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Posted on May 15, 2019 May 2, 2019 by shadengk — Leave a comment
Endgame Spoilers: The 'Black Widow' Movie Has a Problem
Marvel was hailed for its decision to finally give fans what they had been asking for: a "Black Widow" movie starring Scarlett Johansson. This is a movie fanboys and fanwomen can get behind with little controversy. The only problem is (spoilers ahead) –
Black Widow is dead.
ICYMI, (and with a global box office take heading beyond $2 billion, how could you?): Black Widow sacrificed herself to get the Soul Stone, so that Hawkeye could go back to his family. This exchange is permanent according to the paragon of truth known as the Red Skull (Do we really trust his word on it and how did he get to be an expert after being sent to Vormir by the Tesseract?). Hulk Banner tried to bring her back with his snap and failed. So, as far as anyone knows, Black Widow is dead forever and ever. Amen.
Of course, permanent in the comic book world is really more like "until pent up demand will sell a whole lot of comics with the right story line.) And Marvel has a problem with keeping its characters dead. Just ask Agent/Director Phil Coulson (I thought his name was "agent"), or any of the dozens of characters brought back in "Avengers: Endgame." So, what will the "Black Widow" movie be about?
Let's assume that Black Widow is dead and not coming back. That makes the "Black Widow" movie a prequel – or, as I like to call prequels, a movie with no stakes. We already know what happens to Natasha Romanoff in the future. We know she joins the Avengers and ends up sacrificing herself for the greater good. We spent the last decade learning who Romanoff is now, not knowing much about her past.
This type of "Black Widow" movie would have the same problem that "Solo" had. It's playing with a character that everyone knows and loves. In "Solo," there wasn't enough character turning to explain how Han went from someone who loves a woman to someone who is only out for himself. (Maybe future movies would've explored this arc, but those look to be defunct as do many of the other Star Wars movies that were planned." To succeed, the prequel would have to fully explain how Romanoff went from U.S.S.R. super spy to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, especially after going through extensive brainwashing and the cultural brainwashing that comes from living in any society.
You could write her change in heart and nature while comparing it to the fall of the U.S.S.R., but this type of political and historical action will need a context that many people today, even those who lived through it, simply lack. It's a risky proposition fraught with peril and landmines.
A prequel would also necessitate another landmine situation. Scarlett Johansson would have to go through the same de-aging process as Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Michael Douglas, and to a lesser extent, Michelle Pfeiffer. In the body-positive age, will anyone be happy with a de-aged ScarJo? No one's made a bug deal about it with the men or with Pfeiffer, but done incorrectly, it could have a negative impact greater than the trolls that regularly come out to jeer Marvel's superwomen.
While it's unlikely that any titular character is going to die in his or her own movie, the possibility of Black Widow's death in a prequel is zero. Prequels, like flashbacks, have no weight. They have no stakes. Instead of advancing the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they stop it dead in its tracks. "Captain Marvel" was well-received, but knowing she was in Endgame took away some of the power the movie could've had. "Black Widow" would suffer in the same way. The film will be like watching a biography or documentary made by a company that usually deals in high stakes movies.
The Alternate Timeline
It's an alternate timeline Black Widow! This could certainly be more entertaining to watch as Romanoff gets plucked out of time and transported to the present day that requires her specific set of skills. This "Black Widow" could more fully develop Marvel's version of time travel and the problems it causes. It could even be set up as part of the story line that Black Widow's death and some seriously negative side effects. (What if she's the glue for a team that otherwise won't work together and fails at their mission?) The story could really be anything with an alternate timeline Romanoff.
The problem with this "Black Widow" movie is that people are used to Marvel films and television (even the Netflix shows) taking place in the same timeline. That's what built up the colossal success of "Endgame." While some shows may be moving in that direction (i.e. Disney+'s "Loki"), the movies could have a problem keeping their audiences and their tie-ins to each other. Marvel could come up with a designation to separate out the timelines, but it could get messy for quickly and destroy the cohesiveness that has allowed the MCU to flourish on the movie screen. Fortunately, fan sites can help keep people straight on which movie goes where.
The Soul Stone
The Soul Stone is said to trap the souls exchanged for its use inside a pocket dimension or alternate reality. Exploring this world would definitely be interesting and move the story forward. Perhaps, because Black Widow sacrificed herself, the Soul Stone reacts differently to her. It may be the reason she's able to return, proving the Red Skull wring in the process. The self-sacrifice and its purity in act and intention would explain why Gamora can't escape, as could her child form. However, it's possible for her child form to play the role of mentor and guide for Black Widow.
The souls trapped in the stone could be like crabs in a bucket. They keep each other trapped, and Black Widow will have to figure out how to fix that. In this scenario Gamora could be used to betray Black Widow when its revealed that Gamora has been sabotaging Romanoff from the beginning. The Soul Stone doesn't sound like a good entity if it wants to trap souls. In the case of Gamora, it may be that the longer a soul spends in the stone, the more corrupt it becomes.
If Marvel still wants to include an origin story for Black Widow, it can use the Soul Stone alternate reality as a place made up of the person's past experiences. This could be a sort of health, especially if the Soul Stone gains its powers through the torture of souls (or through their screams, like Monstropolis in "Monsters Inc." before they found the true power of a child's laughter).
Marvel continues to surprise and wow audiences, but even the best of studios is going to make a misstep. Let's hope "Black Widow" isn't the next one.
