Bardach NS, Vittinghoff E, Asteria-Peñaloza R, et al. Measuring hospital quality using pediatric readmission and revisit rates. Pediatrics. 2013 Sep;132(3):429-36.
OBJECTIVE: To assess variation among hospitals on pediatric readmission and revisit rates and to determine the number of high- and low-performing hospitals.
METHODS: In a retrospective analysis using the State Inpatient and Emergency Department Databases from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project with revisit linkages available, we identified pediatric (ages 1-20 years) visits with 1 of 7 common inpatient pediatric conditions (asthma, dehydration, pneumonia, appendicitis, skin infections, mood disorders, and epilepsy). For each condition, we calculated rates of all-cause readmissions and rates of revisits (readmission or presentation to the emergency department) within 30 and 60 days of discharge. We used mixed logistic models to estimate hospital-level risk-standardized 30-day revisit rates and to identify hospitals that had performance statistically different from the group mean.
RESULTS: Thirty-day readmission rates were low (<10.0%) for all conditions. Thirty-day rates of revisit to the inpatient or emergency department setting ranged from 6.2% (appendicitis) to 11.0% (mood disorders). Study hospitals (n = 958) had low condition-specific visit volumes (37.0%-82.8% of hospitals had <25 visits). The only condition with >1% of hospitals labeled as different from the mean on 30-day risk-standardized revisit rates was mood disorders (4.2% of hospitals [n = 15], range of hospital performance 6.3%-15.9%).
CONCLUSIONS: We found that when comparing hospitals' performances to the average, few hospitals that care for children are identified as high- or low-performers for revisits, even for common pediatric diagnoses, likely due to low hospital volumes. This limits the usefulness of condition-specific readmission or revisit measures in pediatric quality measurement.
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L'Artisan - Authentic French restaurant in Cheltenham.
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Elisabeth and Yves, who come from Provence, successfully ran for several years in the Leicestershire country side, near Melton Mowbray, a gastro-pub-restaurant called "La Table d'Yves".
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Renowned Indian actors Neelam Kothari and Samir Soni, with their daughter Ahana, are currently holidaying at the best all-inclusive resort in the Maldives – Lily Beach Resort & Spa.
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The number of certified organic acres in the country rose by more than 10 percent over the past two years.
More than 4 million acres of U.S. farmland now are devoted to organic agriculture, according to a new report from the market research firm Mercaris. This is a record that marks an 11 percent increase over two years ago. The number of certified organic farms is close to 15,000, rising just over 6 percent since 2014.
While it may not be shocking that hotbeds of consumer demand for organic food. California and New York are among the leading states in the total acreage of organic farmland—with 688,000 acres. California is No. 1—Montana, Wisconsin, and North Dakota rounding out the top five is something of a surprise. Montana's 30 percent increase of 100,000 acres of organic acreage since 2014 bumps it into the No. 2 spot, while North Dakota's increase of more than 40,000 acres pushes it past Oregon, which now ranks sixth. Colorado and Texas round out the top eight.
To be sure, the amount of organic cropland in the U.S. remains but a sliver of the total overall. Organic corn, wheat, and soybeans each account for less than 1 percent of the total number of acres planted with each crop. The largest organic crop, oats, accounts for 3.6 percent of all the oats grown in the U.S.
But double-digit growth in organic farmland is nothing to sniff at, and as you might expect, it's a trend fueled by a consumer demand for organic products that continues to boom. According to the Organic Trade Association, sales of organic products grew almost 11 percent last year, the fourth straight year of double-digit growth. Compare that with the relatively meager growth rate of the market for food products overall (3.3 percent in 2015), and you can see why big food companies such as General Mills are committing themselves to expanding their organic offerings—which in turn is driving them to launch programs aimed at increasing the amount of organic farmland in the U.S.
"I think we will see more of an impact of those programs in the next few years as more farmers start the transition process [to organic]," Alex Heilman, sales associate at Mercaris, told Civil Eats.
As more Americans make the switch to buying everything from organic eggs to organic cereal, it has created something of a paradox: The U.S. exports more grain for animal feed than any other country in the world, but because so many of our crops are conventionally grown—i.e., genetically modified and sprayed with pesticides—those same crops can't be used in the production of organic food at home. Thus, the U.S. has been forced to import an increasing amount of organic feed from other countries. Imports of organic corn, for example, tripled over the last year, according to Bloomberg News, and it is primarily used as feed for dairy cows to help meet Americans' demand for organic milk, which has tripled since 2007.
In a week that has been consumed by election news and in a country trying to come to grips with Donald Trump's upset win over Hillary Clinton, it can seem like small potatoes to go all rah-rah over a report that organic acreage has hit a record high in the U.S. While there's ample reason for progressive-minded folks who have been advocating for a more sustainable food supply to despair over the sort of setbacks a Trump administration might pose—for example, cutting funding to the federal programs designed to help farmers make the transition to organic—it's also worth remembering that we don't just vote our conscience every two or four years at the polls; in our market-based economy, we vote every day with our wallets.
Organics have long benefited from a kind of halo of healthy goodness. But when it comes to promoting sustainable agriculture and its related environmental benefits, committing to buying organic when you can is one of the best things you can do—whether we're talking about avoiding GMOs or reining in the amount of toxic agrochemicals polluting our land and water. After all, a company like General Mills isn't getting ready to launch a program devoted to increasing the amount of organic farmland out of the goodness of its heart. It is doing the same because consumers are essentially calling for it every time they choose organic oatmeal over conventional. Small choices really can add up to big differences in the long run.


