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Cheesecake Factory, you came so close.
By Maria Yagoda
Another year, another slew of lists, ranking everything from fast-casual chain restaurants to cheese trends. This December, we learned that Americans' love for Chick-Fil-A has grown even more intense, and that everybody loves Portillo's. And now, a new TripAdvisor study has determined the top restaurant chains in the country, based on user data.
The top restaurant chain, at least in the "Large" category? Ruth's Steak House. In the "Medium" category? The Capitale Grille. And in the "Small" category? Eddie V's Prime Seafood.
A note on methodology: Rankings were determined using an algorithm that factored in quality, quantity, and recency of reviews (from all of the chain's locations) over the past year. The rankings were separated into three categories: chains with over 100 locations, chains with 10 to 50 locations, and chains with 51 to 100 locations.
"Chain restaurants are integral to the American dining experience as they offer consumers convenient and satisfying meals for all occasions, "said Bertrand Jelensperger, senior vice president for TripAdvisor Restaurants, in a statement. "For the first time, TripAdvisor is ranking restaurant chains that provide exemplary food, service, and value to diners."
Below, find the full ranking.
Top 10 Large Chains (101+ locations)
First Watch The Daytime Cafe
Jason's Deli
Top 10 Small Chains (10-50 locations)
Eddie V's Prime Seafood
Seasons 52
Houston's
Ocean Prime
J. Alexander's
Half Shell Oyster House
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
Maggiano's Little Italy
Top 10 Medium Chains (51-100 locations)
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
BRIO Tuscan Grille
Morton's The Steakhouse
Sweet Tomatoes
Another Broken Egg Cafe
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Pathology table guests during the recent Gala Dinner celebration for the 60th Anniversary of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, held at the Grand Copthorne Hotel, Saturday 22nd July, 2017.
An invitation to attend the dinner as a guest of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore Chapter of Pathologists was extended to Dr Lynette Oon, as President of the Singapore Society of Pathology (seated 2nd from right).
and Dr Tan Ai Ling and Dr Sathiyamoorthy Selvarajan (front row, left to right).
Standing in the back row was the international guest, Prof. Annie Cheung, President of the Hong Kong College of Pathologists, next to Dr Inny Busmanis, Chair, Chapter of Pathologists, Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
We have had a successful and well-received 1st Singapore Pathology Conference and 36th SSP AGM.
The SSP Exco would like to thank all who had attended the events for your support.
We were privileged to have Professor Gregory James Tsongalis as our MOH HMDP expert in Molecular Pathology from 26-30 September 2011. Professor Tsongalis is Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, USA. He is a well-known expert in the field of molecular diagnostics. He gave a series of 11 lectures which were well-received by the Singapore pathology community. He has generously agreed to share the slides from his lectures which are available below.


This week, as I mentioned earlier today, MPR News used a public data request to obtain emails between Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges' staff and Jay Kolls, the KSTP reporter at the heart of the now-infamous #pointergate story.
Here is the first contact between Kolls and Hodges' office through spokeswoman Kate Brickman.
That changed, however, when the story aired.
A day after the first email, and before the story ran, Brickman told Kolls she didn't understand what his story was about. Kolls explained it again, further alleging Gordon had gang connections.
The story shifted to one about whether Hodges should have known the "point" was a gang symbol.
After KSTP was inundated with criticism the day the story ran, it claimed the story was about the mayor's judgement, not Gordon.
"We didn't say it; the police said it," Hubbard said.
Kolls' emails, though, show that KSTP — contrary to Hubbard's claim — knew a lot about Gordon and insisted to the mayor's staff that Gordon was a gang member.
1.) A reporter thinks he has the goods on the mayor. He emails her aide demanding to know why the mayor is hanging with a known north side gangster and flashing gang signs. There's even a photo!
3.) When the story runs, it says there's no evidence Gordon belongs to a gang, but that he has a criminal history and connections to gang members.
So, the story got progressively less sensational and shocking as the reporting progressed. In most newsrooms when that happens, the reporter is told by an editor to go back and rethink the story's premise, try again or bail out if the story just isn't there.
Related crime news: Twin Cities gang sweep nets 11 on gun, violence charges (Minnesota Public Radio News).
Please, Mr Collins, keep it up. This blatant racism still needs to be answered for, and it won't be if it's left to die a quiet death.
You got it in the first bullet (no pun intended: "1.) A reporter thinks he has the goods on the mayor." This isn' t about the gang or the sign or even the bag guy. This is a gotcha. And not even a good or accurate one.
On the other hand, this should be a textbook-case-study kinda thing for J-school: Bad Journalism 101- how NOT to report a story.
It doesn't get any cheaper, egregious, or insidious than Jay Kolls' reporting. A respectable news organ would've fired him for this.
I watch the news on channel 5, and this story was being reported by a guy who had a "gotcha" smile on his face as he reported this story. If the Mpls police needed a go-to-guy for their lies it would be him. I'm through watching this blatant racism at KSTP!!
What about this part of Kolls' first e-mail: "is also a suspect in last weekend's shooting in Brooklyn Center." This would seem to be possibly defamatory if it's not true. Has this been publicized, or did the police give Kolls info that isn't public?
It's not clear which shooting he's talking about. If he's talking about the one outside Denny's, it's worth noting that an alleged gang member was arrested on that today in the big gang sweep. It wasn't Gordon.
That Johnny Northside is something else. I suggest checking out misadventuresofjohnnynorthside, shows a lot of hypocracy from a guy who is "trying to clean up the street" when it's more like talk sh*t about people and use information for financial gain. He is nothing more then a window gossiper like Great-Grandma was.
Don't waste your time reading the Johnny Northside blog. John Hoff, is nothing more than a racist blogger who uses social media to attack the most vulnerable residents of Minneapolis. He has been living in Oklahoma for almost TWO years (and renting out his house illegally with out a rental license I might add), where he took the Oklahoma Bar Exam which he passed, but was never given a law license. Rumor on internet chat is that he was denied a law license because of his unethical blogging, and other concerns. He uses social media to retaliate against those who dare to challenge him. He is far from a neighborhood activist and only blogs for the advertising income.
The guy is a hack with no journalistic ethics.
Hubbard's insistence that the cops are to blame for the bad information, is a failure to recognize a big problem — the tone of the story was hostile.
It is clear that the reporter, and possibly his bosses, decided early on that this story had heroes and villains — and that the heroes' statements didn't need to be fact checked.
Look at the wording and tone of the anchors intro, it has an attitude. The story has an attitude.
I think this could have been a valid and interesting story had it been told differently. Maybe a he-said/she-said piece on the ongoing squabble between the mayor and police. Or a look at the kind of scrutiny leaders get for the most-simple things.
Motivations and racism aside, AT BEST this is a stellar example of failed journalism. Failure to be unbiased, failure to resist sensationalism, failure to check facts, failure to recognize a source with an agenda, failure to provide balance (sound from two angry cops) — and failure to be accountable when things blew up.
At worst, Kolls and KSTP knew what they were doing. No station in this area has more training, more consultants coaching reporters, more introspection on how stories ought to be told. It makes you wonder how so many people got this wrong.
At least they're no longer running Ed Anser commercials touting their seriousness as a news organization.
Was Novell Gordon a public figure when KSTP sent that email naming him as a gang member and listing his past crimes?
No. Regular standards for defamation apply here. And Gordon cannot be made a public figure by reason of the coverage.
Can an email never meant to be made public be grounds for libel? I'm not a lawyer, just want someone knowledgable to weigh in. And does it matter that the specific allegation wasn't broadcast (I.e. there was some editing).
Any email sent to the Mayor's office and subject to FOIA requests should be assumed to be publicly available information.
Don't forget, Kolls did call Gordon a gangbanger on twitter while defending his story.
Kolls is just a 'reporter', albeit a bad one who will probably get a raise from his boss, Ron Hubbard. Delmonico on the other hand is a surreptitious weasel, who should be fired for undermining his boss.
FWIW, Columbia Journalism Review updated its interview with Stanley Hubbard, who called them back to say while KSTP doesn't reveal sources, Delmonico was not the source.
So Jay Kolls was lying to the mayor's office? Great journalism, Jay!
Bob, has anyone asked KSTP or the mayor's office if the police brought their concerns to the mayor before reporters? Something that might be, you know, useful?
This is the absolutely most frustrating part of this saga, and it is also the most indicative of the the source's intentions. If the photo was so sensational and so inflammatory, why run to news orgs with it to publish to a wider audience?
Everyone should know where Hubbard and his employs stand. And the Mpls. police have been a problem for some time. Since those not of like mind know both are suspect, we should drop this non-story.
Has anyone considered, that even if the gentleman in the picture with the Mayor is a "bad guy," what benefit could be had by her reaching out to him?
Thank you Bob and MPR News for bringing these to light. KSTP, how has no one been fired or suspended for the lousy journalism demonstrated here on your own emails? Oh, wait.
So, you work for the police union or KSTP?
Who is the editor at KSTP who should have stopped this story?


