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The Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University is seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 1, 2018.
This position is a full time, 10-month faculty position with responsibilities for teaching, advising, service, and scholarly activity. The successful candidate will be expected to actively support the college mission to prepare students for the dynamic global economy and support the initiatives of the Center for International Business.
Design and teach 18-24 hours of International Business courses at the MBA and BBA levels; including study abroad experiences.
Advise and mentor students with respect to matriculation, course selection, research and other class-related projects.
Engage in activities to support the mission and vision of Belmont University, the Jack C. Massey College of Business and Department
Engage in scholarly activity and professional development.
Engage in departmental and interdepartmental collaboration to benefit the program, college, university and students.
Participate in departmental and university governance and committee work as appropriate.
Qualifications and Requirements (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)
Advanced knowledge of principles, methods and current developments in the field of international business.
An ability to teach International Business, and one or more of the following courses: International Management, International Market Entry or International Strategic Management.
A working knowledge of instructional strategies and techniques.
Ability to advise, instruct, manage, motivate, and evaluate both undergraduate and graduate students.
Ability and interest in producing high quality scholarship that impacts the development of international business.
Skills in the use of computers and Internet resources in instruction, research and day-to-day work.
Ability to learn relevant sections of Belmont University's online integrated database systems for student records management.
Ability to integrate technology into the teaching and learning process.
Ability to successfully interact with students, other educators and educational institution representatives, and the general public in a professional manner.
Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work collaboratively in course design and to teach interdisciplinary and topical courses.
Experience working in a fast-paced environment and the ability to respond to high-pressure situations. Ability to thrive in an environment of hard work.
Ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
Teaching experience is strongly preferred. Preference will be given to applicants with professional international management and international market entry experience.
A Ph.D. or significant progress toward a terminal degree in International Business from an AACSB accredited institution is required.
For additional information about the position and to complete the online application, candidates are directed to https://jobs.belmont.edu. An electronic version of a Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae, Teaching Philosophy, and a Response to Belmont's Mission, Vision, and Values statement articulating how the candidate's knowledge, experience, and beliefs have prepared him/her to contribute to a Christian community of learning and service must be attached in order to complete the online application. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Belmont University is a comprehensive, coeducational university located in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont is a student-centered Christian university focusing on academic excellence that seeks to attract an active, culturally and academically diverse faculty of the highest caliber skilled in the scholarship of teaching, discovery, application, and integration of faith. Belmont is among the fastest growing universities in the nation. Ranked No. 5 in the Regional Universities South category and named as a "Most Innovative" university by U.S. News & World Report, Belmont consists of over 8,000 students who come from every state and 25 countries.
Committed to being a leader among teaching universities, Belmont brings together the best of liberal arts and professional education in a Christian community of learning and service. The university's purpose is to help students explore their passions and develop their talents to meet the world's needs. With more than 90 areas of study, 22 master's programs and five doctoral degrees, there is no limit to the ways Belmont University can expand an individual's horizon.
Belmont University is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse learning community of committed Christians from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Under federal law, the university may discriminate on the basis of religion in order to fulfill its purposes. Belmont's Office of Human Resources actively pursues an annual affirmative action plan that outlines the university's commitment to hiring women, minorities, veterans and disabled individuals in all positions. The selected candidate for this position will be required to complete a background check satisfactory to the University. Find out more at www.belmont.edu.
Dr. Jeffrey W. Overby
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With this in mind and also because oysters are in season we thought it would be great to share some of our favourite recipes and places to eat oysters and maybe tempt a few more people into eating them as according to this article nearly two thirds of the British population have never eaten one.
If you love the flavours of Thai food then this Thai oyster salad from Lins Food with lemongrass, chillies, lime juice sounds amazing.
If raw oysters aren't your cup of tea then these Loch Fyne oysters with soy and ginger from Andy's Kitchen could be the answer. Gently cooked for just two minutes and served with pak choi and the sauce. Mmmm.
One of the best places to eat fresh oysters in the UK, apparently, is Whitstable in Kent, and Lavender and Lovage gives us a bit of history behind the Whitstable Oyster festival which is held every July.
Another great way to get the flavour of oysters into your recipes is with oyster sauce which is what A Glug Of Oil has done with this tasty choi sum in oyster sauce with fried shallots and garlic.
Something a little different is Saucy Dressings' oyster stuffed beef with tzatziki and summery peas which is made using a tin of smoked oysters.
Eat Cook Explore writes about the oyster festival menu at Patara Soho with the experience including fresh Maldon Rock oysters with a simple vinaigrette and deep fried oysters in soda batter.
How about a filling pumpkin and chicken in oyster sauce with chilli and basil courtesy of Gingey Bites? It sounds so good doesn't it.
Marmaduke Scarlet also uses a tin of smoked oysters in her recipe, this time to make a delicious Jerusalem artichoke soup with smoked oyster gremolata.
If you are celebrating Chinese New Year at the weekend then Live For Food's Chinese chicken should be on your menu, a mix of oyster sauce, sweet chilli sauce and five spice giving it a zing!
Finally we have the Food Goblin's oysters rockefeller– a combination of salty, plump and creamy oyster served with crisp nuggets of bacon, creamy rich bechamel sauce, spinach and finished off under the grill.
How do you like to eat your oysters? Raw with a slice of lemon? Or do you have a special recipe for them? Let us know.
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Q: Propositional logic: Exclusive disjunction? I would like to express formally the following disjunction:
Either A is the case or B is the case or C is the case and only one among A, B and C is the case. In other words: at least one among A, B and C is the case and only one of them is the case.
How do you express this formally? Is this equivalent to an exclusive disjunction?

A: If you are thinking of doing $$A \ XOR \ B \ XOR \ C$$
... no, that doesn't work: a generalized XOR is true iff an odd number of its terms are true, so this expression would also be true if all of $A$, $B$, and $C$ are true.
I think your best option is just to go with something like
$$(A \land \neg B \land \neg C) \lor (\neg A \land B \land \neg C) \lor (\neg A \land \neg B \land C)$$

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After a week of struggling to think of a topic to discuss because quite frankly the TL and life as whole has been boring. I finally came up with an idea… I used Rhea Ellen as inspiration and thought why not do a blog on things that I hate which annoy me.
Now I can't lie some of you may find these weird but honestly they rattle me so much.
My #1 pet peeve would have to be people walking slow in front of me. I'm 6″5 with long legs so naturally I have long strides and generally I don't like walking slow SO what I hate most is being in busy areas like Oxford Circus and Brixton, my South lot know how main Brixton gets. Coming like the image below.
Now then I'm the one that has to try and pattern the timing of my steps so I don't kick someone's leg cos they want to be shuffling their feet across the floor.
When walking in tube stations it's written on the walls to "keep left" and quite frankly there's an unwritten rule that you don't walk on the right anyway.
With this being said its very jarring to be walking up the stairs, turning a corner and then find myself almost accidently kissing someone because I never expected them to be there BECAUSE they should be on the other side SMH. It's a very simple principle but once again it just shows that some people have just lost the plot.
I know literally everyone has been through this, let me paint a picture for you all.
As you do, you're walking down the street with people on the same side of the road as you, then the infamous one on one/ happens. This is when two people are approaching each other and have to move out of the way of each other but instead they keep on mirroring and going in the same situation.
For me this is so annoying and awkward because firstly I'm a big man to be shuffling on main road. Then secondly most of the time I go far to one side so it baffles me when my fellow pedestrian decides to follow me when they could've clearly went to the other way.
This is when you're late for somewhere, you see your bus at the bus stop but you're a little distance away so you have to run for it. Bearing in mind I personally hate running for buses cos I never want to draw attention to myself but hey we all have to do it at some point.
So boom, you've ran ALL the way down the road for the bus, it hasn't moved, now you've reached the bus, you're banging on the door then… you guessed it.
THIS right here is something I know everybody can relate to… don't we all just hate people with no manners. Like you often have to wonder who raised certain people because they move like they have no home training.
What Gets My Blood Boling?
We're gonna end on this one cos this actually makes me laugh LOOL.
You know them ones where you're in a bus, lift or train and you know it's super packed in there like you've got everyone backing it up on everyone.
Aw thank you so much for your comment, yeah you're right if people want to be rude then that's their own problem . We have to continue acting like we've been raised right.
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Building on the success of Canon EXPO 2010, the event in 2015 was a unique opportunity to showcase the company's present and future vision, expertise and business strategies. Working with Bright Partnership, Dataflow Events was asked to build a customised registration platform to cope with the unique requirements of managing over 19,000 attendees over a 3 day event.
Over 40 different reports on travel, transfers, accommodation, sessions, meetings, allocations, dietary and RFID badge related details.
The site was fully branded to create excitement about the Expo with clear Canon branding and an event countdown clock.
The clear issue when dealing with such a large number of delegates is the co-ordination of the guests. This process had to be broken into markets, where the markets were allocated assets such as flights and hotel rooms and were then empowered to manage their own registration processes.
Canon Expo was seen as a huge success. The technological advancements were reflected not just in the Expo, but in the running of the event and the seamless linking of data from initial registration to the delivery of the RFID badges to the interactive process of these badges on the show floor gathering further personal details.


