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Project to widen highway bottleneck
The Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway in Penang is finally set to have three lanes on both sides of its entire stretch.
A bottleneck near the Batu Uban marine police base which reduces the three lanes (on each side) to two is undergoing a road-widening project that began this month.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the RM3.7mil project was undertaken as a corporate social responsibility initiative by IJM Corporation Berhad.
"This expansion and upgrade essentially resolves a 10-year-old problem of a 2km traffic jam caused by the road narrowing from three to two lanes.
"By widening a 400m stretch on each bound, the state hopes to reduce this traffic congestion problem that has haunted motorists, especially the industrialists and workers at (the Free Industrial Zone in) Bayan Lepas," he said.
He was speaking during a symbolic ground breaking of the project yesterday.
Lim added that the project was announced in August last year, but plans at that time included only the widening of one side of the road which was not satisfactory to the state.
"We felt both sides should have three lanes each and went back to the drawing board."
IJM Land general manager (northern region) Toh Chin Leong said the upgraded project would also include the rebuilding of an overhead pedestrian bridge along the 400m stretch and the building of a U-turn at Persimpangan Bertingkat Gelugor.
"The existing pedestrian bridge will be demolished and a new one with a higher clearance of 5.4m will be built."
On the new U-turn, he said a new acceleration/deceleration lane would be built to ensure road users could make the turn safely.
"With this U-turn, motorists from George Town who are heading in the direction of Bayan Lepas will no longer need to drive all the way to the Bayan Mutiara Interchange or use the narrow Jalan Hajjah Rehmah in Jelutong.
"This will save motorists about 3.5km each way if they are headed to places like Tesco, E-Gate and Green Lane," he said.
Toh said preparation works had already begun on the project and construction would kick into high gear after the Chinese New Year, adding that the whole project was targeted for completion by Sept 1.
Free Industrial Zone Penang Companies' Association (Frepenca) president Horst Rosenmueller, who was also present, lauded the project, saying that it would benefit thousands of people working in Bayan Lepas.
"There are many workers travelling daily from the island to the mainland and back so it's very important to open up this bottleneck.
"I am happy because it (the traffic congestion) was a pain for our employees in the FIZ who are stuck in jams every morning and evening," he said. - By The Star
January 26, 2012 at 10:52 AMHo
Great news. Sad that it is only address now rather than years ago! There are ample space to make the changes and I wonder why the goverment did nothing for 10 years (as mentioned in this article) until today.
January 26, 2012 at 4:59 PMcondomana
Hi Ho,
Gerakan says "....we have done a lot during our administration, which are not mentioned and highlighted..........". DAP says "....we have done a lot that was not done by the previous administration......". Self praise and bickering goes on and on and on. Well, whatever it is, over this CNY, I do feel that traffic conditions have improved a lot over previous years. What have we done? Maybe the state has successfully tweaked the traffic flow to eliminate bottlenecks (at minimal cost without the need for multi-million ringgit projects by crony companies)? Or maybe Chicken Koh has been quietly orchestrating a traffic optimization program in the background without the people's knowledge?
Penang people are simple, eat simple and dress simple. And what we want from the state administration is also very simple...fair, integrity, and don't call us "pendatang". That's heart breaking, OK!
January 26, 2012 at 10:32 PMTIMAS
Under LGE gov Penang traffic did improved, last time under BN every year we saw many roads re-layer tar without any change. As i can see now since last year many of roads did some minor changed before re-layer something Japanese said "kaizen" to improved and smooth the traffic flow. Maybe previous gov no care about this, as long as there is project awards then they waiting for "commission" from vendor. Bravo for LGE
January 27, 2012 at 4:49 PMRaymond Yap
There's no angel here...
IJM pays to benefit THE LIGHT... and LGE gets the LimeLIGHT.
January 27, 2012 at 5:04 PMtyh
We have to admit that under LGE administration things have been better compare to last time. My vote for him. No matter IJM or LGE gets the limelight it benefits either way. It certainly helps to boost The Light prices.
January 27, 2012 at 10:40 PMRafael
I can only agree the traffic condition improve along Bayan Lepas FTZ coastal highway 5 pm to 7pm due to no right turning during working days. On the Penang bridge same old story or even worse in the pass 3 years after widen from two to three lanes. The Sebarang Jaya roundabout is a nightmare since this PKR doing ceramah almost every night where cars park beside the roundabout and the best part during working/school days. During BN time no such thing this nonsense having ceramah during working/school days. To me lets wait for Penang 2nd link bridge to complete and access if the traffic condition is still the same or improve or worse.
February 2, 2012 at 1:09 AMjdanielblog
This is great. But no time line and target completion date may end up as empty talk/ promise.
October 23, 2012 at 9:12 PMRen
It's finally completed! :)


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Chang in court on Friday (AFP)
North Korean state news agency KCNA has announced that Chang Song-thaek, uncle of the North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un, has been executed. Chang, who helped his nephew during the early days of his leadership was described as being 'worse than a dog' during the announcement that said he had been executed for acts of treachery.
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The Kim family has ruled the North for six decades with an iron fist, regularly purging those showing the slightest sign of dissent. Most are executed or sent to prison camps.
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January 25, 2018 at 07:10 JST
Kumamoto Governor Ikuo Kabashima tells a news conference in Kumamoto on Jan. 4 that a ban will be lifted on overseas use of the Kumamon design. (Shigeo Ohata)
KUMAMOTO--Kumamoto Prefecture has lifted the ban on overseas use of the Kumamon mascot design, sparking anger from local companies that want to keep the popular bear-like character for themselves.
