I have been wrestling with the question of when it might be reasonable to say good bye to Governor LePage. There is a long history in American government and politics of voters and other politicians stopping their concern about what a national or state Chief Executive may say or do when they cannot be re-elected to their current Executive office. Lame duck Presidents and lame duck Governors have become a cliche. The issue is one of timing.
I am tired of Governor LePage's inability to actually govern. Tired of being afraid that when I open a news website or read the paper I will be yet once again confronted with some remarkably embarrassing statement by the Governor of the State of Maine. Tired of Governor LePage picking yet another stupid fight with the Legislature or even with his own appointees to state government positions. So tired of listening to him rage and whine that no one else in the State but Paul LePage gets anything right about the issues we confront.
Is it time for everyone to simply stop paying any attention to the Governor? Why not? About the only thing that he has consistently said for six years for which he deserves credit is that spousal abuse should not be tolerated. After that, he has said and done little or nothing of any substance and the state has managed to teeter along without him. On occasion, he has brought the processes of state government to a halt by refusing to sign some obscure document in furtherance of some personal policy belief that the clear majority of Maine people support, but there is nothing that the electorate or the Legislature can do about it, so ignoring him now would not change that.
Periodically, the Governor, and at his direction his Department heads, stop talking to the Legislature anyway. Legislative leaders could just stop trying to read tea leaves from his radio talk show ramblings or asking what he thinks about a particular piece of legislation. If he has something he would like to say he could have someone write a memo for him to send them. His Department heads could communicate with the Legislature as they have on numerous occasions over the last six years, despite Gubernatorial edicts to the contrary, by back channels and memos. This is not a desirable method of communication in a democracy but it helps keep the store open. The Legislature can enact bills and budgets, and vote his vetoes up or down, and those bills he does not veto or sign become law. And, if he wants to sign a particular piece of legislation into law, more power to him.
The point here is that despite all the noise he has made and anger he has generated, Paul LePage is a cipher as a Governor. In now going on seven years there are no substantive changes in Maine or in Maine state government that have been the result of initiatives put in place by Paul LePage. He has nibbled on the edges of a few activities which he has targeted, such as food stamps and health care coverage and caused no little pain for many in doing so, but the basic thrust and form of those programs has not changed. He has ranted about electric costs but has neither put forth a organized plan to address electric costs or even taken up the cause for a major north south high voltage and high volume transmission line from the County down to southern Maine to move Canadian power into all of Maine. He might not yet have achieved the status among Maine Governors as James Buchanan has as the most useless of American Presidents, but he is pretty close.
I say, lets just say good-bye to Paul LePage. From now until his legal departure in December of 2018, we can just ignore him. He had his chance as a two term Governor to achieve some good things for Maine. He has failed. Lets just put him on the shelf now and hope that a better Chief Executive for Maine is the result of the 2018 Gubernatorial election.
Good bye Paul. Best of luck.
My professional career has been involved in bringing to Maine the financial capital to build our infrastructure of housing, schools, roads, hospitals, colleges, water and sewer districts. As Executive Director of four independent state authorities charged with putting together public financing for hundreds of infrastructure projects I was responsible for bringing billions of dollar into the Maine economy.