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Interview: 311
As 311's annual Unity Tour hit the east coast, and heading back towards west coast for the final string of tour stops, Nick Hexum 311's lead singer and guitarist was gracious enough to spend some time with The Pier.
With a band like 311, the topics and discussion points are nearly endless. Whether it was talking about the current happenings on the Unity Tour with Slightly Stoopid, SOJA and The Aggrolites, or touching on the last time 311 flipped their role to direct support for hip-hop star Jay-Z over ten-years ago, and even uncovering some major details for future plans for 311 day, their 311 cruise to the Bahamas, the Pow Wow festival, and the unveiling of never before seen or heard live footage from long lost shows. Nick Hexum was more than willing to discuss everything that is 311 and the lifestyle they bring.
So, without further interruption, dive into the latest interview, and The Pier's first ever Exclusive Interview with 311 and Nick Hexum! ENJOY!
The Pier: Nick, everyone at The Pier and all the fans truly appreciate you taking the time out for this interview. We all know how valuable your time is, so I'll jump right into this. Since you are currently on the annual Unity Tour with Slightly Stoopid and SOJA as direct support and opening acts, along with The Aggrolites previously, what do you and the rest of the 311 band members look for in opening acts in a supporting role for the tour? Is there a certain feature or attribute about a band or is it the entire package?
311: For this type of summer tour, we are looking for that summer fun feel, danceable grooves, just an overall positive vibe. We have been really lucky, this is our 9th Unity Tour, and we have always had really good luck at finding great support for the tours. This year, Slightly Stoopid, they really do it up with kind of a backyard BBQ and a grill going. They have a DJ playing music and just a big cookout backstage every night. It's just been a lot of fun this year and we found the right fit for the tour. It just needs to be an overall good time with good people and musicians. That's what the fans want!
The Pier: That's good to hear that the bands have really gelled together after the shows and throughout the entire tour. On the Unity Tour this summer, 311 has closed the shows with Slightly Stoopid as direct support. Can you remember the last time 311 was not the headliner on an extensive tour, not including festivals?
311: Wow, we got to go way back. I think the summer of 2000, we did the Sprite Liquid Mix Tour, and Jay-Z played after us. Most of the time it was our crowd and it was really cool, but there were one or two cities here and there that was an extremely urban crowd that was not really down with the rock and mosh. And, you know, it was kind of tough to get through it. But, that is one of the benefits now of being a band for 22-years and having our own tour now, we can headline and select the dates and where and when. If the situation was right, we would not be opposed to opening like that either. We initially kind of offered to let Slightly Stoopid close a couple shows, but they were like, "You know what, you guys play last. It is totally fine." They just have certain spots were they are really, really popular and wanted to at least extend the offer. But, it has been a really fun summer so far for all of us.
The Pier: To hear that 311 offered that up to Slightly Stoopid is really refreshing to know there are truly genuine bands in the music industry today. Along those lines, a lot of bands today have followed a certain mold about the whole perception and sound of a band, and many times maybe even as a cookie-cutter style of their inspirations or musical heroes growing up. As a band, do you perceive yourself and 311 as a genre-changing or even a genre-shaping band since the group started playing back in the early 90s?
311: I think so! In some ways I think we are in a genre of our own, because there are so many different styles thrown in. I think some people will think, "Oh, that reggae band 311" or "that hippy jam band 311" or "that heavy rap-rock band…" I mean honestly, we are
none of those things, yet we are all of those things. We like a lot different styles of music, and back in the early days the idea was, anything goes. Just any really weird style we liked, we would go for and throw it in there. In some ways we would automatically fall into certain grooves or routines. For us it is really important to try and break those patterns and just keep exploring our music.
The Pier: You kind of touched on this a little bit, but 311's music is extremely unique, because you have so many influences in your music. What genre do you see the band fit in or categorized in?
311: I guess you can say we are alternative, but we always change our style and sound. That's the fun part. That is the exploration. A lot people say, "I am really curious where you guys go with your next album." And all I can say is, "Yeah, me too!" (laughs) We have no idea where the collective group's continence will take us next time, but that is the fun of exploration. We are always changing, so it is more of a wait and see process.
The Pier: Without exploration and creativity, your music would have never reached these heights! Now, going back to the Unity Tour; you're on tour currently with Slightly Stoopid. Last summer on the Unity Tour, Sublime with Rome was 311's direct support. Can you see or hear any similarities between Stoopid's sound, musicianship, road lifestyles and professionalism comparatively to last summer with SWR?
311: Yeah, definitely. Those bands, and Sublime originally, have been linked because Bradley [Nowell signed the band and] appeared on Slightly Stoopid's very first record. I think it was a hidden, extended acoustic thing on there so…But I think there is a continuing legacy thing there between those bands. I think both bands were a great fit for what we were trying to do on tour. Sometimes when you get to this point in the tour you go, "Wow, what are we going to do next summer?" (laughs) That's exactly what we have been trying to talk about. We try not to repeat, you know? Every Unity Tour is kind of different with support and co-headliners. Like we were talking about early, could we possibly go out and opener for someone else, and would it fit? I have no idea. I don't know if that is something the band would want to do. But as far as comparing these two bands, we couldn't have asked for a better reception from the fans last year or this current tour.
The Pier: You mentioned the band is already looking towards the future, so I'll head in that direction, as well. After being on the road for so long throughout your career, the band has opened up the vault and started to go through old footage and old sound from past live shows. Is there a live album or live DVD in the works to be released?
311: Actually, it is going to be a lot more than just that! It is actually going to be a whole lot of live songs and footage from past shows available online and maybe more than that. And a lot of other bands have done a great job with it like Phish and Pearl Jam, etc. So, we have been preparing shows and going through and finding the best ones, that will include video of course. So, we are rectifying that and it has just been fun to look back and hear what we have done. We think it is going to be a large success!
[Editors Note: This has since launched and you can download tons of LIVE 311 music by going to Live311.com. Enjoy!]
The Pier: That's going to be a nice little treat for the fans! Going off always giving the fans a great experience, who's idea was it to arrange a cruise ship to carry multiple thousands of your fans to the Bahamas to listen to music all day, everyday? And, was it the greatest idea ever now that the 311 cruise has been so prosperous and continues on for another year?
311: (laughs) I guess to start with a little history of it, before we started our 311 cruise, they had something called "Blues Cruises" with a bunch of blues bands going out together and do these cruises. Then they started branching out to all different types of music. The promoter, Sixthman, they just do an amazing job with making sure there is always something going on for the fans. There are plenty of bands to see, there are beer pong tournaments, belly-flopping contests, karaoke, name that tune, there are just all kinds of things going on all over the boat. Sixthman invited us a few years back, and each one has just gotten better and better. Our third one is planned already, and we are not only once again going to play on a private beach on a private island, which we did for the first time on this past cruise…I mean to be able to play right on the beach with all the fans standing waist deep in the water just grooving out, it was a really special reggae influence and summertime set. So, we have another new destination to do something like that again on a new beach, and we will be going on a much nicer and more updated boat on the Norwegian Cruise Line. So, we keep finding ways to make each one better and better. Everyone that goes says, "This was the best vacation I have ever had!" So, there is just so much fun stuff to do. For 311 fans, it is just an overall welcoming, feel