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Generic Copaxone Wins in Federal Circuit: Teva's Patent Loss and Its Immediate Effects - Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal
Generic Copaxone Wins in Federal Circuit: Teva's Patent Loss and Its Immediate Effects
October 22, 2018 In Biotech, Blog, Patents, pharmaceuticals By Raina Duggirala
On October 12, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of generic drug manufacturers in a series of cases, collectively known as the Copaxone Consolidated Cases.1 Copaxone is an injection treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis ("RRMS").2 RRMS is a form of multiple sclerosis ("MS"), which is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body to attack its own nervous system.3 RRMS is characterized by attacks, called relapses, followed by a period of partial or complete recovery, called remission.4 Copaxone's main ingredient is glatiramer acetate ("GA") which targets RRMS relapses.5 Various clinical trials conducted by Teva and others, between the years of 1987 and 2009, established that a dosage of 40mg GA every other day over the course of one week is just as effective as a dosage of 20mg a day over the course of one week.6
Generic drug manufacturers—the defendants/appellees in this case—submitted Abbreviated New Drug Applications ("ANDAs") to the FDA for approval to manufacture generic versions of Copaxone at 40mg doses administered three times a week.7 The District Court of Delaware ruled in favor of the defendants on January 30, 2017.8 In October 2017, the FDA approved Mylan's, one of the generic manufacturers, generic version of Copaxone.9 At this time, Teva's stock price fell by 11%, while Mylan's stock price rose 18%.10 The drug's injection form classified it as a "complex generic drug" by the FDA, forcing Mylan to spend "many years" of work to bring the generic drug to the market.11 In July 2018, when Mylan drastically dropped the price of their generic Copaxone from $5,000 to $1,950,12 resulting in a plummet of the U.S. sales of the drug for Teva, as well as similar drugs from other generic companies.13
The main issue on appeal in the Federal Circuit was whether, under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a), the 40mg GA dosing regimen was obvious to try "to a person having ordinary skill in the art."14 The court identified the "obvious to try" standard as "when there is a design need or market pressure to solve a problem and there are a finite number of identified, predictable solutions, a person of ordinary skill has good reason to pursue the known options…" 15 The court found that, since Teva only offered two effective dosages in their patent and they did not fall into an exception to KSR, the district court did not err in its finding that the 40mg regimen used by the generic manufacturers satisfied the "obviousness" test.16 The court also noted that "conclusive proof of efficacy is not necessary to show obviousness. All that is required is a reasonable expectation of success."17
MS drugs are incredibly expensive, which limits their accessibility to those suffering from the debilitating and incurable disease.18 The first wave of MS drugs were released in the 1990s and ranged in price from $8,292 to $11,532.19 Since then, costs of the drugs have increased more than 30% annually.20 Mylan's generic version of GA, priced lower than Teva's Copaxone, may help patient gain access to MS treatment, but the difference chemically is not substantial.21 It typically takes "four to six manufacturers before competition starts to drive down costs significantly."22 Hopefully, the effect of the Copaxone Consolidated Cases decision lead to an increase in generic competitors, leading to greater accessibility to treatment for MS patients.
See Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., No. 17-1575, slip op. at 1 (Fed. Cir. 2018).↩
Teva, slip op. at 4.↩
Id.↩
Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY, https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Types-of-MS/Relapsing-remitting-MS (last visited Oct. 16, 2018). [https://perma.cc/MTE2-VCXK]↩
See Teva, slip op. at 4.↩
Id. at 7-11.↩
Id. at 12.↩
In re Copaxone Consolidated Cases, 2017 WL 401943, at *1 (D. Del. 2017).↩
Lydia Ramsey, The FDA just approved a 'complex genericdrug' and it's sending one stock soaring and another crashing, BUSINESS INSIDER (Oct. 4, 2017), https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-approves-mylans-generic-of-tevas-copaxone-2017-10. [https://perma.cc/HTJ3-7N5E]↩
Carly Helfand, Teva's Copaxone holds its own in wake of Mylan's generic price cut, FIERCE PHARMA (Aug. 2, 2018), https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/teva-s-copaxone-holds-its-own-wake-mylan-s-generic-price-cut. [https://perma.cc/8PJ2-K5FK]↩
Yaacov Benmeleh, Teva Plunges as U.S. Sales Drop Amid Generic Price Erosion, BLOOMBERG (Aug. 2, 2018), https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/teva-s-cost-cutting-ceo-raises-2018-profit-outlook-once-more. [https://perma.cc/WHJ8-ZRUW]↩
Teva, slip op. at 18-19.↩
Id. at 20 (citing KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 421 (2007)).↩
Id. at 21-22.↩
See Charlotte Huff, MS Drugs: Expesnive, Often Lifelong and Not Cost Effective, MANAGED CARE (Sept. 30, 2018), https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2018/10/ms-drugs-expensive-often-lifelong-and-not-cost-effective. [https://perma.cc/KS67-L6W6]↩
Raina Duggirala
Raina Duggirala is a second year J.D. candidate at Fordham University School of Law. She is a staff member of the Intellectual Property, Media, & Entertainment Law Journal, a research assistant at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, and a member of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center. She is also a singer-songwriter and has a copyrighted music album on iTunes and Spotify.

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Fresh on the heels of his upcoming adventure The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski is set to helm and produce a live action adaptation of the North Korea-set graphic novel Pyongyang by Guy Delisle.
New Regency announced Tuesday it's teaming up with Verbinski's production company Blind Wink on the film, about "outsourcing run amok when a young animator sent to North Korea is accused of espionage," according to a press release. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty screenwriter Steve Conrad is working on the script.
Verbinski, who also directed saucy animated film Rango and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and other Depp-Disney offshoots, is in post-production on The Lone Ranger, set for release this summer.
Gore Verbinski: Mobsters, pirates, and...avatars?
'The Lone Ranger': 'Metaphorical universe' or just 'Wild Wild West' without Will Smith?


Recently I got a set of photographs purchased from Jim Payne ( http://www.throughtheireyes.co.uk) . Jim had procured the album of an RAF airman K D Griffiths who was posted at No.151 Operational Training Unit at Peshawar. The Album features 24 pages of photographs . Jim had scanned all the album pages, and the photographs (192 individual scans!) and is providing them via DVD through his website. A few of the photographs can be found in the albums.
Among the various lovely photographs, one can find a rare shot of the RAF personnel servicing a Chinese air force Waco trainer (which operated as a Flying School at Lahore). And among others… An unidentified type – Griffiths is in the rear cockpit.
Aerial view of Peshawar – Jim had scanned this image at very high resolution and in the untouched image, one can make out Vengeances, Spitfires, Hurricanes and twin engined aircraft all parked around the airfield . in the center left of the photograph.
Sptifire XIV SM937 being salvaged after an accident can be seen. This aircraft would later serve with the Indian AIr Force after independence. Anyone know the circumstances of this accident? Date / Pilot?
More samples can be found at http://www.rafcommands.com/galleries…U-KD-Griffiths (Page 1) and http://www.rafcommands.com/galleries…iffiths?page=2 (Page 2) Contact Jim at his website incase you are interested to purchase your own copy of all the nearly 200 photographs!


"I identify as ... white, Pagan, pine tree, pink unicorn ... who are you to judge me!!!?" Is this statement merely a parody of contemporary vogue or does it indicate to a deeper truth? In this podcast we provide a sketch of the second option - we argue that notion of 'identity' applied by movements as Alt Right, as well as the establishment promulgated political correctness, is in fact a multifaceted attempt to reduce oneself and one's belonging to nothing. Or, if we are to be generous, to at least prepare oneself to permanent process of identification quite akin to metaphysical police interrogation; an endless session of self inflicted torture.
Also, we briefly dwell on the metaphysics of identity of Classical German Idealism and some of the ominous tendencies already present in this monumental spiritual movement.


There are many creative and fun ways to serve fruits in cute animal shapes, such as the the orange crab that I featured a few days ago. Now let's make a fruit hedgehog! It looks so real and adorable! Try this in your next party. I am sure everyone will be impressed!
Peel the upper part of the pear. This will be the snout of the hedgehog.
Skewer the grapes with the toothpicks and poke them on the bottom part of the pear.
Poke two cloves to make the eyes.
Cut the olive in half and use it to make the nose. Enjoy!