Many companies say the original purpose of the mascot should remain the same: promoting the prefecture on the southern main island of Kyushu and its products.
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Shubham Mani Tripathi a été abattu de six balles, dont trois en pleine tête, le 19 juin 2020 (photo : SMT
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Uttar Pradesh state, in northern India, to appoint an independent team to investigate the shocking murder of Shubham Mani Tripathi, a newspaper reporter who recently said he feared being killed, and to bring the instigators to justice.
A local correspondent for the Kampu Mail, a Hindi-language daily, Shubham Mani Tripathi died on the spot when he was shot six times, three of them in the head, on 19 June in Unnao, a suburb of Lucknow, the state capital. In a recent Facebook post, he said he feared he could be killed because of his investigations into land expropriations of questionable legality linked to illegal sand mining.
Kampu Mail local bureau chief Ritesh Shukla mentioned the name of Divya Awasthi, a local businesswoman involved in land transactions, as did the reporter's uncle, Dhirendra Mani Tripathi. The NewsClick website quoted him as saying: "There is some government land that Divya Awasthi wanted to take possession of. [Shubham] exposed the matter and [said] she could not do that (...) Her goons had attacked Shubham at his house last year after he exposed her and now have killed him."
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India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh is also one of the most dangerous regions for journalists, especially those who try to cover the sand mafia, the name given in India to those who illegally mine sand from riverbeds for sale to the construction industry.
In 2016 alone, two journalists, Karun Misra of the Jansandesh Times and Ranjan Rajdev of the Hindustan Daily, were killed by gunmen on motorcycles in separate attacks after covering such illegal mining. In June 2015, the journalist Jagendra Singh died from the severe burns he sustained when set on fire during a police search of his home. He had been investigating a local government minister's links to organized crime and illegal mining.
The journalist Haider Khan was badly beaten and dragged behind a motorcycle for 100 metres the same month after writing about dubious land expropriations. In October of that year, men on a motorcycle fatally shot journalist Hemant Kumar Yadav in the chest in reprisal for his reporting. In all of these cases, the police investigations drew a blank and the instigators remain unpunished.
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When they don't fall victim to physical violence, Uttar Pradesh journalists who try to do their job are often the targets of judicial harassment orchestrated by the state government headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, an unwavering supporter of India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his Hindu nationalist policies.
Such was the experience of Supriya Sharma, the executive editor of the Scroll.in news website, and her chief editor, Naresh Fernandes, on 18 June, when the Uttar Pradesh police registered a complaint against them over a story about the coronavirus lockdown's impact in remote villages in Varanasi, the district that Modi represents in the federal parliament. The two journalists are facing up to five years in prison on the four charges registered by the police.
Siddharth Varadarajan, the editor of The Wire, another independent website, is meanwhile being investigated as a result of a complaint filed on 1 April over an allegedly "fake news" report that the state's chief minister attended an enormous religious gathering two days after the imposition of a nationwide lockdown.
India is ranked 142nd out of 180 countries and territories in RSF's 2020 World Press Freedom Index.
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Differences between values for the Design Pressure (P) listed on this site and those computed using the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 documentation are the result of generalizations of structure heights in producing the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 velocity pressure charts.
Both the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 charts and the Wind Calculator use the same formulas in the SEI/ACSE 7-02 standard to produce velocity pressure values (qz). However, the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 charts show velocity pressure values for a single, generalized height within a range of heights supplied. This method is less exact then by using the true height with the formulas in the SEI/ACSE 7-02 standard for calculating velocity pressure, as the Wind Calculator does.
The most dramatic difference in these two approaches is in exposures B & C since the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 charts use a broad range of 0-60 ft. for its lowest values while using 10 to 20 ft. jumps for the rest of the charts. Less dramatic are the generalities in the charts for exposure D since it uses 0-15 initially then ranges 5 to 20 ft. there after. The smaller the range used, the more similar the Wind Calculator and ANSI/SPRI ES-1 final Design Pressure values will be.
Since ANSI/SPRI ES-1 is a guide to the SEI/ACSE 7-02 standard, and as such does not reflect the standard in whole, every effort was made to be more exact to the SEI/ACSE 7-02 standard in calculating out values using the Wind Calculator. For this reason, the results provided by the Wind Calculator should supersede those provided by the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 documentation.


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Falling in Love with "Brooklyn"
By Glynn Young 8 Comments
It's been a long time since I fell in love with a movie, 34 years to be exact, and the movie was the Oscar Award-winning Chariots of Fire. Based on real events and people, it was a film that told a story, yes, but a story that swept you up in its characters, a group of young men who reached for something beyond themselves.
And now I've fallen in love with 2015's Brooklyn.
I didn't think film producers made movies like this anymore. Brooklyn is a love story, a coming-of-age story, an immigrant's story, and the story of a young woman who's making her world in the world. If it included a subtle or not-so-subtle political or social message, a feature of many movies today that tends to make them something less than what they could be, then I missed it.
It is 1951. Eilis Lacey (played by actress Saorise Ronan) lives in a small town in Ireland. She has a part-time job (on Sunday mornings) with an obnoxious shopkeeper. Her older sister Rose has an office job – a well-paying job difficult to find early 1950s Ireland. To find work, young people go to England, or to America. Rose decides that Eilis should go to America. Irish have been going to America for more than a century, there is a large Irish community in New York, and America has opportunities that Ireland does not.
Emory Cohen and Saorise Ronan
Father Flood (played by veteran actor Jim Broadbent), a Catholic priest in Brooklyn, helps make the arrangements. He finds a place for Eilis to live and a job at a Brooklyn department store. And so Eilis books third-class passage on an ocean liner for New York, which includes her first introduction to seasickness.
