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Warriors Under Review: Hot Shooting, 'Hamptons 5' Key to Win Over Spurs
By Monte Poole	• Published February 7, 2019 • Updated on February 7, 2019 at 12:31 pm
OAKLAND – That Kevin Durant used his postgame platform to get extra spicy with media on Wednesday obscured the fact that he was superb in initiating the deconstruction of the San Antonio Spurs.
The notion that these Warriors would lose to this band of Spurs – with LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan unavailable – was unfathomable. It was close for most of the first half, and then the Warriors shifted into ruthless gear and rolled to a 141-102 win at Oracle Arena.
Here are some of the positives and negatives in the 39-point victory:
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Shooting was razor sharp
Durant was 9-of-13 from the field, including 3-of-4 from deep. Klay Thompson was even better, 11-of-13 and 4-of-5. Stephen Curry was 7-of-12 and 3-of-5. Their combined sharpshooting, 27-of-38 and 10-of-14, was Exhibit A as evidence this was not a fair matchup.
Exhibit B: The team's 77.3-percent shooting in the third quarter. Exhibit C was the team's 115 points through three quarters, the most allowed by the Spurs in 20 seasons with Gregg Popovich as a the coach.
It was ugly and the Warriors loved it.
Hello, Hamptons 5
Once the most frightening quintet in the NBA, the Hamptons 5 have had some ups and downs this season. Not on this night. The group – Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, Curry, Durant and Thompson – put the Spurs to sleep with an 11-0 burst late in the second quarter that raised a three-point lead to 14 at the half.
That burst took all of 88 seconds, during which they forced three turnovers. Good night, San Antonio.
File it under gratuitous production
For so much of Steve Kerr's tenure as coach, the Warriors have used the third quarter to wipe deficits or simply rob opponents of their will. Though that tendency has faded lately, it was there in every way in this game. In addition to shooting 77.3 percent (the second-hottest quarter in the NBA this season), the Warriors recorded 16 assists while piling up 49 points.
This was the Warriors performing basketball euthanasia, without the compassion.
Cook is, um, not cooking
Because he is a poor defender, Quinn Cook's path to playing time is down the avenue of offense. Clearly searching for his shot, Cook jacked 10 over the final 14 minutes. He made two. He missed all five of his 3-point attempts. He is now 4-of-29 beyond the arc over his last 13 games.
Cook has to score to offset what he gives up. He has spent much of this season well above 40-percent shooting from deep. He's now at 38.3 percent, a solid number, but there is no sign of rediscovering his shot.
Durant's exemplary game
Durant provided an early spark, with 15 points in the first eight minutes. But there was much more to his game than the scoring referenced above. He delivered in other significant ways, recording team highs in assists (nine, with zero turnovers), rebounds (eight) and steals (three). He played phenomenal game.
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Durant's emotions clearly are affected by the chatter surrounding his future. His game, however, is as smooth as ever.
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These charts show the barriers to learning experienced by survey respondents. A number of surveys from 2002 onwards included a question asking respondents what had prevented them from learning or made it difficult.
No need to learn or no barriers.
Year-on-year, roughly 10 to 15 per cent of adults say that work or other time pressures prevent them from learning, with a similar proportion saying that they feel too old. Fewer than one in 10 adults consistently cite childcare or other caring responsibilities, with a similar proportion saying that cost prevents them. Each year, 19 to 27 per cent of adults say that other barriers are preventing them from learning; for most years around two-fifths say that there are no barriers or that they consider they have no need to learn.
Use the boxes at the side of the chart to explore breakdowns of the overall trends by demographic characteristics. The buttons at the top show a separate chart for each demographic; the additional buttons on each chart can be used to show breakdowns by each barrier.


Unruly wants to help brands get in their feelings.
The video-focused ad tech company, owned by News Corp, creates audience segments based on multiple data sets, including survey and "emotional" biometric data.
The company works with agencies and advertisers to relay how certain audiences react to their campaigns. This ultimately helps brands understand what kinds of audiences are most likely to engage with their content.
"We know the pain points that the global publisher is going through and the type of investment we can put back into our technology," Unruly UK programmatic lead Paul Gubbins told AdExchanger.
AdExchanger caught up with Gubbins to learn more about the company's emotional database and what it means for advertisers.
AdExchanger: What is emotional data?
PAUL GUBBINS: For the last 10 years we've been analyzing lots of the video ad impressions that run through our system. I think the number is almost 3 trillion. We've been looking at insights in order to use those emotional signals and help us develop different audiences.
That's one of the real key differentiators for us as a business and that's what's enabling us to get really good traction with some of the biggest advertisers in the world that are trying to figure out TV assets.
What kind of data do you extract?
We look at the basics around mood and sentiment. You can extract so many things from basic human signals that will inform an advertiser as to whether or not a particular campaign is going to resonate well with them. You can look at environment, state of mind and all of these signals that can be extracted from the types of campaigns that you put in front of them, including whether or not the messaging evokes an emotion of happiness.
How do you apply emotional data to the TV advertising business? Why is it useful?
We know audiences are transitioning and that there are very large demographic groups that we can no longer reach by linear broadcasts. We know that they're migrating to OTT environments. The question becomes: How do we actually reach them all?
We're using a combination of first-, second- and third-party [data] to develop a second third-party audience segment based on the emotional insights that we have. We've got different teams internally that drill into how we extract audiences, segment them into IBM Watson and pull out sites that we use.
How does this ultimately help brands?
There are a lot of perceptions of audiences that advertisers have built up over the years, and we help break down some of those stereotypes. We've done that for quite a few of the big brands that we work with.
We try to take the company's raw television assets and [tell them] if [we] think that they will resonate particularly well in one place, because it might not resonate very well in the US or in the UK due to different sentiments from the audiences [the brand is] trying to engage with.
So we look at different TV spots, break them down, and say, "Alright. It's our understanding that this part of the spot will excite the audience when they see your content, but we think you should deliver it in a particular way and change it if you're going to engage with somebody in one region versus another region." Just applying a holistic strategy globally isn't always the best approach when you're trying to engage audiences as they move around different devices.
Does this provide a replacement for transacting on age and gender?
I fundamentally believe age and gender will always fulfill a pivotal part of advertising. But there is so much more the big brands can understand about their audiences, and publishers can understand about their audiences. Many media outlets don't have access to a lot of scaled first-party data. Not everybody is in that environment. Obviously, the big walled gardens understand, though.
Why do you think it's important to have new standards for video?
I think it's important at this time because everybody has been waiting for linear TV budgets to enter the digital space. Historically that hasn't really been a possibility. I think now with addressable television and the rise of OTT, very quickly we're going to see some very large branding budgets starting to enter the addressable arena. And I think for that to happen and to provide the confidence that big brands and agencies need, we have to have a common framework. We need assurances from both the buy and sell sides that everybody is working to a common goal for privacy, targeting and overall inventory quality.


We do paranormal investigations. Debunk what we can (when we find a logical explanation for the causing problem). We will see people through to the end, help any time day or night, although investigations are usually done on the weekends, but we will do everything we can to help any single person, family, couple,single parent family,college students or whatever the case may be. We do not do exorcisms, but we can help, even if it does turn out to be demonic, which it is very rare to have a demonic case. We will point you to the right person, should an exorcism be required. We investigate claims of ghosts, entities, hauntings but we do not specialize in UFO accounts, or Big Foot claims. We will investigate private residences, businesses, cemeteries, abandoned buildings, private businesses etc. as long as we have permission to go in and investigate. As far as people living in Motels or Hotels, we will do those investigations IF we get permission from the owner of the motel/hotel AND permission from the hotel/motel manager.
We are a small group between 2 to 6 people. Some of us have had personal paranormal experiences, and others have not. We will help anyone and everyone that we are able to help and at any given time. If you need to call us any time day or night, please feel free to do so. We are very professional and use various types of equipment. We are accepting applications for more people to join us on our team. We will train you if you do not have any experience in the paranormal field.


