardt knew about Valley , Valley would be not working again at 'Jewish Life'.
Vic Rosenthal says:
Should I tell him? I'm serious — my wife says yes, but it's an issue of parnassah.


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Modicare Is Aspirational & Has Already Brought The Need For Paradigm Shift In Indian Healthcare Systems
The healthcare sector in India has seldom attracted traction in the past; but NHPS will surely be a gamechanger with international players sensing an opportunity to be partners in the ambitious programme
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by Swadeep Srivastava
The central takeaway and key showpiece of this year's Union Budget was the Narendra Modi government's ambitious National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) for over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families. In real numbers, an estimated 50 crore individual beneficiaries would get coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year.
This is undoubtedly the world's largest government-funded healthcare programme and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has promised adequate funds for its smooth implementation.
This is the third major insurance programme of the NDA government after the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana PMFBY and the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY). Launched three years ago, the PMJJBY offers benefits of insurance to masses. Here, the insured person can get a life cover of Rs 2 lakh for a premium of Rs 330 per annum. It is a one year cover, renewable from year to year. It is administered through LIC and some private life insurance companies. Individual bank account holders of participating banks aged between 18 years and 50 years can join the scheme.
But the NHPS is different. It will be part of an umbrella Ayushman Bharat scheme, along with a preventive healthcare component worth Rs 1,200 crore. "These two far-reaching initiatives under the Ayushman Bharat will build a New India 2022 and ensure enhanced productivity, well-being and avert wage loss and impoverishment," according to Jaitley.
Many have started calling the new scheme as Modicare, a take on Obamacare. But there is a huge difference between the two. Obamacare is also a Patient Protection and Affordable Care scheme brought out through an Act in 2010. Under this scheme, it requires citizens to have health insurance for at least nine months out of every twelve or be subject to a tax of 2.5 percent of a person's income. Its aim is to extend health insurance coverage to some of the estimated 15% of the US population who lack it. These people receive no coverage from their employers and are not covered by US health programmes for the poor and elderly.
One key differentiator under Modicare is that the poor and underprivileged eligible under the scheme need not take insurance. The government provides them with health cover. The scheme is aimed at the poor and the needy and the funding comes from the government. The aim is to make India healthier and stronger. And, of course, producing a better workforce for India's economic march ahead.
The eligibility for NHPS would be on the basis of deprivations data from the socio-economic caste census (SECC). Since health is a state subject, the states can decide on the model of implementation. They could opt for an insurance-based model like Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) or a trust-based model like Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS).
Though several state governments have either implemented or supplemented health protection schemes providing varying coverage, Modicare is more aspirational.
The NHPS has been rightly described as the mother of all insurance schemes in the country with sum assured estimated to touch a whopping Rs 50 lakh crore! That would be almost one-third of India's stock market value, or market capitalisation.
The Modi government's focus is not just covering diseases and ailments too. The government has decided to reactivate the rural health centres to push towards preventive healthcare. These 1.5 lakh centres will now be recalibrated to bring healthcare system closer to the homes of people. These centres will provide comprehensive health care, including for non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health services. These centres will also provide free essential drugs and diagnostic services.
There are bound to be challenges due to sheer population size and uneven geographical spread. Enrolment of families may be tough, but there is a way out. The government can tap the Jan Dhan banking scheme to cover the families that need health cover.
The government also has a good template in Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for boosting penetration for crop insurance. Launched two years ago, the crop insurance scheme has turned out to be a success with business growing to around Rs 25,000 crore. This model could be used for the new health insurance scheme too. Also that the Govt. will ensemble more funds through the new Capital Gain Tax which can be used towards supporting the Ayushman Bharat funding gap, this was also indicated by the Finance Minister.
Implementation may also be a hurdle, though not insurmountable. The government should involve state-run hospitals in a big way for smooth takeoff of the scheme. The government should also look actively as ASHA workers at the grassroot level.
One of the key components of the National Rural Health Mission is to provide every village in the country with a trained female community health activist ASHA or Accredited Social Health Activist. Selected from the village itself and accountable to it, the ASHAs are trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system. This interface should be strengthened for the success of NHPS.
So should the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) program which is intended to increase access to primary care services in rural communities.
Mid-size hospitals and emerging healthcare services in tier 2 and 3 cities too should be roped in and there is an opportunity for healthcare to spread out to rural areas instead of being metro-centric.
The government should also leverage the strengths in information technology to reach out to the masses in rural areas. Telemedicine is a success, but there are other emerging fields like remote monitoring, health care at home and Artificial Intelligence.
The healthcare sector in India has seldom attracted traction in the past; but NHPS will surely be a gamechanger with international players sensing an opportunity to be partners in the ambitious programme.
The present government is known to thrive on challenges. The proposed NHPS could, in the future get bigger and could be a precursor of the Universal Insurance Scheme which will provide cover to all citizens.
In the end, to quote one of the senior Health Ministery official, the utmost task would be to build a robust IT systems which will become the backbone of this largest healthcare protection sheme in the world. Whether by roping in Mr Nilenkani to develop something like Aadhar infrastructure or by active role played by Niti Aayog, NIC & other govt. & private stakeholders, the gamechanger would be the development of a robust IT framework to be able to make this plan full-proof & close the possible holes, else it would prove to be fatal to the aspirations of our PM, whose name is now become synonymous to this plan. Definitely, everybosy prays for the success of this ambitious plan as its fate may also decide how long Mr 'Modi' is allowed to 'Care' for the countrymen!
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Combat to cowboy boots
Airman 1st Class Lauren Nolan, a 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron materials management journeyman, stands with her horses, Tiz and Shoobie, Oct. 13, 2016, in Wichita, Kan. When Nolan moved to McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., her first duty station, she had her horses shipped to the area and now boards them off-base in the local community. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jenna K. Caldwell)
Tiz -- a 4-year-old, off-the-track thoroughbred -- changes directions upon command from her owner, Airman 1st Class Lauren Nolan, a 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron materials management journeyman, Oct. 13, 2016, in Wichita, Kan. Nolan works with her to train for barrel racing competitions. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jenna K. Caldwell)
Airman 1st Class Lauren Nolan, a 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron materials management journeyman, leads her horses, Tiz Sunshine and Shoobie, Oct. 13, 2016, in Wichita, Kan. Nolan owns two off-the-track thoroughbreds. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jenna K. Caldwell)
Airman 1st Class Lauren Nolan, a 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron materials management journeyman, practices her barrel racing patterns with her horse, Shoobie, Oct. 13, 2016, in Wichita, Kan. Shoobie is a 6-year-old, off-the-track thoroughbred Nolan is training for barrel racing competitions. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jenna K. Caldwell)
A horse brand sits in the dirt Oct. 13, 2016, in Wichita, Kan. The brand belongs to Airman 1st Class Lauren Nolan, a 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron materials management journeyman. The L stands for her first name, the R stands for her middle name, Rae, and the stars and stripes represents her time in service. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jenna K. Caldwell)
Combat to cowboy boots: Airman uses horses to spread resiliency
Published Oct. 21, 2016
By Airman 1st Class Jenna K. Caldwell
MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. (AFNS) -- (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series. These stories focus on individual Airmen, highlighting their Air Force story.)
