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Layoffs of Journalists at Washington Post
From a Washington Post story by Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi headlined "Washington Post lays off 20 newsroom employees":
The Washington Post laid off 20 staffers on Tuesday, the latest in a series of media and technology companies to cut jobs in the face of a challenging economic climate and continuing declines in advertising revenue and readership.
In addition to eliminating those 20 positions, the company will also keep another 30 vacancies unfilled, a figure less extensive than many had expected. In mid-December, publisher Fred Ryan told staff that the company would eliminate a "single-digit percentage" of its 2,500-person staff because it "cannot keep investing resources in initiatives that do not meet our customers' needs."
As part of the layoffs, The Post will discontinue its video game and esports section, Launcher, which debuted in 2019, as well as KidsPost, its long-running news and features section aimed at children.
In a note to staff, executive editor Sally Buzbee wrote that "we are not planning further job eliminations at this time." She also said that newsroom leaders tried to prioritize eliminating vacant jobs over laying off workers.
"While such changes are not easy, evolution is necessary for us to stay competitive, and the economic climate has guided our decision to act now," she wrote. "We believe these steps will ultimately help us to fulfill our mission to scrutinize power and empower readers."
Even with the layoffs, The Post's overall head count will remain the same or higher by the end of 2023. The company will continue to hire new personnel in other roles, Ryan has said.
As news of the layoffs spread among Post staffers Tuesday, The Washington Post Guild sent a message to its members saying that "we believe any job eliminations right now — at a time of continued growth and expansion — are unacceptable."
The job reductions at The Post punctuate a period of internal tension and turnover. Several senior managers and high-profile staff have departed for rival publications. In November, the company abruptly announced the closing of its Sunday magazine and laid off its 10 employees, as well as The Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning dance critic.
The Post has also seen a decline in numbers of digital subscribers, a dip that has prompted top management to examine its strategic goals and ambitious expansion plans. The employee union has seen record numbers of recruits, a surge fueled in part by dissatisfaction among staff.
Jeff Bezos, The Post's billionaire owner, has lately been drawn into more direct involvement with the publication. He visited The Post's headquarters last week and held meetings with top executives, including Ryan and executive editor Sally Buzbee, as well as some newsroom staffers. He sat in on a morning news meeting after which an employee approached him about the layoffs. He responded that he was there to listen, not answer questions. But he added, "I'm committed," according to the employee. "Believe me, I'm committed."
The industry is undergoing a dark season of cuts. CNN laid off hundreds of employees in December. Gannett went through several rounds of layoffs last year. Last week, Vox Media laid off 7 percent of its 1,900-person workforce, with the CEO citing the current "economic climate." On Monday, Spotify cut 6 percent of its workforce, and Google's parent company Alphabet cut 12,000 jobs, the most in company history.
Sarah Ellison is a staff writer based in New York for The Washington Post. Previously, she wrote for Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, where she started as a news assistant in Paris.
Elahe Izadi is a reporter covering media and also co-hosts daily flagship podcast "Post Reports." She joined The Post in 2014 as a general assignment reporter, and has covered pop culture, Congress, demographics and breaking news.
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Q: Spiral Core Transformer Presently, I am reading about different types of transformer. I am stuck on 'spiral core or wound core transformer'. I didn't find any good explanation about it in the textbook I am reading. Searched on the internet in hope to find more detail, but same thing, no good description.
I am providing the text from the book I am reading as follows:
In spiral core, spirals of strip steel are wound through the window of perforated coil. The resultant structure provides continuous magnetic path unobstructed by butt or lap joints hence the path of reluctance is reduced.
I don't understand the words in bold.
It will be helpful if it is possible to provide a picture for better understanding.

A: This is a description of that is called "wound core" transformer. A single strip of magnetic material (silicon steel, for example) is wound into a core.
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You can google butt joint and lap joint- a butt joint is just two flat edges pressed up against each other, a lap joint is stepped.
(image of E-I laminations below from this web page):

Seems pretty easy- certainly compared to stacking up dozens of E-I or E-E laminations (flipping the former each pair results in a kind of lap joint)- so why don't all metal core transformers use this?
You can see the obvious disadvantage- the wound core is topologically equivalent to a toroid- there's no way to slip an already-wound bobbin onto the core.

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FrieslandCampina continues its partnership with the Dutch Red Cross for the next three years. Roelof Joosten, CEO FrieslandCampina, and Gijs de Vries, director of the Dutch Red Cross, signed the contract on Wednesday 25 January 2017. The Red Cross may count on the annual support of FrieslandCampina since 2012.
The Dutch Red Cross has already received 700,000 euro from FrieslandCampina for providing (food) aid to people in need since the start of their partnership.
Employees and member dairy farmers feel committed to this partnership. For instance, some of them have joined Ready2Help (Dutch website), the civilian aid network of the Red Cross. Additionally, employees have collected a fine donation by participating in the Seven Hills Run as a sponsored run. In 2012, 3FM Serious Request collected about 300,000 euro through contributions from employees and member dairy farmers and by selling Campina products. Apart from this, employees of FrieslandCampina donated ten thousands of euros for, among others, the victims of the typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the 3FM Serious Request edition of 2016 with the theme 'Don't let them suffocate'.
Roelof Joosten, CEO FrieslandCampina, and Gijs de Vries, director of the Dutch Red Cross, sign the contract for extension of the partnership.
Besides, the partnership has inspired other operating companies of FrieslandCampina to work together with Red Cross organisations around the world. Alaska Milk Corporation in the Philippines, for example, immediately offered its help by distributing milk and water to the victims of the typhoon Haiyan. Another partnership was set up in Nigeria. Together with the Nigerian Red Cross the FrieslandCampina operating company WAMCO provided food aid to refugees. In Vietnam the 'Cow Bank' project, a project of the Vietnamese Red Cross which donates cows in order to give the farmers a better living, has been financially supported for five years already.