Tags: avengers endgame, black widow, endgame, gamora, hawkeye, hulk, kurt russell, loki, marvel, michael douglas, michelle pfeiffer, natasha romanoff, phil coulson, prequels, red skull, samuel jackson, scarlett johansson, SHIELD, solo, soul stone
Posted on May 9, 2019 May 4, 2020 by shadengk — Leave a comment
Who Has the Better Fans: Marvel or Star Wars?
As "Avengers: Endgame" prepares to fall short of the domestic box office total of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," we should ask who has the better movie fans. Are Star Wars fans better than Marvel fans?
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Tags: avengers, captain marvel, endgame, far from home, force awakens, marvel, marvel movies, rise of the skywalker, rogue one, star wars, x-men
Posted on April 28, 2019 April 28, 2019 by shadengk — Leave a comment
Why This Isn't an 'Avengers: Endgame' Review: Spoiling Things Sucks
KINDER SURPRISE! NO SPOILERS!
Every m-f-ing major media website has posted more stories about "Avengers: Endgame" by now than it has any right to, but I'm not upset about that. What I am upset about is that I haven't had the opportunity to see Endgame yet and with every frickin' new headline, its photo and its accompanying article summary, I come closer to having the movie spoiled for me. I don't want headlines about certain characters and accompanying questions. And I would repeat them here, except then I would be doing the same thing to you that Yahoo!, Entertainment Weekly, and others have already done to me.
Why do they do it? Money. In a couple of weeks, no one is going to care about Avengers: Endgame. They're going to be on to something else: Godzilla, maybe, or Pokémon, or John Wick… Whatever it is, the general public isn't going to want to click on Avengers: Endgame stories anymore. Even if it does, those stories are worth a lot more because they are already on the web, so people who are late to the game will still be able to click and find them.
In journalism and the Internet, it's all about speed. Get it out first and fast. You can correct errors later and, in the case of a movie article, people who don't want spoilers shouldn't click on the link and F them anyway. I have unfollowed spoiler accounts including the New York and LA times and Yahoo! Entertainment. I will continue to do so. I might follow them back later on, because print media like the New York Times and the LA Times need saving for the sake of the First Amendment and democracy, but for now, they can believe that Thanos snapped me out of existence.
So, for now, Thanos demands my silence. If you want to read a review from me, you're going to have to swim against the tide and wait a couple of weeks. I will post my review then. It may or may not have spoilers. I don't know. What I do know is that now is not the time to be publishing stories about the movie that could ruin it for others. And that, true believer, includes information about cameos, Easter eggs, and any of the characters we've spent the last 22 movies following. Follow my blog, follow me on Twitter and on Facebook if you want to read my review of Avengers: Endgame later and show the other news media that you will support a review even after the original furor goes by. When it comes up, share it and comment on it. (You can do the same with this article if you feel like I do about spoiling things, except commenting – no commenting, no GIFs, no SPOILERS.)
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HP announces next-gen Omen gaming hardware
Stephanie Chan@sweijuchan	 June 6, 2017 2:00 AM
Image Credit: Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is giving its Omen gaming hardware a boost with its next-generation laptops and desktop computer.
In a press briefing call on June 2, HP's chief technologist Mike Nash emphasized that expandability and upgradability were big priorities in the latest updates. Both the new Omen 15-inch and 17-inch laptops feature single access panels, and the Omen desktop now will have access to inside the chassis without the use of tools. With maximum specifications, the Omen 15 will be $1,600, and the Omen 17 will be $1,800. The Omen 15 will have graphics cards of up to Nvidia GTX 1060 or AMD RX550, and the Omen 17 will have up to Nvidia GTX 1070 or AMD RX580. Both reportedly have improved thermal performance with twice the number of fans as previous models.
New Omen Command Center software will act as a hub where users can customize keyboard configurations and backlighting, as well as overclock PCs and change app prioritization.
"About three-quarters or 70 percent of users say they use at least three different applications to manage their gameplay experience," said Nash. "64 percent of users experience latency issues, and only 14 percent of those customers use a solution to solve it." Nash said that about 20 percent of their users overclock their PCs. With the Command Center, HP hopes that it will be easier for anyone to adjust their settings.
Anticipating more growth in the virtual reality gaming space, both laptops are now VR-ready, whereas in the past only the Omen 17 was. Game developers are still enthusiastic about VR, and HP reports that 76 percent of all VR content is games. Last year, it released a backpack holster as a way to provide a more immersive, wireless experience.
In addition to upgrades to its notebooks and desktop PC, HP is also updating peripherals, including an adjustable-weight mouse as well as additional 25-inch and 27-inch monitors — starting at $280 and $800 respectively — to its current roster of displays. The new 25-inch monitor is a FHD display with a 144Hz refresh rate and 16:9 aspect ratio, and features AMD FreeSync Technology, which is supposed to prevent it from dropping frames. The 27-inch monitor is a QHD display with a 165Hz refresh rate as well as a 16:9 aspect ratio, and instead features Nvidia G-Sync support.
For users who don't own an Omen gaming computer, HP is releasing the Omen by HP accelerator, which is an external GPU and storage add-on that connects via a Thunderbolt cable. A starting price of $300 includes the accelerator and its 500-watt power supply, but HP notes that later on they will offer storage add-ons of 1TB 5400 rpm HDD, 1TB 7200 rpm HDD, or 256 GB SSD, and graphics card add-ons of Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, or AMD Radeon RX 580.
HP currently offers two categories of gaming hardware: Omen, which is targeted more at what it calls "performance gamers" who care about maximum performance per dollar; and Omen X, which is targeted at "enthusiast gamers," who place importance on cutting-edge performance. HP announced that it has partner with Blizzard Entertainment for the Overwatch World Cup this year, providing Omen X desktop computers for all events.

