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InMontreal
PSAs about analog shutdown
Have anyone seen one of those information TV commercial about analog shutdown yet?
The CRTC said the PSAs about analog shutdown should begin no later than March 1st, 6 months prior.
Visiting radio-canada.ca, tva.canoe.ca, ctv.ca, globaltv.ca, citytv.com, there are no special information page about analog shutdown. Well, nobody cares.
Visiting bestbuy.ca, they only sell provider set-top box, no ATSC converters. Still, they don't even sell outdoor antennas, and have probably 3 boxes of indoor antennas hidden on a shelf somewhere, not featured on their website.
No government coupons to help buy adapters. The only governement conribution is this information page: http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1282825334983
Our major private canadian broadcasters are owned by a BDU. The fact that 92% of Canadians are subscribed to a BDU means that a minority will be affected by this digital conversion plan, but it's not a reason to ignore the whole issue.
So far, we heard little about "free satellite service may become available to qualified households". Why are we still on the PLANS stage in Canada when we consider USA talked about conversion for 2 years prior February 2009?
Worse plan ever.
Last edited by InMontreal; 03-09-2011 at 02:37 PM.
We had a good run: 2006 to 2020. Thanks for the informations and debates.
NakedGord
I've read on DHC that JoyTV are running OTA PSAs.
On the note of decoder boxes I've seen atsc decoder boxes in Best Buy retail tho it was only one make/model (Apex and the reviews online were very meh) plus the boxes looked like they actually had water damage. I've also seen one other model at Canada Computers (almost all horrible reviews online about breaking). We're clearly getting American slopy seconds for what didn't sell.
I assume retailers like WalMart will get into the game more as the months go on. They are the first stop (and former exclusive retailer) of the various Magnavox atsc dvd/hdd recorders. Antennas can be easily found at most cheapo cuputer shops.
The good news is the Magnavox MDR513H can be ordered to Canada via Amazon.com for $300 US all in. 320GB HDD, atsc tuner and DVD recording with excellent HD scaled to SD then upconverted picture.
I have the earlier Magnavox H2160MW9 with a 160GB HDD and it's a great unit. There's also a new 500GB version but it's a WalMart US exclusive right now.
Future Shop has a converter box Access Digital TV Converter, but you have to dig it in the following category:
TV & Video / Video Cables & Accessories / Other Video Accessories
(which is apart from the cable and satellite set-top boxes)
The Source has one in the following section:
TV & Home Entertainment > Satellite & Digital Converters > Digital Converters
Canadian Tire has one hidden in the following section:
Electronics > DVD Players, VCRs & Blu-ray Disc Players > Video Accessories
That's an alright start considering there's been no promotion. Free DTV is so good honestly I suspect, over time, word will spread by itself.
Plus all those shady FTA shops have switched over to OTA so they'll advertise it too. Overtime I bet the big stores (who I suspect are getting kickbacks to not promote this stuff) will be forced to compete.
Honestly tho I can't see why someone would just want a dtv converter box when a dvd recorder with an atsc tuner isn't much more.
TVViewer
It's the CRTC's fault. The CRTC hasn't announced the rules for PSAs yet. The CRTC needs to finalize the rules for the PSAs (ex what they will be required to say, how many times they will be required to air them, ect.) before the broadcasters start producing/broadcasting them
The broadcasters were willing to do this on their own and launch their own PSAs by March 1st, but then the CRTC decided that they want to regulate the PSAs.
Originally Posted by TVViewer
but then the CRTC decided that they want to regulate the PSAs.
Got an URL to backup this? Thanks.
Originally Posted by InMontreal
Here is the "call for comments" with the proposed regulations (which FYI are totally ridiculous and even have mathematical errors in them)
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-927.htm
And I know the proposed regulations say that they should start no later than March 1st, this just proves how out of touch the CRTC is on the issue, they say that the PSAs should start March 1st, yet then wait weeks after to announce the regulations for them. How can the broadcasters do PSAs that follow the regulations by March 1st when the CRTC hasn't even announced what the regulations will be?
I found the URL of broadcaster comments...
https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/List...010-927&lang=e
CTV:
Requiring conventional broadcasters to air the PSAs during prime time represents a loss of valuable commercial airtime that would otherwise be used to generate advertising revenue at a time when such revenue is desperately needed by conventional television broadcasters. CTVgm estimates that as currently drafted, the requirements to air the DTV transition PSA and the loss of service PSA would result in approximately $3 million to $6.5 million in lost advertising revenue to CTVgm.
Finally, for reasons outlined below, we are very concerned that the Commission's proposed detailed approach to PSAs will actually result in more customer confusion, increases the potential for inappropriate consumer purchasing decisions (i.e., of unnecessary household equipment), and raises possible liability risks for participating broadcasters (and perhaps for the government itself).
So, our stations want the government to fund PSAs to cover potential loss of advertisement revenues, and want any mistake and customer question to be redirected to the government.
Back when local stations were local and were signing off overnight, they were able to provide a direct feed to cable and satellite providers while turning off their OTA transmitter during off-air hours. Headquarters used the satellite feed during off-air hours to provide promotional material to their affiliates, out of the eyes of cable/sat subscribers.
Fast-forward today, they don't want the 92% of cable/sat subscribers to know they are shutting down their OTA transmitter, which will potentially create confusion. For stations with retransmitters, they don't want OTA viewers served with a retransmitter out of a mandatory market to buy a coverter box because they won't be affected anyway.
We are 5 months and a half to go and no PSA aired yet, and no CRTC guidelines were taken yet. OTA viewers are not well informed, and the best way to reach viewers is during primetime, but broadcasters don't want to lose advertisement revenues. Broadcasters could potentially send the PSA directly to their OTA transmitter while keep airing promos or paid commercials to their cable/sat subscribers. At the same time, they won't avertise the existence of digital OTA, as they're afraid of losing cable/sat subscribers (bad for their specialties) and Fee-For-Carriage revenues and LPIF for their eligible stations.
As for retransmitter subscribers, the station is better fit to explain and reduce confusion. For example, "if you're watching CIII-TV Global in Toronto channel 41 or Ottawa channel 6, you'll need to switch to digital, everyone else, ignore this PSA until further notice". How difficult this can be ?
cslusarc
I'm just totally upset with the CRTC and their handling of the Analog-to-Digital Switchover. In the US, in large markets some stations began broadcasting in HD about a decade before Analog stations when dead. In Winnipeg, CKND-DT when on they quite recently and I don't believe that either CKY-DT or CHMI-DT will sign on before 1 September 2011. The CRTC should have mandated that local stations do a minimum two year HD similcast of their orginal feed in order to slowly attact viewers like they are in Montréal, Québec City, the GTA and the Lower Mainland.
I suggest anyone who wants to know the facts read the actual broadcaster comments instead of a biased misleading analysis of them.
If my analysis was misleading, then please explain what the issue is with the broadcasters. What are they asking for?
Biased? Euh, on which side am I on?
Finally, the CRTC is catching up.
3. (1) Except as otherwise provided under a licensee's condition of licence, every licensee must, beginning no later than May 1, 2011, broadcast a public service announcement at least six times per broadcast day, increasing to eight times per broadcast day beginning on August 1, 2011 or one month before the licensee ceases to broadcast in analog or changes channel, whichever is sooner.
(2) At least 25% of the required announcements per broadcast day must be broadcast between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
(3) The broadcast announcements must
(a) have a duration of at least 30 consecutive seconds;
(b) contain the information set out in the schedule; and
(c) be closed captioned and contain audio description of on-screen information.
(4) A licensee may use a crawl to fulfil up to 25% of their obligations under this section.
(5) A crawl must not be used during the broadcast of programming that contains audio description of on-screen information or described video.
