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New York Times Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders
All the news that's fit...well, it seems the NYT news story has been tailored to fit the editorial views of the paper. There are undoubtedly many left of center economists who have serious objections to the proposals Sanders has put forward, there are also many who have publicly indicated support for them. He has not given a fully worked out proposal for many of his ideas, nor is it reasonable to expect a fully worked out proposal from a candidate for the presidency.
February 18, 2016 Dean Baker; Doug Henwood
To be fair, as a New York Times reporter, Jackie Calmes probably doesn't meet many left-leaning economists, so she may not be sure what they look like., photo: Isaac Brekken/NYT // FAIR
NYT Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders - Dean Baker (Beat the Press - Center for Economic and Policy Research)
NYT Rounds Up `Left-Leaning Economists' for a Unicorn Hunt - Doug Henwood (FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
NYT Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders
By Dean Baker
Beat the Press - Center for Economic and Policy Research
A NYT piece headlined "left-leaning economists question cost of Bernie Sanders' plans" may have misled readers about the extent of skepticism among economists who consider themselves left-leaning. I can say this as a card-carrying left-leaning economist who often talks to other card-carrying left-leaning economists.
While there are undoubtedly many left of center economists who have serious objections to the proposals Sanders has put forward, there are also many who have publicly indicated support for them. Remarkably, none of those economists were referenced in this article. In fact, to make its case on left of center economists' views, the NYT even presented the comments of Ezra Klein, who is neither an economist nor a liberal, by his own identification.
It also misrepresented the comments of Jared Bernstein (a personal friend), implying that they were criticisms of Sanders' program. In fact his comments were addressed to the analysis of Sanders' proposals by Gerald Friedman, an economist at the University of Massachusetts who is not affiliated with the Sanders campaign.
It also presented the comments of Brookings economist Henry Aaron about the views expressed by "other economists in a `lefty chat group' he joins online." This would seem to violate the NYT's usual policy on anonymous sources.
Sanders has a very ambitious agenda covering everything from universal Medicare, reforming the financial sector, paid sick days and vacation, free college, and universal childcare. If an economist, left-leaning or otherwise, can't find some grounds for skepticism on any of these proposals they should probably be in a different line of work.
These are all big ideas, each of which will face enormous political opposition even if Bernie Sanders were in the White House. Sanders has not given a fully worked out proposal in any of these areas, nor is it reasonable to expect a fully worked out proposal from a candidate for the presidency. His campaign platform outlines general approaches. In the event Sanders got to the White House, it would be necessary to draft fully worked out legislative language which would almost certainly amount to hundreds of pages, and quite possibly thousands of pages, in each area. In addition, whatever he initially put on the table would have to be haggled over with Congress, even assuming that he had a much more sympathetic group than the current crew.
While it is nice that the NYT is subjecting Sanders' views to serious scrutiny, it would be good if it also subjected the views of other candidates to the same scrutiny. For example, Secretary Clinton has indicated a desire to give more opportunity to African Americans and Hispanics, yet she has not commented on the decision by the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates at the end of last year. This rate hike was intended to be the first of a sequence of rate hikes.
The purpose of raising interest rates is to slow the economy and the rate of job creation, ostensibly to prevent inflation. The people who will be disproportionately hurt by slower job growth and high unemployment are African American and Hispanic. NYT readers would likely be interested in knowing how Secretary Clinton can reconcile her commitment to helping African Americans and Hispanics with her apparent lack of concern over the Fed's decision to raise interest rates and deny them jobs.
Whatever standard of scrutiny the NYT chooses to apply to presidential candidates it should apply them equally. It is not good reporting to apply one standard to Senator Sanders, and even inventing credentials to press its points, and then apply lesser standards to the other candidates.
[Dean Baker co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better bargain for Working People, The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive, The United States Since 1980, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot), and The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. His blog, Beat the Press, provides commentary on economic reporting. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.]
NYT Rounds Up `Left-Leaning Economists' for a Unicorn Hunt
By Doug Henwood
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
With Hillary Clinton ramping up her attacks on Bernie Sanders as a budget-buster-in the February 11 debate, she claimed his proposals would increase the size of government by 40 percent-the New York Times (2/15/16) offered a well-timed intervention in support of her efforts: "Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders' Plans."
While the "left-leaning" is no doubt meant to suggest critiques from those who would be inclined to sympathize with Sanders, all the quoted economists have ties to the Democratic establishment. So slight is their leftward lean that it would require very sensitive equipment to measure.
Opinion pieces critical of Sanders often begin with a pledge of allegiance to his "impracticality." This story, by Times reporter Jackie Calmes, is an "objective," newsy version of that:
With his expansive plans to increase the size and role of government, Senator Bernie Sanders has provoked a debate not only with his Democratic rival for president, Hillary Clinton, but also with liberal-leaning economists who share his goals but question his numbers and political realism.
Though Sanders wants to increase federal spending on infrastructure, college tuition and childcare, as well as other programs, the bulk of his proposed increase would be for establishing a single-payer healthcare system, and that's what Calmes' piece focuses on. It would replace the current mix of multiple forms of public insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, state and local programs) and private insurance with a unitary federal system, much like what Canada has. It would not nationalize doctors and hospitals, as in Britain; only the payment side would be socialized. Sanders refers to it as Medicare for All, which is a simplification, but close enough for politics.
The liberal-leaning economists that Calmes rounds up suggest that Clinton may have been too modest in her accusation that Sanders wants to jack up the size of government by 40 percent. No, Calmes warns that "the increase could exceed 50 percent, some experts suggest, based on an analysis by a respected health economist that Mr. Sanders' single-payer health plan could cost twice what the senator.asserts."
As if that wasn't scary enough, Calmes turns to mockery: "Alluding to one progressive analyst's criticism of the Sanders agenda as `puppies and rainbows,' Mr. Goolsbee said that after his and others' further study, `they've evolved into magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars.'"
The theme of magic was further developed in a piece by New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman, "My Magic Unicorn" (2/16/16), in which the word "unicorn" appears six times (not counting the headline). Krugman's column, which denounces Sanders' proposals as hopelessly unrealistic, refers to Calmes' news story for support, a news story that itself reads like an op-ed in disguise.
The "Mr. Goolsbee" quoted in the story is Austan Goolsbee, who was a long-time adviser to Barack Obama before he became president, and then served on Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. (During the 2008 campaign, Goolsbee was reported as having assured the Canadian government that Obama's anti-NAFTA talk was "more reflective of political maneuvering than policy" - New York Times, 3/4/08.) Now Goolsbee teaches economics at the University of Chicago's business school and is a consultant to hedge funds. A very left-leaning resume there.
And the "progressive analyst" who came up with the "puppies and rainbows" line is Ezra Klein, who in mid-January wrote a harshly disparaging piece, "Bernie Sanders's Single-Payer Plan Isn't a Plan at All," on the website he co-founded, Vox (1/17/16). How times change: As long-time FAIR contributor Seth Ackerman showed in an incisive analysis (Jacobin, 1/25/16), Klein was once a strong proponent of a single-payer scheme.
In a 2007 piece for the American Prospect (4/22/07), Klein explored what he called "the best healthcare systems in the world," including Canada's, looking for lessons for the US. (Krugman liked the piece enough to put it on a 2012 syllabus for a Princeton class on the welfare state.) Klein's conclusion, expressed in his opening sentence, was that while medicine is hard, health insurance is simple: We should emulate these other systems that achieve both universal coverage and cost control, like those of Canada, France, Germany and the UK. Though he now holds Sanders' advocacy of single-payer in disdain, Klein specifically praised Canada's single-payer system, citing a 2003 paper by Steffie Wooldhandler, Terry Campbell and David Himmelstein in the New England Journal of Medicine (8/21/03) that found that administrative costs were over three times as high in the US than in Canada, mainly because of the inefficiencies of private health insurance. Eliminate private insurance and you enjoy hundreds of billions in savings.
The "respected" health care economist-it's funny how journalists stick that handle in front of some names and not others-that Calmes cites is Kenneth Thorpe of Emory University, who, as she discloses, "advised the Clintons in the 1990s." Indeed he did; he served in Bill's cabinet where, according to his Emory faculty bio, he "coordinated all financial estimates and program impacts of President Clinton's healthcare reform proposals for the White House."
Sanders has proposed paying for his single-payer health insurance program mainly by raising taxes on the rich and imposing a 6.2 percent payroll tax on employers and a 2.2 percent income tax on households (while fully exempting lower-income households and partly exempting middle-income ones from the tax). Those tax increases would replace current spending on private insurance, so it would be very wrong to call them new spending.
Thorpe's paper argues that Sanders underestimates the cost of his single-payer health insurance scheme by close to half. More realistic assumptions would require substantial tax increases across the board and result in lower wages for the presently uninsured as employers compensate for the new payroll tax. Frightening, if true, and Calmes and her headline writer frame the article to persuade us that it is.
Woolhandler and Himmelstein, authors of the 2003 article on administrative costs that Ezra Klein used to like, are not persuaded by Thorpe. In a Huffington Post piece (1/29/16), they find his estimates of administrative savings from a shift to a single-payer system too low and his assumptions of an increase in demand for healthcare too high. He ignores the cost of tax breaks that would disappear under single-payer and assumes no savings on drugs and medical devices, despite the government's strong bargaining position as the exclusive purchaser. (Calmes alludes to their critique in the piece with a single sentence: "Mr. Thorpe and Sanders aides and allies have been battling online." The words "battling online" link to the Woolhandler/Himmelstein piece; a print reader would be totally in the dark.)
As Woolhandler and Himmelstein point out, in earlier studies - one done for the state of Missouri, and another for the National Coalition on Health Care - Thorpe projected large savings from single-payer reform. Now this former Clinton adviser finds the opposite.
There's a political angle to Calmes' piece as well, which she uses longtime Democratic economist Henry Aaron to deliver. (Aaron is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank that a congressional staffer once described to me as "a graveyard for conservative Democrats.") Aaron calls the idea of single-payer a "fairy tale" in the current political climate. Citing the testimony of "other economists in a `lefty chat group' he joins online," Aaron believes that were Sanders elected, he'd destroy his political capital by fighting such a doomed fight.
I'm familiar with this line of argument from a liberal chat group I used to hang out with online (it takes its off-the-record secrecy with great seriousness)-it may be the same one, but I can't tell for sure. It goes like this: The right so dominates the present scene that one can do nothing but play defense, hoping to salvage what remains of social spending but never daring to ask for more. Political capital, in this account, can only dwindle when put to work; unlike other forms of capital, it never pays returns. The right never thought that way when it was plotting its ascendancy from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Calmes gave the last word to Thorpe, who concludes from a failed attempt to bring single-payer to Vermont that it would be unworkable on a national scale. Vermont's plan wasn't really single-payer; providers would still have had to contend with multiple payers, thereby limiting administrative savings, and the state would have little bargaining power with drug and device manufacturers. The experience of a small state in a big country is hardly conclusive.
What might be more persuasive is the experience of our northern neighbor, a country very much like ours. Canada covers almost all its population at a cost of 10.2 percent of GDP. Even after Obamacare, about a tenth of the US population is uninsured, but that incomplete coverage costs us 16.4 percent of GDP.
Britain's system costs 8.9 percent of GDP, a little over half what we pay. Both countries have longer life expectancies than we do. But we should be afraid of the unicorns.
[Doug Henwood is the author of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency.]
You can send a message to the New York Times at letters@nytimes.com, or write to public editor Margaret Sullivan at public@nytimes.com (Twitter:@NYTimes or @Sulliview). Please remember that respectful communication is the most effective.
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If we learn anything from the Solyndra debacle it's that the government should not be in the business of making loans, period!
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is now investigating the allegations of improper dealings between the White House and the failed energy company. Taxpayers would be better served if Congress simply would vote to end all government-backed loan programs.
Fat chance! These government-backed projects represent a mother-lode of campaign contributions for both political parties.
Judges are expected to recuse themselves from trying cases in which they have a vested interest. However, our elected representatives have no qualms about sitting on committees and voting on bills that favor their major donors. It is done everyday Congress is in session. It is business as usual.
Admittedly, the Solyndra case smells worse than most. The Bush Administration shelved the loan request because the company was too shaky. A couple of months later, despite many red flags from budget analysts, Obama's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, announced the government would give Solyndra $535 million from the stimulus. To make matters worse, last February, when the company was about to go belly up, the Obama Administration illegally refinanced the loan putting private investors ahead of the taxpayers.
Can we really be surprised to discover that Solyndra executives were big contributors to Obama's presidential campaign or that one of Solyndra's major investors was Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser, a bundler of campaign cash?
When the investigation runs its course we will find that that Congress could find no "real proof" of a causal connection between Mr. Obama and this bad loan. Real proof would have to be in the form of the president's fingerprints on a gun that was held to the head of the Secretary of Energy. Even if we were to find Obama's DNA on a blue dress worn by a Solyndra executive, the president will dodge this bullet as so many presidents, congressmen and senators have done before him.
Every day of the week, the government makes these "investments" on our behalf in the form of below market loans or outright grants.
If the project is successful, the company wins. If the project is a failure, we lose. It's a classic case of "Heads I win; tails you lose." Sure, if the project succeeds, we may get our original investment back but the interest we receive in return for the use of this money is not enough to cover the interest paid (the government is broke, remember) on the money we advanced.
If you are still wondering why we are making these grants and below market loans please reread the above paragraphs. It's so politicians can reward their major donors and grease the skids for more campaign cash!
To be sure, there have been many innovations that were developed as a result of the research that went into national defense and putting a man on the moon, which were legitimate functions of government. However, this does not mean that government should be in the business of picking winners and losers in the private sector.
If a bank will not loan the money for a project at a reasonable interest rate, it is because the financial analysts at the bank do not think it can succeed. If you cannot get private investors for a project, it is because investors think the risks out way any potential reward.
The argument from our politicians is that, without these government funds, many worthwhile projects would never get off the ground. Ah, there's the rub!
Who gets to decide what is worthwhile and what is not? Do we leave it up to some bureaucrat who has never held a real job, or — worst still — some politician looking for another infusion of campaign cash?
We could take a major step forward toward reducing our deficit spending by ending all government loans and grants.
It is unreasonable to ask taxpayers to take risks that investors like Warren Buffet would not. Now, that's a Buffet rule I would gladly support!
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The government, like banks, will never be 100% perfect on loans. My business has been the recipient of two loans. The first was an SBA loan 13 years ago. It was fully paid off, and resulted in the business going from 2 to 10 employees. The second is happening now for another expansion. At a time where credit seems to be so unavailable for small businesses at the current low interest rates, reasonable loans at lower interest are a good alternative from government resources. Where the government needs to target loans is small businesses, and help banks make those loans.
The government is out of control. Every thing they touch becomes complicated, non-productive and broke. The more money (taxpayer money) they throw at whatever it is, incredible as it sounds, the more unefficient and unproductive it becomes. Every entity funded by our federal government, ie., post office, trains, public education, LOANS….dismal failure.
And we now are going to let them manage and control…..HEALTH CARE!? That may be well and fine with the young and healthy individuals out there as they have no concept of what it is like to be sick, vulnerable and totally at the mercy of a health care provider.
It is not pretty. If we don't take a stand against obamacare, we will pay a huge price, not only in dollars but also in lives, mostly the young, the old and anything complicated.