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Koreen: Pascal Siakam is only player keeping the Raptors from true hopelessness
Updated: 1 month, 11 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes, 52 seconds ago
The trade machine vultures are circling the Raptors, and deservedly so. The league's front offices plan months and years in advance to be able to acquire players the calibre of some of the Raptors' best, and the team has earned its turn in the unwanted spotlight with its languid play. In a way, it's a compliment: If the team didn't have players worth acquiring, the trade chatter would be quieter.
During Sunday's loss to the Warriors, Kevin O'Connor, a basketball writer at The Ringer, tweeted that the Raptors were in "blow it up" territory. Now, O'Connor has become a blow-it-up connoisseur (not a criticism; he likes to identify which teams might be better off disbanding than staying on their current path), so it must be read in that context. The Raptors aren't there yet, but in a league in which you want to avoid getting stuck in the middle, the speculation is understandable — especially in a draft year with a potentially once-in-a-generation prospect, Victor Wembanyama. (Beyond him, the class is thought to be a good one.)
The Raptors are in Blow It Up territory
-13-17 record, losers of 5 straight
-The team looks broken
-No realistic path to contention
-Only 3.5 back from the bottom 4
-Veterans they could get a haul for
-Young talent to build with, making it more of a retool and not a long rebuild pic.twitter.com/QEmfLKHZjz
— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) December 19, 2022
Before we get too far into this conversation, which wasn't quieted by the 104-101 overtime loss in Philadelphia, the sixth on the trot for the Raptors, we need to define some terms. When people talk about "blowing it up," they mean a team should abandon its current plan for success. When people talk about "tanking," be it a long-term or short-term strategy, as John Hollinger did last week, it involves roster machinations and, let's say, strategic decisions about player availability that make losing more likely. Blowing it up can lead to tanking, but not all tanking is the same as blowing it up. Got it? Good.
For the Raptors' purposes, this is how you'll know the difference. If they trade Pascal Siakam, they will be blowing it up. Anything shy of that falls shy of that definition, too.
Trading Fred VanVleet, a first-time All-Star last year who is shooting poorly this season and will likely hit free agency at age 29 in the summer? Not blowing it up. Trading OG Anunoby, a tremendous defensive player with solid utility as a tertiary scorer, to add some draft picks and/or increased depth? Not blowing it up. Trading Siakam, a two-time All-NBA player who is playing some of his best basketball ever? Yep, that qualifies. Without him, the premise of the Raptors evaporates.
For the struggling Raptors, Siakam is basically the whole damn thing, the last guy separating them from generally competitive and a train wreck. His offensive output has dipped a bit from before his adductor injury, but he has done multiple things recently — holding Kevin Durant to 15 shot attempts, notably — to distinguish himself.
Monday, he was great. Full stop. He had 38 points, 15 rebounds and six assists, the first two stats being season highs. He also produced one of the greatest individual sequences in Raptors history. With the Raptors down two points at the end of regulation, he skied for a rebound in traffic, took the ball down the floor, slithered by P.J. Tucker and hit the score-tying layup high off the glass at an awkward angle. The 76ers still had some time on the clock, and Siakam switched on to Joel Embiid and guarded him physically without fouling, forcing a miss.
SIAKAM UP TO 38 POINTS.
WE ARE GOING TO OT.
5 more minutes of CrunchTime: https://t.co/l0hlhlmrQi pic.twitter.com/qpBef2cb9N
— NBA (@NBA) December 20, 2022
Siakam did it all, and it was only countless missed 3-pointers, several from VanVleet on clean looks, that kept the Raptors from breaking this slump. On consecutive possessions late in the third quarter, Siakam pushed the ball up the floor and got off the ball, only to get it back and drill a 3. Philadelphia took the ball down the court, and Siakam got an offensive foul called by having the energy to go over the screen. He got his rest soon after, only to be called back in for the last possession of the quarter, hitting just his fifth pull-up 3 of the year to tie the score. The Sixers dutifully started sending a double-team at Siakam to start the fourth quarter when VanVleet, Anunoby and Scottie Barnes were resting. Siakam adjusted. He played all but 84 seconds in the second half and overtime.
Early in the game, Siakam got the Raptors going with two baskets by going straight at Embiid, the first one a trademark spin move. In the NBA Finals run, Embiid's defence flummoxed Siakam. Almost four years later, he knows how to counter it. When Embiid wasn't guarding him, Tucker, one of the most physical perimeter defenders in the league, was. Siakam and Tucker exchanged trash talk in a game earlier in the year and exchanged technicals Monday. Siakam smiled widely as he was called for an offensive foul, probably one possession after he actually deserved one. Siakam never stopped sizing up the defence correctly, though, making the passes that needed to be made to get some necessary ball movement, with one exception.
Whether the Raptors should trade Siakam is yet to be determined. It depends on how, whether and when they can get themselves out of this hole they cannot stop digging. It depends on the offers that are on the table. It depends on the ancillary moves that might be available. If the Raptors continue to lose, there will be plenty of time to discuss that.
"At the end of the day, I don't care about the schemes or this or that," a frustrated Siakam said Sunday night. "We've just got to win. That's the only thing. I don't know the difference compared to (past) groups. I just know this group right now, we're struggling. It's really bad. We have to get out of it."
Just know that without Siakam, they'd have no chance of doing that. Siakam is the type of player you move only when you're sure every other possible route takes you nowhere worth going.
• Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to show you Barnes setting a screen and then catching a pass on the roll. More, please. Like, five-times-a-game more.
• Given the Raptors' offensive shortcomings and lack of confidence, Nick Nurse has to stagger the minutes of Siakam and VanVleet. One of them should be on the court at all times. Both sat for more than three minutes to start the second quarter, a stretch in which the 76ers outscored Toronto 17-5. Managing minutes is difficult, but that's not the way for Nurse to accomplish that right now.
• Monday was one of the Raptors' best defensive efforts in a long time. Still, doubling Embiid in the middle of the floor, late in regulation, ahead by four points, seemed like a bizarre choice to me. VanVleet leaving De'Anthony Melton in the corner for James Harden above the break was worse. Chris Boucher's poor closeout effort was the capper.
• I thought Khem Birch would start Monday for the Raptors. Instead, Nurse opted to stay small in the starting lineup, having Anunoby slide into Christian Koloko's spot upon his return from a hip injury and keeping Juancho Hernangomez in the opening group. I anticipated Nurse would want somebody more physical to deal with Embiid at the start, avoiding foul trouble with some more central players, but that's not what Nurse chose. Birch started the second half, with Young and Boucher combining to finish the game.
Birch's offensive shortcomings make leaning on him difficult, but he made an obvious difference against Embiid. Unlike Barnes at the beginning of the game, Birch fought for space with an ability to win (or, at least, lose more slowly). Birch encouraged some awkward shots from the MVP candidate, a reminder of his utility.
• Anunoby returned from a four-game absence because of a hip injury; during that time, he also got to rest his sore hand. He was not good to start. The low point: trying to throw an alley-oop pass to Barnes on a two-on-one with Montrezl Harrell defending the rim. Either drive it to the bucket and make Harrell commit a foul or keep it simple with the pass. (The Raptors' transition efficiency has taken a huge hit since the start of the year.)
Anunoby found more of his rhythm as the game progressed and finished with 13 points and some stout late-game defence.
(Photo: Tim Nwachukwu / Getty Images)
Tag: joel embiid mvp, joel embiid mvp 2022, joel embiid mvp voting, joel embiid mvp odds, joel embiid mvp reddit. Trading Fred VanVleet, Juancho Hernangomez.
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-The integration of chant quotations into his compositions.
-Include joyful dances in his music.
The article concludes with additional examples that indicate that Messiaen used chant quotations and compositional techniques derived from chant in order to express his Catholic faith on a grander scale.