Complete decision: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-198.htm
Looks like the CRTC decision isn't much different from the original plan.
Broadcasters complained about the advertisement spots being all taken and PSAs would result in loss of revenues. Then they complain that in the US, the government gave 120 millions to the FCC to make sure the digital transition goes smoothly. TVA and V wanted to scrap the PSAs during spring season and mention it during their morning and news programs once a week (or every 2 weeks) until they have advertisement room for summer season to air the PSAs.
Problem in Canada is that CTV, Global, Citytv and TVA owns and operate nearly all of their stations and belongs to huge corporates with huge pockets, who are also BDUs and will want to minimize the PSAs as much as possible. But it's unfortunate for affiliates and independant broadcasters such as Remstar (V), Channel Zero (CHCH, CJNT) and ZoomerMedia (Joytv) who needs a financial help.
Also, what is up with the crap about sold advertisement spots? They KNEW since 2006? that analog shutdown would happen Aug 31 2011 and they KNEW that PSAs would be a requirement in the year prior to that date. Just remember what the US stations used to do in 2008-2009. Heck, even PBS devoted a whole 30-minutes show about DTV! Canadian broadcasters were lucky enough for the requirement to be reduced to 6 months. Today, they declare sorry, all spots are taken! What a bunch of crap.
TVA also complained that the high frequency of those PSAs (6 times a day, 8 during summer) would result to be ineffective as they will tend to be ignored. But on the other hand, they have no problem in airing the SAME commercial 2 times in the same commercial break! What a bunch of crap. Can't they sacrifice an ad repetition or a promo? Watching CTV right now, they ran a CBSC spot ("if you'd like to complain about something you saw on our shows") during eTalk, which costs nothing.
The crawl suggestion answers to those who were very serious about losing advertisement money.
Another month and a half before we start seeing those PSAs, which I'm sure makes them happy for now.
By the way, TVO's website has a DTV section: http://tvo.org/digitalovertheair
On the "website" information side, it's still pathetic.
- Télé-Québec has a whole section accessible from their homepage.
- TVO has a section accessible from their contact page, but it's there.
- CBC/Radio-Canada now have a whole section.
- V (TQS) added a link to the government website (pch.gc.ca) on their homepage.
- CTV has no information whatsoever on their website
- Global has no information whatsoever on their website
- TVA has no information whatsoever on their website
- Citytv has no information whatsoever on their website
CBC's DTV website: http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/dtv/
Radio-Canada's TVN website: http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/tvn/
Interesting statement from the FAQ page:
We're conscious of the fact that subscribing to cable or satellite is expensive, indeed unaffordable for some Canadians. We believe that should change. The multi-channel universe should be accessible to all. That's why the Corporation has proposed that the CRTC establish and affordable, small, basic package for cable and satellite companies so that for just a few dollars, all Canadians can get access to a minimum number of TV channels.
bigoranget
I think the CBC is being very short sighted here and it will only result in less viewers for their programming. I really don't think many people are going to run out and get cable or satellite just for CBC programming. For those in London, they will still have access to all the private broadcasters so many will likely just due without CBC/SRC access.
So, PSAs have now been seen since May 2nd.
A generic PSA was produced in english and french, both essentially identical.
CTV and /A\ went for their own version, basically telling viewers to subscribe to Bell TV or go buy a converter to The Source (property of Bell).
Citytv and Omni opted for the same road as CTV, basically telling viewers to subscribe to Rogers or buy a converter box.
Télé-Québec and TVO also have their own version, apparently more informative.
None of the individual local station used a personnality or their local news anchors to talk about the fate of that specific station they're currently watching.
For example, Montreal's Global station could use Jamie Orchard to tell us in 1 or 2 minutes what will happen with Global Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke during transition.
Donovan's Monkey
... what is up with the crap about sold advertisement spots?...
What a bunch of crap...
It's strange that they had almost unlimited space for months for all of their own moronic "Save Local TV" (or whatever it was called) self-promos, which of course soon afterwards became meaningless when CTV and Global were bought by Bell and Shaw.
And from your description of these new PSAs, they're entirely along the lines of "you few people who still rely on analog over-the-air for TV will soon be out of luck unless you subscribe to a BDU or buy a converter box from a chain of stores we own". How not surprising is it that they would completely avoid even the slightest hint that some people whose viewing habits may consist entirely or mostly of OTA channels may see digital OTA as allowing them to get rid of cable or satellite service, or allow them to use OTA to supplement BDU service by freely viewing non-simsubbed American OTA channels?
1 to 2 minutes long? You are just asking for viewers to change the channel. They are required to air the PSAs 6 times a day, every day, this is already annoying to viewers (since it wont affect more than 93% of them), and now you are saying they should be 1 to 2 minutes long? Other PSAs, commercials, promos, ect.. all last 30 seconds, but a PSA for something that affects LESS than 7% of Canadians should be 2 minutes? Why?
I haven't yet got a chance to see CTV's PSA but I have seen Global and Citytv's. Their PSAs are perfect, They accomplish what they are supposed to do, they tell viewers that the CRTC and the Canadian government is requiring that analog stations switch to digital by August 31st, they tell viewers that if they subscribe to cable or satellite they wont be affected, they tell you that if you watch TV with an OTA antenna that your service might be affected, and they provide a website and a toll free number for more detailed information.
Please explain how it makes any sense to torture viewers by spending 2 minutes going into great detail about what will happen when anyone who wants to know more information can simply go to the website or call the toll free number (which are both clearly mentioned in the PSA)?
The fact that they are even running PSAs in the first place is impressive. 93% of Canadian viewers are with cable and satellite, less than 7% of viewers exclusively watch TV OTA (just because someone subscribes to cable or satellite doesn't automacially mean that they watch programming OTA, many just use TV's for DVD's and gaming devices), AND only viewers in the mandatory markets will be affected. This is a massive campaign considering how very few it is affecting.
Last edited by TVViewer; 05-05-2011 at 04:24 PM.
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You say this like it's a bad thing. Of course they aren't going to run ads telling people to cancel cable or satellite service or watch American channels instead. That's like complaining about McDonalds not running ads telling people not to eat fast food because fast food is unhealthy. Not that it would make much of a difference, people like their specialty channels, and most viewers aren't obsessed about watching American commercials.
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Patna se ubica en el centro de una importante cuenca cerealera lo cual ha determinado su importancia económica, política, histórica y cultural.

En 2006 su área ocupaba un perímetro de aproximadamente 15 km × 6,5 km.

Historia
Antes del siglo XVI la historia de Patna es la misma que la de su predecesora, la célebre Pataliputra; es en el siglo indicado —durante el Gran Mogol— que el centro urbano se traslada a su actual ubicación y surge la actual Patna con el nuevo nombre como sede capital del virreinato de Bihār siendo ya entonces una activa ciudad comercial. En 1763 los ingleses, tras una breve pero reñida contienda con el nawab de Bengala se adueñaron de Patna, la cual bajo el régimen colonial del Reino Unido fue declarada capital del Bihār y la provincia de Orissa; en 1935 Patna pasó a ser capital del Bihār, estatus que ha mantenido desde la independencia de la India en 1947.

Cultura
Actualmente Patna engloba las ruinas de la antigua Pataliputra; durante el Imperio Mogol de la India se edificó una gran mezquita (1459); esta ciudad es también considerada uno de los centros sagrados de los sijs ya que en ella nació su último gran gurú, Gorinda Singh, existiendo por esto un importante templo de esta religión.
En sus proximidades se encuentran otros centros de peregrinaje (Vaishali, Rajgir —o Rajagriha—, Nalanda, Bodhgaya y Pawapuri) correspondientes a otros cultos budismo y jainismo
Asimismo cuenta Patna con un interesante museo de Arte e Historia y una universidad fundada en 1917.