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2018's top five digital marketing trends
It's been a busy year in digital, and this time, the gauntlet has been passed to me to share Fresh Egg's 2018 digital predictions.
A look back at our 2017 blog at the beginning of last year saw great leaps in customer experience optimisation, personalisation and big data integration, amongst other trends. And 2017 has not let us down.
We've seen huge developments in live streaming, progressive mobile technology and virtual assistants. The Internet of Things is all-encompassing, and showing no sign of slowing down.
So let's look at what's in store for 2018:
1. The bitcoin boom
We think 2018 will be the year that cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions really take off – led by the world's first digital currency, bitcoin. This new way of banking was first developed in 2009 and has seen huge surges in activity and market value this past year, with bitcoin price increasing by more than a thousand percent.
In case you didn't know, cryptocurrency is a peer-to-peer digital currency, operating online only. With no central governance, with varying support from major banks, it's not actually classed as an official currency – yet more and more people are using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for online transactions.
As of 2017 there are a reported 2.9 to 5.8million users of cryptocurrencies, a large proportion of them using bitcoin. The increased use has generated mainstream media interest as more big businesses start to adopt alternative currencies as ways of making payment.
October 2017 saw the first property available to buy in Bitcoin – with the £18 million London mansion's owners hoping to 'shift perceptions on cryptocurrency and pioneer bitcoin deals across Britain'.
And in December 2017 commercial radio station Absolute Radio offered one bitcoin as a competition prize, further cementing its presence in mainstream consciousness.
With backing from Microsoft, Samsung, Expedia and global Internet payment systems like Stripe, the bitcoin revolution is just getting started.
From a marketing point of view, adopting bitcoin payment on your site showcases your business as forward-thinking, innovative and all-embracing of new technology. You'll lead the curve, open your business up to a new audience, and be at the forefront of an exciting new currency revolution.
But it's not all plain sailing, with apparent huge energy implications to power bitcoin's 'production', and volatile fluctuations in value (from up 44% or down 25% against the dollar). Newer cryptocurrencies are beginning to solve this problem with more efficient mining processes.
Video game platform Steam last month stopped accepting bitcoin as a payment method because of exactly this, with in-game transactions causing headaches in terms of refunds and gamers having to repurchase in line with its changing value.
Whatever happens over the next year, we're interested to see how businesses and consumers will adopt alternative currency in 2018, and who will get bitcoin ready.
2. Visual Search to take over voice
Voice search has already made waves in 2017 but we're looking to the real transformation to take user experience (UX) to the next level – visual search.
I spoke to Head of SEO Steve Teece to get his thoughts:
"It's an exciting and transformational time for search. In 2017, we've seen major tech companies such as Pintrest, Ebay, Amazon, Google and Bing rollout visual search. Through advancements in machine learning, companies are now able to allow users to move away from traditional text-based searching and use their camera to discover information about what's around them.
Similar to voice search in 2015-2016, as more devices and apps adopt visual search throughout 2018, we'll see a significant shift in users using this type of search. Visual search offers advantages over text and voice search, especially when trying to search for items that are hard to describe or when users want answers quickly about places or products they can see in front of them. Gone are the days of typing and refining search queries – the point and search age is here."
The new Pixel phone can look up artwork, places, films and products – simply by pointing your camera at them. The visual search engine will pull up the relevant information alongside the image (all within the camera), giving you everything you need in one tap of the thumb – without ever having to leave the app.
That's not all it does, either. If you scan over a URL, email address or other piece of contact information, Lens will automatically prompt you to send that person an email, visit the site or call that number.
Nice. And. Easy.
Minimal effort from the user met with fast intuition and just downright cleverness from Google HQ. It's a UX dream, and it's coming to a phone near you in 2018.
3. AI / machine learning – an open door to digital transformation
The dawn of machine learning is upon us, and 2018 will be its year, with artificial intelligence at the heart of a new level of digital transformation.
As the world's tech giants start to unlock the door to the AI revolution, intelligent technology will continue to empower us in increasingly infinite ways – or in Microsoft's own words – to 'see more, do more, and be more'. The organisation's new mission statement, to 'amplify human ingenuity with intelligent technology' illustrates this exciting shift in deep learning and automation, and the giants of tech are following suit.
The boom in AI tools and technologies is here, and it's open to everyone.
Head of Design and Development Stephen Carpenter told me more:
"It's clear that 2018 will be a big year for AI – one that takes digital marketing to a new level, with truly customised experiences for consumers, optimised and more efficient processes for brands, and exciting new product innovations afoot. AI brings technology that recognises what it is to be human. It understands our motivations, anticipates our needs, and meets them before we even realise they need meeting.
"It also enables the use and interpretation of big data to see into the future with qualification, making better business decisions formed on fact, not fiction – this is predictive modelling at its finest."
A great example of this new intelligent predictive modelling at work can be seen with cruise line Carnival's use of Microsoft's Azure AI and data platform. The company used real-time data analysis to accurately predict water usage onboard ships – saving $5.2m in water storage and production.
From sophisticated predictive modelling to facial, speech recognition and language / linguistic analysis, AI is humanising technology with life changing capabilities for consumers.
Like the Seeing AI, an intelligent camera app from Microsoft that turns the visual world into an audible experience.
Users can hold the phone up against text, products, scenes, documents or currency for a description of what it is. The app can read text in real time as soon as it appears in front of the camera, and can even recognise friends and describes people around you, including their emotions.
The app, also prototyped but yet to be released in smart glasses, is breaking down barriers to solve real-life problems and was developed by Microsoft software engineer Saqib Shaikh who lost his sight when he was seven years old.
Seeing AI is one of the five intelligent APIs from Microsoft, the first of many transformational pieces of technology with the power to change and enhance the lives of many, in this case those who are blind or visually impaired.
The vision, speech, language, knowledge and search APIs open Microsoft's big thinking to the masses, making AI development accessible for many brands and agencies by adding just simple lines of code instead of building whole solutions.
For developers, it means access to the big Microsoft brain – a product they're calling Cognitive Services, fulfilling the company's mission to 'empower every person and every organisation to do more' via agency integrations and open APIs.
It's an exciting time for AI, opening a world that was previously hard to tap into. A world where personalisation, intelligent automation and sophisticated machine learning is the norm.
We're already starting to explore this new world at Fresh Egg and are excited to help our clients accelerate their digital transformations.
4. Progressive web apps to take over
We're gearing up for a big year for progressive web apps (PWAs).
Google last month removed Chrome apps from the Web Store to replace them with PWAs. Chrome apps will no longer be available on Linux Mac and Windows, as the search engine works to bring PWAs to desktop in mid-2018.
Senior Front End Developer Ashley Hitchcock has long been a champion of PWAs:
"PWAs use service worker scripts to offer native app-like experiences to users via the web. With Chrome supporting service workers, Windows Insider build enabling them by default in Microsoft Edge, and Webki actively developing them (currently supported in Preview), it's never been a better time to venture into progressive web apps for brands. The opportunities to make the customer experience more seamless optimisation of the customer experience are endless."
They're faster, more responsive, and offer a seamless, sophisticated and intuitive way for users to interact with your site.
They use less data than native apps, use caching for faster loading times, and can be live on the homescreen, with push notifications enabled. There's no need to download from an app store, and they update dynamically with background sync enabled.
It's mobile UX 2.0, and it's already here to stay.
5. VR - a new frontier for marketing
Although virtual reality (VR) is nothing new, the opportunities it presents for brands to market themselves is. VR technology has come on leaps and bounds in 2017, with a reported 43million people actively using it on some level. That figure is expected to quadruple into this year.
Facebook has already set the tone for VR and digital marketing in its purchase of the largest VR company Oculus Rift, with 360 video and photo quickly becoming a mainstay in our timelines.
From 'simple' 3D ad creatives that require glasses to view, through to simulative experiences, like Excerdrin's VR experience to show what a migraine feels like, the opportunities to enhance customer experience are endless.
Duncan Copeland, Fresh Egg Account Director, told me more:
"With VR the traditional brand story is transformed into a completely immersive experience, where every sense is engaged, and the user is able to feel the experience rather than just interact with it.
With more and more users adopting VR as the norm, this presents a real opportunity for our clients and brands across a wide variety of sectors. Viewing your dream home or taking a look around your ideal car without leaving the comfort of your sofa is now a reality."
We think 2018 will be a new frontier for digital customer experience in an infinite number of ways, not least these five areas we've mentioned in this blog. What digital trends do you think will be big this year?
If you'd like help transforming your challenges into digital success, do get in touch!

