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Nuclear reactor powered electrical generating plants are being considered to help the U.S. reduce its dependence of foreign oil. They use nuclear reactions to boil water to steam. The steam turns turbines to generate electricity just like in conventional power plants. Nuclear reactors must be located in seismically stable areas with the lowest chance or probability of having an earthquake. They should be located near population centers that would need the electricity produced. Based on your examination of the accompanying map which locality would be the best for building a nuclear power plant, if safety is our main priority? No plant is actually under consideration, but what locality would be best.
Reno, because it has the highest population.
Carson City because it is the capital.
Yerington because it is furthest away from Reno which has a high population.
Geologists and Earth Scientists did not originally accept Alfred Wegner's ideas about Continental Drift for which of the following reasons.
Wegner worked mostly in the southern hemisphere. Most Europeans were not familiar with the geology of South America, Africa and Antarctica.
Wegner was an outsider, he was an explorer and meteorologist (studied weather) not a geologist.
Wegner's idea had a major weakness, Wegner could not explain how the continents could move through the solid sea floor.
All points are true and may have caused experts of the day to reject Wegners great new idea.
Which of the following diagrams corresponds to a mid-ocean ridge?
No, absolutely positively this one.
The existence of fossils related to dinosaurs in Antarctica is considered to be evidence that?
Ancient reptiles, were heavily insulated with fat and lived on the ice sheets.
Antarctica was once nearer the ancient equator, and the earth's climate was warmer.
Fossils are just rock and don't give us any information about the ancient environment.
Seafloor lavas have built-in magnetic "clocks" that reveal their age. When seafloor lava solidifies at the seafloor, its magnetic crystals are quenched in alignment with Earth's magnetic field, and the rocks' magnetic "polarity" is preserved. But Earth's magnetic field has reversed many times over the planet's history—with the magnetic north sometimes facing south, or vice versa, as it is today.
New seafloor is created at mid-ocean ridges (with the prevailing magnetic signature) and spreads out in both directions, creating a symmetrical "zebra-stripe" pattern of alternating rocks with either "reversed" or "normal" polarity.
Why does the earth's oceanic crust have magnetic stripes?
Magnetic minerals in the lava preserve the earth's magnetic field when they cool.
There was an unusual swarm of earthquakes that lasted months.
Nothing. Reno is a boring town.
What happened in the Reno suburb of Mogul in 2008?
Which of the following is the best explanation for why the oldest rocks known on the sea flooor are 160 million years old, but the oldest rocks on the continent are over 3.9 billion years.
The continents are above ground, so the geologists can find the oldest rocks.
Oceanic sea floor is constantly being recycled by the earth. It is formed at spreading centers and consumed at subduction zones.
Oceanic sea floor constantly reacts with 100% organic kelp and sea salt so it appears much younger than it really is.
The San Andreas fault is which type of plate boundary?
Divergent; with San Francisco and L. A. on the west side of the spreading center ready to fall into the ocean.
Transform; with San Francisco on the Pacific Plate and Oakland on the North American Plate.
Primary waves are the fastest seismic waves. They always arrive at seismometers first. Secondary waves are always slower they arrive at seismic stations second. The further a P-wave is ahead of an S-wave, the further the station is from the earthquakes epicenter. After examining the following diagram of sample seismograms, which station is furthest from the earthquakes epicenter.
There are three types of convergent plate boundaries. Continent-continent collision. Ocean-Continent convergence. Oceanic-Oceanic convergence. Oceanic crust-Oceanic crust convergence can lead to formation of oceanic volcanic islands. Oceanic-Continent convergence usually leads to the subduction of the oceanic crust. As it descends into the mantle it melts and produces long chains of volcanic peaks such as the Andes, or Cascades. When two continents collide, neither will be recycled into the mantle. Some of the earth highest mountain ranges are formed this way. The mountains may contain ancient sea floor, metamorphic rocks, or sedimentary rocks, but no igneous rocks, as no magma is produced. The exact behavior depends on the mechanical strength an relative density of the plates involved. Ocean crust is thinner and denser than continental crust. What type of plate margin is shown on the following diagram?
Transform like in the San Andreas fault.


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Володимир Степанович Легкий (? — ?) — український радянський діяч, голова Лубенського, Чернігівського, Сумського окружних виконавчих комітетів, керуючий справами Ради народних комісарів Української СРР.

Біографія
Член РКП(б) з 1918 року.

Перебував на відповідальній радянській роботі.

У 1923—1924 роках — голова виконавчого комітету Лубенської окружної ради Полтавської губернії.

З червня по серпень 1925 року — заступник голови виконавчого комітету Чернігівської губернської ради.

У 1925 — січні 1927 року — голова виконавчого комітету Чернігівської окружної ради.

На 1927 рік — голова виконавчого комітету Сумської окружної ради.

На 1930 рік — секретар Економічної наради Української СРР.

11 лютого 1932 — 11 квітня 1933 роках — керуючий справами Ради народних комісарів Української СРР.

На 1934—1935 роки — завідувач Дніпропетровського обласного відділу легкої промисловості.

Подальша доля невідома.