Berlin, 18. Oktober 2017 – travel audience is bolstering its airline customer team with a new senior manager for airlines, Mathias Gerber. Gerber hails from meta-search engine Kayak and will report to Christoph Althoff, head of business development and airline sales at travel audience.
Mathias Gerber is a proven online advertising professional with extensive travel industry experience. At Kayak, he spent three and a half years selling online advertising space, most recently in the post of Senior Sales Manager DACH & Eastern Europe. Prior to that, he worked as the senior ad sales manager for Germany and head of sales for online travel agency Odigeo and as a senior sales executive for travel review website TripAdvisor. Gerber is also no stranger to offline advertising. For four years, he worked for travel trade journal fvw as its regional account manager for advertising clients. Gerber holds a nationally certified degree in business administration from the School of Tourism in Rodalben.


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Ben Rice has been leaving huge impressions on audiences around the Northwest and winning awards for his vocals and guitar playing for the last seven years. In 2014 at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, he left the audience speechless with a raw emotional delivery of his version of "Key To The Highway." On his second consecutive trip to the International Blues Challenge, he made the finals in the solo/duo category and was awarded the St. Blues Guitarist award for best guitarist.
As a performer Ben looks to the greats for inspiration and is always striving to connect with the audience through his music and stories. He also has an interesting arsenal of guitars playing resophonic guitars and homemade cigar box guitars. More important than the visual appeal Ben has an amazing way of making these guitars sound, often bringing audiences to tears with his slide playing.
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Eric, over at Transbay Blog, is running a series of informational posts on the Central Subway, which I've ranted about on occasion here and elsewhere.
Transbay Blog is one of the most focussed, least axe-grinding blogs covering "News and thoughts on public transportation and city planning in the San Francisco Bay Area." If such be your interests, check it out.
Some times you just have to wonder.
I was at the Mayor's confab on Saturday re Muni and other public transportation issues. The meeting was pure theatre. Some interesting points were made. Some points seem lost to the assembled. I was impressed with Nat Ford, new executive director of the Municipal Transportation Agency.
As an example of parochialism and selective deafness, an inability to hear what people are saying (Why were so many people along the 9X and 30 routes thrilled to death with the thought of the Central Subway?) I note the following in The N-Judah Chronicles.
I walked home (call it Union and Montgomery) from the meeting and had no problem with traffic or issues or problems.
Chaotic traffic messes on Stockton are the norm. Those issues were brought up at the meeting. Big surprise? Problems on the 30 and the 9X? Who knew?
Those in the nose know the Stockton issues and avoid Stockton or just deal with it.
Welcome to our world. Sorry the out of district folks had a problem.
The only transit line that I've ridden that can get almost as bad as the 30 Stockton going up Stockton is the 14 Mission going up Mission. I do realize that everyone has their pet peeves about public transit, but to say there was a chaotic traffic mess on Stockton after the meeting (like there isn't a chaotic traffic mess on Stockton most any day most any time of the day?) just shows how deaf some people at that meeting were to attendee comments re the 30 Stockton, the 9X, the 45 and the 41.
Traffic from North Beach through Chinatown toward downtown and further is a mess, people. Add some more buses. Run shuttles through the Stockton corridor. Do something.
I'm just glad I can catch the buses at Washington Square Park because the folks who get on in Chinatown get squished in tighter than you'd think possible, with few straps or poles to hang onto. Not pretty.
Today's Examiner has a commentary by Ed Jew on pending (perhaps approved — the SFC doesn't say on their site) legislation extending youth Fast Pass discounts to all "youth" ages 18-24.
His point is the one I was making a bit ago.
#1 How can the Supes justify the cost when Muni is stretching to balance its budget?
#2 Why 18-24 year olds? What makes them so special?
What about people older than 24 who are working a minimum wage? Don't they deserve a break? Do we want age-based Muni fares? Should we have needs-based Muni fares? Why not give everyone a fare break and see if we can get people out of their cars and onto public transport?
This legislation is so cockeyed. What are the Supes thinking?
skot9000 got tired of trying to track down the closest location to buy a Muni fast pass and found their ZIPcode-based lists unreasonably hard to use so he, nice guy wot he is, mashed up the Muni DB with Google maps.
Et voila! Pop in an intersection or an address and a radius and skot9000′s handy-dandy mashup will fill you in on the places nearby that sell Muni fast passes.
Above the fold this morning in the Chron was an article detailing the City's plan to take over liability insurance and maintenance responsibility for the pair of cypress trees downhill from here that I've written about before , the trees that Mark Bittner flung himself in front of chainsaws to save, the trees that are, according to Bevan Dufty, who proposed the legislation, one of the parrots' favorite roosts.
… but the number of tourists who climb up and down the Greenwich Steps and are enchanted by the birds (and ipso facto and all that the trees MUST be preserved!) are far outnumbered by the number of tourists who climb up and down the Filbert Steps and are enchanted by the birds. The parrots are hanging out more often than not in the trees and on the wires above the Filbert Steps when they are hanging out on this side of the hill.
And, whoo boy, the Steps especially near Napier Lane, outside Aaron Peskin's place (the wires near his house are a new favorite place for them) are sprinkled with guano these days. We noticed a note from Judy Irving (TPOTH filmmaker and Mark's wife) tacked onto Aaron's fence the other day asking people not to feed the parrots.
The Northeast San Francisco Conservancy has collected $5K to give to the City to pay an arborist to trim the trees so at least that expense won't be the City's, but the other associated staffer expenses?
The City, which has a wide variety of ills that need attention, is spending time, staffing $$ (and perhaps real $$ if the trees topple) on a pair of trees that imosho don't deserve the extraordinary attention they've been getting.
A guy from AP asked us last Sunday at Gavin's campaign HQ opening, what we thought was the most serious problem in the City that needed addressing.
(2) trash/litter and the scum bums who toss crap in the streets or toss coffee cups in the gutters or leave papers on benches for the winds to blow afar. Add in the City's trash picker uppers who need to pickup the trash bins (especially the ones at the bottom of the Vallejo Steps at Montgomery) far more often than they do, the lack of trash bins on busy corners and at bus stops which gives people the excuse that they would have thrown their trash in a trash bin but there was not one to be found, and oh, the list could go on.
And then there's the neighbor at the top of the Filbert Steps at Montgomery who doesn't like the people down the Steps bringing their recycle up to the top of the Steps for recycle pickup. Every once in a while, when the recycle offends him for whatever reason, maybe the neighbor's noise disturbed his tube watching, he kicks the recycle down the steps and makes a giant mess of things just because of because. Grow up, neighbor.
Let's all take the "one for the road" pledge.
(4) free WiFi — just get on with it. Let Earthlink and Google provide the service and use us as their guinea pigs and don't even think of having the City set up its own bureaucracy to handle the problem. Oh, the bureaucrats handle Muni so well, why not give them this new box to play in?
… until someone like kink.com buys a building and promises that all they'll do is get rid of the graffiti, add outdoor lighting and … make movies inside away from the public view. The site's zoned for commercial use. The building won't change. Nothing that needs planning or historic preservation.
BUT WE DON'T WANT THAT! Well, over the years you didn't want anything else either. No one could agree. It's been over thirty years since the Guard left the building. 'sides which kink.com's been making movies in a warehouse not that far away for years now and nobody even noticed. Peter Acworth had a column on the op-ed page Monday about the purchase and his plans.
A new head's been hired for the Building Inspection department and maybe he'll work wonders. Planning's problems don't have an easy fix. Can't we all just get along?
The pair of cypresses downhill from us didn't even cross our minds. There are other trees that the parrots flock to. The parrots are thriving. I'm not a tree hugger, obviously. I don't believe every tree deserves saving just because it's a tree. I do believe in planting more trees in the city. We're Friends of the Urban Forest. My problem with Dufty's well-intentioned, if misguided, efforts is that I don't cotton to the idea that rules should be changed and these trees deserve special efforts because of the parrots. They don't. The parrots are fine. The City has more important troubles to address.