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It never fails — when you add more power to a vehicle, you'll find the weak link sooner or later. When you bolt on a set of sticky tires, this problem compounds. It could be the transmission, driveshaft, or a variety of other components that will fail and could leave you a little short on raceday. But, when your rearend has finally had enough, Moser Engineering has a bolt-in solution that will fit your needs.
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We had booked a rental car from Myles. When we reached the car pick up point, we were told that the vehicle allotted to us had met with an accident and they could not provide us with a vehicle. This was a real bummer. We really insisted on a replacement car and after an hour of haggling, they told us that they could provide us with a car – a Maruti Suzuki Swift. We readily agreed as we didn't have other real options. However, as we were loading the luggage in the car's boot, I suddenly became aware of the fact that my wallet was missing! The wallet contained my ID proofs, and my credit and debit cards. After searching for it at all possible locations, I could have dropped it, I called the Uber driver who had dropped me to the Myles pick up centre that morning. It had already been 2 hours since he had dropped me. Luckily he answered the call and told me was completing a trip. After completing the trip he would check the car and call me. After an agonizing wait of around 30 minutes, my phone rang and he confirmed that I had indeed left my wallet in his car. The good thing was he was going to come and give me my wallet.
While this was playing out, my friends decided to have the car fueled at a nearby petrol pump. They had only gone a short distance, when the two front tyres of the car went flat. Fortunately, there was a CEAT tyre shop nearby and they got the tyres fixed there. Between, having the car fixed and fueled and Santhosh coming to return my wallet, we had already lost around 4 hours.
At around 11:30 am our roadtrip began in right earnest. Getting out of Bangalore proved to be quite a task. The city seems to be in a perpetual traffic jam! However, once we were outside the city our spirits recovered. Friendly banter and beautiful landscape replaced gloom and the chaotic traffic.
After driving for almost 3 hours, we stopped for some food and immediately resumed our journey. We had to be make up for the lost time. The highway is mostly excellent and the landscape is lined by beautiful palm trees and beautiful lakes. There is a brief ghat section on the highway and one can encounter streams of all sizes, from brooks to rivers, along the way. It was breathtakingly beautiful. However, since we were short on time, we didn't stop to admire the beauty.
By the time we reached Udupi, the party had already begun. And we joined in. The next morning our friend got married. After having a sumptuous breakfast, we set out to explore the surroundings. The countryside around Udupi is really beautiful. Backwaters line the coast and greenery pervades every frame one would capture.
We set out to explore the extremely beautiful Kapu beach in the vicinity. The beach wasn't crowded and was extremely clean. The sky was ominously dark. The ocean seemed a little angry. The backwaters and their surrounding greenery made for an interesting contrast. A quaint lighthouse completed the already near perfect picture.
And the backwaters – both views from the same spot!
After spending sometime at the beach, we returned to our hotel and left for Bangalore. We started around 5 pm and reached Bangalore around 3 am. The drive in the dark, with close buddies, soft music and heart to heart conversations had a certain nostalgic value. Some conversations are like balm to the soul. They have a certain reassuring quality. That's the note we ended our brief but extremely eventful road trip.
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The Mars Science Laboratory — also known as MSL, or Curiosity — is the most sophisticated Martian vehicle that NASA has ever built. And it's set to launch for the Red Planet tomorrow.
The rover's primary objective is to assess whether Mars is, or ever was, capable of sustaining life. Weighing in at almost 2000 pounds, the MSL is more massive than the agency's last three Mars rovers put together, making it large enough to haul around some of the most technologically advanced equipment humans have ever put into space. Let's take a peek under the hood of the rover that could soon redefine the way we think about life in our solar system and beyond.
How is the Mars Science Laboratory getting to the Red Planet?
Before Curiosity can get to work exploring the surface of Mars, it must first embark on a more than 8-month trip, starting from right here on Earth. But getting to the Red Planet is no mean task. Curiosity is scheduled to launch not three weeks after Russia failed its fourth consecutive Mars mission; getting to low-Earth orbit is challenging enough — setting a course for deep space introduces an entirely new level of difficulty.
This photo, taken earlier today, shows Curiosity atop the Atlas V rocket that will be used to help the rover escape the gravitational pull of the planet, lifting it out of Earth's atmosphere and into interplanetary transfer orbit. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have likened the rover's trip from Earth to Mars to a quarterback leading a wide-receiver on a hail-mary pass — only the "football" will be soaring through 354 million miles of interplanetary space, and will be entering Mars' atmosphere at around 13,000 miles per hour.
Fortunately, unlike a football, the rover will also be guided by thrusters that will help ensure it's where it needs to be when it breaks Mars atmo. Once it does, however, NASA will be faced with the challenge of setting the rover down safely on the planet's surface. Landing the Mars Science Laboratory presents a uniquely difficult problem for NASA engineers; previous rovers have been small enough to make planetfall encased in inflatable airbags — Curiosity, by comparison, is simply too large for this landing method.
Instead, the two-ton Mars Science Laboratory will be lowered with cables to the Red Planet's surface from a hovering, rocket-powered sky crane. Check the video on the left to see NASA's animation of Curiosity breaking Mars' atmosphere and making touchdown. See the low framerate imagery depicted starting at around 2:41? That's the kind of footage NASA hopes to acquire from MARDI (short for "Mars Descent Imager"), a small camera that will record the rover's descent to the Martian surface, and help the MSL team decide where Curiosity should set out to first upon landing. If the touchdown is successful — and NASA engineers are confident that it will be — it will be the first precision landing ever performed on Mars.
Unlike its two most recent rover predecessors — Spirit and Opportunity — Curiosity is powered not by sunlight, but by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Translation? Curiosity is fueled by a ten-pound supply of radioactive plutonium. As the plutonium decays, it produces heat that is transformed by devices known as thermocouplers into around 110 watts of electricity. Once on the surface, this power will allow the six-wheel-drive Curiosity to turn in place, overcome obstacles up to 20 inches tall, traverse the Martian terrain at speeds of up to 300 feet per hour, and operate a suite of scientific instruments.
The core of Curiosity's scientific payload is named Sample Analysis at Mars, or "SAM" for short. SAM comprises a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph, and laser spectrometer, which will be used collectively to search for elements in Mars' terrain and atmosphere that are associated with life here on Earth, including carbon-containing organic compounds, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Supplementing analyses conducted by SAM will be an X-Ray diffraction and fluorescence instrument called CheMin (short for Chemistry and Mineralogy), designed to identify the minerals in Martian rocks and soils; the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS), used to determine the relative amounts of elements in Mars' terrain; and the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a focusable camera capable of capturing color images of subjects as tiny as 12.5 microns across — that's thinner than the width of a human hair.
SAM, CheMin, APXS and MAHLI will all rely on a five-jointed, seven-foot-long robotic arm — pictured here — to conduct their analyses. However, many of the surfaces Curiosity encounters will likely lie beyond the rover's reach; and while curiosity's arm is equipped with a drill, it will only be capable of boring a few inches into any rocks it encounters.
To ensure that it will be able to analyze these hard-to-reach samples, NASA has equipped Curiosity with an active/passive neutron spectrometer — called the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (or DAN for short) — and the ever-impressive ChemCam.
DAN is situated near the back of Curiosity's main body, and is designed to help the rover search for ice and water beneath Mars' surface. By firing beams of neutrons into the ground and timing the speed at which they return, DAN should be capable of detecting the presence of water up to two meters beneath the planet's surface.
Likewise, ChemCam uses laser pulses to vaporize thin layers of Mars' surface, and is capable of targeting soil and rocks from up to seven meters away. A spectrometer (used to identify the atoms that are vaporized by ChemCam's laser pulses) and a telescope (which will capture detailed images of material targeted by the beam) are situated atop the rover's mast, a position it shares with the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) and the Mast Camera (MastCam). The former will serve as Curiosity's Martian weather station, while the latter is the rover's primary imaging tool. MastCam is designed to not only capture high-definition photo and video of the Martian landscape, it will also help the MSL team here on Earth identify points of interest on the Martian surface, and aid them in maneuvering the rover safely over the planet's landscape.
Which brings us to the last item in Curiosity extensive scientific payload. The rover's Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) will allow the MSL team to characterize the radiation environment at the planet's surface. NASA expects the data collected from the RAD to play a critical role in planning for future human exploration of the red planet, and determining the hazard posed by radiation to life, past and present, at and beneath the planet's surface.
To call Curiosity a step forward in humanity's exploration of Mars would be a massive understatement. For as much as we've learned from the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in the last eight years, and for as attached to them as we have become, the scientific payload that Curiosity is packing has the potential to completely redefine, in a way no previous space mission ever could, the way we view ourselves — as a planet, as a species, and as a space-faring people.
Curiosity is scheduled to launch tomorrow — Saturday, November 26 — at 10:02 Eastern (US) time (15:02 UTC). You can watch the launch live at NASA TV, or the NASA/JPL UStream channel.


