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Coronavirus/COVID-19 Updates
Ahead of congressional testimony from Rick Bright, the ousted vaccine development chief who claims he was retaliated against for warning the government was slow in responding to the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump Tweeted: "I don't know the so-called Whistleblower Rick Bright, never met him or even heard of him, but to me he is a disgruntled employee, not liked or respected by people I spoke to and who, with his attitude, should no longer be working for our government!"
As Dr. Bright testified, Health and Human Services distributed a press release attacking him, titled "CLAIM vs. REALITY." "Mr. Bright has not yet shown up for work, but continues to collect his $285,010 salary … His whistleblower complaint is filled with one-sided arguments and misinformation."
Dr. Rick Bright on vaccine timeline: "A lot of optimism is swirling around a 12-18 month timeframe, if everything goes perfectly. We've never seen everything go perfectly … I still think 12-18 months is an aggressive schedule, and I think it's going to take longer than that."
"The best scientific guidance and advice was not being conveyed to the American public at that time," Dr. Rick Bright says, after he was read a number of the president's early comments and asked to respond. Bright said a different approach could have prepared people and "saved more lives."
Dr. Rick Bright: "It was quite a surprise to me that the urgent ramp up of the testing did not include full consideration of all the critical supplies needed to support that ramp up of testing, including those materials you mentioned swabs, viral transport media, buffers, etc."
Dr. Rick Bright says he will never forget receiving an email from an N95 manufacturer warning: "We're in deep shit. The world is, and we need to act."
Bright told Congress that he forwarded the message, which fell on deaf ears. He also wrote that in his complaint.
Dr. Bright on his warnings about rapidly diminishing PPE supplies: "I was met with indifference, saying they were either too busy, they didn't have a plan, they didn't know who was responsible for procuring those … A number of excuses. But never any action."
Dr. Rick Bright told lawmakers the U.S. needs to empower leadership and "unleash the voices of the scientists" to fight COVID-19.
He said later: "We don't have a single point of leadership right now for this response, and we don't have a master plan for this response."
Dr. Rick Bright says President Trump had him fired from leading the quest for a vaccine as political payback for questioning Trump's unfounded claims about hydroxychloroquine.
Rep. Debbie Dingell: "Even this week, as we're being told anybody who wants a test can have a test, is that true in the United States of America?"
Bright: "No."
Dr. Bright with a damning statement on the Trump administration's virus response: "We did not forewarn people. We did not train people. We did not educate them on social distancing and wearing a mask as we should have in January and February. All those…could have…saved more lives."
During a White House meeting with governors, President Donald Trump claimed that "the airline industry is in good shape."
The president's comments stand in stark contrast to the fact that bookings on airlines have plummeted 98 percent from the same time last year.
Airlines are in an especially precarious situation due to the high operating cost of business. Several airlines are reportedly at risk of bankruptcy, and JP Morgan has warned that American Airlines could be particularly at risk.
The Agriculture Department has awarded multimillion-dollar contracts to companies that appear to have little experience working with food banks or farmers, spurning several big produce companies with extensive expertise in food distribution.
An event planning company in San Antonio, Texas, known for throwing lavish weddings and high-end conferences, was awarded more than $39 million — one of the largest contracts handed out by USDA under a new program aimed at matching up food banks with surplus produce, meat and dairy.
Also on the list was a company that specializes in trade-related finance and one that sells health and wellness items for travelers.
A senior defense official who has overseen the Pentagon's use of the Defense Production Act in the coronavirus response has been removed from her job, defense officials said Thursday.
Jennifer Santos, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy, will be reassigned to the Navy to oversee "critical projects," said Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, a Pentagon spokesman.
Nancy Beck, President Trump's nominee for the nation's top consumer safety watchdog, was reportedly involved in the Trump administration's decision to shelve CDC guidelines on reopening public spaces amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, serving as the main point of contact between health officials and the White House.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines for schools, workplaces and other venues throughout the United States to reopen safely as the country continues to wrestle with the coronavirus pandemic.
The CDC's guidelines come following uproar after The Associated Press reported that the White House blocked an earlier iteration of the guidelines, saying that they were too restrictive.
President Trump suggested the practice of widespread coronavirus testing may be "overrated," even as health experts insist it is critical to safely loosen restrictions and reopen businesses.
Trump boasted about the United States's testing capabilities during remarks at a Pennsylvania medical equipment distribution center, where he announced the country has administered 10 million tests since the outbreak began.
"We have the best testing in the world," Trump told employees at Owens & Minor Inc. in Allentown. "Could be that testing's, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an emergency advisory about a mysterious inflammatory illness believed to be connected to the coronavirus in children.
The CDC asked that health care providers report instances of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a condition health officials say is similar to Kawasaki Disease — a rare illness that causes inflamed blood vessels, typically in young children.
President Trump said he would prepare the U.S. military to disburse COVID-19 vaccines when they are ready.
"We're mobilizing our military and other forces, but we're mobilizing our military on the basis that we do have a vaccine," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo.
Other Administration News
President Trump escalated his attacks against former President Obama over what Trump has viewed as wrongdoing against his campaign by officials in the previous administration, saying that Republicans should call on the former president to testify.
"If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama," Trump tweeted. "He knew EVERYTHING."
A lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by accepting foreign government money through his luxury Washington hotel can proceed to fact-gathering about Trump's profits, a federal appeals court ruled.
The Richmond-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals voted, 9-6, to reject Trump's bid to shut down the lawsuit the governments of Maryland and the District of Columbia brought alleging violations of the Constitution's emoluments clauses.
President Trump was wary of making preparations for the coronavirus pandemic because he was concerned that doing so would send the stock market into a panic, the Financial Times reports. In a quote attributed to a Trump confidant who is said to speak to the president frequently, it's claimed: "Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn't do it… That advice worked far more powerfully on [Trump] than what the scientists were saying. He thinks they always exaggerate."
Nearly 3 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week — bringing the total to 36.5 million in the past eight weeks, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The Trump administration will not impose any limits on perchlorate, a toxic chemical compound which is used in rocket fuel, among other applications, that contaminates water and has been linked to fetal and infant brain damage.
The decision by Andrew Wheeler, the administrator of the E.P.A., appears to defy a court order that required the agency to establish a safe drinking-water standard for the chemical by the end of June. The policy, which acknowledges that exposure to high levels of perchlorate can cause I.Q. damage but opts nevertheless not to limit it, could also set a precedent for the regulation of other chemicals.
In 2011, the Obama administration announced that it planned to regulate perchlorate for the first time, reversing a decision by the George W. Bush administration not to control it. But the Defense Department and military contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have waged aggressive efforts to block controls, and the fight has dragged on.
The United States blamed Islamic State militants — not the Taliban — for a gruesome hospital attack in Afghanistan this week that killed two newborn babies, and it renewed calls for Afghans to embrace a troubled peace push with the Taliban insurgency.
Sources: ABC News, Axios, CBS News, CNN, Financial Times, Fox News,The Hill, NBC News, NPR, NY Times, Politico, Reuters, Salon, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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Obituary - Mrs Pearl Patricia Clara Shaw
Pearl Shaw.
Pearl Patricia Clara Shaw (nee Wright) died peacefully at the age of 95 on August 27 at Downside House, Ventnor.
Born in Ryde to Emily and Wallace Wright, Pearl was one of nine children growing up in Harding Road.
She attended Gassiot Girls School and was a member of the choir. Pearl was very fond of this and they would perform at Ryde Town Hall regularly.
After leaving school aged 14, Pearl took her first job at The Cosy Nook, a cafe and cake shop in Ryde.
She then worked at seasonal jobs at Ajax Photo Company, for a local vet and his wife and Dores hardware store until the outbreak of the Second World War and she was called up for service.
After failing her fitness test, she was drafted to work at a factory in Southampton training to be an aircraft fitter. Ill health meant she returned home to Harding Road where she helped her mother with household and childcare duties.
During the war, she met her future husband, RAF pilot Harold Shaw. They married in 1947 in a double wedding with Pearl's younger brother Terry and his fiance, Mary.
As Harold was from a farming family, Pearl and Harold initially lived and worked at Belmont Farm, Newport. Their farming work then took them to Gatcombe Manor Farm before settling in Wydcombe Farm, Whitwell.
The couple had five children — Stephen, Linda, Delma, Terence and Lisa — before Harold passed away in 1981 after a short battle with cancer.
A highlight of Pearl's life was appearing on the John Junkin TV show after she wrote to the show and asked to fulfil a lifelong dream of dancing the Can-Can with a troupe on television.
Pearl leaves four children, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Her funeral is to be held today (Friday (21)) at 1pm at St Mary and St Rhadegund Church, Whitwell.

