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Emphasys Endobronchial Valve
TV Health Reports: Air Date: May 23, 2004
Taken from the University of Iowa Health Care Website
Please note that our own Chris Wigley is interviewed in this article...
Endobronchial Valve
http://www.uihealthcare.com/reports/cardiovascular/040524ebv-tv.html
Traditional treatments for emphysema focus on improving quality of life but often involve major surgery. Lung specialists at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are studying a new, less-invasive option. It could provide new hope to the growing list of emphysema patients.
For people with emphysema, every day is precious. So when Christopher Wigley heard about a potential new treatment for his disease, he was excited. He also felt a sense of urgency.
It fits in the palm of his hand, so it's hard for Wigley to imagine that such a tiny device could help him breathe better.
"Doing something active like mowing the lawn - I get very, very out of breath. Even with the oxygen, that's a little hard," says Wigley.
The device, called an endo-bronchial valve, or E-B-V, is the centerpiece of a new study at UI Hospitals and Clinics. Doctors hope to implant the devices in Wigley.
The E-B-V is designed to prevent air from going into the diseased parts of the lung, which often causes breathing problems for emphysema patients.
"By doing this, it may give us a little bit better perspective as to how this disease works and other potential benefits that may stem from this particular trial," says Dave Riker, M.D., UI pulmonologist.
"How long it's likely to be - heaven only knows. But if it buys me an extra few years, gives me a situation where I'm less restricted in those years, then it's done something useful for me," says Wigley.
The procedure to place the E-B-V is also less invasive than traditional emphysema surgery options, so there are fewer complications.
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Jupiter in opposition: How to see the godfather of the Solar System at its biggest and brightest tonight
Holly Spanner
Published: 26th September, 2022 at 16:38
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This evening is your best opportunity to see the biggest planet in our Solar System – no telescope required.
As the nights draw in and the Sun begins to set earlier each day, the autumn months can offer excellent stargazing opportunities, without the chill of winter.
Jupiter will go into opposition tonight, 26 September, but what exactly does it mean when we say a planet is in opposition? How can you spot Jupiter in opposition? And, which constellation will Jupiter appear in? Answers to these, and more, are below.
If you're still able to enjoy the warm weather and (relatively) clear nights, why not make the most of them with our full Moon UK calendar and astronomy for beginners guide? And, in case you missed it, we pulled together the best pictures of the Harvest Moon in 2022.
What is opposition?
Opposition is essentially the planetary equivalent of a full Moon. When a planet is close to the Earth, and on the opposite side of Earth to the Sun, we describe it as that planet being in opposition. The sunlight that shines on the planet is fully reflected, in the same way that sunlight is fully reflected from the Moon every 29.53 days in the lunar cycle. From our perspective here on Earth, the planet appears larger and brighter than at other times of the year.
"When a planet is in opposition, you can see the whole circular disk of that planet, which means we're getting the most light back from the planet to us. So it appears very bright in the sky," says Dr Jonathan Nichols, a reader in planetary auroras at the University of Leicester.
As the outer planets orbit around the Sun, Earth occasionally finds itself between the Sun and another planet, with all three directly aligned. Oppositions can often provide the best opportunity to observe and photograph a particular planet because of its favourable position and brightness.
At Jupiter's opposition, Earth will lie directly between Jupiter and the Sun, and will remain in the sky above the horizon for most of the night.
Only those planets that are beyond Earth's orbit can be in opposition, these are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Because Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun inside the path of Earth's orbit, they can never be in opposition.
Opposition occurs when a planet is on one side of the Earth and the Sun is directly opposite, on the other side. i.e., the Sun, Earth and planet line up perfectly © Wmheric/ Wikipedia
When is Jupiter in opposition?
Jupiter will reach opposition tonight on Monday 26 September 2022, when it will be at its closest and brightest for the year, essentially creating a 'full' Jupiter. The king of the Solar System will rise as sunset falls, at 6:52pm on Monday 26 September and will remain above the horizon until it sets at 6:57am on Tuesday 27 September 2022, as viewed from London (times will vary with location).
Weather permitting, we are expected to be offered perfect visibility of Jupiter.
What's so special this year?
This year, Jupiter goes into opposition at the same time the massive planet reaches its closest approach to Earth, as it travels in its own orbit around the Sun. And, it's the closest approach to Earth for 59 years. The reason for this is down to the shape of the orbits. As they're not perfect circles, Earth and Jupiter will pass each other at different distances throughout the year. When Jupiter reaches opposition, the gas giant will be situated a mere 591.3 million kilometres (3.95 AU) from Earth. At the furthest point away from Earth in its orbit around the Sun, Jupiter is around 966 million kilometres distant.
And, with a new Moon only the night before, viewing conditions looks set to be excellent. Fingers crossed for clear skies...
What will you be able to see?
For naked-eye observers, Jupiter will appear as a very bright point of light that, unlike stars, does not twinkle. A decent set of binoculars (7× to 10x magnification) will provide you with a view of Jupiter's four largest moons, Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io, and a telescope will allow you to view Jupiter's stripes.
"Point at pair of binoculars up at Jupiter and you'll be able to see four pinpricks of light surrounding Jupiter. Those are the four largest Galilean moons. They are called 'Galilean moons' after Galileo, who was the first person to discover these objects," Nichols explains.
"It's fun to look at Jupiter over a few days and see these points of light changing position."
"Io, the innermost Galilean moon, is orbiting really quickly and zips around Jupiter, changing position very quickly, whereas the other moons move slower. Now, obviously, from our viewpoint, the pinprick of light closest to Jupiter isn't necessarily Io. But the way to determine that is by either looking on an app or see which one is moving quick, quickest."
"[Imaging a planet when it's in opposition means] you'll get a better resolution on the planet, as well as collecting as many photons as you're going to collect. It gives you a nice big, very highly resolved image of the planet," Nichols says.
Listen to Jonathan Nichols chat to us about Jupiter on the Instant Genius podcast
How you can see Jupiter in opposition tonight © Getty Images
Jupiter's bands, the Great Red Spot and even clouds can be seen through a telescope. Jupiter has a fast spin, and eagle eyes may even be able to spot the resulting slightly squashed appearance of its bright disc.
From around 6:52pm on Monday 26 September, Jupiter will rise in the eastern sky, in the constellation Pisces. As night progresses, the planet will travel east and reach its highest in the middle of the night before setting at sunrise, disappearing below the horizon at 6:57am the next day.
If you're interested in astrophotography or creating an animation of Jupiter, expert Pete Lawrence has put together this handy guide on how to make a planetary animation.
How can I spot Jupiter in the night sky?
Jupiter is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, which makes it relatively easy to spot, even without a telescope. If you're struggling with orientation, then there are astronomy apps that you can download - all you need to do is point your phone at the sky and the app will tell you what's what.
For those of you who prefer star hopping, look towards the southeast after sunset. Jupiter will rise in the constellation Pisces, which can be seen anywhere in the world, with the exception of Antarctica. Although Pisces is a large constellation, its stars are relatively dim. However, its distinctive V-shape is one of the largest star formations in the sky.
You can find Pisces by first locating the Summer Triangle, and tracing an imaginary line from the bright star Vega and splitting the triangle perpendicular to the base, which is made up of Altair and Deneb. This line points to the head of the western fish in Pisces. Jupiter will be sitting just below the western fish.
Jupiter reaches opposition 26 September 2022 © NASA/ESA/ESO/Space Telescope Science Institute/IAU Minor Planet Center/Fabien Chereau/ Noctua Software
How often do oppositions occur?
Each of the planets go into opposition on a roughly annual basis. This is because Earth has a faster orbit, passing between these planets and the Sun. The exception is Mars, which is around every 26 months due to it being relatively close to Earth in the Solar System. Jupiter goes into opposition every 13 months.
Jupiter's 12-year cycle
Jupiter lies within the zodiac band of the sky, and it moves through approximately 1/12 of its orbit every year (a single orbit being around 12 years).
In other words, it takes around 12 months for Jupiter to cross one of the zodiac constellations and move on to the next. This means that Jupiter goes into opposition every 13 months, and the planet will pass through all of the zodiac constellations over a period of 12 years.
Like the other planets, Jupiter travels from west to east across the night sky, against a backdrop of stars and distant galaxies. However, when it's in opposition, the planet also enters into a period of apparent retrograde motion, when it appears to move backwards for a time.
Here are the constellations that Jupiter will appear in over the next 12-year cycle:
26 September 2022: Pisces
1 November 2023: Aries
6 December 2024: Taurus
9 January 2026: Gemini
10 February 2027: Leo
13 March 2028: Virgo
13 April 2029: Virgo
14 May 2030: Libra
16 June 2031: Ophiuchus
20 July 2032: Sagittarius
25 August 2033: Aquarius
2 October 2034: Back in Pisces
About our expert, Dr Jonathan Nichols
Dr Jonathan Nichols is an associate professor at the University of Leicester. His research includes studying Jupiter's aurorae using the Hubble Space Telescope data combined with interplanetary spacecraft data.
Read more about Jupiter:
JUICE: What secrets lie beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moons?
Mystery of Jupiter's polar cyclones solved using ocean physics
James Webb Telescope releases spectacular images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and ghostly glowing auroras
Holly SpannerStaff Writer, BBC Science Focus
Holly is the staff writer at BBC Science Focus, and specialises in astronomy. Before joining the team she was a geoenvironmental consultant and holds an MSc in Geoscience (distinction) from UCL.