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Cannes Lions Presents Lion of St. Mark to Colleen Decourcy
Creative icon and industry trailblazer, Colleen DeCourcy, former President and Chief Creative Officer of Wieden+Kennedy, will receive the Lion of St. Mark award for a lifetime of service to creativity in communications at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2022.
Cannes Lions has announced Colleen DeCourcy as the recipient of this year's Lion of St. Mark. The award will be presented to DeCourcy for a lifetime of service to creativity in communications at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity which takes place 20-24 June 2022, in Cannes, France.
Colleen DeCourcy, former Chief Creative Officer and President of Wieden+Kennedy, is one of the creative industry's most inspiring leaders. A creative trailblazer, DeCourcy first joined Wieden+Kennedy as global executive creative director in 2013 and announced her retirement from the agency and the advertising industry in 2021. DeCourcy has spent her career leading innovative companies and advocating for a more equitable industry. She was named one of Fast Company magazine's Most Creative People in Business, honoured with the Fearless Voices award by the organisation She Runs It, and in 2019 was selected as the creative leader of the decade by AdWeek magazine.
Since 2013, Wieden+Kennedy and its network of global offices has amassed 149 Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, one of W+K's most successful eras. This includes five Grands Prix: four for W+K's seminal creative work with Nike, including the epic 'Nothing Beats a Londoner' campaign by Wieden+Kennedy London, winning the inaugural Social & Influencer Lions Grand Prix in 2018; and in 2020/21 Nike's lauded 'You Can't Stop Us' by Wieden+Kennedy Portland, was awarded a highly coveted Film Lions Grand Prix.
Alongside receiving the Lion of St. Mark in 2022, DeCourcy will represent the Festival as Jury President for Glass: The Lion for Change, the award that celebrates culture-shifting creativity. At previous festivals, she has stood as the Titanium Lions Jury President (2019), Jury President for the now-retired Cyber Lions (2017), as well as serving on both the Titanium Lions jury and the Cyber Lions jury across multiple years.
Commenting on receiving the Lion of St. Mark, Colleen DeCourcy, says: "I'm drawn to the fact that creativity - regardless of who or where it comes from - can change this industry and our world. If I'm proud of anything, it's that I've been able to create space for people to unlock their own creative potential, showing there is room for all of us here."
Susie Walker, VP Awards & Insights, LIONS, commented: "We're thrilled that Colleen DeCourcy will be honored with this year's Lion of St. Mark. A creative pioneer, she has advocated for parity in the industry throughout her influential career, demonstrating creativity as a driver for change. We would also like to thank Colleen for bringing her creative expertise to one of the festival's most vital awards, Glass: The Lion for Change, as Jury President this year."
Philip Thomas, Chairman, LIONS, commented: "Colleen DeCourcy is not only a hugely influential creative leader, she has been vital to the Lions, bringing her immense creative prowess to the jury rooms and Festival stages, over many years. Under Colleen's creative leadership, Wieden+Kennedy has delivered brave, boundary-breaking, multi-Lion-winning work. Her creativity has truly inspired the global industry to raise the creative bar. We're absolutely delighted to present Colleen DeCourcy with the Lion of St. Mark at the Festival."
Colleen DeCourcy, will be honoured with the Lion of St. Mark at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which runs from 20-24 June, in Cannes, France.
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Beauty In The Mirror: Allo allo I love Moustaches!!
Allo allo I love Moustaches!!
Today's outfit is a mish mash of styles, I'm totally in love with coloured trousers and have developed a weakness for anything moustache like, except the real thing of course!
Have you tried a new style? What colours & looks are you liking lately?
Where is your ring from?! I love it!