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Why Is Detroit's City Council Giving Away Free Money To Billionaires?
Bill Bradley
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Photo credit: Carlos Osorio/AP.
If you go to the Detroit Pistons' website, you can buy season tickets for the 2017-18 season, their first in a brand-new arena named after a pizza company. The move to downtown Detroit, where they haven't played since 1978, has sparked such interest that they're ranked second among NBA teams for new season ticket holders, according to the Detroit News. The problem is that they don't even have a lease yet, or a complete deal to modify the arena so it can be used for basketball.
Not to worry, though—the Detroit city council made owner Tom Gores's life easier today, approving a brownfield tax incentive to the tune of nearly $20 million for the Pistons' new $83 million practice facility. And that's separate from the millions of dollars of public money being poured into the arena itself. The vote was a foregone conclusion, with only two council members voting no, continuing in the storied American tradition of municipalities and cowardly lawmakers rubber-stamping stadium deals that give away huge sums of money to incredibly wealthy owners.
Since the new arena was announced in 2013—initially just as a home for the Red Wings—the cost has ballooned from $450 million ($285 million publicly funded) to $862 million. Funding is projected to be 62% private and 38% public, though that could change again—there are always, of course, cost overruns. Further, according to the Detroit Free Press, the Downtown Detroit Development Authority (DDA), the public entity that technically owns the arena, is "expected to capture $726 million in school property tax revenue through 2051."
Champions of tax increment financing (TIF) and stadium scams will tell you that this money isn't coming from the general fund, that the taxes will be captured within the arena district to fund the project and its ancillary development. This makes it, they say, a win for residents and business owners alike. An arcane financing mechanism will help lift the city from the ashes!
But that's all bullshit. Yes, the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPS) receives full funding from the state. But DPS cannot collect taxes in the arena district until the 30-year bonds—issued to help finance an arena for a man worth $3.3 billion and a family worth $6.6 billion—are paid off. We're living in strange times, but I would like someone to please explain to me how it is remotely sensible for a city that filed for bankruptcy four years ago, and where the public schools have been overseen by a string of emergency financial managers, to foot the bill for a sports arena, especially considering the owners' outright refusal to agree to a strict community-benefits agreement that would ensure a set percentage of permanent, non-construction jobs go to Detroiters.
When Raquel Castañeda-López, one of the two councilmembers who voted no today, asked Palace Sports & Entertainment (PS&E), the Pistons' parent company, if they would allocate 50% of their internships to Detroiters, they responded in a memorandum, "PS&E is committed to providing opportunities for Detroit residents and, to that end, will engage with the City and DEGC [Detroit Economic Growth Corporation], as well as, private sector and non-governmental entities to publicize relevant job openings."
Castañeda-López, who championed a failed ballot proposal for stricter community-benefits agreements back in 2015, is not opposed to the Pistons move. She welcomes it. She is just trying to get the best outcome for her constituents.
"If we're going to have this much public financing we're going to need to have more concrete outcomes for city residents: Jobs for Detroiters, schools, libraries, filling immediate needs," she told Deadspin, while she was stuck in traffic en route to City Council this morning. "I want to see concrete percentages. I like solid commitments that you can measure as opposed to them saying We're committed to hiring Detroiters."
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The council vote today, like those that have been held in cities across the country (hi Atlanta!), was simply a formality. The Pistons rolled out their marketing plan—DETROIT BOUND, their website screams—and plastered some pictures on the side of a downtown building months ago. This was a slap in the face to residents who believe they have a say in the process through their elected City Council members. Owner Tom Gores got his $20 million tax incentive for a practice facility. This was all by design. Roll out the marketing, then vote.
"That's just part of the strategy of the mayor's office and developers," Castañeda-López told Deadspin. "To build public image and public support prior to being finalized by city council because then you have serious public pressure."
We like to bang this drum a lot around here, but what the hell is with municipalities rubber-stamping every public-financing deal for billionaires who should be paying for their own stadiums? From Miami to Detroit to Minneapolis, there are countless examples of why cities would be better off spending their money on schools, infrastructure, housing, the kind of development that measurably improves people's lives. Rather than, say, more money for criminally underfunded public schools, though, the city of Detroit is getting 41 Red Wings games and 41 Pistons games a year, and a string of Kid Rock concerts, all for the low price of more than $300 million in public financing.
This is not to say that the Pistons shouldn't move downtown. They should! The Palace, in nearby Auburn Hills where the Pistons have played since 1988, is a wonderful place to see a basketball game. But with the renewed interest in downtowns across the country, it makes sense—strictly from an urban-planning perspective—that they would play downtown. That doesn't mean the city has to pay for it.
Citizen complaints about publicly-funded stadia are so persistent that they just fade into the general din, which is perhaps the most ludicrous thing of all: When the literature and economists and constituents say it's a bad idea, why are we still having this discussion? Not only are the Red Wings and Pistons getting a boatload of public money, they're straight-up spitting in the face of locals who just want a shot at a job interview after their tax dollars paid for nearly 40% of an arena. We'll let you know when openings are up on the job board is what they'll agree to. This is nothing new, but it's nonetheless still insanely misguided policy. And yet, lawmakers keep saying yes.
But the Pistons and Red Wings aren't done dipping into the public coffers yet. The city council still has to vote on an amendment for another $34.5 million in bonds for arena upgrades to make it suitable for basketball. That, like today's vote, is expected to breeze right through without much pushback.
Things don't have to be this way. Cities can say no to these modern-day robber barons. Castañeda-López has been one of the few voices of reason on Detroit's city council, alongside Brenda Jones, who also voted no today, and she's going to come out on the right side of history. It will take a groundswell of politicians to change behaviors and norms. But we cannot continue to pay for stadiums and arenas when they serve no public good. Just ask Richard Sherman.
And that can start in Detroit. The city council should reject this proposal to set yet more public money on fire when they vote on it later this month. Yes, the wheels are greased; sure, it's only another $34.5 million tacked onto the $285 million. But the city needs to draw a line in the sand. St. Louis did it, and Detroit can too. Make Tom Gores and the Ilitch family pay for it.
Bill Bradley is a writer and reporter living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in GQ, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. Follow him on Twitter @billbradley3. Know something he should? Drop a note at w3bradley@gmail.com or DM him on Twitter for a way to securely contact him.
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The ad itself is not about shaving, though most of the men in it are clean-shaven, but about the difference between being a jerk and behaving like a decent human being. It is unusual for a company to use their advertising dollars to say something reasonable (rather than just pushing product)—unusual enough that they are getting far more coverage for their ad than they would have for a similar amount spent on a more conventional ad.
Despite the reasonableness of their ad, I won't be changing razors, though. I use the Rolls Razor that my father brought with him from England around 1950—it still works fine and I expect it to continue to do so for rest of my life.
My father's razor still serves me well. The whetstone and strop in the steel case are still in good shape after about 70 years. There is even a spare blade, should I get tired of the current one.
At one point I considered giving it to my son, but instead I bought him his own Rolls Razor. Even though they haven't been made since the 1960s, I found one on eBay that was about the same price as when it was new (in the late 1930s or early 1940s)—which really means it was a tiny fraction of the new price, given the rate of inflation since then.


This is a patch release to address an error with the %submission_date% e-mail placeholder, which can be used in the notification settings to include the date of the event's submission.
This a minor patch release which addresses the following: An incompatibility with the soon to be released WordPress 4.3 A missing anchor tag in the Dutch translation If you run WordPress 4.3 with Event Organiser Pro 1.10.5 or earlier, then the bookings admin a screen will not display any bookings.
Event Organiser 2.13.6 has been released. This update addresses an incomparability with the soon to be released WordPress 4.3. When running WordPress 4.3 with Event Organiser 2.13.5 or earlier, the venue admin screen will not display any venues.