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UAE bars outspoken NYU professor
17 Mar 2015 | 16:17 GMT | Posted by Mohammed Yahia | Category: Education, Policy
Students and faculty moved into the new permanent campus on Saadiyat Island in 2014
A professor from New York University has been barred from travelling to the United Arab Emirates for his outspoken remarks against the country's labour laws for migrant workers.
According to The New York Times, Andrew Ross, a professor at New York University specialised in teaching about labour issues, was in the airport on his way to spend his spring break at New York University Abu Dhabi conducting research into labour issues of migrant workers. He was stopped there and informed he is not allowed into the Gulf state.
New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is a satellite campus of the university in New York, which also has another similar campus in Shanghai, China. NYUAD has just recently moved into its new campus on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, a luxurious project that will also house offshoot branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums.
Ross has in the past been openly critical of the Emirates' treatment of migrant workers, including those that worked on building New York University Abu Dhabi's sprawling new campus in one of the most expensive areas of the emirate.
The UAE authorities have said Ross was not allowed to enter the country for security reasons. However, he suspects it is because of the stance he has taken against the country's labour laws – sparking debates on academic freedom in offshore campuses of Western universities.
In an email sent to The Times, NYU spokesman John Beckman said that NYU faculty and students have had "zero infringements" on academic freedom and were allowed to travel freely between the campuses. But, he adds that "regardless of where NYU or any other university operates, it is the government that controls visa and immigration policy, and not the university."
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Jo Anne Murphy, 72, died Wednesday, March 6, 2019.
She was born July 16, 1946, in Las Vegas to George Washington Murphy Sr. and Mary Alice Murphy. She spent most of her life growing up in Russell where she quickly began building a life as a global citizen that would take her thousands of miles away from her hometown.
She excelled in her academic achievements. She was a 1964 graduate of Russell High School and was valedictorian. In 1968, she graduated with a degree in history and bachelor of arts with distinction from Fort Hays State College. She was salutatorian and she earned both a master's and a doctorate degree in international relations from the The Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her keen intellect took her on many journeys in exploring life and spirituality, in working with both local and international humanitarian organizations focused on improving the lives of the people in the world who had little access to resources to meet their basic human needs and finally in academia where she led the recognition of a university initiative by the United Nations.
She enjoyed exploring and being part of different cultures of the world and she spent over 20 years living in Senegal, West Africa, a country that helped to shape her views as an adult.
Her greatest joy in life was in bringing diverse people together to have a shared experience in creating a positive future for all.
Survivors include two sons, Maham Aliou Ba and Mansour Madior Niang; two daughters, N'Deye Rosalie "Lee" Niang and Elizabeth "Lis" Owuor; three brothers, Edward, Frederick and George Murphy; three sisters, Teresa Thompson, Kimberly Unokwah, and Barbara Murphy-Warrington two grandchildren, Chelsea Shenette Duncan and Matteo Aliou Ba; and a host of nieces, nephews, adopted children and friends.
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(5 February 2019 – China) Up to one million American jobs are at risk due to the effects of the escalating trade war and Chinese economic growth could stall further from its slowest pace in almost 30 years according to a new study by Trade Partnership Worldwide.
The research forecasts over two million American jobs could be at risk should US President Donald Trump push ahead with his threat of a 25 percent tariff on all Chinese exports.
China said Vice Premier Liu He will join US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in high-level trade talks between the two countries this week. The two trade teams will discuss issues of common concern as they build on talks that took place in Washington in January. This round of talks is of particular significance as US President Donald Trump has said he's unlikely to meet President Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline to avert higher American tariffs on Chinese goods. It may be set to reveal how complacent traders have been about the trade dispute just as the rally in emerging markets loses steam.
Currently US$250 billion of Chinese exports to the United States are subject to tariffs of between 10 to 25 percent, but the number of goods on the higher tariff range will increase after 1 March if US and Chinese negotiators do not reach a deal. Beijing is rushing through reform of foreign investment, which would offer greater protections to foreign companies in China, in areas including intellectual property and profits, at "unprecedented" speed.


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Tahir plays the tembur, an Anatolian three-stringed instrument from eastern Turkey. He is accompanied by Cigdem on frame drums. Together they will perform traditional and original compositions inspired by this mystical music culture.
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Please use the following procedure to reschedule games. Keep in mind that CCYB gives back unused gym time to our schools to keep program costs down, so we have limited flexibility.
Rescheduling the TIME of a game is much easier than rescheduling a DATE, as gym space is at a premium in mose towns.
Regardless of whether you need to reschedule a Home or Away game, please update the Google Form here. This will allow us to know who is requesting what changes.
Review the schedule for the team you will be playing on the MetroWest web site (Schedules tab), and determine several options for play dates that work for both teams. If you are requesting the change, you may need to play two games on the same day rather than trying to find a day in which both teams are available. You may also opt to use one of your practice slots for a game.
Once you come up with a couple of options, contact the CCYB Scheduler using the Google Form above to determine which gyms are available. You can also review the Master Schedule to determine if there are any open slots at a given facility.
Once you know available gym time, navigate to the Contacts tab on the Metrowest site to determine the e-mail address of the coach(es) for the opposing team, along with the coordinator(s) for the town. E-mail them with your proposed request.
Once agreed to, make sure the CCYB Scheduler changes the game in the Metrowest site (it will appear in Orange as a rescheduled game). You will need to make the change in the CCYB site.
Review the schedule for the team you will be playing on the MetroWest web site, and determine several options for play dates.
Contact the opposing team's coach and coordinator using the Contacts tab on the CCYB site.
Once agreed to, make sure the Metrowest site has been updated by the opposing town, and make sure you make the change on the CCYB site.