The dating app called Tinder is not a place for dogs unless dog owners are using their dog's cute photos to score a date. This dog, however, has an incredible story that will melt your heart.
– Tinder was recently used in Georgia to help find a new home for dogs and cats.
– The animal shelter has had this certain dog for years now and they wanted to find a new owner for him.
The dog is part of the shelter in Columbus, Georgia called Animal Ark Rescue. Miranda Morrison, a staff at the shelter, made Tinder accounts for the shelter cats and dogs in an attempt to find someone to adopt them.
The dog has been in the shelter for a few years now and has not found a new loving home yet.
The dog's account has been up since December 29. The dog has found 14 matches but there is no word yet as to the possible new dog owner who will take him home.


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Dominique McClean, Aka: SonicFox, Wins Final Kombat 2020
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, NetherRealm Studios and Intersport hosted Final Kombat 2020, the championship finale of the Mortal Kombat™ 11 Pro Kompetition, in Chicago at the historic Park West theater. Bringing together the top 16 Mortal Kombat™ 11 players from around the world, the tournament culminated with the back-to-back world champion, SonicFox, from the U.S. (playing as 'The Joker') defeating CGL NinjaKilla_212, also from the U.S., in an intense performance during the Grand Finals match to take home the Final Kombat 2020 trophy and the $40,000 first place prize.
The full video of the Mortal Kombat™ 11 Final Kombat 2020 event livestream can be viewed on the NetherRealm Twitch Channel.
The event also featured several content reveals and announcements during the lead up to the Grand Finals match, including:
Mortal Kombat 11 Official Spawn Gameplay Trailer was debuted for the first time, following an introduction by Keith David (voice of Spawn in Mortal Kombat™ 11) and Ed Boon (Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios and Co-Creator of Mortal Kombat).
Spawn will join the Mortal Kombat™ 11 roster via the Kombat Pack on 17th March (early access), followed by 24th March (wide availability). Kombat Pack owners will also have access to the new Spawn-inspired "Hellspawn" Jacqui Briggs character skin on 17th March, alongside the new Matinee Skin Pack featuring "Osh Tekk Vandal" Kotal Kahn, "Swashbuckler" Erron Black and "Space Marine" Jacqui Briggs.
McFarlane Toys Spawn Mortal Kombat action figure was displayed for the first time, emulating his iconic look from Mortal Kombat™ 11.
New Red Band Trailer for the "Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge" animated film was revealed.
New exclusive clip was revealed for Season 2 of the DC Universe "Harley Quinn" animated series.
Full results for Final Kombat 2020:
SonicFox, U.S. (1st place)
CGL NinjaKilla_212, U.S. (2nd place)
bc Dragon, U.S. (3rd place)
UYU Deoxys, U.S. (4th place)
UYU Rewind, U.S. (tied for 5th place)
Noble Kombat, U.S. (tied for 5th place)
CGL Tweedy, U.S. (tied for 7th place)
PXP A F0xy Grampa, U.K. (tied for 7th place)
END Scar, U.S. (tied for 9th place)
PG Hayatei, Canada (tied for 9th place)
AF DizzyTT, U.K. (tied for 9th place)
NASR Tekken Master, Bahrain (tied for 9th place)
EFP Konqueror249, Brazil (tied for 13th place)
D2Stabs, Canada (tied for 13th place)
LOK Nivek, Greece (tied for 13th place)
Noble Semij, U.S. (tied for 13th place)
The Mortal Kombat 11 Kombat Pack is the best way to upgrade the Mortal Kombat™ 11 game experience with new downloadable content (DLC), featuring six characters, numerous skin and gear sets and one-week early access for all content. The final playable character coming to Mortal Kombat™ 11 via the Kombat Pack is Spawn (17th March early access), alongside The Joker, Terminator T-800, Sindel, Nightwolf and Shang Tsung (all available now). Players can purchase the Kombat Pack as part of the Mortal Kombat™ 11 Premium Edition for £79.99 (RRP) or individually for £32.99 (RRP).
All DLC characters and bonus character skins will be available for individual purchase after the one-week early access period.
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Millennium – Collateral Damage (Review)
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Darren
This July, we're taking a trip back in time to review the sixth season of The X-Files and the third (and final) season of Millennium.
Collateral Damage continues the weird healing process at work in the third season.
After spending so much time pretending that the second season never actually happened, the third season has finally accepted that there were story developments flowing from that season that the show needs to deal with. In some respects, Collateral Damage can be seen as a process of healing and integration for the third season of Millennium, constructing a story that manages to tie together all three seasons of Millennium together into something resembling a cohesive whole.
"A bloody fine mess you've gotten me into!"
From the first season, Collateral Damage takes its introduction and basic premise. Collateral Damage begins in a manner similar to many early Millennium episodes. A sinister attacker stalks their victim and brutally strikes. We are then treated to a few extended suspense-filled sequences as the attacker's designs become increasingly uncomfortable and nefarious. It is not too hard to imagine Collateral Damage as the kind of "serial killer of the week" episode that populated the early first season.
For the second season, Collateral Damage inherits its fascination with the Millennium Group and its depiction of Peter Watts. Collateral Damage marks the first point in the third season where Peter Watts feels like the character that we watched grow and evolve over the second season. This is a version of Peter who has so repressed his doubts and uncertainties that they threaten to explode if they are even acknowledged. It is a much more compelling character than the knock-off conspirator featured in episodes like Exegesis and Skull and Bones.
"Don't be afraid."
From the third season, Collateral Damage takes its fixation on the link between the Millennium Group and conspiracies involving the American government. Collateral Damage suggests that the Millennium Group is responsible for Gulf War Syndrome. It feels like a plot point from an episode of The X-Files – and arguably makes it an ideal third season element. The result is perhaps the most all-encompassing episode of the show ever produced. Collateral Damage is not the best episode of Millennium ever produced, but it is perhaps the broadest representation of the show itself.
If you were to pull back and examine Millennium from a distance, it might look a lot like Collateral Damage.
"Surgical strike."
Filed under: Millennium | Tagged: art bell, conspiracy theories, Frank, frank black, gulf war syndrome, james marsters, michael r. perry, millennium, millennium group, peter watts, spike | Leave a comment »
Non-Review Review: Robot & Frank
Posted on March 4, 2013 by Darren
This film was seen as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013.
Robot & Frank is perhaps best described as a live-action Pixar film, a lost script or concept from that period only a few years ago when it seemed like the studio could do no wrong. The beauty of films like The Incredibles or Toy Story 3 was the way that these fantasies allowed us to engage with incredibly adult issues in a disarmingly wondrous way. Up could deal with the pain of loss in great detail, because it was really the story of a man flying his house to South America, right? Finding Nemo could play out the darkest fears lurking in a parent's subconscious, because it was really about cute fish, correct?
And so Robot & Frank provides a wonderful vehicle for the exploration of what growing old really means, and how we cope with the challenges that it presents. Because, after all, it's just a film with a cute-looking robot butler, right?
Frank'll test his metal…
Filed under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: art, Domestic robot, film, Film festival, Frank, frank langella, jameson dublin international film festival, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013, kevin spacey, Langella, Movie, non-review review, Peter Sarsgaard, pixar, review, Robot & Frank, Ryan Gosling, South America, toy story 3, United States | 2 Comments »
House of Cards (US, 2013): Chapter 5 (Review)
Posted on February 15, 2013 by Darren
Friends make the worst enemies
– Frank Underwood
There is a sense now that House of Cards has figured out what it wants to be and how it wants to go about being that sort of thing. After the first three episodes were surprisingly non-committal, the fourth and fifth episodes make it clear that Frank has a plan for revenge against those who betrayed him, one that stretches a bit further than scuttling Michael Kern's chance to be Secretary of State. There's a wonderfully understated moment in the middle of this fifth episode where it looks like Frank has finally figured everything out, the pieces have aligned in such a way that he is positioned to speed up what is likely to be a pretty far-reaching payback scheme.
A name you can trust…
Filed under: Television | Tagged: bbc, business, Chapter 7 Title 11 United States Code, Claire, david fincher, Francis Urquhart, Frank, Frank Underwood, House of Card, House of Cards, kevin spacey, netflix, Peter Russo, Robin Wright, twitter, Underwood, United States, Zoe | Leave a comment »
So you lied to his face?
No. I revised the parametres of my promise.
Which is lying.
Which is politics.
– Bob Birch and Frank Underwood
After spending three episodes lining everything up and getting all the plot points and characters to where they need to be, it looks like House of Cards is finally ready to kick into high gear. There's still a sense that show isn't as comfortable with its amoral and sociopathic lead character as it should be, but there's finally a sense of what Frank Underwood is capable of. We've seen him topple the incoming Secretary of State using just a college article that the man didn't write, but that sort of politicking should be second-nature to Underwood at this point. Here, Frank is a bit more ruthless, a bit less concerned about collateral damage.
That's really the key here. House of Cards needs us to root for Frank despite his drive for power at all costs, without excusing it. It looks like we're getting to where we need to be.
Speaking Frankly…
Filed under: Television | Tagged: bbc, Bob Birch, David, david fincher, Francis Urquhart, Frank, Frank Underwood, Freddie, House of Card, House of Cards, kevin spacey, netflix, Republican, republicans, Underwood, United States, Zoe | 1 Comment »