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Published by Emily Thomas, Editorial Assistant
World Cement, Friday, 22 May 2020 09:14
GlobalData shares its forecasts for construction industries across the world in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The revised and further-cut construction output growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the year 2020 is -1.1%, down from the previous projection of -0.8% (as of mid-April) and 4.6% (Q4 2019 update) due to the soaring COVID-19 cases in the region, and the subsequent curfews and lockdown measures, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Yasmine Ghozzi, Economist at GlobalData, says: "The slump in oil prices will dent the sector's growth. GlobalData expects cutbacks in spending and, in particular, cuts to capital spending on infrastructure, especially for oil and gas dependent countries given that investment plans were set on assumptions for oil at US$50 – US$80 per barrel. The IMF currently predicts that GDP growth in the MENA region will fall to – 3.3% in 2020 because of its exposure to lower oil prices and the extensive disruption in travel and tourism."
Governments across the MENA region offered direct support to boost activity in construction and infrastructure. In the case of Egypt, for example, the government guided construction companies operating in public projects are set to resume work in full capacity by early April, following a period of two weeks of reduced business.
For Saudi Arabia, the biggest construction market in the region, the country's finance minister announced plans to make deep cuts to public spending, so any further stimulus to the construction sector would rely on the amount of reserves the government is willing to draw upon, given the limit that lower oil prices have put on government revenues.
It remains to be seen whether governments in the region will lend direct support to companies facing acute financial pressure in the sector.
Ghozzi concludes: "In addition, construction, real estate, and oil and gas sectors are among the most exposed to the business risks created by COVID-19. Force majeure clauses in contracts are being more widely used by firms needing to scale back or rearrange their business plans amid the pandemic. The issue came under the spotlight when the Iraqi government announced the pandemic as an event of force majeure for all projects and contracts. Although construction sites are generally exempted from the lockdowns imposed in many countries in the MENA region, there is an expectation that legal claims, especially from contractors, will be filed citing the crisis as a justifiable reason for failure to deliver work on time."
The Indian construction industry is expected to contract by 1.7% in 2020, as the slowdown in 2019 has been compounded by the two-month lockdown due to COVID-19, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
The slowdown in the construction industry in 2019 was due to liquidity crisis and slowing domestic demand in the residential segment. Although the situation was expected to improve in 2020 due to government initiatives such as improving liquidity position and expanded infrastructure investments under the 'National Infrastructure Programme', the COVID-19 outbreak and the government containment measures will affect the construction industry in the short-term.
Dhananjay Sharma, Construction Analyst at GlobalData, comments: "The residential sector, which was already facing weakness due to the liquidity crunch and a decline in new residential projects launched across major cities, will struggle to recover due to the supply and demand downturn that will be created by the lockdown. Construction work on residential projects across the country will be delayed amid the lockdown, while the temporary unemployment will have an impact on the income of people, thereby affecting demand for residential buildings over the short-term."
Recently, India announced an extension of the lockdown by another two weeks, until 31 May 2020 – taking the total lockdown period to 69 days. However, the government has eased restrictions on economic activity across most of the country except in the containment zones.
Sharma concludes: "In the second half of the year, the construction industry will benefit from the oil price crash, which would slash the country's import bills and help the government to invest heavily on its flagship 'National Infrastructure Pipeline'."
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Philippines construction industry was growing at a robust pace due to the ongoing infrastructure investment and the launch of the Philippine Construction Industry Roadmap 2020 – 2030. However, with the government announcing strict measures to slow the spread of the virus, construction output growth forecast for 2020 is expected to slow down to 1.2% from 8.0% before the COVID-19 outbreak projection, says GlobalData.
In a positive development, the country has started to partially ease restrictions due to the economic strain. All public and private construction projects were allowed to resume in areas under the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) from 15th May 2020, while in the areas under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), a select type of priority construction projects were allowed to resume.
Dhananjay Sharma, Construction Analyst at GlobalData, comments: "The country's construction industry is still expected to benefit from large-scale infrastructure projects, which will likely be advanced when the COVID-19 spread is contained. On 13th May 2020, all major infrastructure projects under the Build, Build, Build (BBB) programme were allowed to resume."
Prior to the outbreak, the government had planned to invest around PHP1 trillion (US$18.9 billion) on the BBB programme this year, and the implementation of the programme could play a major role in the post-pandemic economic recovery of the country.
Sharma concludes: "However, the residential market was already struggling due to slowing domestic economy before the virus outbreak. The market is facing further risk as the economy is expected to slump in the second quarter and people take more precautions with regards to property purchases."
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WMA Commission – "We Are Like Air" Solo Exhibition of Xyza Cruz Bacani
Filipina documentary photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani, recipient of the "Mobility" cycle of WMA Commission, will launch her solo exhibition We Are Like Air at the Hong Kong Arts Centre from 1- 20 December 2018, during which her first photo book of the same title will also be launched. Curated by Melissa Karman Lee, We Are Like Air features new black-and-white photographs that have not been published before, as well as video and installations to tell the story of her mother, her family and other migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The exhibition will provide written and verbal information in Chinese, English, Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia to enable a wider range of audience to learn about the lives of the community.
Xyza Cruz Bacani is a Filipina documentary photographer whose works and story has been featured in the New York Times Lens Blog, CNN and other international media. While working as a migrant domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she used photography to raise awareness about under-reported stories on migrants and human rights issues.
Sheila S. Coronel, Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, says, "Photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani shines the light on the inner lives of migrant domestic workers and makes a plea for recognising not just their rights but their humanity."
Curated by Melissa Karman Lee, We Are Like Air is the public presentation of the WMA Commission project. "We Are Like Air is not only about illuminating the pain and survival of living abroad and from economic urgency leaving your loved ones an ocean away. This exhibition is also about the celebration of very tangible friendships and intimate connections of which they blossom or grow in astonishing places between unexpected people," says Lee.
Xyza, who used to be a domestic worker herself, reclaims the story of the migrant worker that has been told countless times by others. She is telling their own tale – not as victims, but as champions who have overcome many hardships in life. The exhibition portrays the experience of millions of mothers, daughters and families whose lives have been disrupted by migration. The exhibition title, We Are Like Air, comes from the idea that migrant workers are treated like air – invisible but important.
The exhibition will provide docent tours in Cantonese, English, Filipino (Tagalog) and Indonesian (Bahasa). Guhit Kulay, an art group formed by migrant domestic workers, will facilitate an Art Jamming session from 2-5pm on 2 December, 2018 at the Hong Kong Arts Centre to engage exhibition participants to respond to Xyza's work. Xyza will also appear at the We Are Like Air book signing event at 11:30am on 9 December, 2018, at the newspaper stand in front of Worldwide House, 12 Connaught Road Central (Central MTR Station Exit A).
Exhibition Period: 1 December 2018 – 20 December 2018
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Photo Printing supported by: FUJIFILM
Programme supported by: Bethune House, Guhit Kulay, HER Fund
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BioCarbon Engineering has recently been featured in the Edmonton Journal during it's test flights in Alberta Canada in association with the Canadian Forestry Service. You can read the full article here.
Credit to writer Gordon Kent.
Dirk Brinkman, chief executive of Vancouver's Brinkman and Associates Reforestation, said about 450 million trees a year are planted in Canada, most because it's required after logging.
But governments can't always afford to deal with millions of hectares damaged by fire or other sources, so drones might be a cheaper, more effective solution, he said.
David Price, a Canadian Forest Service research scientist who arranged the display, said the main human seeding methods are by hand and by air.
But good tree planters only place about 2,000 or 3,000 seedlings a day, while dumping clouds of seeds from an airplane is imprecise and few of them germinate, he said.