Джерела
 Лёгкий Владимир Степанович

Члени КПРС
Українські комуністичні діячі

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Posted on September 27, 2017 February 9, 2019 by scientific department
Preparedness and First Aid to Cultural Heritage in the STORM Summer School
Istituto Superiore Antincendi (National Fire Academy of the Italian Firefighters) – Rome
Protecting Cultural Heritage form disasters needs different actions, one of the more important of which is to make aware stakeholders about what to do, during emergencies, to limit damages.
This consideration has been made by the the EU research project STORM, financed under the Horizon 2020 program, that, from 11th to 13th September 2017 has organized in Rome (Italy) its first course on Management in Emergency of Cultural Heritage. The course "STORM Summer School 2017" has been based on the main topic of the project: how to protect (from preparedness to recovery) cultural heritage against damages due to climate change. So, together with the lessons and the field demonstrations concerning first aid to heritage and historical building, climate change and its effects on the environment have been briefly described.
The Course, a preparatory activity to organise the 2018 STORM Summer School, has been held in Rome, in the National Fire Academy (Istituto Superiore Antincendi) with a 2 and an half days program and final examination. The aim of the course, is giving to managers and to anyone is committed in managing Cultural Heritage buildings some basic information on the main risks due to climate change that can pose a threat to Cultural Heritage buildings and artefacts. The program is based on the underlying consideration that the training and cultural basis in Europe of people charged of managing such assets is extremely different in the member states.
The speakers and the topics of the course have been:
Dr. Ivonne Anders, University of Stuttgart (GE), Climate change observed and predicted in Europe
Dr. Alcides Fuschini Bizarro, Município de Grândola (PT), Water and environment agents damages: protecting procedures in emergency
Prof. Joerg Birkmann, University of Stuttgart (GE), Climate change and new threats to cultural heritage
Dr. Eng. Silvia Boi, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (IT), The STORM project and protection of cultural heritage: state of the art and goals
Dr. Francesca Boldrighini, Soprintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il Museo Nazionale Romano e l'Area Archeologica di Roma (IT), Gathering and sharing data in emergency between rescue services and cultural heritage protection bodies
Dr. Maria Concetta Capua, Nova Conservacao (PT), STORM suggested forms and their use on field
Prof. Patrikakis Charalampos, Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus (GR), Description of sensors used in STORM
Dr. Eng. Armando de Rosa, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (IT), Quick assessment of damaged structures
Dr. Paolo Dolci, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (IT), Steading of a earthquake-damaged masonry arch
Dr. Arch. Maria Teresa Jaquinta (ICCROM), Definition, classification and protection of cultural heritage rules
Dr. Eng. Andrea Marino, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (IT), Earthquake damages: shoring procedures in emergency scenarios
Dr. Eng. Stefano Marsella, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (IT), Protection of cultural buildings and sites from vegetation fires
Dr. Eng. Marcello Marzoli, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (IT), Gathering and sharing data in emergency between rescue services and cultural heritage protection bodies
Dr. Eng. Luca Nassi, Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (IT), Protection of cultural heritage and artifacts from structural fires
Dr. Filipa Mascarenhas Neto, Direção-Geral do Património Cultural (PT)
Mr. Fabio Perossini, KPeople (UK), Roles and Responsibility in cultural heritage resilience, How to estimate costs to be faced. Voluntarism involvement. A strategy for the future
Dr. Mohammed Ravankhah, University of Stuttgart (GE), Climate change observed and predicted in Europe
Dr. Vanni Resta, KPeople (UK),
Dr. Maria Joao Reves, Nova Conservacao (PT), Integration of short and long term applications to enable improved decision making and faster reaction
Prof. Ulderico Santamaria, Università della Tuscia (IT), Protection measures on cultural heritage against environmental agents
Prof. Eren Uckan, Bogazici University and Kandilli Observatory (TR), Principles to face earthquake risks for cultural heritage
Summer School Field demonstration of salvage of flooded books
Five "Field Exercise" have been kept:
Before the disaster: Data collection – How to collect data about the Cultural Heritage in the preparedness phase;
First Aid to books in case of flood – Instructions to first responders to save books and papers involved in floods;
Steading of a earthquake-damaged masonry arch – Demonstration about the shoring of a masonry structure in the aftermath of the event (earthquake) applying operating procedure of the Italian National Firefighter Corps;
First aid to damaged fresco – Procedures to save frescoes damaged applying the technique of detaching from the walls;
Quick assessment of damaged structures – Demonstration of the procedures currently developed by the Italian National Firefighters (CNVVF) within the STORM project in the Terme di Diocleziano pilot site aimed at helping the quick assessment of the structural damage of a building using Geo-Radar and Laser Scanner equipment.
STORM 2017 Summer School Program
Two demonstrations have been dealing with scenarios concerning the assessment and the limitation of damages to Cultural Heritage after earthquakes or floods. The Italian Firefighters (CNVVF) showed, in particular, the techniques used in the immediate aftermath of an earthquakes to shore damaged historical buildings have been demonstrated with the construction, in few hours, of a shoring wooden structure aimed ad reinforcing a damaged masonry arch.
In the second scenario the quick assessment of a damaged building (even in this case, damage is not related necessarily to an earthquake) has been carried out using laser scanner and geo-radar technologies. This particular activity is an innovation action due to the European project and is currently developed in the pilot site of the Terme di Diocleziano compound, in Rome. The concept of the action is verify the feasibility of a procedure based on the comparison between a scanning of a damaged structure carried out by the firefighters after the damaged with a 3D image previously acquired by the owner/manager of the structure and available to firefighters even in emergency. Such possibility would allow to assess with extreme precision the displacement of the structure and decide with more confidence what kind of measures have to be taken. Other demonstrations have dealt with limitation of damages activities to frescoes and with salvage of flooded books.
The 2017 edition of the Summer School aimed at giving the basic information about the first year results of the STORM project. The second edition of the course will be organized during 2018. The course has been an experimental edition, limited to partners of the project and invited stakeholders. The purpose of the course has been the verification of the user requirements, in order to organize the 2018 edition within a framework closer to the stakeholders.
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A New Basal Abelisaurid is Described "Ghost Hunter"
By Mike| 2020-10-13T21:58:29+00:00	October 13th, 2020|Adobe CS5, Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal News Stories, Dinosaur Fans, Main Page, Palaeontological articles, Photos/Pictures of Fossils|0 Comments
A New Basal Abelisaurid – Spectrovenator ragei
Researchers from the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), in collaboration with colleagues from the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (Argentina), have described a new species of basal abelisaurid from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil. The theropod has been named Spectrovenator ragei, the genus name translates from the Latin as "Ghost Hunter" as the fossilised remains were found unexpectedly underneath the holotype of the titanosaur Tapuiasaurus macedoi when the fossils of this dinosaur were being partially prepared by the field team.
An Illustration of Spectrovenator ragei with Key Fossils Highlighted that Help to Define the Dinosaur's Taxonomy
Key fossil bones that helped to define Spectrovenator taxonomically. Known fossil material shaded blue.
Picture Credit: Zaher et al
The species or trivial name honours the late Dr Jean-Claude Rage, an eminent French researcher who made a significant contribution to the study of South American Mesozoic vertebrates.
Described from a partially articulated skeleton including a virtually complete skull, the dinosaur is thought to have measured around 2.2 metres in length and it is the first Early Cretaceous abelisaurid known with an almost complete skull. The cranial material has helped the researchers to demonstrate the evolution of abelisaurid skulls from the earliest, most basal Eoabelisaurus to the abelisaurids that existed in Gondwana during the later stages of the Cretaceous.
Views of the Skull with Accompanying Line Drawings
The skull of Spectrovenator ragei (MZSP-PV 833) in (a) right lateral view with (b) line drawing and (c) left lateral view and accompanying line drawing (d). Scale bar equals 5 cm.
With a beautifully preserved skull to study, the scientists have been able to compare the function of the skull and jaws of Spectrovenator with more derived members of the Abelisauridae. The Early Cretaceous Spectrovenator (Barremian-Aptian), lacks the specialisations, such as a high occipital region and highly flexible jaw joints linked to a modified feeding strategy suggested for much later abelisaurids. For example, some scientists, think that large-bodied abelisaurids such as Carnotaurus (C. sastrei) specialised in hunting titanosaurs (large prey). The lack of these specialisations in the skull of Spectrovenator suggests this modified feeding strategy may be restricted to Late Cretaceous abelisaurids and linked to an increase in body size by this type of predatory dinosaur which occurred during the Cenomanian and through to the Maastrichtian.
Phylogenetic relationships of Spectrovenator within the Ceratosauria
Phylogenetic relationships of Spectrovenator within the Ceratosauria with a geographical and temporal break down of fossil material. Spectrovenator is regarded as a basal member of the Abelisauridae.
The discovery of Spectrovenator helps to fill a sizeable gap in the evolutionary history of the Abelisauridae. The earliest member of the Abelisauridae described to date Eoabelisaurus (E. mefi), is known from the Middle Jurassic of Argentina (around 166 million years ago), whilst other abelisaurids such as Rugops and Skorpiovenator are known from Upper Cretaceous sediments (100 million years ago approximately). Whereas Spectrovenator was found in strata that is approximately 120 million years old.
The scientific paper: "An Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Brazil sheds light on the cranial evolution of the Abelisauridae" by Hussam Zaher, Diego Pol, Bruno Albert Navarro, Rafael Delcourt and Alberto Barbosa Carvalho published in Comptes Rendus Palevol.