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Q: sed not behaving properly w/ capture group; can't see what's wrong Sorry to have to post this as it seems rather basic, but I can't tell why the heck it's not working:
sed -r -i.bak 's/-- Database: (.*?)\n/CREATE DATABASE \1\n/g' file.sql

The file contains a line that looks like this:
-- Database: `omptest`

and doing the exact same thing as a find/replace in sublime works fine:
Find: -- Database: (.*?)\n
Replace with: CREATE DATABASE \1\n

sed doesn't seem to like the \1 unless I either escape the parentheses surrounding the capture group or use -r for expanded regex -- otherwise it throws sed: -e expression #1, char 53: invalid reference \1 on `s' command's RHS.
Regardless, when I use the -r or escape the parentheses, it doesn't edit the file, as though it hasn't worked. I have no idea why.
I think I'm either forgetting or just now discovering some weird property of sed regex but I can't for the life of me figure out what the issue might be. Help appreciated!

A: sed works on a line-based basis and doesn't see the newlines in a file (unless you do special things). Use
#                                 vvv----------------vvv--- no newlines
sed -r -i.bak 's/-- Database: (.*?)/CREATE DATABASE \1/g' file.sql

Addendum: Three more things to note, perhaps:

*

*.*? does exactly the same as .* in sed. The former can be used for non-greedy matching in some other regex engines but not in sed. The ? does not do any harm, but it doesn't do anything at all either.

*Since the regex matches greedily to the end of the line, the /g flag doesn't have any impact. There's never going to be a second match because the first extends to the end of the line.

*Since the capture group is put right back where it was found, it doesn't really need to be captured it in the first place.

From the first two observations, we might arrive at a simplified version of the original script:
sed -r -i.bak 's/-- Database: (.*)/CREATE DATABASE \1/' file.sql

...and because of the third, we could ditch those changes again and just use
sed -i.bak 's/-- Database: /CREATE DATABASE /' file.sql

instead.

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We'll do whatever it takes to make it right. Kachori are small, crispy doughnut-like pastries made with whole wheat and chickpea flours. Spicy kachori are common as snacks and side dishes in South Asian cuisine.
It combines local chiles with the enticing flavors of spices like peppercorn, cinnamon, and fenugreek. Cook pork, chicken, prawns, potatoes, beans, and other foods with this flavorful vindaloo sauce.
We'll do whatever it takes to make it right. Indian mango pickles are a hot and sour way of pickling mangoes that make a delicious side dish or chutney ingredient. Enjoy these spicy and bitter pickles with any food you please.
This crunchy texture-maker is commonly used in Indian and South Asian cuisine. Use sev to add some crunch to a cucumber and tomato salad or mix it with some spices for a standalone snack.
We'll do whatever it takes to make it right. Chakri are golden brown, crunchy spirals made from gram flour, wheat flour, sesame seeds and spices. They are hard to resist when dunked in hot chai or as a snack with cold drinks.
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A Crime on the Bayou is the story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966, Duncan tries to break up an argument between white and Black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. He gently lays his hand on a white boy's arm. The boy recoils like a snake. That night, police burst into Duncan's trailer and arrest him for assault on a minor. A young Jewish attorney, Richard Sobol, leaves his prestigious D.C. firm to volunteer in New Orleans. With his help, Duncan bravely stands up to a racist legal system powered by a white supremacist boss to challenge his unfair arrest. Their fight goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and their lifelong friendship is forged.
Director: Nancy Buirski
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30 Oct That's a Wrap on Colour the Square
Posted at 16:07h in Insight by 8 80 Cities Team
A lot has happened since we last updated you on the Colour the Square campaign. A quick recap: Colour the Square was a six-month engagement and awareness campaign to help Celebration Square reach its full potential. Located in the Town of Whitby, 90 minutes outside of Toronto, Celebration Square is a beautiful, yet under-utilized public space adjacent to the Town's main library branch. 8 80 Cities set out to engage the community in the conversation on how the Town could make Celebration Square a popular destination year-round.
The conversations with Whitby residents and Town staff culminated in our final report which summarized the more than 1700 ideas we received from over 700 residents through 5 pop-up engagement hubs and two community workshops. The report laid out a roadmap for short and long-term improvements to the square. Based on these recommendations, 8 80 Cities and the Town launched the Fresh Air in the Square campaign, a summer-long pilot that brought free children and senior friendly programming to the square, combined with an eight-week long public life study. Despite the often stormy weather, the pilot program was a huge success, fostering new community love for and connection to Celebration Square.
Both the Colour and Fresh Air campaigns have proved beyond question the potential for Celebration Square to be a community hub and destination in Downtown Whitby. The Town is moving forward with many initiatives based on our findings, including the relocation of the Whitby Farmer's Market to the square, lengthening the holiday season lighting and programming schedule, on-going free, recreational, all-ages-friendly classes, and installation of upgraded seating, lighting and other comfort-based infrastructure.
It has been such a joy getting to work with committed and passionate Town staff and we are so excited to see all the changes coming to Celebration Square over the next year. It's been a blast, Whitby!
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SPOKANE Gonzaga hopes its experience will pay off against top-seeded North Carolina in Friday�s regional semifinals in Memphis.
Many of these Zags played key roles in upsetting North Carolina (30-4) two seasons ago in Madison Square Garden. Josh Heytvelt outplayed Tyler Hansbrough, and Jeremy Pargo and Matt Bouldin both scored in double figures.
Gonzaga beat North Carolina 82-74 on Nov. 22, 2006, as part of the NIT tip-off tournament. This time the stakes are higher, a berth in the Elite Eight.
Gonzaga (28-5) will be trying to make the Elite Eight for the first time since the 1999 team that brought the school�s basketball team to national attention.
�They probably have a chip on their shoulder,� said Heytvelt, who had 19 points, eight rebounds and four blocks in that game.
Derek Raivio, who has since graduated, led the Zags with 21 points. Pargo, the current point guard, and Matt Bouldin (14 points, six assists) also saw significant playing time.
Hansbrough was held to nine points and nine rebounds. Other current Tar Heels who played in that game include Ty Lawson (11 points), Wayne Ellington (five points), Danny Green (five points), Deon Thompson (four points) and Bobby Frasor (11 points).
Gonzaga coach Mark Few watched a tape of the 2006 game on Monday. He sought to correct the notion that Heytvelt shut Hansbrough down. Rather it was former Zags David Pendergraft and Abdullahi Kuso who did the heavy lifting, aided by Heytvelt, Few said.
Watching that old tape was helpful, Few said.
Few said Hansbrough especially seems to be playing more confidently and aggressively now.
�He�s expanded his game, banging in some threes now,� Few said.
These Tar Heels are a high-scoring unit, averaging 90.3 points, with all the starters in double figures.
But the Zags are also among the nation�s top scoring teams, at 79 points, with six players averaging at least nine points. Few doesn�t figure to try and slow the Tar Heels down.
The Zags are holding opponents to 37 percent shooting, one of the best marks in the nation and Bouldin said the Zags won�t be intimidated.
�We felt we can play with anybody this entire year,� Bouldin said.
This has been considered one of the top Zags teams in history, but it also has been battling those high expectations. There was also grumbling about the consecutive first-round exits in the past two NCAA Tournaments.
They briefly fell from the Top 25 poll when they lost four of five games in late December. But they have won 11 in a row and reached the round of 16 for the first time since Adam Morrison�s last season in 2006. The 1999 team that reached the Elite Eight was the only Zags team to advance further.
Meanwhile, freshman guard Demetri Goodson said he is moving on after sinking a floater off the glass with 0.9 seconds remaining to beat Western Kentucky 83-81 on Saturday. Goodson had played only four minutes in the second half and was in the game primarily for his defense.
Goodson said his life has been a swirl of interviews, telephone calls, text messages and little sleep since he made the game winner. But reality was about to intrude as he began practice on Monday and hoped to get some playing time against North Carolina�s Lawson.
�I can�t be thinking about that shot while I�m guarding him,� Goodson said.