She moves into a boarding house run by Mrs. Kehoe, played to perfection by actress Julie Walters. She begins her job and discovers homesickness, for which Father Flood has a partial cure: enrolling at Brooklyn College to learn bookkeeping and accounting and helping with the Christmas dinner for the homeless at the church. He also convinces her to come to the parish dance, and it is there she meets Tony Fiorello (actor Emory Cohen), a young Italian plumber who likes Irish girls and takes a special interest in Eilis. He walks her home, he invites her out to eat and then to a movie, and begins to wait for her when her college class lets out so he can continue to walk her home. So begins a tender, innocent love story.
But events force Eilis to return, if temporarily, to Ireland. And the question becomes whether she will return to America. And that's the hinge for the movie – what Eilis will choose to do.
The novel by Colm Toibin
The movie is based on the 2009 novel of the same title by Irish writer Colm Toibin. Differences exist between the two, of course, and some significant; the book includes three brothers for Eilis and Rose who are never mentioned in the movie, and it's the brothers who pay for the passage to America. But the movie does generally follow the story line of the novel (including, I should note, one scene that is fairly graphic in the book and less-than-graphic in the movie).
Brooklyn has no poor or even mediocre performances; all of the actors shine, from the woman who helps Eilis on the boat trip to the fellow lodgers at the boarding house and Miss Rontini, the supervisor at the department store. Ronan and Cohen impress, as Eilis and Danny, with Ronan's facial and eye expression a wonder to behold and Cohen giving Danny a completely believable air of innocence and vulnerability.
As we left the movie, I told my wife that I was already putting Brooklyn on my mental favorites list, and likely my Top 5 favorite movies list. It is a singularly un-self-conscious movie; it tells the story it has to tell and we walk away feeling the richer for it.
'Brooklyn' Chronicles the Heartache of the Irish-American Immigrant Experience – NPR talks with director John Crowley and actress Saorise Ronan.
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Glynn – this is on my "to see" list for sure. Thank you for the great post. I looked up the soundtrack too and now feel my mother MUST have this. 😉 So, she thanks you in advance I'm sure! It also looks great.
Have you heard "Ellis Island" by the Corrs? It fits with this theme and, although it's not on the soundtrack, I thought you might like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oFOZH4NN90
Donna, I haven't but I will check it out.
I have this film on my list and hope to see it over the holidays.
Diana Trautwein says
I absolutely love this movie! Thank you for this fine review, and now I have a novel to read! Watching that lovely young actress's face tell parts of this story without a single word being said was pure gift.
Diana, the book is really good, too. I probably did it the wrong way and saw the movie before I read the book.
G. M Brodhurst-Davis says
Enjoyed your article, Glynn! I've seen the previews, but haven't gotten around to checking out the flick. Will definitely add this to my list of movies to see. The book, though -must seek it out! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Megan Willome says
Thanks, Glynn! I've been hearing good things but no specifics. Not sure how far I'll have to travel to see it, but hopefully not too far.


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Texas, because of its growing Hispanic population, is sometimes thought of by Democrats as representing the next frontier in the party's electoral aspirations. So far, however, the party has been able to make only a few inroads.
In 2008, Barack Obama won 44 percent of the vote there — better, certainly, than John Kerry's 38 percent in 2004. But considering that Mr. Obama outperformed Mr. Kerry in almost all states — and that, unlike Mr. Kerry, he was not running against George W. Bush, who makes his residence in the state — the result did not do much to suggest that Texas was trending toward Democrats over all.
Last November, meanwhile, the incumbent Republican governor, Rick Perry, won re-election in Texas by 13 percentage points, defeating Houston's mayor, Bill White, while Democrats lost control of three of the 12 U.S. House seats (out of 32 in the state) that they had previously held.
If Democrats are going to compete in Texas anytime soon, they may have a better-than-average opportunity next year, as the incumbent senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, announced today that she will retire. There are a lot of Republicans in Texas and so they will not lack for competent candidates — led, perhaps, by the state's lieutenant governor, David Dewhurst, who strongly hinted today that he would run. But none of their candidates look like superstar talents.
The Democrats' best bet might be Mr. White, who before switching into the gubernatorial race had been interested in running for Senate when it looked as though Ms. Hutchinson might retire prior to 2010. Polls showed that a plurality of voters were left with a favorable impression of Mr. White even as he was defeated, and although his race against Mr. Perry had been expected to be closer, it was not an embarrassing result considering how poorly Democrats performed throughout the country last November.
A poll conducted in February 2009 found Mr. White trailing Mr. Dewhurst by 5 points in a hypothetical matchup, which would certainly suggest a wide-open race. But the political climate was relatively favorable to Democrats then, and that is probably what would determine whether they have more than a puncher's chance in 2012. Even as the Hispanic population in Texas grows, many Hispanics are not registered to vote or do not do so regularly. Meanwhile, there has also been a lot of migration into exurban areas of the state, most of it by white, conservative-leaning voters. It is a state where a Democrat could win a race in a very good year for the party nationally, but probably not in an average one.
Still, Democrats are likely to make a concerted effort in the state, with Mr. White or another candidate, for want of opportunity elsewhere. Suppose that the political environment does improve for them between now and 2012. While that would benefit Mr. Obama and their candidates for the U.S. House, they would have more trouble capitalizing it on the Senate since there are only 9 Republicans running for re-election, most of whom survived the difficult political cycle of 2006 and figure to be heavily favored.