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Media Literacy vs Fake News – recommendations from CEMP research
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As many as possible of the citizens of a democracy must be not only literate but critically literate if they are to behave as full citizens. (Hoggart, 2004: 189)
CEMP have published the outcomes of an ethnography funded by the United States Embassy in London, consisting of a field review, 25 interviews and four multi-stakeholder workshops, bringing together and capturing dialogue between media educators, journalists, students and information professionals, to address the educational response to 'fake news' and disinformation.
25 interviews with media educators and journalists were transcribed and analysed for key discursive patterns. Participative workshops were held at the Media Education Summit in Hong Kong, the English and Media Centre in London, the National Higher Research University in Moscow and Loughborough University's campus at Olympic Park, London. The total sample, including the interviews and participants in the workshops, is 88, across the four stakeholder groups.
See the project site for the field review, workshop videos, presentations, participant blog, report, recommendations and the 'top ten' toolkit of media literacy resources selected by the stakeholders for dealing with fake news.
At the major event in London, with additional sponsorship from the Media Education Association, two days of activities in London at the Olympic Park on 15th and 16th March 2019 brought together the four stakeholder groups for a public event consisting of keynote presentations and a panel comprised of the US and UK academics involved in the project – Professor David Buckingham, Professor Monica Bulger, Professor Paul Mihaildis, Dr Karen Fowler-Watt and Dr Roman Gerodimos.
The workshop was designed to generate dialogue on four issues: (1) clarifying the problem (the apparent 'information disorder') from lived experience of the stakeholders; (2) identifying any competing or partly integrated discourses around the concept of trust in media and information; (3) evaluating a range of educational resources already in the world – we called this 'testing the wheel' and (4) agreeing on what media education can realistically do, to move beyond 'solutionism' (Buckingham, 2019) towards a more viable, modest proposal for Fake News vs Media Studies. Where do / can we have agency?
From the findings of the project, we make the argument that critical media literacy, if adopted as a mandatory subject in schools and taught as a dynamic literacy education, would better equip young citizens with resilience to 'information disorder' (Wardle and Derekhshan, 2017) than reactive resources (such as fact-checking and verification tools) and small-scale projects which focus primarily on competences. The latter are described, metaphorically, as 'giving a fish', the former are described as 'teaching to fish'. To use an alternative analogy, the former boosts the immune system, the latter treat the infection (see Rushkoff, 2018).
Both are needed, but 'teaching to fish' is the key recommendation, and, in the UK schools' context, making Media Studies a mandatory subject would be the obvious starting point.
The workshop identified a 'top ten' of media literacy resources for dealing with information disorder. These include more holistic, critical media literacy activities (Teaching to Fish) – a more effective and sustainable approach than 'giving a fish' through fact-checking tools or surface level media / information literacy competences.
The data generated from the field review, interviews and workshops, taken together, lead us to the following three recommendations:
(1) Rather than producing competence frameworks for media literacy, as though it is a neutral set of skills for citizens, media education needs to enable students to apply the critical legacies of both Media Studies and literacy education on the contemporary media ecosystem;
(2) Media education must adopt a dynamic approach to media literacy and increase the experiential, reflexive aspects of media practice in the curriculum, with reciprocal transfer between the critical rhetorics above and creative media practice in order to respond, academically, to media as primarily a question of representation. In other words, resilience to representation is enhanced by expertise in representing.
(3) We need to add the critical exploration of social media, algorithms and big data to the media education curriculum, accompanied by applied practical learning in the uses of them for social justice, as opposed to training the next generation in the use of these for even further commercial and political exploitation of one another.
Fake News vs Media Literacy: CEMP research event at Olympic Park, LondonJanuary 24, 2019
Prof. Julian McDougall (CEMP) Presented on NESET II to Advise European Commission about Media Literacy EducationNovember 28, 2018
CEMP report for LSE Media Policy blog on Global Media Literacy AllianceJuly 21, 2016
Fake conferences are not fake news: beware predatory conferencesNovember 25, 2017

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The Central Asian Republics have had a turbulent past and, now established as independent states, face considerable economic, religious and social upheaval. Few places are more difficult for Christian witness, with restrictive religious laws and a small evangelical minority in broadly Islamic societies. This morning we received news from our country coordinator that their safe had been stolen, which contained money for various projects, including the balance of funds for the preaching training – and this highlights one of the many challenges which churches face. Yet for the second year in a row, 125 preachers gathered last month, from urban and rural settings, and from four different republics.


Toowoomba's premier monthly networking event, Business @ Dusk (B@D) is a joint venture between the Chamber and the University of Southern Queensland (USQ).
Innovative and accessible networking, mentoring and upskilling opportunities for young business owners and professionals across all industries in our region.
Cafes, restaurants, food outlets, retailers, local farmers and food producers form an integral part of the developing food culture here in Toowoomba and the FAN will support further strengthening of this valuable sector.
Assisting our members access up to date information, professional development and upskilling opportunities right here in Toowoomba through providing a number of workshops, forums and seminars.
Advocating at local, state and federal government levels on issues of shared concern to members ensuring the Toowoomba business community has a strong, united voice at the table.
Providing a dynamic platform for our members to build strong B2B networks, access local supply chain opportunities and build their business brand across the Toowoomba business community.
Connecting our members to other businesses within our community through a range of high quality networking activities, targeted business introductions and providing a platform for our business community to engage.
Hosted by Chamber in conjunction with their partners and supporters focusing on providing networking opportunities and creating long lasting connections.
We work with you to tailor sponsorship packages to support the future growth of your business through strengthening your engagement with Chamber's dynamic platform and increasing the visibility of your business across the local business network.


Combine peaches, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Sprinkle flour over work surface. Separate biscuits; place on floured surface. Roll each biscuit to a 4 1/2-inch circle. Place one heaping tablespoon peach mixture over half of each circle. Brush edges of circles with water; fold in half. Seal edges by pressing with a fork.
Place pies on a ungreased baking sheet; coat with cooking spray. Combine remaining 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon; sprinkle over pies. Bake at 375° for 10 minutes.


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Indrani claims to have paid $5 million to PC, his son
New Delhi: Indrani Mukerjea has claimed to have paid a bribe of US $5 million to former Finance Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram through offshore payments in Singapore, Mauritius, Bermuda, the UK and Switzerland, the Central Bureau of Investigation stated in the chargesheet filed in a special court on Friday in the INX Media case.
The CBI also stated that it is awaiting response to its Letters Rogatory (formal request to a foreign court for judicial assistance) sent to five countries.
The agency filed a chargesheet against four entities and ten people under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery), 471 (signing a forged document as genuine) of Indian Penal Code and Section 9 (taking gratification, for exercise of personal influence with public servant), 13(1)(d) (abusing one's position as a public servant) of 13(2) (public servant who commits criminal misconduct) of Prevention of Corruption Act.
The four entities charged are INX Media Private Limited (currently 9X Media Private Limited), INX News Private Limited (Direct News), Chess Management Services Private Limited and Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Limited (ASCPL).
The agency has charged P. Chidambaram, then finance minister, his son Karti P Chidambaram, Ajeet Kumar Dungdung, the then section officer of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) unit at Ministry of Finance, Rabindra Prasad, then under secretary at FIPB unit, Pradeep Kumar Bagga, then officer on special duty at Department of Economic Affairs, Prabodh Saxena, then director FIPB, Anup K Pujari, then Joint Secretary (Foreign Trade) Department of Economic Affairs, Sindhushree Khullar, then additional secretary, S Bhaskararaman, Chartered Accountant, and Peter Mukherjea, then director INX Media Limited.
The CBI has made Indrani Mukerjea, who is currently in jail in Mumbai in connection with the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, approver in the case. She in her statement to CBI also stated that a meeting with P. Chidambaram to discuss the modalities of illegal gratification was held between March/April 2007.
The agency stated that CBI had registered a case in May 2017 to investigate corruption in INX Media Private Limited which had received foreign investment Rs 403.07 crore against approved foreign direct investment (FDI) of Rs 4.62 crore.
Further, this company illegally invested Rs 40.91 crore in its sister concern INX News Pvt Limited from the received FDI amount without approval from FIPB in violation of provisions of Foreign Exchange Maintenance Act.
During investigation, it was found that Indrani and Peter, directors of INX Media Private Limited, entered into a criminal conspiracy with the then finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram (the then director Chess Management Services Pvt Limited) and the then public servants of FIPB unit, Department of Economic Affairs for getting the issue settled without any penal action against them.
"This caused undue pecuniary advantage to the companies concerned in terms of possible penalty under FEMA which could have been up to three times the total amount received," said a senior CBI officer.
The chargesheet stated that Karti had floated a front company, ASCPL, for receiving illegal payoffs in the guise of various consultancies and other fees and payments.INX Media had also made a payment of Rs 9.96 lakh into the account of ASCPL.
"An illegal payoff without delivering any service," said CBI adding that further probe into the matter is on.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) too had filed a money laundering case against Chidambaram in this regard in 2017. In the case, a Delhi court on Thursday sent P. Chidambaram to custodial interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate till October 24.
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This handsome dude is Rocket , a 2 year old bull mastiff cross.
Rocky is looking for a new home through no fault of his own.
He could live with another non dominant dog, but would likely be better not sharing his new 2 legged servant.
He walks well on the lead with correction and has decent recall.
Rocky can be left for a few hours once exercised , without being destructive .
Although he's great with children, he can be mouthy in play so a home with older children is a must.
He's the size of a small horse with the heart of a shire.
He just needs a chance in life.
Contact us via message or email rrar@petlover.com to register interest in this big lovable lad.
Hi my name is Silvana, my 15yr old Grandson lives with me and we've been looking to give a rescue dog a lovely and caring home. Rocket seems like a lovely boy. Is it possible we could meet him?