Economía
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Arguably one of the weirder properties under the Marvel banner, "Doctor Strange" marries its inventive visuals – from the colorful, kaleidoscopic imagery to the physics-bending action sequences – with the usual superhero story beats to deliver the best solo origin movie since "Iron Man." Benedict Cumberbatch is pitch-perfect as the cocky yet charming title character, while the rest of the cast (particularly Tilda Swinton) turn in great work. Though the film never strays too far from the tried-and-true Marvel formula, it's not afraid to get a little weird either, embracing the absurdity of the material with a knowing wink, as if to say, "Are you having fun yet?" And "Doctor Strange" is nothing if not fun, balancing the headier stuff with a strong dramatic core and a dash of humor to create an excellent addition to the genre.
Last week, we had a drink that highlighted the bittersweet pleasures of Campari, a sometimes divisive liqueur that is nevertheless a classic cocktail essential. This Oscar weekend, we're quite literally doubling down on the Campari and maybe tripling down on the bombast with a bunch of other harshly bitter and gently sweet ingredients for one of the best new cocktails I've had in awhile. It just might be the perfect two-pronged taste to savor as you enjoy the Oscars while, of course, complaining about the Oscars.
Eeyore's Requiem is presumably named after A.A Milne's depressive donkey who cut through some of the sweetness generated by the rest of the gang at Pooh Corner. It can be found on the menu of the Chicago craft bar, the Violet Hour, which stresses the classic beverages of the pre-Prohibition era. Created by Toby Maloney apparently circa 2011, this is a drink that is iconoclastic enough to set a new standard. I wouldn't call it the "Citizen Kane" of cocktails, but it definitely turns cocktail convention on its head, with Campari taking the place of a base spirit and then relegating the hard stuff to a supporting role. It's not your usual cocktail.
One of the ways to feel self-confident is by taking care of yourself. You're sure to look your best when you do this on a regular basis. The key to having outward beauty begins with what you think and what you put in your body. If you're one of the millions of people that have decided this is the year to look as good as possible, you will want to know some tips to help you do so. You may even be amazed at the results you're able to see when you begin to work on this self-improvement process.


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The intended audiences of this brief are people with an interest in biodiversity conservation and biodiversity related ecosystem services in the context of land use management. The overview of valuation methods provided in the brief gives the reader an easy to read introduction to both the potentials and limits of economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The information contained in the brief thereby gives an indication of the scope for including biodiversity related values in e.g. project appraisals and policy processes on equal terms with other aspects.
There is widespread consensus that biodiversity and the ecosystem services it supplies represent significant value to individuals as well as to society as a whole. Issues less easy to reach consensus upon concern (i) the magnitude of the value (ii) the relative contribution of different values to total value and (iii) how to assess the different values. During the past decades environmental economists have put considerable effort into the development and application of methods for assessing the monetary value of biodiversity and biodiversity related ecosystem services. In Table 1 an overview is provided of the methods available for economic valuation. For each of the methods the types of values it can be used to assess are listed; it is also specified which ecosystem service category the values belong to. Examples are also provided of specific ecosystem services which can be valued by the different methods.
The first method listed in Table 1 is the Adjusted Market Price Method, which can be used to assess the values of direct consumptive uses such as agricultural production and fisheries. In ecosystem service terms these uses and values refer to the provisioning services category. Using the Adjusted Market Price method values are assessed based on market prices that are subsequently adjusted for market distortions such as taxes, subsidies and non-competitive practices. In theory the method is quite simple, but in practice it may be difficult to identify the relevant prices and to quantify the distortions; also, it may be difficult to determine which share of the total value that can be attributed to biodiversity and ecosystems services.
The next 4 valuation methods listed in Table 1 can all be used to assess indirect use, insurance and option values, stemming from ecosystem services belonging to the regulating services category. Using the Production Function approach, the value of ecosystem services is assessed by isolating their effect as an input to a production process. The method is suitable for valuing ecosystem services such as natural pest control, where such control can enter agricultural production functions on equal terms with other inputs to production. Using the Damage Cost approach an ecosystem service is valued by calculating the costs that would be incurred in case the ecosystem service was lost/degraded. The approach is suitable e.g. in relation to valuing flood mitigation, where the value of the ecosystem service can be assessed as the flood related costs that are avoided due to the ecosystem service being delivered. The Averting Behavior approach is somewhat similar to the Damage Cost approach in the sense that ecosystem services are valued with reference to the negative consequences that are expected to occur in case the services are degraded or disappear. But where the damage cost approach propose that the value of the ecosystem service is equal to the avoided damage cost, the
Table 1: Overview of economic valuation methods available for valuing biodiversity and biodiversity related ecosystem services.
Valuation method Types of values Ecosystem service categories Examples
Adjusted market prices Direct consumptive use Provisioning services Crops, livestock, timber
Production function approach Indirect use, insurance, option Regulating services Natural pest control, pollination, flood mitigation
Damage costs Indirect use, insurance, option Regulating services Flood mitigation, natural pest control
Averting costs Indirect use, insurance, option Regulating services Pollution control
Opportunity costs Indirect use, insurance, option Regulating services Water quality
Revealed preference methods Direct non-consumptive use Cultural services Recreation, peace and quiet, landscape aesthetics
Stated preference methods Use and non-use Provisioning, regulating and cultural services Water quality, species conservation, flood prevention
Benefit transfer Use and non-use Provisioning, regulating and cultural services Transfer of results from hedonic or stated preference studies
Deliberative valuation Use and non-use Provisioning, regulating and cultural services Conservation priorities
Expert valuation Use and non-use Provisioning, regulating and cultural services Issues where scientific knowledge is essential
Multi-criteria evaluation Use and non-use Provisioning, regulating and cultural services Conservation and environmental policy priorities
Averting Behavior approach proposes that expenditures incurred in order to avoid damage from the loss of an ecosystem service can be used as an estimate of the value of the service. An example of how the Averting Behavior approach may be used is pollution control. According to the Opportunity Cost approach the value of an ecosystem service can be estimated by calculating the costs associated with obtaining similar services elsewhere or by other means; an example is water quality, where the value of ecosystem services contributing to maintaining a naturally clean supply of drinking water may be estimated by calculating the costs associated with e.g. chemical treatment of water for drinking purposes.
Revealed Preference methods refer to valuation methods based on analysis of individuals' revealed preferences. The methods are used to assess direct non-consumptive use values related to ecosystem services within the Cultural ecosystem services category. The analysis of preferences concerns individual's expenditure on goods whose consumption is complementary to the demand for the ecosystem services. The most common Revealed preference methods are the Travel Cost Method and Hedonic Price methods, which are typically used to assess the values of areas used for recreation and landscape features, respectively.
Stated preference methods is also a collective term used for several different methods, which all share the common characteristic that they are based on stated (i.e. hypothetical) preferences rather than actual revealed preferences. Some of the most commonly used Stated Preference methods are Choice Experiments and Contingent Valuation. An advantage of Stated Preference methods compared to Revealed Preference methods is that they can be used to assess all types of values that are based on human preferences; hence they can be used to value provisioning, regulating as well as cultural services. Another advantage of this group of methods is that they can be used to assess the value of future hypothetical scenarios, and this makes their use particularly relevant in relation to the evaluation and design of different policy and land use management initiatives. Using Stated Preference methods individuals' are asked to indicate (either directly or indirectly) their willingness to pay for different quantities or qualities of an environmental good or service. Seen from a theoretical point of view it is fairly straightforward to obtain value estimates for almost all services using these methods. In practice, however, it is complicated; it is a complex and difficult task to describe the good or service subjected to valuation in a way that both makes sense to those valuing the good and reflects the economic, social and environmental context of considered quantity or quality changes. Although Stated Preference methods can be used to value all types of ecosystem services, in practice they are primarily used in contexts where it is not feasible to use other methods.