Dammit, Frank! You can't just roll up on my property like you own it!
Oh but I can.
And we're back to square one. I suppose this is inevitable in the transition to American television, but House of Cards is beginning to feel strangely episodic. The British version ran ran for four episodes, moving at an incredible pace as Francis Urquhart manipulated his way to the position of Prime Minister. The American version, running thirteen episodes, seems to be more about stopping and starting. Indeed, there's relatively little traction here on the Secretary of State subplot, or Frank Underwood's plan for political revenge against those who he feels wronged him.
Instead, this third episode feels like something of a breather episode, the kind of character-orientated piece that might have worked a bit later in the year, after the show had built up a decent momentum. Instead, it seems like we accelerated last time only to pump the breaks this time around.
Filed under: Television | Tagged: Activism and Peace Work, Chris Brown, Corey Stoll, Francis Urquhart, Frank, Frank Ocean, frank sinatra, Frank Underwood, history, House of Card, House of Cards, Kate Mara, kevin spacey, netflix, Peace, People, Robin Wright, Satan, Underwood, United States, Washington, Zoe | Leave a comment »
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Darren
Get ready, Cathy, things are about to move very quickly.
– Frank is moving
That's more like it. After a rocky season premiere, it looks like House of Cards might finally be settling into a groove. It's very strange to see a four-part BBC drama adapted into a full thirteen-episode season of an American television show. Of course, the United States has a very different political system, so the machinations of the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives could never overlap fully with those of Sir Francis Urquhart. However, the first episode needed a sense of traction that was so sorely lacking.
Luckily, the second episode picks up the slack. The pieces are all in play, the characters are established. The game can be afoot.
Underwood tactics…
Filed under: Television | Tagged: Cathy, Claire, Corey Stoll, david fincher, Francis Urquhart, Frank, Frank Underwood, Freddie, House of Cards, Ian Richardson, Jeff Beal, Kate Mara, kevin spacey, netflix, Reed Hastings, Robin Wright, Spacey, Underwood, United States, white house | 2 Comments »
Non-Review Review: The Mummy (1932)
Posted on October 24, 2012 by Darren
The Mummy is often unfairly dismissed as an inferior attempt to emulate the success of Dracula. It's from the same writer, John L. Balderston, and the credits are even set to the same music – the powerful Swan Lake theme that opened that other iconic horror. I'd argue that the influence of Frankenstein can also be keenly felt on the picture, and not just in its leading actor. However, I think The Mummy is often unfairly overlooked when examining the Universal Monster Movies, playing more like a creepy existential romantic epic than a conventional creature feature horror film.
He needs his beauty sleep…
Filed under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: Boris Karloff, British Museum, BritishMuseum, creature from the black lagoon, dracula, Edward Van Sloan, egypt, Egyptian Museum, film, Frank, frankenstein, Helen, Imhotep, John L. Balderston, Karl Fruend, Karloff, Kim Newman, Mary Shelley, Movie, Mummy, Mummy's Hand, non-review review, Reincarnation, review, Scroll of Thoth, Sudan, swan lake, Tutankhamun, Universal Monster, universal monsters | 3 Comments »
The Punisher by Rick Remender Omnibus (Review/Retrospective)
Posted on October 3, 2012 by Darren
Rick Remender's Punisher is a fun run. It's not the most important or iconic take on the character, nor is it the writer's best work at Marvel (or in the industry as a whole). It's disjointed, it's awkwardly paced, it seems to resolve itself merely because Remender was moving on to another title, but it's also fun, exciting and interesting. Somewhat akin to Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider work, it's a great writer cutting lose with a grindhouse character and concentrating on telling a tale that is entertaining rather than definitive. In many respects, Remender's Punisher really shouldn't work half as well as it does, and that's certainly a testament to the writer's skill.
Filed under: Comics | Tagged: Daken, dark reign, Frank, Garth Ennis, Hood, Jason Aaron, john romita, Kingpin (comics), marvel, marvel comics, Microchip, punisher, Remender, Rick Remender, Tomb of Dracula | 1 Comment »
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up (Review/Retrospective)
Posted on August 10, 2012 by Darren
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up occupies a strange place in Marvel canon. Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by a rake of top-tier talent, it was essentially a series designed to showcase these impressive artists while adding a bit of depth and breadth to the then-fledgeling Ultimate Marvel Universe. Essentially a continuity that had been launched from scratch, with the goal of attracting new fans put off by decades of back story in the regular shared universe, Brian Michael Bendis had pioneered the line with his superb Ultimate Spider-Man, a book that he is still writing today (albeit in a slightly different form). Due to its nature, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up is a somewhat disjointed effort, where quality varies almost from issue-to-issue, but it's still worth a look for anybody with any interest in Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man work.
Who says there aren't crocodiles in the sewer?
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Acts of Vengeance: The Punisher vs. Doctor Doom (Review/Retrospective)
Posted on May 5, 2012 by Darren
April (and a little bit of May) are "Avengers month" at the m0vie blog. In anticipation of Joss Whedon's superhero epic, we'll have a variety of articles and reviews published looking at various aspects of "Earth's Mightiest Heroes."
In celebration of the release of The Avengers, this weekend we're taking a look at the massive 1989-90 crossover "Acts of Vengeance", which pitted various villains against some unlikely heroes. I'll be looking at some of the most fun match-ups. This arc is collected in the companion omnibus.
I tend to like my Punisher stories with a hint of the ridiculous about them. I seem to be the only person who thought that Garth Ennis did his best work on the character as part of Marvel Knights rather than Punisher MAX, because I tend to think the character works best as a sort of an absurd straight man in mainstream comics. He is, after all, a character who uses superhero iconography (a giant skull on his chest, no matter how stripped-down the iteration) while being a guy with a gun who likes to kill criminals. I've always felt that the character required a suspension of disbelief that that only really worked if he was played just slightly ridiculous. Of course, that's my opinion, and I seem to be in the minority on this, but it probably explains why I found Mike Baron's tie-in to Acts of Vengeance – pitting the Punisher against Doctor Doom – to be so much damn fun.
Closing in to seal his doom…
Note: The always wonderful Chris Simms took a more indepth look at this unlikely crossover on Comics Alliance, perfectly capturing the wonderful insanity of it all.
Filed under: Comics | Tagged: Act of Vengeance, Acts of Vengeance, arts, Bob Haney, Collecting, Comics, Creators, doctor doom, fantastic four, Frank, Frank Castle, Garth Ennis, Jonathan Hickman, joss whedon, marvel comics, marvel knights, marvel universe, Mike Baron, punisher, Retailers | 2 Comments »
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CBRS Alliance: Shared spectrum. Expanded Opportunities.
Home » CBRS Alliance: Shared spectrum. Expanded Opportunities.
Last year, the FCC opened up 150 MHz of spectrum around the 3.5 GHz range in the U.S. and named it Citizens Broadband Radio Service or CBRS (not to be confused with the old CB radio). Hidden under that long name is a novel approach of making more spectrum available when, and where, it can be used. As spectrum is the lifeblood of wireless communication, the FCC's move opens up new wireless opportunities, which, for consumers means new and better services.
To ensure we take full advantage of these new opportunities, a number of companies joined forces to create the CBRS Alliance. As of today, we are 29 members in the CBRS Alliance and growing. The focus of the CBRS Alliance is to support the commercialization of LTE-based solutions in this new CBRS spectrum in all aspects—from technology development and regulatory support, to product certification ensuring multi-vendor interoperability. We are very excited about the possibilities that CBRS presents and we believe that it will pave the way for innovative solutions that will shape the future of wireless.
So, what is the new approach in CBRS? First, it enables new deployments to use spectrum while protecting usage by existing incumbents, such as the military or satellite communication. These new deployments are carefully managed to ensure they are not interrupting incumbents' existing services. This is a powerful concept, since it can free up spectrum that would otherwise be locked up and not fully utilized.
It enables two kinds of new deployments: those that pay for a slice of the spectrum at a certain location (referred to as priority access license or PAL) and those that opportunistically use available spectrum (referred to as general authorized access or GAA). The addition of this 'third-tier' of general authorized deployments, where you are not required to pay for a license, means that users can employ this spectrum when it is not being used by the higher tiers. Of course, if there are multiple deployments in the same area, they will need to share the available spectrum with each other. The functionality of managing multiple deployments at three different priority tiers will require some additional control. To this end, the FCC has defined a Spectrum Access System (SAS) — a system that authorizes and manages use of spectrum for the CBRS. The Wireless Innovation Forum has already completed the necessary SAS interworking specifications.
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The Japanese economy is bottoming out, while weakness can be seen in some areas.
Exports are moderately decreasing recently. Industrial production is bottoming out.