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New rules to limit card surcharging come into effect next week
Australia - Surcharging is set to come under the consumer spotlight next week, when card schemes introduce new rules aimed at limiting the fees retailers can charge their customers for paying with a credit or debit card.
Visa's Country Manager for Australia, Vipin Kalra, said the new rules, which come into effect from Monday, March 18, were developed in response to a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) review, aimed at better protecting consumers from excessive surcharging.
"From next week, retailers will need to review their surcharging practices to make sure their surcharges are not excessive and that they are clearly disclosed upfront to customers, both in-store and online," Mr Kalra said.
"This is good news for consumers and should mean the practice is more transparent."
Visa's new rules follow regulatory changes announced by the RBA last year, which allow card schemes to limit surcharges to the "reasonable cost of acceptance" – or how much it costs retailers to accept a payment card.
Mr Kalra said the majority of surcharges on Visa cards should be close to the merchant service fee charged to the merchant by their bank. RBA data shows the average merchant service fee on Visa is 0.85 percent - less than half the average cost of American Express and Diners Club.
"Visa is a lower-cost card, so we would expect retailers to take that into consideration in their surcharging rates," he said.
Visa has developed a program to help retailers to comply with the new rules. This includes a special calculator, available through the retailers' banks, to assist retailers determine their "reasonable cost of acceptance" as defined by the RBA.
The surcharging rules have been included in Visa's international operating regulations applicable to Australia, and Visa will work with financial institutions to monitor retailer compliance. The rules provide a process for retailers to verify their cost of acceptance and some large retailers will be required to engage an independent audit firm to validate the data.
Mr Kalra said retailers found to be surcharging excessively will be notified by their bank of their non-compliance.
"It will take a little time for retailers to review the new rules and implement them. We will monitor the situation closely to see what effect the changes have on surcharging levels," he said.
"We hope retailers that surcharge will consider the customer experience. Retailers benefit from a global cardholder base, access to new sales channels and a guaranteed, fast, efficient and secure payment experience when consumers choose to pay with a card, so we hope they take these factors into consideration in their surcharging decisions," he added.
Some key principles included in Visa's new surcharging rules:
• The surcharge must not exceed a retailers' "reasonable cost of acceptance" under RBA guidelines
• Retailers must prominently disclose their surcharge rate or amount to customers at point of sale and online before the purchase is made
• Consumers who receive a refund on a purchase also have the right to receive a refund of the surcharge amount
• Retailers may be required to complete a review process managed by their acquirer to assess their "reasonable cost of card acceptance" and whether it complies with RBA guidelines.
For more information on the new surcharging rules visit here.
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James Damore conforms to the stereotype. He's happy to admit he fits the mould of an awkward computer geek and the moment we assemble in a Silicon Valley coffee shop, he knocks a flaunt stand of metal flasks that sink clattering to the storey. The din gleans strange glances at the 6ft 3in software engineer, but Damore is used to strangers distinguishing him; he's the guy who was fired by Google this summer after he argued that males are more psychologically suited to working in technology than women.
No one recognises the woman standing beside him. She is Damore's girlfriend: a feminist and a data scientist who works in tech.
The couple make a surprising duet, as I discovered where reference is sat down and talked about some of the questions they usually escape: the gender pay gap, whether boys are more suited to board games than daughters, and the 10 -page memo that turned Damore, nearly overnight, into a pariah in their industry.
The document he ran, designation Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, argued that mental gender gaps could explain why 80% of Google's technologists, and the majority of members of the company's presidents, are humen. In one of the most inflammatory sections, Damore wrote that dames, on average, have" higher levels of neuroticism ", something that may" contribute to the lower number of women in high-pitched stress places ". The aims of the memoranda, he said, was to question Google's approach to improving diversification, and to argue that the company's leftwing bias silences alternative vistums.
We are in Mountain View, dwelling to Google's headquarters. Damore's girlfriend has agreed to meet simply after being assured that, like her, I disagree with her boyfriend's considers. She does not want to be identified or immediately quoted: she is keen to remain in the darkness. Damore, meanwhile, has appeared to bask in the attention; in the months since he left Google, he has become a commentator on political issues that extend well beyond the tech manufacture, becoming one of "the worlds largest" polarising fleshes in Silicon Valley.
At the same time, the experience has caused some introspection. In such courses of various weeks of conversation using Google's instant messaging service, which Damore prefers to face-to-face communication, he opened up about an autism diagnosis that may in part explain the difficulties he knowledge with his memo.
Words were never James Damore's strong suit. As a child growing up in Romeoville, a outskirt of Chicago, "hes taken" longer than customary to be involved in complete sentences. His parents were concerned; it was several years before they discovered that their son's verbal rigors were accompanied by some astonishing genius.
By the age of about 11, Damore was coding escapade games on his TI-8 3 calculator. He also discovered chess. Within a year he was able to compete in four recreations of chess simultaneously while wearing a blindfold. He came second in a national chess tournament at 14, and in his teens became the world's highest-ranking actor in Rise of Nations, personal computers programme play.
It wasn't until his mid-2 0s, after completing investigate in computational biology at Princeton and MIT, and starting a PhD at Harvard, that Damore was diagnosed with autism, although he was told he had a milder form of the condition known as" high-functioning autism ".
Psychiatrists, he says, assured him "it didn't matter". Yet one occurrence around that time hints otherwise. Damore was on a two-day recede for PhD students, which committed an annual habit of inviting students to act skits that thinly poked fun at profs. Damore's performance included an awkwardly delivered masturbation joke that offended some female students. Two professors subsequently wrote to students apologising for the" uneasiness, discomfort or offense" he had caused. Damore still experiences it hard to see why his skit was objectionable, but abides he may sentiment it differently," because I'm on the range ".
I ask if he obtains interacting with beings difficult. He responds:" It's hard for me to say what's' difficult' because I don't know what the average is ." But he meets small talk tiring and can see behavioural characters in himself that may be linked to the condition, such as" having fewer acquaintances due to maybe social awkwardness ".
It was Damore's outstanding conduct in coding problems that allured Google recruiters. He was offered a summer internship on a stipend of more than $100,000 and, in December 2013, dropped out of Harvard to connected the tech giant's horde of 25,000 chiefly male engineers.
The idea that any employee can challenge firm orthodoxy has played an important role in Silicon Valley, which shuns the hierarchies that reign in other parts of corporate America. Nowhere is this more the client than Google, which raises open debate on millions of internal discussion groups and online gatherings. Google likewise vigorously promotes a culture of" mental security" among its personnel, imagining it imperative that employees feel empowered to tone minds without feeling humiliated or judged.
Company insiders say most employees are savvy enough to know it is unwise to take that mantra extremely literally. But when the organizers of internal fits about Google's policies on diversity and inclusion invited feedback, Damore made a decision to relay his thoughts.
For some months, he had been harbouring grievances over the route Google was seeking to increase the number of minority and women employees, with mentoring schemes and hiring practices that Damore felt could be tantamount to reverse discrimination.
He had also been doing a lot of personal study about politics. He knew he was a centrist with libertarian inclinings but, he tells me, he" wanted to understand the world and why people seem to have such different perspectives and minds ".
He had been speaking writers such as Jonathan Haidt, the psychologist who disagrees people's political creeds derive not from reason but from their inclinations and insights, and says more endeavor should be put into understanding opposing scenes. Damore too read more about evolutionary perspectives in psychology and anthropology, in notebooks by professors including Steven Pinker and Avi Tuschman.
The Google engineer bought a mimic of William Farrell's contentious 1992 notebook, The Myth of Male Power, known as the bible of the men's rights change. He watched The Red Pill, a documentary released last year in which the presenter Cassie Jaye vacates her connect to feminism after being persuaded by Farrell and other men's rights activists.
Damore's memo was a jumble of ideas and proposals for Google, which he reasoned should" de-emphasize empathy" and be more accept of republican perspectives. Such documents enclose citations that led to Wikipedia introductions and mind sections, as well as various peer-reviewed psychological articles. His principal statement was about gender. He did not argue that servicemen were better at maths or coding than ladies, as others have done. Instead, he wrote that men and women " on average" have differing mental idiosyncrasies, and these might be explained that so little ladies elect engineering, and why so many humankinds rise to the top of Google.
Women, Damore quarrelled, are generally more concerned with" beings rather than concepts" and have" more openness is directed towards concerns and aesthetics ". Both of those factors, he said, could account for why ladies wish jobs in" social or artistic neighborhoods" rather than, say, coding software.