Benefit Transfer, despite its being listed in Table 1, does not qualify as a valuation method as such. Instead it represents an approach where value estimates derived for one site are transferred to other similar sites. Benefit Transfer thus represents a fairly cheap and easy way of obtaining information on the value of ecosystem services. An evident prerequisite for using the method is that estimates suitable for benefit transfer can be found, and this may often be difficult. Hence even though the number of ecosystem service related valuation studies is rapidly increasing the chance that studies conducted in sufficiently similar contexts can be found remains small.
The last three valuation methods listed in Table 1 differ from the other methods in the sense that they do not represent strictly economic valuation methods. Hence they can also be used for non-economic valuation exercises such as rankings. Common to all three methods is that they can be used for all types of values and most types of ecosystems services. Deliberative Valuation refers to approaches where values are elicited by asking focus groups to choose between different qualities/quantities of environmental goods. Depending on how the choices are framed information may be obtained either about the monetary value of the good or about the relative importance/value of different quantities/qualities of either the same good or different goods. The method may be particularly suitable for prioritizing conservation efforts where forms of values are being assessed. Expert Valuation, as the name indicates, refers to approaches where value estimates are obtained from experts, usually a group of experts. The approach is mainly applicable to situations where scientific knowledge is essential for the valuation (either quantitative or qualitative) of alternatives. The last of the methods, Multi-Criteria Evaluation, is particularly relevant in situations where many attributes need to be considered simultaneously. An example is evaluation of policy actions which affect the provision of several ecosystem services, and where some are positively affected, while others are negatively affected. Using the method, weights are assigned to the factors affected by the considered policy. These weightings can be used to calculate an aggregate criterion for different policy scenarios, which subsequently can be used as a base for ranking the different scenarios. The approach can be used as input to the design of conservation and environmental policies where it is necessary to prioritize between different focus areas.
Knowledge of the economic value of biodiversity and biodiversity related ecosystem services can be useful in a number of different contexts such as raising awareness, accounting, priority setting, design of policy instruments and litigation. It is however, important to be aware that value estimates obtained by the use of the methods described in this brief are subjective in the sense that they are conditional upon the context in which they have been derived. As an example, values obtained by the Production Function approach are conditional upon the assumptions underlying the production function, and if e.g. other variables had been included in the function, then the value estimates might have looked different. Similarly, value estimates obtained by the use of Stated Preference methods are very much dependent not only on how the scenarios are constructed by the researcher but also on how the scenarios are perceived by the individuals who state their willingness-to-pay. Also, the results from e.g. Expert Valuations or Deliberative Valuations might have looked different had the participants been different. The essence is that it is important to acknowledge that valuation results are not 100% valid or reliable. However, this should not be taken to suggest that the value estimates are of little relevance as input to decision-making. To the contrary, estimates of the value of ecosystem services will in many cases constitute important input to decision-making and policy processes. As an example, they may serve to substantiate the widespread perception that biodiversity and ecosystem services are valuable to individuals and society. Likewise, they may contribute to making the often difficult trade-offs between ecosystem services and market goods more informed. Finally, they may facilitate the task of making the sometimes necessary trade-offs between different ecosystem services, as valuation results may serve to shed light on the relative importance of different ecosystem services.
The Damage Cost, Averting Cost and Opportunity Cost approaches distinguish themselves from the other methods by eliciting values based on cost of provision rather than on individuals' preferences. This means that the values obtained are based on the implicit assumption that the provision of the good or service is delivered at the optimal level. This is often a strong assumption and preference based valuations are likely to be quite different from cost based valuations. This is important to bear in mind when using the value estimates in further analyses.
It is important to recognize that most of the methods are quite demanding to apply both in terms of time and resources. The current scope for widespread application of the methods is therefore limited in this way.
However, as already mentioned, information on the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services can be useful in relation to raising awareness, accounting, priority setting, design of policy instruments and litigation. The validity and reliability requirements depend on the intended use of the valuation results. As an example, the requirements imposed on value estimates to be used for raising awareness are less stringent than those applying to estimates to be used for priority setting, and these – in turn – are less stringent than the requirements imposed on values to be used for litigation purposes. What is important to note here is that increasing the validity and reliability of valuation estimates often entail an increase in cost. The intended use of the estimates is therefore a relevant factor to keep in mind both when choosing between methods and in relation to how specific methods are implemented (e.g. sample sizes).
Finally, it is worth highlighting that the methods discussed in this brief focus on how to provide input to economic analyses. It is generally accepted that economic analyses play an important role in relation to biodiversity conservation and the management of ecosystem services. At the same time, however, it is also widely recognized that there are fundamental ethical arguments which also need to be considered in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem service decision making. Accordingly, economic analyses should in most cases be supplemented by analyses based on more ethical considerations in order to optimize policies and management strategies with respect to all values rather than just the economic subset of biodiversity and ecosystem service values.
Transferability
The economic valuation methods discussed in this brief have been developed within economics, but have been applied here to the more specific field of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Thus the methods are transferable across all aspects of non-marketed goods and services, with the limitations of the particular methods as described.
A range of methods exists for assessing the economic values of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The available methods differ in terms of the types of values and ecosystem services that they can be used to assess.
Biodiversity and ecosystem value estimates are never truly objective as they depend on the context and assumptions underlying the methods used for obtaining the estimates.
Economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem values may provide important input to decision-making and policy processes
Looking for more information on methods for assessing the economic values of biodiversity and ecosystems services?
Full results and analysis are contained in Part 1 of the BESAFE Work Package 4 deliverable: http://www.besafe.pensoft.net/files/DOWNLOAD2/BESAFE_D4.1_Synthesis_Final.pdf.
For more BESAFE results, including separate briefs focusing on case studies and various other aspects of biodiversity and ecosystem services, see http://www.besafe.pensoft.net
This brief is a result of research carried out under the BESAFE project. This brief was written by Louise Martinsen, Prof. Mette Termansen For further details contact Mette Termansen (mter@envs.au.dk)
The BESAFE project is an interdisciplinary research project funded under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, contract number: 282743.
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February 9, 2018 by Kat
The Critic in Novels: Cultured or Caustic?
Critics have a bad rap. We picture them as cruel little men (somehow not women) who savage the books and movies we love. "I never agree with the critics," my mother used to say. I seldom do myself, but I read reviews and discover good books by reading between the lines. Personally, I have never known a critic. I have known book reviewers, who are a milder bunch. But suddenly, last month, critics kept cropping up as minor characters in the twentieth-century novels I was reading.
In general, they were an unpleasant bunch. I chortled over a scene in Barbara Pym's Jane and Prudence, set at a literary society meeting. Jane, a middle-aged minister's wife and writer of a collection of essays, attends the meeting to "absent herself from parish duties." Her old college friend, Barbara Bird, a novelist, chats about the good reviews of her latest novel. She is pleased by the turn-out for the meeting.
"Better gathering than usual," said Miss Bird; "quite a few critics."
"Such mild-looking men," said Jane, seeing one of them taking his seat near the front. "Perhaps they compensate themselves for their gentle appearance by dipping their pens in vitriol."
Later, Jane has an accidental encounter with a critic while conversing with Miss Bird. "Oh, yes,' agreed Jane enthusiastically, stepping backwards into a critic and causing him to upset his coffee over himself."
Pym getting back at the critics? But did Pym ever receive a bad reviews?