Well, they seem to have most of the problems fixed right now. So, they have fixed the cuts or have rerouted the network around. I now have the ability to call in and out, from both local and long distance numbers. Voice mail seems to be back and working fine too. I even got *2 to work, which is the Customer Care number.
So I am back on my normal cell phone number, so you all can reach me there if you need me.


With the one-year countdown to the Winter Olympics under way Thursday and Valentine's Day coming up Saturday, the topic of choice at the University of Kentucky's Wildcat Den on Wednesday was ... baseball.
UK opens its season at Coastal Carolina's four-team tournament Feb. 20-22.
Gary Henderson, UK's associate head coach and pitching coach since 2003, takes over from John Cohen as head coach.
"An extremely good group of kids" is how Henderson described his team at UK's annual media day.
"You have to conform to your personnel, there's no question. We're going to have to rely on something other than hitting one-and-a-half home runs a game. That's not to say we can't hit home runs ... but we have to approach it a little bit differently."
Among the newcomers, right-hander Alex Meyer comes with the highest expectations. A true freshman out of Greensburg High School (Ind.), Meyer was a 20th-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox last June. Baseball America rates Meyer as the No. 2 freshman in the nation.
"Alex Meyer is doing great," Henderson said. "Alex is certainly going to have a role on our pitching staff, there's no question about that."
Andy Burns (Fort Collins, Colo.), the 29th-rated freshman by Baseball America, will get a shot in the infield.
Other newcomers who have impressed Henderson include catcher Michael Williams (Knoxville), outfielder Chad Wright (Heath High School) and pitchers Braden Kapteyn (Lansing, Ill.) and Sean Bouthilette (Elizabethtown).
Meyer, Kapteyn, Bouthilette and junior right-hander Clint Tilford lead the competition for the No. 3 starting spot.
Contenders at second base include Burns, sophomore Chris Bisson, redshirt sophomore Neiko Johnson and junior Gunner Glad. Glad, a junior-college transfer from Tulsa, Okla., also is available at every infield position, the outfield and on the mound.
With Brian Spear gone at first base, Glad, Kapteyn, William Campbell and senior Spencer Korus will vie for playing time.
Corner outfield candidates include returnees Troy Frazier, Bryan Rose and Brock Wright with newcomers Cory Farris, Navarro Hall and Chad Wright.
A home-opening series against Western Michigan after the Carolina tournament will help set the lineup.
UK, unranked by Baseball America, cracked the top 25 in two pre-season polls.
"We haven't earned a lofty ranking of any sort, so being 19 in one (Collegiate Baseball Newspaper) and 23rd in the other (Collegiate Baseball Writers) is probably exactly where we should be," Henderson said.
"They haven't done anything yet. They've worked really hard. But we need to go out and win some games."


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Apple the Bully Goes Hunting for Patent 'Violators' With the Sisvel Army
Posted in Apple, Europe, Law, Patents at 11:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Jobs hires an army for the job of intimidating and extorting people who allegedly 'copied' some ideas from Apple, just as Apple "stole" ideas all along
THE HYPOCRITICAL BULLIES from Apple not only sue Linux these days [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; they also use the private armies of Sisvel and the police. This is arguably an illegal army whose existence led to legal action over a year ago. We wrote about this in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12].
Here is a report about the Apple-backed raids at CeBIT.
Word on the street has it that Apple, Siemens and Sisvel were all kvetching over patent infringements made by an unnamed company exhibiting at last week's show, and within an hour or so of the fuzz showing up, the whole thing was stripped and a hefty fine (€10,000) was levied. Unfortunately, the exact details of who was violating what remains clouded in mystery, but for whatever reason, we get the feeling that something extremely similar will be going down in Hannover next year. We blame KIRFers determination.
SemiAccurate has some more photos of this.
WHAT DO YOU get when you cross Apple, Siemens and Sisvel with the German police at CeBIT? Raids of course, with lots of police, lawyers, and people stripping booths clean of everything electronic.
Walking around Hall 17 at CeBIT a few hours ago, there were several German police walking hurriedly through the crowd, talking into walkie-talkies. Where police are agitated, stories are likely to be found. Sure enough, when the police got to their destination, there were about 15 more of their colleagues surrounding a 5 by 10 meter booth of a netbook and e-reader manufacturer who explicitly asked not to be identified.
Shame on Apple, the company which 'stole' from so many people, by its very own admission (Microsoft is the same by the way). Its CEO had the nerve to accuse others of imitating last week when the lawsuit was announced; maybe he needs a heart implant (metaphorically), not just liver transplant. Sadly, hypocrisy is in the brain, not the heart, so there is no trivial cure for this, not even in CeBIT booths. █
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dyfet said,
I would not necessarily call what Apple or Microsoft did in the past stealing. Like everyone before them, their ideas and products were from the backs of the works of others before them. This is how science and technology progresses over time. However, they now wish to make sure nobody ever again has these same advantages they had, and that no new ideas or companies emerge unless they control and permit them. It of course requires halting the very process and advance of science itself, and in the process destroying the future of all human society, all for the selfish benefit of perpetuating the greed of a few.
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I put "stealing" in quotes. What you said is just what I meant.
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The original IPAD was on BeOS:
http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/07-IPAD/
Haiku-OS né BeOS may have just found a funding source…
So when Jobs held up an "innovative" iPad he actually showed us "stolen" goods?
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I added both switchbacks.com and gpsfiledepot.com to the list. The list is in the OP of this thread.
added peakfinder.org to the list of browser utilities.
Koda wrote: added peakfinder.org to the list of browser utilities.
It also has a mobile app, so you can use it in the field (without a data connection).
See first post in thread.
Ultimately I've found track editor apps that do work for me on a Linux system but so far the ones that I've had time to use have been less than "user friendly" so I end up only using them if I really really need to. In the link I shared is one that looks promising that works on all 3 common operating systems called GpsMaster. When I get time I will check it out. The dilemma with many of these open source Linux apps is they are designed by rocket scientists for rocket scientists. I just want to push a button and have it clean up the track, merge or cut, place or delete waypoints, show accurate elevation/profile data and easily display over a modern USGS map like the ones from Caltopo (not the crappy OSM "cycle" topo map).