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"The pivot failed to achieve key goals in Asia while inattention made matters worse in Europe and the Middle East."
In the twilight of Obama's presidency, Abe will be the first sitting Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. has done its part to deepen relations; the ball is now in Indonesia's court.
Is the Philippines Still a US Ally?
How long can the U.S.-Philippines alliance remain "rock solid" in the face of Duterte's fiery rhetoric?
A week of declamations by Rodrigo Duterte lay bare a troubling future for the old alliance.
The U.S.-India Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement benefits both countries.
Washington's headache in the South China increasingly includes one of its own allies.


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Жюльен Жус ( родился 21 января 1986 года в Лез-Иссамбр) профессиональный автогонщик из Франции.

Карьера

Формула-Форд
После проведённого времени в картинге с 1997 по 2001, Жус начал карьеру кольцевого автогонщика в серии Формула-Форд Кент. В трёх гонках он финишировал три раза на подиуме, включая одну победу. В 2003 он перешёл в Французскую Формулу-Форд, заработал всего лишь один подиум и закончил сезон девятым. Так же в конце сезона он принял участие в фестивале Формулы-Форд на трассе Брэндс-Хэтч, финишировал семнадцатым.

Формула-Рено
В 2004 Жус перешёл в Французскую Формула-Рено 2.0 за команду Hexis Racing. В первом сезоне у него был один финиш на подиум и четырнадцатое место в итоге. Он продолжил выступать в 2005, он стал выступать за SG Formula. Он заработал три подиума, включая победу на трассе Маньи-Кур, сезон завершил на шестом месте. Так же он принял участие в шести гонках Еврокубка Формулы-Рено всего заработал 12 очков и 21-е место.

Жус остался на третий сезон во Французской серии 2006, заработал победу и три подиума завершил сезон третьим. Также он принял участие в двух гонках Еврокубка Формулы-Рено 2.0.

Мировая Серия Рено

В 2007 Жус перешёл в Мировую Серию Рено за французскую команду Tech 1 Racing. Сезон он завершил на десятом месте, заработал одну поул-позицию, быстрый круг и три подиумных финиша. Его более успешный напарник, португалец Альвару Паренте выиграл титул в личном зачёте и принёс совместно с Жусом Tech 1 Racing титул в командном зачёте.

Жус остался в команде в 2008, где его напарником стал выпускник Формулы-Рено и соотечественник Шарль Пик . Жюльен завершил сезон в ранге вице-чемпиона, чемпионом стал Гидо ван дер Гарде, включая шесть подиумов и первую победу в серии на последнем этапе в Барселона . Также он помог продолжить своей команде серию из двух титулов в командном зачёте.

Формула-2

После участия в тестах GP2 за команды Fisichella Motor Sport и Trident Racing, Жус решил присоединиться к возрождённой серии ФИА Формула-2 в сезоне 2009 года и выступает на болиде под номером четыре. Свою первую победу в серии француз одержал на второй гонке в Донингтон Парке.

Результаты выступлений

Гоночная карьера

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Результаты выступлений в Формуле-2

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Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт Жюльена Жуса

Автогонщики Франции
Пилоты ФИА Формулы-2
Пилоты Еврокубка Формулы-Рено
Пилоты Французской Формулы-Рено
Пилоты Формулы-Рено 3.5

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Mike Speck
Realizing his talent at a young age, Mike's passion to play drums started at the age of six years old. Mike began playing drums for his church choir and later started playing bass guitar. It wasn't long before his God given talent paid off. Mike has shared the stage with many great artists such as Chris Tomlin, Newsboys, Disciple, Mark McKinney, Casey Donahew, and many more. Mike has played on several studio recordings for Scars Entertainment and Taking Solace Records. His current projects include playing drums for Justin Kaczyk, a solo project with bass player, good friend, and CEO of Taking Solace Records, Jay Estrada from the band "EPITOME" and a special father-son album with his oldest son, Casy Speck. Mike's diverse style ranges from Rock, Metal, Blues, Funk, Country, and Pop. Mike's passion for all genre of music has been influenced by great artists such as Stewart Copeland, Steve Smith, Gavin Harrison, and Simon Phillips. "Having more than 30 years experience, and having played on almost every brand made, I have never played on cymbals like these. They have the best all around sound that I have experienced." Mike plays Soultone Cymbals, Fibes Drums, Vic-Firth Sticks, and wears Scars Promotional Apparel.


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Phase Two
As promised in this space a couple of weeks ago, we're back with the introduction of another new section, which we're calling "The Culture Pages." It combines a traditional strength of the magazine's—incisive criticism of movies, theater, television, books, art, and music—with a constellation of new features that explore the city as an unparalleled producer of great culture. Where does an idea for a play come from, and how does it get from there to the stage? What does a musician do to imagine a new melody? What are the influences since childhood that made an artist the creative powerhouse that he or she would become? These are some of the questions we'll be getting at every week, in ways that we hope will be both artful and entertaining.
We are especially proud, in this first iteration of "The Culture Pages," to have our new film critic, Ken Tucker, performing double duty. On page 63, he analyzes Jon Stewart's attempt to be both a political satirist and, when it suits him, a political scold. Right after that, there's Ken's first film review, of the Ray Charles biopic Ray.There are plenty of other new bylines in "The Culture Pages," too, such as Keith Gessen, who reviews Stephen Elliott's campaign memoir, Looking Forward to It, and who will be one of our regular book critics. In this new format, we are reviewing more works, and so we're also featuring quite a few more critics whom you'll get to know over time. They will be joining some of the critics who've built a loyal following among our readers, such as John Simon, Mark Stevens, John Leonard, and Peter G. Davis.
You may notice that some of the features that have been included in "The Culture Pages" serve a bit of the function of the features that used to pepper "The Week," our listings section; now "The Week" is stripped of that material, which is why it is briefer. But the listings themselves are just as comprehensive as always. And on our Website (newyorkmetro.com), you'll see even deeper listings, including constantly updated movie times and easy-to-use links to buy tickets.
We have been very pleased with the response to the "Strategist." But the compliments haven't gone to our head. We've heard the complaints, too. We realize the type size has been a bit small. We know that the section might go on longer than many readers have an appetite for. But even as we rush to fix some of the problems, we are aware that in this issue, we're creating some of them again. Do not fear: "The Culture Pages" will not be this overwhelming every week. After we've shown you a smattering of our new tricks, we'll pare the section back, without flinching from our determination to be the authority on cultural life in New York and beyond.
We're demanding a lot of your time, we know that. But we hope we are building a stronger magazine, more substantive and more fun at the same time. We trust you will let us know if we're succeeding. Meanwhile, we are now preparing the third phase of this renovation for the issue that hits the stands on November 15. That's when we'll introduce some columnists, the "Intelligencer" section will be revamped, and our new look will be complete. Thanks for your patience as we remove the scaffolding, step by step.