Critics are useful to writers, as we see in Some Do Not…, the first volume in Ford Madox Ford's stunning tetralogy, Parade's End. Mrs. Wannop, a brilliant novelist and freelance writer, arrives unannounced at a brunch and immediately corners a critic. "…Mrs. Wannop was a woman of business. If she heard of a reviewer within driving distance she called on him with eggs as a present." Ford is very comical about her, but, believe me, she needs the press, because she and her suffragette daughter are almost starving.
I am a great fan of Pamela Hansford Johnson, and recently reread the second in her Dorothy Merlin trilogy, Night and Silence, Who Is Here? Dorothy's friend Matthew, an aristocratic playboy, is lionized by an American college after Dorothy bullies him into writing articles about her. "Since he mildly liked her work, he saw no reason why not to; and as her total oeuvre consisted of twenty shortish poems and four slim verse-dramas, the labor was not demanding. He had all the luck of those who find themselves, by accident, first in the field. He was immediately accepted as the world authority on Dorothy Merlin, because he was literally the only one."
In A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell's 12-novel masterpiece, the critics are difficult people, sometimes not quite of the writer/narrator Nick's class. He went to Oxford with Mark Members, a savvy social-climbing poet and critic. In the fifth novel in the series, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, we meet Maclintick, a bad-tempered music critic. He is not entirely unsympathetic, but comes to a bad end. Nick describes him as follows:
…Maclintick belonged to the solidly built musical type, a physical heaviness already threatening obesity in early middle age. Broad-shouldered, yet somehow narrowing toward his lower extremities, his frontal elevation gave the impression of a large rectangular kite about to float away into the sky on the fumes of Irish whiskey, which, even above the endemic odors of the Mortimer and the superimposed insistence of Mr. Deacon's eucalyptus, freely emanated from the quarter where he sat. Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations. The minute circular lenses of his gold-rimmed spectacles, set across the nose of a pug dog, made one think of caricatures of Thackeray or President Thiers, imposing on him the air of a bad-tempered doctor.
What is the source of these satiric portrayals of critics? Why do we recognize them? Perhaps I first read about a critic in one of the novels of Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, or a satire by Evelyn Waugh?
I do remember a critic in Sebastian Faulk's relatively recent novel, A Week In December, published in 2009. I loved the large ensemble cast, and wrote in my book journal:
My favorite character is the terrible but funny Tranter, a book reviewer who lives to eviscerate novelists. He seems to be right out of the pages of Anthony Powell…. He lives off a number of freelance review assignments, combined with gigs running an upscale women's book group and editing teachers' comments on reports at a fancy private (or public, as they say in England) school. Reading the newspaper, he focuses on the book review pages.
So do you know of any critics in novels? Who are your favorites? And why do they have such a bad reputation?
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January 28, 2018 by Kat
When We Like Unlikable Characters: Audrey Maclintick in Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
Perhaps on a first reading, we read a novel as the writer intends. Well, not quite, but we tend to like the genial characters and to be less sympathetic to the unpleasant characters. Then, if we love a book and reread it, we may grow fond of the less engaging characters.
I am a fan of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. I had no idea what a treat I was in for when I bought the paperbacks at a used bookstore in my twenties. (I bought them for the covers.) Although Powell's 12-book masterpiece is often compared to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, I see it more as Evelyn Waughish–a very long Brideshead Revisited combined with the Sword of Honour trilogy. Nick Jenkins, the charming, witty narrator-writer, satirically sketches the colorful people in his life: Waughish aristocrats, night club goers, artists, writers, musicians, soldiers, wealthy businessmen, and charming, dissatisfied women. But he also examines the vicissitudes of English society from the end of World War I through the 1960s–a high society I would not aspire to, even if I understood British culture well enough.
On a recent rereading of Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, the fifth book in Dance, Audrey Maclintick, the unhappy, cranky wife of an unsuccessful music critic, surprisingly became my favorite character.
Must I defend Audrey? I think I must. If you lived in her cold, horrible house with a moody, misogynist music critic, you would be uncharming, too. Dicey surroundings improve no one's temperament. When Nick's friend Hugh Moreland, a successful musician/composer, takes him to visit the Maclinticks, he is not prepared for the neighborhood: "The house, when we reached it, turned out to be a small, infinitely decayed two-storey dwelling that had seen better days; now threatened by a row of mean shops advancing from one end of the street and a fearful slum crowding up from the other."
Nick does not like the house, nor does he have a good impression of Audrey. "'Find somewhere to sit,' said Mrs. Maclintick, speaking as if the day, bad enough before, had been finally ruined by our arrival. 'He will be down soon.'"
When Maclintick comes down in his slippers, Mrs. Maclintic is querulous. "I thought you were going to get the man to see after the gas fire. You haven't moved from the house all day. I wish you'd stick to what you say. I could have got hold of him myself, if you weren't going to do it."
Now it's not that Nick/Powell is entirely unsympathetic to Audrey. She isn't a heroine, but she isn't a fishwife, either. She is a comic character, and yet he captures her unhappiness, and certainly shows Maclintick as being far worse. And as wives, we must sympathize with Audrey. There are moments for all of us when the "gas fire" hasn't been seen to, but if our husband isn't a music critic, it is probably because he thought he could fix it himself.
There is also a ruckus over the lodger, Carolo, a composer. Like his wife, Maclintick doesn't wait for his friends to leave before complaining. He doesn't like Carolo's writing in the corner while they are eating. And poor Audrey is honest. She says, "I like Carolo here…. He gives us little trouble. I don't want to die of melancholia, never seeing a soul."
Poor Audrey! Maclintick is inattentive and unkind.
And later, at a party, Audrey is charmed by Stringham, Nick's old school friend, who is now an alcoholic, unwelcome at his mother's house. Audrey is ready to go out on the town with Stringham to escape the boring snobbish musical party, given in honor of Moreland. Stringham and Audrey are both mavericks, but their attempt to escape is squelched.
The Maclinticks' marriage does not end well. In fact, it is tragic. But can one blame Audrey for running off with Carolo? I cannot. Maclintick really does seem like a horrible man, though we have much sympathy for him at the end when he loses his wife and his job and then… But the consequences of that bad marriage temporarily save Moreland's marriage to Matilda, an actress, to whom Audrey turns out to be linked in a surprising way.
Does anyone else like Audrey? I never read Powell the same way twice.
Who are your favorite unlikable characters? More on this anon from me.
Paul Rhys (Stringham), James Purfoy (NIck), and Zoë Wanamaker (Audrey) in "A Dance to the Music of Time"
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A Catch-Up Post: Gail Godwin's The Odd Woman & Anthony Powell's What's Become of Waring
I'm behind on writing about my reading, so this is a two-in-one. I recently reread Gail Godwin's The Odd Woman, a brilliant novel about an English professor with an untenured job at a midwestern university, and a first read of Anthony Powell's What's Become of Waring, a satire of the publishing industry.
1. Gail Godwin, a Southern-born writer who won the Award from the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1981, has been nominated three times for the National Book Award. She should have won for her brilliant novel, A Mother and Two Daughters, a women's classic which has never quite gotten its dues.
The Odd Woman, published in 1974, in many ways lays the groundwork for A Mother and Two Daughters. The Odd Woman explores a woman's academic and personal life: Godwin, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and taught at Vassar and Columbia before becoming a full-time writer, knows about balance. Her sympathetic portrayal of a bookish heroine, Jane Clifford, a visiting English professor whose teaching contract is soon to expire, is utterly realistic. But what can Jane do? Hers is the plight of thousands of instructors with Ph.Ds.