Corporate profits show signs of bottoming out, mainly among large firms. Business investment shows weakness.
Firms' judgment on current business conditions shows movements of improvement.
The improvement in the employment situation appears to be pausing while some severe aspects still remain.
Recent price developments indicate that the Japanese economy is in a mild deflationary phase.
Concerning short-term prospects, weakness would remain for the time being in some areas but the recovery is expected to resume gradually supported by the improvement of confidence, the improvement of export conditions and the effect of the policy package and monetary policy. However, slowing down of overseas economies is still downside risk of the Japanese economy. Also, attention should be paid to the employment and income situations over the future.
To revitalize the Japanese economy, the Government will make its utmost efforts to move the economy onto the "virtuous cycle of growth and creating wealth," and to regain the "strong economy", in addition to making go forward the reconstruction from the Great Earthquake. In order to correct excessive appreciation of yen and overcome deflation early, the Government will eliminate deflationary expectations and avoid further deterioration of economy with prompt and flexible economic and fiscal policy management. In particular, the market has recently observed situations such as rising share prices, expecting future economic recovery. The Government will ensure that these signs of improvement lead to realizing economic recovery via appropriate policy management.
Accordingly, the Government approved the "Fiscal 2013 Economic Outlook and Basic Stance for Economic and Fiscal Management" on January 28th and decided the FY2013 budget on January 29th. In addition, the Diet passed the FY2012 supplementary budget on February 26th.
The Government expects the Bank of Japan to pursue aggressive monetary easing in order to achieve the price stability target of two percent at the earliest possible time.
Real GDP (gross domestic product) in the Octobe-?December quarter of 2012 decreased by 0.1% on a quarterly basis (at an annual rate of 0.4%), posting negative growth for the third consecutive quarter. Nominal GDP decreased by 0.4% on a quarterly basis, posting negative growth for the third consecutive quarter.
Private consumption holds firm. Consumer confidence is picking up. Real income of employees has been in a weak tone recently, reflecting a decline in year-end bonuses. The Synthetic Consumption Index, which synthesizes demand-side statistics (Family Income and Expenditure Survey, etc.) and supply-side statistics (Indices of Industrial Producer's Shipments, etc.), increased in December in comparison to November, while it also increased in terms of the three-month moving average.
As for short-term prospects, private consumption is expected to show steady movement as confidence is improving. However, movements of employment and income should be closely monitored.
Business investment shows weakness. The Quarterly Financial Statements Statistics of Corporations by Industry, demand-side statistics, show that business investment decreased for the third consecutive quarter after a substantial increase in the October-December quarter of 2011. In the July-September quarter of 2012, business investment decreased for both manufacturers and non-manufacturers. Capital Goods Shipments, supply-side statistics, have leveled off.
According to the Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan (Tankan) (December survey) by the Bank of Japan, planned business investment in the fiscal year 2012 is expected to increase for the second consecutive year for manufacturers, and that for non-manufacturers is expected to increase for the first time in five years, thus that for all industries is expected to increase for the first time in five years. According to the Business Outlook Survey by the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet Office, planned business investment in the fiscal year 2012 is expected to increase for both large manufacturers and large non-manufacturers. The figures for Orders Received for Machinery, a leading indicator, are picking up recently.
As for short-term prospects, business investment is expected to pick up as confidence is improving along with the steady overseas economies, reconstruction demand, etc.
Housing construction has shown a steady undertone.
Housing construction has shown a steady undertone. Construction of owned houses, houses for rent and houses for sale has shown a steady undertone.
The total number of sales of condominiums in the Tokyo metropolitan area has been almost flat.
As for short-term prospects, housing construction is expected to show steady movement, due to improvement of confidence with continuously lasting reconstruction demand. However, the supply-demand situations of construction workers should be closely monitored.
Public investment has shown a steady undertone.
The amount of contracted public works in January 2013 and the amount of public works orders received in December 2012 were higher than in the previous year.
As for short-term prospects, steady movement is expected to be intensified gradually, partly due to a boosting effect by the supplementary budget.
In the general account of the budget plan for FY 2013, the government plans to increase expenses relate to public investment by 15.6% from the previous fiscal year. Out of local public investment expenses under the fiscal plans of local governments, those for projects undertaken by local governments on their own funding have been slashed by about 3.1% from the previous fiscal year. In addition, expenses for urgent disaster prevention and mitigation projects are allocated.
Exports are moderately decreasing recently. Imports have been flat. The deficits of the balance of goods and services have been on an upward trend.
Exports are moderately decreasing recently. By region, exports to Asia have been gradually decreasing. Exports to both the U.S. and the EU are starting to level off. As for short-term prospects, exports are expected to be leveling off, reflecting the steady overseas economies and the trend of exchange rate depreciation of the yen. However, it should be noted that there are risks of downturn in overseas economies.
Imports have been flat. By region, imports from Asia have been flat. Imports from the U.S. have been growing at a slower pace recently. Imports from the EU have been in a weak tone recently. As for short-term prospects, imports are expected to remain broadly flat for the time being.
The deficits of the balance of goods and services have been on an upward trend.
The deficit in the balance of trade in December increased, as export values have been flat and import values have increased. The deficit in the services trade has been flat.
Industrial production is bottoming out.
Industrial production is bottoming out. By type of industry, transport machinery is showing signs of picking up. General machinery is in a weak tone. Electronic components and devices are showing a steady undertone.
As for short-term prospects, production is expected to pick up, reflecting the improvement of export conditions and steady domestic demand.
Also, the Survey of Production Forecasts expects an increase in both January and February.
Corporate profits show signs of bottoming out, mainly among large firms. Firms' judgment on current business conditions shows signs of improvement. The number of corporate bankruptcies has been almost flat.
According to the BOJ Tankan (December survey), corporate profits show that sales in fiscal year 2012 are expected to increase for the third consecutive year, and current profits are expected to decrease for the second consecutive year. The settlement during the October-December quarter of 2012 for the listed companies shows that profits have increased both for manufacturers and non-manufacturers.
The Tankan (December survey) also reveals that firms' judgment on current business conditions shows a decrease by 3 points for all enterprises in all industries. By industry, large manufacturers' judgment on current business conditions decreased by 9 points, that for large non-manufacturers decreased by 4 points, that for small manufacturers decreased by 4 points, and that for small non-manufacturers decreased by 2 points. On the other hand, according to the Economy Watchers Survey (January survey), both current and prospective business conditions improved for the third consecutive month.
The number of corporate bankruptcies has been almost flat.
The total unemployment rate has increased by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month to 4.2% in December. The total unemployment rate of those aged 15 to 24 was 7.1%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous month. The labor force and the number of employed persons have been decreasing, while the number of unemployed persons has been increasing. Although the number of employees had been showing movements toward picking up recently, it declined in December.
The number of new job offers has shown signs of picking up recently. The effective ratio of job offers to applicants has been moving horizontally recently. Overtime hours worked in the manufacturing industry have leveled off.
As for the movement of wages, while contractual cash earnings have been showing steady movement, the total amount of cash earnings has been in a weak tone along with a decrease in special cash earnings, including bonuses.
As for short-term prospects, the employment situation is expected to pick up, though some severe aspects still remain. In addition, attention should be given to continuing developments of employment adjustment in the manufacturing industry.
Domestic corporate goods prices have been rising at a moderate pace recently. Consumer prices have declined moderately.
Consumer prices, in terms of "general, excluding fresh food, petroleum products and other specific components" (referred to as "core core"), have declined moderately.
As for short-term prospects, consumer prices (core core) are expected to remain on a moderate downward trend for the time being.
Reviewing price movements comprehensively, including a decline in consumer prices (core core) on a year-on-year basis, these movements show that the Japanese economy is in a mild deflationary phase in that the decline in prices is continuing.
As for stock prices, the Nikkei Stock Average rose from the 10,600-yen level to the 11,600-yen level. The yen against the U.S. dollar is moving in the direction of depreciation from the 88-yen level to the 93-yen level.