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In 2008 the main guest at the Raflost festival was Morton Subotnick (http://www.mortonsubotnick.com), one of the best known American composer of electronic music. Besides his pioneering work using one of the first electronic synthesizers Mr. Subotnick is probably best known for being the first person to compose electronic music specifically for LP in 1967. The piece, Silver Apples of the Moon, is now one of the classics of the electronic music scene.
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In 2010, RAFLOST joined hands with Pikslaverk, the Icelandic member of the Pixelache Network to organize the merged festival RAFLOST+PIKSLAVERK. This proved to be very successful, increasing the number of international guests considerably and bringing more theoretical focus. Also, the student workshop, RAFLOSTi, was held with support from the Cirrus network and led by Teijo Pellinen.
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He worked as a voiceover actor for more than 25 years.
An experienced skydiver who was also a longtime voiceover actor has died after a midair collision during a jump at a Southeast Texas skydiving center.
The Houston-area center, Skydive Spaceland, says in a statement that two seasoned skydivers deployed parachutes normally during a planned group jump on Saturday, but that they later collided and fell to the ground, killing one and injuring the other.
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Economic growth is seen as the primary means of fostering business development, new job creation, and income growth. Because increases in productivity, or worker output per hour, impact economic growth, the likes of Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer have emphasized the need to increase productivity in order to address weak economic growth and an expanding income gap. From 1949 to 2005, US productivity grew on average 2.5% yearly; whereas, from 2006 to 2015, US productivity grew on average 1.25% yearly. Given that productivity has increased 73% from 1973 to 2015, yet worker compensation has only increased 11%, payroll practices have clearly played a role in discouraging productivity growth.
People are motivated by their economic, social, and emotional interests. A pleasant work environment and a sense of pride in one's work can do a great deal to motivate an employee. After all, people may work for a paycheck, but they work hard because they care. That said, income determines how well people live. With costs continually growing and new expenses arising, people need to see an increase in their incomes in order to maintain a healthy standard of living. They also need motivational raises on a regular basis to feel a sense of accomplishment and appreciation. Faced with budget constraints, business owners and managers need to set pay and reward raises with productivity in mind.
Through new employment opportunities or raises, employees must continually grow their incomes to maintain and improve their standards of living. Although some raises are scheduled periodically, others may be rewarded under special circumstances. Because employers want to retain seasoned employees, raises are also necessities for employers. In general, this is why raises are given retroactively for increased productivity and more reliable performance that comes with the experiences of seasoned workers. Consequently, most employees have already done something to earn their raises.
Unfortunately, businesses cannot simply request a raise to cover these additional costs, thus some employers expect higher productivity from their employees following a raise. In most cases, however, employers cannot rightfully expect higher productivity on top of what improvements have already been made, because the employees have already "paid" for their share of the costs associated with the raise. On the other hand, a reward can also be an excellent motivator, so a raise may well inadvertently result in higher productivity. What raises do is help sustain productivity.
When additional work has been mounded onto employees, a preemptive raise in anticipation of increased productivity is appropriate. Whether a promotion or the result of a shrinking workforce, a preemptive raise can be necessary to help motivate employees when they have more incentives to seek alternative employment than to take on increased workloads. From the employee's perspective, there is no reason or justification for an employer to expect more out of an employee for the same pay, so a little extra pay for an overloaded worker can actually help employers cut costs without weakening performance. Taking such a step can also help ease resentment over the new responsibilities that have been forced upon seasoned employees.
Beyond monetary rewards, praise from supervisors and daily perks can have a far more meaningful impact on productivity than raises. Where non-monetary rewards are immediately applied during the workday, paychecks come long after the work is done. As such, raises should be part of an incentive protocol to motivate employees, not an end-all solution that employers can implement when they have asked too much of their employees or the company needs a boost in output. This is exactly why most raises are given to reinforce an employer's praise and maintain good employee-employer relations while a preemptive raise may be used to combat negative sentiments toward the employer, which are highly demotivating.
In the face of economic decline or budgetary issues, however, cost cutting measures must be implemented for a business to remain viable. Human resources are pricy and, more often than not, consume a large portion of a company's budget. For employers, ensuring the company can keep the doors open likely means reducing the number of employees or slashing pay. In this way, pay cuts actually better represents the dynamic value of labor, yet the instability created by fluctuating incomes creates greater economic instability that hurts overall commerce. As such, employers need to understand setting high wages and salaries is indirectly necessary for their future growth. To maintain a viable workforce in lean times, employers should, therefore, try to reduce hours instead of pay.
Corporations and small businesses alone cannot value the labor they consume, because they will tend to undervalue labor and create imbalance in the broader economy. This can contribute to instability, which is similar to any situation where an essential product is undervalued and over consumed, i.e. employees can be overworked and paid too little to support a healthy lifestyle. On the other hand, the interests of businesses are to reduce payroll costs, so balancing the needs of the broader economy with the interests of individual businesses requires setting employee wages and salaries in line with competitive demand and employee expectations.
Like all commodities, labor needs to be valued. Every time a company offers a certain amount of compensation for a particular position, it is helping to define the value of a person's labor. Across entire industries and within specific regions, businesses should use these standards to determine what demand for labor justifies a specific base pay rate. Because the value of labor is defined over an entire workforce, ensuring labor is properly valued requires industry wide bargaining that helps balance the influences of demand and supply, yet individuals must also help set standards when they accept jobs with a particular level of compensation. For highly productive fields, the base pay rate will obviously be higher.
As such, employers must set pay based on what an employee's work is worth to that business on average. In other words, the profits from that employee's labor are the first factor in setting a fair wage. Unfortunately, industrial sectors like manufacturing have seen their labor values undercut by outsourcing and shifts away from some product lines as well as the realization of expenses like environmental costs through tougher regulations, health issues, and the emerging fallout of climate shift. Taking this reality into account, as well as the quality of an employee's work, employers can help set a decent wage or salary. Although an employer cannot pay an employee more than the business can afford, it is important to recognize underpaying employees will eventually attract lower quality employees and lead to weaker performance.