Born in the South, Jane is an odd woman at the midwestern college, single and in her thirties. Her married friend Sonia, a tenured professor, is in her corner, but there are no openings at the college. And the rest of her close relationships are long-distance. Her flamboyant best friend, Gerda, who publishes a radical feminist newspaper in her basement in Chicago, is impatient with Jane's reserve and loneliness. And Jane's married lover Gabriel, an ineffectual art history professor who lives in the next state and does endless research (he is like Casaubon in Middlemarch, Jane eventually realizes) but never completes his book about the Pre-Raphaelites, is so timid that he insists she have a separate hotel room on a trip to New York in case one of his colleagues figures out he is having an affair . And Gerda says that is typical of Jane, to fall in love with a guy with his head in the clouds who hides even in huge New York City.
Jane is in a state of stasis. Can Jane change? She is terrified of change. Reading is her life. She was happiest while holed up one winter 12 hours a day in a university library writing her dissertation on George Eliot. Everything seemed white that winter, everything seemed pure. What does that say about her? Jane wonders. Even her relationship with Gabriel started with a letter. Then her grandmother's death and a visit to her mother, who has for years been happily married to an unintellectual construction contractor, forces her to examine the shape of her life and that of her mother and grandmother, wh0 raised her to be strong. Preparing to teach George Gissing's novel about single women, The Odd Women, for a women's studies class, also puts her life in context. One of the reasons I enjoy this novel is that I love Gissing. Every word Godwin writes is brilliant, even Jane's notes on this classic.
Slowly and thoughtfully, she underscored "COMPROMISE-REBELLION AGAINST ONE'S OWN COMPROMISE-DEATH." Then she wrote quickly in the margin, beside Monica's fate: "Theme of literally dozens of 19th century novels–the 'Emma Bovary' syndrome. Literature's graveyard positively choked with women who chose–rather, let themselves be chosen by–this syndrome; also with their 'cousins'–who 'get in trouble' (commit adultery, have sex without marriage, think of committing adultery, or having sex without marriage) and thus, according to the literary convention of the time, must die.
This is a great book, especially for fans of 19th century novels.
2 As a teacher at a prep school in the 1980s in a city I didn't know, I divided my free time between running 10K races (there went Saturday morning) and browsing at bookstores (often on the same day, in the same clothes). I'd never heard of Anthony Powell when I found a 12-volume paperback set of A Dance to the Music of Time at a used bookstore in Maryland. I bought it for the charming covers, and read the whole thing addictively over the course of a week, laughing aloud at Powell's wit. I've gone back to it many times.
Although I had never come across Powell's other novels, I recently added What's Become of Waring to my never-ending TBR list when it was mentioned in D.J. Taylor's brilliant history of English literary culture, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (which I wrote about here). Waring is a satire of the publishing industry, from the point of view of a detached narrator who works as an editor for a small publishing firm.
I started chortling on the first page of Waring. It opens at a wedding.
As the parson was approaching the end of his discourse something flicked through the air and landed in my hat resting brim upwards on the pew beside me. On examination the object turned out to be a page torn from the service paper, folded several times and inscribed in pencil: Put all your money under the seat or I'll drill a hole through you. It was signed, Red-Handed Mike above a skull-and-crossbones.
It turns out to be his old friend Eustace Bromwich, back from traveling in the Near East. We learn that the narrator used to work in advertising but is now at the publisher Judkins & Judkins. The witty repartee never stops.
"Whom do you prefer? Judkins? Or Judkins?"
"Judkins, emphatically."
The best-known writer at Judkins & Judkins is T. T. Waring, a best-selling travel writer whose addictive style and thrilling adventures keep the firm afloat. The amusing Eustace, who has also traveled in the Far East, tells the narrator he despises Waring's books, but whether or not Waring is literary, his absent person is the catalyst for the ensuing comedy of errors. When it is reported that Waring has died, Judkins & Judkins is up a creek, because they don't have his last manuscript in hand and were depending on it. They also want to publish a biography of Waring, but have never met Waring and don't even know where he lived. Then bold Roberta, a freelance writer who hopes to hustle the publication of a book of her journalism at Judkins & Judkins, admits she was briefly engaged to him in France. (And she does get her book.) Another friend of the narrator, Captain Hudson, who is a fan of Waring, is assigned to write Waring's biography. The book proceeds at a rapidfire pace, as Powell explores problems of identity, spirtutalism, seances, plagiarism, selling out, romance, and travel.
The books is very, very witty and comical, and I like the Waughish aloofness of the narrator. There's something about books about books.
I thought of giving it away, but I'll probably want to reread it.
A fun novel!
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TRAIL ROUTE Starting in downtown Kalkaska, the Bell's Beer Iceman trail consists of paved roads, dirt roads, two tracks (the majority of the course), abandoned railroad beds, and the world famous Vasa Nordic ski trail. Approximately 29 miles long, the course crosses only one paved road (Williamsburg Rd. at mile 17) as it winds through the breath taking terrain of the Pere Marquette State Forest in Northwestern Lower Michigan. Course highlights include "Steve's Secret", "Lombard's Luge," "Cassle Cliffs," and "Ice Breaker" (the last hill to climb). The finish line at Timber Ridge, just east of Traverse City, will be a welcome sight to all Icemen and Icewomen. The course can be best described as a road race on dirt.
The Meijer Slush Cup offers beginning riders with a half frozen version of the Iceman. Approximately 8 miles long, the Slush Cup starts at Timber Ridge, follows the Vasa 10K ski trail, and then merges with the Iceman trail before winding up back at Timber Ridge.
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How asking the right questions helped Victoria Ferro survive a stage 4 cancer diagnosis
Victoria was 38 years old working as an executive in the media industry when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. The photo below shows her shortly before the date of her diagnosis. In 2013, Victoria was diagnosed with her second recurrence. This time the scans and biopsies showed she had stage 4 cancer. Three different oncologists told her she was dying, incurable and inoperable.
Not one to give up easily, Victoria challenged her oncologists at the Stanford Women's Cancer Center to find creative solutions for her situation. Victoria fully engaged in finding a way to a cure, not just palliation, which was the only option offered by two different oncologists. Previous to Stanford in the US, Victoria searched for a cure in three other countries in Asia, including her native Philippines.
Victoria fought to overcome what was by all accounts a dire situation. Finally in mid-2015, after a battery of treatments, overseen by Dr. George Sledge, Chief of Oncology of the Stanford Cancer Center, Victoria was declared, against all odds, with No Evidence of Disease (N. E. D.) Victoria by that time, had been fighting cancer for 10 years.
Please see video below of Dr. Sledge making the announcement in 2015.
Today, three years since her first N.E.D. results, Victoria's latest scans and tests show that her body continues to be without cancer, results that are truly remarkable in the face of what her own oncologist thought was a terminal situation. In the fall of 2016, Dr. Sledge told Victoria, when her scan once again came up N.E.D., "You are a wonder. I didn't think you'd make it past winter."
Victoria credits her excellent outcome partly to the assiduous way she gathers the quality information on which she applies decision science principles to make the best quality medical decisions. Part of her process is not just understanding the disease itself, but also understanding the medical and other health professions, understanding how institutions are run, even understanding how care providers receive their education. She leverages her location in Silicon Valley to learn the most current and most important medical, scientific and technological developments that may move the needle to a cure. She is careful to brainstorm a list of questions before she meets any one of her physicians. At some point she would lead the agenda of the meeting with these questions. She knows that their answers could be a clue to the basis of a better decision.
Victoria believes her understanding and application of decision science, one of the concentrations in the MBA education she received from Tulane University, helped spell the difference that led to her remarkable survivorship.
Victoria loves the concept of Lodestar.care because she can now include the research, guidelines and questions that have been put together by expert care professionals as part of her resource arsenal for keeping herself healthy and for her advocacy to help people struggling with advanced cancer. Victoria looks forward to having Lodestar.care by her side as she navigates her way to a bright future.