good party vibe and meeting people from all across the country and the world in some cases. It is just a real kind of unity thing going on. That's the nice thing about our band, it is not just a band, it's a movement, it's a way of thinking, it's an attitude. We definitely love to see our fans and meet them, so we are already excited for the next trip to the Bahamas!
The Pier: I haven't seen a fan base more connected and in tune with the band on an interactive level, like 311. Going off of that, how much control do you personally have in selecting a location and host city for 311 day each year? The last year was in Las Vegas and New Orleans is where it all began. How much do you take into consideration the fan base's input and demands?
311: Well, I'll tell you, the real spiritual home for 311 day was in New Orleans. Then for one reason or another, then there was hurricane Katrina destroyed the place where we wanted to play, then the last couple of times have been booked with a convention or a basketball tournament and all the hotels were filled up. There were always logistical reasons that we just couldn't play there. But, Las Vegas is a great party destination too! (laughs) So, no announcements as to where the next 311 day will be, but it is every other year. We do 311 day on even numbered years, and now that we are going to continue doing these cruises, those will be in the spring of odd numbered years. Next year, 2013, will be a 311 cruise year, and then the following year, we will host the 311 day. Then after that it will just be back and forth and back and forth.
The Pier: That's great information for the fans to take note of! Now, the 311 hosted Pow Wow Festival in 2011 was a huge success. What are the plans for that event in the near future?
311: Well, we have not made any decisions on that as of yet. We definitely enjoyed the Pow Wow Festival. We kind of scheduled it in a time of year where it was a little too hot. Although, when it came time to do the show, it was a really special time for everyone involved. We do want to do it again, but we also got to the point where there were just too many events and people would say, "There is just too many to go to, we can't make it to all of them." So, we are going to kind of space them out more and more. We haven't made an official decision on when we will do the next Pow Wow again. Right now the only thing we have locked in is the 311 cruise.
The Pier: Between the 311 cruise, your annual Unity Tour and the Pow Wow festival, the band has extended an outlet for a lot of upcoming Reggae-Rock groups to showcase their music. Groups such as Pepper, the Dirty Heads, The Movement, Passafire, Ballyhoo! and many more have had the opportunity to play along side 311 on numerous occasions. Since 311's inception in 1990, how have you seen the culture of Reggae-Rock music evolve over the years?
311: It is nice to see a newer generation of bands combining different styles like us. It's cool, The Aggrolites, I was chatting with Jesse Wagner (lead singer/guitarist) the other day… I am a big, big fan of that band, and he was telling me that when he was a teenager, "My Stoney Baby" off our first album, that was his jam. It's cool to have bands grow up listening to our music and then now to be able to share the same bill with them is unbelievable. It just gets passed along, you know? Everybody is just standing on the shoulders of giants, as the expression goes. Nobody truly invents everything on their own. You are basically building on your roots and experiences with everything you had as a band coming up. That's why I keep my listening experiences extremely broad. Like right now, I am all about 70s funk, just a whole bunch of rootsy, truly American music. Music is a never-ending journey, and we just want to keep it going.
The Pier: Going off of your conversation with The Aggrolites, in your opinion what bands display long term potential within this musical game, like 311 has shown for the last three decades?
311: The bands we have out on tour with us right now are definitely two to watch. Slightly Stoopid and SOJA just have a great overall sound. Another band that I really like is Rebelution. They are just a great live reggae band to see. It is kind of sad though, with the collapse of the music business, there are just not that many bands to go see live and coming out to tour as there used to be. Only the bands that are really savvy with their social media are able to get everything going and make everything work. Back in the 90s, there were tons of bands that were really into playing and touring, and I think that those types of bands have really fallen off a bit. For us, we just feel grateful that we were able to survive the downturn, you know?
The Pier: You mentioned Rebelution, and they released a triple album earlier this year, including an acoustic version and a dub version of their studio tracks. There was tons of input and feedback on our social networks about inquiring if 311 would ever consider putting out a strictly acoustic album or a dub remix album in the future. Has there been anything discussed internally with 311 about that or is that even a possibility?
311: Um…No, but that sounds good to me! (laughs)
The Pier: The 311 fan base is at it again! Jumping to another topic, it is extremely common for various artists, bands' friends in other bands collaborating on a song while in the studio for recording sessions and then perform that particular gem live to the crowd. What is 311's stance of guest vocalists and collaborations during recordings and on stage for a live show? Thinking back I can't remember many collaborations other than Shaquille O'Neal joining the band onstage at a KROQ Weenie Roast way back when…Was there a talk about possibly collaborating with Slightly Stoopid on this tour on one of your songs or one of their songs for this tour?
311: Not really, but I do think that is cool to do. You know, it might happen in the future at some time. I was kind of curious to hear how Slightly Stoopid had so many collaborations with guest stars on their recent album. I do think it is good to mix up who you play with and perform with live and stuff like that. I am actually kind of in the process of a little side project with my brother and these funky jazz players, and have some music that we have been working on. But yes, I do think it is great for artists to mix it up and bring in different artists and musicians and their personalities to write along with and learn from.
The Pier: Following the Unity Tour last year with Sublime with Rome, The Pier caught up with Rome during a backstage interview and he spoke about writing with you, Nick Hexum, and 311 for a song or two. Was that a 311 song featuring Rome or a song for his solo career?
311: You know, our schedules haven't lined up, but I do think that was the plan. I was going to get in there and co-write a song with Rome for his solo joint whenever that finished up. Our schedules didn't connect, but he is a good guy… That is another example of when we met on tour last year, he said, "I used to go to the Unity Tour every year just as a fan to see who was on it." He told me how much he enjoyed it, and now that we co-headlined a tour together and sharing the bill. It was really cool for us and for him, just as a side story, to see it all come full circle for him and for us.
The Pier: Since 311 has been touring nonstop, and you mentioned the thought process has already begun for next summer and the Unity Tour, has 311 toured with every single band you ever wanted to tour or play with, or does 311 even have a bucket list of bands to potentially perform along side in the future?
311: There are some more, I wouldn't say plenty more, but I also don't want to drop any names. Certainly, yes, that is what the discussion has been about. So, we will see what happens in the future.
The Pier: To some 311 is a band that was big in the 90's and continues to grow over twenty years later. As we mentioned, to some it's now a reason to go on vacation, and for some of us, 311 is a way of life or an attitude as you stated earlier. 311 has molded its own genre of music. In 100-years from now, what do you want the 311 legacy to be? What will be 311's claim to fame?
311: Wow…I would have to say, just a little bit of everything, you know? Remember us as being just positive people that had a good influence on people's psyche and their lives. We always tried to have a fun time with the fans at all the live shows and different settings, and just played good songs for them to enjoy. That's what music can be, it truly can be like a miniature vacation for the fans. Whether it is just putting on your headphones with an album or attending a show in person, we just wanted to make
these people's lives a little bit better and help them out with our music. And, hopefully we did that, and made their lives better through our music.
The Pier: Well, Nick, I think I will end it on that! It was truly an honor and a privilege to speak with you. For myself, I can remember being only six-years-old watching 311 music videos on MTV, back when they were actually a platform for good music. To be able to interview you now, I can't thank you enough. Everyone at The Pier appreciates you taking the time out for us!
311: Oh okay, no problem, thank you we appreciate the support
311 Links:
311 Website
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311Facebook
Interview By: Kris Siuta
Photos By: IrieAZPhoto & Amanda Zancanella
Video: 311 – Love Song
Video: 311 – Down
Video: 311 – Come Original
Video 311 – Sunset in July