Growing up, she recalled running around the woods of North Carolina trying to catch a wild horse. She had fallen in love with a flea bitten, little and gray Arabian horse, which nobody could manage to catch, except her. She wasn't yet tall enough to put the halter on, so she would put the rope around the horse's neck, hold her and look to her dad for help -- until she got older that is.
For Airman 1st Class Lauren Nolan, a 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron materials management journeyman, this is where her passion for horses began and continues to be a blessing throughout her Air Force career.
"She can pick up on a horse's personality in a second; she has a natural gift with them," said Teresa Nolan, Lauren's mother. "Lauren would always get up really early. By the time I woke up, she would already be out in the pasture to see her horse and have her tied up, grooming her by herself."
Stationed at McConnell Air Force Base since 2015, Lauren has two horses that occupy her time. Tiz Sunshine, 4 years old, and Shoobie, 6 years old, and both are off-the-track thoroughbreds. Lauren has owned Tiz for two and a half years and Shoobie for about a year. She boards them in the local community and spends her off-time taking care of them and training them for barrel racing.
"When I leave work, if I'm not helping out at the barn, I'm working with them on barrels," Lauren said. "Shoobie is a diva, and Tiz is a little doll button. If you're trying to teach Shoobie something and she doesn't understand, she'll give you attitude right back. Tiz will do whatever you tell her; she doesn't care. She will stand there, look at you and stick her tongue out at you -- she is so quirky."
Much like a military training instructor develops civilians into Airmen, training horses takes the same time and perseverance, although a milder process. Lauren works with the horses most every day, and has even set individual goals for them. She wants them to be really patterned with the barrels and running well by the spring.
"I have to have a lot of patience," Lauren said. "You can't take a 1,200-pound animal and turn it into a superstar overnight. It takes months and months, but it's very rewarding to take a horse that didn't really have a chance, work with it and make it into something."
Lauren also uses patience at work. She works in an office ordering aircraft parts for the KC-135 Stratotanker. The stress of having the responsibility of ordering millions of dollars worth of equipment and the potential for mistakes can be somewhat daunting. If she has a bad day at work, her outlet for stress is in the dusty barn and muddy pasture.
"It's very relaxing to go and just hang out with them and get rid of all the stressors of the day," Lauren said. "My family is over 1,000 miles away. I can't see them but once a year, so the horses mean everything to me. Tiz and Shoobie have helped me more than anything else ever could."
With the unique challenges military members face, from frequent moves to deployments, everybody needs a way to unwind; spending time with the horses is hers. Realizing how much Tiz and Shoobie help her, she is sharing this experience with others.
"Every once in a while, I'll take Airmen out to see them so they can have their little getaway," Lauren said. "They could come ride them, brush them or just interact with the horses to help them cope with whatever they're dealing with."
Lauren not only brings Airmen out to see the horses, but the Airmen's families as well. She specifically wants to help first-term Airmen, like herself, who are new to base, as well as children with deployed parents.
"I take anybody out to see the horses who needs it," Lauren said. "Being on base and in military life is stressful for a lot of the people. It has impacted and helped everybody I have ever brought out there -- you can see it. The kids grin, laugh and giggle the whole time. It's instant. They get all giddy the moment they see them."
Just as she takes pride in her work as an Airman, she has pride in her horses. When she brings other people out to the barn to see Tiz and Shoobie, she said she wants them to look their best.
"It's in her nature, it's who she is and what she loves," Teresa said. "Lauren will do whatever she has to do to keep them healthy and well-fed, even it means she's not going to have something, just to take care of the horses."
She gets off work and switches from combat boots to cowboy boots. When she gets to the barn and heads to the pasture to round up the horses, she stops in her tracks. She's got fellow Airmen coming to the barn to see the horses and Shoobie looks like a walking mud puddle from rolling on the ground after a night of Kansas rain. With a sigh, a few words mumbled under her breath and a hint of smile, she gets the watering hose and brush. Here they go again.
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Erik Estrada: George Lopez's career is over
by Meagan Morris
Aug 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm EDT
George Lopez and Erik Estrada are at each other's throats… again.
At least one person is happy that George Lopez's TBS show is canceled: archenemy Erik Estrada. The former CHiPS star made a cryptic comment about Lopez in an interview with Latina magazine.
"His show was supposed to be canceled after the first season, but Conan wanted to keep it on," Estrada told the magazine. "There's a lot of things people don't know about this guy… For me to talk about this guy – I'm wasting my time. The law of God – the law of Karma, is on him right now. He is doomed."
Me-ow. We're used to the feuds between female starlets, but this one is all testosterone, machismo and hurt feelings. Wait, hurt feelings? Yeah, the whole feud started decades ago when a teenaged Lopez met Estrada — and the star refused to shake the future star's hand.
Lopez has harbored ill will ever since.
"Even novelas don't want you… and they'll hire anybody," the former Lopez Tonight comedian said in a 2009 HBO special. Estrada fired back saying he challenged Lopez to a fight and he backed down.
The lesson from this? Celebrities should always be nice to their fans — they never know what those scorned fans will turn into in the future.
Whose side are you on: George Lopez or Erik Estrada?
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Nieto twins apply for PBA Draft
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Ateneo's Nieto brothers Matt and Mike are entering the pro ranks as they submitted their applications for the 2019 PBA Rookie Draft on Wednesday.
Matt, 22, has been instrumental in the Blue Eagles' three-peat, including their last victory this UAAP Season 82 men's basketball tournament as they fulfilled the role of the team's leaders.
Matt averaged 7.3 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 1.3 steals in his final season in Katipunan, while also preparing young guards SJ Belangel and Tyler Tio for the future.
Mike, on the other hand, normed for 4.4 points, 3.5 boards, and 1.1 assists.
Both Nietos are expected to be taken in the first round of the annual draft proceedings, set on December 8 at Robinsons Ermita.
The Nieto brothers are the second set of twins who applied for the PBA Draft. Lyceum of the Philippines University's Marcelino twins earlier submitted their applications for the draft.
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Balance Sheet – ASC 842 Lease Accounting
When the Federal Accounting and Standards Board created and implemented the ASC 842 standard last year, it raised a number of procedural questions, and some of the biggest ones pertained to your balance sheet.
There have been a lot of questions about what needs to appear on the balance sheet, along with how that information and the numbers should be displayed.