The exceptions include Scott Brown of Massachusetts — he remains well-liked, but his state remains extremely Democratic — and John Ensign of Nevada, whose popularity flagged after he admitted to an affair with a campaign staffer. Olympia Snowe of Maine, meanwhile, could be vulnerable to a primary challenge from a more conservative Republican, which would put her state squarely into play. But these three states are all quite small, which means that there could be a lot of Democratic resources sitting on the sidelines for Texas and its 20 media markets.


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Sports are often the source of our greatest—and clearest—group affiliations; yet, sports are often the most evident examples of outgroup derogation as well through the magnification of differences with rivals and opposing teams. The formation and fusion of sport-based groups explore the core internal issues of leadership and followership as well as issues such as hazing, fanship, and the psychology of difference. The concepts of Basking in Reflected Glory (BIRGing) and Cutting Off Reflected Failure (CORFing), as embodied within sporting circumstances, can be understood using social identity theory and self-categorization as a lens of examination. Moreover, there are many ways in which sport-based groups inform societal structures that are interpersonal, intergroup, and global in nature, along with the theoretical and applied implications of such structures.
Sports journalism is a popular area of contemporary media that has a long history of delivering results, analysis, and opinion to both broad and specialized audiences. Like other media, it has had to adapt consistently with technological developments and demands but continues to gain widespread coverage across print, broadcast, and digital platforms. Sports journalism has often been viewed as "the toy department," a place of trivial pursuits instead of the chasing of hard news. As a result, its journalists are viewed as having low professionalism and status and are often accused of being controlled by sources. What these criticisms overlook is the value of this significant subfield in relation to the amount of sports content produced across media, the large numbers of journalists involved in producing the news, and its power in attracting readers and viewers. These elements combine to make sports journalism a rich area for academic scholarship. However, in comparison with its place in newsrooms, this topic has also been criticized in research and has not been treated as seriously as a space for scholarship. While there have been recent increases in scholarly work, sport has been described as an underresearched area of the journalistic field.
The field's literature has streams dedicated to practical, instructional texts and scholarly analysis of contemporary and historical issues. Key areas of investigation involve content within the sports pages, which can involve as much as 30% of editorial material in a media publication, and work exploring the perceptions, routines, and practices of sports journalists. The role of the sports journalist has also been examined, with descriptions often focusing on a tendency to operate as cheerleaders with a home-team bias. However, the position of sports journalist also involves aspects of critical, watchdog-style coverage, including through investigative reporting. Much of the academic work involving sports journalism has been descriptive in scope, which leaves space for greater analysis through a theoretical lens. An important future topic of research is the increasing commercialization of sport, which has implications for journalists, publications, and audiences.
Persuasive messages use statistical evidence in order to convince an audience to accept a conclusion. Statistical evidence represents a compilation of experiences structured and collected in a manner that permits expression in mathematical form. Research demonstrates that the use of statistical evidence increases the persuasiveness of a message, and a message that uses both statistical and narrative evidence generates the greatest persuasiveness.
Statistical evidence can take the form of summarizing the collective opinion of experts on a topic or an expression of the collective set of experiences. The challenge becomes gaining acceptance of statistical expressions of experience versus what is perceived as the narrative or lived experience of the single person. Statistical evidence is often presented using a mathematical expression to indicate the size or force of the evidence.
The accumulation of statistical evidence often involves the use of meta-analysis to reduce Type I (false positive) and Type II (false negative) error. The use of evidence is strategic and can target specific elements of belief by understanding the structure of beliefs and the connectivity among elements. The use of the Subjective Probability Model provides a means to capitalize on the use of evidence by changing probabilities in beliefs to increase the effectiveness of a message campaign.
Statistical evidence, however, may be ineffective under circumstances referred to as the "base-rate fallacy." The base-rate fallacy occurs when the presentation of statistical information is accepted, but examples are used that contradict the base-rate. The impact of the use of the example is to create a shift in the belief in the typicality of the example, despite knowledge of the base-rate.
Fear appeals provide a particularly useful and important application of statistical evidence in the pursuit of public health campaigns. The tenets of the Extended Parallel Processing Model indicate that message effectiveness relies on a combination of: (a) perceived severity of the threat, (b) perceived vulnerability to the threat, (c) perceived efficacy of the solution, and (d) perceived personal efficacy of the solution. Each element is largely impacted by the application and use of statistical information to make claims. The use of statistics generally outlines the argument and supports the conclusion offered in support of a conclusion offered to the message recipient.
Statistical evidence when used in a message often offers data or information that becomes the justification for a conclusion. A large part of a message becomes gaining acceptance of information by an audience, then explaining (reasoning) to the audience how those facts support a conclusion, often involving some type of recommendation for behavior. Understanding statistical evidence requires understanding how the material functions within the context of the belief system of the individual.
Stigmas are profoundly negative stereotypes of a social group and its members that have diffused and normalized throughout a community. Being marked as a member of a stigmatized group does more than designate someone as different: stigmas denote people as discredited, devalued, and disgraced. Stigmas shape health and risk communication and are considered the leading—but least understood—barrier to health promotion.
Communication and stigmas are dynamically connected. Communication is critical to a stigma's existence, spread, expression, coping, and elimination. Using mediated and interpersonal communication, community members are socialized to recognize and react to stigmatized people. People use communication to enact the devaluation and ostracism of stigmatized people, and stigmatized people use communication to cope with stigmatization. Stigmas also shape communication: stigmas compel non-marked persons to engage in stigmatization and ostracism of marked persons, reduce marked people's disclosure and encourage secrecy, and shape the characteristics of personal and community networks. Last, campaigns have used communication to attempt to eliminate existing stigmas. The accumulating research, conducted from diverse assumptions about human behavior (cultural determinism, evolutionary, socio-functional), shows how easily and effectively stigmas may be socialized; how challenging they are to manage; how many facets of health and wellbeing are devastated by their existence; and how difficult it is to attenuate them.