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'The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting' English Dub Cast Announced
'The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting' is a comedy manga created by Tsukiya that started as a web comic in 2018 before being published by Micro Magazine and Kaiten Books in North America. The series was picked up for an anime in the Summer of 2022 by Fun-Media and the Japanese animation studio Gaina. Crunchyroll had picked it up for streaming and will produce an English dub.
The cast list was revealed on their website:
Jonah Scott (Tatsu in The Way of the Househusband) as Kirishima
Emi Lo (Kate in SHADOWS HOUSE) as Yaeka
Christopher R. Sabat (All Might in My Hero Academia) as Kazuhiko
Cherami Leigh (Asuna in Sword Art Online) as Kanami
Nazeeh Tarsha (Jude in The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent) as Sugihara
Y. Chang (Haruki in given) as Mashiro
Austin Sisk works on the project as ADR Director with Madeleine Morris working as the ADR Script Supervisor.
You can watch the trailer below:
The show was directed by Itsuro Kawasaki and written by Keiichirō Ōchi. The first season has twelve episodes.
MyAnimeList describes the synopsis as follows,
"Tooru Kirishima's notoriety is spread far and wide in the underworld. He is most commonly known as "The Demon of Sakuragi"—a man who is not afraid to resort to violence if deemed necessary. After almost jeopardizing a peace treaty, his boss tasks him with the most difficult job he has ever had: taking care of seven-year-old Yaeka Sakuragi—the boss' precious daughter—so that Tooru understands what it means to be responsible for another life.
At first, the two do not seem to meet eye to eye, as Tooru has no clue on how to communicate with Yaeka, and the young girl is not used to expressing her emotions. However, as time goes on, they come to understand each other despite their differences. The fearsome right-hand man of a yakuza boss and the child he must protect are about to learn that family is not always bound by blood."
The anime was nominated for the 5th Next Manga Awards in the digital category in 2019.
Jacob Airey is a writer, nerd, YouTube host, movie reviewer, and pop culture critic. He started the website StudioJakeMedia.com in 2012 where he covers a vast variety of topics including film, TV, anime, music, and faith. He is also the author of The Seven Royals fantasy novel series.
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You know who leftists are always so worried about the right-wing trying to suppress their speech?
Well, its always interesting how when you actually find someone trying to suppress speech its a left-wing convicted felon and bomber.
Michelle Malkin is coordinating a lot of the story – which includes getting people fired from their jobs, being forced to move their children to a different state, getting people arrested. And all funded by the Tides foundation and lots of liberal money.
Aren't you glad the Democrats are in charge?
Last year, Osama's cabana boy Ayman al-Zawahri asked terrorists, journalists, and terrorist sympathizers (pardon the redundancy) to submit questions that he promised to answer and which Al-Qaeda's media arm will post to jihadist forums.
Q: Is is spelled "muslim" or "moslem"?
Q: What's the proper way to wage Jihad?
A: First, get a God. Preferrably an angry one. Then form a religion around him. Give it a hip & trendy name that plays off a popular Apple product. iSlam, for example. Then follow the directions of your religion's important holy men, or iMams. Consider renaming your holy war iJhad for the sake of consistency. Then kill, kill, kill!
Q: Why do Jews make you so irritable?
A: Any race capable of producing Fran Drescher deserves extermination.
Q: Which Muslim holiday is holier? Eid ul-Fitr or Eid ul-Adha?
Q: We miss the Iraqi information minister. Could you please hire him as your spokesman?
A: Are you nuts? The man was a pathological liar with sub-zero credibility! It'd be like using the New York Times!


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4J School Board failed Eugene
By Jerry Rosiek
The Eugene 4J School Board made a controversial decision this past Aug. 8: It voted to fill a vacated seat on the board with Jim Torrey, who just two months earlier had been voted out of office by more than 16,000 Eugene voters.
It was not a unanimous vote. The two newly elected board members, Gordon Lafer and Martina Shabram, voted to respect the voters' decision and supported another highly qualified candidate. It was the continuing board members who had previously served with Torrey — Anne Marie Levis, Alicia Hays, Mary Walston and Judy Newman — who voted for him.
There are many surprising things about this vote.
First, it is clear there is widespread dissatisfaction with Mr. Torrey's service on the board. In Eugene's relatively calm political culture, incumbents tend to get re-elected. Name recognition and a general aversion to conflict often leads to uncontested elections or incumbents winning by large margins. It takes a lot for an incumbent to be unseated — strong voter desire for change and an organized opposition. There can be no question that the majority wanted Torrey off the board.
Second, all six board members, reflecting Eugene's majority, are endorsed Democrats. Torrey is a lifelong Republican. He only recently declared himself an "independent" when it became clear he would face serious electoral challenge in heavily Democratic Eugene, but this conversion persuaded few. He consistently takes stances that align with GOP politics, such as lobbying his fellow board members to remain neutral on ballot measures that would increase funding for our cash-strapped schools. He has consistently advocated for restraint on equity measures. The board had the opportunity to appoint a more progressive person to the board, but inexplicably four members chose not to do so.
Third, the open seat was vacated by the board's only Latinx community member and only representative of color. There were highly qualified Latinx candidates and other candidates of color for the position. But four members of the board apparently didn't think this was important.
Finally, this vote was not driven by necessity. There were many qualified applicants, fifteen in all. Many with greater knowledge about the on-the-ground reality of public education in Eugene than Torrey — teachers, parents of school-age children, people who have spent thousands of hours volunteering in schools.
So why did four board members override voters and re-appoint Torrey? At first look, this appears to be a simple act of nepotism. The four who served with Torrey like him personally, and on that basis seem to have decided they know better than Eugene voters. I find this unlikely, however. Our board members are earnest and professional. I don't think they would consciously treat the board like a private club.
There is another, less flattering, explanation. Despite its heavily Democratic composition, the Eugene 4J School Board has been unified by a relatively conservative philosophy of education — one that uncritically accepts the Oregon Department of Education obsession with standardized tests, punitive accountability measures for schools and reforms that frame teachers as obstructions to educational improvement.
They are in the habit of dismissing criticisms of these policies, or when they validate the criticism, moving quickly to explain that we can't expect to change such things. Many of the applicants for the vacated board position represented a challenge to this insular and passive stance. Appointing such a person would have required the board to reconsider its views. Appointing Torrey was the safer, more comfortable choice for them, even if it is not what Eugene voters wanted.
Whatever their reasons, voters will remember this blatant act of disregard when two of those four board members come up for re-election in two years.
Jerry Rosiek is a professor of education at the University of Oregon, father of a 4J School District student and one of the founders of Eugene Parents Concerned About Testing, a local group that informs parents about their right to opt their children out of standardized tests.