Clay Buchholz missed a chance for a complete game victory Monday night. The Boston Red Sox right-hander didn't seem to mind. Buchholz scattered five hits over eight solid innings in a 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
Clay Buchholz missed a chance for a complete game victory Monday night. The Boston Red Sox right-hander didn't seem to mind.
Buchholz scattered five hits over eight solid innings in a 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
A Red Sox loss would have locked up playoff spots for the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees. Instead, Boston took an early lead, pulled away and stayed mathematically alive in the wild-card race while the Rays and Yankees lost.
David Ortiz, Victor Martinez and Adrian Beltre each drove in two runs. Beltre had four hits and Marco Scutaro had three and scored three times as Boston won the opener of a four-game series.
Buchholz never gave up more than one hit in any inning, and had trouble in only one when he had runners on second and third with no outs in the third.
Mark Buehrle (12-13) gave up 11 hits in six innings, taking his third straight loss even as he hit 200 innings pitched for the 10th straight season.
Martinez extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a single to center in the first inning. Beltre doubled off the wall and both came home on Ortiz' two-out double which skipped past Paul Konerko down the first base line.
Martinez had a sacrifice fly in the third inning RBI that scored Scutaro, who led off the inning with a double down the third base line.
The White Sox had runners on second and third with no outs in the third but failed to score after leadoff batter Juan Pierre struck out and Omar Vizquel grounded to Buchholz.
In the fifth, the Red Sox had two runners on and one out for Beltre, who drove home Scutaro with a single to left for a 4-0 lead.
White Sox third baseman Brent Morel broke the shutout in the fifth with a deep sacrifice fly that scored A.J. Pierzynski. Three White Sox tagged Buchholz for deep flies in he seventh, all caught at the warning track.
Beltre doubled home Martinez in the ninth to extend the Red Sox lead to 6-1.
Ortiz's two RBIs gave him 100 for the season and Beltre's two gave him 101.
Notes: The Red Sox have won seven of eight, including a six-game winning streak that was snapped in Sunday's 4-3, 10-inning loss at New York that put them on the brink of elimination. ... The White Sox came in on a four-game winning streak. ... Buchholz missed a chance for his second complete game of the season when he was pulled after eight innings in favor of Scott Atchison, who worked the ninth. His only complete game came on June 4, an 11-0 decision over Baltimore. ... Guillen confirmed Monday that he'll be back as White Sox manager in 2011. ... White Sox CF Alex Rios left the game in the eighth when he was struck in the left knee by his own foul tip. Alejandro De Aza completed the at-bat and grounded to first. "That's the best swing he got in two weeks," Guillen said. "He's got a pretty good bruise." ... Chicago's Carlos Quentin reached base three times with a walk, a hit and a hit by pitch. It was the 20th time he's been hit, second-highest in the AL.


For those on board the James Clark Ross for the first time heading south, the Southern Ocean has not given a gentle introduction to life at sea. With the swell picking up last night as we left the shelter of the Falkland Islands, it has not abated and the night was spent with the ship rolling.
This morning taking a shower was an entertaining experience and I found myself needing to brace myself against the bulkhead from time to time. On the plus side the wildlife has improved and the ship is being followed by numerous birds, including albatross and giant petrels.
A black-browed albatross this afternoon. Also sighted were wandering albatross, white-chinned petrels, giant petrels and cape petrels. There were probably a few others but I have to get back into the habit of recognition and then remembering their names.
The sun did manage to make an appearance a few times during the day and this is the view aft this afternoon. Since then, as the James Clark approaches the Polar Front (as it used to be called) the water temperature is dropping steadily and this evening we are enjoying some fog.
Meals today have been interesting, aside from me wanting to eat everything, as the motion of the ship was a first for a number of those on board and having to lift your plate with one hand to keep it level whilst trying to stop your glass of water going over the table was a new skill set that had to be learned quickly.
As I was writing this update the ship went through a series of rolls that had me holding on with one hand to stop me and my chair moving across my cabin. One of the perks of living in the highest cabin on board. The largest roll today was about 18º, so not too bad really.
The state of the sea is proportional to the wind, something that was worked out many years ago in 1805 by Francis Beaufort (later Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort), an Irish Royal Navy officer, while serving in HMS Woolwich. The scale that carries Beaufort's name had a long and complex evolution from the previous work of others (including Daniel Defoe the century before) to when Beaufort was a top administrator in the Royal Navy in the 1830s when it was adopted officially and first used during the voyage of HMS Beagle under Captain Robert FitzRoy, later to set up the first Meteorological Office (Met Office) in Britain giving regular weather forecasts. In the early 19th century, naval officers made regular weather observations, but there was no standard scale and so they could be very subjective – one man's "stiff breeze" might be another's "soft breeze". Beaufort succeeded in standardizing the scale although it has changed over the years since to what we now use and can be heard daily on BBC Radio 4 and the Shipping Forecast.
Wind speed is often described using the Beaufort scale and the table below will give this, the speed in Knots, and the sea state.
Force 2 Wind speed 4 - 6 knots; mean 5 knots Small wavelets, still short but more pronounced, crests have a glassy appearance and do not break.
Force 3 Wind speed 7 - 10 knots; mean 9 knots Large wavelets; crests begin to break. Foam of glassy appearance; perhaps scattered white horses.
Force 4 Wind speed 11 - 16 knots; mean 13 knots Small waves, becoming longer; fairly frequent white horses.
Force 5 Wind speed 17 - 21 knots; mean 19 knots Moderate waves taking a more-pronounced long form; many white horses are formed. Chance of some spray.
Force 6 Wind speed 22 - 27 knots; mean 24 knots Large waves begin to form; the white foam crests are more extensive everywhere. Probably some spray.
Force 7 Wind speed 28 - 33 knots; mean 30 knots Sea heaps up, and white foam from breaking waves begins to be blown in streaks along the direction of the wind.
Force 9 Wind 41- 47 knots; mean 44 knots High waves; dense streaks of foam along the direction of the wind. Crests of waves begin to topple, tumble and roll over. Spray may affect visibility.
Force 10 Wind 48 -55 knots; mean 52 knots Very high waves with long overhanging crests. The resulting foam, in great patches, is blown in dense white streaks along the direction of the wind. The tumbling of the sea becomes heavy and shock-like. Visibility affected.
Force 11 Wind 56 -63 knots; mean 60 kts Exceptionally high waves. The sea is completely covered with long white patches of foam lying along the direction of the wind. Everywhere the edges of the wave crests are blown into froth, be lost from view for a time behind the waves.
Force 12 Wind 64 knots and over The air is filled with foam and spray. Sea completely white with driving spray; visibility very seriously affected.
The Noon Position below, which today does have the ship in the correct hemisphere, shows the distance to Signy and the ETA depending on the speed we can manage. Now that we are further south the risk of encountering ice has increased and so our speed will be reduced overnight. Once we are in the vicinity of the South Orkney Islands there will be icebergs and possibly some pack ice that may slow us down so all timings are our best estimate.