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The Presidential Primary & Forced Outpatient Psych Drugs
David W. Oaks
This month, May 2016, the candidates for USA President compete in our usually-missed State of Oregon, so this is a very good time to ask the following question:
"How do you stand on the controversy of forced outpatient mental health drugs?"
This is my 40th year working as an advocate for people labeled "disabled," and I know that the topic of involuntary psychiatry can be a little complicated for people. After all, if one of our beloved family members becomes irrationally self-destructive, we can become desperate for help. However, this is such an important topic that we need to go deeper than just a bumper-sticker answer.
So, let us find out where the candidates for President stand: Are you listening Hillary, Bernie, Donald, Ted, and John?
The past few years I have been working a bunch in disability advocacy, one of the biggest social change movements in human history. How we treat the most vulnerable people in a group can be very revealing.
Let me explain a little background in brief:
For many decades, almost all USA States have been quietly passing laws that allow court-ordered involuntary mental health care, that is, of people living out of institutions in the community, often in their own homes or group homes.
Sponsors of these "involuntary outpatient commitment" laws use a more euphemistic phrase: "assisted outpatient treatment" laws. "Assisted?" Sure, the way Donald Trump is "assisting" Muslims by seeking to ban them in a bigoted way. The way bigots in Bangladesh recently "assisted" a gay rights activist by killing him.
To put it very simply: This is court-ordered coerced drugging, using a variety of methods for enforcement, sometimes even a daily visit to the person's home.
There is a Congressperson, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), who for years has been pushing a huge bill that has a section for national, federal incentives for more of this involuntary outpatient care. This Murphy Bill, HR 2646, is enormous, weighing in at 173 pages, but the worst part would be a national program for more forced outpatient psychiatry. If his bill — which he calls "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act" — passes, thousands of American citizens would have court-ordered psychiatric drugs administered to them, even though they are living out in the community, many even in their own homes!
Last year I asked one of the bill co-sponsors how many Americans they want to forcibly treat? After all, some of these zealots claim that 11 million Americans need but are not getting psychiatric care. Are you one of these 11 million? Unfortunately, the co-sponsor has stayed silent about how many citizens they are going after.
Every Person Ought to Oppose the Murphy Bill!
As far as I know, every group in the USA speaking for mental health consumers opposes increasing coerced care out in the community. There are far better ways to help people.
This Murphy bill is the worst I have seen in my 40 years of mental health advocacy. Many of us in this field are terrified and working hard for years to stop this type of care!
So where do the people running for Democratic and Republican nomination for President stand on this issue?
Note that a Republican congressperson is pushing this bill, even though Rep. Murphy claims he is for "small government." A surprising number of congresspeople have co-sponsored this bill, even some who are considered progressive, such as my own Democratic congressperson, Rep. Peter Defazio.
Bernie and Friends: Where Do You Stand?
For more than a month, one of the main psychiatrists to publicly back Bernie Sanders for President has been asking one of the Bernie campaigners, Nick Carter, about Bernie's position. You see, Bernie opposes certain regulations of firearms because Vermont, his home state, is so pro-gun. The National Rifle Association opposes gun regulation partly by claiming that better mental health care is the solution. So asking Bernie for his position is reasonable. Unfortunately, Bernie and Mr. Carter have apparently stayed silent.
The silence about this important topic is deafening. We need to insist on an answer from everyone. A few years ago, I saw something similar happen with Ralph Nader, who was referring mental health questions to his friend, Doctor Sidney M. Wolfe, who I know from personal experience has a terrible position about forced psychiatry. Let us stop throwing our folks under the bus, whether that is a Republican bus or a Democratic bus.
To show you how bad this can get, incredibly a few years ago when I directed the nonprofit MindFreedom International, we surfaced two people who received court-ordered involuntary outpatient ELECTROSHOCK. I would not blame you if you did not believe me. To provide evidence for this, you can google these phrases:
ray sandford electroshock
elizabeth ellis electroshock
When courts order forced drugging this can be very racist, because white doctors and white judges tend to disproportionately target African Americans and other minorities. You can read more about this here:
http://www.davidwoaks.com/blacklivesmatter-race-mental-health
After exchanging one e-mail with Rep. Defazio, he has gone totally silent with me. I tried to email his health person on this, Brittany Lundberg, but she has not responded to me. Readers of this blog can try to reach her in a civil way by emailing to: [email protected]
Many of us wonder why our society is not showing more passion and more creativity in the face of climate crisis. Centuries of targeting our people may be one of the reasons that the population is so conformist right now, when we should have a revolution.
A Facebook group about stopping the Murphy bill:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/StopMurphyBill/
Promotion of the bill by Rep. Tim Murphy:
https://murphy.house.gov/helpingfamiliesinmentalhealthcrisisact114
A website dedicated to stopping this bill:
http://www.westernmassrlc.org/stop-the-murphy-bill
A moveon.org petition you can sign for free online against the Murphy Bill:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-murphy-bill
A change.org online petition against the Murphy Bill:
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-vote-against-the-helping-families-in-mental-health-crisis-act-h-r-2646
A psychiatrist explains opposition to the Murphy Bill in this MadInAmerica Blog entry:
https://www.madinamerica.com/2015/12/a-psychiatrist-opposes-h-r-2646-heres-why/
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The_cat May 1, 2016 at 9:26 am
All I know is that if Crooked Hillary gets her universal preschool alot more kids are going to be put on drugs.
"We are not here to bash the use of these medications," Clinton said. "They have literally been a godsend to countless adults and young people with behavioral and emotional problems." Left untreated, such conditions as ADHD prevent children from reaching their full potential in life, Clinton said.
She also said the National Institute of Mental Health would dedicate more than $5 million to research ADHD and Ritalin use in preschoolers. The institute also released a fact sheet to help parents of children with emotional and behavioral conditions understand their options…
More https://www.madinamerica.com/forums/topic/hillary-clinton-calls-for-universal-preschool-with-child-drugging/
"I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak," Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, which first aired on "The Lead."
AND little boys who misbehave in preschool ! "We are not here to bash the use of these medications," Clinton said. "They have literally been a godsend to countless adults and young people with behavioral and emotional problems….
God save us.
BPDTransformation, B.A. May 1, 2016 at 11:11 am
Wow, Hillary is ignorant. Did not realize she was that dumb and uninformed when it comes to psychiatry and drugs. She should read Psychiatry Under the Influence before making such stupid comments.
The_cat May 1, 2016 at 12:39 pm
She wants more "drug courts" too where prosecutors and judges practice medicine without a license.
"as well as new support for specialized drug courts & juvenile programs."
https://www.madinamerica.com/forums/topic/hillary-clinton-calls-for-more-drug-courts/
Crooked Hillary gets donations from the justice industry, private prisons and the pharmaceutical industry cause they know that drug court crap is a cash cow the way it traps people in the system.
What would happen to the prison industrial complex and mental health industry if Trumps wall kept out just one third of the heroin cocaine and meth ? They would have a shortage a costumers real quick.
They donate to Crooked Hillary for a reason, very selfish reasons.
Don't build a wall and take on the Mexican drug cartels, instead more funding to put Americans into drug courts with coerced psychiatry to make the wrenched system even more profitable. More people subjected to cheap false positive drug tests and crooked labs.
Black Lives Matter Activist Interrupts Hillary Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLfvQfuvsA
Surviving and Thriving May 1, 2016 at 12:59 pm
She's far from perfect, though that article the_cat pulled was from 2000. Also, Hillary is at least a big supporter of women's reproductive rights. With the current situation (the GOPs incessant attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and state level laws that are limiting access to abortion), I am concerned that we could wind up with more unwanted pregnancies in this country. This has already happened in places like Texas. Definitely this is a big concern if we have someone like Trump appointing Supreme Court nominees willing to over turn Roe v. Wade
I think this is an important point for all of us here, because unwanted kids ultimately leads to more child abuse and adversity. Which then leads to more kids thrust into the mental health system…
oldhead May 1, 2016 at 1:18 pm
Please don't make me throw up. Clinton is a scumbag capitalist war criminal, along with her husband. She obviously didn't give a shit about Iraqi women & kids.
Hopefully, as the "election" approaches, MIA doesn't degenerate into a lot of wasted words over which criminal (or wannabe criminal) is better.
PS Surviving & Thriving — I know you didn't actually endorse HC, but I'm ultra-sensitive to the notion that she is a friend to any but white upper class American women. To reduce our aspirations for the coming year to deciding which capitalist is worse is not the best use of our collective energy.
The_cat May 1, 2016 at 2:25 pm
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Want to see child abuse ? Type aborted fetus into Google, press enter, then click images.
Suicide Rate for Women Having Abortions is Six Times Higher Than Women Giving Birth http://www.lifenews.com/2014/12/19/suicide-rate-for-women-having-abortions-is-six-times-higher-than-women-giving-birth/
Every single presidential election since 1973 they tell the public to pick a candidate based on abortion views but,
Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Roe vs wade still stands
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) Roe vs wade still stands
George Bush (1989-1993) Roe vs wade still stands
George W. Bush (2001-2009) Roe vs wade still stands
But serial liar Crooked Hillary said vote me or they will outlaw abortion !!! I am not lying THIS time. Trust me.
And remember ladies what the system tells you, having kids sucks , nature sucks, what you want to do is spend your young adult life in a pant suit in some fancy yet crappy office 40 hours a week wearing dress shoes and getting nasty crooked toes,… those barefoot and pregnant women are all worthless loosers, don't be one of them. The system has spoken.
I am probably getting crooked Hillary votes cause I am so obnoxious but oh well.
Janel May 1, 2016 at 6:30 pm
I am a friend of MIA and your work. Your article this morning got me thinking about a possible source of leverage against the Murphy Bill and that is Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA): A call to federal arms in defense of public health
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/healthcare/Congressman-Mike-Fitzpatrick-R-PA-A-call-to-federal-arms-in-defense-of-public-health.html#p8lfdJk4g3Kzkj0c.99
I follow Drs. Hooman Norchasm and Amy Reed who have gotten Mike Fitzpatrick to champion their anti-morcellation campaign. I perpetually try to raise the awareness of these doctors that the harm occurring is not just on the device side but also the drug side, plus the idea of "enforced treatment" of any medical situation does not seem in line with our constitution.
I hope that the good guy, Mike Fitzpatrick, might be of some assistance to your/our effort.
Mike Fitzpatrick is a racist.
What is a racist ?
bcharris May 1, 2016 at 10:14 am
You missed the point about the Congressman. He may be for small government, but he's also for Big Pharma, the only entity that benefits from this method of alleged treatment. The patients won't help finance he reelection campaigns, but the industry will, in spades, if the financial gain seems big enough. So- see you on enanthates and deconates.
The_cat May 1, 2016 at 10:14 am
We should have people refuse to open the door for the drugging gestapo causing them to smash it open and get all the violence in the name of help on video and put it on Youtube and give it to news channels.
Fortify the door a little so they have to smash and smash and smash smash there way in during the assisted outpatient home invasion.
A million views on YouTube easy and a good chance the news would pick it up.
It would be funny to incorporate a coil spring from a truck into the door fortification.You could hit one of those springs with a battering ram every 5 seconds for 10 years and it would continue to just bounce back.
I suggest a glass storm door for them to smash during the assisted outpatient home invasion, the video watching public would like that.
Be creative like in those movies where they try and keep the Zombies out.
Frank Blankenship May 1, 2016 at 11:43 am
Very timely subject, David, thank you for bringing it up. Seeing as violence prevention is the ostensible reason given for endeavoring to enact these draconian laws, maybe people should also ask what politicians intend to do about the high mortality rates for people put on these drugs as well. They could also point out that forcing drugs on people is not going to lower this mortality rate one iota, and that if it does anything, it is going to keep it up there.
dkjamil May 1, 2016 at 5:06 pm
Frank, I just left a reply on your comment regarding the slave owner/slave relationship between psychiatrists and their patients. It is important to realize that these people are backed up in their actions by the supreme law of the land–the U.S. Constitution. The 13th Amendment never abolished slavery–it made the State the slaveholder. Section 2 of this Amendment explains the rest.