This delightful hotel enjoys a prime setting close to Flagler Beach and Marineland® on the Palm Coast. The hotel offers a great location from which guests can explore the delightful attractions and points of interest this vibrant area has to offer, including the world famous Daytona® International Speedway. Guests of this hotel will appreciate the beautifully-decorated, comfortable guest rooms which come complete with modern amenities. The guest rooms offer the ideal setting in which to relax and unwind in comfort at the end of the day. The hotel offers a range of excellent facilities, ensuring that the needs of every type of guest are fully catered to.


Our Client Hyphen, is a global human development practice that is based in San Francisco. Hyphen came into existence based on the fact that humans perform at their best potential only when they are connected with the root cause and this is exactly what Hyphen does superiorly.
All thanks to a thorough brain storming and requirement gathering sessions that were conducted in-house by the project managers with their team mates, we came up with a professional color theme to give the website a trendy look, while still conforming to the corporate boundaries. We created the first mockups of the website that are reviewed by the client. The revisions that were required were happily incorporated to delight the client with a picture-perfect website design.
The creative design team along with branding are summoned to create a mood boarding strategy for Hyphen. The brief that came to us from the client asked for a modern looking website design that not only supports the overall branding efforts for the business but also portray a professional yet appealing picture online.
The complete in-house team of expert designers and web developers created an aesthetically pleasing yet fully functional website for the client that not only delighted them in terms of its choice of visuals and the positive tone of information sharing but with the overall functionalities that were integrated in the website. The methodologies that were used to create this maser piece were complimentary to standard Project Management Institute (PMI) methodologies.
The project that was handed over to Branex involved complete website design and development along with the marketing collateral design creations that involved logo and stationary designs in it. In the words of the client: "Great work! I love the designs and the imagery used. It will definitely help us climb the unforeseen paths of business success." At Branex, our design and development teams never neglected the factor of usability while designing and developing the project. For Hyphen Human Development we religiously followed what were the requirements and were able to create exactly what is desired.
The new website was designed keeping in mind the user base of Hyphen Human Development. Since it will be accessed from a myriad of devices globally, we created it based on the responsive website development methodologies that allowed the website to adjust its size according to the device display screen size without losing its functionalities. The website is also fully compatible with different browsers and creates a smooth web browsing experience for the user.
Great work! I love the first one……especially against the brown background as well as the image of people helping each other up a hill.