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The Story of HopeRx, Part 2: Turning Stories of Brokenness into Hope
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Program Director Julie Huneycutt became involved with HopeRx after the loss of her own daughter, Anna, to a prescription opiate overdose in March 2010. In her teenage years, Anna became addicted to opiates after being exposed to them through a routine wisdom teeth extraction and a tonsillectomy.
When Anna was in the middle of her addiction, she was in and out of AdventHealth Hendersonville, Park Ridge Health at the time. One night, she called her mom from the emergency room saying she had an infected bug bite, but that her mom should stay back and not worry. Immediately, Huneycutt and her husband drove to the hospital. When they got there, they were shocked to see a bump the size of a golf ball on Anna's elbow. It turned out she had a bad needle injection site that had moved into MRSA.
"We were waiting for her to move into surgery and the nurses asked, 'Can we pray?' I said, 'Yes, absolutely. Please.' And one of the nurses prayed a prayer that we now pray at HopeRx, and that is that God would fill the void that the drugs were trying to fill. It meant so much to us that hospital staff would hold hands with us and pray before our daughter went into surgery, and that they would recognize that the void in Anna would only be filled by God. That will always stay with me."
Anna was 20 years old when she passed away.
"When Anna passed, my husband and I knew that we did not want to be silent anymore. Stigma and shame had kept and continue to keep too many people from receiving the help they so desperately need," Huneycutt said. "Through raising awareness about the dangers of misusing prescription drugs, I became involved in forming HopeRx and in 2014 was asked to be the director of the program."
Huneycutt's story and efforts to raise awareness led others to come forward and share their own story. People started to hear about scenarios in homes nobody expected, and suddenly there was an awareness in the community that didn't exist before because of the associated shame. As the HopeRx team heard those new stories, they expanded their focus beyond opioids.
One of those stories was from Courtney Lowery.
Click here to read HopeRx advocate Courtney Lowery's story and watch her video interview.
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Let me start off by saying that WEEN are geniuses and this rare live recording from 1992 proves it. Recorded live at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC, this set captures the early touring incarnation of just Dean and Gene Ween along with their trusty Yamaha Digital Audio Tape Deck to protect the beat on bass and drums.
Fans of early stage WEEN will be brought back to a time and place when they were first honing their twisted act while on the road in support of their major label debut for Elektra records, Pure Guava.
At a time in their career when many thought their act was too weird to go beyond cult status, WEEN persevered with their unique brand of humor and undeniable talent. It was that perseverance over the course of their career that has since won over a great many to their brand of bizarro pop. Tracks from this live set include staples like "Pork Roll Egg And Cheese", "Never Squeal On Th' Pusher" and "Captain Fantasy". The guys were also not afraid to go purely primitive with renditions of "Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire" and "You Fucked Up".
The flow of the CD suffers a little with the limitations they had of working with a DAT machine instead of an actual live band to back them up. Some of the banter between the duo and with the audience provides fans new to WEEN what their early shows were really like.