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Reprint: Islands
Posted by Paul Kincaid in science fiction
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Alexander Selkirk, Christopher Priest, Daniel Defoe, H.G. Wells, J.G. Ballard, Jane Mendelsohn, Johann Wyss, John Christopher, John Fowles, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nicholas Ruddick, R.M. Ballantyne, Rex Gordon, Robert Holdstock, S Fowler Wright, William Golding, William Shakespeare
This is another of my Cognitive Mapping columns. It first appeared in Vector 189 (September-October 1996).
The man was inside two crevices. There was first the rock, closed and not warm but at least not cold with the coldness of sea or air. The rock was negative. It confined his body so that here and there the shudders were beaten; not soothed but forced inward. He felt pain throughout most of his body but distant pain that was sometimes to be mistaken for fire.
Pincher Martin (1956)
When you think of life on a desert island, you get pictures in your mind of cannibals and pirates, of desolation and thirst. But at first it wasn't at all like that for us. It really wasn't bad … Anyone else stranded on a desert island would probably have wanted to die, but for him the nights had never been more beautiful, the wind more gentle, the sea more calm.
I Was Amelia Earhart (1996)
Jane Mendelsohn
Between 1704 and 1709 the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned alone in the Juan Fernández Islands in the South Pacific. When he returned to civilisation he became an instant celebrity, his autobiography was published, his story became known throughout Britain, and he was interviewed by the leading journalist of his day, Daniel Defoe. Selkirk's years on the island affected him, he built a cave in his garden where he lived, he sulked and raged at neighbours, he was such a tormented character that he was a menace to strangers and an embarrassment to his family. Yet when Defoe took his familiar story and transmuted it into the adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) it became the tale of how a true Englishman could master the elements by his resolution and entrepreneurial spirit.
There had been tales of castaways before, Shakespeare's luckless characters were forever being cast upon strange shores and in The Tempest (1611) he created a memorable magical isle. But what was different about Robinson Crusoe was that the island itself became a protagonist. Before any other human characters intrude upon his story, Crusoe has already conquered the island, wresting from it a comfortable home, a suit of clothes, a steady supply of foods and luxuries. When Friday comes into his life it is only to extend the conquest, for Crusoe to convert primitive man as well as primitive land to the necessities of civilised life.
Thus Robinson Crusoe was not just the exemplar, it was the creator of a small but persistent literary genre, the robinsonade. Curious in that it is a sub-genre which crosses and re-crosses traditional genre boundaries, a form of fiction that can be at one moment the highest of high fantasy and the next the most realist of mainstream literature, the robinsonade is a romance which pitches man, in isolation, against his environment. Most commonly, robinsonades have told the story of characters thrust into some inimical landscape – most usually an island – where they not only survive, but actually re-establish the comforts of their normal lives. This is most noticeable in those robinsonades that have become established as children's classics, such as Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (1812-13) and The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne (1857), which celebrate the power of the family to exert its civilising influences whatever it may encounter.
In science fiction, the robinsonade has been a consistent influence, often explicitly so as in Rex Gordon's No Man Friday (1956) or the film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). The island, whether an actual island or an island in space, an uninhabited planet, is an attractive setting partly for the simple, practical reason that it allows the writer to isolate his protagonist, but also because it allows utopias and anti-utopias to be developed. Adam and Eve on a depopulated planet – a post-atomic Earth, the sole survivors of a crashed spaceship – have recreated society countless times in the pages of science fiction magazines. The rational, can-do spirit exemplified by Crusoe is all that we ever need to rebuild our lives, and the safety and comfort we know today can not be lost forever.
But such optimism has not actually been common in science fiction, in a genre that celebrates the social success of humanity as much as the ingenuity of the individual, the loss of society is generally represented as a dark and threatening event. Islands are as likely to result in the triumph of the primitive as they are in a Crusoe-like triumph of civilisation. H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) is a place where the forces of Darwinism have a dehumanising effect in the isolation an island provides, and though S. Fowler Wright tried to counter that with The Island of Captain Sparrow (1928) in which morality stands against nature to load the scales in humanity's favour the more common scientific view has been that nature is triumphant.
Thus William Golding created Lord of the Flies (1954) as a direct response to Ballantine's Coral Island: this party of schoolboys marooned in isolation from their society will not allow family values to triumph but will regress to primitivism, violence and superstition. It is a notion echoed in J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island (1974) and High Rise (1975). Both the traffic island between motorway embankments and the multistorey apartment block are islands in the midst of the sea of uncaring, fast-paced civilisation; they are islands of survival and the establishment of values just as Crusoe's island was, but with the crucial difference that the values are specifically not those of the protagonist's off-island society.
Implicit in the island as protagonist is the notion that the island becomes in itself a character, and if the hero is to reshape the island to suit himself, then the island becomes a mirror of his psyche. Thus the schoolboys in Lord of the Flies conjure their fears from the dead parachutist captured by the trees, while Maitland, swept up like technological flotsam on the Concrete Island, finds that it "was becoming an exact model of his head". But this is perhaps most explicit in Golding's Pincher Martin. The sailor, cradled by the "negative" rock is dead, though neither we nor he know that yet. His ship has been blown up during the war, and after a wild and disorienting tumble through the Atlantic waters he suddenly finds himself upon an island. It is too small, too barren for him to build any comfort or recreate any civilisation upon it, survival is an end in itself. But the very bleakness of the rock forces his pains in upon himself, and this is a metaphor for the way his memories, his life, are forced in upon him. What Pincher Martin is, in its brutal and unrelieved allegorical manner, is a recapitulation of that old saw: the dying man seeing his whole life flash before him. And this is one of the chief ways in which the island has been used in science fiction, its isolation, its small compass providing a physical shape for the mind, the experience of the protagonist. Sometimes, as in Robert Holdstock's 'Mythago Wood' sequence, it is a forest; sometimes, as in John Fowles's Mantissa (1982), it is a white room; sometimes, as in Christopher Priest's A Dream of Wessex (1977) or The Affirmation (1981), it is a dreamscape; sometimes, as in John Christopher's A Wrinkle in the Skin (1965), it is an actual island: but the island, real or implied, provides an allegory for the human consciousness, the exploration of its landscape is a working out of the hero's thoughts, feelings, his very humanity.
These examples are, notably, all British. In Ultimate Island (1993), Nicholas Ruddick has proposed that the island is one of the central linking threads that characterises British science fiction. It is not exclusively so, Kim Stanley Robinson, for example, in A Short, Sharp Shock (1990) takes his protagonist along a narrow sea-girt peninsula on a journey that seems in many ways to recapitulate that of Golding's Pincher Martin. But it is true that American science fiction has not used the island as metaphor with anything like the same enthusiasm or the same bitter, allegorical intensity. (We are, after all, an island race; it serves us conveniently as a metaphor for our social as well as our personal and intellectual existence.)
But the American mainstream has continued to use the island in a manner closer to that originally employed by Defoe: as a figure for survival that isn't just personal but also social and moral. In her recent fable, I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelsohn imagines the survival of the flyer who became an almost legendary figure in America between the wars before she and her navigator disappeared in the Pacific on an attempt to fly round the world. But here the island becomes not a battleground for survival but a haven for escape, a place where Amelia does not have to be a heroine, does not have to live up to the legend. The island allows her to live the life she wants for herself; like Ballard's Maitland, it's a simpler life, but like Defoe's Crusoe it's a civilised life.
SF Addict
Intriguing, though when you think about it not totally surprising, to discover that William Golding was what he describes as a 'science fiction addict'. At Christmas 1954, the year that The Lord of the Flies was published, Charles Mentieth sent him some sf novels (John Carey, in his biography of Golding, does not mention which). In an enthusiastic response, Golding wrote how keen he was on sf, listing as favourites Ray Bradbury, C.S. Lewis, and 'A Case of Conscience' by James Blish. As Carey notes, he must have read this as a novella in If since the novel wasn't published until 1958. Continue reading →
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A curious and sporadically interesting piece by Melvyn Bragg in The Independent reminds me that it is 50 years since William Golding's The Lord of the Flies appeared.
Golding is the writer I most regret never having met, and Bragg's description of a long, drunken afternoon at Golding's Salisbury home makes him sound even more convivial company than I had imagined.
I honestly can't remember which of Golding's novels I read first. It wasn't The Lord of the Flies, it was a long time before I read that for the first time. It was probably Free Fall, a book which still has an extraordinary ability to shiver my emotions, partly because of that extraordinary first line about the covers of secondhand books in a street market bursting with purple hosannahs, and partly because the narrator's childhood home always evokes very vivid images of my grandmother's home, even though the two are very different. I do know that at the time – this would have been the late 60s – I read all of his novels to date in very short order (except for The Lord of the Flies which I didn't get to for another decade or more).