Ron Bassman, PhD May 1, 2016 at 12:55 pm
As always it is good to see your activism and clear articulation of our most important issue. Your summary is excellent and I particularly liked your linking years of forced treatment, conformity and climate change.
I agree that this is the time for the MindFreedom forces in Oregon to take the lead and put Murphy and related issues into the spotlight, in the most effective ways you know how!
Nomadic May 1, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Resisting forced drugging is a basic human rights issue. Far more serious than wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Forced drugging is chemical torture.
No limits on the rules of engagement. Under international law those engaged in struggles for self determination are exempted from any obligation to take prisoners.
MindFreedom has it right, Safe House and an Underground Railroad. But this should be seen as only a start. Better to die with honor than to submt to forced drugging.
To Live And Die With Honor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWVV5imXSM
Hello David. I have questioned for years what gives the "authorities" the right to impose their will upon people in addition to revoking all their rights every time the State becomes involved in an issue. A lot of reading and research led me to rereading the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As soon as I did that I realized slavery was never abolished. It just moved slavery from some people owning other people to the State owning everyone. The State became the slaveholder. Before becoming president the winner of the election, whoever that may be, must take the Oath of Office and swear to preserve, protect, and defend slavery–the job of every public servant, courtesy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the highest law in the land.
David W. Oaks May 2, 2016 at 11:12 am
Thanks for the quick replies from many folks to this blog! Presidential politics can heighten interest, this particular primary is getting a lot of attention, plus it is curious what each of the mainstream candidates thinks about forced psych drugging, outpatient coercion, and the Murphy bill.
I would remind everyone that we need to stay civil with each other. It is totally okay to very much disagree with each other. But if anyone goes after the motives of anyone else, I need to ask them: Is there some kind of crystal ball into the inner soul of anyone? If not, then please keep comments to civility about differences, facts with evidence, etc.
Last night I saw a rather fascinating documentary about low-level mind control, compared to forced drugging, but even low-level is bad. I saw "The Brainwashing of My Dad" last night. Frankly, I feel like we need to be careful about talking about our opposites politically. After all, even though some folks have tried to pigeon-hole me as left-wing, I have often seen folks considered libertarian or right-wing do some great stuff in the field of human rights in mental health.
Yes, our issue can be overwhelming. But, a silver lining is that people for us, such as opposing forced outpatient psychiatry including electroshock, can be from all political stripes. On good days, our topic can be an amazing unify-er.
With that, here is the URL to hear more about the documentary, and watch the trailer. I have seen a great group divided when one of their key people went extreme and negative because of this problem. The website is here, even if you are right-wing please give this a chance (after all, even right-wing people have expressed very honest and positive concern about the extreme bigotry and irrationality displayed by Donald Trump recently):
http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/
Again, please view this by still respecting folks on the other side of politics. Remember, in the past few years some of the best fighters on childhood psych drugs has been so-called right-wingers. The Libertarian Party and the Green Party are some of the few parties that have ever had official planks in their platform in recent years for our folks!
Please focus on uniting! I agree with Micah White, PhD, who helped start Occupy, that we need innovative right-wing/left-wing unity right now! Yes, that might be surprising but to have a real global revolution we need both right-wing and left-wing and libertarian. When my dad went to Normandy on day five of D-Day, no one asked soldiers charging Nazis if they were Democrats or Republicans or anything. They just ran up the hills at great personal sacrifice, and won!
Now, we need something many times bigger than D-Day, and global.
You can read about the unique and refreshing views of Micah here:
https://www.micahmwhite.com/
Please tell people you trust about this!
Yes, in a few weeks I intend to announce that I am running as a write-in in November to symbolically challenge my friend Rep. Pete Defazio, unless he wakes up and opposes the Murphy bill! Surprising? The element of surprise is something we often have. When we are not quite considered human, in a way we have a shield of invisibility, and that often means surprise!
AdBusters, which Micah used to work for and which launched Occupy, once did a special issue about Mad Pride. They called MindFreedom the epicenter of the Mad Movement! Micah now lives in Oregon near the coast. He knows that I am in his corner. Yes, I hope folks reading this will also be in our corner, both right-wing, left-wing, and all kinds of wings. Let us unify for global peaceful revolution! Even the Pope is calling for that!
Millions of us in the world are calling for that! We might not win, but we can make the fact that we are trying undeniable!
Nothing about you has ever struck me as "left wing," David Oaks. For better or worse. 🙂
Though I'm sure we have serious differences over what is meant by "revolution," what's important to unite around for those who consider themselves part of the anti-psychiatry movement is the need to end all forced drugging and "treatment." This should also be the basis for any coalitions. In terms of this goal the struggle against Murphy represents just about the most "politically correct" thing we could be doing right now, in the true sense of the term — i.e. combining the most advantageous strategy with the correct issue on which to focus our demands and bring together as many segments of the population.as possible.
People in the U.S. are in general not politically educated enough to comprehend class struggle, unlike the working classes in much of the rest of the world, so terms like "leftist" end up being misapplied to capitalist war criminals such as the Clintons and have become largely meaningless. In terms of our struggle, such terms are largely irrelevant, as so-called leftists and liberals dominate the psychiatric industry and support some of the most totalitarian policies imaginable, psychiatric and otherwise.
PS Good luck with your campaign!
lily.c May 4, 2016 at 6:04 pm
"People in the U.S. are in general not politically educated enough to comprehend class struggle, unlike the working classes in much of the rest of the world, so terms like "leftist" end up being misapplied to capitalist war criminals such as the Clintons and have become largely meaningless."
… Yeaaaaah. 🙁
Rooster May 2, 2016 at 12:33 pm
Thanks for your article David,
It's interesting that even here in MIA when the election is discussed as it relates to the "Mental Health" industry, we immediately fall back into the rhetoric of mainstream American politics, pointing fingers at whomever we don't support in the next election.
The fact of the matter is NONE of the mainstream candidates (and as far as I am aware none of the third party candidates ) have the type of understanding of the culture of mainstream mental health practice that is usually discussed here on MIA.
For that reason, we can't expect any of the candidates to support a critical psychiatry philosophy and agenda. Our voices are still outside the bounds of the "business as usual" political conversation. Virtually everybody in American culture (minus some psychiatric survivors, Libertarians, and religious fundamentalists) believe in the psychiatric dogmas of genetic basis, "mental illness", and medication management.
We have A LOT more speaking to do before an alternative position can be included in the conversation. Getting side tracked by political finger pointing is unlikely to expedite the inclusion of criticism of current practice into the widespread convo. Virtually every politician is looking to find the genetic basis for problems in living or the "right meds" to help people "get ahead"…all the while never hearing about outcome data coming from the "developing world", "Open Dialogue", and philosophical challenges to the tenets of mainstream diagnosis and practice. It's probably in our best interests to keep our eye on the ball, because whoever wins this next election is unlikely to be critically minded when it comes to psych.
Yep. Even Sanders — probably the only serious presidential ever to have sat down, years ago, with members of the psychiatric inmates' liberation movement to discuss our real issues — is pretty much clueless, even attacking his opponents with mentalist innuendo. (Though I'm pretty sure he still would be the only one open to discussion of the real issue if the appropriate contact could be made.)
Steve McCrea May 2, 2016 at 6:24 pm
Could not agree with you more. This is NOT a liberal/conservative issue. It is a human rights issue, and crosses all political boundaries. After all, the pharmaceutical companies aren't particularly selective where they spread their Pharma dollars, why should we be worried which side of the political fence someone is sitting on, as long as they get what is going on?
Johanna Ryan May 4, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for this call to arms, David! I just had a couple of ideas about how to approach Bernie Sanders:
1. There are a wealth of consumer/survivor/peer-led groups and activists in Vermont, Bernie's home state, which hosted at least two showings of the Healing Voices movie last week. (Not to mention MiA regular Sandy Steingard.) They may have an idea of how to get Bernie's ear.
2. Another avenue might be one of the ongoing Sanders support groups in Oregon. From my limited experience in Illinois, these groups are more in touch with social struggles on the ground than campaign staffers. I found the latter to be a somewhat insular tribe who jump from candidate to candidate and don't have much understanding of anything beyond electioneering. Sanders himself has always been about more than that. Probably why he has remained an Independent, not a Democrat, throughout his legislative career.
3. Sen. Sanders has done a lot of yelling at Big Pharma in the last year. Most of it has been around price-gouging, the easiest issue for an American to understand … But he also was one of the few to oppose Obama's nominee for FDA head, Robert Califf, because of his close ties to the pharmaceutical industry. (As in, joined at the hip.)
Just a few stray ideas … hope they're helpful ?
David W. Oaks May 4, 2016 at 7:07 pm
Thanks, these are good ideas! I like the idea of asking a Vermont activist. I used my search engine and found contact info for one. Will you please email to me at [email protected] and I will include you in the email exchange, if one develops. Since my major fall, I am moving much more slowly, so I am a bit surprised that this info is not out there. Maybe it is? Someone in Vermont must have asked Bernie and his staff where they stand on some of these issues? I asked one contact a few weeks ago and got nowhere. I will also ask on the FB page to stop the Murphy bill.
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Of course much of this book centers around the love lives of these women, which I wasn't particularly looking forward to – until I discovered that Dorothy was married to Sinclair Lewis, and that Rebecca had a long-term affair and child with H.G. Wells. The look into the lives of these accomplished authors was quite interesting in its own right, especially as the book followed their successes and falls from grace.
I expected there to be more overlap between Rebecca and Dorothy's lives, and I expected that they would be very good friends. As it turned out, while there did seem to be an awful lot of coincidences in their lives, they weren't really close friends. I thought the dual biography setup was interesting, unique and ultimately successful, though it didn't turn out the way I expected it to.
Of course, the book wasn't perfect, and my main issue was the way it jumped around in time. One chapter would cover one woman's life in 1930, and the next would jump to the other woman's life in 1915. There didn't seem to be a method behind the jumping, and it got especially jarring when while reading a chapter about one women, there would be a mention of something that happened to the other – only we hadn't gotten to that chapter yet.
Overall, this book was jam-packed with information, and was extremely detail rich and really immersed me in the world of these women. At the same time, it was quite accessible and I would highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in feminist literature, literary history, or simply a thought provoking biography.
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Walt Disney World and Star Wars Weekends 2010 Exclusive.
In addition it now seems likely that Disney and LucasFilms, which controls the new Star Wars film franchise, will focus on and promote a different agenda with characters they have and will invent. This will most likely reform the Star Wars franchise at Disney as it will be using the movies and animation series characters which they invented and which will be designed to promote new LucasFilms Ltd and Disney world view which will most help their corporations with their world concepts effecting the future. This most likely will increase demand for the George Lucas's Classic Star Wars character items approved by him, from the original trilogies and those with original Star Wars actors' autographs and mash up action and character figures, cels, prints, medium big figurines etc from Star Wars Weekends. The legends of the specialness of this ultimate magical event for Star Wars fans who made the pilgrimage to attend from all over the world will surely grow as time passes and the availability of items from the events will become increasingly rare. It marks the end of both the creative genius of the George Lucas Star Wars era and the magical Disney Star Wars Weekends era too. This figure is from both the George Lucas Star Wars era and the amazing Disney Star Wars Weekends events era. It was personally approved by George Lucas before he sold LucasFilm which makes it rare and more desirable for collectors as time passes, as no more items from either of those two eras can be produced.