Says Victoria, "Lodestar definitely fills a big gap in the area of optimizing patient experience, for its own sake, and also for better health outcomes. It is definitely an idea whose time has come."
Victoria is currently writing a book on her journey through the cancer crucible. She recently produced an event at the Dragon Productions Theatre stage, that featured a staged reading of highlights from her play "Romance and Revolution in C: A Battle Tale" and a screening of the award-winning documentary film "Pananampalataya", which follows Victoria through two years of stage 4 cancer treatments at the Stanford Cancer Center.
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NEW YORK -- A merchant banking fund managed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. agreed to invest 400 million marks (204.51 million euros or $173.49 million) to acquire a 2.4% stake in KirchPayTV, a unit of Kirch Group that operates a pay-television platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The investment by Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking II LP values the German company at 16.3 billion marks.
The financing, which follows a spate of recent investments in the unit, will allow German media mogul Leo Kirch to continue to expand Kirch Group's pay-TV business and invest in Internet operations. Earlier this month, Saudi financier Prince Al Waleed and Los Angeles media investor Capital Research & Management both agreed to acquire small stakes in KirchPayTV.
With the investment, Lehman becomes a shareholder alongside KirchHolding, which is controlled by Leo Kirch's private foundation and whose stake in the unit now slips to 69.76%. Other shareholders include British Sky Broadcasting PLC, whose stake is now 22.03%; Prince Al Waleed's Kingdom Holdings, 3.12%, and Capital Research & Management, 2.7%.
KirchPayTV, which has two million pay-TV subscribers in Germany, operates the country's only pay-television company, Premiere World, as well as Teleclub pay TV in Switzerland.
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The coaching staff changes are continuing in Houston.
Assistant coach Roy Rogers is the latest member of the Rockets coaching staff who will not be returning next season.
Last week, the Rockets parted ways with defensive guru Jeff Bzdelik in what was viewed as a very surprising move.
The former power forward actually spent time as a player in the NBA, having played for the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors and Denver Nuggets. Rogers also had a few seasons playing abroad before joining the world of coaching as an assistant 2013 for the Brooklyn Nets.
Rogers, 45, joined the staff in 2016 when Mike D'Antoni was hired as head coach. He, like Bzdelik, was known as being a defense guy.
A second Rockets assistant coach will not return next season. Roy Rogers and the Rockets have mutually agreed to part ways, sources told ESPN.
— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) May 24, 2019
The departure of both Rogers and Bzdelik come after the Rockets were again eliminated from the NBA playoffs at the hands of the Golden State Warriors.
There was high speculation that D'Antoni would be first to go — but he is currently talking about an extension with the team ahead of the final year of his contract.
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"ASMR is not as odd as it sounds," said Burnie Burns, co-founder and chief creative officer of production company Rooster Teeth. "In the 90s we had CDs and audio tapes of rain forest sounds that many people used for relaxation purposes -- there just wasn't a fancy term to classify that media. Since online video has become a phenomenon, now we have a whole new generation of those kinds of ephemeral experiences created by people all over the world."
Finally something to explain my "photocopier man" feeling which has been a standard joke in our family. I first discovered this feeling when I was a teenager working in an office where a repair man would come regularly to maintain the photocopier and I would experience this sensation of well-being while he was working. It was in a fairly small office and usually he would clean the screen with an acetone base cleaner so I always thought that the fumes from that created a mini "high". I have had it at various times usually when there is someone repairing something in the office eg putting data cables, fixing sockets etc. I now work in a research lab and have had it when participants are in another room being tested with senors on their heads and I have no visual or auditory input from them just the sense of them being there. I have had it to a lesser extent from acupuncture and find massage of any kind extremely unpleasant. It's nice to find out that it's not just me that has this strange feeling for no apparent reason.
He posted earlier this year on the ASMR subreddit, calling for volunteers, and completed the study in May. First, he looked at how ASMR videos affected "normal people"—18 Dartmouth undergrads. "In the second study we selected only people we knew could reliably experience and report ASMR," he says. "For this we used 10 subjects, most of whom were people from the subreddit who could commute to Hanover, New Hampshire. In this second study we asked the participants to bring in videos that they knew would trigger their ASMR. They then watched the videos in an MRI, while indicating periods of ASMR with a button press."
Another article, published in the journal Television and New Media in November 2014, is by Joceline Andersen, a doctoral student in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University,[36] who suggested that ASMR videos comprising whispering 'create an intimate sonic space shared by the listener and the whisperer'. Andersen's article proposes that the pleasure jointly shared by both an ASMR video creator and its viewers might be perceived as a particular form of 'non-standard intimacy' by which consumers pursue a form of pleasure mediated by video media. Andersen suggests that such pursuit is private yet also public or publicized through the sharing of experiences via online communication with others within the 'whispering community'.[37]
But for the most part, the people running actual research studies on ASMR are optimistic about the future. And it bodes well that the first paper published on the sensation adhered to the principles of open science. "Psychology is going through a period of change, where we are looking at how good our methods are, and how reliable and reproducible our findings are," Davis points out. "I don't see research in this area as any different from other fields of psychology. We were very keen to be very open about our work, and we uploaded our complete data set so anyone can check our results, or find new things that we hadn't considered. This sort of openness doesn't solve every problem in psychology, but we thought it was a good start."
For outsiders, ASMR has always been weird. "One thing that's interesting about the ASMR experience is that it's about close personal attention," says Giulia Poerio, a psychology professor at the University of Sheffield who has undertaken multiple ASMR studies. Role-play videos thrive in the ASMR community – online, you can watch someone pretend to be your dentist, masseuse, or even a receptionist checking you into a hotel. "They're basically a simulation of what would happen if you got ASMR in real life," Poerio explains. "Multiple triggers are layered to get an effect."
So how do you know if you have ASMR? There's no single way to tell for sure, but for starters, you can watch some of the internet's most popular videos and determine whether they elicit a tingling response. And for your convenience, we've compiled some of the best ASMR videos that YouTube has to offer—so get those goose bumps ready, and while you're at it, try these brain teasers to find out whether you're smarter than an astronaut.
"The YouTube slime craze has left us beguiled. What's behind our connection to these polymer-based environmental hazards?" they asked, before describing ASMRtists as "auteurs of online content" whispering "spine-chilling ASMR magic" which absolutely fair enough. "'Can you hear that?' they whisper as they slap the wet, submissive, colourful blob on their clean counter surface." And that made Drenge wonder whether there's "a deeper connection," some way to explain why ASMR attracts and affects so many people (myself included). "Amniotic fluid? Anal retentiveness? Dipping your fingers into a wobbling pot of slime is surprisingly calming. You can almost feel your pupils dilate when watching a pair of hands sink into a fresh pot of goo. It's comparable to stepping into a pristine snowy field or discovering an untouched continent of the world. Slime makes you believe unbelievable things."
Daniel and Prunkl keep a folder full of this man's transgressions and have notified the local police. "Sometimes it scares me," Daniel confesses, quieter now. "It does scare me that this guy could be anywhere." Similarly, Makenna Kelly fears that kids at her bus stop will follow her home and leak her address online. "I just go down to the clubhouse and wait ten minutes just to make sure nobody knows where I live."
I had an abnormal psychology professor in undergrad that would have me drooling by the end of class because her voice was so "soothing". Lately, I have found that instructional videos via Youtube do the trick. I'm embarrassed to say, but I watched a video of some random guy giving a tutorial on how to properly clean out your ear for roughly a year (lol). I can watch nearly anything instructional to induce the sensation, but I am drawn to videos in which the narrator has an accent.