Although Free Fall remains closest to me on a personal level, The Spire comes pretty close and is the better novel. I think it was the best thing Golding wrote, a book which feels convincingly like a slice of medieval life without ever going in for the long scene-setting descriptions of most historical novels. I suspect there is actually very little specific detail about the period – I know Golding has said that his descriptions of how the spire was built was based on what he knew of how sailors used block-and-tackle on tall masted ships – but though I've read it several times I've never been able to slow down enough to notice.
The Inheritors was another book that knocked me out when I first read it. I re-read it only a year or so back and was astonished to realise how narrow the focus was. It all takes place in a matter of a few days in a territory you could walk across in an hour or so at most, and involves no more characters than you could count on your fingers. Yet, when I read it, it felt vast, and it still feels vast. This was apparently Golding's favourite among his books, and I can understand why, technically it's an astounding achievement, though can't help feeling he explored his religious themes better in Free Fall, The Spire and, of course, Pincher Martin.
I remember when Maureen first read The Affirmation by Christopher Priest she said there was a big black hole at the heart of him. That was the effect that Pincher Martin had on me when I first read it. Most of these books I first read from the school library, but then went out and bought my own copies as soon as could. But for a long time I would not buy Pincher Martin, just the thought of it touched a nerve and I didn't want to go back to the book. Then, eventually, I did pick up a copy (completism has much to recommend it) and I've re-read the book a couple of times since then. It still has the power to disturb me, but at the same time I now recognise what a tremendous piece of work it is, absolutely one of the essential works of the last century.
Let's see, I also read his essays in The Hot Gates, his three superb novellas in The Scorpion God, and The Pyramid, the early novel that tends to get forgotten. It's a slight piece about suburban infidelity that really doesn't work as well as his earlier novels. The Pyramid and The Scorpion God came out not long before I first discovered his work, and after that there was silence. It was like discovering a favourite group just at the point that they break up. Then, perhaps ten years after I first picked up Free Fall, there came Darkness Visible. I bought it in hardback the moment it came out – the first time I'd had a chance to do that – I even ended up reviewing the book for Vector (on rather dubious grounds, but it was that review which I sent out as a sample that got me a professional reviewing gig sometime later). Darkness Visible is, to be honest, a somewhat incoherent book full of awesome images and too much iconography for the story, but it signalled his return. We got his 'To The Ends of the Earth' Trilogy, which earned him his Booker and probably contributed to the Nobel; The Paper Men, a feeble comedy; and his posthumous novel, The Double Tongue, which might have been brilliant if it had ever been completed; not to mention his Egyptian travel book and another collection of essays, The Moving Target. There's good stuff here, but they're not books I go back to. Not the way I go back to those early novels.
The story goes that the first novel, The Lord of the Flies, was rejected 19 times before it was finally taken on by Charles Mentieth at Faber (Mentieth seems to have been responsible for many of my favourite books and authors from the 50s right through to the 70s). The book is wonderful, you wonder what might have been on the minds of those 19 publishers half a century ago. But it is most wonderful for the four novels that followed in a burst of extraordinary creative energy by one of the most significant British writers of the century. I am sure that I shall be going back to Free Fall and The Spire, The Inheritors and, yes, even Pincher Martin for as long as I live. And there aren't that many books or novelists I feel that way about.
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Radware Survey Finds Majority of Companies Paid a Hacker's Ransom Over the Past Year
June 12, 2018 Asianet Pakistan Asean, Press Releases, Radware
Businesses Face Increasing Legal and Technology Challenges When Securing Their Networks
MAHWAH, N.J., June 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Radware® (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released its 2018 Executive Application and Network Security Report. For the first time in the survey's five-year history, a majority of executives (53%) reported paying a hacker's ransom following a cyber-attack. This comes as technology and privacy concerns present greater challenges in improving overall security posture.
"A ransom payment may make the problem go away for now, but these types of responses won't drive a business forward," said Anna Convery-Pelletier, Chief Marketing Officer at Radware. "A reactionary security strategy limits an organization's ability to secure customer data, protect their brand's reputation, and achieve business goals. Investing in appropriate security solutions is no longer simply an IT expense, it is fundamental to a business' long term success."
According to the report, 69% of executives said that their company faced a ransom attack in the past year, compared with only 14% noting so in 2016. Meanwhile, two-thirds of executives (66%) report a lack of confidence in their network security, admitting their networks are penetrable by hackers.
Beyond more frequent ransom payments, organizations are facing significant consequences and concerns related to cyber-attacks. In a sign that consumers will not accept data breaches, 41% of executives noted their organization faced legal action from customers following a breach. At the same time, executives stated that their biggest concerns associated with cyber-attacks are customer loss (41%) and brand reputation loss (34%).
In the midst of all this, organizations still struggle to implement tools that would drastically improve their cybersecurity posture. While more than one in three (35%) executives noted that encrypted attacks would be detrimental to their organization, 41% reported that they continue to review the legalities of decrypting traffic on their network, a process needed to significantly reduce the threat of encrypted threats.
In addition, Radware's 2018 Executive Application & Network Security Report revealed:
Have we reached an automation tipping point? The complexity of networks and changing attack vectors have led companies to invest in automated and machine-learning security tools. Over the past two years, 71% of executives report shifting network security spending to investments in automated security.
Gaps between clouds create major security risk. More than 90% of executives report using multiple public and private cloud environments as part of their companies' IT infrastructure, and most companies host up to 50% of their business applications in the cloud. C-suite executives clearly understand that dispersing their network across multiple public and private clouds introduces security risks however. The vast majority of respondents (96%) are very or somewhat concerned about network vulnerabilities created by using multiple clouds.
"Businesses are trying to increase operational efficiency by moving to cloud infrastructure," continued Convery-Pelletier. "Spreading apps across the cloud can increase network agility, improve scalability, and manage cost. However, most organizations only secure the individual cloud environments, and without looking at securing the network as a whole, they create gaps between the clouds."
Executives reveal their most detrimental security threats: 38% of executives report daily or weekly attacks. Executives feared social engineering (38%), Ransomware (38%) and Malware (37%) as the most detrimental to their business, followed closely by IoT botnet powered DDoS attacks (35%), and Encrypted (35%) attacks.
Nation state attacks motivate security upgrades for American organizations. U.S. executives in particular were more likely than their peers in EMEA and APAC to say that attacks by nation-states have influenced security changes. More than half of U.S. executives pointed to nation-state threats as a motivator, while just 30% in the APAC region, and 41% in the EMEA region said so.
Companies react when peers are attacked. Approximately 61% of executives said that watching attacks on peer companies influenced their decision to change security policy. Almost as many, 59%, said attacks on their own organizations had prompted changes in their security posture.
The report provides a detailed analysis of the views and insights from more than 200 senior leaders at organizations across the globe. To read the full report on the survey's findings, download it here.
On behalf of Radware, Merrill Research surveyed 232 executives from across the globe. To participate in the 2018 Executive Application & Network Security respondents were required to be a company with at least 250 million USD/EUR/GBP/RMB in revenue and hold a title of senior vice president level or higher. By design, the survey required at least half respondents to be C-level executives, though this year's research attracted far more C-level corporate leaders. About half of the companies in the survey have 1,000 to 9,999 employees, averaging about 3,700. American respondents skewed highest in average number of employees at nearly 4,300.
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Source: General Motors to call back 8,000 Chevy Volts
PUBLISHED: January 4, 2012 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: November 9, 2015 at 3:40 p.m.
DETROIT – General Motors will strengthen the structure around the batteries in its Volt electric cars to keep them safe during crashes, a person briefed on the matter said today.
GM will ask Volt owners to return the cars to dealers for structural modifications, said the person, who did not want to be identified because GM executives plan to announce the repairs later today.
The fixes are similar to a recall and involve about 8,000 Volts sold in the U.S. in the past two years. GM is making the repairs after three Volt batteries caught fire following crash tests done by federal safety regulators. The fires occurred seven days to three weeks after tests and have been blamed on a coolant leak that caused an electrical short.
GM's move is considered a step below a recall, which would be issued by a car company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
NHTSA and GM have said the electric cars are safe and that no fires have occurred after crashes on real-world roadways.
The Volt has a T-shaped, 400-pound battery pack that can power the car for about 35 miles. After that, a small gasoline generator kicks in to run the electric motor.
NHTSA has been investigating the batteries after a Volt caught fire in June at a crash test facility in Wisconsin. The fire broke out three weeks after a side-impact crash test.
GM said the Volt's battery should have been drained after the crash, but it never told NHTSA to do that. Later, two GM executives said the company had no formal procedure to drain the batteries until after the June fire. GM has said that the liquid solution used to cool the Volt's battery leaked and crystallized, causing an electrical short that touched off the fire.
The company now sends out a team to drain the batteries after being notified of a crash by GM's OnStar safety system.
The company sold 7,671 Volts last year, falling short of its goal of 10,000. It was outsold last year by its main electric car competitor, the Nissan Leaf, at 9,674.