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Pokemon GO Fans Lead Niantic to Riches
Pokemon GO addiction is taking over the planet. The game has cataclysmically taken hold of not just our phones, but our lives too – and its grip is only tightening. With this huge success, Niantic Labs enjoyed a historic month pocketing more than $200 million in the space of just one month.
No matter how beautiful or ugly the Pokemon is, people are desperate to get them. They want them all – or at least as many as possible.
Pokemon GO fans spend money on PokeCoins, which are then used to buy PokeBalls and get a slew of rarer items like Lucky Eggs and Lures. With its variety of in-game purchases, Niantic has successfully been able to profit from the most popular free app of all-time.
The game keeps people engaged with several opportunities, with most of the original 151 Pokemon and more than 700 of the catchable creatures featured in the game. Developer Niantic also promises to add new features like trading and battling.
While this obsession continues to grow – Niantic Labs is laughing all the way to the bank.
Pokemon GO Breaking Records
The location-based game Pokemon GO, which was released in early July this year, has reached the top of the revenue charts, crushing the records of Candy Crush Soda Saga from King and Supercell's Clash Royale – the two top grossing mobile games in terms of first-month cumulative revenue.
Candy Crush Soda Saga made more than $25 million in its first 30 days. Clash Royale earned about $125 million in its first month.
Pokemon Go Sales Shooting Up
This infographic VIA SensorTower, the app intelligence company, shows that Pokemon GO is shooting upwards in Comparison to Clash Royale and Candy Crush Soda Saga. It shows the major impact, the game's launch in Japan had on the game's money making power.
According to SensorTower: "Pokémon GO earned more than seven times as much net revenue in its first month as King's hit puzzle game. This is not only a testament to Pokémon GO's unparalleled popularity, but, when viewed against Clash Royale's first month, also speaks to how the measure of a hit game's launch (at least from a revenue perspective) has changed in just two short years."
SensorTower reported on July 25 that Pokemon GO topped 50 million downloads on the Google Play Store in record time. The company also confirmed that the combined iOS and Android downloads for the game reached 75 million within 19 days.
Apple reported in July that Pokemon GO set a new App Store record for the most downloads in the first week than any other app in history.
If Niantic Labs can make a whopping $200 million in a single month, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what they could make in a year.
Wondering what Nintendo gets from all this? Nintendo owns a 32% stake in Pokemon Co., and also owns a number of Niantic shares (we don't have a figure), which means Nintendo will get some share of the profits.
Nintendo is also developing a $35 wearable device named Pokemon Go Plus, which they say will help players stay safe while playing Pokemon GO.
30 Days of Pokemon GO
Pokemon GO first launched on July 6 and was initially only available in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. The game's European release began on July 13.
Pokemon's birthplace Japan had to wait for a couple of weeks more after the U.S. launch, due to server issues. It was finally launched on July 22.
Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and others had to wait until early August this year to play the by-then world-famous Pokemon GO game.
And all it took is 30 days for the game to gain immense popularity and make Niantic Labs more than $200 million.
Have you read about the Japanese Olympic gymnast Kohei Uchimua, who spent $5,000 playing Pokemon GO?
Okay, so, he didn't spend the money buying PokeCoins; he racked up that bill playing Pokemon GO constantly while touring and training. Apparently, he isn't familiar with how roaming charges and data plans work on mobile devices.
What about you? Have you spent money on Pokemon GO?(We're not talking about mobile bills here)


For information on the Dublin Ghost Story Festival 2018, please click here.
Thursday, 18 August – Exhibition Launch: Brian Coldrick's "Behind You" at Gallery X; 65 South William Street, 6-8pm.
Friday, 19 August – Opening night will feature registration, a whiskey reception, a sneak peek at the dealers room, and Nunkie Theatre Company's M.R. James play, "Casting the Runes".
Saturday, 20 August – A full day on Saturday will feature panel discussions of all things ghostly, a mass signing, and an interview with our guest of honour.
Sunday, 21 August – This will be a more relaxed and social day, with more panels, a reading, a book launch, and finally lunch and pints in the pub.
If you'd like to help us promote the event, here's a link for our poster, with wonderful artwork by Alisdair Wood, you can download and circulate.
The Dublin Ghost Story Festival would like to thank the Horror Writers Association, Metalman Brewing Company, Mr. Brendan Kilty SC of James Joyce Whiskey, Giovanni Giusti of Gallery X, Hachette Book Group, Keith Stent and the Freemason's Hall, and Andy Cox at TTA Press for their generous support.
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Svitlana Zalishchuk at Geneva Summit: Ukrainian MP, Steering Committee of World Movement for Democracy
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GENEVA, February 23, 2016 — Ukrainian MP Svitlana Zalishchuk, who was influential in the 2013 EuroMaidan Movement in her country, today participated in a panel discussion (video above) on the rise of authoritarianism alongside three other speakers and moderator Christopher Walker, before a packed room of human rights victims, dissidents and activists at the our 8th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.
Svitlana Zalishchuk also addressed diplomats, journalists and human rights defenders at Monday's opening session of the Geneva Summit, held at the UN:
Below are some highlights from her speech:
"Sometimes it's incredible how stories from others can make you recognize your own story and the history of your own country. I come from Ukraine. I used to be an activist protesting against censorship in our country. Now I am a Member of Parliament […] fighting for the future against an authoritarian regime […] I used to be a journalist making documentaries about the biggest corruption case of our former President, and now I'm a decision-maker in my own country."
"History isn't just what happened 10 years ago, 1 year ago or yesterday. We are still responsible for making history."
"I would like to thank those UN ambassadors and politicians dealing not with resolutions or texts but with people's destinies and people's rights."
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Webcast: Live on Feb. 23rd from 9:15 am to 5:30 pm CET at www.genevasummit.org
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Barnet have signed Michael Gash until the end of the season, despite boss Martin Allen questioning his attitude and telling the former Kidderminster striker he will only be a substitute.
The 28-year-old, who scored against Barnet for Kidderminster Harriers in a 3-3 draw in October, was freed by the Worcestershire side six days ago after completing a loan spell with Conference rivals Nuneaton Town.
Gash scored 21 times in 54 league starts for the Aggborough side and netted once in 11 outings for Nuneaton before leaving Kiddy.
Speaking on Tuesday, Allen said of his latest capture: "He has got an attitude, there is no doubt about it, and I do not think it is always a good one.
"He has got four months with us, that is it. I explained to him I needed cover for my two centre-forwards (John Akinde and Charlie MacDonald) and the other one (Jon Nurse) is injured.
"I told him straight exactly what his position would be - it would be sub."
The Bees boss continued: "He had to understand and accept that and he has. He trained with us for two days because I wanted to make sure he could do the work that our players do.
"He had a very tough couple of days on Thursday and Friday and he was fine. The players liked him, the staff liked him, I like him and he was courageous in those training sessions.
"I have known about him for a few years and I have watched him for a few years. I went up to Kidderminster versus Welling to watch a game up there a few months ago."
An enthusiastic Gash told the club's website: "To come to a fantastic club like Barnet who are fighting for promotion and fighting to win the league, I feel like I've taken a step up. They have a great manager and a great set of lads, so from now until the end of the season trying to win that title is a brilliant place to be.
Gash began his career with Cambridge City before making the step up to join Cambridge United in June 2006. A move to Ebbsfleet United followed two years later and the 5ft 8in striker scored 11 times in 39 league starts for the Kent side.
A £40,000 switch to York City in June 2009 saw a return of eight league goals from 33 starts before the most prolific spell of the hitman's career back at the Abbey Stadium.
Re-signed by Cambridge United in 2011, Gash notched 20 league goals in 59 starts for the U's - whilst also taking in a brief loan stay at Braintree Town.
Signed on loan by Kidderminster in March 2013, the move was made permanent in the summer, with Gash top-scoring for the Worcestershire outfit last term, netting 11 times in 35 starts.