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Trump/Clinton III: 3 Things To Expect
"Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through." - Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
It's Rocky III, Rambo 1, Terminator 2, Wrestlemania 5, and the academic decathlon in Billy Madison all rolled into one. Desert showdown in Vegas. Trump/Clinton III: A Night to Dismember.
Three weeks before the electorate takes to the polls, and judgment draweth nigh. The stag and the nag, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, square off at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, UNLV to the layman, or layperson for those offended by gender-specific pronouns.
So here are the top 3 things to look for tonight in Trump/Clinton III…
1) AGENTS OF CHAOS
Mark Cuban, Trump's bestie, or so he calls him on Twitter, plans to be in the front row, of course, for Cuban, calling Trump his "bestie" is actually derision, as he'll be in Hillary's corner.
Cuban hasn't been this politically active since he teamed up with Trump's true bestie, Ann Coulter, to keep sharks from infiltrating The White House.
Meanwhile, Trump's bringing the mother of a Benghazi victim. Can you say, "OH, BURN!"?
The second thing to look for in Trump/Clinton III …
2) LET'S TALK ABOUT CHICKS, MAN
If this election is a circus, actually I prefer the term carnival, or side-show, or jamboree, then Trump is its ringmaster.
Hillary will attempt to do what she couldn't last debate… lambaste Trump using his own misogynistic rhetoric, even if that Access Hollywood tape is soooo 11 years ago, and even though her own husband, a former president, fancies himself some sort of Shampoo-era Warren Beatty.
Hillary will castigate, Trump will denigrate, and we'll be left feeling like we just ate Chinese food... hungry for more.
And, lastly...
3) POST-GAME ANALYSIS
Who won, who lost? Who gives a s**t? The only poll that matters is the one on Election Day. Come November 9th, no one is going to remember who won or who lost this debate. But they're going to remember the imbecilic manner in which our new president became the president. It's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, but unless you're a big Indian capable of throwing a sink through a barred window, sadly you're stuck in the asylum.
God bless America. Enjoy the debate!


A brief recap of Friday's segment on the H4 timeframe witnessed thin trading volume amid Good Friday. Following a mild bottom a few points north of April's opening level at 1.1221, the EUR/USD spent the remainder of the day fluctuating within a tight range just below 1.1250.
Friday 19th April: Thin trading volume likely ahead as banks close in observance of Good Friday and Easter Monday.
EUR/USD: The single currency ceded ground to the dollar Thursday, following sour IHS Markit PMI surveys. After a brief stopover at the underside of 1.13 on the H4 timeframe the EUR/USD fell sharply, conquering neighbouring trend line support (extended from the low 1.1183) and eventually dipping beneath the 1.1250 support. Further weighing on the euro … Continue reading Friday 19th April: Thin trading volume likely ahead as banks close in observance of Good Friday and Easter Monday.


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How Mourning Dove was right: The Tee-hee-hee Stone
Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket, Humishuma) is well remembered for her telling of traditional Okanagan "Coyote Stories".
That book of hers has appeared in several editions, with various editors' touch applied.
One of those editions that I hadn't registered previously is the anthology "Masterpieces of American Indian Literature" edited by Willis Goth Regier (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993). What might attract a pretty broad audience to this volume is that it includes the work of several writers from other tribal backgrounds and regions of North America.
I'm going to limit myself to a very narrow topic from within the book today.
On page 410 there appears this footnote (it's identical to those in other editions):
En-am-tues is known to the whites as the Tee-hee-hee stone. Tee-hee-hee, which is not an Okanogan word, may be a comparatively modern corruption of the verb meaning "to wish" in the Chinook jargon, the old-time trade language of the Northwest. Derived from the pure Chinook tikekh, "to wish" in the jargon is given variously as: t'keh, te-ke, tik-eh, tik-eigh, tak-eigh, tick-ey, tikky, and so forth…
The large stone in question (eventually destroyed by whites) was a site where passers-by customarily would leave a small offering and make a wish. That makes Mourning Dove's Chinook Jargon etymology as plausible as it can be.
Site of the wishing stone (image credit: GhostTownsUSA.com)
However, I'm unaware of any documented variant of the Chinuk Wawa verb 'to wish, to want' (tíki) having three syllables.
Nor is there a known clear example of an "H"-type fricative sound for the second consonant in that word. (Father Le Jeune's 1924 "Chinook Rudiments" does observe a Stó:lō / Lower Fraser River Salish pronunciation he writes approximately < treh > but the final "H" there reflects a third consonant /x̣/ that was present in most early variants of the verb — thus ~ tq'íx̣.)
Needless to say, I find no indication of a version of tiki that would display both of these features. So even though other evidence confirms Mourning Dove knew some Chinuk Wawa (and knew to identify it with whites as opposed to speakers of her Salish language), and I've got no reason to doubt that she knew the site as the "Tee-Hee-Hee Stone", I respectfully dispute her ingenious etymology.
Because she was on the right track.
First of all, < stone > (stún) is most definitely a Chinook Jargon word.
And second, look here:
(Image credit: GhostTownsUSA.com)
When we consider the other variants of the name that this famous landmark was known by, like those in the above interpretive sign, we can see how.
Because the boulder was also widely called the < Hee-Hee Stone >, and was associated with a woman's laughter. Of course híhi is Chinuk Wawa for 'laugh; fun', etc.
And a variant of that which is well-documented in the Jargon is < tee-hee >, presumably tíhi. It may have have been characteristic of southwest Washington usage in pioneer times, since we know it first from James G. Swan's 1857 memoir of Shoalwater Bay and from George Gibbs's 1863 dictionary that mainly reflects the world of Fort Vancouver.
The latter book wound up exerting a lot of influence on successive Chinuk Wawa publications, as it essentially became the "Hibben line" which produced many popular dictionaries, per Samuel V. Johnson's 1978 dissertation.
People who used the Jargon were pretty well aware of this word < tee-hee >. Here on this website, my readers have seen it freely used in the Chinook Jargon operetta "Keel-A-Pie".
Strengthening our case further still, we know of at least one genuine use of a three-syllable variant of this latter word, also from the general lower Columbia River region. I've shown you a 1905 newspaper article that quotes some of Grand Ronde Indian John Casino's words in Jargon, one of them being < te he hee > for 'laugh'. That word isn't (yet) found in the Grand Ronde tribes' dictionary — I found it after they published it — but I take it as genuine.
And this corroborates Mourning Dove's remembered Jargon name.
So really, all I'm saying today is, that brilliant author put in hard work on a serious etymology for the "Tee-Hee-Hee Stone", and it's my honor if I'm able to contribute to making it as accurate as possible.
I'd like to dedicate this article to the memory of Charlie Quintasket, who was kind enough to chat with me about eighteen years ago in his East Omak kitchen about his sister Christine and about Chinook Jargon. límlmt!
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New Composite Sketches Released in 1990 Springfield Unsolved Murder
Shana Price's body was found on Dec. 26, 1990 in Blunt Park by a Springfield Parks and Recreation Foreman arriving for work early that morning, prosecutors said
By Matt Fortin • Published December 8, 2022 • Updated on December 8, 2022 at 6:37 am
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Authorities in Hampden County, Massachusetts have released new composite sketches of a suspect in a 32-year-old cold case murder out of Springfield, using cutting edge DNA technology.
Shana Price was 17 years old when she was found dead in Springfield's Blunt Park on Dec. 26, 1990. She appeared to have been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted, and her death was ruled a homicide, prosecutors at the Hampden County District Attorney's Office said. A DNA profile was produced from forensic evidence, but law enforcement never found a match to identify a suspect.
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Fast forward 32 years, and Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni's office identified Price's cold case as one that could benefit from applying new technology in DNA testing. Prosecutors worked with Parabon NanoLabs to develop a Snapshot DNA analysis of the suspect, using DNA obtained in the investigation.
The analysis produced a computer-generated sketch using individual prediction's about the man's eye color, hair color, skin color, face shape and more. The two sketches were assigned default ages and BMIs, because those attributes cannot be determined through a DNA sample.
"Shana had her whole life ahead of her before being brutally murdered before turning 18," DA Gullini said during a news conference Wednesday. "My Unresolved Case Unit has identified her case as one that could be advanced by applying modern DNA testing, along with additionally investigative work. Our purpose in releasing these composite sketches is to reignite Shana's case in the public's consciousness, and to ask for anyone that may have information relating to her murder to please come forward."
Anyone with information about the murder is urged to contact the Hampden County District Attorney's Office tip line at 413-432-9881.
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Hi, We presume this is some sort of licensing issue. We have a non-expiring license that's not supposed to require an internet connection. After uninstalling RC 3.55 for Mindstorms and installing RC 3.62, we discovered that after every (or many, not sure) shut downs RobotC won't run. We get an error that the program has stopped working before we see any sign of any RC windows. Connecting the computer to the internet fixes it. We tried reinstalling RobotC 3.62 many times, but the problem is persistent.
We then check the license, and try to add a license, but it says it is there and it's non-expiring, etc.
We have an FTC tournament coming up, and it may not be possible to connect to the internet there, or at least we don't want to count on being able to.
There's a couple of things I can suggest with this particular issue. First, check the security settings on your antivirus program, as it may be interfering with ROBOTC's start up process (also, which antivirus program are you using?). Next, try disabling the computer's network adapter(s) through the Device Manager and open ROBOTC once they are disabled. Does ROBOTC still crash upon startup when then are disabled?
Thank you in advance for this information.
Well, mystery solved, if not problem solved.
It turns out that RobotC won't open whenever the wireless switch (button) on the laptop is on. Turning wireless off allows RobotC to open just fine.
I am not certain if this problem will be reproducible beyond our classroom. Maybe it has something to do with the restrictions the school places on student wireless access.
Thanks for your suggestions. It got me thinking in the right direction.
What can happen is if a school's firewall/access restrictions tend to throw garbage when ROBOTC is really expecting a small bit of data (just a simple OK from the server), it can cause a buffer overflow and other issues when starting up.
We've improved this for ROBOTC 4.x, so it should be fixed in the future... but for now the changes haven't been back ported into ROBOTC 3.x just yet. Should we end up doing another release for 3.x, they may be included.