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AT&T to Refund Money for Services You Didn't Order
By Eileen Ambrose, October 08, 2014 03:17 PM
AT&T Mobility will refund $80 million to customers for billing them for horoscopes and other mobile services they didn't order, federal and state regulators announced today.
The phone carrier also must pay $25 million in penalties.
"Mobile cramming" occurs when a carrier bills for services by outside vendors that the customer didn't authorize. About 20 million consumers are victims annually, regulators said.
"It's the largest cramming settlement in history," said Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, at a news conference announcing the settlement.
In the case of AT&T, consumers typically paid $9.99 a month for text messages with horoscopes, love tips or celebrity news, according to the Federal Trade Commission. AT&T customers paid hundreds of millions of dollars for these services, with the phone company keeping at least 35 percent of the revenue, the FTC said.
AT&T did refund the money when consumers complained, though usually only for two month's worth of fees, the FTC said.
The problem with mobile cramming is that unauthorized charges aren't easy to spot and consumers can be paying them for many months, regulators said. The charges are often buried in the customer's bill or described in vague terms. For instance, on AT&T bills, the fees were disclosed as "AT&T Monthly Subscriptions," leading consumers to conclude that they were paying for services from AT&T, the FTC said.
"In the past, our wireless customers could purchase services like ringtones from other companies using Premium Short Messaging Services (PSMS) and we would put those charges on their bills," AT&T said in a statement. "While we had rigorous protections in place to guard consumers against unauthorized billing from these companies, last year we discontinued third-party billing for PSMS services."
AT&T must notify current customers if they were billed for unauthorized outside charges, while the FTC will be reaching out to former customers.
You will be eligible for a refund under the settlement if you had any unauthorized charges since Jan. 1, 2009. You can apply for a refund on the FTC's claims website.
Not sure if you qualify? You can call a settlement administrator at 877-819-9692 toll-free or go to the FTC's site for more information.
Those who are unsure also can submit a claim on the website, which will be able to determine if consumers are owed money.
Refunds are expected to take nine months.
The settlement with AT&T involved the FTC, FCC and attorneys general in every state and the District of Columbia. The FCC's Wheeler said consumers can expect more joint efforts by regulators to stop mobile cramming.
"For too long consumers have been charged on their phone bills for things that they didn't buy," he said. "It stops today."
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Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Suit to Proceed
In a free market and capitalist economy, it is generally accepted that competition is good for the market, and helps drive innovation. When major players—who are supposed to be competitors—end up circumventing laws such as the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, not only does it violate one of the central characteristics of capitalism, it can be a painful reminder of the "old world" monopolistic tendencies that were the original impetus for the enactment of those very laws. Mounting evidence seems to indicate that a group of technology giants had been conspiring together to manipulate salary patterns and shortchange their workers for a number of years. Emails and paper trails from top officials at Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm and Pixar have surfaced, revealing a series of covert bilateral no-poaching agreements that allegedly kept down salary levels of about 100,000 hi-tech employees.These discoveries first came to light as a result of a larger Department of Justice antitrust investigation back in 2010. According to the court papers filed this past October (prior to last month's denial of the defendants' appeal to toss out the "manifestly erroneous" class-action suit), not only did the secret pacts artificially drive down employee compensation, but they also constricted employees' mobility by "eliminating competition for skilled labor."
The argument could be made that the do-not-call arrangements existed as a means to prevent the disruption to major projects that can occur when there is frequent turnover in staffing. Furthermore, in the cutthroat industry of technological development, there is the paradoxical coexistence of "what are my competitors up to?" curiosity alongside the keep-it-close-to-the-chest fear that someone else will steal your ideas and get it to market first. It's natural for companies to want to protect their standings in the rat race however they can. But healthy competition is difficult when "cross-pollination" of the workforce is suppressed and specific information about the job market is systematically kept hush-hush. Whatever the actual objective in this case was, it is estimated that the no-poaching collusion between these hi-tech giants ultimately deprived their workers of approximately $9 billion in wages.
In theory, this could have had ripple effects beyond Silicon Valley, as well. If developers, engineers, programmers, and other hi-tech employees had been earning higher wages in California, that might have incentivized companies in other areas of the country to raise their salaries for comparable positions so as to keep their local talent from migrating westward. As such, more than just those intimately involved in this case may be tuning in, come May 27th of this year, when the jury trial is set to begin.
Privacy Screening: White House Reviews "Big Data"
It's been nearly two years since the Obama Administration announced its Big Data Research and Development Initiative in March 2012, committing to improve the ways and means that the Federal government accesses, organizes and analyzes huge quantities of data. The initiative promised to develop and harness state-of-the-art technologies to accelerate and "transform our ability to use Big Data for scientific discovery, environmental and biomedical research, education, and national security." Now, after the maelstrom of the Snowden revelations, and the ensuing (and ever-brewing) debate about NSA surveillance policies, the White House has launched a new program to review how the public and private sectors are gathering and utilizing "big data," and the implications of such analysis when it comes up against privacy issues.President Obama announced in a January 17th speech that he had appointed his counselor, John Podesta, to spearhead this review. Less than a week later, Podesta posted an overview of his 90-day plan to tackle his daunting task: Audit current procedures, anticipate technological trends, and determine whether additional protections need to be implemented in order to balance the benefits of potential innovation and knowledge gleaned from massive consumer data–collection with the potential concerns that inevitably result from it, whether they are a matter of privacy, public policy, economy, or national security. As this may involve further government research, funding, and/or policy changes, Podesta's team will be collaborating with numerous industry experts, government officials, academic institutions, think tanks, civil liberties groups, and other organizations here and around the world to develop the most comprehensive and robust plan of action.
This initiative was introduced at the tail end of the President's outlining of numerous sweeping reforms to US intelligence programs, including the NSA. Considering the timing, some people question whether this program is a long-awaited Executive acknowledgment of the privacy risks of big data, or simply a ploy to distract the nation from the NSA controversy. Others welcome the attention and believe that, in addition to the anticipated improvement of consumer privacy, these expanded efforts to deal with big data will contribute to the creation of millions of IT jobs globally. Meanwhile, various groups have been petitioning to encourage the "meaningful public participation in the development of this important policy," insisting that the public "should be given the opportunity to contribute to the…review of 'Big Data and the Future of Privacy' since it is their information that is being collected and their privacy and their future that is at stake." With about 60 days remaining to Podesta's timeline, it will be interesting to see if and how this review will take into account the input of all stakeholders.
Biting the Hand That Fed You? Intellectual Ventures vs. Google, Part One
It was the first case that Intellectual Ventures (IV) had taken all the way to trial since the patent assertion entity's inception 14 years ago…and after a trial of nearly two weeks and only one day of jury deliberation, it was over without a resolution. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson declared a mistrial after jurors found that they could not agree unanimously on the first of three infringement cases that IV had brought against Google-owned Motorola Mobility on smartphone technology–related patents. At trial, Motorola argued that IV's patents are invalid, since the technology in question is a recognized standard in the industry and the plaintiffs were merely using their patent holdings to make "overbroad…claims meant to tax innovation" rather than actually create anything new. This latter argument has been the rallying cry of others in the technology industry, as well, who support Congress' efforts to reform the software patent application and litigation processes. Lamenting that it is often misunderstood, IV is sticking to its claim that it is not like those "patent trolls" targeted by such reforms, in that it does not bring frivolous lawsuits and is legitimately defending the high-quality patents it has conscientiously acquired. As such, IV strongly cautions against any drastic Congressional measures that it fears will weaken patent owners' rights.
IV has purchased tens of thousands of IP assets over time, funded both by its many out-of-court settlements and by the nearly $6 billion from investors believing in its business model. Ironically, Google itself was a financier of one of IV's early patent acquisition funds. While Google has seemingly lived to regret that decision, IV is hoping for a retrial on this case, and is looking forward to the next two trials against Motorola Mobility later this year.
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Can the Motor Voter Law Still Help Increase Turnout?
by staff, March 6th, 2015 6:02 AM EST
Stuart Naifeh has a lengthy post Democrats should find of interest up at Demos, "Driving the Vote: Are the States Complying with the Motor Voter Requirements of the National Voter Registration Act?" Naifeh opens with a snapshot of the current reality:
In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") with the goal of increasing voter participation in elections by requiring states to make voter registration more accessible. One of the key provisions of the NVRA, known as "Motor Voter," requires state motor vehicles departments ("DMVs") to incorporate voter registration into the driver's license application, renewal and change-of-address processes. Despite the popularity of this mode of voter registration, the "Motor Voter" provision is not performing up to its potential, and, in many states, implementation of the statute's requirements is severely wanting.
Naifeh says there are "radical variations among states in the numbers of motor vehicle department transactions that result in a voter registration application…Some states are generating voter registration applications from a large proportion of those who come into the DMV to obtain or update a driver's license or ID card while in others, the DMV registers only a tiny fraction of voters engaging in licensing or ID card transactions."
While many would say that the motor voter legislation has been a failure, judging by overall registration statistics in recent years, Naifeh believes the law still has great potential: "According to Demos' analysis, over 18 million additional voter registration applications could be submitted through DMVs in a two-year period if lower-performing states increased their performance to the level of states at the 75th percentile…"
Further, adds Naifeh, "the most successful states typically use technology solutions to further streamline the process, reduce errors, and ensure voters remain registered when they move." He devises complex metrics to evaluate the states' compliance with the motor voter law in light of the wiggle room states are allowed in their implementation policies and procedures.
He concludes that Michigan ("Robust Integration of Voter Registration") and Delaware ("Effective Use of Technology") lead the states in using the motor voter law effectively. The worst are California ("Separate Voter Registration Application Requiring Duplication") and Nevada ("No Integration, Duplication, and Confusing Forms"). In between, a broad range of states have plenty of room for improvement
Naifeh suggests a range of "model procedures" states can use to improve their compliance with motor voter legislation. He concludes,
Twenty years after the enactment of the NVRA, many states are failing to offer meaningful opportunities for individuals to register to vote during motor vehicles department transactions. To realize the NVRA's promise of "enhanc[ing] the participation of eligible citizens as voters," states must take seriously Section 5's mandate to make registering to vote an integral part of obtaining, renewing, or updating a driver's license or state identification card. The states that are most successfully implementing Motor Voter provide evidence that by adopting cost-effective, commonsense procedures and relying on existing technology and infrastructure, this goal is attainable…
It appears Naifeh has done the most serious research to date on how to make the NVRA live up to its considerable potential. If more Democratic leaders in the underperforming states will study and accept his challenge with the seriousness it deserves, the party — and the nation — would benefit significantly.