So let's clarify as much as we can. What follows is a breakdown of what should be on your lease balance sheet, and how the shifts and changes are being driven by ASC 842.
The Purpose of the Changes and How It Affects the Balance Sheet
Let's start with the purpose of the ASC 842 changes. One of the basic goals was to increase the disclosures of all leasing obligations for both private companies and public organizations, the idea being to provide more visibility and transparency.
So how does that apply to the balance sheet? Well, prior to ASC 842, most leases weren't even included on a balance sheet, but that's not the case any more. Under the new standard, companies now have to report right-of-use (ROU) assets and liabilities for nearly all of their leases.
This change makes it easier for those using financial statements to evaluate a company's exposure to risk in the leases they list. It also accurately reflects the true financial position of each company and organization, and it allows a more balanced comparison of different organizations.
As a footnote, these changes help align balance sheets with IFRS 16, which is an international lease accounting standard, and there are changes in the definition of a lease that pertain to that standard for those who are heavily involved in using it.
Leaving that possibility aside for a moment, let's take a before and after example. Under the previous 840 operating standard, capital leases were the only leases that had to be listed on a balance sheet, with the appropriate accounting standards applied.
Operating leases were nowhere to be found, and the only information about future obligations that had to be supplied pertained to the maturity analysis that was an element of the disclosure material in a financial statement.
Under ASC 842, however, all leases must be listed on a balance sheet, with the exception of those defined as short-term. These listings must also include the specifics of liability, along with the ROU assets. Other information has to be included as well. Specifically, the weighted average discount rate must be present, along with the weighted average remaining on the terms of the lease, and the cash paid for all amounts, including lease liabilities.
Finally, a more thorough maturity analysis must be included with the disclosure material, and that analysis must be tied to the specific numbers on the balance sheet.
What About Short-Term Leases?
Since short-term leases don't have to be included, let's do a quick rundown on what they are and how they're now handled under ASC 842.
There are new basics when it comes to the definition of a short-term lease. Specifically, a short-term lease is one in which the terms are 12 months or less when the lease starts, and short-term leases also don't have a renewal option that the lessee is likely to exercise.
These leases don't need to be on the balance sheet, but the payments can be accounted for on a straight-line basis over the terms of the lease. This method is similar to the procedures that were used under ASC 840, so there are no major changes there.
How About Finance Leases?
The new ASC 842 balance sheet requirements do spell out major changes for finance leases, which were formerly known as capital leases. These leases were basically purchasing arrangements, and under ASC 843 they're essentially the same.
Both types of leases are capitalized on the balance sheet. and the procedures for doing this are similar. There are slight changes in the terminology, but the basic calculations are the same as well, so there's no overall impact on the numbers in the profit-and-loss (P&L) statement.
But What About Operating Leases?
There are changes with regard to operating leases as well, so let's start with a basic definition of what these are under ASC 842. In an operating lease, the lessee controls the use of the underling asset without actually owning that asset.
With the old 840 standard, operating leases were basically unrecorded liabilities. The only place they showed up on a balance sheet was as prepaid or deferred rent, but they now must be capitalized on a balance sheet, and this will have a considerable material impact on the numbers and the overall state of the balance sheet going forward.
As for the way operating leases are capitalized, it's identical to the way capital leases were recorded under ASC 840. That is, they're recorded on the balance sheet as a lease liability and an ROU asset.
The straight-line liability for operating leases is the same as that used for finance leases, i.e., it's accounted for on an amortized cost basis. The amortization of the ROU asset is tabulated as the different between straight-line rent and the interest expense during the specified period.
This combination gives you a more accurate picture of the total lease expense that's on the books, and that goes on the P&L statement to provide additional transparency.
Solving Your Balance Sheet Issues
As you can see from the above explanations and the information we've included, there's a lot that goes into what needs to be on your balance sheet in the brave new world of ASC 842.
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The Equalizer Season 1 release date and cast latest: When is it coming out?
Fri Dec 04, 2020 at 12:42am ET Fri Dec 04, 2020 at 12:42 am EST
By Shawn S. Lealos
The Equalizer is coming to CBS in 2020. Pic credit: CBS
The Equalizer is coming back to television with a new reworked and fresh-looking series for CBS.
Many fans know The Equalizer based on the movies starring Denzel Washington that came out in 2014 and 2018 and were directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day).
However, before that, it was a television series in the '80s starring Edward Woodward as a man with a mysterious past who uses his skills as a past intelligence agent to help innocent people in need.
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Now, the franchise is coming back to television with a very different look. In this new series, Queen Latifah will take on the role of The Equalizer.
Here is everything we know so far about The Equalizer Season 1.
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This article provides everything that is known about The Equalizer Season 1 and all related news. As such, this article will be updated over time with news, rumors, and analysis. Meanwhile, let's dig down into what is known so far.
What is Season 1 of The Equalizer about?
The original Equalizer TV show (1985-89) was about a former intelligence agent who now helps innocent people. The Denzel Washington movies were about a former US Marine turned Defense Intelligence Agency officer who returned to action to help innocent people.
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The new version of The Equalizer will star Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, a divorced and enigmatic single mother to a teenager. She has a mysterious background that allows her to act as a guardian angel to help those who can't defend themselves.
She also has a mysterious redemption story she is pursuing.
The series was from the minds of Andrew Marlowe and Terri Miller, who created Take Two. In November 2019, the duo received a pilot commitment, and it seems that they won over CBS.
In May, CBS picked up The Equalizer for series, along with The Silence of the Lambs prequel Clarice and the Chuck Lorre sitcom B Positive.
Release date latest: When does The Equalizer Season 1 come out?
The Equalizer Season 1 will premiere on Sunday night, February 14 at 8/7c on CBS.
There has been no work on when CBS plans to release its fall schedule. However, most people expect the shows to start rolling out in November.
The Equalizer was one of the shows that had to shut down production in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With that said, the daily schedules have been set. Sunday nights on CBS look huge, and The Equalizer will lead into two of the network's top shows.
The Sunday night CBS schedule starts with 60 Minutes at 7/6c, and then the primetime lineup starts with The Equalizer at 8/7c, followed by NCIS: Los Angeles at 9/8c and NCIS: New Orleans at 10/9c.
"Our Monday night, our Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Friday night, Sunday night are only down single digits (in total viewers this season), which in this environment is pretty good," CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl said about the 2020-21 schedule.
Hopefully, for CBS, The Equalizer will help pull the Sunday night numbers up.
The Equalizer Season 1 cast updates
The first person to sign on to The Equalizer Season 1 on CBS was the lead star, Queen Latifah. She will star as Robyn McCall, the hero that acts as a guardian angel to help those who can't defend themselves.
In February, Liza Lapira joined the pilot of The Equalizer as Melody Chu. An edgy bar owner with a wry sense of humor and sunny disposition, Melody is a former colleague of Robyn's (Queen Latifah) with whom she's still great friends. She was also a highly decorated Air Force sniper in a previous life.