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Left Turn: When hell broke loose
Tomorrow is the official publication date of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, by Tim Groseclose. Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at UCLA. He holds joint appointments in the political science and economics departments.
The publication of Professor Groseclose's book — previewed here by Paul Bedard at USNews and here by Professor Groseclose himself — is a signal event. To the vexed question of media bias, Professor Groselose brings the methodology of the social sciences.
Professor Groseclose and his publisher have kindly granted us permission to publish the preface (here) yesterday, the introduction and the eighth chapter of his book (Tuesday through Friday), starring our friend Katherine Kersten, over the course of this week.
When Professor Groseclose published his findings with Professor Jeff Milyo in 2002, all hell broke loose. It is a revealing story with a few twists and turns as well as a happy ending. He tells the story in the introduction to the book. Here it is:
Discussions about media bias can really inflame people's passions.
In the Spring of 2002, I began a research project with Jeff Milyo, who at the time was a public policy professor at the University of Chicago. Our goal was to create a method that would objectively measure the bias of the media.
The motivation was simple. In social science we have lots of precise, numerical devices that measure how liberal or conservative politicians are. There ought to be something similar for the media.
Three and half years later, after thousands of hours of gathering and analyzing data, we achieved that goal. For 20 major news outlets, we estimated a score, between 0 and 100, that described how liberal the outlet was. The beauty of the scores—which I now call Slant Quotients—is that they are directly comparable to Political Quotients. This means that they can answer questions such as: (i) "Is the New York Times to the left or right of Hillary Clinton?" or (ii) "Is Fox News to the left or right of John McCain?".
The results generally agreed with the claims of conservatives. For instance, our method found that 18 of the 20 outlets were left of center. The only two that were not were the Washington Times and Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume.
Our findings, however, contradicted a few claims of conservatives. For instance, they showed that some mainstream news outlets are nearly perfectly centrist, albeit still left-leaning. Two were ABC's Good Morning America and [PBS's] The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Also, we found that many supposedly far-left news outlets were not that far left. For instance, we found that National Public Radio was no more liberal than the Washington Post, Time, or Newsweek. And we found that it was less liberal than the average speech by Senator Joe Lieberman.
We thought that, maybe, people on both sides of the political spectrum would appreciate the study, that each side would say something like "finally, an answer to the age-old debate."
We now realize how naïve that thought was.
We posted the results on my website. The public relations office at UCLA, where I work as a professor of political science and economics, wrote a press release that summarized the results.
Then came the firestorm. Our study was denounced by hundreds, and maybe thousands, of left-wing blogs, including Media Matters, the Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post. At one point if you googled "crap UCLA study," most of the first ten listings would refer to our study.
On January 5, 2006, I appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal to discuss the study. That morning, the Daily Kos, made me the focus of an "action alert," which encouraged readers to call CSPAN and force me to "answer some tough questions" about my and Milyo's "highly flawed study."
Many of the blogs attacked us personally and tried to insinuate that right wing groups had paid us to fudge our results.
The emails were even more vicious. "I've been in media relations for twelve years, and I've never seen anything like this," said Meg Sullivan, the UCLA publicist who wrote the press release and who was listed as the contact person. "Every other study that I've been involved with will get maybe a few emails. This one has gotten hundreds. And some are scary. I hope your home address is not public."
A few people emailed the UCLA chancellor, insisting that I be fired. One of them noted on the subject line "Groseclose must be fired IMMEDIATELY," as if simply firing me next week would a grave injustice.
Of the many emails that leftwing strangers sent me, the first one was representative of the anger and viciousness:
Dear Tim,
Sounds like that cockamamie load of bulls**t study of yours started with the results you wanted (i.e., that Fox News is "fair and balanced") and then concocted the most ridiculous, asinine set of parameters you could think of to ensure the results you were after.
You've obviously never watched Fox News, [otherwise you'd realize how many people] will be laughing at your "study".
Sorry man, sounds like a bunch of BS to me, and that's from an independent. …
Xxxx Xxxx
One of my colleagues at UCLA, whom I'll call Byron B. Bright, may be the smartest political scientist on the planet. He knows seemingly everything about politics, economics, math, and computers. And he's the best person to ask if you need your car, refrigerator, or anything else fixed. Once, a statistical software package wouldn't do what he wanted. So, to solve his problem, he wrote a computer program that would write a series of other computer programs, which would successively execute the statistical package—that's right, he wrote a computer program that would write other computer programs.
At the same time, he's a staunch liberal, approximately as staunch, maybe more staunch, than I am a conservative. Our first debate occurred only a few weeks after meeting each other, almost twenty years ago. He casually mentioned how the only people who listen to Rush Limbaugh are ignorant extremists. I quickly explained why he was wrong, and told him, in fact, that I had been listening to Limbaugh that day.
In a more recent debate, I told him, "No, it's not true that liberals and conservatives are equally decent. Liberals have worse manners, they go to church less, they more often live in aggressive, urban environments, they shout people down at public speeches, and they use more vulgarity when they talk." At first he didn't respond. I think he decided that the best response was just to give me a look as if I had just claimed that the earth was flat. But then, just for good measure, he said "Funny how all of those well-mannered conservatives favor pre-emptive strikes against innocent Iraqis."
So after I received the above email, I gleefully showed it to Byron. I responded to the email even more gleefully:
Dear Mr. Xxxx,
Thank you for your thoughtful comments.
Please keep in mind, however, that in creating the statistical estimation method and in designing the set of parameters for it, I have benefited greatly from the help and comments of Byron Bright, a colleague at UCLA. An argument could be made that he deserves to be a coauthor. His email address is [email protected]
At the University of Missouri, where my coauthor Jeff Milyo had just taken a job, the press office described our study in favorable terms and posted it on a prominent university web site.
Soon after the posting, the chairs of the humanities and social-science departments held a regular meeting with the dean. Although it was not supposed to be a topic for the meeting, our study soon became the focus of a heated discussion. The chairs of the departments of sociology, religion, and German and Russian languages were especially angry, and they called it "offensive" and "scandalous." One said "The study isn't research. It's agitprop for the conservative blogosphere."
After the meeting, one of the professors sent Milyo an email to reprimand him:
… In that lay part of my objection, and here I have to say that it's not to your work qua research at all. Rather, its presentation on the website made a pretty categorical claim about bias that taps into a charged political environment. There are difficult issues that underpin the website headline, and your study is complex and sophisticated enough to treat many of them; far more subtle and nuanced than the journalistic reductio. There are of course issues outstanding or open to discussion (what's included by way of news sources, whether conceptual categories like liberal and conservative have veridical legitimacy as identity markers, where and how one designates boundaries of same [i.e., you can call something X and cite as reason a widely accepted standard, but that in no way means that the thing really is X, or so a philosopher would say], how one categorizes constellations of dispositions, how one treats what Bakhtin called dialogism in discourse analysis, and so forth. …
Milyo and I couldn't understand him either. But the fact that he would take the time to write such an email is yet another example of the passions that the study inflamed. It wasn't Milyo's idea to post a description of the study on the university web site. Also remember, Milyo had just moved to the University of Missouri. That was his welcome.
The most vicious response of all was by Eric Alterman, a writer at Media Matters. He insinuated that we were paid by rightwing think tanks to fudge our results. "Rigging the Numbers" was the title of his essay. The following were his concluding paragraphs:
Check the fine print and one finds this study—naively touted as both objective and significant by the UCLA public affairs office and published, inexplicably, by the previously respected Quarterly Journal of Economics, edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, was the product of a significant investment by right-wing think tanks. In 2000-2001, Groseclose was a Hoover Institution national fellow, while Milyo has been granted $40,500 from the American Enterprise Institute; both were Heritage Foundation Salvatori fellows in 1997.
And yet despite its shockingly desultory intellectual underpinnings and almost comically obvious ideological imperatives, we can be certain we will hear about this study over and over for the next decade—from the very people who have written off normative knowledge and scientific research as some sort of liberal plot to subvert the values of Heartland America.
Really, you just can't make these people up.
At one level I can understand why so many leftwing strangers sent me angry emails, and why writers, like Eric Alterman at Media Matters, would say such false and vicious things about Milyo and me.
If people believe the results of our study, then they will begin to believe that they are not getting the whole truth from the media.
They might begin to think, "Maybe lower taxes are a better idea than I thought." "Maybe government should scale back its involvement in the economy." "Maybe affirmative action is not such a great idea."
Larry Greenfield, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, has made a profound observation about the psyche of the far left: "They worship the god of Equality." A corollary of his observation is the following: While other virtues, such as kindness and honesty, are important, they are secondary when they clash with Equality.
Our study, at least in small ways, harms the goal of Equality. In at least small ways, it works to make U.S. public policy less "progressive" and less consistent with "social justice." If you are an advocate of "social justice" and "progressive" values, then, even if you believe that our study is true, you should hate it. Further, if you value Equality more than other virtues, then it would be appropriate for you to conclude, "Smearing Groseclose and Milyo's study is justified, even if the smears are false." You would also be justified in attacking us personally, even saying false and vicious things about our character. As the leftwing icon Saul Alinsky advised, "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it [my emphasis], and polarize it."
At this point, let me warn you, if you are such an advocate of "social justice" and "progressive" values, then you will hate this book even more than my and Milyo's original study. I provide additional objective, precise measures that show that the media is at least as liberal as the original study concluded.
Plus, I provide evidence that the bias really does affect people's views. As I will explain, the left does not yet understand that they should disagree with the latter fact. It implies that the present views of the average voter are distorted—that is, if it weren't for media bias, then those views would be more conservative. While my original study found that the media is to the left of the (distorted) position of the average voter, the above fact means that the media is even further away from the natural, non-distorted position of the average voter. That is, not only is the media biased, it's even more biased than people realize.
But before I describe that research, let me describe the most surprising response to our study—that of professors at elite universities.
First, before the study was published, several professors invited me to present the research at their universities. I gave presentations at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, as well as two presentations at Stanford. Although the audiences at those universities were overwhelmingly liberal, and often they raised methodological objections, not once did anyone attack me personally; nor did anyone ever suggest that I was anything but honest while conducting the research.
Next was the response at the University of Missouri. At the heated meeting of the department chairs, the chair of the economics department suggested, "Hey, we're all scholars here. Maybe we should settle this like scholars—with a debate. Let's allow Milyo to present his findings at a public forum, and we'll allow others to have a chance to criticize it." The dean agreed, and he set up such a forum. Not one of the professors who criticized the study showed up at the debate.
We submitted our paper to the Quarterly Journal of Economics. This is the oldest scholarly economics journal. It is based at Harvard University, and the three editors of the journal, all professors in the Harvard economics department, are almost sure to win Nobel prizes someday. All professional economists consider the QJE one of the top four economics journals, and some consider it the top journal.
One of the most wonderful aspects of the response to our paper is something that Milyo and I—and most other scholars—usually take for granted. This is that at no point in the review process did anyone at the QJE ask, "Are you currently, or have you ever been, associated with any conservative organization?" Many leftwing blogs, including Media Matters, denounced our paper because of our prior affiliation with conservative groups. Some blogs, for the same reason, even denounced the QJE for accepting our paper. The writers at these blogs should consider how much they sound like Joe McCarthy—once you substitute "conservative" for "communist." The beauty of the review process at the QJE—and all other scientific journals of which I am aware—is that they don't care about the political views and associations of the authors who submit papers. They judge the papers strictly by their merits.
It may surprise some people that a group of Harvard professors approved of a paper that concludes that the media has a liberal bias.
But if you think that's strange, just wait.
A few months after the QJE accepted our paper, instead of firing me, UCLA promoted me—from Associate Professor of Political Science to "full" Professor of Political Science.
That one surprised me. Out of the many hundreds of professors at UCLA, I'm aware of only nine who voted for John McCain in 2008, and one of those nine asked me never to reveal that fact to anyone at UCLA. I am almost certain that not one dean, chancellor, or vice-chancellor at UCLA voted for McCain in 2008 or Bush in 2000 or 2004.
A few months later, the professors in the economics department at UCLA voted to give me a "joint" professorship in their department. Around the same time, Caltech invited me to be a Visiting Professor for a quarter.
Shortly after, the University of Missouri promoted Milyo—from Associate Professor of Economics to "full" Professor of Economics.
Then it got really, really strange. Yale University offered me a job … as a full professor. The average professor at Yale, I am certain, is even more liberal than the average professor at UCLA. Although I believe that Yale offered me the job in spite of, not because of, my media-bias research, Yale did not consider that research a reason to blackball me.
Soon after that, the University of Chicago offered me a job as a full professor with an "endowed chair." UCLA responded with an endowed chair, plus a significant increase in salary.
But from a personal standpoint, the most wonderful response came from an email that I received one day. "Dear Mr. Alterman," it began. Alterman, you may recall, was the writer at Media Matters who said that Milyo and I "rigged" our numbers and insinuated that we did it because rightwing think tanks had "invested" in us.
I was very disappointed to read your review of my colleague Timothy Groseclose's paper on media bias. The lack of civility and the personal nature of your review struck a tone that I had not expected from you. …
As much as you and, indeed, I want to believe that the results of Tim's study are false, they are not the result of cooking the books. Tim is nothing if not careful. Yes, he is a conservative and, yes, I am sure he is pleased with the way the results turned out. But, the method was laid out before the data were collected and I am confident that the paper would have been published regardless of the outcome.
For what it is worth, here is the truth about the paper from someone who does not share Tim's politics. … It is academically honest research by careful and serious scholars who do not pursue a research agenda at the behest of any conservative patron.
Once I realized that the email was written by one of my UCLA colleagues, I quit reading and bolted down the hall. This deserved an immediate thank you.
But as I approached his door, it occurred to me that I might not be able to express my thanks without my voice breaking or eyes watering. So I slowed my walk, cleared my throat, and blinked my eyes. The reason the email was so touching was not so much its words but who wrote them … Byron B. Bright.
From Left Turn by Tim Groseclose, PhD. Copyright © 2011 by the author and reprinted by kind permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC. All rights reserved.