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HeroClix Online Releases Two New DC Comics Sets, Unlockable Content "Inside the Box"
Posted on December 7, 2011 by Brett Leave a comment
Official Press Release
Complete Blackest Night and Superman Fast Forces Collections Available Now
Hillside, NJ – December 7, 2011 – Developers of HeroClix Online today announced the integration of the game's first DC Comics sets, Blackest Night and Superman Fast Forces, which together add over one dozen new figures to the online experience along with a new map, Sciencells. Additionally, physical Superman Fast Forces HeroClix, released today, now contain codes for the collection's virtual counterparts.
The Blackest Night collection is now also available as a Starter Set option for new players to the game. Both sets can be used alongside one another in friendly matches and constructed tournaments.
HeroClix Online, currently in Paid Beta, is the digital transliteration of the popular collectible miniatures-focused combat game enjoyed by millions of players and collectors worldwide. Ideal for both casual and tournament game play styles, in HCO players may compete in matches and tournaments, collect and manage their forces and participate in the passionate HeroClix community from anywhere in the world. Anything a player can do in the physical game, he or she can do in HeroClix Online.
For more information on HeroClix Online, visit http://hco.heroclix.com/.
For news updates and announcements, follow HeroClix Online on Facebook and Twitter.
About WIZKIDS/NECA, INC.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Entertainment Collectibles Association Inc. (NECA), WizKids/NECA is a New Jersey-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating games driven by imagination. The HeroClix brand is the most successful collectible miniatures games on the market today, with over 250 million miniature game figures sold worldwide. For additional information, visit www.wizkidsgames.com.
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During Tuesday's trading session, the European Single Currency appreciated against the US Dollar to break the resistance levels of the monthly S1 at 1.1301 and the bottom boundary of the dominant pattern line at 1.1240. On Wednesday morning, the rate was supported by the 200-hour SMA at the 1.1318 mark.
In regards to the near-term future, most likely, the currency exchange rate will surge towards the weekly pivot point at 1.1368. Note, the 200-hour simple moving average should support the surge during the day.
However, today's US CPI and Core CPI data release at 13:30 GMT could turn the rate towards the dominant pattern line at the 1.1240 mark.
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We're getting towards the end of the year and Frozen Skies is getting pretty darn close to being released, though it is still a case of "so close yet so far". The news is mainly going to be about the Kickstarter, though I do have a couple of other things to talk about.
All-in-all things have gone pretty decently, got off to a extremely good start but things were rocky for a while before we finally hit the target. As time of writing its pretty much at £3,000 and 107% funded, still a week to go and theres a comfortable margin. But we're still £1,000 short of the first stretch goal, would be awesome if we got it before the campaign finishes.
Looking at revamping and updating the Alyeskan Tales fiction companion, this will involve adding a new story and partial rewrite of one of the other stories. Hopefully it'll be relaunched in the next couple of months, though Kickstarter backers will get a free PDF of it.
Already stated that I'll be doing a Frozen Skies campaign in the near future, though looks like I'll also be running a One Shot in November. Gaming society at the local university is running a series of One Shot Nights for RPGs, I've signed up and will hopefully be running the Things Never Go Smooth adventure on 20th November. After Action Report will probably go up the following Monday.


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Slack resets tens of thousands of passwords following 2015 data breach
Synaptics' under-glass fingerprint reader is almost here
Future laptops and smartphones will get a cleaner look thanks to this technology.
Richard Lai, @richardlai
06.03.16 in Security
It was just a month ago when LG Innotek unveiled its under-glass fingerprint sensor, but it's clearly not the only company working on this space. At Computex, the folks over at Synaptics were kind enough to let me take a sneak peek at a similar technology that they've been working on for two years. For some reason, photography was forbidden, but the prototype was simply a special glass trackpad -- with extra details which I am not at liberty to disclose -- retrofitted into an existing laptop. It'll essentially be a spiritual successor to Synaptics' SecurePad (pictured above), but rather than having to cut a hole through the trackpad, the next-gen fingerprint sensor will simply sit underneath the glass layer, so that when it's idle, you can still use the entire trackpad area for the usual cursor and gesture controls.
The company reps wouldn't give a timeline here, but based on the prototype's responsiveness when I tried it, I have a feeling that it'll be made available to OEMs soon. And as you'd expect, the same technology can be applied to smartphones -- Synaptics is the supplier behind the fingerprint readers on Samsung's flagship smartphones, after all. The company reps added that this will be ready for Windows Hello.
"I don't see laptops shipping without fingerprint reader in three years' time."
According to Vice President of Marketing Godfrey Cheng, Synaptics is shipping over 100 million trackpads a year these days, which explains why his company is working hard on refining the fingerprint-on-trackpad integration. "I don't see laptops shipping without fingerprint reader in three years' time. People are transitioning aggressively, probably more so on the consumer side than the business side," Cheng added. For the same reasons, Synaptics has been bolstering its fingerprint anti-spoofing technology to stay ahead of the curve: The demo I saw was able to differentiate between a real finger and its wood glue copy after a new algorithm was enabled.
Despite its increased effort in pushing integrated fingerprint readers, Synaptics is actually also looking into bringing back the fingerprint USB module, but in a much smaller form factor -- so much that it can just stay in the USB port without getting in your way. Starting in Q3, the company will be sampling its small, fully-housed IronVeil "Catalyst" fingerprint module turnkey solution (featuring the same rectangular sensor made for modern mobile devices), followed by mass-production in Q4. It'd only cost OEMs less than $40 a pop, plus the device will also be compatible with Windows Hello, so they'll only have to worry about the packaging, branding and marketing costs.
Perhaps what's more readily available is the Tt eSports Black FP gaming mouse, which we first saw back at last year's Computex and is now finally prepping for retail launch. The mouse features a Synaptics IronVeil fingerprint sensor on where your right thumb would rest, so you'll only need to register one finger here. As for the actual mouse itself, it's powered by a 5700 dpi laser sensor and features seven programmable buttons. Alas, there's no pricing info just yet.
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Q: What method is a delegate assigned to This is the definitions I have in the
private SavePreferenceCallback savePreferenceHandler;

public SavePreferenceCallback SavePreferenceHandler
{
  get
  {
    return savePreferenceHandler;
  }
  set
  {
    savePreferenceHandler = value;
  }
}

and then in debugging the code when I come to a line that is this:
savePreferenceHandler();

I don't know how to go further and what to look at? what method is it running?