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Slime Molds!
posted by Jason Kottke Mar 28, 2022
I have been a fan of slime molds ever since I read about them in Steven Johnson's Emergence; they are fascinating. From a NY Times excerpt of Johnson's book:
The slime mold spends much of its life as thousands of distinct single-celled units, each moving separately from its other comrades. Under the right conditions, those myriad cells will coalesce again into a single, larger organism, which then begins its leisurely crawl across the garden floor, consuming rotting leaves and wood as it moves about. When the environment is less hospitable, the slime mold acts as a single organism; when the weather turns cooler and the mold enjoys a large food supply, "it" becomes a "they." The slime mold oscillates between being a single creature and a swarm.
In his ongoing series of photographs, Barry Webb captures these bizarre and exotic creatures. Yet another example of not having to look off-world to find alien life. (via colossal)
Barry Webb
Emergence: how many stupid things become smart together
A nice overview of emergence by Kurzgesagt. I continue to find the concept of emergence endlessly fascinating — order from disorder, complexity from simplicity, more is different. As a society, we tend to underestimate how much emergence plays a role in why things happen the way they do and are therefore often wrong-footed in our analysis and response.
For a good primer on emergence and other related phenomena, check out Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.
Video Feedbackteria
If you point a video camera at a projection of the video camera's output — and if the conditions are just so — you get some interesting patterns that look almost biological. It's fascinating that video feedback strongly resembles the patterns on brain coral. There must be an underlying emergent process for filling space that links the two patterns together. The video was made by Ethan Turpin…you can see more of his work here. (via @sleeptest)
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Steven Reich to Brian Eno to Cory Arcangel
Onstage at PopTech just now, Brian Eno said that a musical piece by Steven Reich had a huge influence on how he thought about art. He said that Reich's piece showed him that:
1. You don't need much.
2. The composer's role is to set up a system and then let it go.
3. The true composer is actually in the listener's brain.
I'd never heard of Reich, but the name sounded familiar when Eno mentioned it. I realized I'd seen it yesterday when reading about Cory Arcangel's show at Team Gallery in reference to his piece, Sweet 16:
Cory applied American avant-garde composer Steven Reich's concept of phasing to the guitar intro of Guns and Roses' track Sweet Child O'Mine. Rather than use instruments, Cory took the same two clips from the song's music video and shortened one clip by a single note. As the videos loop, the two intros grow farther apart until they are back in sync.
He's veered away from video games, but Cory's new work is looking really interesting these days.
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Poptech 2006
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A Crash Course On Complexity, Emergence and Collective Intelligence.
Live City by Daniel Shiffman uses live
Live City by Daniel Shiffman uses live cam images of New York City to create a living, interacting virtual city.
gameoflife
posted by Jason Kottke Aug 11, 2005
I recently reread Steven Johnson's Emergence and was struck by how familar it all seemed, even for a reread. Flipping through the bibliography at the end, I realized why: much of my reading list over the past four years has come directly from those few pages in the back of the book:
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manual De Landa
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Pattern on the Stone by Danny Hillis
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Nonzero by Robert Wright
Since reading the book, I've also heard talks or read articles by other folks mentioned in the bibliography, like Franz De Waal, Eric Bonabeau, Kevin Kelly, James Howard Kunstler, Marvin Minsky, etc. I'd read a few things on the topic before Emergence, but it was really a catalyst for a area of study I didn't quite know I was focusing on until much later.
Scientists at Princeton have made a crude
Scientists at Princeton have made a crude computer out of bacteria. Earlier work showed "they could insert DNA into cells to make them behave like digital circuits [and] perform basic mathematical logic. The latest work expands this concept to vast numbers of bacteria responding in concert."
Stewart Brand interviews Jane Jacobs about cities
posted by Jason Kottke Apr 08, 2005
Stewart Brand interviews Jane Jacobs about cities. "Cities are about the most durable things we have. People think of them as superficial things, but they aren't. They're very, very basic. Rural places, which are considered more fundamental and more basic, actually are hangers-on of cities in most cases."
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Ooh, la la! Love me an eyelet hem. This style's both smart and sweet: a cute take on the classic button-front dress shirt! You'll love my floral crochet cuffs that are so fun and fabulously charming.
Dress shirt. Long sleeves with floral crochet eyelet cuff. Pentagonal neckline on front. Button closure up the front. Smooth to the touch cotton fabrication all over.
Model is wearing a plus size 14. Front from HPS: 29.5 in. Back from HPS: 27.25 in.