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L'Etoile du Nord er en opéra comique i tre akter af Giacomo Meyerbeer til en fransk libretto af Eugène Scribe.

Meget af indholdet stammer fra Meyerbeers tidligere syngespil Ein Feldlager in Schlesien fra 1844, men der er også nogle væsentlige forskelle, hvoraf den vigtigste måske er, at Peter den Store i modsætning til syngespillets Frederik den Store deltager i handlingen.

Opførelseshistorie

L'Etoile du Nord blev uropført i Salle Favart på Opéra-Comique i Paris den 16. februar 1854. Den blev en stor succes, og snart blev den opført på alle store teatre i Europa, Nordafrika og Amerika. Den forbliver på repertoiret gennem det meste af det 19. århundrede, men er næsten forsvundet ved begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede. De to store stykker for koloratursopran – bønnen og barcarolle i første akt og arien med to fløjter i tredje akt – blev stadig lejlighedsvis opført af berømte sangere som Amelita Galli-Curci og Luisa Tetrazzini.

Værket er blevet genopført to gange i moderne tid, af Opera Rara i 1975 og af Wexford Festival Opera (med Elizabeth Futral som Cathérine) i 1996.

Roller

Diskografi
Begge de to moderne opførelser er udsendt på CD, den første kraftigt beskåret, mens den anden er blevet beskrevet som værende "komplet så vidt vides" omend det ikke er tilfældet.

Referencer

Kilder
 L'Etoile du Nord af Stephen Huebner, i The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, red. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992)
 Amadeus Almanac

Operaer af Giacomo Meyerbeer

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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1955 > November 1955 Decisions > G.R. No. L-7033 November 29, 1955 - CHUNG BEN v. CO BUN KIM
CHUNG BEN, HONORABLE AGUSTIN P. MONTESA, Presiding Judge of Branch B, Court of First Instance of Manila, and THE SHERIFF OF THE CITY OF MANILA, Petitioners, v. CO BUN KIM, LYDIA TIAO HAN and THE COURT OF APPEALS, Respondents.
Jordan Techico, for Petitioners.
Cesar F. Mata for Respondents.
EJECTMENT; APPEAL; EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT PENDING APPEAL. — Where the defendants do not deny the allegation of plaintiff that the writ of execution was issued "for failure to pay or deposit rents on time as agreed;" and "that in this case there is no dispute that there is a contract between the parties whereby it was agreed that the monthly rentals should be paid in advance within the first five days of the month to which such rental shall be made to correspond," it is safe to conclude that a contract of lease exists between the parties, although the dispositive part of the judgment rendered by the municipal court makes no mention or reference to a contract or lease nor does it state the time when payment of the monthly rental should be made. And because of the failure of the defendants to pay or deposit the rents as agreed upon, the plaintiff is entitled to an immediate execution of the judgment during the pendency of the appeal.
PADILLA, J.:
A complaint for detainer was filed by Chung Ben against Co Bun Kim and Lydia Tiao Han in the municipal court of Manila where after trial judgment was rendered —
. . . in favor of the plaintiff and against both defendants, ordering the latter to vacate plaintiff's premises mentioned in the complaint; to pay the plaintiff the sum of P2,700 as rentals in arrears with 6 per cent interest thereon from June 2, 1953 until fully paid, plus the rentals that may be due from July 1, 1953 at the rate of P300 a month until they finally vacate and surrender possession thereof to the plaintiff, plus the sum of P200 as and for attorney's fees, aside from the costs of this suit. (Case No. 26436.)
The defendants appealed to the Court of First Instance of Manila (Case No. 20070). On 16 July 1953 the plaintiff moved for the immediate execution of the judgment on the ground that the defendants had failed to pay him in advance or to deposit in court the rental for July within the first five days of said month as stipulated in the lease contract. On 18 July the Court granted the motion. Whereupon the defendants filed in the Court of Appeals a petition for a writ of certiorari with preliminary injunction to annul the order directing immediate execution of the judgment. On 31 August the Court of Appeals annulled and set aside the order complained of on the ground that the rent for July would be due and payable on or before the 10th day of the succeeding month.
In this petition Chung Ben seeks the review and reversal of the judgment of the Court of Appeals. The other petitioners are just nominal parties.
The petitioner contends that as the respondents failed to pay him the rental for July or to deposit it in court on or before the 5th day of said month, as stipulated in the lease contract, he is entitled to have the judgment of the municipal court executed. On the other hand, the respondents claim that pursuant to the provisions of section 8, Rule 72, the rental for July was not yet due on 18 July 1953 when the writ of execution was issued by the Court of First Instance of Manila, but on or before the 10th of August.
True, the dispositive part of the judgment rendered by the municipal court does not make mention or reference to a contract of lease nor does it state the time when payment of the monthly rental should be made. Nevertheless, the respondents do not deny the allegation of the petitioner that the writ of execution was issued "for failure to pay or deposit rents on time as agreed;" and "that in this case there is no dispute that there is a contract between the parties whereby it was agreed that the monthly rentals should be paid in advance within the first five days of the month to which such rental shall be made to correspond." The same allegation was made in the Court of Appeals by the petitioner, then respondent, and the respondents, then petitioners, did not deny it. They just relied to support their petition to annul the writ of execution on the provisions of section 8, Rule 72, which allow them to pay to the petitioner or deposit in Court the rental of a given month on or before the tenth day of the following month.
As there is a contract of lease upon which the judgment rendered by the municipal court was founded, that part of section 8, Rule 72, which provides: . . . and unless, during the pendency of the appeal, . . . or, in the absence of a contract, he pays to the plaintiff or into the court, on or before the tenth day of each calendar month, the reasonable value of the use and occupation of the premises for the preceding month at the rate determined by the judgment," does not apply, but another part of the section and Rule immediately preceding the one just quoted applies. Said part provides: ". . . and unless, during the pendency of the appeal, he pays to the plaintiff or to the Court of First Instance the amount of rent due from time to time under the contract, if any, as found by the judgment of the justice of the peace or municipal court to exist, . . . ." This view finds support in the rule laid down in Peck v. Concepcion, Et Al., 74 Phil. 653. There as in this case the dispositive part of the judgment rendered by the municipal court made no mention of a lease contract but merely ordered the defendant to restore the premises to the plaintiff and to pay him a monthly rental of P55 from October 1943 until the premises shall have been restored to the plaintiff and costs; and a writ of execution having been issued by the Court of First Instance to which the case had been appealed, because of defendant's failure to pay the monthly rental as agreed upon or stipulated in the lease contract, the defendant sued out a writ of certiorari in this Court which was denied by the dismissal of the petition. This Court said:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
The petitioner contends that since the judgment of the municipal court did not expressly find that there existed a contract between the parties, the monthly rental required in said judgment to be paid must be considered as "the reasonable value of the use and occupation of the premises" and that, therefore, it should be paid or deposited within the first ten days of the month succeeding that to which it corresponded, as provided in the last clause of section 8 of Rule 72 above quoted. The respondents, on the other hand, contend that since the complaint for unlawful detainer alleged the existence of a written contract of lease between the parties on a month-to-month basis at a monthly rental of P55, payable in advance, which contract, attached to the record, has not been denied by the petitioner, the fact that the judgment of the municipal court for the monthly rental was in accordance with said contract made it obligatory upon the defendant to pay or deposit said rental in accordance with said contract.
We find respondents' contention to be correct. To assume that there was no contract between the parties and that the monthly rental of P55 mentioned in the judgment of the municipal court was merely based on a finding as to the reasonable value of the use and occupation of the premises, is not only unwarranted by the language of the judgment itself but contrary to the record before the respondent judge. . . .
. . . Since in the instant case there is a contract between the parties for the payment of the rent of P55 in advance within the first ten days of each month, and since the petitioner as defendant below failed to pay or deposit the rent for the month of January 1944 on or before the 10th day of said month, the respondent judge had no alternative but to grant the petition for execution prayed for by his co-respondent Mrs. Montenegro.
The judgment under review rendered by the Court of Appeals is reversed, and the writ of preliminary injunction issued by the Court below is dissolved, with costs against the respondents, except the Court of Appeals.
Paras, C.J., Bengzon, Reyes, A., Jugo, Bautista Angelo, Labrador, Concepcion and Reyes, J. B. L., JJ., concur.