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From The Jam at White Rock Theatre, Hastings 15/6/17
June 16, 2017 Hastings music scene, Live reviews, Rock musicBruce Foxton, From The Jam, Hastings Independent, Hastings music scene, live music, live review, mods, Russell Hastings, The Jam, White Rock TheatreDarren Johnson
This review was also published by the Hastings Independent on 7/7/17
For those who tend to overlook the White Rock Theatre for offering little more than a constant diet of musicals, panto and the sort of saccharine golden oldies shows your nan would go to see, tonight demonstrates why they offer more than that. Tonight the brash excitement and explosive anthems of The Jam came to town. The band may have split forever in 1982 and Paul Weller may not have shown much interest in revisiting his Jam-era back catalogue in his solo career. However, for the past decade bass-player Bruce Foxton along with guitarist/vocalist Russell Hastings have been touring as From The Jam.
The whole evening has a distinct flavour of the late 70s mod revival to it. Fellow Mod travellers, Secret Affair, are the support act. While no-one can really pretend they wrote the most epoch-defining songs of the era their soul-infused pop-rock is well received and the energy levels really go up when they end the set with their hit 'My World' along with a spirited cover of 'I Don't Need No Doctor.'
With From The Jam, however, the energy levels are palpable as soon as Foxton, Hastings and co. take the stage. The classics come fast and furious: 'In The City', 'The Modern World', 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight', 'That's Entertainment' and, of course, 'Going Underground'. In both looks and vocal delivery, Russell Hastings is not a million miles away from Paul Weller. It's very much not, however, one of those weird tribute shows where band members start play-acting the roles of former personnel. Hastings has a charisma and stage presence in his own right. Foxton is as awesome a bass-player as ever and contributes occasional lead vocals as well, just as he did back in the days of The Jam. With superb drums and keyboards they are a tight and impressive foursome on stage. They certainly know how to work the crowd.
"We are, we are, we are the Mods" chanted the audience for what seemed like forever after the band left the White Rock stage to deafening applause. After perhaps the longest break I'd ever recorded between a band leaving the stage and returning for an encore, the guys are back with 'A Town Called Malice', 'Saturday's Kids' and 'Eton Rifles'. It's a brilliant end to the evening.
A superb and much-cherished band, Bruce Foxton can be enormously proud of the part he played in The Jam. No-one can blame him for wanting to celebrate the band's legacy in this way and the audience reaction from the absolutely packed-out White Rock shows there is still much love out there for the band's music. So there should be.
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Sounds brilliant darren- friend of mine saw them recently and was just raving about Foxton's bass playing.
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Yes definitely – been meaning to catch them for several years now. Well worth seeing.
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I've written before that I find the current political debate ahead of the spending review somewhat confusing.
The Government, and many of their supporters in the media, now appear to think that the way to gain "economic credibility" is to commit to a fiscal plan that has failed to achieve growth, deal with the deficit or even retain the UK's AAA rating. The argument can be summarised as, "our plan has failed to achieve any of its goals and opposition parties will only be seen as credible if they agree to stick with it".
As I say, I find the logic underlying this perplexing.
In many ways it reminds me of the Chancellor's argument after the UK was downgraded, which boiled down to "the fact that we have been downgraded proves that my plan to avoid downgrade must be stuck to".
I've argued before, at tedious length, that the real debate ahead of the coming CSR should not be whether political parties sign up to it but instead what the UK's fiscal framework should look like.
In effect the current fiscal framework is to eliminate the structural deficit in a rolling five year period that never actually bites.
In many ways this is the worst of all worlds, the short period of the target forces the government into making cuts too quickly which damage growth but the fact that the policy is so-flexible means the tomorrow never actually comes and so the period of cuts are continually extended. This is a recipe for continual austerity.
But the problems with the current framework don't stop here. I would go further and argue that the structural deficit itself is the wrong target. The structural deficit is not something that can be measured, it is only something that can be estimated and those estimates are highly uncertain.
I've also argued before that a more appropriate framework for the UK would focus on reducing debt/GDP over a much longer timetable.
Despite having a larger deficit than, say Canada or France, the UK needs to issue less gross debt each year than either. Whilst the UK may come towards the top of the table for size of deficit, it is very much in the middle of the pack when it comes to gross issuance. This is directly down to the long maturity profile of its debt.
As Fitch note (this really is worth quoting twice!), together with low interest rates this "implies a higher level of debt tolerance than many high-grade peers". To simplify, the UK economy is better able to handle periods of higher debt/GDP than other countries.
All of which suggests that the UK has room for a much slower fiscal adjustment than it is currently pursuing. This yet another reason to seriously question the UK's current (failed) fiscal framework.
Gavin Kelly, earlier this month, made a strong case that much of the current political debate around the CSR is missing the point. As he notes the planned spending review will only covered the period until 2015/16 – i.e. it will end in April 2016.
Sure, at the margins it will be possible to do some mid-year shuffling of resources between departments, or to top up some priority budgets that are capable of being quickly spent. The coalition made a few mid-year cuts in its first year and Labour could try to make its own modest adjustments. If the civil service is taking the prospect of a Labour government seriously then perhaps progress on a top priority such as the proposed job guarantee might get under way during late 2015. But the far bigger truth is that any real shift in spending would wait until April 2016.
The more I think about it though, the more I think an even bigger point is being missed in the current debate around the politics of the CSR. On most forecasts the economy is still likely to be depressed in 2015/16 and indeed 2016/17.
The crucial number to examine here is the output gap – and in particular the OBR's own assessment of it.
Simply put, the output gap is a measure of how much spare capacity there is in the economy. If the output gap is negative then the economy is operating below capacity and there is a strong case for expanding demand to make good the difference While if the output gap is positive then the economy is operating above trend and may be overheating with consequences for inflation.
Back at in June 2010 the OBR forecast that by 2015 the output gap would be -0.9% of GDP, i.e. the economy would be operating a below potential but not by a huge amount.
The current OBR forecast is for an output gap to be -3.4% in 2015 and still at -2.9% in 2016. In other words, come April 2016 (the time when any new government can actually make spending decisions in a meaningful manner) the economy is still expected to have an output gap of almost three per cent . The OBR's own forecasts imply that there is room for a fiscal expansion of almost three per cent of GDP in 2016/17.
Recent work from NIESR, funded by the TUC, found that in 'crisis times' (when output is depressed – i.e. a -2.9% output gap implies 'crisis times') then a capital spending intensive stimulus of 2% of GDP will boost growth, lower unemployment and lead to a lower debt/GDP ratio in the medium term.
Much of the current politics around the CSR feels, for want of a better phrase, "very 2010". The assumption in much of the political (if not the economic) coverage of the CSR seems that by 2015 macroeconomics will not really matter. The economy will broadly have recovered and the task of the Treasury will the essentially distributional job of managing cuts in public spending and tax rises to close the deficit, rather than actively managing demand and boosting growth.
This is looking like an increasing optimistic view.
GDP is expected to reach its 2008 level at some point in 2014. By this measure then we could argue that the economy will have 'recovered' within 18 months.
But GDP per capita (which accounts for population change) is not expected to reach its 2008 level until 2017. So by this measure, which is more reflective of most people' s experience than headline GDP, 'recovery' is still some four years away.
But even GDP per capita is a poor measure of most people's experience – it is a mean rather than median and so is distorted by inequality, a huge increase in the income of the top 1% could boost GDP per capita whilst living standards continued to flat-line for everyone else.
If we look at median real wages then we won't be back (on current forecasts) to 2008 levels until the early 2020s. 'Recovery' measured through median real wages is a decade away.
The economy in 2015 and 2016 is likely to remain, by any reasonable standard, depressed. The case for a new fiscal framework, which gives governments the room to borrow to boost growth in the short term, will remain strong.
As we learned in 2010, macroeconomic policy choices matter.
UPDATE: To put this all really simply, we shouldn't be so concerned about the 'deficit deniers', it's the 'depression deniers' we need to worry about.
Don't worry, the population will be much smaller soon.
Independent Living Fund – abolished.
Severe Disablement Allowance – abolished.
Disability Living Allowance – being converted to PIP.
ESA for long-term sick – sanctionable subject to jobsearch.
JSA – sanctionable up to three years.
Workfare – up to 6 months for JSA claimants.
Workfare – indefinite for ESA WRAG claimants.
Tax Credits – tougher eligibility rules.
Council Tax – part payable by all claimants.
Bedroom Tax – payable by anyone with "spare" room.
Legal Aid – removed for benefit cases.
Rationing of aids – 3 nappies a day for incontinent disabled children.
Cuts in care provided by LAs for the same cost to the claimant.
All this in just the past two years – plus a 20% rise in familial homelessness and a 40% rise in street homelessness in London.
Families moved to B&Bs, Premier Inns, etc. and landlords refusing to take benefit claimants, evicting them on an unprecedented scale.
If Universal Credit ever comes in, there will be a whole new cohort of people (about 3 million) subject to the same conditions as JSA and ESA claimants are now, irrespective of how many hours they work.
Average waits for benefit processing – 4 weeks JSA, 6 weeks ESA, 3 months DLA. No Crisis Loans available, so people have to rely on food banks – and hope that their landlords and utility providers will wait.
Meanwhile, IDS gets censured by the ONS for lying with statistics, and his department decides to delay publication of the workfare figures – then, he offers to cut another 3 billion from his budget so that other spending can be saved from Osborne's axe.