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Successful Museums – An Anniversary Tribute to Stephen Weil
One of the Museum world's most distinguished museum scholars, Steve Weil, died just over 10 years ago. He was a mentor and friend to myriads of people in many museums, of many ages, in many countries, at numerous conferences and elsewhere. Steve had been Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Education and Museum Studies and longtime deputy director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian.
A brief biography appeared in the Washington Post and also in the New York Times.
[This introductory post is a work in progress: it concerns one of my principal interests, how organisations work and how decisions get made and why. Additional paragraphs will be added from time to time.]
A very fitting conference supported in part by the Getty Leadership Institute, 'A Tribute to Stephen Weil: Making Museums Matter, 2006' was held at the University of Victoria BC, Canada September 11-13. The Institute commissioned this presentation and for support of that I am grateful.
Though parts of this essay have appeared elsewhere the entire piece has not previously been published.
The essay addresses the matter of accountability, how museums might be judged to be effective in the pursuit of their mission and responsibility. Weil was a long time advocate of an approach to this which went beyond the dreaded metrics so beloved of those who believe they are in a position to judge such things. As the decade since 2006 has progressed accountability has become much degraded as corporatisation has invaded museums as it has so many other non-commercial sectors.
Many museums have been increasingly active in embracing change, most particularly in engaging visitors in their learning journey where they make a particular contribution. Likewise in advocating for issues concerning meaning, the value of cultural activities in individual life and in other areas such as biodiversity and evolution and social justice in respect of minorities including Indigenous Peoples. Yet they nevertheless have fallen to the ongoing drive to reduce government expenditure and been affected also by cycles of economic collapse including the Global Financial Crisis.
How museums respond to these pressures is a daily concern of those who lead museums as well as most of those who work in or are associated with museums. How often are they recognised for their success? The Natural History Museum in London, the Melbourne Museum, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art. Many others.
At that vitally important level of leadership and governance how common is it to find superior performance? Too often government intrusion and the pressures to maintain the budget both through careful oversight and attracting greater community financial support comes to be the main concern. Too often, leadership ends up in the hands of those who believe they know about money, the law and marketing but understand little of the core mission of museums, the nature of their business and their history.
The concluding paragraphs of the presentation outline the meaning of the (unusual) terms purposiveness and capability as Weil used them. What follows then is a list of issues which the board, the board and executive leadership together and leadership by itself should regularly review. Some may say this is far too process driven. Professional judgement should suffice. Those who say you don't learn leadership you do it. But organisations are complex and judgements are critical but seldom effective if they are only the judgments of one person. The Cuban Missile Crisis and much of American foreign policy and that of other countries illustrates that convincingly.
Atul Gawande is a surgeon and writer practicing at major hospitals in Boston Massachusetts. He was the 2014 Reith lecturer for the BBC. In those lectures he recalled the importance of using lists which had to be checked off by everyone. These helped significantly in major recovery surgery, of people who had been overcome by avalanches on mountains, for instance. Reference was made to the checklists which airline pilots use. In his second lecture he said:
We have made tremendous discoveries, but find it's extremely complex to deliver on them. We have inadequate homicide investigations, for instance. We have flawed software design. We have intelligence failures. We've had tottering banks. And what we see repeatedly, again and again, I think is that as we embark on the 21st century we have found that the 20th century has given us a volume and knowledge and skill that is beyond what any individual can simply hold in their head, can know how to deliver on, and simply do it on their own. The volume of knowledge and skill has exceeded our individual capabilities.
And so then we went to the medieval approach… We've issued standards and guidelines and regulations. We'll take away your licence if you don't do this. Or, if we're being nice about it – we'll pay you more, if you do it, we'll give you incentives. And that did make improvements in matters, but only a bit. It didn't get us to what we want. And what we want in the modern version of the world is that the norm is to do X. And the way that we make it the norm are systems. And they can be as simple a system as just checklists. It can be defaults, it can be feedback loops. The important insight is that what we have to focus on is how to deliver on the guidelines and standards and knowledge that we have discovered, how to make it easy for everybody to follow.
These are lists but they are not the simple recitation of statistics, performance indicators which supposedly tell us what has been achieved but lack any information about the factors contributing to the outcomes that have been measured. Worse such lists often reveal what has happened after it is too late to take action to change course or remove impediments. As the enterprise collapses the only course of action is to sack large numbers of staff, cancel programs or restructure with all the damaging outcomes that attend such action. None of that amounts to good governance or leadership! Ambiguity and uncertainty are everywhere and the systems in place have to manage that. That means the right oversight as well as the honesty to recognise when programs and policies don't work.
In every consideration of policy and achievement a major focus should be on creativity and how people work together. I find it interesting that organisations highly successful in research and development share some features with other types of successful organisations. In the former, considerable effort is put into encouraging staff from different parts of the organisation to meet frequently to discuss issues central to the organisation's main activity: people have morning tea or coffee and/or lunch together and the most senior staff attend those events. In one, lunch tables have places for a maximum of eight people because it is difficult for a larger number of people to conduct a single conversation. In one, staff have to present a seminar each year on a topic outside their own field of research. In another there are whiteboards in the foyers between section laboratories, and in the garden, which staff use during their discussions.
In a recent discussion on the ABC RN Late Night Live program journalist Laura Tingle, discussing her latest Quarterly Essay, Political Amnesia How we forgot how to govern, mentioned that at the Reserve Bank of Australia, a successful organisation which has mostly escaped the depredations of the efficiency experts at the Department of Finance, all the staff go to morning tea.
The point is that in almost all organisations ideas are central to the future and ideas get worked through by conversation where they are evaluated and challenged. Without those discussions ideas may become solidified and enshrined as articles of faith, immune from challenge. That is precisely why boards, when they meet, benefit from a chairperson skilled at encouraging the exchange of views. A relevant story concerns a chairman who put forth a proposal and then asked for contrary views: when none were offered he postponed the meeting for a week by which time he said he wanted to receive contrary opinions.
Too often those responsible for governance do not see their role as both encouraging above average performance by the museum's leadership, as Peter Drucker would say, and defending the museum against the depredations of those who would marginalise the museum as of little relevance and deserving of less support. The result is inevitable decline. What this essay contributes is, I believe, as apposite now as it was when delivered. There are too few Steve Weil's around to urge us to think about what is really important.
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According to artistic and archaeological findings, the Corinthian helmet is thought to be the most commonly worn helmet during the Archaic periods. This Greek Corinthian Helmet offers a wonderful choice for display or costume wear. Featuring the traditional style of a Corinthian helm, this helmet features a nose guard and long, pointed cheek plates that were designed to offer extra protection to the face. The top of the head is smooth and rounded, while the face features holes for the eyes and an arched line to depict eyebrows. Made entirely by hand from steel, this Greek Corinthian Helmet will be a wonderful addition to any collection or an authentic touch to your ancient Greek armor.