Lorraine Toussaint (The Village) joined later in February as Frieda "Aunt Fry" Lascombe, Robyn's aunt and her rock who's been living with Robyn and her daughter, Delilah, since Robyn's divorce. She has undeniable wisdom and is a truth-teller who tends to be a wary optimist.
Tony Kittles joined the show in March, as Detective Marcus Dante, a highly intelligent, soft-spoken yet powerful and shrewd NYPD detective, with a cultivated veneer.
In May, the second major name joined The Equalizer with Chris Noth (Law & Order). By this time, CBS ordered The Equalizer straight to series. Noth plays William Bishop, a quirky ex-CIA director who was Robyn's first handler and has a father-daughter relationship with her.
In November, Adam Goldberg joined the cast as a co-lead. He will star as Harry Keshegian, a non-stereotypical tech dude. Gruffly endearing, lovably annoying, eccentric, and a collector of facts and artifacts, he's paranoid — but for a reason.
The Equalizer Season 1 spoilers
There has been no trailer for The Equalizer with Queen Latifah on CBS yet, but there was a video released of the actress and show's creators were talking about the new series and her role on the show.
In the small 30 second video, Terri Miller mentioned how great it was to get Queen Latifah, calling her a "bada**' and funny, someone that people could trust. Andrew Marlowe said that having a female lead in the series instead of a male made it more "relevant."
"This is one of the only jobs I've ever taken in my life where someone asked me the question one time, and I said yes immediately," Queen Latifah said.
The Equalizer Season 1 premieres on Sunday, February 7, 2021, at 10/9c on CBS.
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Gold Fever • 2013 • episode "03/17" • Big History
Category: Nature
This episode asks why mankind is gold crazy, and discovers there's a hard-wired reason we lust after it, and a microscopic explanation for why it shines. We reveal how the science behind our favorite metal drives men across oceans and continents.
Big History • 2013 • 16 episodes •
Rise of the Carnivores
Eating meat made us human...by giving us bigger brains, better tools, and spoken language. The human need for beef has driven history across the hemispheres, but how did we turn an ancient mega-beast into the cow we have today?
Pocket Time Machine
How does the cellphone in your pocket link to the Big Bang, the evolution of human memory, and even the Titanic disaster? Big History reveals how cosmic forces conspired to give us the tool that has revolutionized the planet.
Following 161 37 views About Export Add to Water is the miracle molecule, and mankind has used its perfect properties to revolutionize our lives. It was our first superhighway, the lifeblood of civilization, and gives us 90% of all the power we use today.
Deadly Meteors
Impacts from space have created our planet and just about everything in it. Like celestial supply ships, they brought in water, metal, and maybe even life. They made our moon and sculpted the geography of our planet.
Secret codes run the world. The code of life, DNA, is the operating system for all organisms, which spawned intelligent life like us who eventually created codes of our own--language that allows us to talk and the alphabet that lets us write.
2013 • Math
The Sun is our master and creator. It gives us our perception of time, controls our reality, and powers our lives. Big History sheds new light on our nearest star, revealing that ancient sun worship intersects with science.
Mountain Machines
They form natural boundaries, dictate how we spread around the planet, create natural defenses, and control our weather. From the World War that began with a gunshot in the Balkans to the feuds of the Appalachians, mountains have also been flashpoints.
Brain Boost
Behind that cup of coffee or tea is a global story that goes back to the collision that created the Moon and the evolution of plant and animal life. The key is the molecule that gives your morning cup its kick: caffeine, the most popular drug in history.
World of Weapons
Humans have small teeth and no claws or armor, so how do we project our power? Warfare has defined traditional history, but Big History digs deeper to reveal how it all began.
Defeating Gravity
Flight takes more than wings. We need the right kind of air, the perfect materials cooked up over billions of years, and cosmic forces that are just right for us to leave the ground without tumbling off into space.
2013 • Science
Following 161 84 views About Export Add to From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the towering skyscrapers of today, humans have engineered massive constructions for at least 5,000 years. But why? How do biology and human emotions affect our desire to build gigantic structures?
This episode reveals how cold has the power to turn men into Barbarians, spark history's longest running war, and create the concept of race. After the heat of the Big Bang, cold creates the Universe and the planet as we know it.
The Superpower of Salt
We all know that mankind can't live without air, food and water...the same is true of salt. The salt on your table is a key to unlocking the story of our planet and the cosmos. Big History reveals how this simple molecule underpins our civilization
Horse Power Evolution
The horse has been a revolutionary animal in unexpected ways. It has changed how we speak, what we wear, and sets the hidden limit for the size of our most massive empires. It's a story that spans the cosmos.
Silver Supernova
At critical moments in history, our second place metal was the most important metal on Earth. Big History reveals how silver's place in our minds was determined by the heat of exploding stars, and how this one metal saved democracy.
A look across Hawaii's varied islands, discovering how they were made, and how its wildlife thrives. The most remote island chain on Earth, its tropical shores are hard to reach. However, for the hardy creatures that have made it there, such as the waterfall-climbing fish, carnivorous caterpillar and Laysan albatross, a land of opportunity awaits. From newly formed lava fields, to lush jungles, and vibrant coral reefs, these diverse and beautiful islands have it all. As this documentary reveals, its people are looking to the future and attempting to protect and foster its flora and fauna.
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David Attenborough highlights the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery, but have ultimately helped assist the rethinking of evolution. When early explorers brought the first specimen of a duck-billed platypus to England in 1799, it was considered so bizarre it was deemed a hoax. Similarly, the midwife toad became the centre of a scientific storm in the 1920s that led to accusations of fakery.
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Wild Swaziland
Journey deep into the heart of Swaziland--a wild kingdom of riverine forests and endless savanna. From dominant elephant herds to tiny dung beetles, a number of diverse keystone species are shaping a vibrant ecosystem.
4/6 • Africa's Wild Horizons • 2017 • Nature
Intimate Relations
The penultimate episode focuses on the relationships between invertebrates and plants or other animals. It begins with ants and aphids: the former 'herd' the latter and protect them in return for secreted honeydew.
Part 4 • Life in the Undergrowth • 2005 • Nature
How to be a Wild Elephant
Elephant poaching worldwide has reached epidemic proportions. In Kenya, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust provides a sanctuary for baby elephants who are its greatest victims, left to die without the nurture and protection of their matriarchal herds. In 2010 a baby elephant named Sities was rescued and brought to the Trust's Nairobi Nursery to begin her rehabilitation. Her remarkable story was followed by audiences worldwide who watched her progress from day one. Now three years later we catch up with Sities, who has reached the age where she can be integrated into the wild elephant herds of Tsavo East National Park. HOW TO BE A WILD ELEPHANT observes the challenges Sities will face as she leaves the safety of the Nursery and moves on to the next phase of her journey back to freedom.