Damore also described women as more agreeable and little forceful than souls, which he said answers in ladies " generally having a harder epoch negotiating salary, asking questions promotes, speaking up, and producing ". Men, on the other hand, care less about work-life balance, he wrote, and are more likely to be motivated by status, driving them toward" higher-paying, less quenching responsibilities ". Damore said these differences were" exactly what we would prophesy from an evolutionary psychology attitude" and played down the notion that they were the result of culture or social influences.
Damore emailed his memo to the organisers of Google's diversity fits in early July. When there was no response, he started mailing the document to Google's internal mailing lists and meetings, anxiou for a reaction.
Many women who work elsewhere in tech were appalled by Damore's memo, written from the heart of an industry that is notoriously male predominated. It came amid a cascade of reports about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley and a class-action litigation was put forward by wives employed at Google alleging the company systematically remunerates wives less than mortals for similar work.
Damore's girlfriend was overseas on 5 August, the working day she received text words from pals pushing her to click on a link to the tech website Gizmodo, where the memo had been leaked for the purposes of the headline" Here's The Full 10 -Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google ".
Damore had not told her about his record, and her initial impression was that it was horrible. But after read it a few days, and discuss the matter with him, her berth softened; she even came to agree with one or two of his places. She maintains Damore was, for "the worlds largest" role, naive and wrong, but in the process of representing him "shes lost" friends. She believes there was no would be required for Google to fire him; they could just as readily have taken corrective action.
Damore is engaging action at law against Google and has registered individual complaints with the National Labor Relations Board. He points out his document was flowing for weeks, but he was only fuelled after the leak caused a public relations crisis.
Lippa insists there is obliging proof that women on average tend to be more "people-oriented", whereas souls are more "things-oriented", a difference he feels could be highly relevant to career decisions.
His research is similar to the" empathising-systemising thought" created by Simon Baron-Cohen, prof of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge University. He bickers the female psyche is" mainly hard-wired for empathy", whereas" the male mentality is chiefly hard-wired for understanding and improving structures ".
These gaps, he says, may explain why more boys choice professings in science, engineering, engineering and maths. Baron-Cohen likewise proposes beings on the autism range have an" extreme male psyche ".
However, the methodologies and presumptions underlying these asserts have demonstrated that they highly controversial. Many psychologists would take issue with Damore's interpretation of personality idiosyncrasies he associates with women, such as "agreeableness" and "neuroticism".
Unfortunately for Damore, even some of the professors cited in his memo take issue with different contexts in which he exploited their study. Catherine Hakim, a British sociologist based at the thinktank Civitas, says that while her investigate on gender penchant conjecture was correctly referenced, she feels his attempt to association vocation outcomes to psychological copulation changes was " nonsense ".
Juri Allik, an experimental psychologist from Estonia's University of Tartu, says Damore went too far in stirring extrapolations from his own contemplate into identity variations across countries; it is risky, he says, to join average personality characters to issues like job options. Besides, Allik contributes, the gender differences in his research were" extremely, very small ", if not " microscopic ".
Damore likewise referred statements in evolutionary psychology was why males outnumber women in elderly characters at Google. He cited a newspaper underlining the fact that humen situate more importance on the physical attractiveness of a potential teammate, while women price a potential partner's deserving ability. Hence, he wrote, gentlemen may be motivated to seek higher-paying jobs.
But it is not hard to destroy this course of debate. Cordelia Fine, a prof of psychology at the University of Melbourne, tells me these suggestions fall into the common bias of assuming that" whatever we tend to see more often in males is what the job necessitates ". And while it is true, she says, that wives tend to attach greater importance to a partner's sources, there are obvious reasons why." Given that , not so long ago, females could be legally shot when they got married or are pregnant, it's hardly surprising that females had traditionally attended more about a partner's fortune ." Neither is it clear, Fine says, that any such mental characters will be" set in stone for the rest of epoch ".
Despite authoring two acclaimed volumes on gender, Fine, a leading feminist discipline columnist, feels" snapped in many different directions" by Damore. She speculates his memoranda became numerous questionable premises and ignored enormous swaths of research that depict pervasive discrimination against women. But his summing-up of the differences between the sexes, she says, was " more precise and nuanced than what the hell are you sometimes find in the popular literature ".
I tell Damore what the psychologists said about his memoranda: that there is no agreement among the experts about the fullest extent to which men and women have different psychological charts; nor is there any consensus of determining whether significant differences can be explained by sort, nourish or a complex desegregate of the two. The psychologists do not agree on what, if any, blow these differences might have on profession outcomes.
Damore bristles when I accuse him of cherry-picking surveys that support his view and ignoring the mountains of proof that belie it." Even if I presented both sides evenly, the very information that I presented the' evil' back would have caused disagreement ." He still stands by the empirical allegations in his memo, but repents expending the word "neuroticism", a personality measure often used in mental investigate but a word he now realizes has pejorative connotations. The psychologists' commentaries of his memoranda" have certainly included subtlety" to his views, he adds.
Two days later, Damore went to meet Peter Duke, a photographer who had offered him a free" professional hit" to replace the poor-quality personas being used by the media. Duke drew a T-shirt on which Google's logo had been rearranged to form the word "Goolag", which Damore put on; he too posed with a cardboard mansion Duke rendered him, with the slogan" Fired for truth ".
It was only later, Damore says, that he discovered Duke is known as " the Annie Leibovitz of the alt-right "~ ATAGEND for his likable paintings of far-right activists and plot theoreticians. Duke circulated the photos on social media for the purposes of the caption" not all heroes wear capes", fuelling a cascade of far-right memes and favourable Breitbart narratives. Within a matter of days, the Washington Post had anointed Damore" one of the most difficult personalities on the republican internet ". That honour was compounded when, taking Peterson's advice, Damore took its participation in interviews with various other YouTube starrings, variously links with contrarian, anti-feminist and "alt-right" movements.
Watching these videos, I notice that Damore has a strange garb: when he disagrees with something an interviewer says, he does not interject but instead moves his head mutely from side to side. His girlfriend find the same event, and feels Damore's interviewers were often use him to project their own opinions.
In September, Damore tweeted:" The KKK is atrocious and I don't support them in any way, but can we admit that their internal title appoints are cool, e.g.' Grand Wizard '?" The tweet was accompanied by an online poll in which Damore invited other users to express their views.
Like many parties in engineering, and like technology itself, Damore explains a complex social macrocosm through seemingly logical systems, decorations and multitudes. It can seem like a rational way of thinking but it can also have contributed to judgments that absence subtlety or sophistication. The same cognitive blueprints underlie the algorithms that supremacy social media, where complicated one around gender and psychology are reduced to simple shorthand.
Damore conceives technology influenced the behavior he was adjudicated." Journalists and commentators were incentivised to falsify points to generate resentment ," he says. Meanwhile, on social media, Damore guesses consumers wanted" to hear certainty, stimulating the more extreme express to be the loudest ".
Platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter can be risky situates for anyone wanting to express a belief on a sensitive topic. Damore's experience indicates they may commit specific challenges for some people on the autism spectrum.
One in 68 children in the US has autism spectrum disorder, according to federal judgments. And while there are no reliable people on the prevalence of autism in Silicon Valley, anecdotally, beings in service industries say it is common.
Experts are wary of the destructive illusion that everything parties on the spectrum are geniuses , not least when study in the UK expresses only 16% of autistic parties are in full-time paid act. But there is no doubt that some autistic people have extraordinary abilities and fortes that can allure business like Google, Facebook and Microsoft.
Bryna Siegel, a psychiatrist who runs the not-for-profit Autism Center of Northern California, says she has come across many engineers who have been fired by big-hearted tech corporations after misreading social clues or unwritten criteria in an office.
" Employers need to be accommodating when they hire people who are on the autism spectrum ," she says. That includes, Siegel says, being more pardon of autistic employees who unknowingly offend parties. Company-wide debates of the species Google supports, she includes, can be especially difficult for some autistic beings to navigate.
One such discussion appears to have contributed to the downfall of another autistic Google engineer who does not want to be identified because, like Damore, he is still looking for work.
He was shot last year in the wake of a dispute with a female colleague and unrelated commentaries he made at a company-wide assembling themed around LGBT rights.
The engineer queried the purposes of applying non-binary pronouns during the fit and bluntly questioned whether gender is on a range. After complaints from several hires, the engineer was given a disciplinary telling-off and banned from future assemblies. He alleges his eviction is explained by Google's failure to understand how autism generates him to talk or act in ways that others misinterpret. Google declined to comment on his dismissal.
I ask Damore if, looking back over the last few months, he feels that his difficult know with the memo and social media may be related to being on the spectrum.