Parts of Europe are on alert as a heatwave moves into position today, parts of France and Spain are expecting some area's to hit 40C (104F) with Holland and Belgium expecting temperatures of 35C.
A wave of hot and dry Saharan air over the centre of France has seen seven departments put on 'canicule' heatwave alert today and tonight with temperatures reaching from 35C to 40C and 30C elsewhere, except on the coasts.
Météo-France said the heatwave would be short, with the orange alert for the departments of Charente, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, Vienne and Haute-Vienne lasting only until tomorrow morning.
However, the forecaster said peaks could reach 40C in Poitou-Charentes before the hot air moves away east across France, towards Ile-de-France, Burgundy and the Rhône valley.
The hottest period will be from 14.00 today but high temperatures of up to 35C are expected from tomorrow afternoon with people across the country warned to stay indoors at the daily peaks.
Météo-France said the hot weather would continue until at least Wednesday, when cold Atlantic air will force temperatures down.
Many communes are making arrangements to check on their oldest inhabitants but for others there are only the usual tips for keeping cool during the day... such as drinking lots of water, washing your face regularly and closing all shutters, windows and curtains on the sunny side of the house.
Help is also needed at night as sleeping will be difficult for many with temperatures staying above 25C but eating only a light meal in the evening and even putting your pillow in the fridge for a while may help.
A heatwave in 2014 killed thousands in France Holland and the UK.


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Chorągiew tatarska Jeremiego Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego – chorągiew tatarska jazdy koronnej z połowy XVII wieku.

Szefem, tzn. fundatorem i właścicielem, chorągwi był wojewoda ruski Jeremi Wiśniowiecki herbu Korybut zwany też Jaremą Wiśniowieckim, natomiast namiestnikiem, czyli faktycznym dowódcą chorągwi, był porucznik Krzysztof Stapkowski.

Żołnierze chorągwi tatarskiej Wiśniowieckiego brali udział w działaniach zbrojnych podczas powstania Chmielnickiego. Odznaczyli się męstwem podczas obrony Zbaraża w lipcu i sierpniu 1649 roku.

Bibliografia
 Konstanty Górski, Historia jazdy polskiej, Kraków 1894.