A: Press F11 to step into the code and you'll find out, basically. Or you could always examine the value of savePreferenceHandler to see the method (or methods) it represents.
Side-node: if you're using C# 3 or above, you can make that property considerably simpler:
public SavePreferenceCallBack SavePreferenceHandler { get; set; }

You might also consider making it an event instead.

A: If you want to know what method will be called you can mouse over the variable savePreferenceHandler, and the debugger will show you what method is assigned.

You also can put a breakpoint in your property setter to see what method is assigned.
Lastly, you could use F11 and step into the method as it is invoked.


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Samson Young (born 1979) is a Hong Kong artist, working primarily in the mediums of sound performance and installations.

Early life and education
Samson Young was born in Hong-Kong. He received both his BA degree in Music, Philosophy and Gender Studies and his M.Phil in Music Composition from The University of Hong Kong, and his PhD in music composition from Princeton University.

He was an assistant professor in sonic art and physical computing at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Young is also the principal investigator at the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Musical Expression (L.U.M.E), and artistic director of the experimental sound advocacy organization Contemporary Musiking.

Work
While Young's background is in music composition, his work as an artist spans a broad range of media, including performance, sound, video, drawing, and wall transfers. Young's work is frequently political in nature, addressing military history and the British occupation of Hong-Kong as subjects.

Nocturnal Music, the artist's 2015 exhibition at Team Gallery, centered on a performance, in which the artist sat at a desk for six hours every day, watching muted video footage of night-time airstrikes by the United States on the Middle East and re-creating the audio via foley effects, which he broadcast locally via a pirate FM radio channel.

Career and recognition
In 2015, Young was the inaugural recipient of the BMW Art Journey Award. Major exhibitions include A Dark Theme Keeps Me Here, I'll Play a Broken Music, at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2017, and the Hong-Kong pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2021 – The World Falls Apart Into Facts, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2020 – MAM Collection 012: Samson Young, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2019 – Samson Young - It's a heaven over there, Centre A Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC

2018 – Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong

2017 – Furniture Music, Gallerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

2017 – Songs for Disaster Relief, Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice Biennale

2016 – A Dark Theme Keeps Me Here, I'll Make A Broken Music, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

2016 – The Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power,  Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India

2016 – Orchestrations, Connecting Space (presented by Para Site), Hong Kong

2015 – Pastoral Music, Team Gallery, New York City

2015 – Video Program: Samson Young, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

2015 – Avant-garde on speed, TKG+ gallery, Taipei

2015 – Pastoral Music, Discovery, Art Basel Hong Kong

2015 – MTVs, a.m. space, Hong Kong

2014 – I wanted to see everything: the Liquid Borders Project, a.m. space, Hong Kong

2013 – On the Musically Beautiful, Goethe-Institute, Hong Kong

2011 – Machines for Making Nothing, Cogut Center for Humanities, Brown University, USA

Awards
2019 - Prix Ars Electronica (Sound Art and Digital Music Category), Award of Distinction

2018 -  Honorary Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Centre

2015 - BMW Art Journey Award

2013 - Artist of the Year (Media Art Category), Hong Kong Arts Development Council

2012 - Prix Ars Electronica (Sound Art and Digital Music Category), Honorary Mention

2012 - Japan Media Art Festival (Interactive Art Category), Jury Selection Award

2009 - New York Society for New Music, Brian M. Israel Prize

2007 - Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award

References

External links
 Samson Young's website
 Team Gallery
 Galerie Gisela Capitain
 Profile of Samson Young in Artforum
Profile of Samson Young in Edouard Malingue

1979 births
Living people
Interdisciplinary artists
Sound artists
Hong Kong people
Princeton University alumni
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong artists

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I understand you're fairly new to Peakview. How long have you lived here?
It's been almost a year. I moved here on the first of June last summer.
What brought you to Peakview?
I first wandered into town in a blinding snowstorm right before New Year's Eve. My son had passed away, and I needed to get out of Denver. I just drove. I think God brought me to Peakview. I met Jerry, my husband and a world that had turned dark, was suddenly worth living again. Anyway, we fell in love and decided to open our bed and breakfast, Heart's Haven. We'll celebrate a year in business July first.
Great. I didn't know it, but I think I was born to run a small inn. I love all the people we meet. Some become almost like family. We even do specialty weeks. We had weeks for veterans, families who've lost a child, and foster families. We plan to do a lot more of that kind of thing in the future.
Any plans to expand your family?
If you mean kids, not right now, but our four-legged family keeps growing. Since opening the inn we acquired a pony, another dog, several cats and goats. It's fun. Being raised a city girl, I'm loving the mountain life.
What would you like to tell people about Peakview?
It's a magical place. It saved my life. I want to do that for others. If you find yourself in our area, come on by and spend the night. I think you'll love our little slice of heaven on earth.
Good morning and welcome. I hear you are a relatively new resident to Peakview. How do you end up in this little town?
That's right. I've only been here about two and a half years. Actually, coming to Peakview was totally unintentional on my part. After Alexis, my youngest, left for college, I decided to take a roadtrip from my former home in Ohio to visit my son and granddaughters in San Diego. The Colorado Mountains were so breath-taking that I decided to take some back roads. That's when my car broke down along Apple Creek Road. Lucky for me, my now step-son, Luke, happened along and rescued me. He graciously invited me to Walker Ranch while Howard worked on my car. The rest is fate. I met Jeff and fell in love. I sometimes wonder if Luke planned it that way.
What do you think of the community?
Honestly, it's the best place on Earth. I don't think you'll find friendlier folks anywhere. They've accepted me as one of their own. I've made some great friends here. And Violet's café. Let just say it's the center of this community. Violet doesn't miss a thing, and she has a heart of gold.
I have three children. My oldest, Paul and his wife Cindy life in San Diego with my three adorable grandchildren. My middle child, Mary, is a world traveler. I hope to get her out here for a visit again soon. Then there's Alexis, she's in college at LSU. And, of course, my step-sons, Matthew and Luke. Matthew is a CPA down in Denver, and Luke lives on the ranch with his wife, Penny, and their new baby boy, Bronco. Honestly, he's the cutest baby I've ever seen. We're so lucky that they live so close to us.
Tell us something we might be surprised to know about you.
I've always been an amateur artist. Since moving to the ranch, I've taken up water color. You can find me on a nice afternoon, out in one of our pastures, painting scenery or horses. I'm not very good, but it's fun. Jeff has even humored me by hanging a couple of my paintings in his office. I have the best husband.