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Meet the Woman Whose Bra Brought Down a Governor
From The New Yorker:
Pamela Davis, blond suburban mother of three, was told that her bra would be the best place to wear the wire that kick-started a long investigation into Chicago graft and that ultimately caught the governor of Illinois trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat. Davis is the president and CEO of Edward Hospital, in Naperville, Illinois. She is proud of the fact that on her twenty-year watch the hospital has grown from a hundred-and-sixty-two-bed community facility to a four-hundred-and-twenty-seven-bed regional medical center that leads the county in babies delivered.
Back in 2003, Davis was trying to get approval for a new medical office building from the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board. A night or two before a hearing was to be held, Davis recalled, something strange happened. A business acquaintance of hers, Nicholas Hurtgen, then a managing director of the Chicago office of Bear Stearns, called her at home and told her that unless she agreed to use a certain contractor she should pull her building request, because it wasn't going to be approved.
Greed, I understand—if not to this extent. But I will never understand why these morons continue to use the phone (see: Eliot Spitzer) for their shenanigans.
But, anyway, here's to pissed off chicks everywhere! Read the piece. Davis is open about her disrespect both for Chicago corruptions and bumbling FBI drones who refused to take her seriously. Good thing she didn't give up.


In our last article, we detailed a type of hype that many brands (fashion or otherwise) are longing to achieve — a type of social status that has the power to attract attention, fanfare and subsequent consumption. But as we witness more branded hands grasping at straws to work out the secret behind the promise, a different interpretation of hype has begun to emerge. In certain circles, hype has acquired a rather negative reputation that questions its genuine nature and the purpose it serves.
An example of this re-interpretation is the backlash received for the recent marketing campaign of Dior's Saddle Bag. Originally, the televised story of a noughties Manhattan — painted by costume designer Patricia Field and worn by Carrie Bradshaw — propelled the bag into an iconic status. Now, as if just overnight, the bag reappeared on the arms of major influencers across the world, served through our Instagram feed with minimal narrative but maximum exposure. The lack of meaning made people wonder if this was just an act of a marketed hype.
The commercial promise of hype may well be appealing — particularly in today's ever-accelerating market — but to create hype just for marketing sake distorts the object's real potential for meaning and human connection.
To further understand the personal values that hype brings, we spoke with consumers, specifically those who've admittedly fallen in love with either of two brands — the jewellery design team of The Knobbly Studio whose collaboration with photographer and tattoo artist Laurie Franck has received widespread praise and devotion, and the sun-drenched label Paloma Wool who has created the much sought after Leandra blouse. What is important is that the two projects are surrounded by a version of hype that is unintentional; created by fans whose attraction is both "organic, and natural" — Anonymous.
"I think the difference with this blouse is that these delicate body shapes are a reflection of every single woman, but also a form of art" — @chloe.chunk. As Chloe explained her thoughts on the work of Paloma Wool, it was clear that her comments echoed the views of the many who took part in the conversation. The overall consensus was that both brands explore a deeper sense and understanding of what it means to be a woman today — a person that is equal in every way.
Being inquisitive, as is the nature of psychology, we noticed the various action calls that came with the renewed description of the portrayal of women, as if — and described by those who took part — "a fight" or "a stand" needed to be made. The creations from both Paloma Wool and Knobbly Studio became a tool to act out these beliefs.
Social Psychologists would explain this desire by our need to self-stereotype. We endorse gender-typed characteristics as more descriptive of our identity; part of our overall effort to curate an ideal perceived self. In the eyes of the brands' devotees, the act of wearing and owning the item offers a chance to participate in an important watershed moment — where a reclaimed womanhood confronts the old gender norms.
As it was this personal meaning that drew the crowd, the surrounding hype was just a vehicle that presented the product to the beholder; it was the values of the product that captured and engaged the visions in its sight. The power of hype therefore lies in its ability to present the items to an already (or soon to be) resonating audience. It is then for the audience to own, wear, and share these values — made easier by the connecting nature of social media — that strengthens the brand's community and status.
It may sound obvious but hype is only justified if it reflects and celebrates the values that the brand holds — without being compromised by commerce. When asked to compare the hype of their much loved Paloma Wool or Knobbly Studio products to those created by the likes of Supreme and Balenciaga, participants in our study expressed a struggle to view the attempted hypes of the latter without getting suspicious of their ulterior motives.
According to the theory of self and personal identity, the argument holds that the pursuit of authenticity is entrenched within all of us. We do our best to be perceived as authentic and genuine, whilst being quick to judge others who seem dishonest, fake, or simply pretentious. This also applies to hype; its disingenuousness can be spotted and can detract from the real meaning of the product.
Returning to the dilemma faced by Dior's Saddle Bag, as discussed at the beginning of this article, the campaign had transpired little content or value except for the purpose of promoting the sale of a product. In contrast, the organic hype surrounding Paloma Wool and Knobbly Studio echoes the rich ethos and the creativity behind their work.
The talks and comments of those who took part have offered yet another insight into the magic formula of hype — that is, it all starts with the genuine creativity behind a meaningful product. To design and produce fashion solely for capturing a marketing hype is to willingly join a crowded bandwagon, as the success of being the '# of the day' only lasts until the next hashtag that comes along. To manifest the energy of hype is to stay true to what creatives are known to do; using creativity to inspire the hearts and desires of others. Like the renewed sense of womanhood that is portrayed by the projects of Paloma Wool and Knobbly Studio, it was hype that offered a chance for more people to own and be empowered by their work; but ultimately it was the creative values that mattered.
A special thank you to all the respondents who took part in this article, including @chloe.chunk, @suziesmalls23, @vchamlee, @sarah_leigh, @justcallmeesophia, @dianousssh, @susannarrr, and those who wished to remain anonymous. The brands and projects discussed included Knobbly Studio, photographer and tattoo artist Laurie Franck, and Paloma Wool — thank you for bringing us something that people can believe in!


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The Fianna Fáil leader is denying the party's finished as a political force, after deciding not to contest the Presidency in October – the first time in its history it won't contest a national election.
The Parliamentary Party agreed not to run a candidate – and the leader says the focus has to be on renewing and rebuilding Fianna Fáil and regaining the trust of the people.
Party leader Micheal Martin says he will advise members how to vote in the election once nominations close, at the end of next month.
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The Green Knight ist ein Fantasy-Drama von David Lowery, das am 29. Juli 2021 in die deutschen und am darauffolgenden Tag in die US-Kinos kam. Die Grundhandlung des Films ist der mittelenglischen Ritterromanze von Sir Gawain und dem grünen Ritter entnommen. Keinen Zusammenhang mit dem titelgebenden Roman haben die Erlebnisse und Erfahrung, die der Filmprotagonist auf seiner Reise zum grünen Ritter macht, sowie die Gestaltung des Endes einschließlich der Auflösung der Geschichte.

Handlung
Der junge Sir Gawain, Neffe von König Artus, pflegt einen ausgelassenen Lebensstil. Seine Abende verbringt er am liebsten trinkend in Bordellen. Um seine Tapferkeit auf die Probe zu stellen, beschwört seine Mutter, die Hexe Morgan Le Fay, gemeinsam mit ihren Dienerinnern eine Prüfung für ihren lasterhaften Sohn herauf.

Am Weihnachtsabend macht sich Gawain auf den Weg nach Schloss Camelot, um an den Feierlichkeiten teilzunehmen. Plötzlich reitet eine bedrohliche Gestalt hoch zu Ross in den Thronsaal. Ein gigantischer Grüner Ritter, halb Mensch, halb Baum und in einer Rüstung steckend, erweist dem König zunächst höflich die Ehre, macht dann jedoch einen provokanten Vorschlag. Wer von seinen Rittern den Mut aufbringe, der dürfe an Ort und Stelle einen Schlag gegen ihn führen. Die einzige Bedingung: Sollte er diesen überleben, müsse sich der tapfere Mann genau ein Jahr später in der Grünen Kapelle einfinden, wo er seinerseits den Schlag erwidern dürfe. Nur Gawain packt die Gelegenheit beim Schopf und nimmt die Herausforderung an, um seinen Mut zu beweisen.

Ein Jahr später macht sich Gawain auf den Weg zur Grünen Kapelle.

Produktion

Stab und Aufbau

Regie führte David Lowery, der auch das Drehbuch schrieb und den Filmschnitt verantwortete. Die Idee, einen Film wie diesen zu machen, kam ihm beim Wiederfinden seiner Willow-Actionfiguren. Zu dem Fantasyfilm aus dem Jahr 1988 des Regisseurs Ron Howard wurden im Jahr der Veröffentlichung von Tonka begleitend Movie Action Figures aus Plastik verkauft, so vom Titelhelden Willow Ufgood oder von Bavmordas Tochter Sorsha inklusive Pferd. Deren Mutter, der grausamen Königin Bavmorda, gespielt von Jean Marsh, wurde im Film prophezeit, dass sie eines Tages von einer Frau mit einem Geburtsmal am Arme entthront werde. Voller Panik erlässt sie den Befehl, alle neugeborenen Mädchen zu untersuchen und, falls das Mal gefunden wird, zu töten. Die kleine Elora entgeht allerdings ihrem Schicksal und wird vom ahnungslosen Nelwyn Willow, gespielt von Warwick Davis, der ein großer Zauberer sein möchte, gefunden. Lowery hatte den Film nach eigenen Aussagen mit sieben Jahren gesehen, und auch später habe er großen Einfluss auf ihn gehabt. Von Anfang an habe er sich für The Green Knight den Film zum Vorbild gemacht, allerdings mit mehr Laufen. Auch bei den visuellen Effekten oder dem Design der Rüstung habe man sich während der gesamten Produktion auf Willow bezogen.