While much has been uncovered about stigma, health, and risk, many questions remain. Among these include: How can one design messages that effectively alert the general public about imminent health threats and that successfully promote desirable behavioral changes without evoking stigma processes? How do different reactions to stigmatization influence targets and their social networks? What factors increase resistance or vulnerability to messages containing stigma-inducing content? How can one create an effective, reliable means to eliminate existing stigmas?
Risk can be defined using a mathematical formula—probability multiplied by consequences. An essential element of risk communication is a focus on messages within organizations. However, many health-related risks such as Ebola extend beyond an individual organization and risk is better understood as a social construction cogenerated within and between systems. Therefore, the process is influenced by systemic and supra-systemic values and predilections. Risk from a structurational perspective allows an understanding of the public as well as organizational responses to risk. Structuration theory provides a useful lens to move beyond seeing organizations as something that flows within an organization to understanding how organizations are enacted through communication. Structuration theory articulates the connections between systems and structures through the action of agents, whose practices produce and reproduce the rules and resources of social life. Within the structuration tradition, organizational communication scholars have shifted to an understanding of the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO). Specifically, one of the theories of CCO is the Four Flows Model. The four flows highlight the ways people enact organizations and provide a means to analyze the various ways communication constitutes organizations. The four flows are membership negotiation, activity coordination, reflexive self-structuring, and institutional positioning. Membership negotiation enacts the inner members and outsiders at a basic level including socialization, identity, and assimilation. Activity coordination produces collective action around a specific goal. Reflexive self-structuring is the decentralized enactment of structures for the organization through the communication of policies. Institutional positioning covers the macro-level actions where people in the organization act as an entity within the environment.
When considering the public reaction to Ebola, a simple way to evaluate risk perception is the intersection of dread and control. The U.S. public considered Ebola a serious risk. From a structuration perspective, the viral nature of twitter, media coverage, and public discussion generated resources for fear to be exacerbated. Structuration theory allows us to position the risk beliefs as rules and resources that are reproduced through discourse. The organizational implications fall primarily into the two flows of institutional positioning and reflexive self-structuring. For institutional positioning, U.S. healthcare organizations faced general public dread and perceived lack of control. Within the United States multiple policies and procedures were changed, thus fulfilling the second flow of organizational self-structuring. The Ebola risk had a significant impact on the communicative constitution of health-care organizations in the United States and beyond. Overall, risk is communicatively constituted, as are organizations. The interplay between risk and health-care organizations is evident through the analysis of American cases of Ebola. Structuration theory provides a means for exploring and understanding the communicative nature of risk and situates that risk within the larger systems of organizations.
Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born, British-based theorist, critic, and activist, who flourished between the late 1950s and his death in 2014. Known both for his theoretical and empirical work on culture and communication and for his role as a public intellectual, Hall produced scholarly writings and charismatic teaching that were matched by his columns and interviews in magazines and newspapers and appearances on television and radio.
Adolescent substance use remains a significant public health challenge, with recent approaches to address these problems including actively engaging adolescents in message planning and/or production as a prevention strategy. There are two benefits of this active involvement strategy. First, engaging adolescents in message planning or producing substance prevention messages is a form of participatory research that results in participant-generated messages for use in future intervention efforts. This participatory form of research is increasingly common in a wide range of topics and populations, particularly disenfranchised or stigmatized groups. It is important to focus on the second benefit of engaging adolescents in message planning and prevention: the effect of engaging in planning or producing substance prevention messages on the adolescents themselves. If done properly, the process of engaging adolescents in planning (or producing) anti-substance messages can provide longer-term benefits of delaying onset of substance use (strengthening resistance) as well as changing patterns for those already using. Some examples of this strategy exist with media literacy, although applied with a great deal of variability. The increased popularity of these planning/production approaches requires greater explication of how, when, and why they produce effects for participants. Two different theoretical perspectives address this active involvement intervention approach: narrative engagement theory and the theory of active involvement. Beyond these theories, sensation seeking is positioned as a moderator to explore for active involvement intervention effects.
Social support in the context of chronic illness management is important, as individuals diagnosed with these conditions and their loved ones often experience increased distress, reduced relational quality, and diminished physical health as a result of coping with these long-term symptoms. Therefore, diagnosed individuals and their close relational partners rely on others to provide support in their time of need. The communication of social support is characterized by "verbal and nonverbal behavior produced with the intention of providing assistance to others perceived of needing that aid" (MacGeorge, Feng, & Burleson, 2011, p. 317). Individuals living with these chronic illnesses and their loved ones often turn to a variety of interpersonal others, including friends, family, health care providers, and support groups to manage the difficulties that accompany their physical symptoms. Although some researchers suggest that diagnosed individuals seek support most frequently from close relational partners, other scholars assert that chronic care support groups (whether meeting face to face or via computer-mediated channels) offer support recipients an opportunity to discuss their challenges and receive help from experientially similar others.
On the one hand, regardless of the support provider, individuals who have been diagnosed with chronic conditions generally perceive effective supportive communication to be messages in which their support providers enact competent tangible assistance in managing the illness, provide an opportunity for them to vent their feelings, and express messages of empathy and affection, among others. Ineffective messages, on the other hand, are those in which diagnosed individuals feel their partners are overly involved in helping them make decisions about their care or portraying negative attitudes or discomfort around them. Overall, research in this area suggests that support recipients and their relational partners have improved emotional, relational, and physical outcomes when they perceive support to be available or receive effective support from these resources.