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The iPass network provides seamless login to in flight wifi networks on over 33 airlines, including those that use Gogo, Panasonic and Deutsch Telekom networks. A few highlight airlines include American, Lufthansa, Etihad, Virgin Atlantic, Air Canada, Air France, KLM, Aer Lingus, JAL, EVA Air, Singapore, China Air and more. If your flight uses Gogo, Panasonic or Deutsch Telekom wifi, it should be covered. Delta and United, for example both use Gogo for many, but not all flights.
AirlineCheckins.com is a service which *can* automatically check you in for flights, the moment the flight opens. You can load your check in preferences like aisle, window and so forth and even upload data so that the service handles it all for you. This can be handy. Whether you want it to actually check you in or not, you can pay €9 per month (with discount code) for a 3 month iPass pass. That's unlimited domestic and international wifi for 3 months on 33 or more airlines for $30. After the three months is up, you'll have to hope you can renew. Either way, it's a brilliant deal.
There's no telling how many of these iPass wifi passes AirlineCheckins.com have, and once they're gone, they're gone. Realistically, you'd make your money back in a single flight, so there's very little to lose here. You can sign up for an account, and then upgrade to "Premium" to unlock your iPass account. You don't actually have to use the AirlineCheckins.com flight service, though it does sound nice. You can enter code "earlybird10" to try and take some extra dough off.
Are you getting this great wifi offer while it's out?
Thanks to YHBU for the tip!
So how do you log into Gogo after this is purchased?
From United's website the aircraft type determines the WiFi provider. In some cases it is Gogo but Panasonic, Thales, and ViaSat are also possibilities. I think you need to research first to find if you'll really get full use of this service before subscribing.
It's quite complicated and non-intuitive. But after 30 minutes with iPass support chat, I'm all in!


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Q: How to refresh variables in react-apollo Here is the scenario :
USER 1

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*1) Goes to login page

*2) Writes email and password which are sent to the server by a mutation

*3) Authentication OK -> the server returns a token and user informations (id, firstName, lastName)

*4)The token and each user information are stored in a separate key in local storage

*5) The user is redirected to the HomePage

*6) The user goes to Profile Page

*7) A query is sent to the server to retrieve all the informations about that user (thanks to the user id stored in local storage)

Here is the query :
const PROFILE_QUERY = gql`
  query profileQuery($id: ID!) {
    getUser(id: $id) {
      firstName
      lastName
      email
    }
  }
`;

export default graphql(PROFILE_QUERY, {
  options: {
    variables: {
      id: localStorage.getItem("id")
    },
    errorPolicy: "all"
  }
})(ProfilePage);

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*8) The server returns the informations and the user can see them in the Profile Page

*9) The user decides to logout

So everything is working for the first user, now a second user arrives at the same computer and the same browser.
USER 2

*

*Same steps than the previous user from 1 to 7

*The query sent to the server to retrieve user informations is not working because the id sent by the query is the id of the previous user (and a user is not allowed to retrieve informations about an other user)

If I do a browser refresh the query is sent with the good user id...
So why the id variable is not refreshed (seems like the id value in local storage is not read) at the first attempt ? How can I resolve this ?
Thank you for your help.

A: That happens because your options field is static and is evaluated when the file containing the query is first loaded. (I'm assuming somewhere, perhaps steps 3 or 4, the id in local storage is updated correctly for the second user.)
config.options can be an object like the one you are passing now or a function that is evaluated when needed by the query.
So to load the id from the localStorage each time instead of just once, you can do something like this:
options: () => ({
  variables: {
    id: localStorage.getItem("id")
  },
  errorPolicy: "all"
})

A: Then first user logged out, you need to reset Apollo store and clear local storage.