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Q: How to set timer of 5 min to do certain operation in app and if timeouts, raise another event to do other task I am developing airlines reservation app. Here, user selects flight and logs in. After login 5 min time is to be provided to him to complete his reservation, payment and confirm ticket. If his task is not completed within 5 min time, his reservation is to be cancelled. For cancelling, I need some event to be triggered. This event should not be triggered if user operation is completed within 5 min.
What is the best practices to do this in MVC 5 and C#?
I have found c# timer event method to accomplish the task but I am still not sure if I should use this or not. Is there better solution available? Also, not sure on how do I cancel reservation after time interval exceeds 5 min?
(Updated)
I found the solution and it worked exactly the way I wanted.
In case if someone might need the solution in future. I am positing in here.
private static void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    //do something
}

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

    if (Session["Timer"] == null)
    {
        Session["Timer"] = new System.Timers.Timer();
    }

    ((System.Timers.Timer)Session["Timer"]).Interval = 5000;
    ((System.Timers.Timer)Session["Timer"]).Elapsed += OnTimedEvent;
    ((System.Timers.Timer)Session["Timer"]).AutoReset = true;
    ((System.Timers.Timer)Session["Timer"]).Enabled = true;
}

protected void Button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    ((System.Timers.Timer)Session["Timer"]).Enabled = false;
}

A: You could use a CancellationTokenSource, where you can set a time out with method CancelAfter(). When time is up a OperationCanceledException will be thrown and you raise your event.

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This Adidas by Stella McCartney backpack is hands-down my most favorite bag at the moment. I use this a lot for work since it has pockets in all the right places- a water tumbler on the left and my keys, tape meter and iPhone on the right, makeup/quick grabs on the back pocket and a super roomy main compartment that can even fit my MacBook pro. It's the best for traveling since I don't need to get shopping bags from every store & just stash everything I buy inside it. The matte black is just perfect for me. With the amount of tugging and heavy items I pack I'm impressed with its durability!
Another pair of comfy boots made it to my faves shoe rack.
This piece from River Island made some people on the street stop just to ask me about it. Quite heavy but it's definitely a head-turner!
Spent the 24th downtown just looking for cute items and shopping with my parents and siblings. Our Christmas eve involved chatting and eating inside our hotel suite, but we had cousins and relatives with us this year. It's becoming a yearly tradition- spending Christmas in a hotel room- and I guess it's because we're too lazy to cook up our own meals or even dress up when we're stuck at home. I feel very blessed to be able to do this with the fam! Spent about 2 hours calling and greeting relatives around the world after hours of gluttony as well. We didn't do presents this year, but spending Christmas here has got to be the most fun in a while! I love San Francisco!!!


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Vondel Mahon is originally from St. Andrews, Grenada. He grew up surrounded by wildlife, tropical vegetation and celestial landscapes. This bestowed a love and fascination toward nature and the science of life upon him. Simultaneously, he acquired a deep curiosity toward art and the practice of it. Ultimately, he aimed to share his love of art and the knowledge of science with others and pursued a career that combined them both, Medical Illustration:
Initially, he designed his own major in Medical Illustration and received his Bachelor of Science from the City University of New York (CUNY), attending three colleges; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn College, and New York City College of Technology. Following, he continued studies in art, design, and anatomy at the Art Students League of New York. Succeedingly, he pursued and received his Master's in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For his master's thesis he developed a novel tool for trauma surgery with the Johns Hopkins University Computer Aided Medical Procedures Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center.
He began his professional career as a Medical Illustrator at the world-renowned R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. There he worked with researchers, radiologists, anatomists, surgeons, computer scientists, and Mixed Reality developers to create content for medical research, training, and clinical practice. He currently designs surgical training simulations at the leader in Virtual Reality surgical training. He is also the principal at Mahon Illustrations LLC.
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Q: Making HTML Element populate with query from PHP I want to make the html element

have the value of the username that was user to login in the session. I have the following variable set to contain the variable that holds the username and works this works for logging in.
$_SESSION['globalUser'] = $_POST['resultUser'];

I currently am attempting to set the userInfo element with

This script is causing the error
"Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token"
When I open the developer tools and click the error it shows


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Garry Phillips (born 20 July 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990. He was recruited from the Old Haileyburians Football Club in the (Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) with the 48th selection in the 1989 VFL Pre-season Draft.  He was delisted and redrafted again by Geelong with the 26th selection in the 1992 AFL Pre-season Draft.  He is the son of Ken Phillips who played for South Melbourne in the 1960s.

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Living people
1968 births
Geelong Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Old Haileyburians Amateur Football Club players

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Q: CollectionView live sorting callback I have a TreeView that uses a ListCollectionView with a custom IComprarer and live shaping to order its children.  When the currently selected TreeViewItem is re-sorted in the view, I'd like the TreeView to automatically scroll to the TreeViewItem's new position.  However, I can't find a way to be notified when the ListCollectionView applies a new sort, and the behavior I want doesn't seem to be built into the TreeViewControl.
Is there a way I can be notified when the ListCollectionView recomputes its sort order?

A: I believe the event CollectionChanged is what you need. You can do something like this:
((ICollectionView)yourListCollectionView).CollectionChanged += handler;

The reason we have to cast here is CollectionChanged is implemented as the member of INotifyPropertyChanged (ICollectionView inherits from this interface), source code here:
event NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler INotifyCollectionChanged.CollectionChanged
{
    add {
            CollectionChanged += value;
    }
    remove {
            CollectionChanged -= value;
    }
}

This implementation is explicit. So the event is hidden from normal access as a public member. To expose that member, you can either cast the instance to ICollectionView or INotifyPropertyChanged.
. When implementing an interface explicitly, you have to explicitly cast the instance to that interface before being able to access the interface members.
Example about implementing interface:
public interface IA {
   void Test();
}
//implicitly implement
public class A : IA {
   public void Test() { ... }
}
var a = new A();
a.Test();//you can do this

//explicitly implement
public class A : IA {
   void IA.Test() { ... } //note that there is no public and the interface name
                          // is required
}
var a = new A();
((IA)a).Test(); //this is how you do it.