Wiśniowieckiego, Jeremiego


I had a great day yesterday here in London and I decided to end it by baking. I've been eating super healthy recently and my poor boyfriend has been subjected to kale chips as a 'snack' option, so I decided to push the boat out and bake something sweet and delicious! Earlier in the day I purchased this gorgeous nail colour by Rimel, called Caramel Cupcake and I'm pretty sure that it gave me a sweet tooth for the rest of the day...anyway I digress. So here's the super simple recipe.
Just a quick note: Baking can be quite expensive, so in this instance I decided to be uber frugal and purchase both the flour and the baking powder from the supermarkets 'own brand' line. For things like this I dont think it makes any difference what so ever as flour isn't key to the taste of this recipe.
-Put the sugar and the butter into a bowl and cream together, I used the hand whisk, as I dont actually own an electric one, and it was totally fine. Stir in the egg and vanilla essence and give it a good whisk.
- Add the flour, baking powder and cocca powder and mix until it turns to a uniform dough. Don't worry it's supposed to be quite stiff at this point! Add the chocolate drops and stir (give a little mash) into the mixture.
- divide the mixture into around 8-10 balls and space out on each tray, cook for 10-12 minutes and take out of the oven to cool. When the cookies come out of the oven they will be really soft, dont worry they are cooked and will quickly stiffen up as they cool.
Also for any new time bakers, I often panic about having caster sugar instead or granulated or plain instead of self raising....or in this case an electric whisk over a hand held whisk. Through trial and error (and plenty of googling mid-bake) I've realised as a general rule it doesn't really matter and there is usually a way to substitue what your doing to make it work. Drop us a comment if your ever in a flour type dilema.


Born 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in TEA Buenos Aires Journalism Institute and i graduated in 2002. I started to work as a staff photograper in La Nacion. Then i moved to Spain where i begin to collaborate with several newspapers and agencies as El Pais, El Periodico de Catalunya, AP, and work at local newspaper Diario de Mallorca. Always travelling and developing personal projects.


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Peter J. Visclosky & Vern Buchanan
Compare the voting records of Peter J. Visclosky and Vern Buchanan in 2017-18.
Peter J. Visclosky
Represented Indiana's 1st Congressional District. This was his 17th term in the House.
Vern Buchanan
Represented Florida's 16th Congressional District. This was his 6th term in the House.
Peter J. Visclosky and Vern Buchanan are from different parties and disagreed on 68 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 26, 2018 — Recognizing that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of the United States citizens
July 19, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
July 18, 2018 — Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
July 11, 2018 — Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act
June 28, 2018 — Courtney of Connecticut Amendment No. 29
June 26, 2018 — Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act
June 15, 2018 — Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act
June 15, 2018 — Thornberry of Texas Part A Amendment No. 4
June 7, 2018 — Lowenthal of California Part B Amendment No. 31
March 8, 2018 — Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment (SENSE) Act
Dec. 21, 2017 — Making further supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, for disaster assistance for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and calendar year 2017 wildfires, and for other purposes
July 14, 2017 — Franks of Arizona Amendment No. 13
July 13, 2017 — Buck of Colorado Amendment No. 3
July 13, 2017 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 1