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'Cowboys & Aliens' movie lifts graphic novel's high concept
Posted by Captain Comics on July 28, 2011 at 11:00am
Another comic-book concept makes its movie premiere July 29: Cowboys & Aliens. And therein hangs a tale.
Cowboys & Aliens debuted as a standalone graphic novel from Platinum Studios in 2006 by writers Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, penciller Luciano Lima and a host of inkers. The story involved an expansionist alien species crash-landing in 1870s Arizona and annexing it while building a transmitter to contact their fleet to finish the job. Apache warriors, gunslingers and pioneer settlers joined forces to battle them, stealing alien equipment where they could to equal the odds.
While the thrust of the story was action, action, action, there was some social commentary too. One gunslinger remarked that the aliens had no right to conquer our turf just because they had better weapons, which resulted in a sheepish "Oh" after a stern look from the Native Americans. The "all men are brothers" theme was underscored by some cross-racial romance, as a gunslinger and a (female) alien science officer fell in love, as did a (white) female gunslinger and an Apache warrior.
None of which seems to apply to Cowboys & Aliens the movie. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, the film seems to take very little from the graphic novel except the name and the high concept.
But what a concept it is! It's almost impossible to look at the GN cover, the movie posters or movie trailers and not have a thrill of anticipation. A cowboy shooting at a UFO with a sixgun? That begs the who, what, why and how response.
Which answers in part this question I hear a lot: How come Hollywood has come to rely so much on comic books as their source material? This is especially remarkable when you consider how comics were once fiercely snubbed by pop culture in general, especially the much-maligned superhero genre. For this 40-year comics reader, it's a 180-degree turn from my youth, when I had to hide comics to avoid getting beaten up.
So what's changed? A recent "Simpsons" episode depicted Bart explaining, "Hollywood has run dry of ideas." While that may be partly true, I think some other things are going on here:
Comics have really grown up. And I'm not just talking about more sophisticated themes in superhero comics (which are also on display in the X-Men and Spider-Man movies). What I mean are terrific non-superhero comics that have been turned into occasionally terrific movies like 300, Constantine, Kick-Ass, Ghost World, Hellboy, A History of Violence, The Mask, Priest, Men in Black, Red, Road to Perdition, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sin City, V for Vendetta, Wanted and many more. Regardless of their medium of origin, these are just good stories.
Movie F/X have caught up to comics. It used to be that if you wanted to see an exploding sun or a plausible space ship, you'd read a comic book (or a science fiction book and imagine it). Now the movies can do it – which means they can finally do comic books and science fiction right.
Comics concepts come pre-vetted. If you're writing a Batman movie, for example, you're standing on the shoulders of giants. The Dark Knight has appeared in hundreds of thousands of stories over more than 70 years, and has had hundreds, if not thousands, of writers. That means all the mistakes have been made; those authors have found what works and what doesn't, and have discarded the dross. They've already done the focus groups, involving millions of readers over decades. If a concept is still in a long-running comic book, that means it's popular and it works and movie writers should use it. No thinking required.
Comics are basically movie storyboards. Comics do all the work for a director. The pacing, camera angles and storytelling have all been thought out in advance.
Movies that ignore these lessons do so at their peril. When you compare a list of the worst comic-book movies with a list of comic-book movies where the writers jettisoned or fundamentally altered the existing mythos, many names appear on both. (See: Catwoman, Elektra, Jonah Hex, etc.)
That deviation from source material is happening with Cowboys & Aliens, but here we're talking about a single graphic novel, one which was a a fairly pedestrian take on what is clearly a cool concept. This time, the movie-makers might be right to start over.
And, honestly: Cowboys shooting at UFOs! How can you go wrong?
Contact Andrew A. Smith of the Memphis Commercial Appeal at capncomics@aol.com.
Comment by Lumbering Jack (M'odd-R8-Tr) on July 28, 2011 at 3:26pm
"Cowboys & Aliens" the comic was just not good. I happened to read it about a year and a half or so ago, just prior to the big casting announcements and other pre-publicity of the film. It was clear even then that the film producers were just buying the name "Cowboys & Aliens," and nothing else.
Wasn't Platinum's whole reason for being so they could create comics that served as movie pitches? Well, they certainly succeeded!
Comment by Figserello on July 29, 2011 at 2:39am
How could the film not have political commentary on the wrongness of stealing other peoples' countries? It's the first thing that comes to mind when you mention cowboys and Native Americans vs invaders.
Comment by David N on August 7, 2011 at 5:12pm
Cowboys & Aliens? That comic came out in the 1950's, it just had a different name.
If I was John Belfi I'd sue their pants off...
Comment by Captain Comics on August 8, 2011 at 10:17am
For some reason, they always come for our wimmin! (And, for the record, I agree with Lumbering Jack that the graphic novel wasn't very good.)