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Q: Search Bar in a table view I have a tableView application with a searchBar showing a array with a list of groceries. After a search is made the user click on the grocery and send to a second tableview. That is working fine, the problem is: In the next (second) table view with the information about the grocery the searchBar still there and the keyboard as well. How can I dismiss the keyboard and the searchBar that should not appear in the second table view. Any help is more than welcome :)

//  DictionaryTableViewController.swift
    import UIKit

    class DictionaryTableViewController: UITableViewController, UISearchResultsUpdating
     {
        var searchController:UISearchController!
        var searchResults:[Dictionary] = []

        var dictionaries:[Dictionary] =[
         Dictionary (word: "grocery1", definition: "this is the grocery1 definition"),
         Dictionary (word: "grocery2", definition: "this is the grocery2 definition"),
         Dictionary (word: "grocery3", definition: "this is the grocery3 definition"),
         Dictionary (word: "grocery4", definition: "this is the grocery4 definition"),
        ]
        override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()

            searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
            tableView.tableHeaderView = searchController.searchBar
            searchController.searchResultsUpdater = self
            searchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false
        }
        override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
            super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        }

        // MARK: - Table view data source

        override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
            return 1
        }

        override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

            if searchController.active {
                return searchResults.count
            } else {
                return dictionaries.count
            }
        }

        override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

            let cellIdentifier = "Cell"
            let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(cellIdentifier, forIndexPath: indexPath) as! DictionaryTableViewCell

            let dictionary = (searchController.active) ? searchResults[indexPath.row]: dictionaries[indexPath.row]

            // Configure the cell...
            cell.wordLabel.text = dictionary.word
            return cell
        }

        override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
            if segue.identifier == "showDictionaryDetail" {
                if let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
                    let destinationController = segue.destinationViewController as! DictionaryDetailViewController
                    destinationController.dictionary = (searchController.active) ? searchResults[indexPath.row] : dictionaries[indexPath.row]
                }
            }
        }

            func updateSearchResultsForSearchController(searchController:
                UISearchController) {
                    if let searchText = searchController.searchBar.text {
                        filterContentForSearchText(searchText)
                        tableView.reloadData()
                    }
            }

            func filterContentForSearchText(searchText: String) {
                searchResults = dictionaries.filter({ (dictionary:Dictionary) -> Bool in
                    let wordMatch = dictionary.word.rangeOfString(searchText, options:
                        NSStringCompareOptions.CaseInsensitiveSearch)
                    return wordMatch != nil
                })}}

A: When you are using a searchController, you can just deactivate it when you are leaving the screen. Just insert self.searchController.active = false
You can do it at viewWillDisappear or prepareForSegue. It would look something like this
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    if segue.identifier == "showDictionaryDetail" {
        if let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
            let destinationController = segue.destinationViewController as! DictionaryDetailViewController
            destinationController.dictionary = (searchController.active) ? searchResults[indexPath.row] : dictionaries[indexPath.row]
            self.searchController.active = false
        }
    }
}

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NGT News
U.S. Reps. Call for Immediate Extension of Biodiesel Tax Incentive
10.06.2019 (NGT News) - More than 20 members of Congress across 12 states are pushing for an immediate extension of the expired tax incentive for domestic biodiesel production.
In a letter to U.S. Reps. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House; Kevin McCarthy, House minority leader; Kevin Neal, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means; and Kevin Brady, ranking member of the Committee on Ways and Means, the bipartisan members of congress wrote, "By nearly every measure, the story of American biodiesel has been one of success. Biodiesel and renewable diesel represent a sustainable and alternative fuel source that reduces greenhouse-gas emissions and supports thousands of green jobs across the country. For these reasons, the tax incentive has a long history of bipartisan support."
The letter also points out that biodiesel production is responsible for more than 60,000 jobs across the country and generates more than $12 billion in domestic spending.
"Increasing the use of biodiesel and renewable diesel has an important impact on both environmental and public health," continued the representatives, led by U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.; Cheri Bustos, R-Ill.; and Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa. "In fact, biodiesel is labeled a Clean Air Choice by the American Lung Association because its use can reduce overall health costs by lowering the risk of asthma and other respiratory diseases, which disproportionately affect communities of color."
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is applauding the effort of the lawmakers.
"On behalf of NBB and its members across the country, thank you to Reps. DeLauro, Bustos and Loebsack for conveying to House leaders the urgency of renewing the biodiesel tax incentive," states Kurt Kovarik, NBB's vice president of federal affairs. "Biodiesel producers are looking for an immediate resolution to the uncertainty they've faced since the start of 2018. The industry needs policy certainty to meet the nation's goals for low-carbon fuels, green jobs and cleaner air."


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<?php

/**
 * Renders the "Start a New Discussion" button.
 */
class NewDiscussionModule extends Gdn_Module {

    /** @var int Which category we are viewing (if any). */
    public $CategoryID = null;

    /** @var string Which button will be used as the default. */
    public $DefaultButton;

    /** @var string CSS classes to apply to ButtonGroup. */
    public $CssClass = 'Button Action Big Primary';

    /** @var string Query string to append to button URL. */
    public $QueryString = '';

    /** @var array Collection of buttons to display. */
    public $Buttons = array();

    /** @var bool Whether to show button to all users & guests regardless of permissions. */
    public $ShowGuests = false;

    /** @var string Where to send users without permission when $SkipPermissions is enabled. */
    public $GuestUrl = '/entry/signin';

    /**
     * Set default button.
     *
     * @param string $Sender
     * @param bool $ApplicationFolder Unused.
     */
    public function __construct($Sender = '', $ApplicationFolder = false) {
        parent::__construct($Sender, 'Vanilla');
        // Customize main button by setting Vanilla.DefaultNewButton to URL code. Example: "post/question"
        $this->DefaultButton = c('Vanilla.DefaultNewButton', false);
    }

    /**
     *
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function assetTarget() {
        return 'Panel';
    }

    /**
     * Add a button to the collection.
     *
     * @param $Text
     * @param $Url
     */
    public function addButton($Text, $Url) {
        $this->Buttons[] = array('Text' => $Text, 'Url' => $Url);
    }

    /**
     * Render the module.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function toString() {
        // Set CategoryID if we have one.
        if ($this->CategoryID === null) {
            $this->CategoryID = Gdn::controller()->data('Category.CategoryID', false);
        }

        // Allow plugins and themes to modify parameters.
        Gdn::controller()->EventArguments['NewDiscussionModule'] = &$this;
        Gdn::controller()->fireEvent('BeforeNewDiscussionButton');

        // Make sure the user has the most basic of permissions first.
        $PermissionCategory = CategoryModel::permissionCategory($this->CategoryID);
        if ($this->CategoryID) {
            $Category = CategoryModel::categories($this->CategoryID);
            $HasPermission = Gdn::session()->checkPermission('Vanilla.Discussions.Add', true, 'Category', val('CategoryID', $PermissionCategory));
        } else {
            $HasPermission = Gdn::session()->checkPermission('Vanilla.Discussions.Add', true, 'Category', 'any');
        }

        // Determine if this is a guest & we're using "New Discussion" button as call to action.
        $PrivilegedGuest = ($this->ShowGuests && !Gdn::session()->isValid());

        // No module for you!
        if (!$HasPermission && !$PrivilegedGuest) {
            return '';
        }

        // Grab the allowed discussion types.
        $DiscussionTypes = CategoryModel::allowedDiscussionTypes($PermissionCategory, isset($Category) ? $Category : []);

        foreach ($DiscussionTypes as $Key => $Type) {
            if (isset($Type['AddPermission']) && !Gdn::session()->checkPermission($Type['AddPermission'])) {
                unset($DiscussionTypes[$Key]);
                continue;
            }

            $Url = val('AddUrl', $Type);
            if (!$Url) {
                continue;
            }

            if (isset($Category)) {
                $Url .= '/'.rawurlencode(val('UrlCode', $Category));
            }