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Tag Archives: Graham Roland
December 21, 2018 DQ TVAndrew Marlowe, Bill Lawrence, Carlton Cuse, Danny Brocklehurst, David Madden, Eric Newman, Erik Barmack, Graham Roland, Jeff Rake, Jimmy Akingbola, Michael C Hall, Nicola Shindler, Ted Gold, Terri Edda MillerDQ
Some of the television industry's biggest names reveal their choice of the most influential drama of the past 21 years.
Highlighting shows from The Sopranos to The West Wing, Lost to Friends, Seinfeld, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Bridge, Mad Men, Dexter and others, leading writers, showrunners, producers and network execs pick over the titles that have been most transformative for the business. But what is their ultimate choice?
This DQTV special features contributions from: actors Michael C Hall and Jimmy Akingbola; Jack Ryan creators Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland; Netflix VP of international originals Erik Barmack; Narcos showrunner Eric Newman; AMC Networks programming chief David Madden; Paramount Network senior VP of scripted development Ted Gold; Scrubs and Spin City creator Bill Lawrence; The Mysteries of Laura creator Jeff Rake; Castle creators Terri Edda Miller and Andrew Marlowe; writer Danny Brocklehurst; Red Production Company founder Nicola Shindler; and many more.
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August 20, 2018 DQ TVAmazon, Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, Jack RyanDQ
Tom Clancy's literary hero Jack Ryan has been seen on screen before, notably in movies, with Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine all having portrayed the character.
Now, Ryan is set for television for the first time – in a 10-part series for Amazon Prime Video.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan sees John Krasinski (The Office, A Quiet Place) step into the title role as a desk-bound CIA analyst who is on the trail of a terrorist network, only to find himself thrown into the field for the first time.
In this DQTV interview, co-showrunners Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel) and Graham Roland (Lost) talk about why the novels lend themselves more to television than cinema and how they brought together several story strands into one 10-part series.
They also talk about casting Krasinski as Ryan and how they strived to bring authenticity to the series.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, which has already been renewed for a second season ahead of its August 31 launch in more than 200 countries, is produced by Paramount Television, Cuse's Genre Arts, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and David Ellison's Skydance Television.
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Familiar and fresh
September 30, 2015 The Writers RoomA&E Network, ABC, Fame, Graham Roland, Gran Hotel, Josh Safran, Joshua St Johnston, Quantico, Stephen Kronish, Televisa US, The Enfield HauntingAndy Fry
Quantico has earned praise for the diversity of its lead characters
A lot of scripted TV has a derivative feel about it – but that's not necessarily a bad thing. When people sit down to watch something, they generally want to know roughly what they are going to get, in the same way they gravitate towards the same brands and restaurants.
That's why, even in this 'golden age' age of risk-taking drama, so many shows are based on pre-existing properties or work within well-understood genres or situations (cop, hospital, romance, period and so on).
But the audience's preference for the familiar only goes so far. Once viewers are within a story world, they expect to be surprised and delighted. If a drama turns out to be a poor copy of a previous show then they will desert in their droves. This explains why so many scripted series fall off a cliff between episodes one and two – because they have been rumbled.
One writer who seems pretty adept at balancing the familiar with the fresh is Josh Safran. After working on The CW's hit series Gossip Girl and NBC's short-lived Smash, he has now achieved a strong start with Quantico, a fast-paced thriller that debuted on September 27 on ABC in the US.
Airing in a 22.00 slot, the show attracted 7.1 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among adults aged 18-49. This audience was 36% up on its lead-in and well ahead of the CSI finale on CBS. In addition, it was much higher than Revenge's performance in the same slot last year. In fact, ABC says the show is the strongest 'regular programming' performer in this slot since May 2012 (i.e. not a special event such as a live sports match).
Quantico writer Josh Safran
Quantico is about a group of young trainees learning to become FBI agents. It turns out that one of them is a terrorist planning a major attack – but we don't know who.
So far, so familiar. In the run up to the show's launch, it was described as "a garden variety whodunnit" and a cross between Homeland and a Shonda Rhimes drama.
What helps Safran's show stand out from the crowd, however, is a clear decision to avoid obvious character stereotypes. The trainees, for example, are ethnically diverse, with a central role handed to Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, who plays Alex Parrish. There is also a leading position for black actress Aunjanue Ellis, who acts as mentor to the new recruits.
Forbes Magazine was especially impressed by the show's start, pointing out numerous examples of how the female characters assert their independence and demonstrate their capabilities. "The best and most refreshing parts of this programme are the strong females leads," it said. "Quantico highlights the fact that female leads can have more to their plotlines than love, pregnancy or rape. And it shows that when better roles are written for women, the programme benefits as well."
It's early days, of course, and some of Quantico's reviewers were a bit more skeptical. But as long as the show can maintain momentum with its terrorist whodunnit plot, it will probably come out as one of this year's top-performing new series – which would be good news for international broadcaster such as CTV Canada and UKTV that have already acquired it.
The Enfield Haunting, starring Timothy Spall (centre), is set to air on A&E Network
As for Safran, he is also working on an updated version of the Fame, which first appeared as a 1980 movie before becoming a hit TV series and then being revived as a movie again in 2009. Destined for Lifetime in the US, the new Fame is being written and executive produced by Safran for MGM TV. Other exec producers include Nigel Lythgoe, Chad Gutstein and Charles Segars.
On paper, its looks like a dead cert hit (for the reasons stated at the start of this column). But it will actually be quite a challenge for Safran. Just how do you revive such a show in a world that has been exposed to Glee, wall-to-wall TV talent shows and YouTube? This is a situation where the ability to blend the familiar with the fresh will prove decisive.
Another writer entitled to feel pleased with himself this week is London-based Joshua St Johnston, whose three-part miniseries The Enfield Haunting is to air on A&E Network in the US from October 9, following its acquisition from eOne.
Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted, The Enfield Haunting is a dramatisation of the terrifying real-life events that took place in a London home during 1977. Starring Timothy Spall, Matthew Macfadyen and Juliet Stevenson, it first aired to critical acclaim on Sky Living in the UK.
A&E will be hoping for a stronger performance from The Enfield Haunting than it achieved with fellow supernatural show The Returned (pictured)
St Johnston's first TV writing credit came way back in 1996, when he penned an episode of UK doctor drama Peak Practice. After a period where he focused more on producing, St Johnston wrote a couple of TV movies in the middle of the last decade, including the Ray Winstone-starring Sweeney Todd. After writing a short film for the Cultural Olympiad in 2012, he scripted the poorly reviewed musical film Walking on Sunshine.
However, with Eleven Film-produced The Enfield Haunting he certainly seems to have found his métier.
Represented by Harriet Pennington Leigh at Troika Talent, St Johnston is now developing new TV series with Clerkenwell Films and Eleven Film and working on a movie with Christopher Sweeney entitled Good Boy, Hung. He is also reported to be working on a TV series with Artists Studio called Deviant. As a footnote, it's interesting to see A&E going back into the paranormal realm so soon after its failure with The Returned – it's obviously a genre in which it sees plenty of mileage.
Other writers who can look forward to a period of full employment include Graham Roland, who is attached to a new Paramount TV production based on author Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. The show, which has Carlton Cuse (Lost) attached as showrunner, is heading to Amazon, according to Deadline.
Stephen Kronish
Roland's major credits to date include Prison Break, Lost and the US version of The Returned, the latter two of which he worked on with Cuse. He was also involved in Fox's sci-fi/crime drama Almost Human, which only lasted for one season in 2014 before cancellation.
Elsewhere, showrunner Stephen Kronish is working with Televisa US on its upcoming remake of Gran Hotel. An industry veteran whose credits stretch all the way back to Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1985, Kronish has had some big hits in the last decade with 24 and The Kennedys. He has also recently finished writing the TV movie Manson's Lost Girls and the moderately well-received Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe.
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Eco trip
Marriage of con-venience
Finnish with a flourish


MILLE teamed up with Dior on a video that explores the subtleties and power dynamics of Tunisian model Azza Slimene and a magnificent white horse.
Set in a Lynchian empty space showered in white lights, the clip displays the constantly shifting energy between the two creatures – which results in a dance off that's the edge of defiance and seduction.
Directed by award winning filmmaker Amel Guellaty, the film marks the first collaboration between MILLE Creative and the house of Dior. With Ya Msafer Wahdak by Egyptian singer and actress Najat Al Saghira, blaring in the background, the video is a surrealistic look into the brand's Winter 19 collection.


Led by their aspiration to participate in the hackathon, the team's victory also testified that success certainly knows no boundaries as long as one is determined.
"Although this is my seventh time taking part, competing in the hackathon is more than just a hobby or routine to me.
"It is, in fact, a place where I can make use of my ideas and programming skills to come up with real-world solutions, and I will continue to do so for the future competitions," said Tan.
Fellow team member Lee said the hackathon motivated and challenged them to think of effective solutions to solve real-world problems in the shortest time possible.
"It was also a platform that enabled us to learn even more from the other participants," he said.
"With the education received at Utar, the team was grateful to have learnt about teamwork, expectations when working under tight deadlines and problem-solving skills, which greatly contributed to the team's win at the hackathon.
"Utar has definitely laid a good foundation for us to utilise our knowledge and skills for this hackathon because the challenges we faced during our studies were the teaching tools that taught us how to analyse problems, think of the right solutions and work together with the team members to execute the ideas," said another team member Low.