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Q: what does a recursive closure returns to? I want to write a function (persistence) that takes in a positive parameter num and returns its multiplicative persistence, which is the number of times you must multiply the digits in num until you reach a single digit.
For example:
persistence(39) === 3 // because 3*9 = 27, 2*7 = 14, 1*4=4
                      // and 4 has only one digit

persistence(999) === 4 // because 9*9*9 = 729, 7*2*9 = 126,
                       // 1*2*6 = 12, and finally 1*2 = 2

persistence(4) === 0 // because 4 is already a one-digit number

I wrote this:
function persistence(num) {
   //code me
   var f;
   f= countPersistence(num);
   var toReturn= f(num); console.log("received value: "+toReturn);
   return toReturn;
}

function countPersistence(num){
  var count=0;
  return function g(num){
    var numt=num+"";
    numt=numt.split("");
    if(numt.length>1){
      count++;
      for(var i=0; i<numt.length-1; i++){
        numt[i+1]=numt[i]*numt[i+1];
      }
      arguments.callee(numt[numt.length-1]);
    }
    else
      { console.log("returned value: "+count); return count;}
  }

}

As you can see running this code, the returned value of the inner function is not exactly what expected.
Indeed, a function should return to where it is called from, right?. But in this case since it's recursive it is called from itself.
I have no idea how to retrieve the actual value (without using global variable)

A: You are not returning on the recursion line
return arguments.callee(numt[numt.length-1]);

and as I stated in the comments arguments.callee is deprecated so you should use the function name.
return g(numt[numt.length-1]);

A: You do not return a value when you call your inner function recursively. You could fix it like this (removing the else block and making it common code), so that always the last updated value of count is returned:

function persistence(num) {
   //code me
   var f;
   f= countPersistence(num);
   var toReturn= f(num);
   return toReturn;
}

function countPersistence(num){
  var count=0;
  return function g(num){
    var numt=num+"";
    numt=numt.split("");
    if(numt.length>1){
      count++;
      for(var i=0; i<numt.length-1; i++){
        numt[i+1]=numt[i]*numt[i+1];
      }
      arguments.callee(numt[numt.length-1]);
    }
    return count;
  }
}

console.log(persistence(39)); // 3
console.log(persistence(999)); // 4
console.log(persistence(4));  // 0

But arguments.callee is deprecated, and moreover you are making things overly complicated with nested functions.
You can do it like this:

function persistence(num){
  return num < 10 ? 0
       : 1 + persistence(String(num).split('').reduce((a, b) => a*b));
}

console.log(persistence(39)); // 3
console.log(persistence(999)); // 4
console.log(persistence(4)); // 0

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Why DNA Is Not Destiny
May 4, 2017 Science and Technology
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/96a22ca0-c373-40b2-96f1-7ed975c8f400/KERA_Think_5-4-17_HR_2.mp3
One of the things in life we can't change is our DNA. Yet that hasn't kept thousands of people from having their genomes sequenced. University of British Columbia psychology professor Steven Heine joins us to talk about why some of us put entirely too much stock into what genetic testing reveals, which he writes about in "DNA is not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes" (W.W. Norton and Co.).
Beyond Biology: Rethinking What Makes A Family
The Trial And Error Of Evolution
Listen to This Before You Do a DNA Test
You're Not Who You Think: The Secrets Of Ancient DNA
Due to special coverage, we will not be airing our first hour of Think. We plan to air the show at a later date. Tu… https://t.co/5HEE1BhLRX about 24 minutes ago
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? @tomvanderbilt says it's a lot easier than we think. At 1 pm CT, he joins us… https://t.co/FFFC0Uzkfs about 2 hours ago


Recently I played a concert in concert recital hall. The space was very intimate and the concert was around mid-day. At first I thought this was an odd time for a chamber music concert featuring the Stravinsky Octet and a few other works for the era. Odd until I listened to the New York Times Popcast: Jazz's Takeover of Hallowed Museum Spaces.
Part of the discussion dealt with the classification of what jazz music is and how artist explore new sounds, spaces, and the integration of many forms of arts. One of the artist in question was Jason Moran. A fantastic jazz pianist and now Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center.


This week I decided to travel the cosmos (if you look closely enough at that picture of the black hole released this week, you can just about see me in my spaceship), and having scoured every galaxy I can confirm that Music Related Junk is still the greatest music blog in the universe. Don't believe me? Then you're clearly an idiot.
This genre-bending mix of psychedelic guitars, slow-grooving synth bass and sighed-out vocals is absolutely captivating. In fact, it doesn't sound like anything I've heard before. The 20-year old producer/singer has a recently released EP out titled Double Digits, which you can listen to here if you're craving more of these moody groovy tunes.
Montreal band Men I Trust deliver this gorgeously melancholy ballad set to somnambulic synths and slinky bass. I can just picture a lonely couple slowdancing to this at the end of an 80s high school prom. It's the kind of dreamy indie sound I hoped from Tame Impala's new single 'Borderline', also released this week (which I found pretty disappointing - but not enough to feature it in my worst songs).
It's all been a bit gloomy this week, which may lead people to believe I'm depressed or something, but I assure you I'm not. 'Paralyzed' sounds a bit like 'Numb' (even the titles both have similar meanings), but gives me more of a Radiohead vibe. South-Korea-born singer-songwriter Jong SL has a beautiful voice and I love the way it soars off in the chorus.
The rapped verse at the beginning seemed to suggest that this was going to be a pretty standard hip hop track. I certainly wasn't expecting the song to launch into a house beat with bouncy pianos and soulful singing. Lyrically, it centres around healing from a breakup – the sharp change of direction in the song reflects the switch from focusing on one's ex to focusing on oneself. The vibrant track comes straight off the Brooklyn-based artist's breakup-themed album Blanco Tigre.
I couldn't find out much information about this Vancouver duo – they don't even seem to have a Facebook page. I hope they do get down to doing some marketing because their lo-fi house sound deserves more attention (just wait until those chords come in around the fifty second mark). It's the type of music that they play in swanky London bars that sell cocktails I can't afford.
'CHHHOPSTICKS! CHHHHOPSTICKS! CHOP! CHOP! CHOP!' This hook is absolutely dreadful. It pains me to think how much Travis got paid for this.