Current communications research takes up the political and ethical problems posed by new surveillance technologies in public space, ranging from biometric technologies adopted by state security apparatuses to self- and peer-monitoring applications for the consumer market. In addition to studies that examine new surveillance technologies, scholars are tracking intensive and extensive expansions of surveillance in the name of risk management. Much of the scholarship produced in the last 15 years looks at how the establishment and expansion of the Department of Homeland Security within the United States and its international counterparts have dramatically altered security, military, and legal practices and cultures. Within this context what were once science fiction dystopias have become funded research and development projects and institutionalized practices aimed at remote data collection and processing, including facial recognition technology and a variety of remote sensing devices. Private-public partnerships between companies like Google and Homeland Security fusion centers have made it possible to use GPS technology to network data that promises to help manage a variety of natural and man-made disasters.
Terrorism employs violence or the threat of violence to diffuse and amplify messages to an audience beyond the immediate target or victim of an attack. Violent acts initiate media coverage, as well as word-of-mouth transmission, functioning as a gateway that draws attention to the terror group and its messages in a manner that increases the salience of the communication; then media provides additional information contextualizing the original act. Media coverage may make the group initiating the communication look more dangerous or powerful than is warranted.
Terrorist communication strategy involves a noteworthy violent act, or threat thereof, that secondarily communicates with multiple audience groups. One audience may be supporters of the terror group who construct identity from the violent act as well as from grievances that the group seeks to advertise. Another may be outgroups sympathetic with the substance of communicated messages. Still another may be foreign countries, which may provide a sense of legitimacy to the actions of the group.
A violent group successfully portrayed as victimized will solidify ingroup cohesion and outgroup hostility while justifying the use of violence as a moral consequence of circumstances. Terrorists often dehumanize the outgroup by stereotyping them in ways they argue will justify violence. People sympathetic with the dehumanization of the outgroup may provide support without actually joining in the perpetration of terror. Some may be radicalized by communication produced by terrorists, such as on social media, to become actors themselves. Counter-terror tactics may disrupt intergroup communication, thus interfering with recruitment or operational capabilities of those supporting or engaging in terrorism.
It is well documented that African American/Black and Hispanic individuals are underrepresented in biomedical research in the United States (U.S.), and leaders in the field have called for the proportional representation of varied populations in biomedical studies as a matter of social justice, economics, and science. Yet achieving appropriate representation is particularly challenging for health conditions that are highly stigmatized such as HIV/AIDS. African American/Black, and Hispanic individuals, referred to here as "people of color," are greatly overrepresented among the 1.2 million persons living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. Despite this, people of color are substantially underrepresented in AIDS clinical trials. AIDS clinical trials are research studies to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of promising new treatments for HIV and AIDS and for the complications of HIV/AIDS, among human volunteers. As such, AIDS clinical trials are critical to the development of new medications and treatment regimens. The underrepresentation of people of color in AIDS clinical trials has been criticized on a number of levels. Of primary concern, underrepresentation may limit the generalizability of research findings to the populations most affected by HIV/AIDS. This has led to serious concerns about the precision of estimates of clinical efficacy and adverse effects of many treatments for HIV/AIDS among these populations. The reasons for the underrepresentation of people of color are complex and multifaceted. First, people of color experience serious emotional and attitudinal barriers to AIDS clinical trials such as fear and distrust of medical research. These experiences of fear and distrust are grounded largely in the well-known history of abuse of individuals of color by medical research institutions, and are complicated by current experiences of exclusion and discrimination in health care settings and the larger society, often referred to as structural racism or structural violence. In addition, people of color experience barriers to AIDS clinical trials at the level of social networks, such as social norms that do not support engagement in medical research and preferences for alternative therapies. People of color living with HIV/AIDS experience a number of structural barriers to clinical trials, such as difficulty accessing and navigating the trials system, which is often unfamiliar and daunting. Further, most health care providers are not well positioned to help people of color overcome these serious barriers to AIDS clinical trials in the context of a short medical appointment, and therefore are less likely to refer them to trials compared to their White peers. Last, some studies suggest that the trials' inclusion and exclusion criteria exclude a greater proportion of people of color than White participants. Social/behavioral interventions that directly address the historical and contextual factors underlying the underrepresentation of people of color in AIDS clinical trials, build motivation and capability to access trials, and offer repeated access to screening for trials, hold promise for eliminating this racial/ethnic disparity. Further, modifications to study inclusion criteria will be needed to increase the proportion of people of color who enroll in AIDS clinical trials.
The Breast Cancer and Environment Research Program (BCERP) is a transdisciplinary program of research created to investigate environmental exposures and their relationship to breast cancer with a particular focus on puberty as a potential window of increased susceptibility to environmental exposures. A transdisciplinary approach has a strong focus on translating scientific findings into usable health practices as well as health prevention messages so that current research informs practice as well as communication to the lay public. BCERP engaged in communication science to develop health messages for lay audiences, health professionals, and outreach organizations. The precautionary principle, used as a primary guide in regards to message translation and dissemination, yields a useful discussion of the BCERP organizational structure. An exploration of formative communication science efforts in BCERP, areas of sensitivity for creating BCERP messages, and resources created for BCERP toolkits serves to illustrate and describe this one approach to designing health and risk messages.