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Do Big New Brain Projects Make Sense When We Don't Even Know the "Neural Code"?
By John Horgan on March 23, 2013
Does anyone still remember "The Decade of the Brain"? Youngsters don't, but perhaps some of my fellow creaky, cranky science-lovers do. In 1990, the brash, fast-growing Society for Neuroscience convinced Congress to name the '90s the Decade of the Brain. The goal, as President George Bush put it, was to boost public awareness of and support for research on the "three-pound mass of interwoven nerve cells" that serves as "the seat of human intelligence, interpreter of senses and controller of movement."
One opponent of this public-relations stunt was Torsten Wiesel, who won a Nobel Prize in 1981 for work on the neural basis of vision. When I interviewed him in 1998 for my book The Undiscovered Mind, he grumbled that the Decade of the Brain was "foolish." Scientists "need at least a century, maybe even a millennium," to understand the brain, Wiesel said. "We are at the very beginning of brain science."
I recalled Wiesel's irritable comments as I read about big new neuroscience initiatives in the U.S. and Europe. In January, the European Union announced it would sink more than $1 billion over the next decade into the Human Brain Project, an attempt to construct a massive computer simulation of the brain. The project, according to The New York Times, involves more than 150 institutions. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama is reportedly planning to commit more than $3 billion to a similar project, called the Brain Activity Map.
Some scientists are criticizing these big initiatives in ways that remind me of Wiesel and the Decade of the Brain. The New York Times quoted brain researcher Haim Sompolinsky saying of the Human Brain Project, "The rhetoric is that in a decade they will be able to reverse-engineer the human brain in computers. This is a fantasy. Nothing will come close to it in a decade."
The U.S. mapping project, neurologist Donald Stein told The Times, is based on a view of the brain that "is, at best, out of date and at worst simply wrong. The search for a road map of stable neural pathways that can represent brain functions is futile."
Henry Markram of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the leader of the Human Brain Project, has been bragging about his computer model, Blue Brain, for years. But as I pointed out three years ago, his computer simulations can't perform any cognitive functions, such as seeing, hearing, remembering, deciding, so there is no way of telling whether they are capturing essential features of brains.
I compared the models of Markram and others to those plastic brains that neuroscientists like to use as paperweights. Another analogy is the "planes" that Melanesian cargo-cult tribes built out of palm fronds, coral and coconut shells after being occupied by Japanese and American troops during World War II. "Brains" that can't think are like "planes" that can't fly.
In spite of all our sophisticated instruments and theories, our own brains are still in many respects as magical and mysterious to us as a cargo plane was to those Melanesians. Neuroscientists can't mimic brains because they lack basic understanding of how brains work; they don't know what to include in a simulation and what to leave out.
Proponents of the big brain projects are comparing them to the Human Genome Project. There are two problems with that analogy. First, the Genome Project was an impressive technical achievement, but since its completion 10 years ago it has failed to deliver any significant medical breakthroughs. [See Postscript.] Moreover, the Genome Project built upon a basic understanding of genetics. Decades before the Genome Project was launched, researchers deciphered the genetic code, the set of rules whereby specific sequences of base pairs in DNA generate specific proteins.
Neuroscientists have faith that the brain operates according to a "neural code," rules or algorithms that transform physiological neural processes into perceptions, memories, emotions, decisions and other components of cognition. So far, however, the neural code remains elusive, to put it mildly.
The neural code is often likened to the machine code that underpins the operating system of a digital computer. According to this analogy, neurons serve as switches, or transistors, absorbing and emitting electrochemical pulses, called action potentials or "spikes," which resemble the basic units of information in digital computers.
But the brain is radically unlike and more complex than any existing computer. A typical brain contains 100 billion cells, and each cell is linked via synapses to as many as 100,000 others. Synapses are awash in neurotransmitters, hormones, neural-growth factors and other chemicals that affect the transmission of signals, and synapses constantly form and dissolve, weaken and strengthen, in response to new experiences. Researchers have recently established that not only do old brain cells die, new ones can form via neurogenesis.
Far from being stamped from a common mold, like transistors, neurons display a dizzying variety of forms and functions. Researchers have discovered scores of distinct types of neuron just in the visual system. And let's not forget all the genes that are constantly turning on and off and thereby further altering the brain's operation.
Assuming that each synapse in the human brain processes ten action potentials per second and that these transactions represent the brain's computational output, then the brain performs at least a quadrillion operations per second. Some supercomputers have already exceeded this information-processing capacity, encouraging claims by artificial-intelligence enthusiasts—notably Ray Kurzweil and other members of the Singularity cult--that computers will soon become vastly more intelligent than their creators.
But the brain may be processing information at many levels below and above that of individual neurons and synapses. Indeed, some researchers suspect that each individual neuron, rather than resembling a transistor, is more like a computer in its own right, engaging in complex information-processing. Moreover, brains may employ many different methods of encoding information.
The first neural-code candidate was discovered in the 1920s by the British neurophysiologist Edgar Adrian. When Adrian increased the pressure on tactile neurons, they fired at an increased rate. This so-called rate code has now been demonstrated in many different animals, including Homo sapiens. But a rate code is a crude, inefficient way to convey information, akin to communicating solely by humming at different pitches.
Neuroscientists have therefore long suspected that the brain employs subtler codes. In so-called temporal codes, information is represented not just in a cell's rate of firing but in the precise timing between spikes. For example, whereas a rate code treats the spike sequences 010101 and 100011 as identical, a temporal code assumes that the two sequences have different meanings.
On a more macro level, researchers are searching for "population codes" involving the correlated firing of many neurons. The late Francis Crick favored a code involving many neurons firing at the same rate and at precisely the same time, a phenomenon called "synchronous oscillations." Others propose that information is carried not by spikes per se but by electromagnetic fields—generated by millions of electrochemical pulses--constantly sweeping through the brain.