ACAC has been recognized as one of America's best health clubs by Men's Health Magazine, and its second club in the Philly suburbs is right here in Eagleview.
ACAC Eagleview proudly stands apart from other clubs by creating a welcoming environment where everyone can feel comfortable working out. You get to enjoy a state-of-the-art fitness facility, energetic group exercise classes, personal training, and even child care right here in Eagleview. No time to work-out? No worries. ACAC Eagleview is a 24-hour fitness facility so you can fit in fitness when it's convenient for you. The Eagleview location also just went through some major upgrades! A new cycle studio and expanded weight room have been installed to further help you achieve your fitness goals.


What is Catechetical Ministry (CM)?
Catechetical ministry is an important way for the Catholic church to carry out its mission of evangelization. "Catechesis is the act of handing on the Word of God intended to inform the faith community and candidates for initiation into the Church about the teachings of Christ, transmitted by the Apostles to the Church.
Catechesis also involves the lifelong effort of forming people into witnesses to Christ and opening their hearts to the spiritual transformation given by the Holy Spirit. " (usccb.org) We teach and inform the community and those new to the faith about Christ's teachings. A catechism, or written work that summarizes our catholic beliefs is used as a tool for teaching.
Enroll your kids in CM through our Catechetical Ministry (CM) program of Sacred Heart School.
Teach CM (religious education) for grades 1-12.
Teach RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults). Teach the English RCIA class or Chinese RCIA class.