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Uses of coal | World Coal Association
Uses of coal. Coal has many important uses worldwide. The most significant uses of coal are in electricity generation, steel production, cement manufacturing and as a liquid fuel. Different types of coal have different uses. Steam coal - also known as thermal coal - is mainly used in power generation.
How Is Coal Used Today? | Reference.com
Coal is used as fuel for power plants generating electricity, when heating structures and in the steel manufacturing process. Many important substances are also made from the by-products of burning coal, including those used in the chemical, paper, construction and pharmaceutical industries.
What Are the Uses of Coal? | Reference.com
Metallurgical coal is most widely used by the steel industry, with 70 percent of the world's steel output dependent on coal. In addition, coal finds its way into many different products, such as the carbon fiber that strengthens everything from auto bodies to building materials.
What Are the Medical Uses of Coal Oil? (with pictures)
Mar 21, 2019· Coal oil used to be used to treat athlete's foot. Some people used to apply coal oil to their hair using a fine toothed comb in order to remove head lice. At one time, coal oil was a common remedy used to treat colds and influenza.
Coal Facts - Science For Kids
Take the food coloring and add drops all over the coal (you can use different colors, if you like). Finally, sprinkle the last remaining salt evenly over the coals. Place your experiment in a safe place. On day 3, mix together another 2 tablespoons of ammonia, 2 tablespoons of bluing and 2 tablespoons of water. Stir.
Renewables Aren't Enough. Clean Coal Is the Future | WIRED
The simplest solution to all these woes would be to ban immediately all of the world's 7,000 coal-fired power plants, including the almost 600 in the US—simple but impossible.
Dark Souls 3: All Coal Locations (How to Infuse Weapons ...
Apr 12, 2016· Dark Souls 3 All Coal Locations: In this video, I show you guys how to find all the coals in Dark Souls 3, which is needed if you want to infuse your weapons with things such as lightning, fire, etc.
Coal - University of Colorado Boulder
Electricity is the main use. Last year 88 percent of all the coal used in the United States was for electricity production. (Other energy sources used to generate electricity include nuclear power, hydropower, and natural gas.) Another major use of coal is in iron and steelmaking. The iron industry uses coke ovens to melt iron ore.
Coal | Facts, Uses, & Types | Britannica.com
Coal cinders found among Roman ruins in England suggest that the Romans were familiar with coal use before 400 ce. The first documented proof that coal was mined in Europe was provided by the monk Reinier of Liège, who wrote (about 1200) of black earth very similar to charcoal used by metalworkers.
British power generation achieves first ever coal-free day ...
Apr 21, 2017· National Grid hails milestone as other sources like gas, wind, nuclear and solar allow UK to keep lights on with all coal-fired powerplants offline
WHAT IS COAL USED FOR? - YouTube
May 04, 2015· WHAT IS COAL USED FOR? Coal has many important uses worldwide. The most significant uses of coal are in electricity generation, steel production, cement manufacturing and as a liquid fuel.
Coal - Wikipedia
Coal is also used to produce very high temperatures through combustion. Efforts around the world to reduce the use of coal have led some regions to switch to natural gas and electricity from lower carbon sources. When coal is used for electricity generation, it is usually pulverized and then burned in a furnace with a boiler.
coal | National Geographic Society
Bituminous coal accounts for almost half of all the coal that is used for energy in the United States. It is mainly mined in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West ia. Outside the U.S., nations such as Russia and Colombia rely on bituminous coal for energy and industrial fuel.
What You Should Know About Metallurgical Coal
Metallurgical coal, also known as coking coal, is used to produce coke, the primary source of carbon used in steelmaking.Coal is a naturally occurring sedimentary rock formed over millions of years as plants and other organic materials are buried and subjected to geological forces.
How Coal Works | Union of Concerned Scientists
A fifth type, called metallurgical (or "coking") coal, is used for steelmaking. All types of coal also contain sulfur, which, when burned, releases toxic air pollution. Sulfur content is determined by the conditions under which the coal is formed.
Coal: Anthracite, Bituminous, Coke, Pictures, Formation, Uses
Coal is also used in manufacturing. If coal is heated the gases, tars, and residues produced can be used in a number of manufacturing processes. Plastics, roofing, linoleum, synthetic rubber, insecticides, paint products, medicines, solvents, and synthetic fibers all include some coal-derived compounds.
Coal & electricity | World Coal Association
Coal 's role in electricity generation worldwide. Modern life is unimaginable without electricity. It lights houses, buildings, streets, provides domestic and industrial heat, and powers most equipment used in homes, offices and machinery in factories.
China to ban all coal use in Beijing by 2020 - AOL News
Aug 05, 2014· BEIJING (AP) -- China's smog-plagued capital has announced plans to ban the use of coal by the end of 2020 as the country fights deadly levels of pollution, especially in major cities.
Bituminous Coal Characteristics and Applications
Thermal coal, sometimes called steaming coal, is used to power plants that produce steam for electricity and industrial uses.Trains that run on steam sometimes are fueled with "bit coal," a nickname for bituminous coal. Metallurgical coal, sometimes referred to as coking coal, is used in the process of creating coke necessary for iron and steel production.
Coke | coal product | Britannica.com
Also present in coke is the mineral matter in the original coal, chemically altered and decomposed during the coking process. Oven coke (size: 40 to 100 millimetres, about 1 1 / 2 to 4 inches) is used throughout the world in blast furnaces to make iron.
Fossil Energy Study Guide: 300 million years ago
Even though you may never see coal, you use several tons of it every year! Coal is not only our most abundant fossil fuel, it is also the one with perhaps the longest history. COAL IS OUR MOST ABUNDANT FUEL Th e United States has more coal reserves than any other country in the world. In fact, one-fourth of all the known coal in the world is in the
Our Energy Choices: Coal and Other Fossil Fuels | Union of ...
America has vast coal reserves that provide nearly half the country's electricity. Though abundant, coal is a dirty energy source that is responsible for more than a quarter of the nation's total global warming emissions, including 80 percent of all those from power plants.
5 Transport of Coal and Coal Products | Coal: Research and ...
Like all fuels, coal must be transported to an end user before it can be used. Specific transportation needs vary—Gulf Coast lignite is generally transported over very short distances to minemouth power plants, Appalachian and Illinois Basin coals are typically transported over somewhat longer ...
Coal | Student Energy
Sub-bituminous coal (35%-45% carbon): Properties range from those of lignite to those of bituminous coal. It is used primarily as fuel for electricity power generation. This coal generally has a lower sulfur content than other types, which makes it attractive for use because it burns cleaner.
What is coal used for? - USGS.gov
Coal is primarily used as fuel to generate electric power in the United States. The coal is burned and the heat given off is used to convert water into steam, which drives a turbine. In 2012, about 39 percent of all electricity in the United States was generated by coal-fired power plants, according ...
Coal - need.org
How Coal Is Used Roughly 91 percent of the coal mined in the U.S. today is used to make electricity. The steel and iron industries use coal for smelting metals. Other industries use coal, too. Paper, brick, limestone, and cement industries all use coal to make products. Very little coal is used for heating homes and buildings. Coal and the ...
What 'Clean Coal' Is — and Isn't - The New York Times
Aug 23, 2017· What 'Clean Coal' Is — and Isn't. ... Confusingly, administration officials have sometimes used "clean coal" to refer to highly efficient coal plants that don't use carbon capture, ...
Solar vs. Coal: Why the "74 Percent Report" Signals a New ...
1 · Those 211 gigawatts of coal energy represent 74 percent of all US coal-fired power plants (286 GW). By the year 2025, "at-risk coal" increases to 246 GW, the report projects.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) - Coal
Coal is the most-used electricity generation source in 18 states; natural gas in 16 tags: electricity generation map natural gas Electric power sector coal inventories are …
Chapter 7 COAL - Penn State College of Earth and Mineral ...
Chapter 7 COAL If we as a nation are to benefit in the future from our enormous, low-cost coal reserves, a ... plants (which use more than four-fifths of all the coal consumed in the United States) maximum flexibility in their actions to comply with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990; (3) provide regulatory incentives to offset financial ...
Coal Facts - Uses, Properties, Anthracite, Heat ...
Coal is an important resource that is used to create heat, energy and electricity. Read on for some amazing facts and information about coal consumption, coal production, the mining industry, coal power, its effects on the environment and more.
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Michael Ford, né le  à Rochester, est un ancien athlète américain, spécialiste du 400 m et aujourd'hui devenu entraîneur à l'Université Baylor à Waco au Texas.