So far, however, the evidence for any particular code remains tentative. The brain could utilize all these codes, or none. Complicating matters further, research on artificial cochleas and other prostheses suggests that brains may devise new codes in response to novel stimuli. Given all this confusion, you can see why some neuroscientists worry that cracking the neural code may take a long, long time. Maybe a century or longer.
Of all scientific fields, neuroscience has the most potential to produce revolutionary discoveries, with enormous philosophical as well as practical import. (Particle physics is so over.) Optimists will no doubt say that the Human Brain Project and the Brain Activity Map—by boosting funding and collaboration--might help us decipher the neural code, or codes. But I fear that these big, much-hyped initiatives will turn out to be as disappointing as the Decade of the Brain. Rather than boosting the status of neuroscience, they may harm its credibility.
Self-plagiarism alert: This post contains prose from several previous articles and from The Undiscovered Mind. These passages were so perfectly crafted that I didn't see any point in trying to improve upon them.
Image: Saad Faruque,Flickr.
Postscript: Some readers challenge my claim that the Human Genome Project "has failed to deliver any significant medical breakthroughs." Here's what Nicholas Wade of The New York Times, whose reporting on genetics is if anything excessively positive, said in 2010: "Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits. For biologists, the genome has yielded one insightful surprise after another. But the primary goal of the $3 billion Human Genome Project--to ferret out the genetic roots of common diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's and then generate treatments--remains largely elusive. Indeed, after 10 years of effort, geneticists are almost back to square one in knowing where to look for the roots of common disease." Wade's assessment still holds. The Genome Project was supposed to lead to gene therapies that could cure or treat diseases stemming from genetic mutations. Last summer, European health officials approved a gene therapy for a lipid-related disorder that affects about one in a million people. So far, not a single gene therapy has been approved for commercial sale in the U.S. I reiterate: the Human Genome Project has failed to fulfill its promise, and it had a much stronger scientific foundation than the new brain projects. Do I oppose funding for genetics and neuroscience? Of course not. The potential of this research is so vast that we can never stop supporting it, even if payoffs are slow in coming. But precisely because the research is so vitally important, it should be marketed honestly.
Post-Postscript: Henry Markram, in a comment below, criticizes my criticism of the Human Brain Project, for which he is "Coordinator." He calls my views "nonsense" and "mind-boggling," and he urges me and other critics to "elevate your discussion a little--it sounds like the house of Babylon…and just maybe we can get out of the dark ages here." If I didn't know Markram's history, I might assume that his rant was posted by an imposter trying to make him look bad. But his comments recall his 2009 diatribe against Dharmendra Modha, leader of an IBM effort to model a cat brain. After Modha received some positive attention, Markram called the cat-brain model a "scam" that is "light years away from a cat brain, not even close to an ant's brain in complexity. It is highly unethical of Mohda to mislead the public in making people believe they have actually simulated a cat's brain. Absolutely shocking." Okay, Modha was guilty of hype. But Modha's hype pales beside that of Markram. Just months before he slammed Modha, Markram said at a TED Conference: "It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years." He indulges in more hype in his comments below, calling the Human Brain Project "probably the most rigorously reviewed proposal in the history of grants." I find it, well, mind-boggling that the European Union has invested more than $1 billion in a project led by someone with so little credibility.
John Horgan directs the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology. His books include The End of Science, The End of War and Mind-Body Problems, available for free at mindbodyproblems.com. For many years, he wrote the immensely popular blog Cross Check for Scientific American.
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The collection comprises of the entire back catalogue of recorded performances from the creation of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 (June 16 – 18) by Claude Nobs until the 46th edition, the last under his direction in 2012 (June 29 – July 14).
For almost half a century, Claude Nobs has been a cultural bridge between Europe and America. The role of Claude Nobs was essential in welcoming a diversity of musical styles and future influences, regularly providing young talents with a chance to perform and influence audiences, putting together renowned musicians from a variety of backgrounds to create exceptional moments and in organizing unique musical projects.
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Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967 to promote Montreux as a destination for musical excellence, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Since its creation, the Festival has experienced a remarkable growth in its notoriety and, in the 1970s, began to gain wide acclaim as one of the world's greatest cultural celebrations for jazz. Its stages have been graced by all of music's greats, from Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock and from Carlos Santana to Neil Young. During the 1990s, Claude Nobs shared the directorship of the festival with Quincy Jones. Whereas Jazz constitutes the Festival's historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated into the Festival, bound together by a common thread of mutual curiosity and enthusiasm, but also to promote jazz. Later, with several stages of soul-stirring music (including jazz, blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock, funk, African, Latin, folk and others) the Festival proved to be an artistic melting-pot, a privileged space for intercultural dialogue and a quite unique celebration of this kind.
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TAG Launches Anti-Fraud Program To Register Advertisers And Publishers
Initiative also includes a Payment ID system to connect ad inventory with everyone who gets paid.
Barry Levine on October 29, 2015 at 5:48 pm
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An ad industry group is today announcing a new program it hopes will counter fraudulent digital ads by registering legitimate advertisers and publishers.
Called Verified by TAG, the initiative by the Trustworthy Accountability Group — the TAG in the program's title — will set up a registry of advertisers and publishers that are certified as legitimate. Acceptance into the TAG Registry will require a background check and review process.
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Jim Spanfeller, CEO of the Spanfeller Media Group, former CEO of Forbes.com and a critic of the lack of transparency in the programmatic ad ecosystem, told me that he is "very much in favor of this initiative."
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TAG was formed last November by three major digital ad industry organizations — the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. In July, TAG created a master blacklist of IP addresses associated with bot-generated ad requests involving data centers, based on a Google database.
Barry Levine
Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.
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