Dies verband er mit der Geschichte von Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, einer Ritterromanze aus dem späten 14. Jahrhundert, die er im College gelesen hatte. In seinem Drehbuch habe er ihn weiterhin den Neffen von König Artus sein lassen, den jungen Mann jedoch zu einem noch nicht fertigen Ritter umgestaltet, der sein Potenzial noch nicht ausgeschöpft hat und noch zu Hause bei seiner Mutter lebt. So habe er als Einstieg einen klassischen Fall des Peter-Pan-Syndroms gewählt, von einem Jungen, der nicht erwachsen werden will. Auch in seinem nächsten Film Peter Pan & Wendy, einer Adaption von Barries Peter Pan, wie auch in Lowerys vorherige Film Elliot, der Drache war es um das Erwachsenwerden gegangen. Aus der Zauberin Morgan le Fay, eigentlich Gawains Tante, machte Lowery in seinem Film dessen Mutter.

Filmkritiker David Rooney erklärt, Lowery halte an der Grundstruktur der Artusgeschichten fest, in denen sich ein junger Mann einer Herausforderung annimmt und dann während einer Odyssee der Selbstfindung verschiedene Prüfungen und Versuchungen bestehen muss, um seinen Mut und seine Ehre unter Beweis zu stellen. Sein Drehbuch nutze aber auch frei folkloristische Elemente aus walisischen, irischen und englischen Geschichten sowie der französischen Rittertradition des Mittelalters, um sowohl irdische als auch transzendentale/übernatürliche Begegnungen zu konkretisieren, die in der Originalgeschichte oft nur angedeutet werden. Der Film ist in Kapitel unterteilt, die Gawains beschwerliche Reise durch eine von rauen Elementen gepeitschte Winterlandschaft und den Gefahren für Leib und Leben zum Ausdruck bringen.

Lowery ließ sich bei seiner Arbeit von Andrei Tarkowskis Andrej Rubljow und Kenneth Branaghs Henry V. inspirieren, der Film weise aber auch auf John Boormans Artus-Film Excalibur und Guillermo del Toros Pans Labyrinth hin, so Stephanie Zacharek.

Besetzung und Kostüme
Die Hauptrolle von Sir Gawain besetzte Lowery mit Dev Patel. Im Film ist Gawain der Neffe von König Artus und Königin Guinevere, gespielt von Sean Harris und Kate Dickie, und der Sohn der Hexe Morgan Le Fay, gespielt von Sarita Choudhury. Alicia Vikander spielt in einer Doppelrolle Gawains Geliebte Essel und eine ihr ähnlich sehende Lady. Ralph Ineson spielt in der Titelrolle den Green Knight, Erin Kellyman spielt St. Winifred. In weiteren Rollen sind Joel Edgerton als ein Lord und Barry Keoghan als Scavenger zu sehen.

Die Kostüme entwarf Malgosia Turzanska.

Synchronisation
Die deutsche Synchronisation entstand nach der Dialogregie von Rainer Martens im Auftrag der Iyuno Media Germany GmbH, Berlin.

Dreharbeiten, Szenenbild und Filmmusik

Die Aufnahmen entstanden im Jahr 2020 während des Corona-Lockdowns in Irland im County Tipperary und im County Wicklow, wo man in den ersten Monaten vor der Kulisse von Cahir Castle in Cahir drehte. Dass viele Aufnahmen in Irland an den gleichen Orten wie für Excalibur erfolgten, habe man erst während der Dreharbeiten festgestellt, so Lowery. Als Kameramann fungierte Andrew Droz Palermo.

Das Szenenbild entwarf Jade Healy, mit der Lowery bereits für A Ghost Story und Elliot, der Drache zusammenarbeitete.

Wie bei Lowerys vorherigen Filmen Ein Gauner & Gentleman und A Ghost Story komponiert Daniel Hart die Filmmusik. Das Soundtrack-Album mit 29 Musikstücken wurde am 30. Juli 2021 von Milan Records als Download veröffentlicht. Harts Arbeit befindet sich in einer Shortlist in der Kategorie Beste Filmmusik bei der Oscarverleihung 2022.

Marketing und Veröffentlichung
Der erste Trailer wurde im Mai 2021 vorgestellt. Der Film sollte am 28. Mai 2020 in die deutschen und am darauffolgenden Tag in die US-Kinos und die Kinos im Vereinigten Königreich kommen. Letztlich erfolgte der US-Kinostart am 30. Juli 2021 und in Deutschland am Tag zuvor. Ebenfalls am 29. Juli 2021 kam er in die Schweizer Kinos. Ab Mitte August 2021 wurde er beim Odesa International Film Festival vorgestellt und Ende August 2021 beim Filmfestival Karlovy Vary gezeigt. Am 26. März 2022 wird The Green Knight in das Programm von Amazon Prime Video aufgenommen.

Rezeption

Filmgenre und Altersfreigabe
Chris Schinke vom Filmdienst beschreibt The Green Knight als eine Coming-of-Age-Geschichte unter verkehrten Vorzeichen: "Anstatt der großen freiheitlichen Verheißung am Ende ins filmisch so häufig bemühte Licht der offenstehenden Möglichkeiten zu folgen, erwartet den Helden hier eine rätselhafte, dunkle Vorherbestimmung – in einem gewissen Sinne ein grausamer Witz, doch auch für ein solches Ende muss Gawain sich erstmal als würdig erweisen." Am Ende sei der Held jedoch innerlich herangereift und sich seiner Männlichkeit versichert. Bis dahin stelle Dev Patel den Ritter als einen in vielen Situationen gebrochenen und bisweilen auch schwankenden Helden dar. Obwohl oft als Coming-of-Age-Film beschrieben, erhielt der Film in den USA von der MPAA ein R-Rating, was einer Freigabe ab 17 Jahren entspricht. In Deutschland wurde er von der FSK ab 16 Jahren freigegeben. In der Freigabebegründung wird auf einzelne düster-bedrohliche Passagen mit Gewaltdarstellungen verwiesen, das mittelalterliche Setting und der phantastische Charakter des Geschehens böten jedoch genug Entlastung.

Kritiken und Einspielergebnis
Der Film konnte 89 Prozent der 275 Kritiker bei Rotten Tomatoes überzeugen und erhielt hierbei eine durchschnittliche Bewertung von 8 der möglichen 10 Punkte, womit er aus den 22. Annual Golden Tomato Awards als Erstplatzierter in der Kategorie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movies der Filme des Jahres 2021 hervorging. Auf Metacritic erhielt er einen Metascore von 85 von 100 möglichen Punkten, basierend auf 49 Kritiken.

Brian Tallerico, der Herausgeber von rogerebert.com, schreibt, David Lowerys Drehbuch passe sich geschickt der poesievollen Struktur des Ausgangsmaterials an, kreise um Themen wie die Reimstruktur um ein Gedicht und entfalte seine Geschichte in filmischen Strophen, die sich wiederholen und sich gegenseitig kommentieren. Gawains Reise fühle sich immer mehr wie ein Traum an, als ob er das Bankett mit dem Grünen Ritter von Anfang an nie wirklich verlassen hätte, und der Film nehme durch eine zunehmende Orientierungslosigkeit an Fahrt auf. Gawains Reise sei nicht so sehr physischer, sondern mentaler und emotionaler Natur, und wie auch in seinen vorherigen Filmen gehe es in The Green Knight um die Sinnfrage einer menschlichen Existenz. Auch hier lasse Lowery dem Zuschauer unterschiedliche Lesarten des Films offen, wie bei einem Gedicht, das für jede Person, die es liest, von ganz individueller Bedeutung ist, und gerade genug Spielraum für Interpretationen, bleibe dabei selbstbewusst und lasse nie das Gefühl aufkommen, er wisse nicht, was er tue.

Owen Gleiberman von Variety erklärt, der Film fühle sich an, als wäre er aus dem tiefsten, schlammigsten Sediment des Zeitalters des Rittertums gekratzt worden. Lowery setze bei der Dramatisierung der Geschichte um Gawain auf die Art der Entmelodramatisierung des Mittelalters, für die Robert Bressons Lancelot du Lac 1974 gefeiert wurde und habe so ein bewegendes christliches Gleichnis geschaffen, das heidnische Elemente verwendet, um in das Innere einer Christusgeschichte vorzustoßen. Der Protagonist träumt von dem Leben, das er hätte führen können, bis er die Kraft der Natur verspürt und sich einfach hingibt und lasse Gawain so zu einer Art Anti-Star-Wars-Held werden.