We receive the NetDCU8 board with VEE option (K) for the contrast management.
With K option R20, R22 are short ciruit and R17, R21 are open circuit (P1 is present).
We generally use NETDCU8 without VEE option (K). I think there was an error on the order.
Now I want to desactive this option because, i use VCFL12V to manage my backlight and it don't reacte in the same way.
If I put just R22 in open circuit it doesn't work.
Which pins of J3 do you use?
If you use a NetDCU8 without contrast voltage -Vee, +Vee and Vadj (pins 26, 27, 29) have no function, only Veek (pin 18) outputs 0-3.3V.
On NetDCU8 with contrast voltage pins 26, 27 and 29 can carry up to +-30V and the Veek signal is used to adjust these voltages.
So if you use Veek for your backlight there is some influence to this signal from the voltage regulator.
I continued my research, I don't think, that it's a hard configuration issue finally.
I reinstall an older kernel version V1.41 (090121) and it works perfectly.
When I reinstall the kernel version V1.47 the problem come back.
My problem is that my screen become black when it enters backlight mode.
The contrast or the brightness goes to minimum (off) but the backlight is OK.
It may come come from PSS driver (kernel V1.44) ?
- you can disable PSS driver by set corresponding registry value "flags" to "4".
- do you need contrast voltage at all? Else set displays drivers "enablecontrast" registry value to "0".
- The "contrastenable" is already set "0" .
- What is the register for PSS driver, where is the key "flags" ?
- But by changing the register "DxOff" of the "FSPMScreenSaver" register (see below) to "0", it work !!!
Please explain me the key definition of DxOff ? Is the right way ?
this "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\FSPMScreenSaver" is the "PSS" key!
Did you delete the prefix value???
Set here "flags" to "4" for disable the Driver.
Dx are the corresponding power states for switch LCD on/off (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj919304.aspx).
I add "flags=4" (see red line above) and it works fine!
Great support, thank you very much.


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It took decades of hard work before Moss was a boss.
Two years later, Moss was back on the remake beat, this time for Disney, as one half of a powerful kiddie pair who can do extraordinary things like make a truck levitate. Fun fact about Moss' role as the extraterrestrial Anna: 20 years earlier, future Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richardsportrayed the original version of the character.
In this telepic about country music legends the Judds, Moss plays the young version of Ashley Judd. Although Ashley eventually became a movie star in her own right, Moss' portrayal in Love Can Build a Bridge depicts heras the "other" daughter who opts to stay behind with her father and forge her own life when her mother and sister leave to fulfill their dreams on the Nashville scene.


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But the stranger seems determined to strike up a conversation and gain Jessica's attention. On their journey together, he tells her that his name is Paul and that he finds her beautiful, all before asking her out on a date.
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Trainer Kevin Kemp hopes winter plans for promising filly Plumaro will become a little clearer if she runs at Doomben on Saturday.
Plumaro is entered for the Laser Clinics Toombul QTIS Two-Year-old Handicap (1350m) but Kemp won't declare her a definite runner with the prospect of more rain.
Heavy overnight rain on Thursday forced the postponement of Friday's Ipswich meeting and more rain is predicted by Saturday.
Doomben is currently rated a heavy eight following 40 millimetres of rain overnight.
"I suppose you don't know if these young horses will handle a wet track unless you try them," Kemp said.
"I'm hoping she'll go on and make it to the winter carnival.
"It would be nice to run her in the Sires' Produce and J J Atkins but if not there's plenty of good QTIS races for her and there's the Lancaster Stakes on Stradbroke day which she could target.
Plumaro's immediate mission is the $250,000 QTIS Two-Year-Old Jewel, a set weights race for fillies at the Gold Coast on March 17.
Kemp isn't fazed by a drop back in distance from 1350 metres to 1200 metres in the QTIS Two-Year-Old Jewel if she runs at Doomben.
"It's only 150 metres so it shouldn't be a problem," Kemp said.
"She's doing fantastic at the moment but if she shows any signs she needs a break she'll be in the paddock immediately.
Plumaro, a daughter of brilliant first season sire Spirit Of Boom, won her debut by more than nine lengths at Toowoomba on January 28.
She then started a heavily backed favourite when an eye-catching second to Mishani Hustler at Doomben on February 10.
"I'm taking her blinkers off and putting winkers on if she runs tomorrow," Kemp said.