S53E11 • The Nature of Things • 2014 • Nature
In Jungle Animals, viewers encounter gorillas and orangutans, killer pythons, delightful monkeys from three continents, awe-inspiring tigers and millions of land-dwelling red crabs. This episode explores Australia, the islands of Southeast Asia, Africa and the Amazon.
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– Digital health funding in the U.S. reached $29.1 billion across 729 deals, according to latest research from Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. The total nearly doubles 2020's $14.9B record with an average deal size of $39.9M.
– The findings signal both the cause and effect of trends in the healthcare landscape as the digital health sector deals with major changes to its infrastructure, business models, and talent pool that will make downstream effects in 2022 inevitable.
Key Forces Shaping Digital Health Sector
In the report, Rock Health finds three key market forces reshaping the digital health sector from the group up:
1. Infrastructure buildout
In 2021, digital health infrastructure and interoperability startups secured $2.2B across 40 deals in 2021, nearly 3x 2020's dollars invested in the category ($736M). Today's infrastructure landscape includes companies like Innovaccer ($105M), Redox ($45M), and Ribbon Health ($43.5M) that integrate data streams into unified API ecosystems, while TripleBlind ($8.2M and $24M) and Truveta ($95M and $100M) enable cross-company data analysis. ScienceIO ($8M) and Centaur Labs ($15.9M) streamline data structure and labeling, while Commure, Truepill ($142M), Wheel ($50M), and Zus Health ($34M) offer "LEGO kits" or building blocks for others to get digital health solutions up-and-running.
2. Nimble business models
As the most severe portions of the pandemic subsided in 2021, healthcare sales cycles returned to pre-pandemic timelines and point solutions faced more trouble proving out differentiated value to overwhelmed buyers. 2021 also saw healthcare startups expand across product categories and step into complex care delivery. A leading cohort of digital health companies forgoing fee-for-service models and moving toward value-based care. Value-based care models encourage providers to utilize any range of physical and digital approaches to deliver quality care at reduced cost.
3. Talent Wars
The Great Resignation has impacted healthcare tremendously leading to an all-out talent war for strong software engineering and product teams, as well as strategic guidance from healthcare leaders who have been around the block. Not to mention, digital health players delivering care need to compete with the broader healthcare industry for clinical talent and caregiver staff—a cohort of employees that are just plain burned out.
Career stress, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushed a greater number of clinicians to consider leaving medicine at the same time that non-traditional healthcare employers began hiring physicians and ramping up clinical roles. For digital health companies in service delivery (calling all virtual clinics), clinical talent may be a rate-limiting factor for growth.
Digital Health Adoption Stabilizing at "New Normal"
Digital health adoption appears to be stabilizing at a 'new normal' following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rock Health finds that the investor community is settling into a long-term funding stride for digital health as there remains a healthy mix between new (45%) and repeat (55%) investors in the sector, balancing new cash with the consistent behavior of industry experts. Rounding out the diverse mix, big tech players are investing and acquiring in the space, joined by a growing number of middle children—smaller but still-sizeable retail and tech companies like Best Buy that are increasing their forays into digital health.
Another key signal in the digital health market maturation is the growing rate of digital health exits (M&A activity). Over the past decade, roughly one in four (23%) digital health dollars invested has gone to companies that ultimately exited; 13% of those funds went to companies that merged or were acquired, while 10% went to companies that exited onto the public markets. Compared that to 2019, only 15% of digital health's investment dollars had exited.
Rock Health experts expect digital health's exit pace to stay active. 2021's substantial Series D+ raises (1.8x growth in the average Series D+ check size between 2020 and 2021) provide a rough estimate of companies that might be gearing up for IPO roadshows and SPAC pipe fundraising in the near future. For new entrants, this "senior class" of digital health companies offers a real-time playbook for go-to-market strategy and building market share.
Other key findings from the Rock Health report include:
Competitive VC Landscape
– 2021's VC landscape heated up with the participation of new funds and growth firms—including Tiger Global, which participated in 25 digital health deals in 2021 (second only to General Catalyst's 37).
– Digital health startups saw an opportunity in these market conditions and raised multiple rounds close together, with 60 companies raising twice in 2021 and two companies raising three rounds within the calendar year.
– From 2020 to 2021, the average Series A round grew 38% to $18M, while the average Series B grew 23% to $43M—just $3M less than 2019's average Series C. The year also saw a record number of mega ($100M) early-stage deals, including ten mega ($100M+) Series B raises and one mega Series A round (EasyHealth).
Top Funded Categories
– Digital health companies catalyzing R&D in biopharma and medtech topped the chart with $5.8B in funding, stimulated by the COVID-accelerated adoption of real-world evidence and decentralized trials.
– Investments in digital products supporting disease treatment grew 2.6x between 2020 and 2021 as coverage pathways for prescription digital therapeutics widened. Healthcare marketplaces also experienced a 3.2x year-over-year funding growth, driven by upticks in D2C marketplaces (Mindbody), caregiver marketplaces (Honor $370M)2, and clinical job boards (Trusted Health $149M across two rounds).
Mental healthcare raised $5.1B, $3.3B more than any other clinical indication in 2021, and nearly double 2020's funding total ($2.7B). Trends driving investment in this category include the integration of mental health services into broader virtual care platforms (think K Health acquiring Trusst) and the rise of virtual options for intensive mental and behavioral health needs, led by companies like Lyra Health ($200M), NOCD ($33M), and Equip Health ($13M).
– Diabetes care and musculoskeletal (MSK) care startups, conditions that can increasingly be managed virtually also increased in 2021. MSK funding grew six-fold between 2020 ($236M) and 2021 ($1.4B), as virtual MSK clinics Hinge Health ($300M and $400M) and Sword Health ($25M, $85M and $163M) each completed multiple raises across the year.
IPO and M&A Activity
– 2021 saw an average of nearly 23 digital health exits via merger or acquisition each month, almost double 2020's monthly average of 12.
– 23 digital health companies went public via SPAC or IPO in 2021, almost triple the previous peak of eight in 2020.
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Book Review: 10 Gutsy Things about THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson
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Summary: Working on a story about sex trafficking, famous reporter and publisher Mikhael Blomkvist, stumbles on sensitive information that gets a colleague killed. Lisbeth Salander's past catches up to her and she is framed for the murder of a Swedish couple. Now Mikhael and Lisbeth must use all their skills of espionage, blackmail, hacking, and researching to solve the murders before one of them is the next victim.
10 Gutsy Things about THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson
1. Lisbeth Salander
Lisbeth is a badass. This genius hacker takes no bullshit from anyone and although small, can hold her own in a fight. While rough around the edges and abrasive, she cares for those around her fiercely and loyally. Lisbeth is one of my favorite heroines with her sarcasm, brutal honesty, and devilish thinking.