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Home All Products PSS Maintenance Kits - For 3/4" to 2-3/4" Shafts
PSS Maintenance Kits - For 3/4" to 2-3/4" Shafts
Part Number: 07-034-114R
PSS Shaft Seal Type A Compression Chart
Shaft Diameter (A) Stern Tube Diameter (B) Approx Compressed Length (C) D
3/4", 7/8", 1", 1-1/8" 1-1/4", 1-1/2", 1-3/4", 2", 2-1/4", 2-1/2" 6" - 6.125" 2.375"
3/4", 7/8", 1", 1-1/8" 2-1/2" 6.625" 2.375"
1-1/4", 1-3/8" 1-3/4", 2", 2-1/4", 2-1/2" 6.625" - 6.75" 2.875"
1-1/4", 1-3/8" 2-3/4", 3", 3-1/4", 3-1/2" 8.125" - 8.313" 2.875"
1-1/2", 1-9/16", 1-3/4", 2" 2", 2-1/4", 2-1/2", 2-3/4", 3", 3-1/4", 3-1/2" 8" - 8.218" 3.75"
1-1/2", 1-9/16", 1-3/4", 2" 3-3/4", 4" 8.405" 3.75"
2-1/4", 2-1/2" 3-1/4", 3-1/2", 3-3/4", 4" 8.625" 4.20"
2-1/4", 2-1/2" 4-1/4", 4-1/2", 4-3/4", 5" 9.25" 4.20"
2-3/4", 3" 4", 4-1/4", 4-1/2", 4-3/4", 5" 9.125" - 9.313" 5"
2-3/4", 3" 5-1/4", 5-1/2", 5-3/4", 6" 9.25" - 9.438" 5"
3-1/4", 3-1/2", 3-5/8", 3-3/4" 4-1/2", 4-3/4", 5", 5-1/4", 5-1/2", 5-3/4", 6" 9.675" - 9.863" 6"
Metric Sizes (mm)
Shaft Diameter (A) Stern Tube Diameter (B) Approx. Compressed Length (C) D
20, 22, 25, 28, 30 30, 40, 45, 50, 60 152 - 156 61
20, 22, 25, 28, 30 65 168 61
32, 35 45, 50, 60, 65 168 - 172 73
38, 40, 45, 50, 55 50, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90 203 - 209 96
38, 40, 45, 50, 55 95, 100 213 96
60, 65 85, 90, 95, 100 219 - 224 107
60, 65 110, 115, 120, 125 235 107
70, 75, 80 100, 110, 115, 120, 125 231 - 237 127
70, 75, 80 135, 140, 145, 150 235 - 240 127
85, 90, 95 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 150 245 - 250 153
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As with any rubber hose below waterline, the PSS bellows must be inspected on a regular basis for any sign of wear, aging or chemical deterioration. PYI suggests preventative maintenance. The PSS bellow should be replaced in six year intervals. During bellows replacement it is recommended the o-rings & set screws in the stainless steel rotor also be replaced.
Bellows may need to be more frequently inspected in an environment where non-sealed batteries emit sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid vapor will accelerate rubber deterioration, as will an ozonater.
NEVER USE SET SCREWS MORE THAN ONCE!
Please be sure to never use the same set screw on the shaft twice. There are two set screws in each of the two holes in the stainless steel rotor. One is tightened onto the shaft and the other is tightened onto the first to lock it in place against the shaft. The set screws are made with a cup at the base that compresses into the shaft ensuring a secure grip. PYI's PSS Maintenance Kit comes with five new set screws included. When re-installing the rotor please use new set screws. In the case that you do not have spare set screws, the set screws in the rotor need to be reversed so there is an unused cup being compressed onto the shaft.
PYI offers a Maintenance Kit that includes the items you need to properly maintain your PSS Shaft Seal. Included in the kit is:
1 Bellow
5 Set screws
4 Hose clamps
1 Tube of thread lock
1 Allen key
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After I pressed go on an online order, I called with a question. The staff at PYI answered all my questions, were able to determine which maintenance kit I needed based on the outside dia of the bellows, and intercept my order and and toss in some recommended sleeves. Seals are updated and I am dripless again.
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Awesome phone service, very quick delivery. Phone rep answered all questions and added extra advice on doing the maintenance kit installation.
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I dealt mainly with Eric, who helped me returning a wrong sized kit I ordered, and placing the correct order to get it in time for installation. Thanks!
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MSU's McDowell 'motivated' after falling in draft
Malik McDowell wanted to be among the top three picks in the NFL draft. Instead, he was a top-three pick on Day 2.
MSU's McDowell 'motivated' after falling in draft Malik McDowell wanted to be among the top three picks in the NFL draft. Instead, he was a top-three pick on Day 2. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2qh93yP
Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press Published 9:02 p.m. ET April 28, 2017
Malik McDowell reacts during the Big Ten Championship against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Dec. 5, 2015, in Indianapolis.(Photo: Joe Robbins, Getty Images)
Malik McDowell wanted to be among the top three picks in the NFL draft.
He ended up being a top-three pick in the second round, landing in a spot where he can make an immediate impact.
The former Michigan State defensive lineman and Southfield native was selected by the Seattle Seahawks at No. 35 overall on Friday, eschewing scouts' pre-draft worries but falling well short of his personal belief that he should be a high first-round pick.
"I'm just real excited to be here, I don't really know what else to say," McDowell said on a teleconference from Detroit. "I didn't cry, but the smile on my face – I'm smiling from ear to ear."
A number of draft analysts and NFL talent evaluators considered the 6-foot-6, 295-pound McDowell one of the best defensive linemen in the draft based on physical skills. When asked by a reporter to describe his style, he answered "a dominant player."
But concerns over his character arose during the NFL combine after he reportedly interviewed poorly with teams, and issues with his work ethic and ability to play through minor injuries raised red flags among scouts.
NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said McDowell is "gifted genetically" but "runs hot and cold."
"When you watch him against Notre Dame, he looks like a top-15 pick. If you watch him against Northwestern, he looked like a top-15 pick. If you watched him against Michigan, he looked like a fourth-round pick," Mayock said. "So I've had an awful lot of coaches say, 'If we can just unlock the potential in this kid, we'll have something special.'
"Pete Carroll has always done a great job of taking these kinds of guys and getting the best (out of them), whether he was at USC or Seattle."
In Seattle, he will be part of a defensive line that features ex-Detroit Lion Cliff Avril, former Michigan standout Frank Clark and Michael Bennett at defensive end. The Seahawks also took defensive tackle Jarran Reed out of Alabama in the second round of last year's draft but had a need for more depth on the interior of their front four.
"I'm motivated," McDowell said. "Just ready to come down there and play for the 12th Man."
McDowell played both inside at tackle and outside at end for MSU during its 3-9 finish, one in which he said had "a lot of downs" and was "a rough season." He finished with 34 tackles and 1.5 sacks in nine games while dealing with injuries all season. That included a rib ailment early in the season and an ankle injury that forced him out of the Spartans' final three games in 2016.
Some NFL scouts questioned the severity of some of his ailments.
"With a talent like that, you should not be a second-round draft pick. You should be a top-10 pick," ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said. "He was a classic underachiever from midway through on to the end of the season."
McDowell opted to bypass his final year of eligibility, finishing his MSU career with 7.5 sacks and 90 tackles over 36 games, including 24.5 for lost yardage.
MSU coach Mark Dantonio tweeted congratulations to McDowell, writing that "He will be a great one."
Rounds 4-7 start at noon Saturday. Safety Montae Nicholson and a handful of other former MSU players could be third-day selections.
Contact Chris Solari: csolari@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter@chrissolari. Download our Spartans Xtra app for free onAppleandAndroiddevices!
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Fratelle Group recently won a design competition to design a proposed new pedestrian bridge that will link the Perth Children's Hospital and Kings Park . The bridge, which is a unique, highly colourful steel bridge reminiscent of a giant rainbow serpent that twists and turns out of the tree canopy of Kings Park and across the road into Hospital's Northern Green Space will span Winthrop Avenue and essentially join the QEII Medical Centre site in Nedlands with Kings Park and the Synergy Parklands. We are excited to be working with the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation on this project.To see more of this project, click here.


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Becoming "Reality Hackers"
October 19, 2017 Ken GoffmanLeave a comment
His (Sterling's) famous introduction for that book (Mirrorshades), describing what cyberpunk was doing in fiction — seemed to express precisely what a truly contemporary transmutational magazine should be about.
the transition from MONDO 2000 to Reality Hackers — excerpt from Freaks in the Machine MONDO 2000 in late 20th Century Technoculture (yes… still in progress)
Some time in 1988, we made a rash decision. Despite High Frontiers relatively successful rise within the 'zine scene (where 15,000 in sales was solid), we decided to change the name of the magazine itself to Reality Hackers.
It was my idea.
We'd been hipped to cyberpunk SF and I'd read Gibson's Neuromancer and Sterling's Mirrorshades collection. His famous introduction for that book, describing what cyberpunk was doing in fiction — seemed to express precisely what a truly contemporary transmutational magazine should be about.
Here are some parts of it: "The term, (cyberpunk) captures something crucial to the work of these writers, something crucial to the decade as a whole: a new kind of integration. The overlapping of worlds that were formerly separate: the realm of high tech, and the modern pop underground.
"This integration has become our decade's crucial source of cultural energy. The work of the cyberpunks is paralleled throughout the Eighties pop culture: in rock video; in the hacker underground; in the jarring street tech of hip hop and scratch music; in the synthesizer rock of London and Tokyo. This phenomenon, this dynamic, has a global range; cyberpunk is its literary incarnation…
An unholy alliance of the technical world and the world of organized dissent — the underground world of pop culture, visionary fluidity, and street-level anarchy…
For the cyberpunks… technology is visceral. It is not the bottled genie of remote Big Science boffins; it is pervasive, utterly intimate. Not outside us, but next to us. Under our skin; often, inside our minds.
Certain central themes spring up repeatedly in cyberpunk. The theme of body invasion: prosthetic limbs, implanted circuitry, cosmetic surgery, genetic alteration. The even more powerful theme of mind invasion: brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence, neurochemistry — techniques radically redefining — the nature of humanity, the nature of the self. The Eighties are an era of reassessment, of integration, of hybridized influences, of old notions shaken loose and reinterpreted with a new sophistication.
Cyberpunk favors "crammed" loose: rapid, dizzying bursts of novel information, sensory overIoad that submerges the reader in the literary equivalent of the hard-rock "wall of sound." Well, then… Read more "Becoming "Reality Hackers""
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