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Last week, a reader reached out to ask a question around film reviews. They were discussing the critical reaction to Tenet with friends and one suggested that many of the poor reviews were unreliable as they were the typical reaction snotty film critics have towards big-budget movies. The reader asked what the data reveals on this topic.
It's worth noting that Tenet has received a mostly favourable reaction from critics, although it is true that some of the less-positive reviews have commented on the scale of the film.
"If you just want big, then "Tenet" is as big as the world, a scale Nolan flaunts by traversing the planet twice, in different directions… An insinuating mid-budget noir has been punched up into a bet-the-house studio actioner" IndieWire
"[Christopher Nolan has] …devoted so much of Tenet to the Bond-alike sequences that the later science-fiction sequences are frustratingly hurried, undeveloped and almost impossible to make sense of." BBC
"Maximally staged and very, very loud, but flimsy at its heart" Vanity Fair
But the quality or budget of Tenet is not our focus. We are looking at whether film critics typically give poorer reviews to bigger budget movies.
I gathered data on 7,224 movies which were released in US cinemas between 2000 and 2019, and focused on the scores they received from film critics (a total of 159,486 individual reviews). I then looked for the correlation between the review scores and the film's budget, where a figure was available.
Let's start by answering the question directly, and then break it down by top publications and critics.
What is the overall connection between film reviews and movie budgets?
We can measure the correlation between two sets of figures by using the Pearson coefficient. It gives us a score between minus one and one. Minus ones means they are perfectly negatively correlated (i.e. whenever one goes up the other goes down), a score of one means perfect positive correlation (i.e. they rise and fall together) and zero means no correlation.
Across the whole dataset, there is no connection between budget and review scores (with a Pearson score of -0.07, which is not statistically significant). That said, if there were, it would only reveal the connection, not prove bias. It could be that bigger budget movies are actually better/worse than smaller titles.
Where it gets interesting is to look at which individual publications and critics are relatively big-budget-phobic when compared to their peers.
Which publications are harshest to big budget movies?
The Wall Street Journal is the harshest to big budget movies, within the thirty top publications I studied, followed closely by IndieWire and The New Yorker.
No publications favour big budget movies over smaller ones.
Which film critics are big-budget-phobic?
The chart below shows the scores for the 103 reviewers I analysed. I have left off most names as (a) there isn't space; and (b) many fall below the level of statistical significance to be useful (the scores, not the critics!)
The reviewers whose scores are most critical of big budget movies are:
Stephanie Merry (score of -0.35) who writes for the Washington Post. Of Exodus: Gods and Monsters she wrote "This biblical action drama that feels excessive in every way imaginable, from running time (nearly 2 1/2 hours) to melodramatic acting to the conspicuous amount of computer generation".
Emily Yoshida (score of -0.35) who writes for New York Magazine. She described The Meg as "a more or less straight-ahead B-movie thriller, with a heavy injection of Chinese financing and a rather shocking thirst for bloody whale carcasses".
Kenneth Turan (score of -0.26) at the Los Angeles Times. His review of Gangs of New York included the line "Scorsese and his team have created a heavy-footed golem of a motion picture, hard to ignore as it throws its weight around but fatally lacking in anything resembling soul".
David Sims (score of -0.34) at The Atlantic. Of Hobbs and Shaw he wrote "[Jason Statham and The Rock] spend most of the movie yelling at each other, preening over who's the better action hero and threatening to shove various household objects into various orifices, and only really come together for the final 20 minutes (long after I had zoned out)".
Katie Rife (score of -0.31) at The A.V. Club. She neatly summed up why she didn't like Godzilla: King of the Monsters with the line "you can't just have two hours of kaiju slapping each other around like a gargantuan WWE highlights reel".
The correlation at the other end of the spectrum (i.e. favouring big-budget movies over smaller ones) was weaker. Tom Russo at the Boston Globe had the strongest positive correlation (score of +0.16). In his glowing review of Ant-Man and The Wasp he said "It's as close to lizard-brain entertainment as superhero blockbusters get".
The data today came from IMDb, Wikipedia and from the film reviews, via Metacritic. I focused on publications which had published at least 300 movie reviews in the past five years and for which I have budget data. For reviewers that threshold was 100 reviews. Once I had my chosen publications and reviewers, I studied all their movie reviews since 2000.
The quotes are to get a sense of the critics' writing styles and for colour. The point is the data, not the anecdotal snippets I selected.
A few years ago, I was disappointed to see a reviewer for a major publication receiving public taunting for not liking Deadpool 2. She had tweeted ahead of the film that she was dreading the upcoming press screening and was probably not going to like the film. Using screenshots of her tweet and her resulting poor review, online comments flooded in complaining that she was biased and the review should be taken down.
It could be argued that she was the wrong journalist to be assigned to the role, although even that is debatable. Should movies only be reviewed by people who expect to like the movie? In either case, she was not at fault for disliking a movie she wouldn't choose to watch in her personal life. I'm sure each critic has their own experiences like this and I only single this one case out as it has stuck with me. The anger and cries for retribution were way out of whack with someone not liking a movie.
By its very nature, film criticism is subjective because (a) art can't have a single objective verdict; and (b) that's the point – you want to learn someone's perspective. To me, this seems self-evident. And yet, so many of the public comments added to film reviews and on Twitter are based on the premise that film reviewers could be reaching a single universal objective truth if they weren't so damned lazy / biased / female.
Jack Malvern
September 28, 2020 @ 10:15 am
At the risk of sounding like a misogynistic Twitter troll who gets in a flap about female critics, is it significant that four of the top five most anti-big-budget critics (as shown in your bar chart) are women and that all five pro-big-budget critics are men?
This could just be coincidence. Adjusting for the overall proportion of male/female critics, are there a larger numbers of women on the higher reaches of your chart?
Stephen Follows
September 29, 2020 @ 9:14 am
I thought you might. Sadly, the correlations are weak and there are too few female critics to be able to say anything meaningful on this front
Malachy Hamilton
Hi, I was wondering what the minimum cost was to be considered "high budget" in this study.
Hi Malachy. There isn't a banding such as "high" or "low". It looks at the degree to which scores rise or fall in line with budgets.
D. Abraham Brown
This one of the most intriguing and insightful of your always interesting analyses that I've seen. I am in the final stages of publishing a book about movies and their impact on our culture. I try to address this very question in the book. In fact, I have a whole chapter on critics and the role they play. You are on my short list of people who I plan on sending a complimentary copy (look for it in November or December. Please continue with your very astute and very relevant articles. You make an important contribution to the world of film enthusiasts.
Michael Compton
I'm not a statistician, so apologies if I'm missing something, but it seems to me we need to know a critic's score in relation to ALL movies reviewed if we want to know whether they have a bias for or against big budget productions. In other words, if Critic A scores -0.25 on big budget movies–which would place them pretty high on the negative scale–but has a -0.30 score for their full range of reviews, then that would indicate they may actually favor larger budgets. Some critics just produce more negative reviews than others, and vice versa. Wouldn't that skew these results?
Hi Michael. This is looking at a measure of their correlation, not an average of their score. So it doesn't actually matter whether they always give good or bad reviews, but rather the level to which the rise or fall in line with the films' budgets.
Having seen Tenet it *is* pretty flimsy. It is big budget but as a viewer it didn't appear any bigger than, say, the recent Mission Impossibles.
I'd say all effort was focused on the effects more so than the story. The Protagonist lacks a name (even his title seems like a holding name) and no character arc compared with say, Inception.
A great reminder that critics are humans and have their own taste. It is also a reminder to those making lower budget films that they have a chance to gain an audience through good reviews, and a reminder to big budget films that a big budget does not mean that they can throw out the elements of a tasteful, good story.
I don't think you can do this kind of analysis. Some critics work for a local newspaper and only cover "the movie of the week", that is, the expensive movie that is opening and cost hundreds of millions to produce. Obviously, all of their "punishment" will go to big budget movies. Not because they dislike them in particular, but because these are the only movies they write about.
Conversely, some critics only cover festivals and "artsy movies". Their punishment will only go to small budget movies. Because they don't talk about the newest Avengers flick, their space is dedicated to Sundance and Toronto film festival…
Thank you for this amazing info. If you can, please write some article about how much cost to rent the cinematic equipment like Arri Alexa 65 or Arri Alexa LF (or Arri Alexa mini LF) and so on. Or, more specifically, how are the budget of a movie distributed in percentage over pre-production, filming, post-production, promoting etc. I'm interested to know where the most of the money go, to think if there can be optimization and to buy a RED camera instead of renting an old 2013 Arri Alexa XT and lenses.