2. Sex Trafficking
Stieg Larsson's "The Girl who Played with Fire" centers around the issue of sex trafficking, having this be the topic main character Mikhael Blomkvist is researching and reporting on. In the real world, there are about 25 million victims of sex trafficking globally and it is the fastest growing crime.
3. Violence Against Women
Another important theme seen in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series is that of violence against women. Having witnessed a young girl being gang-raped at the age of 15, Stieg Larsson was a feminist and used his books to portray the abhorrent violence many women are subjected to.
4. The Characters
Stieg Larsson creates characters that are so in-depth, realistic, and relatable. Even the main characters are seen with positive qualities and some pretty major faults.
5. System Failure
Stieg Larsson also touches upon the issue of system failure, especially that in the mental health field. Lisbeth's backstory includes her being placed in a mental health facility and instead of treatment she received more abuse and trauma at the hands of professionals.
6. Thrilling
While the mystery/thriller genre is not a favorite of mine, putting "The Girl who Played with Fire" down was nearly impossible. Very well written, Stieg Larsson provided an intriguing and complex murder-mystery with an unforgettable heroine.
7. Zala
An interesting and realistic power-hungry villain with the twist of being Lisbeth's sadistic father.
8. Friends
While lacking in a love story, "The Girl who Played with Fire" features so much love amongst friends. Touching and inspirational, characters consistently provided limitless love and support to their friends throughout the story, even when it caused a danger to themselves.
9. No Romance
While a huge romance genre fan and a sucker for love stories, it was refreshing and surprising that the main male and female characters were not starcrossed lovers trying to achieve their happily-ever-after. Continues with the feminist ideals that a woman is strong and worthy on her own, no man needed.
10. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Thankfully this is not the last of Lisbeth Salander and there is Millennium Book 3: "The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."
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Book Review: 3 Delectable things about DRAGONFLY IN AMBER by Diana Gabaldon
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Outlander #2
by Diana Gabaldon
Nikki's Rating: 3 out of 10
Summary: Brianna Randall travels to Scotland with her mother Claire Randall and gets the news that her father, is not who he thinks he is. It is 1968 and yet, she is told her father is none other than James Fraser, a Scottish warrior from 1744. Claire unfolds the secrets she has been keeping for twenty years and tells her daughter of the love her and Jamie shared in Scotland and then France in 1744 and how she plans to return to him.
3 Delectable things about DRAGONFLY IN AMBER by Diana Gabaldon
1. The Writing
Diana Gabaldon is an excellent writer, her descriptions are beautiful and really paint a picture in the mind.
2. 1700s France
As a fan of historical fiction, I enjoyed that most of the book took place in France during 1744. It was also interesting to learn about the Scottish rebellion of '45 as I'm completely ignorant of this event in history.
3. Romance
While Claire and Jamie are not my favorite couple ever, I am always a sucker for romance and will admit that there are many heartwarming moments between Claire and Jamie that were thoroughly enjoyable.
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The Message in the Media
November 6, 2012 by Erin
This past week, I watched a 2011 documentary called Miss Representation, a play on the word "misrepresentation." The documentary examines the overwhelming amount of objectified images of women in the U.S. media, the use of things like photoshop to create impossible ideals of women's bodies, the emphasis on women's appearance, and the lack of realistic women in the media. Even as someone who has been acutely aware of these issues, this movie really brings home just how bad this problem has gotten (for example, according to Miss Representation, out of all the U.S. fiction, only 16% have female protagonists).
Most significantly, this documentary focuses on the impact this emphasis on female appearance and objectification has on women politically. It claims that American girls are socialized (in large part through the media) to be ultra concerned with their appearance and that those girls who are the most concerned with their appearance feel less politically powerful. Studies have been done that show that in elementary school, an equal amount of girls and boys want to be president, but when these kids are re-interviewed in high school, the number of girls who feel they can be president has dropped significantly. Miss Representation also shows how female politicians are treated differently by the media than male politicians, making comments about how terrible Hillary Clinton looks or asking if Sarah Palin got breast implants. When was the last time you heard a news report on those gray streaks in Romney's hair or speculation on whether Bill Clinton should get botox? This is just a piece of what the documentary discusses, but it paints a picture of how the media affects how people see women and as a result, how women are limited to certain representations.
I know a lot of people wonder when I or anyone else talks about poor representations of girls/women in the media (from commercials to movies to books to manga) how a piece of fiction can really matter. Miss Representation explains how better than I ever could by presenting a larger picture. These representations of women are everywhere and both girl and boys are exposed to them from childhood. Even boys' and girls' toys are segregated to socialize them to a certain role; boys get traditionally manly things like building blocks, cars, tools, etc. while one look at the girls' toy aisle reveals a sea of pastel pinks and purples, makeup, fashion, and Barbie and Bratz dolls. We become used to seeing objectified and sexist images of women so, if one doesn't stop to examine things more closely, it's easy to miss them. So, when I talk about a book or movie that I feel poorly represents women, it's likely not just that one piece of fiction, but one example of a bigger trend I see in many movies, books, manga, and so on.
If you have any interest in the U.S. media misrepresentations of women, even if you are a skeptic, you should definitely try to see Miss Representation. It goes over multiple issues related to this problem and really gives a good example of the larger impact a seemingly small thing can have on a society.
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on November 8, 2012 at 1:07 am | Reply starsamaria
I saw this documentary awhile ago and I agree – it certainly is eye-opening. Not just because it highlights the inequalities of how women are depicted in media, but also the inequalities of women as producers of media. My favorite point the film made is that whenever women have gained social power that power has typically been taken away through sexualization – such as when The Miss America pageant was started the year after women were given the right to vote. I've written some of my thoughts on Miss Representation on another of my blogs: http://crystal-lewis.blogspot.com/2011/10/women-and-power-miss-representation.html
on November 10, 2012 at 2:57 am | Reply Erin
I also thought that was an excellent point about how women's progress is diminished by sexualization. On a smaller scale, I've noticed a similar occurrence in some manga. Tsunade from Naruto and other relatively powerful female characters are given ridiculously big breasts and skimpy outfits. They're allowed some power (although that is often undermined as well), but they're kept in a familiar place by objectifying them. The overt sexiness overshadows pretty much everything else.