Après une carrière d'athlète où il remporte par deux fois le titre national sur le relais 4 × 400 m, Michael Ford entame une carrière d'entraîneur après avoir obtenu son diplôme à Baylor en 1997. Il passe tout d'abord trois ans à l'Université de Rochester au poste d'entraîneur adjoint, travaillant essentiellement avec les coureurs de 400 m haies. En 2001, il revient à Baylor comme entraîneur là encore et l'un des premiers hommes à remarquer de jeunes talents tels que Jeremy Wariner. Travaillant avec ce dernier ainsi qu'avec Darold Williamson sous l'égide du directeur de l'athlétisme à Baylor Clyde Hart, Ford rompt avec ce dernier et commence à entraîner ses propres athlètes.

En 2008, quand Wariner quitte Hart à son tour, Ford commence à s'occuper du jeune homme jusqu'au jeux olympiques de Pékin. Cependant la collaboration est de courte durée puisqu'après une saison décevante qui voit Wariner perdre son titre olympique, le Texan décide début 2009 de retourner s'entraîner avec Hart.

Liens externes

  Fiche de Michael Ford sur le site des Baylor Bears

Sprinteur américain
Naissance en février 1973
Coureur de 400 mètres


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Indian women are breaking through their traditional stereotypical role in society by becoming private detectives. Some are proving that the feminine touch makes them even more successful than their male counterparts.
One advantage of being a female private eye, it seems, is that the subject being tracked will rarely even suspect a woman being on their case – be it pre-marital checks, industrial counter espionage or even criminal work.
Taralika Lahiri, a woman detective with National Detective and Corporate Consultants, says gender also helps where close proximity tracking is required.
"In our country people still think that women cannot [be detectives]. This is a man's domain. Generally, private detectives are men. So they don't suspect that a woman can find out something to detect or to get information," she says.
And these working women are earning an enviable success rate in the job, which is one of the reason why their employers are so happy. Pradeep Sharma, Director of the Times Detective Agency, says women also work more efficiently.
"Any lady operator working for us and going on a case is able to finish the investigation in half the time a man would take," says Sharma.
The women's undercover success means demand is fast outstripping supply.
"Definitely, there are many job openings today and most agencies, as far as I know, require females," says Sharma.
Qualifying is not too much of a hurdle either. Some of the most successful operators in India, say investigation agencies, are ordinary looking women, with basic educational qualifications from small towns who have moved to the big city.


After escaping the hurricane damage in New Jersey my wife and I retreated to our in-laws' house in California. I woke up early because of jet lag to shoot some photos at sunrise at a local winery. I didn't get many great shots but I was happy with this one.
The problem I had was with the landscape. Sure the sunrise was great but the landscape was flat and boring. There were trucks, houses, and power lines in the way. So I decided the best option was to get really low to the ground and shoot directly into the sunlight.
Here I shot seven exposures about 6 inches off the ground. The house in the background is used for theater but not much else. It sits on the winery grounds and is owned, I later learned, by John Madden. You can see the front steps in the shot.