            // Present a signin redirect for a $PrivilegedGuest.
            if (!$HasPermission) {
                $Url = $this->GuestUrl.'?Target='.$Url;
            }

            $this->addButton(t(val('AddText', $Type)), $Url);
        }

        // Add QueryString to URL if one is defined.
        if ($this->QueryString && $HasPermission) {
            foreach ($this->Buttons as &$Row) {
                $Row['Url'] .= (strpos($Row['Url'], '?') !== false ? '&' : '?').$this->QueryString;
            }
        }

        return parent::toString();
    }
}


Using a PAG charger to charge and manage your PAG batteries is the best way to achieve the maximum possible cycle life.
The AR124PLD is a 4-channel all-chemistry sequential charger for all PAGlok batteries.
PAG V-Mount batteries can be charged via the front PP90 sockets and charge adaptor Model 9617. Other battery types, such as Sony V-Mount, Anton-Bauer and NP1 can also be charged using the appropriate charge adaptor, available from PAG.
The Auto Charge rate Selection feature provides the easiest and most efficient way of managing batteries that vary in terms of cell chemistry, voltage and capacity. The program detects the battery's cell chemistry, state-of-charge, capacity and condition, and then applies the correct regime to achieve a fully charged battery with the maximum capacity and cycle life. The charge rate can also be manually set at 2A, 3A or 4A.
A Li-Ion battery recovery feature is included, to recover Li-Ion batteries if their cut-out has been tripped.
A Recovery Charge Program regains capacity lost during periods of extended storage.
The AR124PLD incorporates PAG's analytic Charge/Discharge program, which 'repairs' batteries that have been repeatedly subjected to partial discharging. The program measures and displays battery capacity.
The large backlit LCD screen shows the battery status throughout the charging process.


Rachel Horn is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Harvard University. She is originally from New Jersey, and she received a B.A. in psychology and sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2018. She is interested in improving treatment of anxiety and related disorders among children, specifically by using the personalized advantage index to determine which treatment will have the greatest benefit for a particular child.
She can be contacted at rachelhorn@g.harvard.edu.


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Topeka is an incorporated town in Mason County, Illinois, United States. The population was 60 at the 2020 census.

Geography
Topeka is located in northern Mason County at  (40.329960, -89.931034). It is  northeast of Havana, the county seat, and  southwest of Forest City.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Topeka has a total area of , all land. Mason Creek, a west-flowing tributary of the Illinois River, passes just south of the town limits.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 90 people, 36 households, and 28 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 36 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 95.56% White, and 4.44% from two or more races.

There were 36 households, out of which 30.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.3% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.2% were non-families. 16.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.79.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 25.6% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.4 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $41,750, and the median income for a family was $46,875. Males had a median income of $45,938 versus $0 for females The per capita income for the town was $39,651. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.

References

1869 establishments in Illinois
Populated places established in 1869
Towns in Mason County, Illinois
Towns in Illinois

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Bottle Logic & DDH Attacus Atlas Pre-Sale and Release
🚨 ANNIVERSARY RELEASE UPDATE 🚨
UPDATE: ONLINE PRE-SALE IS SOLD OUT, BUT THERE WILL BE SOME BEER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE BREWERY ON RELEASE DAY; FIRST COME, FIRST-SERVED.
Parliament of Owls Imperial Stout will be released this week alongside DDH Attacus Atlas.
Bevy of Swans Imperial Stout will be postponed for release at a later date. We have decided to take more time to make this amazing beer.
We joined forces with the Stout Kings at @bottlelogicbrew to create two massively flavorful adjunct Imperial Stouts. We compared notes on our base stout techniques and employed some of their favorite ingredients and methods to create what are now the highest gravity beers we've ever produced. In finishing the beers, we dosed with some of Bottle Logic's favorite adjuncts that are new to our brewery.
🦉 Parliament of Owls 🦉
Graham Cracker, Chocolate, Toasted Marshmallow, and @mostracoffee Ghost Bear Espresso Blend Imperial Stout. Parliament of Owls evokes the comfort of morning gatherings around the campfire eating S'mores with a delicious cup of coffee. 13% ABV
Parliament of Owls: $23 per 16oz 4pack cans, limit 1 case per person.
Label artwork by Chase Mullen. We've long been fans of Chase and his work. After meeting several years ago over a shared love of modern beer and art, we've waited for the perfect project to collaborate on a label. Chase's paintings are a contemporary take on southern wildlife and culture, heavily influenced by antique field guides and early scientific illustration. His realistic painting technique draws attention to anatomy and the juxtaposition of the environment, both organic and man-made. Read more about Chase and his work at @chasemullenstudios.
DDH ATTACUS ATLAS
The largest moth species on planet Earth, the Attacus Atlas, emerges into its final stage of metamorphosis as a winged adult with no mouth. Because it lives only a few days, it has no need to eat. A perfect metaphor for the world's largest and most heavily-dosed IPAs, with their intense but brief existence. Far beyond 9% ABV, we've doubled the already vast amount of hand-selected Australian Galaxy hops in Attacus Atlas. A staggering eleven pounds per barrel makes this one of the largest dry-hop additions we've ever executed. With super-saturated highlights of mixed berry, mint, melon, tangerine, and pine sap, DDH Attacus Atlas is an opulent experience and a hit of resin straight to the dome.
DDH ATTACUS ATLAS $23 per 16oz 4pack cans, limit 2 cases per person.
Pre-sale for Parliament of Owls + DDH Attacus Atlas begins Thursday, December 9 at noon CST on our website with pick up Saturday, December 11. If you miss out on the presale there will be some beer available for purchase at the brewery on release day, first come, first served.


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Arsenal 'ready' for Fulham says Sokratis
Arsenal's Sokratis Papastathopoulos brings down Everton's Theo Walcott during the Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium, London.
Arsenal defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos insists the team will be ready for their match at Fulham on Sunday - despite their long-haul Europa League jaunt.
The Gunners completed a 5,000-mile round-trip to beat Qarabag 3-0 in Baku on Thursday night and touched down back in England just 56 hours before their midday Premier League clash at Craven Cottage.
Head coach Unai Emery somewhat surprisingly opted to take a strong 21-man squad to Azerbaijan, with the likes of Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette and Granit Xhaka among the party.
But Sokratis, who scored his first goal for the club to open the scoring against Qarabag, is not preparing any excuses as Arsenal look to extend their winning run to nine matches in all competitions at Fulham's expense.
"It is not difficult," he said of the quick turnaround. "If you work hard – we work a lot and we progress all the time – we can cope with a lot of things. It is good that our coach tries a lot of things – good for the players.
"I think we will be ready. We have all the staff who work very well after the game and I hope we will be fit for Sunday. It is very important – we need to win. It is very important for us to win and give everything."
Sokratis, who moved to the Emirates Stadium from Borussia Dortmund in the summer, returned to the side in Baku after missing two games with a dead leg.
While Emery has guided Arsenal to eight consecutive wins for the first time in over three years, the Greece international believes there is plenty more to come from the team.
"It is very important that we have these eight wins in a row," he added.
"We know of course we have to improve and we had a little bit of luck in some situations.
"We know this. But as the coach said we are in progress. We work every day to play better. And we hope in the next games we will get better and better.
"It is also important when you have clean sheets. But we know we have to improve because we know the other teams will have something to show on Saturday and Sunday."
In scoring the first goal on Thursday, Sokratis became the first player in 22 years to score for Arsenal who had never played under Arsene Wenger.
The 30-year-old feels he is now up to speed with the English game and is comfortable playing as part of a back four or – as he did at Qarabag – in the middle of a three-man defence.
"It was different in the beginning because the training was harder and I was little bit tired," he added.
"But I feel good and I am very happy to be here, where all these young players give their best for the team.
"I played in Borussia with three and four at the back. It is good that the manager works on a lot of situations and we learned a lot about what we have to do in games."