In my case, I enjoy the most when it occurs naturally in a real world situation. I would suggest you to play some online response related games (color-word match etc.,) for couple of minutes daily and try 1 or 2 ASMR trigger videos at a time. I hope you will get to experience ASMR on some videos at least. Even you play response related games like the color-word match or odd - even number match or the Vowel & consonant related Yes/No kind of games found in the internet for 10 to 15 minutes, I believe you will get at least a basic feeling of ASMR when you are simply resting or when you are calm without having to induce it through videos. Hope this helps. Trust me, it is a really, really good feeling. If it still doesn't work, forget it, no hard feelings. Like I said, I experience it once in blue moon, but never crave for it although I enjoy it when it happens naturally :)
Plus, it's logistically difficult to study a phenomenon that requires quiet and prefers solitude. As Smith points out, fMRI machines are noisy and EEG tests (which Smith's team also tried) involve attaching "goop and sensors" to the scalp, potentially interfering with the ability to feel tingles. As Smith puts it, "the tools we have are not relaxing."
According to YouTube estimates, there are more than 45 million ASMR videos uploaded to the site, and, over the past year, there has been a marked increase in children making ASMR-related videos. Richard hypothesises that our brain is probably more receptive to an unknown child than a strange adult, making it easier for some individuals to be relaxed by ASMR videos featuring children.
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. A feeling that is produced when listening to certain sounds and/or looking at certain visuals. The majority of people who experience ASMR don't mention it to their peers. I can almost guarantee that, you, reading this paragraph, has not mentioned ASMR to anyone you know. Most likely because you think they will think you're weird. We all feel the same way!
There's been suspicion that ASMR is a sexual pursuit, fueled by the fact that many ASMRtists are attractive young women and that cleavage is not exactly foreign to the medium. The comments beneath videos routinely make much of the ASMRtists' attractiveness, and terms like "braingasms" and "whisper porn" are often bandied about. But in the Swansea study, only 5 percent of respondents reported using it for sexual stimulation. Granted, this is self-reported data, but the results must be vindicating to ASMRheads who find themselves battling unsavory rumors about their nighttime video-watching habits.
In addition to the effectiveness of specific auditory stimuli, many subjects report that ASMR is triggered by the receipt of tender personal attention, often comprising combined physical touch and vocal expression, such as when having their hair cut, nails painted, ears cleaned, or back massaged, whilst the service provider speaks quietly to the recipient. Furthermore, many of those who have experienced ASMR during these and other comparable encounters with a service provider report that watching an "ASMRtist" simulate the provision of such personal attention, acting directly to the camera as if the viewer were the recipient of a simulated service, is sufficient to trigger it.[5][16]


Why Does My Practice Need Social Media?
I am sad to say my answer wasn't a great one. But as the plane headed for takeoff the question was quickly forgotten, at least by her. For the past two weeks this question has been on my mind a lot because I wasn't able to give Jane a great answer. Now that I've had time to think it over, here are three reasons why social media should be a priority for your practice.
Social Media is Branding: Does your practice have a brand? Absolutely, your brand is your personality. Social media is without a doubt the best medium to show and share that personality with the industry and world around you. How? Tell your story, share who you are, and be authentic with your patients. People don't buy services and products, they buy YOU. As our 2017 survey showed, patients leave providers not for lack of services, but for a lack of satisfaction. Social media provides a cost effective, mobile way to bring your brand out of hiding to create connections and increase that satisfaction in ways patients everywhere respond to.
There Is No Such Thing As An Offline Customer Experience: It is 2018 and the age of smartphones has made it so everyone has access to online resources. Neglecting your online presence on major social media platforms means you are giving up your role in that online community where patients are searching for help. At the start of 2016 Facebook reached an unheard of 1 billion active users. However, at the end of 2017, Facebook reported that it had surpassed the 2 billion active user mark, and in addition to a high user count, they also reported numbers showing 78% of users report using Facebook as a search engine to find businesses in their communities. Online reviews, video apps, and live streaming are features that are dominating the social media world. They can be useful to help your practice create an online experience for your patients that enhances the experience they receive in your office.
Find Your People: Social media can be portrayed as a cold, isolating way to communicate and connect. However, it doesn't have to be. Using features on platforms like Facebook Groups, or Twitter Chats, you can connect with real people who are like you using online tools! The networks you can connect within are so helpful in countless ways. Having a group, a place where like-minded people can converse and understand, is a healthy way to live. Meetups cannot always happen in our local areas, but they can happen over Facebook Live or Instagram stories. Your people are out there waiting, go find them and build lasting professional relationships. It will take the large world we live in and shrink it down to a more manageable size.
Social media is not instantly easy for everyone and, as there is with most things in life, a balance is needed. But that group I mentioned before? The one you need for support? Well, here we are. Welcome to Solutionreach, our online platforms are for groups of support for all who need them. Come, join us, support each other.
Why social media? My response is this: Why not social media?
Rebecca Curtis is a social media guru who helps businesses connect with their clients on an individual level. She holds a BS in English Literature from Utah Valley University. Rebecca knows that power of social media can change not only personal lives, but business lives as well. Rebecca has honed her social media skills working as a creative producer, event producer and social media consultant for companies such as Big Talk Media, WedUtah, Utah Fashion Week, and Entrepreneur Simplified. Rebecca currently leverages her talents as the Social Media Coordinator at Solutionreach.


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The Community Care Health & Care Network's Hospice Services is a community-based service dedicated to supporting people diagnosed with a life-threatening or terminal illness and their families. The mission of Hospice is to help these people live at home or in a home-like setting as comfortably and fully as possible.
Hospice provides a range of services focused on quality of life until the end of life as well as bereavement support for loved ones. Services can include respite care and caregiver relief, complementary therapies, liaison with other community supports, transportation and friendly visiting by trained volunteers.
Since 1988, Hospice Services has been providing a combination of active and compassionate therapies intended to comfort and support individuals who are living with, or dying from, a progressive life-threatening illness, as well as support for families and the bereaved. There is no fee for the services.
The heart of Hospice Services is a group of volunteers, men and women of all ages and backgrounds displaying sensitivity, excellent listening skills, and a willingness to serve. Attendance at an extensive training program is compulsory prior to becoming a volunteer.
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Q: Why the discrete subgroup of $R^n$ has finite balls? Consider a discrete subgroup $G$ of $R^n$. Then let we have an open ball $B\subset G$ (topology in $G$ is induced from $R^n$). Why is $|B|<\infty$?
For example I can take $A=\{\tfrac{1}{1},\tfrac{1}{2}, \tfrac{1}{3}, \tfrac{1}{4},\cdots, -1\}$, which is discrete set. Naturally I can find an open ball in A which is not finite, however $A$ is not a group. So I guess being group is necessary.

A: Here are two key facts:
1) We are working inside $\mathbb{R}^n$, in which a subset is compact iff it is closed and bounded (Heine-Borel).
2) A discrete subgroup $G$ of any Hausdorff topological group is closed (a proof of this was given recently on this site).  More generally, any locally compact subgroup of a Hausdorff group is closed.
So let $G$ be a discrete subgroup of $\mathbb{R}^n$.  We want to prove that for every ball $B$ of finite radius, $B \cap G$ is finite.  We easily reduce to the following special case: for all $r \geq 0$, the intersection of $G$ with the closed ball $B_r$ of radius $r$ centered at $0$ is finite.
Now let us apply the above facts: since $B_r$ is closed and bounded in $\mathbb{R}^n$, it is compact.  Since $G$ is closed in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $G \cap B_r$ is closed in $B_r$, so $G \cap B_r$ is compact.  Moreover, $G \cap B_r$ is a subspace of the discrete space $G$, so it is discrete.  But a topological space which is both compact and discrete is necessarily finite.

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