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A question was raised in the "Ask a Question/Find an Answer" section of the StrategyWerx website regarding pricing, and how to deal with a management group or manager that wants to price a new product cheaply to try to gain market share. I answered the question briefly in the forum, and promised to expand on the answer more in today's blog.
Competing on price to gain market share is a strategy that almost never works unless the company using the strategy is particularly large and can leverage existing high volumes on related or adjacent products into high volume on the new product. I've encountered a desire to compete this way both in companies I've been a member of and in companies I've consulted for. It can be an extremely difficult position to argue against, and I've lost the argument at least as often as I've won it, so I sympathize with anyone dealing with this challenge. Regardless who won the argument initially; I can honestly say that I have not seen the tactic work yet.
There are lots of books and workshops available on pricing, including my own company's seminars and workshops on pricing strategy. But no matter how well-schooled you are on the topic of pricing, if you can't integrate your corporate strategy and value proposition to all of your pricing activities, you will leave money on the table when you go to market.
Your overall pricing strategy is secondary to your company's strategy and value proposition. "Lowest price always" is a valid strategy, but it has to be applicable across the board, and not just on a product or two. It is also heavily dependent on volume, which is why you have to be the size of Wal-Mart or Amazon to successfully deploy that strategy. Other value propositions are customer intimacy, leading product/technology, and system lock-in.
So what's the difference between these strategies? A lot. Remember that management is built on four concepts – planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Pricing is related to the planning, organizing and controlling functions (and of course, without good leadership none of these can be executed, but that's a different topic).
Let's start with a lowest-price-always strategy. If you want to offer the lowest price, two primary conditions must be present; high volume and low operating costs. High volume suggests that you already have great market penetration. Ideally, you have established (paid for) your market position through advertising and marketing, which really cut into margins, and when your margins are narrow, there's not much to cut into.
For instance, Wal-Mart doesn't have to spend the same percentage of their revenue on advertising as a smaller adversary, because they already have market visibility and high traffic. Also, at their size they can negotiate for much better advertising rates (print, television, newspapers, web presence, etc.) than their competitors. So market presence is already established. Here is your first argument against using low prices as a way to establish market share!! Because establishing market share requires creating visibility, and low prices have never been demonstrated to create visibility – only to take advantage of already present visibility.
Second, to compete using low prices you must have extremely low operating costs. Everything from your sales technique to your manufacturing and distribution operations must be as lean as they can possibly be. Why do you think Wal-Mart revolutionized supply chain logistics! It wasn't that Mr. Sam set out to turn the world on its ear related to cheap supply – its that he realized that cheap supply was essential to offering low prices. But that advantage doesn't last forever. As the supply chain was revolutionized, everyone has benefited from the advances, and as we know now, Wal-Mart has embarked on a 3-year plan to completely transform all (yes, all) of their American stores. Why? Because reducing costs is ultimately a zero-sum game. Now Wal-Mart isn't going to disappear any time soon (grin), but if Wal-Mart is struggling with their lowest-price always strategy, it's time to recognize that this is a really hard row to hoe.
The next strategy is customer intimacy. To establish customer intimacy requires excellence in the sales and service functions – both people and systems. It's also a marketing strategy. What do you need to focus on excellence in sales, service, people, and systems? Margins! But customers who value a better all-around service experience are willing to pay a little bit more for the experience, so you can charge a little bit more. If you are pursuing this strategy and the customers say, "well, they cost a little bit more, but they're worth it," you've hit the sweet spot.
The third strategy is leading product/technology. This is the strategy that involves always being first to market with excellent new product ideas, leading edge technology, and innovation in meeting customer needs. Will the competition copy you? Absolutely – even if you have patents and other intellectual property. There is always a way to copy a good idea. So the companies that pursue this strategy have rigorous intellectual property efforts (expensive) and they also do product development better, faster, and cleaner than anybody else, so by the time their innovation has been copied, they've already moved on to the next thing. Investment in product development is not cheap, nor is the advertising necessary to get those first-adopters to start using something new and different. You need margins to do that. But customers who want the leading edge thing are willing to pay a bit more for it. Are you one of the people who would stand in line for 3 days waiting for an iPhone, or one of the people who laughed and decided to wait until the price drops? Both customer categories are important, but the leading edge value proposition companies cater to the ones who will stand in line and pay. Pricing in this case is a clue to the value of the product – to appeal to those cutting-edge-sensitive customers they need to be able to brag not only that they stood in line, but also how much they paid to do so.
Of the four value propositions, system lock-in is the smallest – the three already described probably account for 85% of all value propositions. System lock-in is when your product is so dominant – due to advertising, word-of-mouth, first-mover advantage, or intellectual property – that your facial tissue becomes Kleenex, your MP3 device becomes an iPod, any search-engine activity becomes a Google, or your PC (regardless of make) becomes and IBM. Once you achieve system lock-in you still have to invest to maintain your advantage, and furthermore, customers don't expect to pay less for dominant products – they expect to pay for the perceived value.
Hopefully this overview of value propositions gives you a sense of the investments you must make to achieve them, and how those investments will be reflected in your pricing strategy. Each value proposition merits a much deeper discussion of the investments and operational systems necessary to achieve them, and maybe we'll go into those at another time in this column. But until then, ask yourself: What is my company's value proposition, and do we convey it consistently from product line to product line and through our pricing strategy?
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This is an interesting way of looking at pricing that I have not considered otherwise. Will you do expanded articles on the value propositions as you mentioned? I think that would be good.