Anyway, as you said in your other blog, it's interesting that pretty much all the images discussed in Miss Representation were of white women. There's plenty of poor representations of all women no matter their race after all. It gets back to the issue of the general under representation of minorities in comparison to white people.
on November 8, 2012 at 4:01 pm | Reply soaringwings
Yeah, I've been aware of the male versus female politician differences for a while now. And it's not just appearance. They also ask things like how the female politicians balance family and work, whereas rarely is it asked of male politicians cause you know, it is expected that women must do the double load of job and house. I've seen it applied to male and female athletes as well. : /
I'm always shocked that people don't see the lack of good female protagonists. You really have to be off in your own little world not to notice. Same goes for race. (I mean, even before I actually took feminist classes and looked at the media in a more analytic way, I was aware that racial diversity was really lacking, even though it didn't bother me on the same level as lack of gender equality if only because I was a kid and I didn't really see the bigger picture. I just knew that I wanted more female heroines). In fact, I didn't think it was as low as 16%. I thought it would be around 30%. Might be my Japanese media consumption that makes me think that though because the one thing I really appreciate about Japanese media is that the protagonist aren't as skewed to one gender, I feel. (Whether they are good female protagonist though, is another question).
Yes, athletes are another group with that issue. I think the issue arises more with jobs stereotypically associated with men. Miss Representation mentioned a scenario where two women happened to be best qualified for head firefighter and police officer, but people's initial reaction was that it was a conscious effort on the part of the government to put women in those positions. Some people also overlooked the two women at press conferences because they expected to see men.
It's really shocking when one takes a close look at the media and sees just how skewed it is. As you said, it's skewed in both gender and race. It would be interesting to see how Japanese media compares to American media in terms of the percentage of female protagonists though. It definitely feels like there's a pretty equal amount of female and male protagonists in manga and anime, but I haven't really analyzed that aspect before.
on November 10, 2012 at 1:59 pm soaringwings
You're probably right about that. Even with female politicians or politicians of other races, there is this underlying idea that they are there for "diversity". No one really voices that belief, but you feel it in the ways people regard and talk about politicians.
Yeah, it definitely would be interesting. I wonder how analysis of something like that would go. Pick random 100/200/500/etc. current (published between 2006-2012) manga and see how the numbers fall? Granted someone with knowledge on stats and probability would need to do this because there is always a chance that it just so happens you got more shoujo/shounen manga and it slightly skewed numbers. But the numbers would definitely be interesting~
on November 10, 2012 at 12:26 am | Reply Bjdarsey
The latest commercial objectifying women is the Hardee's ad using sex to
sell a really obnoxious looking burger! Goodbye Hardee's ….the kids will miss spending my $$$$ at your place! Not what I want any little girls or young women to "aspire " to!
We, women, just made a very loud statement in this election. That attitude, guys, won't fly anymore!
Hardee's commercials are terrible. I've done some posts on them and other company's who make the poor decision to use sex to sell their products. As you said though, a powerful message has been sent with this past election; let's just hope they understand it!


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The 2001 Residential Finance Survey
The 2001 Residential Finance Survey (RFS) was sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the Census Bureau. The RFS is a follow-on survey to the 2000 decennial census designed to collect, process, and produce information about the financing of all nonfarm, residential properties. Previous RF surveys have been integral parts of the decennial censuses since 1950. Primary users of RFS data in addition to HUD include the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Congress. Data are collected, tabulated, and presented for properties, the standard unit of reference for financial transactions related to housing. In the RFS, a property is defined as all the buildings and land covered by a single first mortgage. The sample for the RFS is stratified by property size, with large properties overrepresented in the sample. Very large properties are selected with certainty to control their effect on the reliability of the estimates. The RFS is the only standardized single source of detailed information on property, mortgage, and financial characteristics for multiunit properties. Both property owners and mortgage lenders are interviewed, resulting in more accurate information on property and mortgage characteristics. As part of the decennial census, the RFS is mandatory. This is important in collecting information from mortgage lenders.
Facsimiles of the homeowner, rental property and lender questionnaires; a glossary of terms and definitions; a listing of frequently asked questions; and other information about the survey can be found at the following sites:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/rfs/facs.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/rfs/rfs.html
Residential Finance Survey: 2001 Report Is Now Available.
The main purpose of the survey was to collect information about mortgage financing. The report contains information for all first mortgages including: application method, reasons for refinancing, amounts and uses of cash-outs, year of origination, use of mortgage insurance or guarantees, type of mortgage, origination amounts and current balance, interest rate, interest rate buydowns, original and remaining term of the mortgage, indexes and caps used for ARMs, and items included in and amounts of monthly payments. Similar, but less detailed, information is reported for junior mortgages and home equity lines of credit. The report chapters are organized by tenure – owner-occupied, rental, and vacant units – and by number of units in the property. There are separate chapters for condominiums and for manufactured (mobile) homes. Appendices to the report include facsimiles of the questionnaires, sample design and sampling errors, content descriptions and definitions, and data processing procedures. The report is available for free as a downloadable PDF document from either the HUD Internet site or Census Internet site. In addition to the tables for the nation and the four Census regions included in the report, additional tables for more detailed geographical areas are available on the Census Internet site. Printed (or hard) copies of the report are available from huduser.gov (800-245-2691) or from the Census Bureau Customer Service Center (301-763-4636).
1991 RFS Files and Documentation
Homeowner File, Public Use ASCII Version (5.5 MB)
Rental File, Public Use ASCII Version (7.6 MB)
Micro database File Documentation, Scanned from Hard copy (*.pdf, 4 MB)
Corrections to the 1991 Residential Finance Survey documentation (*.pdf, 754 KB)
The RFS files and documentation are available for downloading:
5th October, 2005: New versions of Rental Property and Homeowner data and ascii files are available now.
The problem involved 246 cases on the Renter file. These cases had LIVEHERE values of 1 or 2 (owner lived at the property as a primary residence or as a second or vacation home) and NUMUNITS of 1 to 4. According to the rules for classifying cases these would have been considered owner-occupied units and should have been on the Owner file. After review, it was determined that the LIVEHERE values were incorrect, that the cases were rental units and the LIVEHERE values have been corrected in the newly issued file. In addition, not all edit flag variables (those starting with the letter"J") had value labels, and this is corrected in the new files
Download the Rental Property File (*.exe, 4.12 MB)
Download the Homeowner File (*.exe, 2.41 MB)
Residential Finance Survey: 2001 (Order hard copy.)
Comma-delimited ASCII Renters and Vacant File (*.exe, 5.10 MB)
Comma-delimited ASCII Homeowners File (*.exe, 3.17 MB)
Download the Renter codebook (*.txt, 639 KB)
Download the Homeowner codebook (*.txt, 626 KB)
Renter and Vacant Units Top-Coding Values and Cut-offs (*.xls, 20 KB)
Homeowners Units Top-Coding Values and Cut-offs (*.xls, 20 KB)
Join the RFS Electronic Mailing List
Previous Changes:
1st June, 2005: New codebooks/data dictionaries
New codebooks/data dictionaries have been added. These codebooks have been reformatted in order to be more useful to RFS users.
April 22nd version of Rental Property and Homeowner data files are available now.