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Professor Lee Sang-eun is outraged at the severe punishment for criticizing Lee Jae-myung, "On the road to the dictatorship of the Democratic Party"
Home » News » Professor Lee Sang-eun is outraged at the severe punishment for criticizing Lee Jae-myung, "On the road to the dictatorship of the Democratic Party"
Lee Sang-myung, who has strongly criticized presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung's promise of a basic income, has been excommunicated by the Democratic Party of Korea by issuing a severe punishment of eight months to a professor at Jeju University.
There is a backlash that the party, which should respect democratic expression of opinion and pros and cons, is a dictatorial act that bridles party members who present dissenting opinions.
According to the notification of the disciplinary results of the Ethics Judge of the Jeju Provincial Party of the Democratic Party of Korea published by Professor Lee Lee, the Jeju Provincial Party of the Democratic Party of Korea decided to take a disciplinary action against the party member for "eight months of suspension of party membership". As a disciplinary reason, the Democratic Party said, "Party Regulation No. 7, Article 14 (Reasons for Discipline), Paragraph 1, No. 4 of the Regulations on the Ethics Tribunal (in the case of harming party members by disseminating false facts or undermining unity among party members with false facts or other insulting words and actions)" wrote that
The Democratic Party did not disclose specific reasons for the disciplinary action. Cho Oh-seop, floor spokesperson for the Democratic Party and spokesperson for Lee Jae-myung's election committee, said in a telephone conversation with Media Today on the 30th, "I know in principle that the decision of the Ethics Tribunal is not made public." I probably won't even reveal it." Spokesperson Cho said, "I can speak to myself (the person responsible for the disciplinary action), but I think it is inappropriate for the judge to speak for this reason."
Did he actually spread false information and attack the person? If you look at the 'Petition for Discipline' that Professor Lee was notified on the 16th, it is described in relatively detail. In the disciplinary petition sent to the Central Party Ethics Tribunal of the Democratic Party of Korea, the applicant said about Professor Lee, "Disseminating false information about Lee Jae-myung, a member of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party's preliminary candidate for the 20th presidential election on Facebook and Twitter, as well as using insulting remarks. You are tarnishing your reputation." Applicants said, "Professor Lee was a candidate for 'basic income populist', 'a party to the unearned income gate in Daejang-dong', 'Candidate Jae-myung Lee and the Democratic Party's mainstream are engulfed in narrow political selfishness', 'Candidate Jae-myung Lee's 'coercive victory' Posting false and insulting articles such as 'The action has been confirmed' and 'The person doing the relevant act is Candidate Lee Jae-myung' is clearly an appropriate act. It is believed that it will be even bigger."
Regarding Professor Lee, the applicant also said, "Even though he is a party member of the Democratic Party, which must inherit the spirit of one team to re-create the government, he not only spread false information on Facebook and Twitter, but also made insulting comments and was a member of the '(tentative name) Welfare State Citizens Forum'. They are leading actions intended to create a negative perception that candidate Lee Jae-myung has a serious problem, such as posting a recruitment letter."
In particular, the mention of the party to the Daejang-dong gate is a passage that Professor Lee wrote on Facebook on the 27th of last month, "He emphasized the 'basic income land ownership tax', saying that Lee's report, which is a party to the Daejang-dong real estate unearned income gate, will 'break the republic of unearned real estate'." It is a verse from
▲ Lee Sang-i is a professor at Jeju National University. Photo = Lee Sang Lee's Facebook
Professor Lee was furious at this, saying that the Democratic Party of Korea had reached a dictatorship by 586 rogues. In a phone call with Media Today on the evening of the 30th, Professor Lee said, "If candidate Lee Jae-myung is the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, he should argue about the candidate's policies and the debate must be alive. What are you going to do?" he criticized.
Professor Lee said, "The only thing that is curbing the opposition and controversial voices is that it is a regressive party and dictatorship, and the accumulation of evils of the Democratic Party's candidate Lee Jae-myung and the 586 activist political cartel (which supports it) is that they are now entering the dictatorship stage. I can't see it," he exclaimed.
Most of the parts he raised as a problem are seen as opposing or criticizing Lee's basic income. Professor Lee said, "It is wrong to try to hide their attitude towards basic income without criticism, open discussion or debate. Income is a way to prevent this, so one of them must be abandoned. If that's the case, then we need to discuss it, but how do we discipline it?" he asked.
In response to the Democratic Party's disposition for spreading false information and using insulting and insulting remarks, Professor Lee said, "It is completely unacceptable." It did not disappoint." In particular, in the content of the disciplinary petition that the part written 'Party in Daejang-dong Gate' was false, Professor Lee said, "I said with my mouth that this candidate was 'I designed it' at the time of Seongnam Mayor. no. As a result of the investigation, it may or may not be a crime, but whatever the outcome, it means that the person responsible for the Daejang-dong gate is taking place." He asked, "Are you going to shut the mouths of intellectuals by making this kind of expression a problem?"
▲Lee Sang-i Lee, a professor at Jeju National University, received a disciplinary petition on the 16th as an ethics judge of the Central Party at the request of a certain applicant. Photo = Lee Sang Lee's Facebook
Professor Lee's eight-month suspension from party membership is considered to be a high level of disciplinary action against party members who voice disagreements and objections rather than criminal acts such as sexual harassment, assault, and bribery. As for why such a strong disciplinary action was imposed, he said, "It is speculated that it is to block party activities for a while after the election at all, because the burden is too great to expel, and the voices against the Lee Jae-myung cartel in the party grow louder to give a warning and end it." claimed that "Even so," he emphasized, "Is this the job of the Democratic Cradle of Democracy, which is the birthplace of democracy, to be curbed like this by critics?"
When asked if he would go through the process of appealing a disposition such as a request for retrial, Professor Lee said, "I am thinking about it."
The Democratic Party only said that the Jeju Provincial Party did its own disciplinary action against Professor Lee, but did not give any official explanation. In response to a SNS messenger on the evening of the 30th, senior spokesperson Koh Yong-jin said, "I understand that this disciplinary action was judged according to the procedure at the Ethics Tribunal of the Jeju Provincial Party. Judgment on the decided and referred cases is to be done independently. The central party or the provincial and provincial parties should not and cannot be involved in this process," he said.
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BT sees decline in TV customers while retail broadband remains strong
Analyst Opinion 01 Feb 2018 Fateha Begum
UK incumbent telco BT reported a decline in TV customers of 5,000 in the three months ending December 2017, while more than 35,000 retail broadband customers were added in the same period. By year end 2017, the operator had 1.76 million TV subscriptions and 9.3 million retail broadband customers.
Fateha Begum
Principal Analyst, TV, Video and Addressable Consumer Devices
Fateha oversees the tracking and analysis of key trends in consumer devices, TV and online video, and operator strategies with a focus on changing behaviors in video consumption. She also liaises with key industry players, leads Omdia's consumer surveys, contributes to a range of ad hoc consultancies, and speaks at industry events.
Before returning to Omdia in 2017, she worked at Sky UK, gaining experience across Sky's portfolio of set-top box and OTT on-demand services, including NOW TV, Boxsets, Sky Q, and Sky Go. There, she scoped personalization and content recommendations, led growth plans for the Sky Kids App, and reviewed Sky's TV apps strategy. Fateha joined Screen Digest (now Omdia) in 2010, where her work spanned TV media, home entertainment, and broadband media. She tracked developments in pay TV on demand at the operator level, covering over 50 countries. Fateha holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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