Thomas Schultze von Blickpunkt:Film bemerkt in seiner Kritik, was eine klassische Heldenreise sein könnte mit einem Protagonisten, der an den Aufgaben wächst, sei The Green Knight das Porträt eines jungen Mannes, der nicht über seinen Schatten springen kann, an den Erwartungen scheitert und mit seinen Makeln und Ängsten hadert. Dev Patel sei in einer unerwarteten, beherzten, kernigen Darstellung brillant in der Rolle des an sich selbst zweifelnden und verzweifelnden Gawain und wirke dabei wie ein ganz moderner Anwärter auf die Tafelrunde, ein bisschen wie James Dean in Jenseits von Eden, einer, der sich nirgendwo verstanden fühlt und nicht weiß, wo er hingehört.

Die Filmkritikerin Antje Wessels schreibt, Patel verleihe dem Film eine immense Traurigkeit, der auch eine bissig-süffisante Abrechnung mit den Begriffen Ehre und Männlichkeit sei, nicht im Gewand eines trockenen Aufklärungsfilms, sondern als mit Motiven des Horrorkinos angereichertes Fantasyspektakel.

Chris Schinke vom Filmdienst erklärt, halluzinatorisch gesteigerte und traumartige Darstellungsformen, Traum und Wirklichkeit, überlagerten sich im Film beinahe nahtlos, und was genau in manchen Szenen passiert, stehe der Interpretation offen. An Stelle überladener Metaphern und klischeehafter Symbole trete bei Lowery ein durchdachtes Signalsystem, das beim Zuschauer die Erwartungshaltung einer Auflösung aller offener Fragen geschickt unterläuft, und so sei The Green Knight zugleich Affektkino in Reinform und eine surreale Pracht.

Die weltweiten Einnahmen des Films aus Kinovorführungen belaufen sich auf 18,2 Millionen US-Dollar.

Auszeichnungen
Gotham Awards 2021
 Nominierung als Bester Film
 Nominierung für das Beste Drehbuch (David Lowery)

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2021
 Nominierung für die Beste Filmmusik – Independent Film (Daniel Hart)

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2021
 Nominierung als Bester britischer Film
 Nominierung für die Beste technische Leistung (Andrew Droz Palermo)

National Board of Review Awards 2021
 Aufnahme in die Top-Ten-Independentfilme

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2022
 Auszeichnung für die Beste Kamera (Andrew Droz Palermo)

Saturn-Award-Verleihung 2022
 Nominierung als Bester Fantasyfilm

Weblinks

 The Green Knight – Offizieller Trailer von Ascot Elite bei YouTube (Video)
 The Green Knight – Drehbuch zum Film (PDF, englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2021
US-amerikanischer Film
Irischer Film
Filmdrama
Fantasyfilm
Abenteuerfilm
Horrorfilm
Keltische Mythologie im Film
Artusepik

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Last year in December we posted about Matt's element14 sponsored video which showed us how to create a portable briefcase contained NOAA satellite received based on a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR dongle. The build consisted of a heavy duty briefcase, modified ATX PSU and stripped down LCD monitor panel. This build resulted in a rugged and portable receiver. The full series of videos demonstrating the briefcase, ATX PSU conversion, LCD teardown, and NOAA satellite receiver demo can be found on his YouTube Playlist.
In his latest video Matt goes over the software installation procedure for creating an automated NOAA weather satellite receiver on the Raspberry Pi. He uses gpredict for predicting the satellite passes, and the Raspberry Pi version of WXtoImg for decoding the images. The rest of the video shows how to set up the software for your particular location, and how to set up decoding automation.


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BOULDER WEEKLY: It will be ukuleles and a Broadway witch for the holidays
Ah, the holiday season. That wonderful time for your favorite carols, colored lights, egg nog and — ukuleles?
Sure enough, it's all part of the eclectic mix of holiday music on the Boulder classical scene, featuring not only the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, but also Elphaba from the Broadway hit Wicked, alongside other events that have become part of the annual December concert schedule. The perennial best-sellers — the Nutcrackers and the CU Holiday Festival — are already behind us, but there is still plenty of music to look forward to.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) will be at Macky Auditorium Thursday (7:30 p.m. Dec. 8) as part of the CU Presents series. Known for their iconoclastic, not to say wacky, programming, the group promises to perform their usual combination of rock and pop covers, including music from Joni Mitchell and Pharrell Williams, some jazz and country songs, and classic Christmas carols.
The group's origin is almost mythological. When he was child, founder George Hinchcliffe w sas given the choice of a model train or a ukulele. Unexpectedly, he chose the uke, and eventually banded together with other aficionados to form the eight-member singing and strumming "orchestra."
Playing instruments known more for their association with Tiny Tim and Hawaiian ballads than whatever you might consider "serious music," the UOGB has become popular embracing the ukulele's light-hearted image. They mug gleefully in their publicity photos — no glamour shots for them — and even invite Boulderites to bring their own ukuleles to the concert for a sing-along, play-along session during the concert.
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Pregnant women with major depressive disorder face a challenging decision when considering treatment over the course of their pregnancy. While there is evidence to suggest infants born to mothers whose depression goes untreated can experience behavioral problems, studies have also found that infants exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may experience adverse behavioral symptoms that typically resolve within the first two weeks following birth.
A study published in AJP in Advance now suggests some infants exposed to SSRIs and benzodiazepines may continue to experience the effects of the medications throughout their first month of life.
Researchers at Brown University assessed 184 pregnant women at two points during their pregnancy and classified them into four groups: no exposure, depression only (no medication taken), SSRI exposure, and SSRI plus benzodiazepine exposure. The infants born to these women were then examined with a structured neurobehavioral assessment (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale) in the first week after delivery, with follow-up assessments on days 14 and 30.
Infants in the SSRI and SSRI plus benzodiazepine groups had lower movement quality and more CNS stress signs across the first postnatal month compared with infants in the no exposure or depression groups; there were no differences seen whether or not the mother discontinued SSRI use in the third trimester. In addition, infants in both SSRI groups showed lower self-regulation and higher arousal at day 14 compared with the other two groups. Infants in the SSRI plus benzodiazepine group had the least favorable scores on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale.


If you're moving to San Francisco, you'll have to shell out a big chunk of your salary on housing. In the country's most expensive rental market, to afford a two-bedroom apartment, you'll need to earn at least $216,129 annually.
While rental rates have increased in recent years, wages haven't kept up. The median household income in the city is only $78,378. San Francisco, of course, tops the list of how much income you'll need to afford rent in the nation's largest cities. But the Bay Area's example of surging rents and stagnant incomes represents a common theme seen in the other cities.
The personal-finance site SmartAsset figured out just how much you need to earn to afford to rent on a two-bedroom apartment in the largest U.S. cities.
To calculate the gross income required, the site set the rent-to-income ratio at 28 percent. That percentage is based on the U.S. government's standard, which establishes affordability by a household not having to spend more than 30 percent of income on housing-related expenses.
SmartAsset found that out of the 15 big cities that it analyzed, only three of them saw average rental rates fall between 2015 and 2016. Among the three with declining rents, none of their fair market rents dropped by more than half of a percentage.
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U.S. Set to End Enhanced Screening of Some International Travelers for COVID-19
The U.S. Government is set to End Enhanced Screening of some International Passengers for COVID-19 and Drop Requirements that Travelers coming from Targeted Countries arrive at 15 Designated U.S. Airports, according to U.S. and Airline Officials and a Government Document.
The Changes are set to take effect as early as, Monday Sept. 14th, according to the Draft, but the move could still be Delayed, U.S. Officials said.
The Administration in February imposed Enhanced Screening Requirements on Travelers who had been in: China; the United Kingdom; Brazil; Iran; the Schengen Region of Europe; and Barred most Non-U.S. Citizens who have been in those Locations from coming to the U.S.
The Document says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "is shifting its strategy and prioritizing other public health measures to reduce the risk of travel-related disease transmission." It said that of 675,000 Passengers Screened at the 15 airports, "fewer than 15 have been identified as having COID-19."
The "current entry strategy for international arrivals only covers a small portion of the traveling public, requires significant resources and is not sustainable as travel volumes increase," Document said.
Those Travelers, who numbered around 6,750 a Day as of late August, Undergo Visual Observations, Temperature Checks, and Complete Traveler Declarations. Anyone showing Signs of Illness or possible Exposure is Referred for Public Health Assessments.
Airlines for America, a Group Representing American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines, said the Group Supports "spending scarce screening resources where they can best be utilized and no longer believe that it makes sense to continue screening at these 15 airports given the extremely low number of passengers identified by the CDC as potentially having a health issue."
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