ASCII Versions of the Residential Finance Survey Files and Top Code Information are available now.
Residential Finance Survey — April 22, 2005 Version
The file that is being released is the first reissue since September 2004. After that release several users discovered cases that had suspect values for monetary items:
Very high or very low values of mortgage debt per unit,
High ratios of mortgage debt to value,
Very high or very low ratios of mortgage debt to house value
The Census Bureau has retraced these cases to the original data collection forms and retrieved correct values.
During this time the Census Bureau also was preparing the tables for the hard copy report. This table review also highlighted or uncovered cases that needed correction.
The needed changes and corrections been made and are contained in the new databases.
In the next few weeks we expect to issue a revised codebook or data dictionary and a listing of the top-coding values for variables that were top-coded.
Within the next six weeks we expect to issue a Source and Accuracy write-up that would include a section on estimating standard errors.
ASCII Versions of the Residential Finance Survey Files and Top-Code Information
Comma-delimited ASCII versions of the two Residential Finance Survey databases – Renters and Vacant Units and Homeowners – are now available.
Top-coding information for the two files is now available in an Excel spreadsheet. The information consists of the variable name, description of the variable, the top-code chosen (the highest respondent-reported value on the file), the weighted mean of the cases above the top-code value (i.e., the value that replaces the respondent-reported value if it is above the top-code amount,) and the number of cases that have been top-coded.
Note: 21st September 2004
New RFS File Expected in Early October
A new file was just released (the September 14 vintage) that contained corrected information for multifamily (5+) properties originated in 2000 and 2001 that had ORIGAMT1/NUMUNITS over $200,000. As noted at that time, we discovered about 200 other multifamily cases (i.e., those with origination years other than 2000 or 2001) that had ORIGAMT1/NUMUNITS over $200,000. A list has been sent to Census and they have found numerous cases that need to be corrected. The Census Bureau notes that the vast majority of these problems were caused by the same data input problems as found with the 2000 and 2001 originations — missing trailing zeroes (decimal slides) or spurious leading digits.
Since these cases have been identified, other possible problems with multifamily cases have been identified (A case may appear in more than one problem category):
About 700 cases with excessive debt-to-value ratios, i.e., ORIGAMT1/ORIGVAL1 over 200%
About 45 cases with low per-unit debt, i.e., ORIGAMT1/NUMUNITS less than $500.
About 52 cases with low per-unit values, i.e., ORIGVAL1/NUMUNITS less than $500.
The Census Bureau is now checking the original input data sources for these cases and expects to make corrections.
Once these additional cases are reviewed and corrected, we will issue a new database. It is expected that this will occur in about two weeks, early in October. We will issue an email at that time.
We expect to continue updating the files as users report issues to us and as we uncover possible problems as the final report tables are programmed and reviewed. So users should be sure that they are using the most recent file.
Editing of the RFS microdata base continues as the Census Bureau is preparing the software and programs for generating the multivariate tables that will form the body of the final hardcopy (and Internet) versions of the 2001 Residential Finance Survey report. We had released the database as early as possible and expected to be uncovering problems as the Census Bureau reviews draft tables, and as users report to us possible problems they have encountered. We have already issued a revised version in response to users concerns. The Census Bureau will continue to respond to users concerns until the final tables are prepared. At that point, we would expect that almost all errors will have been identified through table review or user input.
Last week, a user alerted us to some unusual values for ORIGAMT1 for multifamily ( MF 5+) properties that were originated in 2000 and 2001. The> focus was on MF cases with ORIGAMT1/NUMUNITS over $200,000. There were 22 cases for 2001 originations and 40 cases for 2000 originations. The Census Bureau traced these values back to the original questionnaires or electronic data submissions and found that many of the problems were caused by decimal slides or by spurious leading digits. These cases are now being corrected and a new data file should be posted in the next few days.
As a follow-up to these problems, the Census Bureau is now looking at all MF originations with high origination values per units, i.e., ORIGAMT1/NUMUNITS > $200,000. If needed, a new database will be issued if these values need to be changed. Furthermore, editing will continue as part of the process of generating the final report so it is possible that other versions of the file will be released in the future.
26th July, 2004 - A new version of Rental Property and Homeowner data files are available now.
The new versions of the files correct the following problems or concerns:
All the dollar variables are top-coded using a weighted mean.
The Census Bureau has responded to user concerns and has revised the files accordingly. They will continue to look at issues that surface as the files are used, so changes might be implemented in the future.
21st July, 2004 - Changes on Rental Property and Homeowner data files.
For Renter units with 5 or more units and origination years of 2001 there has been a change to assigning values for mortgage balances (MGTBAL1, MGTBAL2 and MGTBAL3) when the balances were not reported. In earlier versions of the files, values were allocated or assigned to these cases using a random assignment method, i.e., hot deck. In this version, the mortgage values were calculated based on other information on the file (interest rate, term, and payment). This will, hopefully, restore some balance to the relationship between original mortgage amount and current mortgage balance for 2001 originations for properties with five or more units.
In this revision, the values for year acquired will be in single-year increments for properties acquired in 1990 and later years. This was supposed to have been done in the last revision, but was not.
16th July, 2004 - Changes on Rental Property, Homeowner data and documentation files.
Data file changes: The variable YRACQ on both datasets is being rounded to the nearest 5 for years earlier than 1990. The years 1990 and above are left as they came in, i.e., single years. There were three rental property records that had bad ORIGAMT1 or MTGBAL1. They have been fixed.
Documentation file changes: The formatting has been revised to allow more spacing between variables, and some typos have been corrected.
Program Operations and Planning Data
Annual Adjustment Factors
Consolidated Planning
Metropolitan Area Look-Up (2009)
Multifamily Tax Subsidy Income Limits
Multifamily Utility Allowance Factors
Qualified Census Tracts and Difficult Development Areas
Renewal Funding Inflation Factors
Small Area FMR
Uniform Relocation Act Income Limits
USPS Vacancies Data
Utility Allowances
Housing Surveys Data
Residential Finance Survey (2001)
AHS: Housing Affordability Data System
Rental Housing Finance Survey
Program Participation Data
Government Sponsored Enterprise Data (1993-2007)
Physical Inspection Scores
Public Use Microdata Sample
HUD Sponsored Research Studies Data
Fair Housing Initiatives Data
Family Unification Program Youth Data
Housing Discrimination Against Racial And Ethnic Minorities (2012)
Moving To Opportunity (MTO)
Participating Jurisdictions Survey Data
PHA Homelessness Preferences: Web Census Survey Data
Public-Sector Loans Data
Section 108 Data
Archived Datasets
Manufactured Home and Subprime Lender List (1993-2005)
Metropolitan Area Quarterly Residential and Business Vacancy Report (2008-2010)
Neighborhood Stabilization Data
State of the Cities Data Systems (1970-2009)