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1. David South Consulting | HEALTH For: Workshop on Innovations in Service Delivery and the Scope for South-South and Triangular Cooperation Dhaka, Bangladesh 9 - 11 December 2017 Why innovate?
2. What does innovation look like? Four types of innovation: Product innovation Process innovation Marketing innovation Organizational innovation (OECD: Oslo Manual) 300 plus tech hubs in Africa and rising (ventureburn) Available digital data increasing by 40 per cent every year (UN Global Pulse) 75% of digital projects fail and very few of the remaining 25% actually achieve or exceed their original goals (BBC). Information technology is just 10% of the solution (Frontline SMS) Meaning … you will need to apply all these forms of innovation to succeed.


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This Group comprises of NNN members with an interest in learning about and advocating for an increased use of integrated vector control in the global fight against NTDs.
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Oakland Urban Paths
November 20, 2015 Oakland by ruth
What's the largest group of people you've ever convinced to walk under a freeway with you? This month I led an Oakland Urban Paths walk of Oakland's estuary and Lake Merritt channel titled: Water and Change.
The interminably informed Gene Anderson, OUP organizer and soon-to-be author, wrote a great summary on the OUP blog.
Nearly 100 people (plus a record 8 dogs) turned out for the Oakland Urban Paths walk exploring the changes along the estuary and the Lake Merritt channel. Led by city planner and WOBO member Ruth Miller, we started in front of the historic Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon.
We began by viewing some historical maps of Oakland that help show just how much we've changed the shoreline of Oakland over the years. The 1857 map in particular shows clearly that Lake Merritt isn't a lake, but a tidal slough, and much of West Oakland is filled land. (You may also notice that much of Alameda is fill, and that it wasn't originally an island.)
Ruth told us some about Measure DD, a 2002 bond measure that has paid for numerous improvements around Lake Merritt and the estuary. Part of that is to improve the flow of water in and out of Lake Merritt. While the channel won't be as wide as it was in 1857, it is being widened and made more friendly to wildlife and people. We crossed over the channel on the bridge at Embarcadero. Like the other bridges across the channel, this one is slated for replacement, too. The new bridge will be wider and include bike lanes and proper sidewalks, and should provide better clearance for kayaks and other small boats.
Then we went in to the 5th Avenue Marina, a small community of artists in the middle of an otherwise industrial area. They'll be getting some neighbors in the form of the $1.5 billion Brooklyn Basin project, but not all of them are very happy about it. All around them will be shiny new buildings, a mixture of residential and retail, some as tall as 22 stories. The neighborhood will still exist, but how will it be changed?
We then walked up the channel a ways and over one of the pedestrian bridges back to the other side in the midst of the Laney College campus. Ruth told us about more of the Measure DD work, first mayor of Oakland Horace Carpentier and his 'bridge of sighs', and the pottery studio at Laney. From there we followed the channel to 7th Street. We were going to go under the street, next to the 7th Street pumping station, but ironically the walkway was too flooded. The pumping station was built in 1971 because of flooding around Lake Merritt in the 1960s. Now they mostly let the water flow in and out with the tide, but if a big storm is forecast during a high tide, they can bring down the lake level to make room, and even pump against the tide if they need to.
More meandering took us to Victory Court, near the Oakland Fire Department's training center. I told people about what had been there before. It's filled land, but before Laney College was there, it was Frank Youell Field, where the Oakland Raiders played from 1962 through 1965 while the Oakland Coliseum was built. (And did you know the Raiders were almost called the Oakland Señors? It was the winner of a naming contest, but fortunately didn't go through.) And before the football field was the Auditorium Village Housing Project, "temporary" housing built for some of the many people who came to work in the Bay Area shipyards during WWII. That's where Victory Court got its name. (The WWII housing project in West Oakland that someone asked about was the Harbor Homes Housing Project.)
The Oakland Urban Paths website has even more great photos.
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The People's Athletics
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Fiction causing friction: the real life people angry at biopic portrayals
The Ridley Scott film "House of Gucci" has been criticised by the remaining members of the Gucci family - Copyright Fabio Lovino/AP
By Tim Gallagher • Updated: 01/12/2021
Ridley Scott's hotly-anticipated biopic "House of Gucci" has premiered this week to mixed reviews, but no reviewer was more scathing than the Gucci family themselves.
The Guccis have issued a statement that criticises the portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani - portrayed by Lady Gaga - as a victim of a patriarchal business. In 1995 Reggiani hired a hitman to kill her husband Maurizio Gucci, played by Adam Driver.
"The film's production did not bother to consult the heirs before describing Aldo Gucci – president of the company for 30 years – and the members of the Gucci family as thugs who were ignorant and insensitive to the world around them, attributing entirely fabricated attitudes and conduct to the protagonists of the notorious events," the family said in a statement this week.
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The film will track the relationship of Gucci and Reggiani from romantic beginnings in the 1970s, through business dealings and divorce, to his highly publicised murder in the 1990s.
The Gucci's, who have not had a stake in the fashion label since 1993, say they may take legal action against Scott, who has been accused of "stealing the identity of a family to make a profit".
For his part, Scott claims that the Gucci family's actions - including murder and tax evasion - put them in the public domain.
But what happens when those who are in the public domain don't like how their stories are told?
A famous figure, grisly crime, or courtroom drama can make juicy material for any would-be filmmaker, but the results are not always favourable in the eyes of those who actually lived through events. Here we dive into some of those dissatisfied with their depictions.
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
The prolific Ryan Murphy has fictionalised everyone from OJ Simpson to Joan Crawford for the small screen, with some amazing results. However, when "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" was released the Versace family had a few choice words on his TV series depicting the murder of flamboyant fashion designer.
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Versace was murdered in 1997, aged just 50 by a man who was obsessed with the designer and bragged about a close friendship with him.
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The Versace family claimed they were not consulted in the making of the film, saying in a statement, "this TV series should only be considered as a work of fiction." This is despite reports that Penelope Cruz spoke with Donatella Versace, whom she portrayed in the limited series, prior to filming.
Versace's boyfriend Antonio D'Amico also condemned the way that actor and singer Ricky Martin portrayed his reaction to his partner's death.
"The picture of Ricky Martin holding the body [of Gianni] in his arms is ridiculous," he told The Observer in an interview.
"Maybe it's the director's poetic license, but that is not how I reacted."
Claimed to be Netflix's most expensive show, "The Crown'' is never short of material for real-life drama. From Prince Phillip's extramarital affair to the Aberfan disaster, "The Crown'' has laid bare the private and public trials and tribulations of Britain's most famous family.
Season four of the drama proved controversial as a darker side of the royals and their treatment of Princess Diana was shown to viewers around the world. A depiction that can surely only get worse as the writers turn their attention to Charles and Diana's divorce and the untimely demise of the so-called 'people's princess'.
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Despite bumper ratings on Netflix the series has received mixed reviews from the royals themselves, with many refusing to tune in at all. One whose opinion has been shared is Prince William who is said to dislike the portrayal of his mother and father.
A friend of his father Prince Charles said to the Daily Mail, "The Duke of Cambridge is none too pleased with it. He feels that both his parents are being exploited and being presented in a false, simplistic way to make money."
Julia Roberts charmed audiences and bagged herself an Oscar with her portrayal of the sassy, short-skirt-wearing crusader Erin Brockovich; the woman that tirelessly campaigned for the people of Hinkley who were being poisoned by chromium 6 leaking from a nearby gas transmission plant.
Roberts' performance as the tenacious but unconventional would-be lawyer's dogged determination for justice was a box office hit but didn't go down so well with the town's residents themselves.
Hinkley, which is a small town on the edge of California's Mojave desert, is still struggling with after effects of the pollution and the townspeople were reproving of the film's feelgood ending where all residents received a massive payout.
"The movie is mostly lies," one resident told the Guardian.
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"I wish the truth would come out, because a lot of us are upset. I understand that the movie is going to make Erin Brockovich and the attorneys out to be heroes. But where's our money?"
Many of the residents received tiny amounts of the $333 million dollars won in the lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric, of which 40% went to the law firm Brockovich worked for. As it was settled out of court, no public transcripts are available of the case and many victims are still in the dark as to the details.
The lawyer Brockovich works for in the film was inspired by real life attorney Tom Giradi. Giradi and his wife - Erika Jane, star of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills - are currently being pursued for damages by plain crash victims who claim to have been swindled by him. Maybe the people of Hinkley have a point.
"What happened, Miss Simone?" Maya Angelou famously wrote of the talented - and tortured - musician, Nina Simone. Well, you can find out what happened by watching the 2016 biopic, "Nina", which chartered the career of the famous blues singer as well as her battle with bipolar.
However, before the film was released for the viewing public it had already attracted controversy when the casting of Zoe Saldana was criticised by Nina Simone's family.
In March 2016 Zaldana, an actress of Dominican heritage who darkened her skin and wore a prosthetic nose for the role, tweeted out a photograph of herself as Simone with the accompanying message: "I'll tell you what freedom is to me - No Fear... I mean really, no fear."
However, Simone's Twitter account, run by her estate, responded: "Cool story but please take Nina's name out your mouth. For the rest of your life."
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They are said to be unhappy with the casting of a light-skinned actress and offended by the use of prosthetics, with Simone Kelly, Simone's daughter, saying to the New York Times: "My mother was raised at a time when she was told her nose was too wide, her skin was too dark. Appearance-wise this is not the best choice."
The unhappy family would have preferred Oscar-winner Viola Davis, or Nina Simone's own favourite, the EGOT (someone who has won all four Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards) Whoopi Goldberg.
Another Ryan Murphy creation that ticked off a star was "Feud: Bette and Joan". With the two eponymous anti-heroines, and most of the rest of those depicted, already dead, Murphy impressively managed to anger one of the few living people he'd fictionalised.
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"Gone With the Wind" star Olivia de Havilland filed a lawsuit against Murphy for his depiction of her, having not initially realising she was in the series at all. De Havilland, who was portrayed by actress Catherine Zeta Jones in the anthology series, claimed she was offended by her character's gossipy nature and foul mouth.
"No one from Fox had contacted me about this to ask my permission, to request my input, or to see how I felt about it. When I then learned that the Olivia de Havilland character called my sister Joan 'a bitch' and gossiped about Bette Davis and Joan Crawford's personal and private relationship, I was deeply offended," de Havilland wrote in an email to the New York Times.
De Havilland was famously estranged from her sister and fellow actor Joan Fontaine.
The lawsuit was ultimately unsuccessful, even after the litigious star took Murphy to the Supreme Court.
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2019, NR, 93 min. Directed by Joseph Cross. Starring Ellar Coltrane, Ian Nelson, Analeigh Tipton, Callan McAuliffe, Ella Hunt, Hayden Szeto, Bill Milner, Lana Condor, Elena Kampouris, Khris Davis, Melina Vidler, Victoria Justice, Justin Chatwin.
REVIEWED By Richard Whittaker, Fri., July 12, 2019
"If children are the future, we're fucked," says Seth (Nelson), bemoaning the state of the world in what would be monumental foreshadowing if the audience didn't already know that his girlfriend, grad student Mel (Tipton), is pregnant. Everyone's back home in their small Southern town, back from college, or still there and slacking through life, playing in the kinds of bands that might manage a support slot on a minor tour. Mel's life-changing text seems set to derail one more low-key-fun night in nowheresville for Seth, hanging out with his best friend Jameson (Coltrane), barhopping, seeing pals. But the night still happens, that classic cinematic night where people start to get their lives in order by shooting the shit and talking about nothing and everything.
Casting Richard Linklater's Boyhood star Coltrane isn't the only nod to the master of character-driven anti-structure's work. Summer Night is clearly in the vein of Dazed & Confused and Everybody Wants Some!!. Yet while Linklater determinedly builds period pieces locked to a certain time and place, Summer Fun could have been made at any time in the last 30 years – and that's oddly a strike against it. Considering the ongoing assault on reproductive rights and the torrent of abortion bans, having Mel's friends tell her that she doesn't have to make an immediate decision about her pregnancy seems almost quaint.
Jordan Jolliff's script has occasional sparks of insight about what it's like to be in your mid-20s and going nowhere right now – or, in the case of Jameson, willfully giving up on your options – but first-time feature director Joseph Cross wears his Linklater love too clearly on his sleeve. The opportunity for a contemporary Empire Records (the closest ancestor to this ensemble rom-com) gets lost in a flat structure that doesn't find any real life until the middle act. That's when all paths intersect as the friends hang out for a night at the local club, and Justin Chatwin (American Gothic) gets to shine as philosopher-king/bartender Andy. That's also when Coltrane and Victoria Justice (playing the good-hearted bad girl) really get to grips with those growing-up questions, while club ticket-taker Corin (Before I Fall and Sacred Lies' Kampouris) pines outside. But then, the club sequence really seems to be about showcasing some pretty good local bands, and music supervisor Rylan Soref does a great job assembling both a score and some on-set performances that really capture twentysomething small-town-bar mainstays. But like the repertoire of most bar bands, this all plays out like a cover – competently performed, but the original was better.
Galaxy Highland 10
6700 Middle Fiskville, 512/467-7305, www.galaxytheatres.com
No one under 18 will be allowed in the theatre on Friday or Saturday after 7pm without an adult.
Thu., July 18
CC 4:45, 7:30
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KEYWORDS FOR THIS FILM
Summer Night, Joseph Cross, Ellar Coltrane, Ian Nelson, Analeigh Tipton, Callan McAuliffe, Ella Hunt, Hayden Szeto, Bill Milner, Lana Condor, Elena Kampouris, Khris Davis, Melina Vidler, Victoria Justice, Justin Chatwin