There is a crisis of public confidence in our press. It's time for an open and honest debate about the role of the UK media in fuelling hate crime – and about the financial incentives which have corroded the quality of British journalism. The Government could help address these problems by aligning with the principles outlined in the new United Nations Global Compact for Migration. A more responsible approach to advertising could strengthen and enhance high quality journalism.
Yet the evidence suggests a widespread crisis of public confidence in the ability of large parts of the UK press to deliver high quality journalism. A recent YouGov poll found that just 10% of British people believe the Daily Mail has a positive influence on our society. For the Sun – still the UK's highest-selling newspaper, the figure was even lower – just 5% – while 50% of those surveyed believed its influence to be negative.
This is despite the fact that the UK Government has given these newspapers millions of pounds of public money in recent years, channelled as advertising revenue. Overall, the UK press has consistently been found to be the least trusted out of 28 European countries – indicating exceptionally low levels of public confidence.
Hate crime is at record highs, and experts have warned that this rise has been "fuelled and legitimised by politicians and by the media". As long ago as 2010, experts were already warning that hostile media coverage was fuelling a rise in anti-Muslim hate crime. A survey in 2012 found that 91% of people with disabilities saw a link between negative press portrayals and rising hate crime against disabled people.
The same year, the Leveson Inquiry into UK press standards found that "there are enough examples of careless or reckless reporting to conclude that discriminatory, sensational or unbalanced reporting in relation to ethnic minorities, immigrants and/or asylum seekers is a feature of journalistic practice in parts of the press, rather than an aberration".
In 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights highlighted "decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion" within the UK press, warning that "History has shown us time and again the dangers of demonizing foreigners and minorities… it is extraordinary and deeply shameful to see these types of tactics being used in a variety of countries, simply because racism and xenophobia are so easy to arouse in order to win votes or sell newspapers".
In 2016 the Sun and Daily Mail were accused of "fuelling prejudice" in a report by the Council of Europe on hate speech and rising racist violence. This report highlighted discriminatory coverage towards Muslims and migrants, Travellers and the LGBTI community. The authors warned that: "fuelling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety".
Also in 2016, the UN High Commission for Refugees found that the Daily Mail – along with the Sun – showed a hostility towards migrants that was "unique" among the newspapers they sampled across five European countries.
In 2017, the Muslim Council of Britain's Assistant Secretary General Miqdaad Versi revealed compelling evidence of a "consistent stream" of inaccurate stories about Muslims in the UK press. Meanwhile Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (former Minister for Faith and Communities) warned that elements of the UK press were "poisoning our public discourse" and "steadily and methodically using paper inches and columns to create, feed and ratchet up suspicions and hostilities".
Earlier this year, the leading LGBTI charity Stonewall highlighted a "spike in hateful media" and misinformation towards trans people: "Today's hostile climate has been terribly damaging to trans and non-binary people who already face tremendous barriers and discrimination in everyday life. Two in five trans people (41 per cent) have had a hate crime committed against them in the last year, and one in eight trans employees (12 per cent) have been physically attacked at work".
The thirst for stories that vilify Muslims has eroded basic principles of journalism… Over the past decade or so, reporting on Muslims has gone from dog-whistling to fearmongering, to complete fabrication without consequences. To observe it doing so has been to watch a race to the bottom of standards violation.
The impression I got… was that… editorial decisions are dictated more from the accounts and advertising departments than the newsroom floor… stories which sell well… had to be sourced on a daily basis… This naturally led to fabrication…. Much more insidious was when this same philosophy was applied to stories involving Muslims and immigrants… a top down pressure to unearth stories which fitted within a certain narrative (immigrants are taking over, Muslims are a threat to security) led to casual and systematic distortions.
There is now widespread concern that the proliferation of free online content funded solely through advertising has further incentivised a proliferation of hate. Whether the stories are true or false, divisive and inflammatory content drives "clicks" – and therefore boosts advertising.
This is not limited to the UK. The rise in ad-funded racism, xenophobia and other forms of identity-based hatred – linked to a wider upsurge in misinformation – appears to be a global phenomenon.
All of us in this room play a role: the marketers pressing for billions of additional impressions at unsustainably low prices; the agencies pressuring the publishers for more and more free "added values"; the publishers so desperate for revenue that they run ads disguised as news and source "audience extensions" on unsavory sites; the tech companies whose algorithms drive consumers to deceitful content; the journalists who complain but remain in their silos, unwilling to understand, let alone participate in correcting, their industry.
Unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society, and promote anger or hate. We will prioritise investing only in responsible platforms that are committed to creating a positive impact in society.
In 2017 over £22 billion was spent on advertising in the UK alone. Globally that figure was around £425 billion. If enough advertisers follow Unilever's example, this could have a transformative effect, diverting billions of pounds away from outlets that fuel hatred, and towards those which produce high quality journalism.
The new UN Global Compact for Migration – which is due to be adopted in December – highlights the need for governments to acknowledge and address the worldwide rise in xenophobia, and "promote evidence-based public discourse" on migration.
The agreement outlines a range of measures for doing this, including, "investing in ethical reporting standards and advertising, and stopping allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants, in full respect for the freedom of the media".
This is an important recognition – backed by over 190 United Nations member states – that a more responsible approach to advertising could strengthen and enhance high quality journalism, while also being fully consistent with media freedom.
Many of the challenges facing journalism – and corroding our public discourse – are global in nature. The Global Compact for Migration creates an opportunity for 190 governments to work together to address these problems, and take an international approach to tackling hatred and supporting high quality journalism. The United Nations human rights framework provides a clear and credible foundation for doing this.
The UN-backed Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality offer guidelines for bringing about a media free from discrimination, which enhances high quality journalism and enables free debate. If implemented, these principles could play a significant role in improving the overall quality of British journalism and restoring public trust.
i. Taking care to report in context and in a factual and sensitive manner, while ensuring that acts of discrimination are brought to the attention of the public.
being furthered by the media.
iii. Avoiding unnecessary references to race, religion, gender and other group characteristics that may promote intolerance.
iv. Raising awareness of the harm caused by discrimination and negative stereotyping.
they face. This should include the airing of programmes which portray different communities as equal members of society.
9.3. Professional codes of conduct for the media and journalists should reflect equality principles and effective steps should be taken to promulgate and implement such codes.
9.4. Professional development programmes for media professionals should raise awareness about the role the media can play in promoting equality and the need to avoid negative stereotypes.
Elements of the British press have a long history of victimising minority groups within our society as a means of boosting sales – and more recently online "clicks".
Amid widespread public concern over this victimisation – and very low public trust – it is vital that organisations representing affected communities are at the heart of the debate on how best to address systematic institutional discrimination within the media, and improve the quality of UK journalism. If affected groups are seen to be belittled, dismissed or ignored in this discussion – either by the Government or the media – this could worsen an already polarised situation.
In the meantime, the UK Government has an opportunity to take concrete steps to address this issue by publicly aligning with the principles outlined in the new UN Global Compact for Migration, and ensuring that its advertising procurement policies reflect these principles. This could help incentivise a more responsible UK media, which produces better quality journalism, benefitting the whole of our society.


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