Journalism seeks to observe and communicate what it learns of social importance, something called news, and in doing so is always in the process of creating a public by bringing it into synchronized conversation with itself. Theories of journalism provide explanatory frameworks for understanding a complex combination of social practice, product, and institutional arrangement. Journalism's late 20th-century professionalized, high modern version, which is still recognizable today, has continued to change, particularly with the disruptive effect of the Internet, as it has evolved to absorb other forms. The boundaries of profession and news organization have been destabilized within this rapidly shifting media terrain, but still there remain productive approaches for systematically organizing knowledge around the concept of journalism.
The early 20th-century perspectives on journalism—before becoming linked to the communication field and a more narrow media effects focus—were at home in the University of Chicago school of sociology, which emphasized community-based, multi-method participant observation. A sociology of news perspective resurfaced with more ethnographic research in newsrooms in the 1950s, and theories of journalism have continued to highlight the ethnographic method, especially in understanding the impact of technology on a more digitally-oriented journalism practice. A hierarchy of influences perspective, developed by Shoemaker and Reese, incorporates other perspectives beyond the ethnographic by considering factors at multiple levels of analysis that shape media content, the journalistic message system, from the micro to the macro: individual characteristics of specific newsworkers, their routines of work, organizational-level concerns, institutional issues, and the larger social system. At each level, one can identify the main factors that shape the symbolic reality constituted and produced by journalism, as well as how these factors interact across levels and compare across different contexts (e.g., national, technological).
A hierarchy of influences model worked well to disentangle the relationships among professionals and their routines, and the news organizations that housed them, which cohered into institutions. But journalism has been newly problematized, destabilizing and restructuring both the units and levels of analysis in journalism theorizing. The networked public sphere is constituted with new assemblages: of newswork, institutional arrangements, and global connections, which give rise to new emerging deliberative spaces. Journalism theories now have as much interest in process as product, in assemblage as outcome, but still need to be concerned with the nature of quality of these spaces. What shape do they take on and with what implications for healthy democratic discourse?
Humans live not only in a physical world but also in a mental world. Theory of mind reflects the understanding that the mind is comprised of different mental states, such as intentions, desires, and beliefs. This conception of the mind is a critical achievement in human development because it directly impacts effective communication and social interaction. It allows for the understanding of others' behaviors by inferring their mental states. The formation of a theory of mind has been a central topic in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy. It impacts related processes, such as communication skills, perspective-taking ability, and social cognition.
Across the life span, the understanding of the mind becomes increasingly complex. Early in development, infants and toddlers can discern the intentions of others. Later, more sophisticated reasoning about the mental states of others becomes possible. For instance, the ability to follow and understand the recursive thought that "Sam believes, that Mary said, that Jose wanted . . ." develops. Additionally, within distinctive developmental time periods, people differ in their ability to take into account mental states. Once people's beliefs, including their misconceptions, are identified, it is possible to generate effective communication strategies designed to teach, learn, and even reduce risk-taking behaviors.
Tourism connects people across geographical, chronological, and cultural borders. In Henri Tajfel's terms, it is a prime example of intergroup process where collective and interpersonal factors play major roles. People become tourists to fulfill their self-derived motivations, including sensation-, novelty-, and pleasure-seeking, or even good will. Their motivations to travel are influenced by group-related factors, such as media portrayals of the destination and the sense of connectedness to the place of visit. Moreover, contextual variables, such as the presence of diplomatic relations or the level of peace and security, should indicate whether the borders are permeable and open to the tourists, and if the destination is accessible as a viable option for them to visit. Needless to say, simply wanting to be different from one's everyday selves or desiring to be in a different environment are legitimate reasons for one to be a tourist.
Tourists have contact with other people at various phases of their travel to and from their destinations. Through contact, tourists as guests communicate with their hosts, who are local residents of the destination and tourism-related service providers. Guest-host contact often takes place in limited contexts, and tends to be fleeting, non-intimate, and power-structured, often cast in a "they-us" frame. However, such contact can ultimately bring important social consequences to the tourists and to the destination.
Communication accommodation holds an important key to some of the major outcomes of host-guest contact. Accommodation involves adjustment of one's linguistic and non-linguistic behaviors during communication for smooth interaction and social approval from others. Successful contact through accommodation can bring positive outcomes to the communicators such as an increase in positive attitudes toward the other and advances in intercultural communication competence, while exploitation, deception, and maintenance of power-differentiated relations are also likely associated with communication accommodation. Likewise, contact between tourists and local residents has potential to contribute to long-term changes in the macro cultural milieu of the destination, including the resurgence or erosion of the traditional culture and languages, increased presence of foreign languages, and building of peaceful relationships between societies, all of which in turn become precursors to the further development of tourism.


In the front parlor, the mantel and corner cabinet are examples of fine Federal woodworking.
It's a little-known fact that Brookeville was the United States capital for a day. As the British lay siege to Washington in August of 1814, burning the President's House (later The White House) 20 miles to the south, James Madison sought refuge in the home of Brookeville's Quaker postmaster Caleb Bentley. From there Madison commanded the troops that turned back the British, secured the capital, and allowed the president and his entourage to return to Washington. Bentley's house, still a private residence, is known today as the Madison House.
The formal dining room dates to renovations around 1840. The owner made the window treatments and the painted floorcloth.
The Heilers' home is more than their residence; for both of them, it has become a full-time avocation. Sandy is a former computer scientist who later earned a masters degree in historic preservation, launching her second career. Duane is a retired financial planner with keen woodworking skills. The two history buffs were thrilled to buy this history-rich brick Federal in 2007.
They spent the next three years—and $250,000—restoring the house. In the process they became engrossed in Maryland's upcoming bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812 (which will also include a tribute to the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner").