All about trout fishing in the great Garden State!
I recognize that run in the third pic. Good spot for smallmouth too.
That is exactly what I was thinking of doing this year. How was the trip via kayak? Any issues? Where did you put in and take out at?
I launched under Rt31 bridge in Clinton. I took out before the headgates dam Bridgewater. Very nice paddle in between. Soooo many spots in between to fish without other fisherman in sight.
That sounds great, I'll be doing that paddle this year.
Plenty of great water well below the KLG and Clinton.
I don't for the life of me understand the hard one people have for KLG. It's pretty but not remote, its most often crowded, the fish are pounded into submission. There's more than a handful of jerks whether they are sporting fly tackle or spin gear that make it less than enjoyable for the others whether they are sporting fly tackle or spin gear. As stated there is plenty of under fished good water not named KLG.
KLG just gives the disgruntled something to complain about.
It's one of the most scenic river (not smaller stream) areas in the state. That along with so much big pocket water is the draw. The overhead shade and the once stately hemlocks that remain add to the ambience. Agreed that it is over-hyped and over-fished, but it is worthy of some effort just for the scenery IMO.
Pm if your interested in paddling it together. Company is always welcome on the river.
Speaking of the Raritan and kayaks, I have been thinking about launching from Donaldson Park in Highland Park and kayaking (or, yakking, perhaps? It is the latter half of the Raritan after all ) down to Perth Amboy where the river enters the Bay. Anyone ever do this section of it?
NOW is the time to drive around, do your scouting, look into permits for launching etc. You can launch at Boyd Park, Donaldson Park, Edison Boat Basin launch and Sayerville. Don't forget about the South River also. We catch these in Bound Brook in the spring on the Raritan river.
Help me out here..The Rte. 31 bridge in Clinton is above the Clinton falls? By that new Hotel, or did you launch under the rte 78 Bridge, or the old rte. 22 bridge below the falls?
Yes, that is ole Rte. 22..I grew up about 8 houses up the road...I could wade that part of the river blindfolded.
Boy, you're a homebody aren't you?
The last fish I almost killed, I took two bluegills out of the canal many years ago. Walked the fifteen minutes to the car, drove ten minutes home and put them in a bucket filled with water while I took a shower. Fifteen minutes later I went out to clean and gut them, they were swimming around in the bucket! I felt so guilty that I drove back to the same place I caught them and let them go.
I never purposely killed a fish since, That was almost forty years ago.


If you missed out on the incredibly thorough custom-designed Tim Hortons Lego coffee shop, then perhaps this custom Tim Hortons delivery truck is for you.
eBay seller 'ritson1400' is a fan of making trucks and took the time to hand-craft this Timmies supply chain tractor trailer. The details are scarce, but it looks like a Tim Hortons truck all decked out in brown with the old school logo. The cost for this gem is $30 (USD). Good deal.