Chilton Primary School - Remembrance Day!
Today we learnt why we wear the poppy! We learnt that in the First World War, there was a field of poppies and that a famous poem mentions them. We learnt that we wear the poppy to remember the wounded.


Computer Networks Program Scholarship ($1,000 - $3,000 per year).
* If you have applied for an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) and/or a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Scholarship (NSERC) or any other external funding and are successful, you must accept the external award since it is the policy of this University to accept external scholarships wherever possible. In such instances, you are not eligible for any internal scholarships or awards.
There is no funding for our domestic or international MEng students. Domestic MEng students may apply for OSAP student loans. For detailed information please contact Ryerson's Student Financial Aid Office. There are also 10 Academic Performance Awards, worth $2,000 each, available to MEng students each year. These awards are offered to MEng students, who have the highest GPA (Grade Point Average) and have completed 7 or more courses in the program by the end of the Winter term. The recipients of the awards will be announced in May each year.


Forums > ICMag Vendor Forums > Seedbay > Does seedbay still exist?
All seedbay and seedboutique stock went to realgorillaseeds.com. Gypsy made a thread about it.
Damn it stinks in here!
Yeah once this summer is over we should be coming out with a new Seedbay that's being worked on atm.
Are you accepting seeds for the server fund Gypsy?
Sure mate, if they are good fresh beans and possibly popular send 'em in.
My friend was looking for the same.
Gypsy, do you know if H3ad is still around or if you guys will have any Head seeds?


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Why Discord, Pinterest, Moz and Bleacher Report use Elixir. Case studies
Being still a new language, Elixir has had many adopters among tech giants such as Discord, Pinterest, Bleacher Report and Moz. Find out what issues they were able to solve thanks to making the switch.
Elixir is a relatively new language, created in 2011 with origins in Erlang. Read more about the characteristics of Elixir in this article.
Despite young age, it has many adopters including tech giants such as Discord, Bleacher Report, Pinterest and Moz, whose case studies we are about to examine in this article.
There is a rising demand for web developers with Elixir knowledge and skills. Want to stand out from the crowd? Start our Free Elixir Course today!
Discord: Handling growth and concurrency issues
Discord is a voice and chat service for gamers that has experienced continuous growth in the last years. Initially serving groups of less than 25 users, it arrived at the situation where there are up to 30,000 concurrent users at high-trafficked Discord servers like /r/Overwatch. As an early adopter of Elixir, Discord benefited a lot from its use. Let's take a look at some particular issues the app was able to overcome thanks to it.
Genstage
In summer 2016, the mobile push notification system in Discord has encountered issues with burst notifications during traffic spikes. Shortly after /r/Overwatch's Discord had passed 25,000 concurrent users, the system was significantly slowing down or even coming to a halt. Push notifications would either come late or would not appear at all.
Sending push notifications to Google's Firebase Cloud Storage messaging service turned out to be the bottleneck. A decision was made to overcome its limitations by sending push requests to Firebase not through HTTP, but via XMPP.
To avoid further system overloading, GenStage was employed.
According to Elixir creators, GenStage is a behavior for exchanging events with back-pressure between Elixir processes.
Thanks to its key feature called back-pressure, GenStage knows exactly how many push requests Firebase's XMPP connection can handle. In extreme situations, push requests are buffered. Whereas normally the buffer is empty, it may happen it fills up. That's when GenStage's Push Collector dumps the incoming push requests.
This is how no part of Discord's notification system gets overloaded nowadays. The use of GenStage makes it possible for Discord to handle over a million push requests per minute. Learn more about GenStage on GitHub
Voice services which scale
The backend infrastructure of Discord's voice services such as Discord Gateway, Discord Guilds and Discord Voice is written in Elixir. According to the Discord development team, it allows for lots of code reuse. This sole fact makes the code much more transparent and allows the voice services run on multiple platforms, such as web (Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc.), standalone apps (Windows, Linux, macOS) and phone (iOS, Android).
Thanks to the Elixir-driven efforts on both server architecture and client end, Discord was able to handle 2.6 million concurrent voice users with egress traffic of more than 220 Gbps (bits-per-second) and 120 Mpps (packets-per-second) in September. You can read about the details here.
Bleacher Report: From 150 servers to just 5
Bleacher Report is a leading real-time, mobile-first sports website which has faced concurrency issues during the major traffic spikes. Billions of page views and sent push notifications per month and over 250,000 monthly users - this is how the reality looked for the website's engineers in early 2017.
Originally written in Ruby on Rails, Bleacher Report could no longer scale. After examining the alternatives, the engineering team of Bleacher Report decided to use Elixir for its backend. Reasons? The Ruby-inspired Elixir syntax makes it easy for Ruby developers to make the transition, which - combined with the vast performance advantage - made for an easy choice.
After switching to Elixir, Bleacher Report's infrastructure was reduced from 150 servers to merely five, according to TechWorld.
Needless to say, this reduction saved BR huge amounts of money.
What have you pinned to your board lately? We know at least some of you use Pinterest for visual inspiration, as in the third quarter of 2018, the service crossed 250 million active users, who have pinned 175 billion items on 3 billion virtual pinboards. The social media giant has benefited from a similar backend and cost reduction as Bleacher Report.
It seems that, at least in some part, Pinterest owes theses benefits to Elixir. After converting to this language in 2014, the system delivered over 14,000 notifications per second, working on merely 15 servers - half less in comparison to the time it was written in Java.
The rate-limiting system for Pinterest's API and Ads API is written in Elixir and responds faster than its predecessor.
Another reason for the use of Elixir by the 12.3 billion $ worth company is clarity of code. The new system reduced the amount of code to around 1000 lines, which is a tenfold less in comparison with the old Java version.
Read more about Pinterest's conversion to Elixir here.
Moz is a SEO software development company. In 2016, the backend of Moz Pro, its digital marketing and SEO suite underwent a general overhaul. The goals included improving speed and performance of the application, and unlocking new features.
Moz Pro serves keyword ranking reports to its users in a cyclical manner. As more data were added to its toolset, the app's architecture scaled poorly and did not perform well with large sets of data. In result, Moz Pro was unable to serve features like complete campaign history to its users.
The MySQL database storage turned out to be the main bottleneck of Moz Pro.
The Seattle-based company tried several solutions to improve the performance of the service. After having tested its own internal prototype using CSV files and an SQLite solution, Moz developers chose a database-free architecture and a data indexing model which runs on Elixir.
Elixir enables processing rankings from cold storage in Amazon S3 and loading it into memory. What's more, data can be indexed up front, resulting in a ready-to-query structure. The data are smaller: they occupy 63 times less disk space in comparison with their corresponding MySQL tables.
The Elixir-driven API serves the data 20 times faster. Moz Pro can move the data from the cold storage stage to a finished "shard" in under 25 seconds in an average campaign. More complex campaigns take about two minutes to be presented. Which, in contrast to 13 (in case of the former) and 45 minutes (for the latter) is a huge progress, isn't it?
The list goes on
The above case studies are only a foretaste of Elixir's global adoption. Other companies who have been using this language (or at least are said to) include Netflix, Yala, Wistia, Slack and Adobe are said to use Elixir in production. This list is not complete though, as new adopters join this community on regular basis.
There is a brand new article on our blog dedicated to the famous websites built with Elixir/Phoenix. If you want to know who else uses both the language and the framework, just take a look.
You can find out about more companies which use Elixir in production on this website
Concurrency and scalability issues seem to have been the main reasons behind the decisions of Discord, Bleacher Report, Pinterest and Moz to switch to Elixir. All of them have improved the performance of their services thanks to it. The change also resulted in code amount cuts, and significantly reduced the server infrastructure, saving those companies lots of money.
If you are still curious if Elixir is a right choice for your company, don't hesitate to take part in our Free Elixir Course.
Wondering if Elixir is a good fit for your business? Get in touch with us and let's talk about it!
A big 'thank you' goes out to Michał Buszkiewicz for quality checking and valuable contribution to this article. And to Kuba Bakalarczyk for an awesome graphic.