I learned how to make ginger beer for my family a couple of weeks ago and so far we can't get enough of the drink. It is pretty easy to make so I have been experimenting with a few different techniques. Ginger Beer is good for digestive problems and is also a great Anti-Inflammatory.
A friend of mine got turned on to making Ginger Beer and every time I saw him he raved about how much he liked it. He ended up giving me some of the grains that he was producing so that I could start my first batch. I really enjoy the flavor but I also use it to assist my digestive system and it really tends to help.
Now if you look online every body is an expert and everybody has their own recipe for how to make the best Ginger Beer out there. This recipe that I am about to give you is not a contender for one of those recipes. This recipe is as basic as it gets and only requires four ingredients. I would call is the back-bone to the other Ginger Beer recipes, the template of how to start making a great drink. Some people go as far as to add add garlic, citrus, hot peppers and just about anything that you can think of to refine the flavor.
Let sit in mild/cool dark area for 48 hours.
Strain out water kefir grains and restart First Batch.
Mix 2 cups water and 1 cup sugar with liquid from jars.
Poor into bottles and seal.
Put in refrigerator and enjoy in 12 hours.
Now how long you let the batches ferment will dictate how much carbonation and alcohol you produce. The grains are essentially breaking down the sugar, releasing carbon dioxide which creates the carbonation. The fermented sugar then turns into alcohol. Although it does make for one refreshing drink, the recipe provided above does not allow any time for much carbonation to produce.
I started pouring the first batch into a 5 gallon bidone and adding 8 cups of water and three cups of sugar. I let it sit at room temperature either letting the container breath every six hours to release pressure or by putting a balloon on as a lid to control the pressure. If I feed it more sugar every couple of days for about two weeks it will produce a nice carbonated alcoholic beverage.
Have you ever made Ginger Beer? or do you have a special recipe or technique that you use? If so please share below in the comments area.


Star Wars Celebration Orlando is coming up next month(Yay!!) and news about the convention is coming in bigger and faster all the time. Along with thousands of excited fans, a plethora of special celebrity guests will be headed to the Sunshine state in April and the guest list just grew exponentially.
Lucasfilm announced today that the mighty Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew, Darth Maul himself, Ray Park, and young Boba Fett, Daniel Logan, will all be headed to the autograph hall next month. Joining them will be Taylor Gray(Ezra Bridger), David Barclay(ROTJ Puppeteer), Paul Blake(Greedo), Garrick Hagon(Biggs Darklighter), Brian Herring(TFA Puppeteer), Angus MacInnes(Dutch Vander), Clive Revill(Original Emperor),Tim Rose(Admiral Ackbar), Deep Roy(Max Rebo band member) and Jimmy Vee(R2-D2, TLJ). They all will be signing alongside Jyn Erso actress Felicity Jones, Boba Fett actor Jeremy Bulloch, and Emperor Palpatine himself, Ian McDiarmid.
Star Wars Celebration Orlando will be happening April 13th - 16th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida!


If we are going to take the time to build an elaborate layered or fiberglass subwoofer box we will want to make sure that the location we are planning on using sounds good. In this video I build a down firing sealed test subwoofer box that I will use in the Jeep build to test the location of my Subwoofer. Be sure to subscribe to see the next video where I go through the process of using computer software to test the speaker enclosure.


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Early Music Vancouver welcomes early opera Orfeo
Posted on October 30, 2017 October 29, 2017 by Jay Minter
Chan Centre for Performing Arts
This weekend, Early Music Vancouver (EMV) presented Monteverdi's Orfeo, at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, at UBC. Often described as a "game changer" in the history of music, the historic work marks the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque. Orfeo was brought to life under the guidance of GRAMMY award-winner and Monteverdi specialist, Stephen Stubbs, leading the singers and musicians of Seattle's Pacific MusicWorks. This production starred Vancouver's Colin Balzer, an internationally celebrated tenor in the title role, and also included San Francisco's Dark Horse Consort, North America's most respected 17th century wind ensemble. The surprisingly lively work is a relatively quick 2 hour performance. Even though this was a performance sung in the original Italian, it was filled with bold performances lead by Balzer's emotional turn as Orfeo.
Monteverdi's Orpheo follows the Greek musician and demi-god, Orfeo (Orpheus in the original legend), who after losing his beloved Euridice to a snake bite, descends into Hades to use the power of music to convince the god of the underworld, Plutone, to return his beloved to life. Orfeo sings and plays so convincingly that Plutone agrees to grant his request, but on one condition – that he not look back when leading his love out of the darkness. Tragically, Orfeo, wracked by doubt and unable to control his own passion, glances back, condemning his beloved to an eternity in darkness, and Orfeo to a life without love. Returning to the light alone, Orfeo sings one of the most poignant and powerful laments in operatic history, ultimately reaching the ears of his father Apollo, the God of Music. Out of pity for his son, Apollo descends from the heavens to bring Orfeo comfort, thereby restoring balance to the world.
Early Music Vancouver produces a series of classical and choral works throughout the year. Visit earlymusic.bc.ca for the full calendar and more information.


Bolivian President Evo Morales announced yesterday that he will engage in another battle for the legalization of international trade in coca leaves, having achieved in 2013 the recognition of the UN of the chewing the plant by peasants and indigenous Bolivians as a lawful habit.
"It is the second battle that must be waged. We are prepared", he said in a speech to a group of coca leaf distibutors in Yacuiba, a town on the border with Argentina.
The president said the goal is to "decriminalize internationally," the circulation of the coca leaf.
In Bolivia, the coca plant is recognized and protected by the Constitution due to its industrial and cultural uses, but coca is also used as a raw material for producing cocaine.
On March 12, 2013, the UN accepted the readhesion of Bolivia to the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs with a reservation on the ban on the practice of chewing coca leaves (called "akulliku"), which is mentioned in this document.
The UN maintains a ban on international trade because the plant contains alkaloids that can be used to manufacture cocaine.
Morales said that in his recent trips to Europe in some countries he was offered liqueurs made with coca leaves and that, in his view, were probably produced in privacy.
"Despite the criminalization of the coca leaf people are currently still carrying coca to Europe," the Bolivian president said.
Argentina is one of the countries neighboring Bolivia where large quantities of coca leaves are marketed for chewing and for use in tea, especially in border areas, although it is not legally permitted.
During the ceremony in Yacuiba, Morales confirmed that the fight against drug trafficking will continue with a policy that has had results without the help of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, which was expelled in 2008 accused of being linked to a political conspiracy.
Bolivia's anti-drug forces, according to recent reports, in 2015 seized around 20.6 tons of cocaine, 83 tons of cannabis and destroyed 11,025 hectares of illegal coca crops.


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Q: Zend Framework 2 - Global check for authentication with ZFCUser I installed ZFCUser successfully. Now I wonder if there is a way to globally check for authentication.
As outlined in the wiki there are several ways to check for auth. They all work but do I have to put the check-if-clause really in every single action? All my sites should be only accessable when beeing logged in and if not, you should be rerouted to the login page.
Does anybody know if there's a central place where I can put this logic?