The Complainant is Margaret C. Whitman, of San Jose, California, United States of America, represented by Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, United States of America.
The disputed domain names <megwhitmanforgovernor.com>, <megwhitman2010.com>, <meg2010.com>, <whitmanforgovernor.com>, and <whitman2010.com> are registered with GoDaddy.com, Inc.
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on October 7, 2008. On October 8, 2008, the Center transmitted by email to GoDaddy.com, Inc. a request for registrar verification in connection with the domain names at issue. On October 8, 2008, GoDaddy.com, Inc. transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details. The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy" or "UDRP"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
November 4, 2008. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on November 5, 2008.
The Center appointed William R. Towns as the sole panelist in this matter on November 17, 2008. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
The Complainant served as the President and CEO of eBay, Inc. ("eBay") from March 1998 through March 2008, and remains on eBay's Board of Directors and is a stockholder. During the Complainant's tenure, eBay grew from a small online auction website with approximately 30 employees and revenues of USD4 million to a publicly traded company valued at approximately USD46 billion, with over 15,000 employees worldwide and more than 248 million registered users. Prior to joining eBay, the Complainant had nearly 20 years of experience managing brands such as Hasbro, Playskool, FTD, StrideRight, Keds, and Disney.
During her tenure with eBay, the Complainant received a number of awards and accolades relating to her professional and business accomplishments at eBay. The Complainant has made numerous speeches, presentations and public appearances to promote eBay, and she has been featured on television and in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Newsweek. The Complainant conducted several Google searches for "Meg Whitman" – with and without eBay – which returned more than 400,000 references to the Complainant.
The Respondent registered the disputed domain names between January 28 and March 28, 2008, at which time there was widespread speculation in California and elsewhere that the Complainant would run for election as Governor of California in 2010. According to the concerned registrar's WhoIs records, the Respondent is located in Santa Monica, California, United States of America ("United States" or "U.S.") at a physical address shared with Thomas Hall, identified as the administrative contact for the disputed domain names in the relevant WhoIs records. Mr. Hall is a self-described political and campaign consultant.
This disputed domain names currently are being used in connection with what appear to be pay-per-click websites, which in addition to providing advertising links, also indicate that the domain names are for sale.
The Complainant maintains that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to her name. According to the Complainant, the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names, as the Respondent has never been commonly known by the disputed domain names, which the Complainant the Respondent registered in an attempt to exploit and profit from the Complainant's trademark rights, both by offering the disputed domain names for sale and by using them in connection with pay-per-click landing sites that include paid advertising relating to eBay and to politics.
According to the Complainant, the foregoing is also evidence of the Respondent's bad faith registration and use of the disputed domain names. The Complainant argues that the Respondent's registration of multiple domain names incorporating the Complainant's mark further establishes a bad faith pattern of registering domain names under paragraph 4(b)(ii) of the Policy, which is further reflected by the Respondent's registration of numerous domain names appropriating third-party trademarks for use with pay-per-click landing sites.
The Panel initially addresses the question of whether the Complainant has established common law trademark or service mark rights in her personal name, Meg Whitman.2 As noted by the Panel in Israel Harold Asper v. Communication X Inc., WIPO Case No. D2001-0540, in cases involving entertainers, authors, professional athletes and to a lesser extent business persons, complainants have been found to have common law marks in their names in circumstances where the name has been used as a marketable commodity, for a fee to promote another's goods or services, or for direct commercial purposes in the marketing of the complainant's own goods or services. See, e.g., Freddy Adu v. Frank Fushille, WIPO Case No. D2004-0682; David Gilmour, David Gilmour Music Limited and David Gilmour Music Overseas Limited v. Ermanno Cenicolla, WIPO Case No. D2000-1459; Julia Fiona Roberts v. Russell Boyd, WIPO Case No. D2000-0210; Jeanette Winterson v. Mark Hogarth, WIPO Case No. D2000-0235; Monty and Pat Roberts, Inc. v. Bill Keith, WIPO Case No. D2000-0299; Steven Rattner v. BuyThisDomainName (John Pepin), WIPO Case No. D2000-0402; Daniel C. Marino, Jr. v. Video Images Productions, et al., WIPO Case No. D2000-0598; Isabelle Adjani v. Second Orbit Communications, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0867; Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and "Madonna.com", WIPO Case No. D2000-0847; Nik Carter v. The Afternoon Fiasco, WIPO Case No. D2000-0658.
As noted above, however, fame alone is not sufficient to establish common law trademark or service mark rights in a personal name. Rather, the Complainant's personal name must be used such that a relevant segment of the public comes to recognize her name as a symbol that distinguishes her services from those of similarly situated service providers. United States' judicial decisions have broadly defined a "service" for purposes of U.S. trademark law as involving "the performance of labor for the benefit of another." Morningside Group Ltd. v. Morningside Capital Grp., L.L.C., 182 F.3d 133, 138 (2d Cir.1999). See also In re Canadian Pacific Ltd., 754 F.2d 992, 994 (Fed.Cir.1985). The prevailing judicial view is that the activity need not be "solely for the benefit of the performer" – in other words, it is sufficient to show that the activity "did provide valuable benefits to others." Morningside, supra. See also Murphy v. Provident Mutual Life Ins. Co., 923 F.2d 923, 927 (2d Cir.1990).
Nevertheless, since the fundamental objective of trademark law is the protection of "the goodwill established in the minds of the relevant buying public", whether a service is provided for the benefit of "another" turns on whether the service recipients constitute "a segment of the public which purchases and benefits from a service provided by the owner of the mark." In re Canadian Pacific, supra. In that respect, the In re Canadian Pacific court commented that shareholders cannot be considered "other" than the corporation or part of the relevant "public," because they are "in fact and in law" a corporation's "owners," and because "all together they are" the corporation.
Thus, consistent with the fundamental principles underlying United States trademark law, an activity may be recognized as a "service" only where such activity involves the performance of labor which provides a valuable benefit to another person or entity who is part of the relevant buying public. See Huthwaite, Inc. v. Sunrise Assisted Living, Inc., 261 F.Supp.2d 502 (E.D. Va. 2003). Applying this construct to the particular circumstances of this case, the Panel is unable to conclude that the Complainant has provided services under the name "Meg Whitman" as a source-indicator to a segment of the relevant buying public based on her performance as President and CEO of eBay. Even if, contrary to the teachings of In re Canadian Pacific, supra, the Panel were to consider eBay as part of the relevant buying public respecting the services claimed by the Complainant, there is insufficient evidence in the record to demonstrate that the Complainant's personal name has acquired secondary meaning in the public's mind sufficient to distinguish her services from those of similarly situated service providers.
The Panel does not believe that the decision in Chung, Mong Koo and Hyundai Motor Company v. Individual, WIPO Case No. D2005-1068, relied on by the Complainant, requires a different result in the context of this case. The distinguished panel in Chung, Mong Koo relied largely upon Monty and Pat Roberts, Inc. v. J. Bartell, WIPO Case No. D2000-0300, and Steven Rattner v. BuyThisDomainName (John Pepin), WIPO Case No. D2000-0402, in determining that Hyundai's founder, Chung, Mong Koo, had acquired common law service mark rights in his personal name. In Monty and Pat Roberts, Inc., supra, the Complainant's founder, Monty Roberts, was held to have common law service mark rights in his personal name because the services in question had been provided under his name. Similarly, in Steven Rattner, supra, it was determined that the Complainant had common law service mark rights in his personal name based on investment banking and corporate advisory services actually provided under his name. Unlike the complainants in Monty and Pat Roberts, Inc., and Steven Rattner, supra, the Complainant here has presented no evidence of the actual use of her name as a source indicator in connection with the services she is claiming.
Accordingly, the Panel concludes in the circumstances of this case that the Complainant has failed on the record before this Panel to demonstrate common law service mark rights in her personal name. Accordingly, the Panel finds that the Complainant has in this case failed to satisfy the requirements of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy. Because the Complainant bears the burden of proving each of the elements under paragraph 4(a) of the Policy, it is unnecessary for the Panel to consider the Complainant's arguments under paragraphs 4(a)(ii) and 4(a)(iii) for purposes of its decision.
1 The Complaint identifies the Respondent as "Thomas Hall d/b/a Domains For Sale". The Panel notes according to GoDaddy.com Inc.'s WhoIs database and registrar verification described in Section 3, the registrant of record for the disputed domain names is Domains For Sale. Both services identify Thomas Hall as the administrative contact, at the same physical address provided for Domains For Sale.
2 The term "trademark or service mark" as used in Paragraph 4(a)(i) encompasses both registered marks and common law marks. See e.g., The British Broadcasting Corporation v. Jaime Renteria, WIPO Case No. D2000-0050; United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. v. Domains for Sale Inc., WIPO Case No. D2002-0005; The Professional Golfers' Association of America v. Golf Fitness Inc., a/k/a Golf Fitness Association, WIPO Case No. D2001-0218. Common law rights in a trademark or service mark may be established by extensive or continuous use sufficient to identify particular goods or services as those of the trademark owner. See United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co., 248 U.S. 90 (1918).
3 The Panel notes that under United States trademark law a mark that is primarily a surname cannot be registered on the principal register of the USPTO unless it has acquired secondary meaning. 15 U.S.C. § 1052(e)(4). A designation that is likely to be perceived by prospective purchasers of goods or services as a personal name generally is not considered to be inherently distinctive. Rather, such a designation is distinctive only if it has acquired secondary meaning. See Restatement (Third) Unfair Competition § 14.


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"Св. св. Козма и Дамян" е средновековна българска православна църква край село Мърводол, община Невестино, област Кюстендил.

Църквата се намира на 600 m южно от селото, в местността Извора, до старите селски гробища. Изградена е на стръмен скат, спускащ се към малка река.

Представлява малка кръстокуполна сграда с размери 6,75 × 4,50 m. В най-добро състояние е запазена апсидата, достигаща до подпокривния корниз (5,30 m); останалата част от църквата е силно разрушена. Стените са съхранени на височина до 1,30 m от нивото на цокъла. По план църквата е кръстовидна, едноапсидна, без притвор. Външната лицева зидария е от редуващи се пояси от грубо одялани камъни и от тухли. За по-добро оформяне на ъглите на сградата са използвани бигорови блокове. Според строителния метод на изграждането ѝ църквата е датирана от втората половина на 14 век.

Отвътре църквата е изографисвана на два пъти – през 14 и 16 век. Понастоящем стенописите са напълно унищожени.

Църквата е архитектурно-художествен паметник на културата от национално значение (ДВ, бр.38/1972 г.).

Литература
 Василиев, Асен – Непроучени средновековни паметници. в-к Отечествен фронт, бр.7274 от 04.02.1968 г.;
 Марди-Бабикова, В. – Научно мотивирано предложение за обявяване на църквата при с. Мърводол, Кюстендилско за паметник на културата. София, 1969 г., Архив НИПК;
 Дремсизова-Нелчинова, Цв. и Слокоска, Л. – Археологически паметници от Кюстендилски окръг, София, 1978 г., с.23;
 Марди-Бабикова, В. – Средновековна черква край с. Мърводол. Музеи и паметници на културата, 1981 г., кн.1, с.30 – 31;
 Енциклопедичен речник "Кюстендил А-Я", София, 1988 г., изд. БАН., с.694;
 Димова, Виолета. Църквите в България през XIII–XIV век., София, 2008 г., изд. АГАТО, с.279.