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Support Mackinac Associates on Giving Tuesday
Mackinac Associates' mission is simple and encompassing: Friends Preserving and Sharing Mackinac's Heritage.
Mackinac Associates is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports programs at Mackinac State Historic Parks through membership dues and other gifts. Mackinac Associates has supported needed projects in every area of museum operation, and make possible interpretive programs, publications, exhibits, natural history education, park improvements and more. (more…)
Tags: Biddle House, Charity, Colonial Michilimackinac, Donation, Fort Mackinac, Giving, Giving Tuesday, Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park, Mackinac Associates, mackinac island, Mackinac State Historic Parks, Mackinaw City, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Straits of Mackinac, The Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum
2018 Collections Acquisitions
Weidenaar etching of 'Big Mac.'
In 2018, the Mackinac Island State Park Commission accessioned 120 gifts and 82 purchases to the historic object and archival collection. Among the objects acquired was an 1891 register from the New Mackinac Hotel, a walking stick that belonged to park commissioner James Dunnigan, a plastic viewfinder with slide images of Mackinac Island and several photograph albums. During the year, the park purchased two miniature etchings by Reynold Weidenaar, a black and white photograph showing early transportation in the park and accepted a donation of images showing a prominent Mackinac Island family.
Weidenaar etching 'At Mackinac Straits'.
In 2017, the park commission purchased the mezzotint Bridge Builders by Michigan artist Reynold Weidenaar. This was the last of three large etchings showing the Mackinac Bridge being built that the park needed to complete its collection. This year, staff were made aware of two miniature etchings of the bridge also done by the artist. At Mackinac Straits and Big Mac were purchased and will complete the collection which will be on display in The Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum. (more…)
Tags: Arch Rock, Archives, Big Mac, Carriage, Collections, Fort Holmes, History, Mackinac Bridge, mackinac island, Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, Mackinac Island State Park, Mackinac National Park, Mackinaw City, Mezzotint, New Mackinac Hotel, The Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum
Reynold Weidenaar at the Mackinac Art Museum
"Bridge Builders, Mackinac Straits"
Reynold Weidenaar (1915-1985) was an internationally acclaimed artist known for his use of Intaglio-style etching. This complicated process involves etching or engraving a solid piece of copper, placing ink upon the etched copper, and running it through a rotary press with a piece of paper over it to which the ink is then transferred. This creates a print of the etching previously done on the copper. This meticulous process can take anywhere from a few hours to several days to complete. Within the Intaglio process there are many different methods. Two of these can be seen in the prints above. The Bridge and the Storm, Mackinac Straits and Bridge Builders, Mackinac Straits are done in Mezzotint, which involves a rod called a "rocker" used to make the etching. The other, Building the Bridge, Mackinac Straits, is aquatint which utilizes resin for the same etching purpose. (more…)
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An interpreter working inside the Biddle House.
Visiting Mackinac Island during the summer months brings another level to the history that makes the island what it is today. The historic downtown buildings, including the Biddle House, McGulpin House, American Fur Company Store/Dr. Beaumont Museum, Mission Church, and the Benjamin Blacksmith Shop, most located on Market Street, opened June 9th, bringing the rich history of Mackinac to life.
The blacksmith hard at work at the Benjamin Blacksmith Shop.
The fur trade is highlighted throughout the buildings scattered downtown on the island. From architecture to medicine, family life to the fur trade business, religion to native life, the 1820s and '30s fur trade era is addressed. Each building offers an intimate setting with costumed interpreters where visitors can ask questions, experience demonstrations, and learn more about what made Mackinac great! Admission to these historic structures is included with tickets to Fort Mackinac or The Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum. Historic Downtown Mackinac is open through August 25. More information on the downtown buildings can be found by clicking here.
Tags: American Fur Company, Benjamin Blacksmith Shop, Dr. Beaumont, Edward Biddle, fur trade, Historic Downtown, mackinac island, McGulpin, Mission Church, Straits of Mackinac
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Album
Efforts to bring the president to Mackinac began with President Taft in 1911 and again with President Coolidge in 1927, the latter including an album of photographs. This album is an invitation from the State of Michigan to convince President Roosevelt to make Mackinac Island the "summer White House." This particular specimen was probably part of a 1933 resolution by the legislature inviting President Roosevelt to vacation at Mackinac Island. It is comprised of photographs of Mackinac Island, a hand-tooled leather cover, original renderings of the obverse and reverse of the federal seal, and a presentation statement. All were done by members of the art department at Michigan State Prison in Jackson with photos by the Department of Conservation. It is not clear if the album was ever presented, note that the signature lines are unfilled. It does not appear to be a copy (all text, including the photo captions and the seals are hand drawn). The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library has no record of such an album or invitation being made to Roosevelt. It was rescued from an office building fire in 1951. A smaller album of twelve photographs of Mackinac Island with a similar invitation was presented to Mrs. Roosevelt by Governor Comstock in 1934.
The album is on exhibit at the Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum.
Tags: Album, Calvin Coolidge, Department of Conservation, Elanor Roosevelt, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, mackinac island, Mi, Michigan State Prison, President, President Coolidge, President Roosevelt, President Taft, William Howard Taft
Frank Kriesche's Ruby Souvenir Glasses
Frank Kriesche came to America from Bohemia in the late 1800s where he had learned his trade as a glass engraver. He moved to Mackinac Island in the early 1890s and during the summers applied his talents at the glassware shop that he owned on Main Street. Kriesche would import some of the glass from Germany for his more expensive glassware but the pieces that he is most famous for are his ruby souvenir glasses.
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Mackinac Art Museum 2013 Exhibition "People of Mackinac"
Mackinac State Historic Parks is pleased to announce the theme for the Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum's 2013 art exhibition, "People of Mackinac."
Highlighting the array of individuals that make Mackinac Island a unique destination, the theme is not strictly portraits, but broadened to include any work of art combining "Mackinac" and "people." The independently juried exhibition will feature over two-dozen pieces of selected art in a variety of mediums from May through October 2013.
A total of six awards and $5,000 in cash prizes, including a Best of Show Award, will be selected by the juror. The Best of Show winner will receive a $2,500 cash prize, the Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum Gold Medal and their name will be added to the list of annual Gold Medal winners displayed at the museum. In addition, there will be second and third place cash prizes of $1,000 and $750 respectively and three (3) honorable mention awards with cash prizes of $250 each. All prizes are donated by the Mackinac Arts Council and Mackinac Associates. Winners will be announced at the June 26, 2013 awards ceremony.