A: To be honest, I don't think it is a good idea to block every page for a non-authenticated user. How would you access the login page?
That said, you must know the page being accessed, to make a whitelist of pages accessible for anonymous visitors. To start, I'd suggest to include the login page. You can check pages the easiest by using their route. So check the current matched route against the whitelist. If blocked, act upon. Otherwise, do nothing.
An example would be inside a Module.php from a module, for example your application:
namespace Application;

use Zend\Mvc\MvcEvent;
use Zend\Mvc\Router\RouteMatch;

class Module
{
    protected $whitelist = array('zfcuser/login');

    public function onBootstrap($e)
    {
        $app = $e->getApplication();
        $em  = $app->getEventManager();
        $sm  = $app->getServiceManager();

        $list = $this->whitelist;
        $auth = $sm->get('zfcuser_auth_service');

        $em->attach(MvcEvent::EVENT_ROUTE, function($e) use ($list, $auth) {
            $match = $e->getRouteMatch();

            // No route match, this is a 404
            if (!$match instanceof RouteMatch) {
                return;
            }

            // Route is whitelisted
            $name = $match->getMatchedRouteName();
            if (in_array($name, $list)) {
                return;
            }

            // User is authenticated
            if ($auth->hasIdentity()) {
                return;
            }

            // Redirect to the user login page, as an example
            $router   = $e->getRouter();
            $url      = $router->assemble(array(), array(
                'name' => 'zfcuser/login'
            ));

            $response = $e->getResponse();
            $response->getHeaders()->addHeaderLine('Location', $url);
            $response->setStatusCode(302);

            return $response;
        }, -100);
    }
}

A: On ZF 2.4.2 I do this in Module.php
class module {

protected $whitelist = array(
    'Application\Controller\Login'
);

public function onBootstrap(MvcEvent $e)
{

    $eventManager        = $e->getApplication()->getEventManager();
    $moduleRouteListener = new ModuleRouteListener();
    $moduleRouteListener->attach($eventManager);

    // add event
    $eventManager->attach('dispatch', array($this, 'checkLogin'));

}

public function checkLogin($e)
{

    $auth   = $e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get("Zend\Authentication\AuthenticationService");
    $target = $e->getTarget();
    $match  = $e->getRouteMatch();

    $controller = $match->getParam('controller');

    if( !in_array($controller, $this->whitelist)){
        if( !$auth->hasIdentity() ){
            return $target->redirect()->toUrl('/login');
        }
    }

}

//other methods....
}

A: You can use ZF2 module BjyAuthorize  to block/allow access to pages based on user roles such as guest, user etc using controller guard, route guard etc

A: People,
Tip, dont forget the add the "use" to correct RouteMatch statement:
use Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\RouteMatch;

Here need this:
if (!$match instanceof RouteMatch)...

If you forget, the if above have inconstant

A: Another option might be to create your own abstract controller superclass and implement the onDispatch() method like this:
public function onDispatch(MvcEvent $e)
{
    // check authentication here

    return parent::onDispatch($e);
}

You can implement a whitelist there too :).

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Q: xcopy - Cyclic copy error with exclude file I am trying to exclude a folder from xcopy to avoid a cyclic copy error, my script is doing this..
xcopy c:\test c:\test\myfolder\tmp /EXCLUDE:c:\test\myfolder\exclude.txt /E

My exclude.txt file has this inside..
c:\test\myfolder
\myfolder\

But it still giving me the cyclic copy error, where am I going wrong?

A: As Mofi already pointed out in his comment, the /EXCLUDE option of xcopy is regarded too late. Additionally, this feature is very poor -- refer to this answer or this answer of mine (shameless self-promotion...).
Let me recommend to use robocopy instead, which supports nice exclusion options:
robocopy "C:\test" "C:\test\myfolder\tmp" /XD "C:\test\myfolder" /E

A: Going on from aschipfl advice in the comments, I solved this by using RoboCopy with the following...
robocopy C:\test C:\test\myfolder\tmp /XD myfolder


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In the last post, we wrote that Leadership is the foundation upon which the Management Advantage is built. So often Leadership is described in terms of behaviors or characteristics, and those are important. But we'll get to those in the next post. Now we want to address leadership actions. Why? What's so important that leaders do?
Leaders start out by making sure there is a widely understood core context in the organization. Computer scientist Alan Kay said "context is worth 80 IQ points". A company's core context consists of the articulation of the org's mission (why it exists, or who you are), vision (where it's going), values (what's important to you), goals (what you're committed to accomplish), and value proposition (why anyone should do business with you, or work for you). Clarity on these is essential to align everyone to achieve something important. Without this alignment, the mindset is dominated by everyone focused on 'what's in it for me?'. Self-interest is a powerful motivator, but the self-interest you want to evoke is everyone seeing that achieving the org's goals, fulfilling the mission/achieving the vision, is better for each of them than any one person could achieve or be rewarded alone. Leaders can work to define the core context just among those at the top, but more powerful drivers happen when the process is more inclusive… not fully democratic but clearly representative.
A key responsibility for leaders is to create the conditions of success for every person and every activity. Excellent performance doesn't spontaneously emerge. While the responsibility to succeed lies with each individual, managers are responsible to enable people to do their best work. That could take many different directions, but leaders proactively and continuously ask whether they have made it possible for people to win and provide the resources to do so.
Leaders review performance. Not just individual performance but especially organization performance. That includes financial results, but those are lagging indicators of decisions and actions taken in the past. A more balanced view would include measuring performance to plan in leading indicators of current and future health: customer satisfaction, morale, product and process quality, and innovation and learning. Widely sharing the review demonstrates an expectation of high performance, and actions needed in response to review findings are the key to performance improvement.
Innovation and learning are critical success factors in an era of rapid commoditization and disruption. Leaders provide money and time to invest in these, and create vivid demonstrations that they are personally vested in their people's and their own learning. Innovation and learning may be the only sustainable advantage a company can achieve.
Speaking of sustainability, leaders address two aspects. The first is making sure that the organization remains a going concern for generations, in up markets, down markets, product cycles, world events, … everything. They prepare the corporate entity to endure at all times and in all circumstances. And concern for the environment means acting to make our natural world a reservoir of abundance that never runs out.
Leaders embody corporate responsibility when they influence the organization to serve communities in which they live and operate. They recognize that communities need more than just the goods and services that a company produces. This is another area calling for the tangible commitment of money and time.
Finally, leaders develop leaders. Part of their stewardship responsibility is to ensure that the organization is served by those who will become stewards themselves, and to ensure that coming generations of leaders have the skills, the behaviors, and the commitment to discharge their responsibilities.


If you're like us, you're in the weeds planning Thanksgiving dinner. Here's a unique & simple side dish recipe for turkey day!
Bring 96 oz of salted water to boil. Place carrots in pot and boil for 15 minutes checking that carrots are al dente. Transfer to sauté pan. Add butter, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon. Cook until coated with butter mixture; about 10 minutes.
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Question: A friend said that Jesus' ministry may have only been a year long, but I've always heard that it was three years long. How long did the ministry of Jesus last?
Bill Warren responds: Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, the New Testament doesn't have any explicit statements about how long Jesus' ministry lasted. So the length is determined by looking at the various references to events in Jesus' ministry, with special attention being given to Jesus' trips to Jerusalem. Based on this information, the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) only mention one trip to Jerusalem by Jesus during his ministry after his baptism and temptations. This is the basis that some use for talking of only a one-year ministry by Jesus.
But John mentions several trips to Jerusalem by Jesus. John 2:13 mentions Jesus going up to Jerusalem before the Passover, with the cleansing of the temple following. Then in John 6:4, the Passover is noted as being near, so that makes two Passover references. The third reference in John 11:55 highlights the crowds going to the Passover and hoping to see Jesus there. This is the final Passover that culminates in Jesus being arrested and crucified (and then gloriously raised from the dead!). These three clear references to different Passovers form the basis for seeing a three-year public ministry by Jesus.
How do we understand the differences between the Gospels on this? One possible solution involves the time periods of Jesus' ministry that these Gospels cover. The Synoptic Gospels emphasize the ministry of Jesus after the capture of John the Baptist. But in John's Gospel, John the Baptist is still active in his ministry at least through the end of chapter 3. So the time period being covered may be different, with the Gospel of John including a longer segment of Jesus' ministry than the Synoptic Gospels.
Another explanation is based on the different organizational patterns used by the Synoptics versus John. Mark, for example, organized his Gospel according to the ministry of Jesus in Galilee, then in Galilee and the surrounding areas, and finally with Jesus' final trip to Jerusalem. History can be written in different ways (by topics, people, travel, places, etc.), and this is how Mark, Matthew, and Luke were inspired to write their accounts: The main emphasis was on Jesus' last trip to Jerusalem, with everything building up to the cross and resurrection. John, on the other hand, organized his Gospel in part around Jesus' trips to the Jewish festivals and the themes of those festivals. So as John included more of Jesus' trips, he gave us a better picture of how long Jesus' ministry lasted, which was about three years.
Bill Warren, PhD is Professor of New Testament and Greek in the Landrum P. Leavell II Chair of New Testament Studies, and Founding Director of the H. Milton Haggard Center of New Testament Textual Studies, at NOBTS.