Which zone will the VCS Control use to route calls to the VCS Expressway?
You want to configure Cisco VCS SIP endpoints and H.323 endpoints so that they communicate with one another. To do this, which format must you use in the Search Rule?
When you connect a Cisco VCS Control to Cisco Unified Communications Manager by using a SIP trunk, which mechanism do you use to verify that the trunk has an active connection?
Which DNS SRV Records must be configured on the external DNS server in a mobile remote access scenario with Cisco Expressway?
A new administrator at Company X has deployed a VCS Control on the LAN and VCS Expressway in the DMZ to facilitate VPN-less SIP calls with users outside of the network. However, the users report that calls via the VCS are erratic and not very consistent. What must the administrator configure on the firewall to stabilize this deployment?
A. The VCS Control should not be on the LAN, but it must be located in the DMZ with the Expressway.
B. The firewall at Company X must have all SIP ALG functions disabled.
C. The firewall at Company X requires a rule to allow all traffic from the DMZ to pass to the same network that the VCS Control is on.
D. A TMS server is needed to allow the firewall traversal to occur between the VCS Expressway and the VCS Control servers.
The VCS Expressway can be configured with security controls to safeguard external calls and endpoints. One such option is the control of trusted endpoints via a whitelist. Where is this option enabled?
Which statement about configuring the Cisco VCS Control and Cisco VCS Expressway is true?
A. You do not need to configure search rules for traversal calls.
B. You need to configure the firewall to allow communication from the Cisco VCS Expressway to the Cisco VCS Control.
C. The username on the Cisco VCS Control and Cisco VCS Expressway are local and do not need to match.
D. The Cisco VCS Expressway is the Traversal Server.
Company X wants to implement RSVP-based Call Admission Control and move away from the current location-based configuration. Where does the administrator go to create a default profile?
Where can you change the clusterwide DSCP setting for Cisco Unified Communications Manager?
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Fall is in the air, and the cooler weather is on the way. It is a great time to be in the New Orleans area. Autumn brings beautiful weather, fun festivals and a whole new color palette. Get in the spirit with these fun and easy fall decorating tips for your apartment!
More of a painter than a carver? No problem! Painting pumpkins for Halloween can still create a cool aesthetic without the mess and labor that comes with carving them. There are endless options for painting pumpkins – they can be made as pretty or as spooky as you'd like. They can be customized with fun googly eyes, beads, sequins, or whatever your imagination can produce. You can create solid colors, shapes, silhouettes or multiple colors. One large pumpkin to set outside your door or several small ones placed around your apartment rental near New Orleans will look fabulous after being painted over!
Fall is all about beautiful weather, so the outdoors presents a world of natural decorating resources. Creating natural interior designs is as easy as gathering acorns into a vase or mason jars, painting pinecones to place on a banister or window sill, or fashioning a homemade wreath out of colorful fall leaves.
If you don't want to bring Mother Nature into your home, fake leaves and greenery are great options for adding fall accents to your apartment. Art supply stores like Michael's, located conveniently close to 1st Lake's Metairie apartment rentals and Kenner apartments for rent on Veterans Blvd and S. Clearview Pkwy have an abundant supply of fall supplies to make your apartment home fall-ready.
1st Lake is proud of its landscaping, walking paths, creeks and pool areas. Put on your tennis shoes and start enjoying the outdoor amenities of your New Orleans area apartment community.


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Corner Store (2010) is a documentary film about Yousef, an owner of a corner grocery store in San Francisco. The film was produced and directed by Katherine Bruens and Sean Gillane, acting as both cinematographer and co-writer. Filming began in December 2009.

Yousef Elhaj, an owner of a corner grocery store in San Francisco is the focus of Corner Store. The film is structured as a first-person narrative with an informal and intimate tone and shot largely as cinema vérité. The camera introduces the audience to Yousef, who left Palestine ten years ago during the Second Intifada, and was forced to leave his wife and children behind as an economic refugee. During the interceding decade, Yousef has not only worked alone in the store but has also lived alone in the store's small back room, which also serves as the office and stock room.

As his children have grown into young adults, he has only been to visit them once and then for only ten days. Yet he has put everything into ensuring the success of his business working from eight in the morning until midnight or two in the morning seven days a week and 365 days a year—for ten years. The film then follows the family as they embark on new challenges and adjustments as Palestinian Americans in the United States.

The filmmakers traveled to the West Bank to capture Yousef's return and the culturally beautiful but politically unstable condition of the West Bank today. The filmmakers documented their journey with a daily blog so supporters at home could track the production.

References

External links

 San Francisco Bay Guardian
 New York Times article
 San Francisco Chronicle article

2010 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Films shot in San Francisco
2010 documentary films
Documentary films about businesspeople
2010s English-language films
2010s American films

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Now in Miami, Cunanan left his red pickup in plain sight a few blocks away from Gianni Versace's mansion.10 After the 50-year-old fashion designer returned from his morning walk, he found Andrew Cunanan at his front steps. Cunanan then shot and killed Versace on July 15, 1997.11 To kill Versace, he used the same gun that he stole from his first victim, Jeffery Trail, and that he also used to murder David Madson and William Reese.12 Cunanan fled the scene and hid out in a nearby house boat to avoid being found. Eight days after the murder of his last victim, Gianni Versace, Andrew Cunanan was discovered by the houseboat's owner, who then shot Cunanan.13 Andrew Cunanan looked for attention his whole life, and he found it in all the wrong ways, but just like his personality, he ended everything with a bang.
This was a very good article to read, what exactly caused Cunanan to go on his crazy murdering spree that he went on or if it had no motive. With the mugshots he doesn't look like a crazy guy or the kind of ideal guy to do this kind of thing. But then again you never know. Nonetheless its still very sad what happened Gianni Versace.
I am disappointed with the ending of this story. When reading the title I imagined that the story would focus a little bit more on Gianni Versace and his story of his murder not so much on the story of his murderer. I would have liked to have a stronger conclusion instead of just, and Versace was shot. Otherwise, the life of Cunanan was interesting to follow and crazy to think that he was just killing people just to kill. A lot of serial killers do it for the same purpose however and it shocks me. Why not want to be recognized for the good things you can do in life and not the bad ones that cost people that you do not even know their life?
I hadn't heard nor did I know of Andrew Cunanan until this article, and to be quite honest, I didn't know that Versace was dead, more less murdered. I wonder if he had a motive other than money when it came to murdering people, and I also wonder how it is that the house boat owners found him. This article was a very interesting read because it gives the events leading up to the murder of Versace, but also discusses his previous victims and why some of them were chosen.
This is a very good article. I'm curious to know what exactly it was that cause Cunanan to go on his murderous spree, or if it was all without motive. According to the mugshots provided, he doesn't LOOK very murderous, but then, I guess, who actually does? Anyways, it's tragic that Gianni Versace was taken so prematurely, considering the enormous empire he was beginning to build.