Външни препратки
 Паметници на културата в Община Невестино
 Църквата при с. Мърводол

Паметници на културата в област Кюстендил
Средновековни църкви в България
Църкви в България в развалини
Църкви в Софийската епархия
Църкви в област Кюстендил
Община Невестино


This project was very special for me because it involved so many people dear to my heart. It was commissioned by my sister for her permanent artwork-filled arm. If you remember, I also made a watercolour deer that see tattooed on her skin, honouring my by tattooing my signature as well.
This Plant Project is so important because every flower, every plant we chose has a speciffic meaning, each one represents a person that has made a mark in my sister's life. Since we're related, those people means a great deal for me too. Since the amount of illustrations is so big, I've separeted them into big chuncks.
Some of these flowers come from stories, like the rose below, or are an imaginary stretch, like the ones that look like a star-filled sky, but that's just because some people just live in a very creative world were what exists just isn't enough.
The Rose from "The Little Prince"


…… theek hai, jaldi karte hain, aur haan 1 chat masala aur thoda dhania-mirch bhi le jayo, swaad accha aayega !!
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The impact factor is a metric used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal within its field. It was first introduced in the 1960s by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
What is Journal Impact Factor?
Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.
How Impact Factor is calculated?
It is calculated by dividing the number of citations received by the number of articles published in a journal in the two preceding years.
Tools to Measure Journal Impact factor
There are several tools available to measure the impact factor of a journal, some of the most widely used include:
1. Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Provided by Clarivate Analytics, JCR is one of the most widely used databases for journal metrics. It provides information on the impact factor, number of articles published, number of citations received, and other data for journals in the sciences and social sciences.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a database provided by Clarivate Analytics (formerly part of Thomson Reuters) that tracks and measures the impact of academic journals. It provides a variety of metrics and data on journals in the sciences and social sciences, including the journal impact factor (JIF), which is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.
JCR also provides information on the number of articles published in a journal, the number of citations received by the journal, the number of citations per article, the immediacy index (the average number of times an article is cited in the same year it is published), and the five-year impact factor (an average of the JIF for the past five years).
2. Scopus
Developed by Elsevier, Scopus is a large database of scholarly literature that includes journal metrics such as the h-index, which measures the productivity and impact of a journal or author.
3. Web of Science
Another database provided by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science is a research tool that allows users to search for articles, conference proceedings, and other scholarly literature. It also provides journal metrics such as the journal impact factor.
4. Google Scholar Metrics
Google Scholar Metrics is a free tool that provides data on the visibility and influence of scholarly journals. It uses data from Google Scholar to calculate metrics such as the h-index and the i10-index (number of papers with at least 10 citations).
It's worth noting that different tools may use different algorithms and data sources to calculate journal metrics, and the results may vary slightly. Therefore, it's important to use multiple tools to get a more comprehensive view of a journal's impact.
Reliability of the Impact Factor
The impact factor is a widely used metric to measure the relative importance of a journal within its field. However, it is important to note that the IF has several limitations and criticisms, and its reliability has been the subject of much debate.
One of the main criticisms of the IF is that it is based on a narrow set of data (only the number of citations received by articles published in the journal over a two-year period) and does not take into account other factors that may impact the quality and importance of a journal or its articles, such as the peer-review process, the reputation of the editorial board, or the relevance of the journal to the field.
Another criticism is that it does not take into account the self-citation (citation from journal's own articles), the IF can be artificially inflated by a journal that encourages its authors to cite articles from the same journal.
Additionally, the IF is only a measure of the average number of citations per article, it does not indicate the quality or impact of individual articles. Therefore, it may be misleading to use the IF as a sole indicator of a journal or article's quality or importance.
It is also important to note that the IF can be affected by the size of the field, a journal publishing in a smaller field may have a higher IF due to the fewer number of journals in the field, while a journal in a larger field may have a lower IF but still be considered as a reputable journal.
In conclusion, while the IF can be a useful tool for evaluating the relative importance of a journal within its field, it should not be used as the sole indicator of a journal or article's quality or importance, other metrics and factors should be taken into account to make a comprehensive evaluation.
What is considered a high Journal Impact Factor?
A high Journal Impact Factor is generally considered to be above 6.0. However, it is important to note that the Impact Factor is just one measure of a journal's quality and should not be used as the sole criterion for evaluating a journal or article.
Other factors, such as the reputation of the journal, the scope and focus of the journal, and the number of articles published in the journal, should also be taken into account when evaluating the quality of a journal.
What is Median Impact Factor?
The median Impact Factor is the middle value of a set of Impact Factors for a group of journals within a specific field or subject area. It is a measure of the typical Impact Factor for journals within a given field.
For example, if a group of 10 journals in a specific field has Impact Factors of 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5, the median Impact Factor would be 4.5, as it is the middle value when the Impact Factors are listed in numerical order.
The median Impact Factor is often used as a benchmark to compare the Impact Factor of a particular journal with the typical Impact Factor for journals within the same field. It can also be used to identify fields where the Impact Factors are generally lower or higher.
Should you care about the impact factor Journal?
Whether or not you should care about the impact factor of a journal depends on your specific needs and goals. For some researchers, publishing in high-impact journals is important for advancing their careers and building their professional reputations.
For others, the most important factor may be the audience or readership of a particular journal. Additionally, Some fields have more stringent criteria for publishing papers, thus it may be important to publish in high-impact journals to be considered as a reputable researcher.
On the other hand, some fields may not be as concerned about the journal's impact factor, the most important thing is the content and the advances in the field.
More information about Journal Impact Factor
Complete Journal Impact Factor List 2022 – PDF
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Park Hours - gates open @ 8:00 a.m.
A picture of the Barge Canal. May have to try to fish this one day, too.
Delores arrived at the launch site first and noticed a gentleman who had already set himself up under one of the pavilions overlooking the barge canal. She wandered over and said 'hello' to him and asked him about the type of fish generally caught from the canal. "Black Drum", he said. "They're all over the place right now." He introduced himself as Wayne and the two of them chatted for about 10 minutes before Virginia arrived. He seemed to know the area very well and was not shy about sharing his knowledge of the fishery for both the canal itself and the inshore area where Delores and Virginia were about to try.
Wayne was fishing from the pavilion at the end of the access road. The kayak launch site had its own pavilion.
There is no vehicle access to the launch site from the parking lot. All kayaks have to be carried or on rollers.
This is the pavilion next to the launch site. It can be fished at high-tide.
Such potential! Were to start?
Between 9:00 and 9:30 a.m., Delores and Virginia lugged their kayaks down to the launch site and got them decked out for a morning of fishing while waiting for Jill to arrive and chatted with Wayne who was pulling up his crab trap from the pavilion. He used the crab claws for Black Drum bait. Anyway, Jill still hadn't arrived by 9:30 so Delores made an ETA call to her but just got a voice mail. They decided to go ahead and paddle out a bit hoping that Jill would catch up with them within the hour.
Based on their perspective of the surroundings, they expected the morning to be exceedingly productive, possibly catching trout every two to three casts or so. That, unfortunately, did not happen. The morning was disappointingly slow despite the strong incoming tide. There was no luck at all using a popping cork with the exception of the dreaded sail cats...YUK! They split up about an hour into the morning. Delores fished the grass line to the left and Virginia to the right. Their luck took a turn for the better after trading popping corks to fish the bottom with jig-heads and shrimp. It took an hour or so of random casts to finally turn a fish. All of their redfish were small in comparison to what they had hoped for, but expectations can't be too high when scouting out a brand new area.
Virginia followed the grass edges and continued to find more of the small reds, wondering where the larger ones were that everyone was talking about invading the inshore at this time of year. Those big reds certainly weren't taking any bait, leaving that to the naïve little ones. Delores pulled up anchor and let the wind push her out between two islands and she drift fished with a small shrimp on a white jig-head. By sheer luck she hooked into what she thought was a large Jack Crevalle. She took a few pictures of it and hailed Virginia on the radio excited that this Jack was the biggest she'd ever caught. The discovery that she had actually caught a Florida Pompano didn't come to light until she arrived back home to show her husband the pictures. It was only then that she learned what she had actually caught Time for a little research on the species.
It was a slack high-tide by noon and they knew the tide would turn out-going within the next 15 to 20 minutes. Based on the distance they would have to paddle to get back to the launch site, they agreed that it would be best to start heading back in that direction during slack tide because paddling against the current and increased wind would not be an enjoyable exercise. So they called it a day, released what was left of their shrimp and made it back to the pavilion by 1:00 p.m. Either they had missed Jill or Jill had missed them. The only indication that she had even been on the premises was a note stuck under Delores's windshield wiper saying that she had arrived late and just fished from the pavilion without any luck. They packed their gear back up and loaded kayaks and noticed that Wayne had stuck around, too. They strolled over to see if he had better luck and to say goodbye and then drove back down that bumpy, three-mile, pot-hole riddled limestone road wondering if they would put their vehicles through the six-mile abuse again on another day and was it worth it. Yes it was, and yes they will.
Back in the Spring of this year, Delores ran across an ad in the sports section of the Citrus County Chronicle about a First Annual Kayak Fishing Tournament being held in nearby Yankeetown. She sent out an e-mail notice to all of the NCLA ladies and asked for a reply from any of them who were interested in participating. Judy resplied and wanted to compete but didn't have a kayak, so they solved that problem by renting a tandum kayak from Aardvarks and competing as a team.
At the Captain's Meeting the evening before the tournament, one of the organizers presented a Power Point slide show as he went over the various rules and answered questions. Part of that slide show was a segment informing the group, some of whom were from out-of-town, where the various kayak launch sites where. One spot in particular caught Delores's eye, a site called Felburn Park. She wrote the name of the site down, put it on her list of "Places to Launch This Year" and after many, many months passed by, she finally made plans to check the site out with her own two eyes.
The NCLA women met last Wednesday for a casual luncheon at the Plantation's West 82 Bar & Grill and afterwards, Delores, Dot, Liz and Theresa made a trial run to the site. The access road was made of gravely limestone riddled with pot-holes and ended up being approximately three miles long by the time they reached the end of it. But oh, it was worth the bouncy ride.
Smiles, nods of approval and illusions of trophy sized fish were the reactions of all of the gals. Delores sent out a new e-mail with immediate plans to fish the area and two of the ladies accepted, Liz and Jill. Meet-up instructions were exchanged and rods were prepared.