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Q: Play framework with angular2 I'm working on personal learning project and I want to use angular2 with play framework but i've been facing some issues for more then a week now.
I've been trying to set up angular2 but i cannot make it to work.
I've tried to implement example from angular2 web page but it didn't work eihter.
Here is my working repository:https://github.com/viniolli/borrow-a-book
Basic requiremant are: scala 2.11.7, npm and gulp.
If you want me to paste certain files, please tell it(i gonna paste just more important ones).
If you have any advise, or external article, feel free to post it.
app/views/main.scala.html
@(title: String)(content: Html)

<!DOCTYPE html>

        <title>@title</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href='@routes.Assets.versioned("stylesheets/main.css")'>
        <link rel='stylesheet' media="screen" href='@routes.Assets.versioned("stylesheets/materialize.css")'>
        <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href='@routes.Assets.versioned("images/favicon.png")'>

        <my-app></my-app>
        @content

public/javascripts/app/components/first.ts
import {Component} from "angular2/core";
import {bootstrap} from "angular2/platform/browser";

@Component({
    selector: "my-app",
    template: "
My First Angular 2 App
"
})
export default class AppComponent { }

bootstrap(AppComponent);

package.json
{
  "dependencies": {
    "angular2": "2.0.0-beta.9",
    "del": "^2.2.0",
    "es6-promise": "^3.0.2",
    "es6-shim": "^0.35.0",
    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
    "gulp-typescript": "^2.12.1",
    "materialize-css": "0.97.5",
    "reflect-metadata": "0.1.2",
    "rxjs": "5.0.0-beta.2",
    "systemjs": "0.19.24",
    "zone.js": "0.5.15"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "concurrently": "^2.0.0",
    "lite-server": "^2.1.0",
    "typescript": "^1.8.7",
    "typings": "^0.7.5"
  }
}

gulpfile.js
const gulp = require('gulp');
const del = require('del');
const ts = require('gulp-typescript');
const tscConfig = require('./tsconfig.json');