Owner Sandy Heiler designed and embroidered the crewel canopy and cover for the antique bed. The chair is a New England antique.
The house was built c. 1792–98 by Brookeville founder Richard Thomas Jr. and his wife, Deborah Brooke Thomas, on property she inherited from her father. (The family was one of the largest land owners in Montgomery County.) Sandy explains: "They were Quakers, so the house is rather plain, not at all ostentatious. There was no formal entry or center hall, and no 'big deal' staircase. The stairs are toward the back of the house." In fact, what is today a handsome foyer was originally the dining room.
By 1800 the house was owned by Caleb Bentley, a silversmith and shopkeeper who was appointed Brookville's first postmaster in 1802. During Bentley's ownership, the town post office occupied the main floor to the right of the front door. This area had been a shop with reinforced shutters on the street side; when it became the post office in 1802, making it a federal building, iron bars were placed on the rear window, and the space remained closed off to the rest of the house.
Around 1840, the owners were the Riggs family, well-known Washington bankers, who upgraded the simple house, turning the dining room into a more formal entry hall. They moved the front door (switching it with a window for symmetry), created the spacious dining room off the back hall, and most likely added the original kitchen ell. Such changes added their own history without harming the integrity of the old house. Subsequent owners added on—a half story for a master bedroom, a wood service porch out back. Despite remodelings over 200 years, the house did not have indoor plumbing, electricity, or central heat until 1960.
The current owners put a sympathetic kitchen into a gutted portion of the house. Appliances are discreet. Chairs are New England antiques. The floor is reclaimed barn wood.
For the Heilers, an appropriate kitchen was a major project. Upstairs, they added closets and reconfigured the bathroom. The bedroom President Madison used as his map room is now a home office; today's guest room, Sandy says, "has the prettiest fireplace." The old post office (a room reopened to the house in 1960) has become a family room with a TV hiding behind the doors of an antique cabinet.
For the past two years, the historic smokehouse on the property has been the site of an archaeological dig. Renovation of that outbuilding is ongoing; the roof has been replaced, and logs and siding repaired. A new barn was built in a style similar to that of the smokehouse.


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Rebellion says engine problems solved ahead of Le Mans 24 Hours
The Rebellion LMP1 squad and engine supplier Gibson are confident there will be no repeat of the failures that struck in qualifying on Thursday during the Le Mans 24 Hours
Gary Watkins
Jun 15, 2019, 7:53 AM
The normally-aspirated V8s in both Rebellion R-13s broke on the final day of qualifying for this weekend's World Endurance Championship finale, but Gibson Technology believes it is on top of what it described as "an unusual and unexpected problem".
"We think we have addressed it and that it won't be a problem in the race, and also won't affect performance," Gibson operations director John Manchester told Autosport.
Rebellion team manager Bart Hayden said that he "wasn't stressed" and was "very happy with Gibson's explanation".
He pointed out that the engines that failed were high-mileage units that were due to be changed for the race.
The more powerful, B-spec versions of the Gibson GL458 V8 that raced for the first time in the WEC at Spa in May had already undertaken a tyre test at the Aragon circuit in April and also did the Le Mans test day in the back of the two R-13s.
Manchester would not be drawn on the exact nature of the issue, though he confirmed that Gibson believed the problem was identical on the two cars.
"It was down to the fact that we are pushing the engine a bit more and the way it was being used in the car," he explained.
"We can't go into specifics because we won't know exactly what the problem was until we get the engines back to base and strip them down."
The #3 Rebellion sustained its failure during the first of the two qualifying sessions on Thursday, but the team was able to put the race engine in for the second period.
The #1 car was hit by the engine problem in the later session and did not return to the track.
Reports that revised engine offers 30bhp more than the original version were described as "optimistic" by Manchester.
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Amy Hecht is a founder and clinical director of the Hecht Ribas Group for Psychological Services. A graduate of Gallaudet University's PhD program in clinical psychology, Amy is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in adoption, GLBT families and disability. Amy and her wife, Claudia Ribas, are the proud parents of four beautiful children including a daughter adopted from Nepal in 2010. As a member of both an extended birth family and an adoptive family Amy brings personal as well as professional experience to her passion for adoption and all members of the adoption constellation. Amy helped to found NAFA in 2010 and has not stopped trying to find ways to help the unparented in Nepal ever since. Her efforts in Nepal are as always, dedicated to her wife, their children and always especially, The Bee.
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Looking to get TOTY mbappe at around 3.5 mil as well and i might just stick him at CAM behind CR7 and R9, replacing prime ronaldinho.
Since pogba TOTY would be the best midfielder on FIFA 19.
I voted pogba mainly because i wanted a CM, not sure how others voted. Neymar would definitely be broken as hell being the only double 5* player on that TOTY roster.
Mbappe down to 3.66.. come on!!
Going down 100k more and I'm all in !
Got fresh mbappe for 3.6 flat, my target was 3.55 so if he goes down lower i won't be upset.
Congrats ! I'm getting mine now.
Thanks lads, yeah he'll rise out of packs with that said I'm not really looking to sell him anyway.
he may well do m8 i hope he does.
So weird, mbappe drops to 3.48 when I picked him up at 3.6. Now he's 3.8.
I also pulled the trigger on Mbappe at 3.6 and wow what a card.
I'm not the type to be really over the type hyped but.. check out what I just pulled from the Ibra 50k pack. Damn.
What 2 do depends on Ur team..
Dude I'm just a small time trader and player, mostly player that likes the grind of them game (feels like I've completed fifa) and to have a such a insane card in my team I want to keep him and use him.


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