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This Week in Naperville
By Michelle Mullins
Naperville Sun |
A lecture on the history of Santa Claus will be held online at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in an event sponsored by the Naperville Public Library. (Kiselev Andrey Valerevich // Shutterstock)
Naperville Community Blood Drive: The Naperville Park District will host the Naperville Community Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, at the Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, 305 W. Jackson Ave.
To register for a time slot, go to www.versiti.org. For more information, go to www.napervilleparks.org.
Hibernation Station: The Knoch Knolls Nature Center is presenting a virtual program that teaches about hibernation at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30.
Families can join a naturalist, listen to a story, meet a fox snake and create a craft. Registration is necessary to receive a Zoom link. For more information, go to www.napervilleparks.org.
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Perez Hilton book event: Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton will talk about his new memoir, "TMI: My Life in Scandal," at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30 in a virtual book event.
Tickets are necessary. For more information, go to www.andersonsbookshop.com.
Foundation fundraiser: J. McLaughlin, 216 S. Main St., will donate 15 percent of its sales from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, to the Naperville Education Foundation.
They will also be collecting gift cards to local grocery stores to donate to the education foundation to be distributed to families in need. For more information, go to www.downtownnaperville.com.
Science of Climate Change lecture: Astro educator Michelle Nichols will talk about the science of climate change in a virtual lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1.
Registration is necessary to receive a Zoom link. For more information, go to www.naperville-lib.org.
Upcycled ornament craft: Teens can learn how to make an ornament using damaged books in an online craft demonstration at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, through the Naperville Public Library's YouTube and Facebook pages.
Registration is necessary to receive supplies. For more information, go to www.naperville-lib.org.
Santa's Workshop: Children can visit with Santa at his workshop from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, through Dec. 23 at the Riverwalk Café, 441 Aurora Ave.
Advanced registration is required, and a limited number of tickets are available. For more information, go to www.napervilleparks.org.
Michael Eric Dyson book event: Author Michael Eric Dyson will talk about his book, "Long Time Coming," in a virtual book event at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.
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He will be joined with Jenani Cobb, a contributor to the "The New Yorker" and a journalism professor at Columbia University. Tickets are required. For more information, go to www.andersonsbookshop.com.
Brown bag lecture: The Naperville Public Library will hold a virtual Brown Bag Lecture about the history of Santa Claus at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.
Candy cane yoga: Children can take part in the Naperville Public Library's virtual candy cane yoga class at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.
Children will learn basic yoga poses with a holiday twist. Registration is necessary to receive a Zoom link. For more information, go to www.naperville-lib.org.
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Preventing identity thefte: Representatives from the Illinois State Comptroller's office will talk about how to identify potential scams and protect oneself from identity theft in a virtual lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.
Zero Waste webinar: Interpretive naturalist Kate Caldwell will talk about how to reduce waste during the holidays in a virtual lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.
Registration is necessary to receive a Zoom link. For more information, go to www.reconnectwithnature.org.
Nathan Hale book event: Author Nathan Hale will talk about his book, "Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon and the Louisiana Purchase," in a virtual book event at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.
Tickets are required. For more information, go to www.andersonsbookshop.com.
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Jim Brickman concert: North Central College will hold a private virtual holiday concert with Jim Brickman at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4.
Tickets range from $40 to $125, and a portion of the proceeds will support the college's fine and performing arts. For more information, go to www.jimbrickman.com/naperville.
Book page wreath craft: Participants 12 years old and older can create a wreath of book pages in a virtual crafting class at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 5.
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Family cooking class: Families can learn how to make Norwegian sugar cookies in a virtual cooking class at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 5.
Aidan the Therapy Dog: A benefit to support the Naperville Humane Society and featuring a book signing by Aidan the Therapy Dog will take place from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 at J. McLaughlin, 216 S. Main St.
Reservations are required to see Aidan, and 15 percent of the store's sales will support the Naperville Humane Society. For more information, call 630-300-5147.
Living history encounter: The Forest Preserve District of Will County will hold a virtual living history encounter that teaches about how people survived the cold during the 18th century at noon Sunday, Dec. 6.
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Registration is required to receive a Zoom link. For more information, go to www.reconnectwithnature.org.
History speaks: A history lecture on the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote will be held virtually at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6.
Registration is necessary to receive a Zoom link. For more information, go to www.napersettlement.org.
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