// clean the contents of the distribution directory
gulp.task('clean', function () {
  return del('dist/**/*');
});

gulp.task('libs-js', function () {
    return gulp.src([
          "node_modules/angular2/bundles/angular2.dev.js",
          "node_modules/angular2/bundles/angular2-polyfills.min.js",
          "node_modules/angular2/core.js",
          "node_modules/angular2/platform/browser.js",
          "node_modules/traceur/bin/traceur-runtime.js",
          "node_modules/es6-module-loader/dist/es6-module-loader.js",
          "node_modules/systemjs/dist/system.js",
          "node_modules/es6-shim/es6-shim.js",
          "node_modules/rxjs/Rx.js",
          "node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js",
          "node_modules/materialize-css/dist/js/materialize.js",
          "node_modules/requirejs/require.js"
        ])
      .pipe(gulp.dest('public/javascripts/lib'));
});

gulp.task('libs-css', function(){
    return gulp.src([
        "node_modules/materialize-css/dist/css/materialize.css"
    ])
    .pipe(gulp.dest("public/stylesheets"));
});

conf.routes
GET     /                               controllers.Application.index
GET     /materialize                    controllers.Application.materializeDemo
GET     /registration.html              controllers.Application.registrationGet

GET     /assets/*file                   controllers.Assets.versioned(path="/public", file: Asset)

After starting an app I have some problems:
404 - loading http://localhost:9000/angular2/core
404 - loading http://localhost:9000/angular2/platform/browser
and Uncaught TypeError: System.register is not a function(Js console)

A: Looks like there are quite a few people, including me, looking into working with Angular2 + Play. Below links helped me get up and running.
Have a look at this template from Lightbend (formerly Typesafe) :
lightbend post, github
This is the heroes example app in the angular tutorial integrated with play framework : lightbend blog post, github

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Moon Knight is back in the Big Apple and looking to pick a fight with the man who chased him out of town in the first place: Norman Osborne. Freed of his demons and armed with an arsenal of incredible new weapons, Moon Knight is finally the hero he always aspired to be - taking out criminals with massive flair and throwing down the gauntlet to his old nemesis. Is Norman Osborne ready for Round Two?


For closely held entities, Urish Popeck tax consultants can assist with establishing a domestic corporation that elects to be treated as an Interest Charge Domestic International Sales Corporation (IC-DISC), and, as such, is not subject to federal income tax. If domiciled correctly, the entity will not be subject to state income tax as well.
Here is an example of how the tax benefit is realized in the IC-DISC structure. A US Manufacturing Company (USCO) calculates an annual "commission" payable to the IC-DISC for export-related services. USCO claims commission as an ordinary deduction (at 35% if USCO is a C Corporation). IC-DISC commission is not subject to income tax. The immediate benefit is derived by the distribution of the IC-DISC income to the shareholders as a dividend. Under current law, dividends are subject to a 15% rate at the individual shareholder level. USCO must have the IC-DISC in place at the time of the export sale in order to allocate a portion of the net income, in the form of a commission, to the IC-DISC.


کوکوی مارچوبه (Asparagus kookoo) recipe came about as a result of a recent trip to my local vegetable market where I noticed bundles of fresh green asparagus neatly tied and arranged on the shelves. I enjoy the taste of fresh asparagus either steamed or grilled plain with just a little bit of coarse salt. However, as I reached to pick a bundle up, it dawned on me that I had never cooked a Persian-style asparagus meal and among seemingly endless options I have decided to make a new version of kookoo/kuku incorporating asparagus.
Growing up in Iran, I remember hearing my mother talk about marchoobeh (asparagus) but I don't remember eating or even seeing any asparagus back then. Perhaps asparagus wasn't very popular or vastly cultivated and therefore it was not available among the wide range of vegetables then.
To enjoy the in-season asparagus I have combined fresh herbs, chopped walnuts and barberries with eggs and I'm very happy with the results. For this recipe, I have added a touch of cayenne and cumin to bring just the right amount of flavor to the egg and asparagus combination. I must point out though that the traditional kookoo/kuku sabzi, like most dishes in the Persian cuisine, is not spicy at all. I also did not chop the vegetables as finely as I normally would for the traditional kookoo. For those unable to find barberries you can substitute it with dried cranberries instead.
Heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the asparagus pieces lightly for about 5 minutes. Sprinkle a bit of salt over the asparagus.
In the meantime, combine the chopped herbs, walnuts, barberries and the spices together in a large mixing bowl.
In a medium-size bowl, beat the eggs until yolks and whites are completely blended. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Pour the egg over the herbs and walnut mixture in the large bowl and blend well.
Add the egg and herb mixture over the sauteed asparagus in the skillet. With a spatula flatten the surface of the kookoo. As eggs start to set take the spatula and run it around the edges and make four large wedges or eight small ones in the skillet. Cover and cook for 25-30 minutes on medium-low heat.
To serve, cut the kookoo into small wedges and place onto a platter. May be served hot or at room temperature with yogurt, salad shirazi, torshi and bread.
گزلمه (gozlemeh/gozleme) is a regional dish of استان آذربایجان غربی (West Azerbaijan province) served throughout the capital city of ارومیه (Orumieyeh/Urmia). Gozlemeh is just a perfect recipe for a spring brunch or a light summer lunch. I came across this simple and healthy recipe long ago while going through an old Iranian cooking manual. However, I was a bit hesitant about making a dish I had never had before and had never even heard of. In Iran, each region has its own unique food that the people from other provinces may not be familiar with. Finally, a few days ago I decided to give this recipe a try for the first time. I ended up making it again the next day and it tasted even better. As I prepared this warm and creamy yogurt dish topped with exquisite fried eggs and a touch of turmeric (my fave spice) and served it over toasted flat bread, it made me feel as though I had traveled to Western Azerbaijan and was eating a delicious gozlemeh in someone's home in Orumieyeh!
When making a new recipe I am most comfortable if I at least had a chance to taste it once before to know exactly what the meal should taste like and what flavors to expect. However, that doesn't stop me from trying out new recipes. Occasionally, my daughters bring different recipes home that they would like to try and we make it together. Now that they know how to cook for themselves, I get to be the taste tester and I watch them hone their cooking skills. That's how I learned to cook at a young age by watching my mother cook and also by helping out in the kitchen too. One time, when I was eleven years old my mother told me to take the raw chicken out of the fridge and cook it for lunch as she was heading out the door in a hurry and did not leave any instructions. It is challenging moments such as this that propels one to figure things out on one's own and learn things faster. Cooking, like most things in life, takes practice before you feel confident that you can create a delicious healthy meal with whatever you have in your pantry/refrigerator with or without a recipe.
My advice to novice cooks is to familiarize yourselves with the ingredients that you are going to use, learn about different methods of cooking, always go for fresh and good quality ingredients if available, read the recipe a few times before starting to cook and have all the necessary kitchen tools and gadgets ready to go. And if you are like me, cleaning and washing as you cook, place a mat between the sink and the counter or wear a pair of non-skid shoes! Put your apron on, take charge and make the recipe your own by substituting what you don't have and adjusting the amount of sugar, fat and the level of spiciness to your liking and your dietary restrictions while staying true to the recipe.
I have made some changes to the original recipe. I also added a pinch of turmeric to the oil in the skillet before frying two of the eggs (a personal preference). This recipe doesn't take long to make. You may want to set the table and have the drinks, bread and condiments ready before you start cooking.
Place the garlic clove with a pinch of salt in the mortar and pestle and finely crush.
Add a tablespoon of water to the strained yogurt, stir well to loosen it up a little.
Add the crushed garlic to the yogurt. Mix thoroughly.
Heat a a tablespoon of butter in a medium-sized skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic yogurt mixture, heat thoroughly for a few minutes, remove from heat before it starts to boil.
Spread the yogurt mixture generously on each of the toasted flat-breads separately.
Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil or butter in a frying pan, add a pinch of turmeric, swirl around the pan a couple of times. Add the eggs to the hot frying pan, cook until the white is set, season with salt and pepper to taste. Use a spatula to remove the eggs from the pan.
Place them on the bread with the yogurt mixture and serve warm.