Both amateur and professional artists are encouraged to enter. Guidelines, entry forms, and more information for the exhibition can be downloaded at here.
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Grappling with climate change, politics and the Alberta floods
Epistemology / June 25, 2013 July 29, 2019 / By Sherwin Arnott / 6 minutes of reading
It's no small chore trying to understand climate change. We live in a society that is lacking in scientific literacy. Even those of us that have some, have little time to read and understand the many complex issues of our day. And many whose job it is to read and understand, assess and summarize the issues around climate change are doing a bad job of it.
Many news organizations are failing at it. And many writers, leaders and people in the media are failing too.
I'll give three examples.
1. Mike Moffatt is an economist and writes about economics
On Sunday, while I was trying to understand the absence of stories in newspapers about the relation of climate change to the Alberta floods, I noticed that David Suzuki had managed to publish something in the Huffington Post. Contra Ezra Levant, I thought the piece was cautious, helpful and relevant. And I didn't find it disrespectful in the least.
But I think it's fair to say that Twitter was polarized on the subject. Many, many people found Suzuki's piece disrespectful, incorrect, morbid and opportunistic. Mike Moffatt was with this crowd:
https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/status/348396559253245952
Moffatt dedicated, I don't know, maybe forty tweets to David Suzuki's piece saying a range of things, including "can we all just ignore David Suzuki," "Problem was the *lack* of science," "Suzuki didn't cite any of the research RE Alberta and flooding, though a fair bit exists," "Is it really too much to ask people to read the science before they start making pronouncements," "He willfully ignores the probable root causes," "he shouldn't be writing on it because he clearly hasn't done his research," "take a tragedy, re-publishhing piece without looking at the evidence sounds a lot like milking to me," and my favourite: "His HuffPo piece which was basically 'we can't prove flood caused by climate change but… CLIMATE CHANGE!'"1
Seriously, when I read these I understand Suzuki's animus towards economists. But Moffat was on a roll, so he retweeted Jason van Rassel, a journalist with the Calgary Herald, who was feeling some frustration:
The next person who lectures "Alberta" or "Albertans" about climate change gets a punch in the face, OK?
And someone tried to disagree with Moffatt's condemnation of Suzuki's article, by posting this interesting summary of scientific research regarding the attribution of extreme weather events to anthropogenic global warming. Moffatt engaged them for a while and then accused them of being a troll.
@Bigcitylib2 Seriously, you're trolling at this point. The piece is very, very clear.
A lot of other commentators seemed to agree with Moffatt's general drift: Dan Gardner participated, saying something that was mostly true, but, in my opinion, a little rhetorical and perhaps obfuscating:
https://twitter.com/dgardner/status/348787466217603072
Actually, this claim isn't, strictly speaking, true. A simple counterexample is when the probability of something changes from zero to one hundred percent.2 But hey, it's just Twitter.3
The interesting thing about Moffat's complaints about Suzuki's article is that Suzuki never actually said anything false or unwarranted. David Suzuki was asking people to think about climate change and it's relationship to extreme weather, flood damage and the impact on human life. This is, by the way, exactly what the insurance companies were doing when they wrote similar pieces (PDF) in the months leading up to the floods.4 It's exactly what the World Health Organization has been asking policy makers to do. And it's exactly what some other journalists have been asking the public to do. It is even, in fact, what Calgarians have been asked to think about by the Calgary Herald, in the context of other cities. And it's something I wish everyone did more of given the global impacts of drought and floods that are being statistically attributed to climate change.
To his credit, Moffat did acknowledge that the media landscape is difficult for scientists and politicians to navigate.
And yet the overwhelming effect of Moffatt's bluster was to demean David Suzuki and to shut down those that are asking important questions about the relationship between climate change, extreme weather and flooding. It turns out that Moffatt himself used to work on weather models many years ago.5
But this didn't stop him from saying something that was outre (with respect to current hydrological and climate change research), unwarranted and completely unsupported:
2. Tom Fletcher, journalist
Tom Fletcher is a journalist for bclocalnews.com. He still puts climate change in quotation marks. This makes me want to refer to Tom Fletcher as a "journalist." And he can be seen here severely misrepresenting David Suzuki.
David Suzuki blames #abflood on "climate change" http://t.co/J0anLT4zEB
— Tom Fletcher (@tomfletcherbc) June 22, 2013
3. Jason Kenney, MP for Calgary Southeast
Jason Kenney was on CTV Question Period and was asked if climate change was a factor in the floods. He said no.
This is also completely unwarranted. This is as unwarranted as saying that climate change was the sole cause. This is as unwarranted as Mike Moffatt's claim that climate change could be lessening the impact of the Alberta floods. And yet, to my knowledge, there has been no one in the media who has bothered to write about it. Bloggers, yes, probably. Elite media? No. Actually, if you hear of someone, let me know. This just in, it's been included in this article by Maclean's. Also the Winnipeg Free Press. Although, interestingly, in neither article, did the authors point out that Kenney mispoke.
When CTV first went to print with this claim by Kenney, there was a reaction on Twitter.6 then CTV deleted it from their article.7 CTV hasn't deleted their tweet about it:
Kenney says there is no connection between Climate Change and the flooding in AB #cdnpoIi #abfloods
— CTV'S QUESTION PERIOD (@ctvqp) June 23, 2013
Here's the full portion that was deleted from the original article:
When asked if the floods were caused in part of climate change, Kenney said "no."
"This is a once in a century event," Kenney told CTV's Question Period on Sunday.
"We had some rain for three days and a heavy run off that lead to this situation. The stuff that I read from scientists, there's not a connection between weather events of this nature and broader climate issues."
I hope that media personalities and political leaders do a better job of educating themselves. And I hope they do a better job of helping us to do the same.
Photo by Becky Cory.
Tweet here. ↩
But more importantly, it's not necessarily relevant to the context of climate change and an extreme weather event. Put another way, I'm not sure that it's true of things as complicated as province-wide, multi-day events. The science is much more complicated than Gardner is making it out to be here. ↩
That said, no one is more militant and disagreeable than Dan Gardner, so it's worth pointing out. ↩
See also this and also this. ↩
Even Mike Moffatt noticed it, although he only tweeted about it once, and then made some general mitigating remarks sort of indicating how difficult it was to talk science in the media. ↩
The only reason I even know about this is that I was a sent a screenshot and also corroborated this with screenshots of Google search snippets. ↩
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Do Now: Are You Ready?
Students will be able to determine central ideas and word meanings by reading and discussing a short Revolutionary text.
Ready, set, discuss--preparing for a skills test.
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